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Not like my mother : truth and the author in creative nonfiction
No full textThis exegesis examines how a writer can effectively negotiate the relationship between author, character, fact and truth, in a work of Creative Nonfiction. It was found that individual truths, in a work of Creative Nonfiction, are not necessarily universal truths due to individual, cultural, historical and religious circumstances. What was also identified, through the examination of published Creative Nonfiction, is a necessity to ensure there are clear demarcation lines between authorial truth and fiction. The Creative Nonfiction works examined, which established this framework for the reader, ensured an ethical relationship between author and audience. These strategies and frameworks were then applied to my own Creative Nonfiction
DATS 6401 - Final Project - Jesse Liu
No full textDATS 6401 - Visualization of Complex Data
Final Project - Jesse Liu
The figures used in my presentationa, Analysis of Chronic Health Indicators, are included in this zenodo page (below)
My Faithful Friend
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This was inspired from a situation that one of my family friend was going through. Prayers were offered while looking to God for an answer. This was my reflection of the situation and trust in God
Novel Excerpt: My Name Is Sweet Thing , Part 1 'Whose Little Girl Am I?'
Full text linkThe night I turned sixteen � in 1979 � I dreamt I swallowed all of my teeth, and Aunt Winnie said it meant disgrace was coming to the family. I forced a laugh but exchanged a concerned look with my cousin, Bernice, as a feeling like ice spread through my abdomen because Aunt Winnie was never wrong
My Thyme
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the AI Literature category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This piece was inspired by the clock ticking away while I was cooking. Reading the poem out loud should make the connection clear. I used AI assistance for rhyme and meter
On “A class Teacher" by Liu Xinwu
Full text linkLiu Xinwu is the author I studied in my master's thesis and still arouses my deep contemplation.A class Teacher",which brought him into prominence, was widely referred to, because of its positive negation of the obscurantist policy in those days when the Great proletarian cultural Revolution was not objectively appraised yet. However, even at present, 30years since then, still Chinese overnment controls the information, making only the pro-government information be available to the public.departmental bulletin pape
The Winter of My Soul
Full text linkThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Describes the emptiness of love lost and the desire to find it again
Fact and Fiction: Liu E’s Treatment of Characters in The Travels of Lao Can
Full text linkIn this paper, I will pay attention to characters in Travels and focus my discussion on their relationship to the author\u27s life and thinking. My reasoning is that, as Wong points out, Liu E in his treatment of characters and plotlines “draws heavily on actual events and persons,” to finally “pull them together into the realm of fiction.”38 My reading of the characters in Travels essentially expands on this line of interpretation, but for the sake of clarity, I leave out Liu E\u27s treatment of landscapes and technology in the novel. First, I examine the two officials in Travels, Yu Xian and Gang Bi, to explore Liu E’s attention to Chinese statecraft; second, I direct attention to the mountain recluse Liu Renfu and discuss Liu E’s awareness of military affairs and other specialized knowledge; third, I examine the protagonist Lao Can and Governor Zhuang to explore Liu E’s Daoist thinking and his involvement on the Yellow River; and finally, I look at the religio-philosophical characters Maiden Yu and Yellow Dragon in relation to the doctrine and members of the Taigu School. Liu E is at once a historian and a storyteller who writes xiaoshuo to “historicize” (lun qi shi 論其世), drawing inspiration from the people and environment around him in the portrayal of these characters, and therefore I suggest Liu E\u27s thinking and treatment of characters in the novel reflect actual teachings and real people in his environment. After examining the relationship between the novel’s characters and people in Liu E’s environment who inspired them, I explore the historical and biographical factors that shape the author\u27s ideas towards politics, society, and philosophy in Travels: to argue that Liu E, in crafting the novel\u27s characters, blends fact and fiction to voice his distress at the dilapidated state of China and to establish his spiritual self. [From author\u27s introduction.]
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Peas
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