Interpersonal relations
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
"A Summer Reverie", 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_tang_yun.pdf
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"'Summer Reverie' is about a young man's frustrating experience trying to reestablish a relationship with his first love. When he is forced to confront a harsh reality far short of his idealistic expectations, Simon's reason starts to fall apart." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
An Unmothered Daughter, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_prinzo_ashley_michelle.pdf
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"'An Unmothered Daughter' is a short memoir about my mother, who I've been estranged from since I was 16. In the opening, I show how she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction since I was a kid, where she takes to her favorite bar. I try to define the characteristics of being a mom and a mother in chapter 2 by comparing the different woman my older brothers know. Sections 4,7 and 8 focus more on my life without her, while chapters 5,6 and 10 unpack my maternal family's dynamics. I uncovered...
Dates:
2020
By My Own Hand: A Master's Poetry Manuscript, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_wagner_jennifer.pdf
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"This thesis project is a 40-page poetry manuscript written largely in free verse. The poems focus on relationships in all forms—family, friends, lovers—, gender issues, evangelical faith reckoning, and the natural world. Throughout the collection the speaker grapples with finding and exercising their voice." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Care is an Incision, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_meneghin_livia.pdf
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"'Care is an Incision' explores self-care and self-preservation in the event of a severing—what does it mean when a painful act, like letting someone go or undergoing surgery, are necessary for wellness and safety? In 2019, I was diagnosed with cancer and was left behind by someone I cared for very dearly. This manuscript experiments with form to push the boundaries of memory; I rely on the ghazal's repetition to mirror the obsessiveness of anxiety and the depression of sitting in what is left...
Dates:
2021
Checking Behavior, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_currell_anna.pdf
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"'Checking Behavior' is a nonfiction collection of essays written by MFA student Anna Currell. The work is a collection of humorous essays about the writer's experience in therapy and relationship she forms with her therapist. After a breakup, the writer has trouble sleeping and seeks therapy to find out that she has something much bigger to learn about herself." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Deadweight Slump, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_fernandez_kāʻai.pdf
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"Deadweight Slump is a collection of short stories by Kā'ai Sutton Fernandez that explores the motif of isolation, specifically the ways that physical, emotional, and social isolation manifests through relationships particular to those in a guardianship. Part of the human experience is stepping up to help, assist, guide, or protect others, as well as being in need of guidance or protection. At the heart of each story in this collection is the relationship between those who need help and those...
Dates:
2022
Morel Season, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lepley_coltt.pdf
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"Morel Season is a collection of gritty short stories by Coltt Winter Lepley that depict struggles new and old based around characters all subtly connected to the fictional area of Laurel County existing in the Appalachia region of the United States. Stories in this collection focus around the relationships and hard times of characters who are trying to navigate their way through the ash pile of the mythical American Dream, or at least what's offered to them from a region often overlooked,...
Dates:
2022
Notes of Happiness, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_fitzgerald_megan.pdf
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"Notes of Happiness' is the workings of a novel. Within the novel, the year is 2022, and our young seventeen-year-old protagonist named August is looking back at her life in 2020 when coronavirus changed the world and herself entirely. Forced to move from Florida with her recently divorced mother Rachel to Massachusetts, August and Alice, August's younger sister, find themselves in an emotionally and physically abusive home. Tensions rise further while stuck at home, and August is determined to...
Dates:
2021
Only as Much as We Remember, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_mahoney_anabelle.pdf
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"'Only as Much as We Remember' is a collection of short stories about love and loss. Each one deals with mourning in a different form, whether it be for the passing of a loved one, the loss of a special relationship, or an illusion surrendered. Stories range from the mundane to the magical, from brief snapshots to longer, more complex narratives. Some are set in our current time period, others decades in the past; in one, an elderly woman travels back through time to relive a crucial passage in...
Dates:
2021
Paths of Exploration: An immersive critical pedagogy activity for the Salzburg Academy on Media Global Change, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018fall_elbaz_jonathan.pdf
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"Paths of Exploration is an immersive activity designed for the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change that provides students the opportunity to share their lived experiences with the program topic of digital media and engage with the diverse perspectives and knowledge present in their cohort. The activity involves personal reflection, conversation and collaboration, and it pursues the following broad objectives: to activate relationship-building among participants through...
Dates:
2018
Red Glare, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kilstein_bruce.pdf
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"Red Glare is set in Georgia in 1939. Three protagonists: Clementine Barnes, a Black, female physician recently graduated from medical school; Calvin Taylor, a white, baseball player who has moved from Pennsylvania for his first professional job in the minor leagues; and Jackson Bennet, a white sports reporter for the local newspaper. Due to racial discrimination, Clementine is forced to practice medicine in the back of the cafe run by her mother, who is also a traditional healer. Clementine's...
Dates:
2021
Resaturation, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_puels_raina.pdf
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"Resaturation explores the myriad of ways I confined and shrunk myself in various relationships throughout my life. In fourteen essays, I examine the conditioning of my self-censorship in my relationships with family, friends, roommates, lovers, and my own writing. Eventually, I'm able to understand the consequences of shrinking away parts of myself to accommodate others. Through this examination comes the freedom to celebrate and deliberate on my sexuality, queerness, polyamory, kinks, family,...
Dates:
2019
Show Me, Don't Tell Me: A Look At Theatre Makers of Today and Tomorrow, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_winton_alicia.pdf
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"I found my way to my thesis topic by starting with a subject that constantly occupies space in my thoughts: impact. I was born with something I call "detrimental empathy." It is a condition in which I have so much empathy for the people and things around me that it impacts my ability to interact with the world. For example, I cannot read or watch the news because if I hear or see something sad, I will cry and obsess over it for days. When I'm driving, I brake for animals in the street no...
Dates:
2022
Turn the Siren On, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_munn_brady.pdf
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"Turn the Siren On is a collection of linked short stories that explores life in a small town and how living in such a place informs the relationships and connections one has with themselves as well as those around them. Each story examines some form of loss and how that changes and shapes the characters. Some of the stories attempt to show the ways in which loss can unravel a person and ripple through generations while others demonstrate how losing someone or something can open our eyes to...
Dates:
2021
Your Smile, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_haochen.pdf
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"It is hard for a lonely person to find a soul-touching relationship with another in this era of social media explosion and smartphone obsession, especially for a retro high school boy in China, who is experiencing the rebellious phase of his youth. He is alienated by other people and he is unwilling to open his mind to others. One day, when he captures an unforgettable smile on a young girl's face through his 35mm film camera, he decides to pick up the first cellphone in his life to chase the...
Dates:
2019