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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"fiction stories"”.
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NARRATIVE NON-FICTION STORIES OF MEXICAN AMERICAN FEMALE PRINCIPALS OF PREDOMINATELY HISPANIC ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CAMPUSES IN TEXAS
… community. The purpose of this narrative non-fiction study was to enable four Mexican-American female principals in predominantly Hispanic elementary campuses to reveal their stories of their career paths, barriers experiences throughout their career, factors contributing to their success, and …
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This Must Not Be the Place
9 fiction stories
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This Must Not Be the Place
9 fiction stories
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An examination of science fiction with a view towards improving scientific literacy
… examined one aspect of popular culture, science fiction books for children, in an attempt to determine if science fiction would make an effective tool in elementary science education. A content analysis of science fiction books for children was conducted using an evaluation chart created for this …
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The Law of Meat
In this thesis I have two nonfiction chapters from a book on Laura Ingalls Wilder and two fiction stories.
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The Law of Meat
In this thesis I have two nonfiction chapters from a book on Laura Ingalls Wilder and two fiction stories.
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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection
Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection, a creative thesis, explores patterns of change in stories from the perspective of connection and disconnection. The preface examines the effects of temporal disconnection, the relationship of conflict and connection to narrative …
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Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing
… students choose realistic topics when writing fiction stories. The interviews revealed that the students wrote stories that reflected a part of their personal lives. The stories involved the authors in three distinct ways. Some stories were experiential and represented something that had …
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TOWNIES: MATRIARCHS AND MAYHEM
<p>This thesis is a collection of eleven short fiction stories written in a combination of genres including speculative, young adult, Southern gothic, and horror. It explores the experiences of Iranian diaspora and young women in rural communities such as East Texas. All the pieces in this …
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Lashing Back At the Wind
<p>This collection of six short fiction stories explores the confrontation between the human aspiration for control and the absurdity of the universe. This exploration takes the form of a cyclical journey in the human mind from recognition of limited agency, to accumulation of frustration and rage, …
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The Correlation Between Close Reading as an Instructional Strategy with Reading Comprehension in Elementary Schools
… graphic organizers to compare short non-fiction stories, written analysis of author’s point of view/theme and weekly tests. The treatment focused on having students reread, identify evidence from the text and draw inferences to understand the purpose of the reading. The group was …
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The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate
An ethical frame grounded in science fiction literature shaped the discourse on cloning following the announcement of Dolly-the-sheep's birth through nuclear transfer. Using methodologies drawn from the social shaping of technology (SST) and rhetoric of science, my analysis demonstrates how …
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Pantheon
Inspired by other post-apocalyptic science-fiction stories, Pantheon explores the world two decades after a nuclear war reduces the planet to a toxic, irradiated wasteland. The victors have declared themselves a new independent state, and live a peaceful, secluded existence within the vast and …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… and "serials" are figures of social and fictional "reality," that, together, reflect the normalizing, hierarchical, and psychologically traumatic aspects of operational Harawayan cyborgology. Chapter 1 explores the practical limits of the hybridity and fluidity characteristic of Harawayan …
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Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era
… communicating them to a broader audience through fiction, I propose we may better understand, collectively, how to enact our agency in the present to address these challenges head-on. In this thesis, I argue for the practice of imagination through the lenses of three great challenges that we face …
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'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle
… spiritualism. It explores how Doyle’s diverse fiction and non-fiction define potentially supernatural phenomena as originating in the natural world. Consequently, for Doyle, the supernatural did not exist. This thesis investigates how Doyle advocated that new undetected natural laws could be …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history of fictional narratives concerning the origins of life � notably drawing itself from the stories of Prometheus and Milton�s Paradise Lost � to the scientific rationalism of …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history of fictional narratives concerning the origins of life � notably drawing itself from the stories of Prometheus and Milton�s Paradise Lost � to the scientific rationalism of …
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An Examination of Athlete Lifestyle Support for Elite Youth Cricketers on a National Development Programme
… facilitated the creation of 3 creative non-fiction stories of players (composite characters) journey through the programme, anchored by the critical moments (Nesti & Littlewood, 2010) in their journeys. These (evocative) stories, provide insight with a view to answering the three research …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… and authorship are portrayed in women writers' fiction, how this was undergirded by the threat of violence, and how this violence was countered or subverted. The authors I consider here" Ann Petry, Dorothy B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent …
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