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The Effectiveness of Reading Folk Literature in Improving English Language Learners’ Reading Proficiency in Elementary Grades
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This mixed-methods study investigates the effectiveness of reading folktales, fairy
tales, and fables in improving English learners’ reading proficiency levels in elementary
grades and explores students’ experiences with ...
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The First Inch of a Saguaro follows three Mexican American teenagers after their father, Luis, is arrested for a drug-related murder in an Arizona border town. During Luis' trial, fourteenyear-old Javier takes to leaving ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
War II, Cubrilovic has exiled himself to a small sleepy town in Bulgaria. There, recuperating from gunshot wounds in a hospital room while trying to write his autobiography (thus a double act of recovery), he is confronted by ghosts--haunted by women...
Disease characterization and pre-clinical testing in canine models of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
in treated eyes than in control eyes through 10 months of age, although amplitudes continued to decline in treated eyes. TPP1-MSCs were safe and well-tolerated and did not cause inflammation. While these results are encouraging, further studies are necessary...
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)
Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ...
The House that Grief Built
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This book-length collection of poetry weaves together themes of family, religion,
food, gardening, and grief as experienced by the author and her relatives. Through the
eyes of a first-generation American (on her mother’s ...
As many roast bones as you need
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As Many Roast Bones As You Need is a creative dissertation that combines the examination of grief and our connection to animals found in ...
Temporal decision making using unsupervised learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
space. Another example of streaming is the data acivity data coming from TigerPlace and other elderly residents' apartments in and around Columbia. MO. TigerPlace is an eldercare facility that promotes aging-in-place in Columbia Missouri. Eldercare...
The ties that bind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Inspired by Alexander Chee's recent How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, a memoir-in-essays, "The Ties that Bind" is lyric, personal, and a coming-of-age collection of nonfiction. In "Swimming Lessons," Bryn Chambers ...
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate
the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the
monotonous can be equally as bizarre ...
Several ways of seeing
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-12)
The following eleven stories represent what I believe to be the strongest creative output
from my three years of graduate study and creative writing at the University of Missouri -
Kansas City. In order to reflect my ...
ETL automation and mixed reality live data visualization in an IoT system for smart buildings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
representations. In addition, the APIs are created for the processed data to be passed as live data for the augmented reality application and visualized the data in 2D and 3D. The AR application is equipped with a QR reading feature for visualizing device...
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both
bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun.
Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ...
Poisons of war
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)
My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder,
took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death
kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...
Turning the doorknob: essays, stories, and poems
(2013)
This collection of essays, stories, and poems is a broad exploration in persona, genre, and
form. The individual human is complex, and this thesis embraces the complexity, even when
the selves presented here, fully factual ...
A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
(2016)
Magical Realism, religion, illness and death are twisted through this collection of short stories to explore how people deal with the fantasy of belief in a very real world. The non-fiction essay "How an Illness I Don't ...
Bottle fly : poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The critical introduction: "Improbable Florida" : Imperialism, Surrealist Tradition, and Gay and Lesbian Identity in Rimbaud's "Drunken Boat" and Bishop's "The Riverman" is a close-reading of those two poems through a combined lens of queer theory...
Human Tire Fire
(2016)
I have titled this collection Human Tire Fire because that's the image I picture when I
look back over the period of time in which I created these stories. The tire fire is the signifier I
see for myself. Putrid. ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...
Creep City and Five Short Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This collection includes one novella and five short stories, focused on young women
and their formative experiences. These stories explore themes of sexuality, latent violence,
changing technology and weird feelings. ...