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One of Them : a Novella
(2018)The author writes, “Stories and imagination are vital aspects of many people’s lives, which is why using these tools to compose an effective fantasy story is so important. The world needs fantasy, especially fantasy that ... -
The Associations
(2018)The author describes how her favorite fantasy authors inspired this original novel. -
Ethical Freedom : A Comparative Reading of the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Aung San Suu Kyi
(2018)The author writes, “The central questions of my SIP: what does it mean to be free and how is freedom connected to political action? What are the responsibilities of those who are seeking freedom and of those who are free? ... -
Listen : a Novella
(2017)The author writes, “For my Senior Individualized Project, I wrote a magical realist novella which I started in the eleventh grade. Growing up, I lived in Washington State and always had a very close bond with the rain, ... -
Ask Her More : A Critical Analysis of Fashion and Feminism in The Awakening
(2018)Looking through literature, clothing is an important aspect of character development. Regardless of how a character’s appearance and clothing choices are received by other character, the author knows how crucial it is to ... -
Effects of Socially Constructed Gender Norms on Intersexed Bodies Through the Lens of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
(2017)The author includes medical research and psychological journals from the 1970s to learn how intersexuality was truly discussed during the time the events of the novel take place. -
Mountains Hovered Over Her Then as They Hover Over Me Now : A Collection of Essays
(2016)The author introduces her collection of four creative nonfiction essays with a discussion of how her experience of campus sexual assault and the process of speaking out about it shaped her as a writer. She writes about the ... -
“Lost and Found” : A Collection of Poetry and Ephemera in the Spirit of Hypertext and Multimedia Literature
(2017)The author first introduces examples of hypertext and multimedia books, and then explains the process of creating a collection of poems with attached ephemera. The author writes, “once the poems were written and put into ... -
My Father's Son : Hanging with the Big Shots in Hamtramck, Michigan
(2018)The author follows her Polish-American roots back to Hamtramck and creates a collection of creative non-fiction essays based on her research and interviews. -
The Property Line : A Poetry SIP
(2017)The author presents a collection of poems inspired by work on the family farm, including a sonnet crown: a sequence of fifteen sonnets where sonnets two through fourteen begin with the final line of the proceeding sonnet ... -
“Finding Your Home” Analyzing Your Home During Your College Experience
(2017)The author created a documentary film exploring the concept of home. The author writes “Each of my interviewees, even though they had very different backgrounds, came to the conclusion that it was the people within a home ... -
The Beautiful Confusion : A Documentary
(2016)Through documentary film interviews, the author asks questions of identity: “Why are some people so confident while others appear lost? How does one know himself/herself? Is it possible to sustain one identity over a ... -
"Portrait of Vine" : One Reporter's Exploration of the Various Facets of Kalamazoo's Vine Neighborhood
(2016)The author presents a collection of creative nonfiction exploring the culture of Kalamazoo’s Vine neighborhood. She writes “My hope for those pieces is that the greater Kalamazoo community reads them and is inspired to ... -
Consume
(2016)About this collection of creative nonfiction, the author writes “Ultimately, this collection charts my progression in understanding how media functions as a discursive power within my life. These are essays that mark ... -
“White Girl Brown Girl” A Poetic Realization of a Mixed-Race Identity via the Historical and Cultural Narratives of Puerto Rico, Self-Identification, Nonconsensual Identification, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Domestic Space
(2017)The author presents a collection of poems in four sections. The first book, “Book of Stories”, uses a postcolonial lens to rewrite the stories of Puerto Rico. These stories are not traditional stories, they are hybrids of ... -
“Sunflower (beat) Hummingbird (beat) Thistle (beat) Dragonfly” A Family Tragicomic
(2017)The author presents a collection of poems based on her father's coming out to the family and his relationship with another man. -
“This is the wrong script” : Indeterminacy, Desire, and Loss in Transnarrative
(2016)The author writes "In the most generalized lens, this project investigates the limits of transnarrative and the potential of narrative failure. Throughout these pages, the consolidating force of transnarrative desire propels ... -
Within This Reality: A Novella
(2017)
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