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Fine-grained authorization in the Great Plains network virtual organization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The last few years have experienced a steady growth in research institutions showing interest in developing research projects that involve more than one institution's computing resources forming so called virtual organizations. ...
Like where you're from is so great
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-19)
The stories in this collection focus on leaving, staying, and coming back to the small town of Buffalo, Missouri, and how those decisions impact the characters who make them.
Three of the stories are centered around Milford ...
Jet Propulsion : a play about John Whiteside Parsons
(2013)
Jet Propulsion, a two-act drama on the life of John Whiteside Parsons, is the candidate's thesis, along with the essay "American Weird: Researching John Whiteside Parsons, the Occult Religion of Aleister Crowley and the ...
Hydrologic Analysis of Rain Garden Performance
(2016)
Urban flooding became a significant issue for many cities worldwide due to rapid urbanization and increased impervious areas over the past two decades ([1]). Rain gardens are considered to be an economically-friendly ...
Tools of a trade : guilt as a rhetorical device in conduct literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Guilt as a rhetorical device is an aspect of the study of rhetoric that is largely ignored by the academic community. It has been used effectively, as in the case of conduct literature, for a number of years and continues ...
Burning Houses: A Novel
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
When Cat Byers’ mother dies and leaves her and her sister a surprise inheritance of
10 million dollars and 500 acres of oil land, a woman adrift must overcome her unresolved
past and a mysterious stalker to discover ...
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 ...
The ogre as lycomorph
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation introduces, defines and applies to French literary analysis a term of my own invention: lycomorphism. This is a literary phenomenon by which an essentially human figure is characterized as wolfish via the ...
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 ...
Bloodlines
(2015-08-12)
A drama in two acts, Bloodlines centers upon a traditional farm family in Iowa,
several years in the future. The climate has changed, and though they struggle to
maintain the centuries-old family home and traditions ...
The space between : uncovering the lived experience of actor communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Using the qualitative methodology of hermeneutic phenomenology, this dissertation documents student actors' lived experience of actor communication in performance. The author locates this study in relation to actor training, ...
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. ...
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 ...
The eight leaves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The creative dissertation The Eight Leaves is a deconstructed memoir, composed in a series of inter-connected lyric essays structured in a ring ...
There is No Absolution for Us Here: An Anthology of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
An anthology of creative nonfiction essays, this collection studies the inner workings of
the author at her most vulnerable: whether as a child unaware of her parents’ crumbling marriage
or as an adolescent struggling ...
Intuitions and adequate philosophical solutions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Philosophical investigation relies on intuition; among other things, intuitions are used to discover problems and intuitions are used to provide solutions to those problems. I provide an analysis of three kinds of philosophical ...