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Indispensable Lives : Magical realism and postcolonial resistance in Ana Castillo's So far from God, and Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
"In this paper, I will discuss magical realism as a postcolonial genre of resistance in Ana Castillo's So Far from God, and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and whether or not labeling these novels as ...
The Deputy
(2021)
The Deputy is a play written by Rolf Hochhuth. Hochhuth was a German editor-turned-playwright who grew up as a Nazi youth. Something that we must understand is that to the Nazi youth of the 1930s and ‘40s, their own ...
Shake it hard : feminist identity and the burly-Q
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Can a woman remove her clothes knowing about the gaze of the other and still maintain feminist ideals? Can she legitimately use her body to further her feminist and political ideals? I will examine the historical rise, ...
Vers une nouvelle colonisation : le Roman du dictateur Francophone Subsaharien et Caribeen
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
their different locales and time periods, all the writers included depict leaders whose unsavory behavior is modeled on the tyrannical practices prevalent in the colonial regime they replaced. Like their colonial counterparts, these neocolonialist dictators use...
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 ...
Mosaics Magazine, 2006 Winter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, College of Arts and Science, 2006)
Magazine of the College of Arts and Science. Subjects include When the Professor is a Pop Star, Virtuosity is its Own Reward, Poetic Justice, Gift of Gab, Dog Psychology, For All We Call Mizzou: A Million Thanks, That Was ...
Depressed and disconnected : the symptoms of a digital age in America
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"I saw the symptoms first. It was the way music had become about hopelessness, drugs, sex, and disturbing emptiness. It was how platonic in-person conversation felt. It was in every addicted person around me. It was in the ...
University of Missouri--Columbia commencement, 2005 December
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2005)
"December 16 and 17, 2005"
The wise avenue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...
Fringes
(2023)
the best of my work completed during my time in the program, they also represent the progression of my writing skills during my time in the program. I picked the order of stories for this collection based on chronology. The first story in the collection...
A textual analysis of women's health magazines : how women's health magazines set the agenda for women's beliefs about cardiovascular disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
While heart disease kills an average of 399,028 women in the United States every year (Benjamin et al., 2017), women do not seem to be aware of the high risk of heart disease that they face (Mosca, Hammond, Mochari-Greenberger, ...
Spirals of silence : examining Afrocentric and Eurocentric hairstyling for black women in broadcast newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Music at Mizzou, volume 18, 2008-2009 Winter
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2008)
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and social disparities in the United States, especially after the Civil Rights movement. Likewise, I apply these frameworks through storytelling. In invented narratives, I aim to engage in the practice of counterstorytelling as defined by critical race...
Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Nineteenth-century American nature writing considers nature from the multiple perspectives of the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction landscapes. ...
It doesn't make any sense : self and strategies among college students with learning disabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
is based on qualitative interviews of twenty-three college students with learning disabilities. Although the respondents viewed their learning disability as a minor issue, they did report problematic and embarrassing situations during their college career...
The widow's place : Mrs. Norris in Mansfield Park
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
“The most hateful character in Jane Austen's novels,” “a vicious pest,” “Austen's most nearly psychotic creation.” Such is the critical consensus on Mrs. Norris of Mansfield Park: that she is hateful, vicious, and psychotic ...
Ichor
(2021)
This project includes the pilot episode and series bible for a one-hour teleplay titled Ichor, a sci-fi epic.