Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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During the week of her twenty-fifth birthday Tamina Greenlan, a New Jersey transplant to Los Angeles, is forced to change her life. As a sex ed. teacher, medical assistant, and color-matching obsessive, she's maintained a tenuous balance. Now, she juggles

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A Forbidden Nation is a travel memoir about an American's journey through the island nation of Cuba dealing with the politics of communist Cuba and capatalist America as seen through the stories of ordinary Cubans. -- abstract.

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A Future Not Our Own is a chronicle of the author's experience teaching in the only prison in Belize, Central America. For the two year(s) between July '03 and July '05 the Author taught, counseled, and more or less passed time in a place unlike any other

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A Whitechapel Portrait is a collection of 5 interrelated stories by a portrait photographer named David Bishop. The stories stretch across David's life, from his first trip away from his fledgling family to the publication of his life's work. -- abstract

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My life split in two at the age of twenty-three when my mother was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease. The doctors said she had but a few months to live. To be with her I left my first post-college world behind in Los Angeles, California and moved

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My thesis is the first sixteen chapters of my novel, 'The Parting Glass.' Narrated by Stephen, his teacher, Mr. Campbell, and his girlfriend, Ada Saffarstein, the novel is about Stephen Carroll, a bright but wild lad from The Bronx, that is sent to Fairwi

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A memoir about a Korean woman whose spiritual inheritance is traced back two generations. -- abstract.

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This is a collection of primarily lyric poems that examine relationships, often between the self and an unseen idea or un- force of some kind. -- abstract.

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...about three characters on a journey motivated by love, loyalty, and determination. The novel will follow them as they discover the interaction of faith, myth, and relationships. -- abstract.

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Body to Self recounts the author's struggle to come to terms with the facets and repercussions of loss--namely, the death of her mother during childhood and the feelings of rootlessness and discontent that follow. Section I is anchored in conflicted attac

Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...

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Hollywood star, Aston McNeil, has destroyed his career. Now he's desperate to get it back. -- abstract.

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Historical fiction based on the Lizzie Borden murders.

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Coming of age in a historically religious place, such as Alabama, where churches of every denomination are around every corner, a young adult can often find themselves straying away from God. In particular, women raised in the south are often faced with u

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'Dear Everyone: I'm Sorry' is a memoir of the author's long and sometimes sordid undergraduate career. During his junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, Stockman discovered a mentor in the writer Paul Hendrickson - just as he (Stockman) was failin

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I go on a journey through New England researching the Rev. James Fitton, a Catholic priest who built the church in New England during the Irish Potato Famine despite strong Protestant animosity. My journey leads me not only to an understanding of Fitton's

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A young man short on options and luck, Steve Willows forges a strong bond with a married couple whose home is threatened by a prophesied flood.--Abstract.

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This collection of eight stories, all linked by various characters, focuses on the ways that men and women confront or avoid feelings of absence and isolation in their relationships with friends, lovers and relatives. -- abstract.

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This thesis project is a compilation of short stories, linked with the theme of resurrection. Each piece features a member of marginalized society claiming power for themselves, against outside forces. -- abstract.

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Four Essays - with Love and Squalor is a collection of essays about the life, works, and mysterious persona of the author J.D. Salinger. In 1951, Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye, one of the most well-known, well-loved and controversial novels by