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"Stuck In-Between" : The Construction of the Tragic Mulatta in Classical Hollywood Cinema
(2019)Rather than creating a thesis that provides insight on the construction of blackness as a whole, the author ties an interest in the female experience and intersectionality to produce a piece that solely focuses on the image ... -
"Pieces of Home" : A Small Town Girl in Strange and Familiar Lands
(2018)The author explains the process of turning blog posts from her college years into an original work of creative nonfiction. -
"Fear and Breakdown" Two Stories Regarding the Breakdown of Identity as Social Role
(2019)The author explains the inspiration and influence for his two original short stories. -
A Spinach Tragedy : a Novel
(2019)The author discusses the development of her novel by explaining some personal history: “My novel does start off with two girls going on a road trip to Yosemite, which is based on a true experience of mine and what helped ... -
The Lindaln
(2019)The author describes how her love of biology and science fiction like Avatar combine in her original science fiction story that tells of the discovery of a humanoid species on a distant planet told in the logs of a science ... -
No Cure
(2017)The author combines her experiences volunteering in a hospital, interning in a cancer research center with her own grandfather's cancer diagnosis to create a collection of original poems. -
Been This Way Awhile
(2018)The author introduces a collection of original poetry using the couplet to explore the author's experience. -
Trinkets and Treasures : a Short Story Collection
(2018)Introducing her collection of short stories, the author writes “possessions come to have particular significance in the lives of human beings. Memories are attributed to these tangible objects and so, like pictures, people ... -
All-American : A Historical Fiction Novel Depicting the Tragedies of the Second World War
(2018)The author discusses the film influences on his original novella set in the skies over World War II battlefields. -
Catching Rabbits and Breaking Mirrors : a Poetic Exploration of Superstition and Half-Belief
(2018)The author presents a collection of original poems inspired by superstitions and the contradictory belief and disbelief that they inspire. -
(De)constructing the Tangibility of Borders : a Collection Exploring Spatiality, Fluidity, and, Self (Be)coming within the Process of Navigating through Transformations in Ambiguity
(2018)About her original poems, the author writes “This collection reflects the homesickness and uncertainty felt towards the beginning of my time at Kalamazoo, with pieces such as "My Father, El Tlaxcaltec", "My Mother, La ... -
The Greatest Promise
(2012)In introducing his original series of memoirs, the author writes that “while college has given me an important academic understanding of the world, more importantly, it has helped me to understand myself in relation to the ... -
Sexism in Video Games : An Analysis of the Medium, Culture and Industry
(2013)The unfortunate truth behind the medium of video games is the fact that many games are sexist, the culture surrounding them is sexist, and the trend is part of the industry itself. Unrealistic representations of women are ... -
Exposed with Watermelon
(2009)In describing the process of creating an original work of fiction inspired by Kate Chopin’s The Awakening set in modern day America, the author writes “I quickly accepted that in order to write a believable female character ... -
Celestial Music : Songs of Angels in Nature
(2018)About this collection of original poems, the author writes “Celestial Music is a SIP of celebration. Reflecting the presence of divine love throughout nature, Celestial Music’s six sections explore vastly different domains ... -
Naked with Beads On : A Poetry SIP
(2018)The author describes the influences and inspiration for her collection of original poetry. -
"we are all of paper": Hypertextual Bodily Instantiation and Colonized Narrative in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper
(2016)To scaffold my intervention into the novel, the theory and literature I encountered in both ENGL-223 Chicana/o Literature and ENGL-436 Literary Theory was foundational in building to the final section that analyzes in ... -
The Relevance of Native Son and African American Oppression Today
(2018)My Senior Thesis aims to both analyze Richard Wright’s Native Son and compare today’s oppression for African Americans in relation to issues and themes arising in the novel. I constructed my thesis in two chapters in order ... -
Ethical Journalism in the “Fake News” Era
(2019)Using her internship experience in production of the local Kalamazoo Newschannel 3, a Sinclair station, the author reflects on the history of journalism, the three key issues facing broadcast journalism: resource scarcity; ... -
Thoughts of a Cave Woman
(2019)The author describes how her original thematic plans held back her poems and how reflecting on Audre Lorde's essay, "Uses of the Erotic," freed her to create an original voice that could reflect her Judaism, her personal ...
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