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Shahbazi, Laura Chadwick. « Life as the invisible woman : a partial manuscript of a novel ». Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260624.
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The novel Life As the Invisible Woman, details the death, re-birth and life of a young woman who learns through her experience that she creates "good" and "bad" in the context of her own life, and will continue to do so in an eternal process until, as the character Sarah states in the book, "there is more light in her than water and clay." It is also a story about abuse, domestic violence, and their devastating psychological consequences in the lives of those who experience them.Life As the Invisible Woman is being submitted as a partial manuscript in fulfillment of the creative project requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in creative writing.Department of English
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Samuelson, Magdalen Lorenz. « Captive Still Life ». PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1344.
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Captive Still Life is the fictional story of Marcus Penikett, a seventeen year old celebrity trapped in a scary, suburbanite housing community called Morningside. Marcus Penikett will never escape the childhood incident at the Zoo that made him and the Penikett family famous —the infamous TIME cover of his bleeding face hangs outside of his room, forever documenting and haunting Marcus with the past. Now, Marcus is determined to leave the housing community of Morningside, Georgia to get away from his control freak mother Elise, his absent professor father Otto and a menagerie of other Morningside residents. This plan is complicated by his love for fellow neighbor Olivia, sexual relationship with the maid Sue and Morningside's uncanny 'power' to thwart Marcus' goals.
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Courtney, Mackenzie. « Snowing in Kansas ». PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1683.
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Set in rural Kansas, this story follows the lives of Jonathan Tate, his sister Lily Anne Tate, and their father, up until his death, Hershall Tate. They are an isolated family, seemingly living outside of time. John opens the novel with a walk into town to set the contrast between him and the rest of the world. Time is the theme and essence, because every scene and the tone of the scenes are weighted by the imminence of Hershall's death. He is dying slowly and so their lives move slowly. Lily can't help but be ornery, while John, assuming all the chores and anxiety of the future without his father, is reserved and reluctant. Hershall is set in his ways and not in a hurry to get the house in order before his death. There is the old-fashioned nature of Hershall, the isolated nature of the whole family, and the rest of the modern world to contend with. These beginning pages are setting up the next stage of the novel where Lily and John begin their journey after their father's death.
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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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Weatherford, Anna Christine. « Mari When It's Light Out and Other Stories ». PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1382.
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These stories all take place in the city of Riverside, California. In each story, the narrator or characters struggle with the complicated push/pull that they feel towards their home--be that a home defined by place, memory, another person, or something found within themselves.
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Teberg, Lisa Marie. « Show Me the Way to Go Home ». PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1047.
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In the following nine linked stories, characters from disparate backgrounds and socio-economic strata converge in a rural community along the Missouri river in central Montana. A Texas-based oil exploration and production company takes up residence in the area, causing a stir in the neighborhood. Long-time local residents experience their daily lives amid a tourist driven economy and reaffirm their aspirations to leave despite significant obstacles and limitations. In "Show Me the Way to Go Home," a young waitress is stranded after a car accident and seeks help from residents living on the single row of houses in the area. In "Give Death Grace," a resident artist leaves to resolve her tumultuous past with her father. In "A Good Little Fisherwoman," a woman deals with the repercussions of her recent reproductive decisions during a fishing trip. In "Little Fires," a local man deals with the tragic burn injury of a child while also facing deeply rooted resentments with his mother. In "Dwelling," an aging local must decide whether or not she will sell her home to two strangers. In "Other Important Areas of Functioning," a woman decides to discontinue her mood stabilizing medications in favor of a more natural lifestyle. While this place means something different to each of these characters, they all coexist while facing individual challenges.
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Mondok, Larisse. « About Home ». Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556055157714489.
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Kocz, Nick. « Big Baby Hot, Big Baby Cold ». Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77493.
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The stories in this collection reflect the absurdities of contemporary American family life, and the particularly distressing economic conditions of the present moment. These stories often employ absurdist elements. Because of the personal history that informs my work, realism does not seem an appropriate form for me. My oldest son, in whom my emotional well-being is heavily invested, is autistic. He is not “normal"? in a way that others would understand as “normal."? Parenting a child with special needs changes the way a marriage operates, deforming it. The personal experience that drives these stories often seems fantastical even to me. I don’t write about my personal experiences, but I write about the impressions that those experiences make upon me. In this way, my work is descriptive rather than didactic.Master of Fine Arts
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Chan, Kenneth, et n/a. « Chinese history books and other stories ». University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061020.144139.
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My thesis is a creative writing doctorate which focuses on one Chinese family's
adaptation to living in Australia in the mid-twentieth century. The thesis is in two
parts. Part I is an examination of Chineseness and identity within the context of the
short stories that make up Part I1 of the thesis.
In Part I, I have looked at the place of the Chinese within the larger, dominant cultures
of America and Australia. In particular, I have discussed the way in which the
discourses of the dominant culture have framed Chineseness; and also what it might
mean to describe authentic and essential qualities in Chineseness. The question I ask
is whether the concept of Chineseness shifts according to time, location, history, and
intercultural encounters. This leads me to try to "place" my family and myself. I
provide some background on my family and on specific incidents that have served as
springboards for the fiction. Part I also discusses some aspects of narrative theory in
relation to the stories and considers the stories within the context of other Chinese-
Australian fiction and performance.
Ln Part 11, I have written a collection of nine short stories about the lives of a fictitious
family called the Tangs. The stories can be described as a cycle that is unified and
linked by characters who are protagonists in one story but appear in a minor or
supporting role in other stories. Composing a linked cycle of stories has given me the
opportunity to extend the short story form, especially by giving me scope to expand
the lives of the characters beyond a single story. The lives of the characters can take
on greater complexity since they confront challenges at different stages of their lives
from different perspectives.
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Manzoor, Shafta. « Impact of Indigenous Culture on women leadership in Pakistan : How does indigenous culture of Pakistan restricts career progress and leadership abilities of females of Pakistan ». Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43763.
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“Although the subject of female leadership is very well documented at an international level, Pakistan still lacks enough research in this area. This scarcity of research gives rise to a commonly held belief that gender equality has been achieved in Pakistan which hides the gender stereotypes and discrimination practices still prevailing in the country.” “Digging into the experiences of thirty working women, this study examined the effect indigenous culture of Pakistan has in shaping their life experiences as well as career success. The study followed a qualitative research approach with phenomenological theoretical framework. Fifteen females were interviewed from urban areas and fifteen from rural areas to draw a holistic picture of indigenous culture of Pakistan and its effect on career success of females.” “Female participants of this study were interviewed on skype and the data gathered through these interviews was analysed using grounded theory approach. Interviews were taken in Urdu and transcriptions were prepared in English to conduct analysis for this study. Seven categories were initially developed through open coding, followed by three clusters through axial coding an lastly the study created a theoretical framework through selective coding. Findings of the study indicate that indigenous culture strongly effects the career success of working women in Pakistan. Based on thematic analysis, the study concludes that indigenous culture of Pakistan puts taboos on females in the form of family bevahior, expectations and the structurally enforced inferior status of females which effects their leadership skills negatively and restricts their career growth.” “Indigenous culture of Pakistan creates mobility issues for women which restricts the possibility to join better jobs at other places instead of their home town and it also effects expansion of entrepreneurial ventures by restricting females to their home towns. Apart from social mobility, culture restricts the decision making power of females which effects their self-recognition and vision development and other skills necessary to become a better leader. Females also face difficulty managing work and family life because of the uneven domestic work burden on females and the concept that woman is the caretaker of house no matter how tough her job gets. Single females don’t face the problem of managing house work and family life however they face issues such as social immobility, preference of male colleagues over them because of their perceived short work life, lack of decision making power and lack of self-confidence.” “The participants were of the view that despite of all the challenges brought by culture, they are still struggling for their career and fighting against the taboos put by culture.” “Respondents of this study agreed that their family support is most important factor for them to stand against the cultural taboos and pursue their dreams. Therefore, this study concludes that there is a strong need to change the mind-set prevailing in these societies that female is a creature who has to be agreeable and caretaker of family and who is responsible for saving relationships. Although efforts have been done to give women equal rights in Pakistan, these efforts will become more meaningful if general perception of society about women and their role starts to change which will require awareness programmes and cooperation from academic institutions and policy makers.” Page 4 of 97 Impact of Indigenous culture on Female Leadership in Pakistan “This study recommends a future research on the perception of males about female colleagues working with them in order to examine if males of countries like Pakistan are ready to accept female leaders. As this study was conducted on females only, for future it is recommended to examine the mind set of males of the society to draw a comparison between situation of females and impact of males mind set on this situation.”
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Farnes, Sherilyn. « Fact, Fiction and Family Tradition : The Life of Edward Partridge (1793-1840), The First Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ». BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2302.
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Edward Partridge (1793-1840) became the first bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1831, two months after joining the church. He served in this capacity until his death in 1840. The first chapter examines his preparation for his role as bishop. Having no precedent to follow, he drew extensively upon his background and experiences in civic leadership, business management, and property ownership in order to succeed in his assignment. Partridge moved to Missouri in 1831 at the forefront of Mormon settlement in the state, where on behalf of the church he ultimately purchased hundreds of acres, which he then distributed to the gathering saints as part of the law of consecration. In addition, he prepared consecration affidavits and oversaw each family's contributions and stewardships. The second chapter examines Partridge's ability to succeed in his assignment, and the tensions that he felt between seeing the vision of Zion and administering the practical details. Forty years after his death, his children began to write extensively about their father. The third chapter of this thesis examines their writings, focusing on how their memories of their father illuminate their own lives as well as their father's. The final chapter finds that the three published descendants' modern attempts to chronicle the life of Edward Partridge each fall short in at least one of the following: the field of history, literature, or a faithful representation of his life.
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Kuo, Chia Hua. « The phoenix eyes ». Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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'The Phoenix Eyes' is a novel set in Brisbane. It is the story of a wedding, the story of one night and the months
which follow. It is the story of Taiwan and the struggles lived there and from there. It is the story of four generations of women and women-to-be, women changing, growing and maturing together and on their own. Each of these women has ties to the other and ties to the past. Ties which are still ripening and enriching their lives. Ties to and from Taiwan which will affect the present and the future.
But most of all, 'The Phoenix Eyes' is a story of love. Of many
kinds of love and how love touches us, at any age.
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Earls, Alison. « Genuine cherry red : a fiction novel ». Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003.
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"Genuine Cherry Red" is a fiction novel.
It is the story of three people who live in a house beside a hill in the flattest place on earth - an almost fable-like setting. In different ways, each is locked inside the order and control they have constructed through the years. Surrounded by nature and its reliable cycle, they are resisting change and denying the unpredictable randomness of life. Marta is a young woman who is both intelligent and naïve, caught inside a private maze of thinking and rethinking. She lives with her mother's cousin Ena who gave up nursing to take Marta in when her mother succumbed to depression, and Ena' s husband Len, a successful and prolific writer of cowboy fiction. Since a cancer diagnosis, Len - who had been living with multiple
sclerosis - has been virtually catatonic ... until Grey Bob suddenly arrives. The central character of Len's fictional stories permeates their lives and things begin to change.
The natural environment, the people of the nearby town, the order of the house all transform and Marta, Ena and Len struggle to cope. But they have no choice. When the inevitable shifts occur, spontaneous events have impact and disease progresses, each member of the family eventually finds a way to deal with the fact that reality can be
haphazard and out of their control. So, through the presence of a fictional character, three people are forced to confront the erratic nature of human life.
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He, Wei. « The First Party ». Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376047028.
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Soldan, William R. « In Just the Right Light ». Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1491431274838911.
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Lettera, Christopher A. « Carlini ». Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342553175.
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Teverbaugh, Aeron. « Tribal constructs and kinship realities : individual and family organization on the Grand Ronde Reservation from 1856 ». PDXScholar, 2000. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3237.
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This project examines marriage and residence patterns on the Grand Ronde Reservation between 1856 and the early 1900s. It demonstrates that indigenous cultural patterns continued despite a colonial imagination that refused to see them. Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde continued to live in family groups much as they had in the pre-reservation era. They continued to exhibit patterns of marriage and kinship that were described in the ethnographies and by the earliest explorers in the Oregon area.
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O'Brien, Lauren Leigh. « Self, family and society in Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter, Rachel Zadok's Gem Squash Tokoloshe, and Doris Lessings's The Grass is Singing ». Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006771.
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This dissertation examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter, Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. It focuses on the development of each of the protagonists’ identities in three realms: the individual, the familial and the societal. Additionally, it is concerned with the specific socio-political contexts in which the novels are set. It employs psychoanalytic and historical materialist frameworks in order to engage with the disparate areas of identity with which it is concerned. The introduction establishes the analytical perspective of the dissertation and explores the network of theoretical frames on which the dissertation relies. Additionally, it contextualises each of the novels, within their historical contexts, as well as in relation to the theory. The first chapter examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter. It focuses on the protagonist’s assertion of an identity independent of her father’s role as a political activist, and her eventual acceptance of the universal difficulty in negotiating a life which is both private and political. The second chapter, on Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, examines the relationship between the protagonist’s traumatic experiences as a child and her inability to assert an identity as an adult. The similarities between the protagonist’s attempts to address her traumas and thereby create herself anew and South Africa’s employment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a means to acknowledge and engage with its traumatic history is of import. The third chapter which deals with Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing traces the life of its protagonist, whose identifications remain childish as a result of having witnessed her parents’ difficult relationship. Her understanding of the world is informed by a rigid, binary understanding, which is ultimately disrupted by her relationship with a black employee. She is incapable of readjusting her frame of reference, however, and ultimately goes mad. I conclude that, while my focus has been on personal, familial and social identifications, the standard terms in which identity is examined, namely, race, class, and gender, are present in each of the three tiers of identity with which I have been concerned.
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Martin, Tamra Artelia. « Finding Sundays : A Collection of Stories ». Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5423.
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Finding Sundays: A Collection of Stories is a collection that explores the lives of people in the fictional town of Hickory Springs, Virginia. The title story “Finding Sundays” follows the life of Deacon Taylor and connects him to the characters around him in the proceeding pieces. These stories explore the lives of Deacon, his family, and his childhood friend, Sandra. The focus of this collection is not meant to be about spirituality or religion in general, although these exist as themes in the background of the stories. Instead, it is meant to look at how the lives of people connected through a church and a small town setting can affect them and lead them on different paths through the choices they make. Their personal struggles and challenges help them to either discover who they are or lose a piece of themselves in the process, which is especially true for Deacon. He is the character who appears as a child, as an adolescent, and as an adult. Self-discovery is not always peaceful or satisfying for him or any of the characters around him, and their individual journeys show this process and the different events that come from the choices they make. This collection focuses on how religious roots, friendships, and familial connections, or the lack of such bonds, affect the characters' own personal views and decisions as well as how they relate to those around them.ID: 031001361; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Darlin' Neal.; Includes book list (p. 172-176).; Title from PDF title page (viewed May 3, 2013).; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.
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De, Monte James B. « Dago Red ». Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1240241112.
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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. « The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era : Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost ». Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.
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Southard, Nicole. « The Socio-Political and Economic Causes of Natural Disasters ». Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1720.
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To effectively prevent and mitigate the outbreak of natural disasters is a more pressing issue in the twenty-first century than ever before. The frequency and cost of natural disasters is rising globally, most especially in developing countries where the most severe effects of climate change are felt. However, while climate change is indeed a strong force impacting the severity of contemporary catastrophes, it is not directly responsible for the exorbitant cost of the damage and suffering incurred from natural disasters -- both financially and in terms of human life. Rather, the true root causes of natural disasters lie within the power systems at play in any given society when these regions come into contact with a hazard event. Historic processes of isolation, oppression, and exploitation, combined with contemporary international power systems, interact in complex ways to affect different socioeconomic classes distinctly. The result is to create vulnerability and scarcity among the most defenseless communities. These processes affect a society’s ideological orientation and their cultural norms, empowering some while isolating others. When the resulting dynamic socio-political pressures and root causes come into contact with a natural hazard, a disaster is likely to follow due to the high vulnerability of certain groups and their inability to adapt as conditions change. In this light, the following discussion exposes the anthropogenic roots of natural disasters by conducting a detailed case analysis of natural disasters in Haiti, Ethiopia, and Nepal.
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Särnbrink, My. « Arns makt : Representationer av makt, positivt kapital och livsmål i berättelserna om tempelriddaren Arn ». Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kultur, samhälle, mediegestaltning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-70805.
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Uppsatsen behandlar böckerna och filmerna om Arn och undersöker genom berättelserna vilka representationer av makt, positivt kapital och livsmål som gestaltas. Uppsatsen baseras på den teoretiska tanken att populärkultur innehåller representationer med budskap, värderingar, normer och föreställningar gällande vår verklighet och därigenom påverkar vår uppfattning om världen, vår plats i samhället, vår identitet och vår uppfattning om vad som är värdefullt, viktigt och sant.My Särnbrink hette tidigare My Ravin.
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Croley, Michael J. Stuckey-French Elizabeth. « After the sun fell a novella / ». Diss., 2005. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07102005-174135.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2005.Advisor: Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan.12, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 113 pages.
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Vines, HMM. « The secret life of us : Eve Langley and her family ». Thesis, 2008. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22212/1/whole_VinesHelenMargaretMcDonald2008_thesis.pdf.
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Eve Langley (1904-1974) is an enigmatic figure who made her mark on Australian literature with the publication of The Pea Pickers (1942). As Eve destroyed the original journals and letters upon which The Pea Pickers-and subsequent fiction-was based, her two published and ten unpublished novels stand as the only existing account of her life up until 1942. Although all researchers have been mindful of the hazards of reading the fiction as autobiography, in the absence of an alternative account of her "self," the fiction has segued into her biography and her biography has leached into readings of her fiction. In this thesis the often contradictory material available about Eve Langley from primary and secondary sources has been meticulously examined from the perspective of the distanced investigator, in order to provide a fuller history of the Langley family, and to deal with the fiction from a new critical perspective. I adopt the role of literary detective to unravel the story of Eve and her texts, a task made more complex by the Langley family's pervasive culture of secrecy.
My first chapter is a biography of the Langley family that is constructed through reference to historically verifiable, publicly available documents, and excludes the fiction as a source of biographical evidence. This family biography provides a back-ground for the chapters that follow. In the second chapter I provide a reading of Eve's texts, focusing on the representation of family. The third chapter deals with June Langley's commentary on the family, using a variety of sources. June was Eve's muse, audience and subject and later, biographer; the relationship between the two sisters was intense, fraught and significant. Drawing on anecdotal and documentary evidence, in the fourth chapter I put forward an overtly speculative but, I believe, persuasive explanation for Eve's unusual life and writing.
This thesis untangles the web of misrepresentation that has surrounded the enigmatic Eve Langley. As a "literary detective," my initial goal was to create borders between the life and the writing. Having met this objective, the imperative to maintain the separation diminished: the gaps, silences, and obfuscations by both Eve and June became increasingly transparent, leading to a re-evaluation of the relationship between the fiction and the life. The blurring that has confronted all critics has been addressed through the meticulous review of available sources, which has provided a framework for reading the fiction and the life.
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CHUANG, YA-CHU, et 莊雅筑. « Life Satisfaction of Grandparenting in Indigenous Family : A Case Study of Jen Ai Township, Nantou County ». Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ga3g3c.
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Because of the changing of the social environment, extended family has gradually transformed to various family types. Grandparenting has been the phenomenon that needs to explore. The purpose of this study was to understand the correlation between grandparenting indigenous family and its life satisfaction. A qualitative questionnaire survey was conducted. Data from three dimensions, personal attitudes, family involvement, and social participation, were collected from resident at Jen Ai Township, Nantou County. A total of 296 effective questionnaires were gathered and examined by descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Scheffle post hoc analysis. Results showed that (1) the satisfaction degree of the grandparenting indigenous family in Jen Ai Township is positive. The order of the high satisfaction degree ranged from family involvement, social participation, to personal attitudes respectively; (2) in terms of social participation, female’s life satisfaction was higher than male’s; (3) regarding personal attitudes, family involvement, and social participation, ages above 65 had the highest life satisfaction; (4) concerning social participation, financial status from 10001 to 15000 NTD showed difference; (5) personal attitudes, family involvement, and social participation of the grandparenting families indicated significance which explains their positive and affirmative life satisfaction. Lastly, this study proposed some suggestions to grandparenting grandparents, educational units, social organizations and our government in laying the groundwork for the related researchers. It is anticipated that life satisfaction of the grandparenting indigenous family may be more positive in the future. Keywords: Indigenous people, Grandparenting, Life satisfaction
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Butler, Erin. « Sister ». 2021. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/englmfa_theses/139.
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When college ends and she has no plan, Anna stumbles her way into a convent, the last place she expected to find herself for the rest of her life. But convent life is not the escape she thought it might be, and before long, Anna is harassed by her anxiety and by a mysterious voice that invades her thoughts. Less than a year later, she is back at her childhood home, a place she thought she’d left forever. As she takes a job at her local parish and tries to rebuild a life she thought she had buried for good, Anna must come to terms with abuse in her past, with a family who refuses to acknowledge reality, and—perhaps—with a demonic battle she never asked for.