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Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"William of Canterbury, one of the authors of the Thomas Becket miracle collection, reports in a twelfth-century miracle that an eight-year-old boy named Phillip was looking at rocks by a lake located in the county of ...
Pentiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
"Pentiment is a project with two parts, the most recent manifestation of a set of goals and ideas surrounding representation and community engagement with which I continually engage. It’s first aspect is local: it is as ...
Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...
It's just Greek to you : a qualitative study of impression management among Greek alumni in academics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
In this study, the author explored how Greek organizational alumni who are training to enter or are in the Academy professionally manage their Greek affiliation as a facet of their individual identity. Research on the self ...
In self defense : black female journalists' advocacy in the Cold War
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"Mary Church Terrell, Black female journalist and civil rights activist, stood in front of the United Nations board in Lake Success, New York, on Sept. 21, 1949, to present a brief on Rosa Lee Ingram. Ingram and her two ...
The Changing Lives Through Literature program for juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to learn if the Changing Lives through Literature program for juvenile offenders actually lived up to its billing of ...
Webs of intimacy and influence : unraveling writing culture at Harper's magazine during the Willie Morris years (1967-1971)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Through an exploration of what a collective of writers have written and said about the experience of working together at Harper's Magazine from 1967-1971, this research aims to give shape to the concept of writing culture. ...
Preparing birds to fly : Lloyd Richards and the actor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Lloyd Richards (1919-2006) was one of the preeminent theatre practitioners in the United States from the mid-twentieth century through the beginning of the twenty-first. Through his work as Artistic Director of the Eugene ...
Point of view : examining the magazine industry standard
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Point of view permeates every aspect of magazines. As a relatively modern concept, the journalistic device went previously unstudied in scholarly form. The research question, "How and why do U.S. consumer magazine writers ...
Family traditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number ...