Howard Elman\u27s Farewell

Part Falstaff, part King Lear, but all American, Howard Elman was a fifty-something workingman when he burst onto the literary scene in The Dogs of March, the first novel of the Darby Chronicles. Now in this, its seventh installment, the Darby constable is an eighty-something widower who wants to do a great thing before he motors off into the sunset. Maybe Howard achieves this goal, but he manages it in strange, wonderful, and dangerous ways. On his quest he\u27s aided, abetted, hindered, and befuddled by his middle-aged children, his hundred-year-old hermit friend Cooty Patterson, a voice in his head, and the person he loves most, his grandson, Birch Latour. At 24, Birch has returned to Darby with his friends to take over the stewardship of the Salmon Trust and to launch a video game, Darby Doomsday. At stake is the fate of Darby. And the world? Maybe. Howard Elman\u27s Farewell begins as a coming of (old) age story, morphs into a murder mystery, expands into a family saga, and in the end might just follow Howard Elman into the spirit world. This is a novel for people who like New England fiction with humor, pathos, and just a touch of magical realism

Garret, 1969 (volume 1)

This is volume 4, issue 1 of Garret.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/venture/1028/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, October 25, 1978

HAPPY HALLOWEEN; Editorial ---- Is bookstore nonprofit?; Tobacco chewers. a minority; Gaybars, no interest to straights; letters to the editor: Bulldozed trees anger teacher; Bridge tourney to be Dec. 7; PC debaters attend tourney; Foreign language clubs have dinner; Parkland activities for Oct. 25-31; Christie hosts program; Final night for mime workers; PC speech team places tenth; Visitation day set at Parkland; PC board meeting: Parkland is in top ten in financial aid provided; Dance held for shelter; Illinois harvest \u2778; After the Illinois Harvest; Unspectacular season; Halloween gained popularity by potato famine; PC to celebrate Halloween; Women\u27s program is a success; African student gives his opinions of America; WPCD Top Ten Singles, Top Five Albums, Top Five Country Singles; Electronic club visits computer of Busey Bank; Free Classifieds; Tourney is this weekend; Little Feat better than ever; Volleyball to play six games; CC to run at state; Hartman places 3rd; Fast Freddy Contest; Seven score perfect in Fast Freddyhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1006/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, April 10, 2007

Volume 128, Issue 38https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10352/thumbnail.jp

Cognition, computers and creative writing

This thesis describes a teaching scheme for creative writing that takes account of a child's developing cognitive abilities. It first provides the means for a child to explore language and gain sufficient understanding of linguistic concepts and processes to be able to control the acquisition of new writing skills. This is a preparation for the second part of the scheme, in which a child applies this understanding to her own creative writing. The child is given practice in generating and transforming text at different structural levels, and in selecting text forms that are appropriate to the audience and function of the writing. Computer programs form an integral part of the scheme. They provide representations of two abstract systems - a generative grammar and an associative network - which the child manipulates to investigate language structure and plans. The programs also offer a dynamic medium for text creation and revision. The teaching scheme was tested with six eleven year old children who visited the University for 29 sessions of 60-70 minutes duration, over three school terms. It was presented to the children through written worksheets, containing language exercises, writing activities, and instructions for the use of the computer. The children were set pre and post descriptive and narrative essays. The same essays were also set for a control group of children who followed normal classroom teaching for the period of the project. The main method of assessment was a feature analysis of the essays. They were examined for the occurrence of 'mature' and 'immature' linguistic features, at the word/phrase, sentence, and section level of text. The presence of mature features indicates that the writer is able to reflect on the form of language and can create text to a well-structured and coherent plan. During the first part of the scheme, the children formed into two distinct groups. Two children performed poorly in all activities that involved the understanding and manipulation of language. The four remaining children performed well in these activities and enjoyed the experience of exploring language with the aid of a computer. These four children w^ere taken on to the second stage of the scheme. An analysis of the pre and post essays showed developments in the writing ability of all four children. Each child, however, gained a different set of skills, and appeared to be using the writing projects to explore a particular aspect of style. We suggest that such explorations are valuable, enabling a child to discover the constraints and possibilities of creative writing

The Chronicle [September 4, 2003]

The Chronicle, September 4, 2003https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/chron/1622/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern, 2011-2012

• Frangipani • A Shadow • Dear Anne, In this Place, Stringbean Girls • Back to a Dandelion • How to Plant a Room • Swimming Pool Poem 30 • The Naming of Daughters • Berman Museum Photographs • Truth or Dare • The Song of Remembrance, L\u27vov, Poland, 1940 • Headlights • Prayer of Thanks • Numbers Game • Pediment • Home Sick • Lust • Sand Lining Instructions • A-A-Ask a Question • Flash Cards • Columbus Day • Mr. Yoest Gives His Report to the Police Officers on Wednesday Night • Gender Trouble • The Internet Connection at Ursinus College • Assuming You\u27ll Still be Here • 10/28/11, Third Poem • October • Actions that Affirm and Confirm Us as a Community • Why I Hate The Lantern • Confessions of an Ex-Vegetarian • Run • Lunch at Caltort • Schemers • You Will Make Beautiful Babies in America • The Black Dirt Region • Il Travatore • Ghost Story • Blue Eyes and Sunny Skies • A Little Sincerity • The Bookstore • The Opposite of Serendipity • The Human Doll • Evil Deeds • Francesca • Sunday Morning • Jersey Aesthetic • Jump! • Behind Reimert • Seaweed in New Zealand • Tombee de L\u27elegance • The Window • Esperando • Rainbow to the Heavens • Encased • In Springtime • A Fiesolan Monk\u27s Room • Inside a Bone • Neon Indian • Moments of Clarity • OneFeral: A Feral Self-Portrait • Cover Image: The Conquerorhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1177/thumbnail.jp

Veal: The Rise of Generation Interactive

The purpose of this book is to investigate and discuss the premise that the current generation was constructed to be consumers for a transitional marketplace. As the economy shifted from analog to digital, consumers had to be trained to accept, use and progress within a new economic model through changes in societal and economic patterns. During the course of this book those patterns will be discussed and displayed as a confluence of: Marketplace manipulation, Abusive use of technologies, and Lack of governance. In this book I discuss how those events are reflected in the habits and lifestyles of the current 12 to 25 year old demographic globally and how it has caused them to be the consummate consumer of digital goods based on events that have been created to develop them to be consumers and to be consumed. One of the first questions is whether this was the fault of parenting; in my opinion – no, it was more the position families were placed in and how they best could survive. When many events come into play and seemingly conspire to force families to re-invent themselves, it is not so much the fault of the “herd” but the result of the “rancher”.https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1047/thumbnail.jp