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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
101

Rock N' Roll Will Save Us

Thornton, Joseph Daniel 10 August 2015 (has links)
No description available.
102

Jungle Zoo City People

Ahlquist, Justin C 01 January 2024 (has links) (PDF)
Jungle Zoo City People is a collection of seven short stories revolving around the central theme of family. Other recurring themes are mental health, self-esteem, violent influences, and the consumption of television and media. The three stories "Stunts," "Hypotheses," and "Comments," are linked by narrators of the same family with the intent of showing family trauma at the generational scale. Two stories, "City Date" and "Illiterate Photographer" are linked by a fantastical setting placed thousands of years in the future in a city cohabited by humans and animals. These pieces heavily rely on the imagery of animals and plants to explore themes of mental health. Particularly, "City Date" compares anxiety and low self-esteem to the state of being prey, and "Illiterate Photographer" follows a character whose mental condition serves as a hyperbolic portrayal of ADHD, trying to rediscover his place in the city's ecosystem. The story "Anthropology Paper" experiments with its form to allow its narrator to examine the value of his family's history. Similarly, "Voicemail: Re-hoarding" uses the unconventional form of a voicemail to experiment with voice and explore the value of physical possessions.
103

"Failure to Yield": Essays

Siegfried, Cary Ann 12 1900 (has links)
Failure to Yield is a collection of creative nonfiction that explores themes of presence and emotional connection and expression. The seven essays, which include three flash essays, explore the themes by reflecting on such topics as marriage, parent-child relationships and addiction. The collection is woven together by the author's relationships with her parents and children and by her experiences growing up in a small town in Iowa.
104

'My Tattooed Mind'

Mayo, Kaleb R 05 1900 (has links)
This thesis features a collection of nonfiction essays.
105

Identification of a Potential Factor Affecting Graduation Rates in STEM for Hispanic Students at the University of North Texas, via Analysis of Nonfiction Science Books in Spanish Language for ELLs in the Dallas ISD Schools

Garcia Colin, Monica 08 1900 (has links)
Latinos are the largest minority group in the U.S.; however despite the continuous growth of the Hispanic population, Latinos are severely underrepresented in STEM fields. One of the reasons that might explain why Latinos do not major in STEM is the way they encounter science curriculum in primary school. Students' limited proficiency in English may constrain their science achievement when instruction is delivered exclusively in English. A quantitative analysis with graduation rates in STEM from 2009 to 2014 at the University of North Texas was conducted, finding that there is a significant difference (p<0.05) in the number of bachelor's degrees in STEM between Hispanic, White, African American and other student populations. Interviews with teachers, librarians and publishing companies were performed to describe the limited science literature in Spanish at the Dallas ISD schools. Improving science literacy by teaching according to ELLs' linguistic skills and culture may lead to a better understanding of science curriculum throughout their education, which may translate into higher college graduation rates by Hispanic recipients in STEM.
106

Placing Munich: A Search Through Aufbruch

Pfeiffer, Elisabeth R. 01 January 2015 (has links)
Through my Creative Non-Fiction Writing thesis, I have attempted to challenge the boundaries of the genre, after D’Agata and the works of other contemporary creative non-fiction writers. However, I have also challenged the boundaries of our own frame for reality that defines the human experience. As I began writing this, I asked myself: can we write about spaces or do we write spaces ourselves, interlacing the city into an imagined space? I didn't realize that I had forgotten the most important question of all: do spaces write us? These stories are predominantly about my search for “authentic” space, for the “real” city—and I have tried to challenge the idea of authenticity through the style of my writing, in addition to the narratives, lyric essays, and arguments in my thesis. I’ve lived in six cities over the past five years, and yet, each time, in the end, I return to Munich. There is something about the urban fabric there, a tear I can sense, or perhaps it is inside of me, waiting to be filled. And somewhere along the way, I started to have this idea that I could write about this city, collecting the pieces of my experiences. I was left with a collage of moments, moments of a city that was mine—not knowing that the city is bigger than any of us, a character that cannot be captured by any means. Not knowing the impact the city might have on me.
107

Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Gilpin, Chadwick N. 01 January 2017 (has links)
In 1867, the budding naturalist and future father of our national parks, John Muir, embarked on his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Cedar Key, Florida. Almost 150 years later I undertook the same journey, retracing the wilderness advocate’s footsteps through the South to catalog all that has changed in a century and a half of progress, to try and better understand the inception of his environmental ethics, and to learn to see the world as he did, harmonious, interconnected, rejuvenating and imbued with a pervasive spirituality. The chapters of this thesis retell selected legs of that journey.
108

Miscarriages of Social Justice

Dorgan, Kelly A. 20 December 2018 (has links)
No description available.
109

Symmetrically Significant: Essays

Haydon, David Stephen 01 April 2019 (has links)
This collection of personal essays explores the use of symmetry as a metaphor of normality in contemporary American culture. These essays use formalistic exploration to enter into a conversation with the reader regarding the body, sexuality, gender, and mental illness. Each piece aims to dismantle and explode the metaphorical significations of symmetry through the use of interdisciplinary research combined with memoir.
110

AUTO-FEM: ESSAYS

Santos, Krystin 01 January 2018 (has links)
Auto Fem: Essays is a nonfiction essay collection revolving around one young woman’s family and their relationship to the motors that accelerate familial bonds. Each motor-related essay brings readers deeper into the admiration of speed and the environment that surrounds it. The essays span from the author's childhood into adulthood, revealing the different ways a woman is sexualized within these subcultures. This sexualization leads to internal battles for the female participant that result in sometimes toxic eating habits and a complicated body image. The author provides a sometimes brutal, sometimes funny, but always honest view. The essays collected here explore one woman's experience of being a woman within male-dominated spaces-- from table gambling in casinos to Harley Davidson motorcycle rallies. These essays explore over twenty years of one nuclear family's love for motors and each other.

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