Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Subject "Families"
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Homecoming.
(2017)The poems featured in Homecoming are narrative, and are written in free verse, prose and lyrical form. This anthology of poems was inspired by Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Sonya Sones, and Ted Kooser. The ... -
The importance of quality family time on child development
(2023)Minimal research has been done to date on how family time and children's activities impact a child's development. The amount of quality time that families spend together has decreased in recent years and children have ... -
Indecent foodie : a mini trilogy : streamed essays in memories.
(2013)The eighteen essays in Indecent Foodie: a Mini Trilogy speak of how alone and ashamed, a promiscuous woman deprives herself of healthy attachments, healthy intakes, and healthy perspective. She devours the world and hides ... -
Infidels.
(2012)Infidels is a short story collection dealing with a myriad of themes, most centrally of failed parenting, love, and yearning for the divine through spiritual brotherhood. The world the characters of Infidels inhabit is one ... -
Life in a doorway.
(2012)Life in a Doorway is a story about Brianna Fairchild who is a senior graduating from high school. The week before graduation her twin brother Hayden dies in a tragic accident at the school. Brianna, who was estranged from ... -
Memories of a redneck-hillbilly family.
(2018)Memories of a Redneck-Hillbilly Family' is a memoir, but it functions more like an autoethnography rather than a strict memoir. Jeannette Walls' memoir the Glass Castle reveals a few painful family truths as mine does; ... -
Missouri love story.
(2015)Summer visits to her family are usually filled with friendship, joy, and love, but the year Kylie Bellows turns sixteen, she faces the reality about her family. For the past nine years Kylie has attended school in Boston ... -
Moonlight and other stories
(2015)Moonlight and Other Stories is a collection of Literary Short Stories. It primarily deals with families in conflict, whether it's a newly divorced man who is convinced his only son is gay, or a young boy wanting to separate ... -
Paradise twin.
(2018)1. Description of the Form of Genre of the Creative Project. Paradise Twin is a realistic novel set in Oklahoma at the Paradise Twin Trailer Park, which was formerly a drive-in movie theater. The first-person point of view ... -
Regicide
(2021)REGICIDE is a Young Adult fantasy novel inspired by the works of Sarah J. Maas, Cinda Williams Chima, and Brandon Sanderson. It follows three different young adults as they struggle to come to terms with who they are versus ... -
Secrets of a Pepto Bismol casa.
(2014)Secrets of a Pepto Bismal Casa explores the journey of a young, Mexican American girl named Martha in Laredo, Texas, in 1990. The novel is set in first person point-of-view and is split into two threads--what occurs in ... -
Side effects may include time travel.
(2014)Alexi Anna Mackey is a thirteen-year-old with all the problems of growing up: her little brother, Mikey, annoys her as often as not; she's a little clumsy, which makes her chosen sport of pole-vaulting a bit challenging; ... -
The house of life.
(2015)The story is set in a Chinese village, during 1970s. Souyuen, a woman in her forties, is the mother of two sons and three daughters. The Chinese tradition of males carrying the family name has given Souyuen, and her ... -
Vivian.
(2011)'Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, no matter how passionate.' (W.H. Auden). Walt and Vivian are unhappily married, living in a tent-camp during the early part of the Great ... -
Weapons of the gods : sword of victory.
(2013)When eighteen-year-old Edana's father, King Cian of Eire, dies, the gods visit Edana in a dream and warn her of the struggles that she will soon face, claiming that Edana must be the one to assume responsibility if Eire ...