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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
One last good time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of a book-length work of short fiction preceded by an essay called "In Defense of Starting Early." The ten stories that make up this collection...
Co-constructing work-life concerns : an examination of couples' discourse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Within the scholarship of work-life, there are many opportunities for new research, including expanding the voices of men and couples through examining how couples continue to co-construct their concerns. Using Ashcraft ...
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ...
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 composition. The manuscript...
But Rather Becomes
(2013)
This collection of female-driven short fiction explores the ways that girls and
women are victimized, excluded, empowered, misled, or left to their own devices within
contemporary patriarchal American culture. Feminist ...
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. ...
"Sin mujeres no hay revolución" : transversal feminist politics in the digital mediated activism of the Argentine collective Ni una menos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
While the advent of the Internet and digital social networks has opened opportunities for global connectivity, participation, and broadcasting to agents outside the media, corporations and the state, inequities structuring ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
An examination of personalization in digital advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Paid advertisements on social media have become a powerful way for marketers to reach their target audiences. This study addresses how millennials experience, interact with, and react to personalized advertisements on ...
If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism ...
Discomfort
(2014)
The stories in this collection are concerned with the lives of middle class Midwestern people who all feel some sense of discomfort or inability to feel at ease in their lives. Throughout this collection there are examples ...