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  • The Long Bloom of the Environment: Problems and Solutions

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    We usually imagine environmental concerns in terms of a human-caused litany of losses. We have heard about the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, degradation of land, climate change, toxins in the air, and the disappearance of clean water and soil. Amongst that welter of information, if we were admit the selfish truth, we typically think about how such disasters might affect us. We consider food ... Read more

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  • ChatGPT vs Professor: The Good, Bad, and Bizarre of Machine Writing

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    The new ChatGPT tool from OpenAI has rapidly garnered media attention and millions of users. Although less effective sentence generators have existed for years, ChatGPT's novelty has drawn both the public and the reporters' interest, and its possibilities have led to it becoming the fastest growing app in history. But when examined more closely, its seemingly miraculous capabilities are ultimately ... Read more

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  • The Appearance of Solidity: Media and Culture in the Electric Age

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    This collection of essays connected by the thread of media influence is an attempt to trace the logical result of the Gutenberg Press experience through print, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and internet technologies. Using Marshall McLuhan's insights as an impetus, this meandering tale draws upon novels, radio and television shows, film, and trending internet platforms and gaming to ... Read more

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  • How to Read, Write, and Interpret Fiction: Authorial Strategies and Literary Technique

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    This guide is meant to assist the student of literature and the creative writer in their understanding of how literary techniques and narrative devices can inform a reader's interaction with text. Each writer, from experts in the craft—like the writers of the stories I use as examples—to the beginner who wants to exercise control over the story they are writing, choses from a series of techniques ... Read more

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  • How to Write an English Paper: Argue, Research, Format, and Edit

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    This guide is meant to assist those who want to learn the basics of writing English essays, as well as how to use research to support their academic arguments. Accordingly, it explains the general purpose of the academic English paper, the rationale for its structure and how to incorporate quotes and separate arguments, as well as offers research tips. Many guides on the market are full of ... Read more

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  • Historiographic Metafiction

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    In this project I ground my reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon's construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies these texts use and abuse in order to write an alternative history. Beginning by reviewing the theory ... Read more

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  • The Greenhouse Girl

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    When Amy set out to write a novel, and thus establish herself as a writer to be reckoned with, she was faced with a problem. Although most novelists begin semi-autobiographically, her own life in the small town of Crooked River—with its endless cycles of mowing lawns and setting tables—was far too boring. No one could possibly be interested in what she had to say if she were the subject.That drove ... Read more

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  • Crushing All Hope: Trying to Be a Foster Parent for Manitoba Child and Family Services

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    Telling the other side of the adoption and fostering process in Manitoba perhaps inevitably ends up questioning the failures of the government child care system. In this study, I itemize the difficulties dealing with the foster care system that ultimately led to my unsuccessful attempt to become a Manitoba foster parent.Like the impoverished child in the candy store window, both systemic and ... Read more

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  • Life at Sea: Landlocked

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    After washing up on the Winnipeg shore, the arid Midwestern soil kept Sam running in place. His old life behind him, he cleaned his apartment for coins as his girlfriend took away her rent-paying job. After she slammed the door, only his cousin's offer of work kept him from his parents' basement.Hired without qualifications, and surrounded by suspicious and silent colleagues, Sam frantically ... Read more

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  • Going to Ground: The Search for Home

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    After his father died, Tom took the 1971 Impala that his father had bought the day he was born and drifted from one side of the country to the other, grafting limbs on fruit trees but keeping himself unattached. The years were a blur of seasons, and trees he'd nursed to health turned to witches brooms, gone wild on slopes where there had been apples and pears. Now that grafting season has become ... Read more

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  • Living on Nothing and Enjoying Less: An Eco-Handbook for Cheap, Sustainable Happiness

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    The desire to live more frugally, responsibly, and environmentally is loose in the land now. Despite the popularity of a minimalism which had its adherents buying more to pretend they had less, many people have a genuine interest in living more carefully. Learning to reduce our impact runs deeper than saving money or using those savings to buy more consumer goods. Instead, people are starting to ... Read more

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  • ChatGPT vs Professor: Struggling with Fiction and Poetry

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    Although some people are using ChatGPT to write children's books for sale, most people are looking for information or entertainment when they type in a prompt. In this study, I became more interested in what type of narrative it might create with a specific or vague set of instructions. For the most part, its stories were trite and hackneyed generalizations befitting a mere sentence generator, but ... Read more

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