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Nordin, Hanna. "Storing Stories : Digital Render of Momentous Living Archives." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172696.

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Storytelling presented in digital archives can provide indigenous communities with a voice needed to tell stories and thus enhance the society’s understanding for that community. The objective was to evaluate a digital archive prototype from a perspective of rendering Sami stories and storytelling. This was done by collecting data with the method Research through Design where a prototype was designed and demonstrated in two steps to the indigenous people of Scandinavia known as the Sami people. The findings suggest that the prototype can render Sami storytelling to some extent but that digital archives, in regard to indigenous cultures, must be designed with sensitive ethicalities in mind. These digital archives must also be designed so that immersive stories can be rendered whilst also providing the indigenous people the right to be prosumers in order to provide them the empowerment to own their own culture. These issues and future research are discussed in the paper.

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Harris, Phil. "Stories /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11302.

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Kogan, Anne-Liis. "Subway stories." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3797.

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This essay is going to be a reflection of my work process. It will describe different subjects and interests regarding my work. During the last years I have been making videos that deal with “scenes” and situations from our everyday life specifically from the subway. The subway is a closed, confined space where we coexist for different periods of time. There is a stage and an audience with every observed situation. I am interested in the subtle violence that often goes unnoticed, as we inhabit the public realm. I am interested in what type of roles are we playing? When are we communicating violence or xenophobia? When we are operating in this space, what roles are “on” and what roles are “off” when we invade or impose others in the public realm?

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Ekkizogloy, Nick E. "Debris: stories." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05122008-112742/.

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Coffield, Tim. "Six Stories." The University of Montana, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302007-110940/.

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Farnworth, Bradin M. "Five Stories." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06182009-151441/.

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Franklin, Patricia Bruce. "Surface Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/2208.

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Adler, Kevin. "Four stories." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1439433.

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Shealy, Benjamin L. "Refractory stories /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1219861866/.

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Ellis, Megan. "Need: Stories." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1588.

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The intent of this thesis is to create a literary fiction collection centered on diverse adolescent girls. In recent years, women writers have moved away from the domestic sphere of authors whose writing focused solely on the daily lives of women, and have begun penning epic stories and novels whose themes were previously tackled by men alone. Authors show that the craft of expansive and immersive literary fiction transcends gender, allowing women more freedom with the types of stories they choose to write. That’s not to say that domestic fiction is unimportant or "less than" other types of literary fiction, however. The difference is in choice—women are free to create works in other genres, forms, and conventions separate from domestic fiction, but can also reclaim and reinvent the genre to show the importance of everyday women. Each story in this collection highlights the complex lives of adolescent girls while exploring universal themes of women from a literary fiction rather than young adult fiction perspective. Issues such as sexuality, virginity, and popularity—which all girls experience at least tangentially—are often relegated to young adult fiction. Their purpose is to build a relationship of trust between characters and readers who are experiencing the same confusing period. Literary fiction allows deeper exploration into these issues, showing how larger psychological and societal problems result in adolescent physical manifestations, such as the sexualization and commodification of women’s bodies. This thesis will add to the current literary conversation by highlighting teenage girls, a demographic whose importance is often downplayed by modern society.<br>B.A.<br>Bachelors<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities

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Derkatch, Artem. "Four stories." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12744.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.

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Sörensen, Marcus. "Stories Unfolding." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5607.

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Att tolka, omtolka och göra nya gestaltningar i rum är viktiga arbetsuppgifter för en inredningsarkitekt. Hur kan jag arbeta med en metod för att undersöka olika rumsliga relationer? Storytelling inom arkitektur och design uppfattas många gånger som något kommersiellt laddat, men bär inte alla rum på en berättelse? I mitt examensarbete utforskar jag storytelling och berättelsers struktur som en metod för att arbeta med rumsligheter. Varje plats eller rumslighet berättar åtminstone en, om inte flera, berättelser. Genom att analysera en befintlig plats ’berättelse’ kan jag genom förhålla mig till den och göra tillägg eller ändringar. En omskrivning av berättelsen, eller ett förtydligande, en artikulering. Kan jag hitta berättelser som inte givits form och skriva in de i de lager av berättelser som redan finns? Kan en bra story skapa bra inredningsarkitektur?<br>To interpret, reinterpret and make new design proposals in spaces are important tasks for an interior architect. How can I work with a method to examine different spatial relationships? Storytelling in architecture and design is often perceived as commercial, but don’t all spaces carry a story? In my degree project, I explore storytelling and narrative structures as a method for working with space. Each location or space tells at least one, if not several stories. By analysing the existing ‘story’ of a space, I can relate to it and make additions or changes. A rewrite of the story, or a clarification, an articulation. Can I find stories that have not been given form and add them to the layers of stories that already exist? Can a good story create good interior architecture?<br><p>The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version.</p>

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Moore, Francesca. "Nana Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2007. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/32.

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The film consists of images from home movies of Nana, her daughter (Francesca's mother), and Francesca, and their extended family at gatherings, visits, and vacations, and of Nana in her last years. Nana emigrated from Italy, as did other relatives. The home movies are in black and white or color. Images from photographs in black and white or color, and images of birth, marriage, and death certificates are included. Francesca and her mother speculate on Nana's life based on the contradictory information they have from these documents and from family members. The film ends with the words "In memoriam October 14, 1925 – March 20, 2007" and it is Francesca's wish that Nana found happiness in her life. The film begins with the quote: "There are three sides to every story. Your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently." Robert Evans.

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Herman, Hilker Trevor(Trevor Nathaniel). "Other stories." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129916.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020<br>Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 121).<br>As the third millennium of the Common Era has unfolded into a new chapter of social, political, technological, and ecological complexity, the question of the Architect's capacity to address our futures implores a connection to the ability of one to navigate our pasts. As Canon rises to the surface of history--through the work we champion and the stories we espouse--it is accompanied by the ideological Mythologies it entangles. It is our responsibility not to idly assume the mantle of these Myths, and to be critical of our role in their perpetuation--a task that appeals for the investment in other stories. This thesis reflects upon our relationship to Canon, with the intention of destabilizing the relationship between an "Act" of Architecture, and the ideological ephemera with which such an Act is implicated.<br>Specifically, Other Stories attends to a Canon of American domesticity, and the Modern Mythologies that this Canon complicitly perpetuates--among many, a Myth of Progress, a Myth of Anthropocentricity, and a Myth of Family. Engaging through modes of curation (bookmaking) and re--presentation (drawing), the first chapter of this thesis forages for the seeds of alternative Mythologies within stories that, while belonging to this Canon, have been neglected, or forgotten, or erased. This pursuit is underpinned by an imploration for something Other: alternative threads for navigating our futures and our histories than the myopia of "Progress" and "Anthropocentricity" and "Family". The second chapter of Other Stories offers a series of conjectures that re-imagine the tenets of an American domestic Architecture through the lens of alternative Mythologies.<br>Taking on Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House as site, the investigation anticipates three "Other Farnsworths" that supplant "Progress" and "Anthropocentricity" and "Family" with Myths of Entropy, Rhizome, and Kin, respectively. These speculations become testing grounds for new modes of making, and communicating, architecture.<br>by Trevor Herman Hilker.<br>M. Arch.<br>M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

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Flannery, Brendan Conor. "Collected Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703359/.

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Obradovic, Jelena. "Stories Unfold." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173069.

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Trook, Katherine R. "Gravida: Stories." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1351560815.

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Barber, Brian R. "Skidi Stories." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339732932.

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Boyle, Jamie. "Performance stories." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1375116158.

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Silver, James. "Six Stories." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1462866048.

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McAlister, Meagan L. "The Stories." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587573445982909.

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Coleman, Britta M. "Prudence Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12099/.

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This collection of three original short stories is an excerpt from a novel about an East Texas family whose common bond is the need for a second chance. A preface dealing with the use of setting as a character precedes the short stories.

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Gay, Wayne Lee. "Short Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6144/.

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This collection of seven representative original short stories will include four short stories relating to a fictional location in Dallas, the Starry Skies gay country-and-western dance hall. Three short stories set in fabulous, sometimes absurd settings, will follow. A preface dealing with the nature of fictional place and non-fictional place in fiction will precede the collection of short stories.

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Hoskins, Robyn. "Sea Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2330.

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Sea Stories is a collection of creative nonfiction essays centered around the growth of a young woman through her experiences with water and ships. The pieces trace the origins of the narrator's tie to water from a childhood involving boating with her dad to sailing a brigantine across the Pacific Ocean and then a six-year career as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. The narrator's relationship with her father, predominantly viewed through their shared intimacy with water, is a base theme for the whole collection. Other themes explored in individual essays include reckoning expectations with reality, explorations of the self in and against a group, gender dynamics in military service, and the influence of fiction on life. Sea Stories shows that what we think we know, what we may have only imagined, and on the water, that self-constructed reality can be a dangerous thing.

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Coleman, Britta M. Rodman Barbara Ann. "Prudence stories." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12099.

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Chiles, Emily. "Parachute stories /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3578.

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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Hahn, Devin. "Four stories." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12775.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.

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Stuart, Leigh A. "Philadelphia Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2645.

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Sheehan, Dinah Belle. "Central Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1215.

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Central Stories is a series of interconnected stories about students at a fictional high school. Each story focuses on a pair or small group of students who are grappling with issues of gender identity, sexual orientation, and changing friendships. These stories explore varying aspects of the coming out processes, as well as attendant character-developments related to adolescence.

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Welch, Alisa Eve. "Short Stories." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/811.

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In these six intertwining fictional short stories, one fateful decision ripples through the lives of multiple generations. Annie is an unmarried young mother during World War II when she leaves her young daughter in the care of a childless couple. When Annie fails to return for the child after days and then years, a new and fragile family is formed only to be tested by Annie's eventual return. The other stories in this collection follow the daughters and granddaughters who have to navigate their own lives in the shadow of this abandonment. Spanning multiple decades, Annie's decision remains a pivotal psychological scar imprinted in her descendants and those left to care for the child that she could not.

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Yang, Hyeunjin. "Personal stories to visual representation : ‘The stories of Zili’." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-712.

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<p>I represented a person’s stories and memories of childhood through the material called glass, and found a method to approach personal stories.</p><p>To do this, the medium to express my conception that is express of the personal experience and extreme situation on glass was based. The most significant point of study was realizing the nature of emotions and meanings within a person’s life. As well as special instruments and to analyze whether it is an appropriate expression.</p><p>Accordingly with this, I collected individual stories from Zili and tried to comprehensively understand the cause behind. For that I approached different cases of psychology theory to compare. After I analyzed the colour and object that relate to memories or the person. Expression of artefact I created from foundational theory through my perspective. I represented in magnification of memories as an expression on glass artefacts for respect of peoples diversity life.</p><p>This led me to make more concrete context in practical work and theoretical tool as well.</p>

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Oates, Nathan Lewis Trudy. "Migratory patterns stories /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/7186.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 2, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dr. Trudy Lewis, Dissertation Supervisor. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Tölch, Ulf. "Bat Time Stories." Diss., lmu, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-51308.

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Gonzalez, J. David. "Greater Miami: Stories." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/832.

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GREATER MIAMI: STORIES is a collection of short stories about the disparity between the hoped-for expectations of life in America—as seen through the prism of South Florida—and the reality of a life lived on the margins. The characters, ranging in age from early adulthood to the elderly, attempt to navigate the perils of a new and unfamiliar existence—physical and/or psychological—while seeking to recoup the losses of home and country, love and language. The collection uses Miami as its setting due to the wide demographic range of its inhabitants, and the stories address themes of memory, love, sex, opportunity and privilege, the mayhem born of disinformation, and the anxiety of displacement. Each story in the collection describes a pivotal moment when the characters encounter a truth that had previously eluded them and then must deal with the repercussions of that knowledge.

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Eastwood, Peter. "Here, now : stories." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/MQ39421.pdf.

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Hain, James. "Octopus : eight stories /." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2008. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HainJ2008.pdf.

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Varnadore, Heather S. "Falling rock : stories." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/781.

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Oates, Martha. "Biblical stories reconstructed." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Nelson, Caleb. "| | Poof | | Short Stories." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590687.

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<p> Storytellers have an interdependent relationship with their narratives. If you have ever told a lie, you understand. Stories take on a life of their own, as you consider the potential ramifications of each contingent piece. Definite sets of things happen as results of specific other things. If you throw an ax at me, only a few things can immediately happen, and our relationship will be forever changed. Events evolve. When we create or discover a narrative, we live by its logic. Upon consideration, a moment compels a series of moments modulated by a voice, a single perspective, a personal narrative, which is to say a story. Stories are fabrications of reality, conveyance mechanisms of fact, fiction, and assertion. Stories are contrived, whereas narratives just exist. Narratives are there to be discovered. They are the veins of human action left by life’s tendency toward disorder. Narrative is entropy through time.</p>

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Miller, Cara M. "The path : stories." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391233.

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This collection of short stories explores the depths of human emotions as seemingly unrelated characters in an Indiana community react to tragedies, including death, divorce, abuse, financial struggles, and assault. Each character experiences intense isolation and hopelessness, and some question the presence of a God who would allow such suffering. Not only are the protagonists' stories unique, but the characters themselves are diverse, encompassing different ages, genders, races, and class levels. Each story is linked by a cause-and-effect in which one person's reaction to grief creates tragedy in someone else's life. Therefore, the protagonist of one story becomes the antagonist of the next, and readers get a glimpse into both sides of the conflict. This chain reaction continues until the final story, in which the protagonist chooses to deal with his grief through faith and forgiveness, offering his attacker redemption and exemplifying the depth of God's love.<br>Portrait of Jesus (1988) -- The deep end (2003) -- Wrongful death (2005) -- Double shift (2006) -- The fight (2006) -- The path (2006)<br>Department of English

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Gallaty, Jason Alexander. "Grow up : stories." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1080.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing

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Anderson, Tory S. "Thinking in stories." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53880.

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This thesis considers cognitive narrative a component of intelligence that specializes in generality. In exploring the ubiquitous external (mediated) and internal (cognitive) functions of narrative it provides two contributions to the literature: a uniquely cross-discipline survey of narratology that bridges humanities, social science, and computational fields; and a theory to generate cognitive personal narratives from ongoing perception. The implications of narrative cognition and cognitive narrative are discussed as well as the limitations of this introductory theory and the grounds for promising future work.

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Gillespie, Tyler. "Smart Mouth [stories]." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2154.

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Molefhe, Wame Miriam. "Stories in watercolour." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63552.

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Gollahon, Catherine. "Unclean Slates: Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955109/.

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Unclean Slates: Stories is a collection of seven short stories that comments on the nature of family ties, and how such ties help form a sense of identity. Each story focuses on a separate protagonist, all of whom strive for a new beginning or an escape from some aspect of their current lives. The short story cycle of this collection is held together not by place or characters, but ultimately by the theme of wishing for a new beginning: they share a desire to fix some dissatisfying element of their lives. Mostly from the point of view of blue-collar characters leading mundane middle-class lives, these stories provide commentary on what it means to run from the conditions that make up one's sense of identity. Most of the revelations formed throughout these stories lead to a sense of acceptance of these conditions, and an understanding that family and history make up part of human consciousness. While the specific locations presented in these stories are not necessarily the same, each story seeks to focus on a location that proves to be fundamental to the makeup of the protagonist. The cities and geographic locations themselves are not as important as the specifics: the schools, diners, lakes, and so forth where these characters find themselves contemplating their disillusionment about where their lives have brought them. Facing everything from postpartum depression to simply missing out on a career opportunity, these characters all experience a sense of loss that brings them together in a way that is recognizable to the reader as the collection progresses.

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Uren, Robert. "Fun House: Stories." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95473.

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Girard, Geoffrey R. "CARAVAN PASSES: STORIES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1366380928.

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Goepel, Dorothy M. "San Antonio Stories." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1102109172.

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Squance, Joe P. "The Hole: Stories." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154536794.

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Rijal, Sagar. "THE SYMPTOMS : STORIES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218083641.

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