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Swallowing frogs
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This collection is comprised of short fiction, poems, two essays, and one short script.
The work contained revolves around themes of mental illness, disillusionment, gender
dynamics, and the difficulty of knowing others. ...
Mechanisms of polar growth in the alphaproteobacterial order rhizobiales
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
All bacteria elongate and divide to faithfully reproduce their cell shape. Understanding the mechanisms that drive bacterial morphology requires an intimate knowledge of how the cell wall is synthesized. During cell ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 34, number 02 (August 30, 2012)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2012)
Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-century commodity influenced many contemporary works of literary criticism. Immersion in these primary works helps to better situate ourselves in the world of nineteenth-century American nature writing, and to understand the myriad role that trees played...
The education of a gambler's daughter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Education of a Gambler's Daughter is a creative dissertation that tells the story of a daughter trying to make sense out of the chaos that resulted ...
The recovery project : three dramatic works concerning alcoholism and recovery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Project is an ethnographic performance text. I conducted interviews with several people who have differing lengths of sobriety. Based on these interviews, I wrote a non-fiction narrative about finding recovery. Each dramatic work is prefaced...
A History of Kansas City's Woodland School: Century of Evolution for a Historic Landmark
(2022)
The Northeast community always took pride in and supported Woodland. Despair descended and times were difficult as the district was confronted by its ugly segregation past. Woodland did not escape the turmoil, but community ...
Power, intersectionality and news photographs : a case study of Detroit free press and Michigan chronicle news photography between 1963 and 1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
photography from two similar sources, the mainstream Detroit Free Press and black newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle should help illuminate the ways visual media can be influenced by the intersectionality of its creators, despite photography's presumed...
The Victorian Preacher’s Malady: The Metaphorical Usage of Gout in the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation examines the use of the gout metaphor in the life and writings of
one of Victorian England’s most eminent preachers and gout sufferers, the Baptist Charles
Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Careful scrutiny ...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
-supplemented educational system during Reconstruction, along with the strategies used to help the system weather the storm of political upheaval and citizen pushback in the decade after Reconstruction's close. The post-Civil War system initiated by state-level Radical...
Undergraduate catalog 2012-14
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Representation of veterans who have been homeless
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The Surviving Parties
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis is a collection of short stories that were written and re-written between my
time as an undergraduate at Columbia College and my time as a Graduate Student at UMKC.
These stories were picked out from many ...
The Surviving Parties
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis is a collection of short stories that were written and re-written between my
time as an undergraduate at Columbia College and my time as a Graduate Student at UMKC.
These stories were picked out from many ...
When There Were Knives I Dreamed of It
(2021)
This thesis, When There Were Knives I Dreamed of It, is a collection of poems and prose in three parts. It is prefaced with a long-form poem comprised of 11 parts, which is intended to establish the tone for the work that ...
Splitting Lips
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This collection is comprised of short fiction and two essays, dealing with themes of disillusionment, power dynamics, and the messiness of identity. "Ladybug" is about a dependent woman who fakes a pregnancy. "Salt and ...
Undergraduate catalog 2010-12, revised
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ...
The Bucareli Conference and United States-Mexican relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1966)
of the United States and Mexico in the ensuing years until the land and oil problems were "solved." One of the major focal points in this study is the question of leadership exhibited by the American diplomats involved. It seemed evident that the character...