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Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and Contested Authenticity within the Hip-Hop Discourse Community
Author: Rines, Olivia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: Authenticity within the hip-hop community has been a topic of conversation amongst researchers for a number of years. The hip-hop movement started in the 1970’s and has steadily grown over the years into a worldwide phenomenon. Although the succes...

Title: Coming of Age: The Narrative of Adolescence in David Almond's Kit's Wilderness and Nick Lake's In Darkness
Author: Blaylock, Brook
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cultural realities, remains a common feature of literary expression. However, a...

Title: That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
Author: Riley, Susan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, American literature, History
Description: When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...

Title: THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
Author: Morris, Julia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Reading
Description: With the contemporary scandals that currently characterize university-sanctioned athletics and student athlete participants, this study is aimed at using Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s Harry Potter series, as exemplary of young adult literature, as a g...

Title: Writers Accommodate the Primary Audience: A Study of Technical and Legal Writers’ Composition Principles Used for Usability Purposes
Author: Dancisin, Nicole
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Law, Communication of technical information
Description: Kenneth Bruffee argues that for action to commence and for knowledge to be shared and furthered, communication must successfully occur between two or more individuals. Successful communication requires the reader or listener to interpret a message...