Multi- authored anthology of short stories and original poetry designed to inspire hope and healing in families affected by child loss at any age. The catalyst behind forming this anthology was to celebrate an individual's ability to persevere in the face of extreme emotional duress. The stories are poignant retellings, mostly because many of them come from first-hand experiences. The endings will leave you cheering for the protagonists and feeling an overwhelming sense of optimism that perhaps there really is a grand plan predestined for us all. We only have to find that small glimmer of hope in the everyday in order to overcome whatever troubles are thrown our way. We will and can find healing despite loss. If you only allow yourself to be open to life's unexpected Detours In Our Destinations!

This thesis details the creation of a project that uses the principles of design to explore the use of food menus within the restaurant industry through a diner’s perspective to help inform and influence the design of a mobile application providing a community-like platform to rate and compare local restaurant dishes. The project culminated in the creation of the Foodie app using research, design, and prototyping principles to deliver a final product ready for IT development, launch, and marketing.

The second issue of Alternating Current's annual literary publication contains 43 works of poetry, maps, photographs, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by 30 authors about various historical topics. Within these pages, you will find contemporary outlooks on history right alongside little-known public domain works that feel as fresh and as vibrant (and as scary) as if they were written today. Here, the old meets the new, and you'll discover fascinating history from a personal, non-scholarly literary approach.In this issue, you'll meet Jack the Ripper, Fanny Hooe, Jesse James, Geronimo, Lewis & Clark, Nikolai Vavilov, and the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. You'll learn of the catastrophic Hartley Colliery mining disaster, the woman who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, the lost language of the Clatsop, harvesting sugar beets during World War II, how Commonwealth Indians were treated during World War I, and the costs of artistic patronage. You'll discover what Dorothy was like during the Great Depression and how Lucile Fitch gave birth to an atomic bomb. Writers speak about deafness, queerness, and birth control in the face of Margaret Sanger's and Alexander Graham Bell's abhorrent eugenics rants, alongside the effects of the Oklahoma City bombing, erasure poems of Jules Verne, and the sacrifices of historical witchcraft.The Featured Writer, Holly M. Wendt, mines 18th-century New England newspapers for responses to clippings about lost items, weeks at sea, feminism, and transporting lions. Her work is showcased next to the winners and finalists for the 2016 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical.

"Psychologically, the oppression and repression women were subjected to, took its toll emotionally, physically, and mentally. The theory of psychoanalysis uncovers the ramifications that an oppressive and repressive society had on women of the Victorian Era." Student paper.

First serialized in a French periodical between March 1869 and June 1870, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea forever changed not only the arena of fiction as we knew it, but our relationship to the sea. Considered by most to be one of the earliest works of science fiction, Verne's imaginative, wondrous novel has lent itself to hundreds of translations and interpretations the world over, introducing new generations to a fathomless world of infinite mystery and unearthly beauty from the depths. In the twenty-first century, however, it's hard to imagine the bottomless ocean without the comprehension of all the harm and shifts that humans have wrought to this natural marvel from which all life sprang. In text artist and poet Jennifer Roche's erasure of Verne's classic, this contemporary sensibility and awareness meets the adventurous realm of an ancient underwater sci-fi. With a mix of mourning, precaution, awe, and fascination, Roche has given urgent context to old words, and ignited them with new breath. Pulling in our post-industrial world on the cusp of the Anthropocene, with its gun violence, refugees, war, overstuffed prisons, climate change, and destruction of natives-both human and nonhuman alike-Roche has begged of us a furious calling to protect and cherish the seas that swirl around us. She has transformed a classic into fresh work that stands on its own merit, reaching into the past to speak to our troubling modern times, and reminding us: the sea is everything.

This dissertation evaluated three possible levels of processing that interlocutors engage in during interactive discourse. The first section is a review of literature that attempts to link priming, adaptation, and interpretation. The second section presents two experiments that have been recently published in Language and Cognitive Processes. This study evaluated the tendency for interlocutors to mimic pragmatic forms of language during a pseudo-interaction. The third section offers three experiments that evaluated the contexts in which communication breakdown drives disambiguation strategies. This paper is currently under preparation and will be submitted to the Journal of Memory and Language. The fourth section of experiments is a production and perception study that evaluated how talker variability influences the interpretation of intent behind affective expressions. Finally, the last section provides general conclusions of how priming, adaptation, and interpretation may be linked during discourse. The five sections together intend to show that priming, adaptation, and interpretation are integrative processes that may be enlisted as cooperative mechanisms. Though these mechanisms may be integrative, the approaches used to study them were independent in order to better asses each mechanisms' unique contribution to language processing.