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- Title
- Quantitative assessment of marine sponge cells in vitro: Development of improved growth medium.
- Creator
- Willoughby, Robin, Pomponi, Shirley A.
- Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2795606
- Subject Headings
- Animal cell biotechnology, Marine biology, Cell culture --Technique
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A study of teacher change and its meaning.
- Creator
- Wills, Eileen W., Florida Atlantic University, Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers change from being disseminators of information in teacher-centered classrooms and become constructive classroom change agents using a more facilitative teaching style in a learner-centered classroom. The study identified the forces that lead to change and examined what this change means for teachers. It included teachers who have made positive improvements by changing or broadening their instructional practices. This qualitative study...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers change from being disseminators of information in teacher-centered classrooms and become constructive classroom change agents using a more facilitative teaching style in a learner-centered classroom. The study identified the forces that lead to change and examined what this change means for teachers. It included teachers who have made positive improvements by changing or broadening their instructional practices. This qualitative study examines one important reform program in a district of over 217,000 students. Twenty teachers were interviewed and observed who had participated in a two-year training program, TEAMS (Teachers Exploring and Mastering Strategies), that was based on the Models of Teaching Program developed by Bruce Joyce, Marsha Weil, and Beverly Showers. In numerous schools, six valued teachers were selected by their principal to train with the principal in workshops, meet in study groups, and work with a university coach for the purpose of infusing new facilitative strategies into their teaching repertoires. Teachers in this study showed a positive response to long-term intermittent training with study groups conducted monthly. This approach provided an environment for the development of learning communities, which was enhanced by the requirement that teachers observe each other as they practice the new strategies. Teachers responded positively to working with a coach who gave teachers strong support for using the newly learned strategies. Having the coach observe the teaching of new strategies, as well as being in each other's classrooms, compelled teachers to implement the strategies which helped them overcome the discomfort factor. Results of this study confirmed that teachers implement strategies that have the greatest impact on student achievement. Teachers' attitudes and beliefs about teaching changed and became more positive as they saw students become more engaged in learning. Although teachers did move to become more facilitative and depend less on teacher-directed instruction and rote memory for students, these strategies were not abandoned. Teachers in this study reported feeling more professional and had a heightened sense of efficacy as teachers, and they were more inclined to seek additional training that would increase their facilitative skills.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12571
- Subject Headings
- Teachers--In-service training, Teachers--Attitudes
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The bad Friday: a sermon preached in the First church, West Roxbury, June 4, 1854; it being the Sunday after the return of Anthony Burns to slavery.
- Creator
- Willson, E. B. (Edmund Burke) 1820-1895, John Wilson and Son
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb17f14
- Subject Headings
- United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sermons, Slavery and the church -- United States, Burns, Anthony -- 1834-1862 -- Sermons, Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850), Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Sermons, Bible -- Matthew, XXV, 45 -- Sermons, Sermons, American -- 19th century, Slavery -- Massachusetts -- Boston, Slavery -- United States -- Sermons
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- IMPROVING INTRA-INDUSTRY COOPERATION: A ROLE THEORY APPROACH.
- Creator
- WILLSON, PETER G., Florida Atlantic University, Hollingsworth, A. T.
- Abstract/Description
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This was prepared as the thesis required for the Master of Business Administration degree. Secondary research has shown very little is written on Role Theory as applied to trade and professional associations or the functions of their chief paid officers. Application of Role principles to a "Test" association indicated the present parameters of Role Theory are not yet quantified to the point where they can be considered as seriously acceptable predictors of human behavior in associations. A...
Show moreThis was prepared as the thesis required for the Master of Business Administration degree. Secondary research has shown very little is written on Role Theory as applied to trade and professional associations or the functions of their chief paid officers. Application of Role principles to a "Test" association indicated the present parameters of Role Theory are not yet quantified to the point where they can be considered as seriously acceptable predictors of human behavior in associations. A number of examples illustrate its potential in the association field.
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- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13520
- Subject Headings
- Industrial Sociology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Boy Chums on Indian River: or, The boy partners of the schooner "Orphan".
- Creator
- Wilmer, Ely M.
- Abstract/Description
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Previously published under title: The boy truckers.
- Date Issued
- 1905
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000148
- Subject Headings
- Indian River (Fla. : Lagoon) -- Juvenile fiction., Florida -- Indian River (Lagoon)
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- LPS-activated obese human PBMCs produce a BDNF and IL-6 associative response.
- Creator
- Wilson, Alan, Mari, David, Shibata, Yoshimi, Huang, Chun-Jung
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361231
- Subject Headings
- Lipopolysaccharides, Obesity, Neurodegenerative diseases, IL-6 (Biomolecule)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Characterization of normal mitochondrial inheritance in C. elegans and a reverse genetic approach to identify possible genes involved.
- Creator
- Wilson, Amber Diane, Florida Atlantic University, LaMunyon, Craig W.
- Abstract/Description
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Mitochondria are inherited uniparentally in almost all eukaryotic models studied to date. The fathers mitochondria are eliminated and there have been several hypothesis as to how this occurs. One hypothesis is that the sperm mitochondria are actively targeted and destroyed. Ubiquitin has been proposed a possible candidate involved in this process. My research investigated the normal mitochondrial inheritance pattern in C. elegans. I also examined the possible role of the C34F11.1 gene in...
Show moreMitochondria are inherited uniparentally in almost all eukaryotic models studied to date. The fathers mitochondria are eliminated and there have been several hypothesis as to how this occurs. One hypothesis is that the sperm mitochondria are actively targeted and destroyed. Ubiquitin has been proposed a possible candidate involved in this process. My research investigated the normal mitochondrial inheritance pattern in C. elegans. I also examined the possible role of the C34F11.1 gene in mitochondrial inheritance. This gene is sperm-specific and has ubiquitin-ligase properties. It was determined that the normal mitochondrial inheritance pattern in C. elegans is maternal and that the sperm mitochondria are eliminated. It was also concluded that the C34F11.1 gene does not have a role in normal mitochondrial inheritance.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13049
- Subject Headings
- Caenorhabditis elegans, Mitochondrial DNA
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Daily Loneliness in Young and Older Adults.
- Creator
- Wilson, Angalee, Maniaci, Michael, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
- Abstract/Description
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Loneliness is defined as perceived social isolation. Previous research has identified several predictors of chronic loneliness, such as poor self-reported health and living alone. However, the predictors of daily fluctuations in transient experiences of loneliness have not been closely examined. For one week, 200 participants were asked to complete a daily diary survey about their social interactions and loneliness each night. Consistent with predictions, participants reported feeling...
Show moreLoneliness is defined as perceived social isolation. Previous research has identified several predictors of chronic loneliness, such as poor self-reported health and living alone. However, the predictors of daily fluctuations in transient experiences of loneliness have not been closely examined. For one week, 200 participants were asked to complete a daily diary survey about their social interactions and loneliness each night. Consistent with predictions, participants reported feeling lonelier on days with less time interacting with others and with poorer quality social interaction. The effect of time spent interacting with others on daily loneliness was stronger for participants higher in chronic loneliness. Supplemental analyses showed that participants felt less lonely on days of the weekend and that additional hours of interaction were more effective in reducing daily loneliness for older adults than younger adults. Examining this differential response in daily loneliness to interaction quality and quantity could inform future interventions.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013827
- Subject Headings
- Loneliness, Older people, Young people
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE DREAMS OF GODS.
- Creator
- Wilson, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the...
Show moreThe Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the reader deep into a world that becomes more bizarre with each page, while fantastical characters pop in and out of the story in shocking and comical ways and nothing is quite what it seems.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013711
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Survey of water quality, oyster reproduction and oyster health status in the St. Lucie Estuary.
- Creator
- Wilson, C., Scotto, L. E., Scarpa, John, Volety, A., Laramore, Susan E., Haunert, D.
- Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174059
- Subject Headings
- Estuaries, Oysters, Reproduction, Water quality, Watershed ecology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Synaptic Architecture of Cortical Columns.
- Creator
- Wilson, Daniel E., Fitzpatrick, David, Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The visual cortex of higher mammals, including humans, is arranged as to achieve a continuously varying map of features such as the orientation of contours in the environment. Previous studies used intrinsic signal and two-photon imaging to examine the functional composition of these cortical maps, but lacked the functional resolution to resolve the underlying synaptic architecture. Here, we exploited recent advances in genetically encoded calcium indicators to perform in vivo two photon...
Show moreThe visual cortex of higher mammals, including humans, is arranged as to achieve a continuously varying map of features such as the orientation of contours in the environment. Previous studies used intrinsic signal and two-photon imaging to examine the functional composition of these cortical maps, but lacked the functional resolution to resolve the underlying synaptic architecture. Here, we exploited recent advances in genetically encoded calcium indicators to perform in vivo two photon imaging of dendrites and dendritic spines in an animal with a mapped visual cortex. We found sharp orientation and direction tuning when we presented drifting gratings and imaged synaptic calcium transients from large numbers of dendritic spines in single neurons, obtaining synaptic maps of orientation preference. In addition, we implemented a newly developed two-photon microscope that uses acousto-optical deflectors to rapidly steer a pulsed laser in three dimensions. This technology allowed us to image 320 single cells in an 800x800x200 micron three-dimensional volume, which yielded a three-dimensional orientation map with single-cell resolution. In the future, we will perform fast, three-dimensional imaging of a single cell and its entire dendritic tree to monitor functional properties of a cell’s inputs and its somatic spiking output. These experiments will yield important insight into synaptic integration and sensory processing in cortical maps and how such organizing principles might be disrupted in disease states.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005864
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Cellular Computation in Primary Visual Cortex.
- Creator
- Wilson, Daniel E., Fitzpatrick, David, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Individual neurons in the primary visual cortex respond selectively to different features of visual stimuli, such as spatial orientation or direction of motion. A longstanding goal in systems neuroscience has been to understand the transformations single cells perform as they integrate synaptic inputs to generate spiking output. Recent technological developments have facilitated these lines of investigation by enabling direct measurement of the functional properties of single synaptic inputs...
Show moreIndividual neurons in the primary visual cortex respond selectively to different features of visual stimuli, such as spatial orientation or direction of motion. A longstanding goal in systems neuroscience has been to understand the transformations single cells perform as they integrate synaptic inputs to generate spiking output. Recent technological developments have facilitated these lines of investigation by enabling direct measurement of the functional properties of single synaptic inputs to neurons in the neocortex. It remains an outstanding question as to whether the tuning of single neocortical neurons can be predicted by their excitatory synaptic inputs. Here, I show that excitatory synaptic inputs exhibit significant functional diversity with respect to orientation and direction selectivity. I show that cells can use at least two strategies to overcome this functional diversity to achieve selective responses in the face of broadly tuned excitatory input: enhancing responses to the preferred stimuli and suppressing responses to the non-preferred stimuli. In the case of orientation selectivity, synaptic inputs cluster according to orientation preference and evoke local dendritic nonlinearities, thereby enhancing somatic responses to the preferred direction. For direction selectivity, cells receive excitatory synaptic inputs tuned to the preferred and null directions, but selectively suppress inputs tuned for the null direction to enhance direction selectivity. This suppression comes from direction-tuned GABAergic interneurons that make longrange, intercolumnar projections to enhance direction selectivity.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004994
- Subject Headings
- Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Local Government Decisions in a Time of Economic Decline: A Study of County Government Budget Policy During the Great Recession.
- Creator
- Wilson, Darrin Hugh, McCue, Clifford P., Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
- Abstract/Description
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This dissertation examined the literature of cutback management in the context of the Great Recession. Specifically, it studied the relationship between cutback management policies used by county governments during the recession and revenue changes. The purpose of this dissertation was to test whether or not the percent change in revenue had an impact on the probability that cutback management policies were used in the recession. According to the cutback management literature developed in the...
Show moreThis dissertation examined the literature of cutback management in the context of the Great Recession. Specifically, it studied the relationship between cutback management policies used by county governments during the recession and revenue changes. The purpose of this dissertation was to test whether or not the percent change in revenue had an impact on the probability that cutback management policies were used in the recession. According to the cutback management literature developed in the 1970s and 1980s, there should be a relationship. The theoretical framework used for this study was the rational-approach framework, which proposes that every expenditure reducing and revenue increasing policy is enacted based on the percent decrease in revenue the government faces. This suggests that the cutback management policies are a proportional response to revenue decline. The framework was operationalized by using a binary logistic regression that used policy en actment as the dependent variable and the percent change in revenue as the independent variable. Eighty-six counties were sampled and 7 years of each county's budget book were examined for policies and financial data. The research found that eleven expenditure policies and three revenue policies had a statistically significant relationship with the percent change in revenues. This resulted in the conclusion that the framework and, therefore, the cutback management literature were useful in explaining primarily expenditure policies.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004556, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004556
- Subject Headings
- Financial crises -- United States -- 21st century, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States -- 21st century, Local budgets -- United States, Municipal budgets -- United States, United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sea current generator.
- Creator
- Wilson, Debra L.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3358745
- Subject Headings
- Energy, Ocean currents, Alternative energy sources, Renewable energy sources, Ocean wave power
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- On the Hilbert Characteristic Polynomial.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Peter, Bastida, Julio R., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this thesis is to provide complete proofs for several results on integral-valued polynomials, which are used in Serre's proof of Hilbert's Theorem found in the theory of characteristic polynomials. These results, however elementary, are not found in the literature. The proof of Hilbert's Theorem is also given.
- Date Issued
- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000855
- Subject Headings
- Hilbert space, Polynomials
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DOES CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS HAVE THE CAPACITY TO BUILD UP TOLERANCE TO AMPHETAMINE.
- Creator
- Wilson, Ian, Carvelli, Lucia, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Drug tolerance can be defined as a progressive reduction in the effect of a drug following a previous exposure. Amphetamine (AMPH) is a psychostimulant which produces its behavioral effects primarily by an increase extracellular dopamine (DA) level. In C. elegans, this surplus of extracellular DA causes the loss of the ability to swim, also called swimming induced paralysis (SWIP). Here we tested if C. elegans could build up a tolerance for AMPH. Two separate groups of L4 animals were tested...
Show moreDrug tolerance can be defined as a progressive reduction in the effect of a drug following a previous exposure. Amphetamine (AMPH) is a psychostimulant which produces its behavioral effects primarily by an increase extracellular dopamine (DA) level. In C. elegans, this surplus of extracellular DA causes the loss of the ability to swim, also called swimming induced paralysis (SWIP). Here we tested if C. elegans could build up a tolerance for AMPH. Two separate groups of L4 animals were tested for an initial SWIP trial: a control 1st-treated group and an AMPH 1st-treated group. Both groups had 3 recovery periods and reassessed for a 2nd SWIP trial with control or AMPH solutions. Our results show that the first exposure to AMPH reduces the number of animals exhibiting SWIP when treated for the second time with AMPH 30 minutes after the first exposure.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00111
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Union security; closed shop, maintenance of membership, preferential shop,, union shop.
- Creator
- Wilson, Idele Louise
- Date Issued
- 1944
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369040
- Subject Headings
- Open and closed shop., Union security.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Substance of an address to a meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia delivered, October sixth, MDCCLXXXVII by the Honorable James Wilson...
- Creator
- Wilson, James 1742-1798, United States Constitutional Convention (1787)
- Abstract/Description
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Caption title. Uniform Title: Pamphlets of the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1788; Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788.Originally printed: Philadelphia, 1787. Printed from Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788, edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888. FAU Libraries' copy in plain grey paper wrappers.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb7f19
- Subject Headings
- Constitution (United States), Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources, Constitutional law -- United States -- Popular works, Constitutions -- United States, Federal government -- United States, United States -- Constitution, United States -- Constitutional Convention -- (1787), United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Testing an Integrated Health Promotion Model Using Social Media for Breastfeeding Women: Structural Equation Modeling.
- Creator
- Wilson, Jane C., Weglicki, Linda S., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Abstract/Description
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Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life has been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality of women and infants. Organizations such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, 2018), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP, 2012), and the World Health Organization (WHO, 2017a) have universally endorsed exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, and then continuation of breastfeeding for a minimum of one to two years, with only supplementation of other liquid or...
Show moreExclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life has been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality of women and infants. Organizations such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, 2018), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP, 2012), and the World Health Organization (WHO, 2017a) have universally endorsed exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, and then continuation of breastfeeding for a minimum of one to two years, with only supplementation of other liquid or solid food sources. Breastfeeding rates in the United States have not met the minimum goals set forth by Healthy People 2020 (n.d.). Although 81% of U.S. mothers initiated breastfeeding after the birth of their infant, only 22% of mothers were found to be exclusively breastfeeding at six months postpartum (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016a). This prospective, longitudinal, structural equation modeling study examined millennial-aged, exclusively breastfeeding women within one month postpartum who were followers of at least one of 17 social media breastfeeding support groups. Relationships of the conceptual constructs within Pender’s (1996) revised health promotion model (RHPM); House’s (1981) dimensions of social support; and the added constructs of breastfeeding knowledge, breastfeeding confidence, and breastfeeding attitude were analyzed in an effort to better understand the variables that lead to sustained exclusive breastfeeding to six months. Data supported the use of the integrated model for breastfeeding women. The normed referenced chi-square (2) of 1.9 (CFI =.94, IFI =.94, NFI =.89, RMSEA =.06, CFI [PCFI] >.5) indicated a good model fit. Additionally, there were statistically significant gains in the confidence, knowledge, and attitude scores from pretest to follow-up at six months. Exclusive breastfeeding to six months was reported to be three times (66%) higher than the U.S. national average (22%) (CDC, 2016a). Future use of the integrated model has great potential to impact public health by the exploration of variables that promote exclusive breastfeeding to six months.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013106
- Subject Headings
- Structural equation modeling., Breastfeeding promotion., Social media.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Locust, Emerge.
- Creator
- Wilson, Jason M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Locust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or...
Show moreLocust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or join it and endure the pain and frustrations that come with that admission.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013280
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)