AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

A Worldwide History Spanning Genocide for the Sake of Corporate Profit

by Jacob Daniel Eckstein




Institution: University of Maryland
Department:
Year: 2016
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2085108
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18481


Abstract

A Worldwide History Spanning Genocide for the Sake of Corporate Profit is the title of a thesis consisting of four stories. Crosky’s Knife is presented first for the sake of allowing potential readers to embrace a sense of amiable audience engagement and is based on a true story of a veteran of one of the many global conflicts currently raged on behalf of freedom. The three pieces following this feint are reworked versions of stories written from the heart and delivered to machines. As it presents numerous aspects of reality that the average person may not wish to consider, doing so with shockingly casual acceptance of such horror and/or banality, the conscious reception of the duty of engagement and possible appreciation of the text is not advised. Knives, rabid dogs, severed tongues, and a downpour of malnourished Iraqi babies are components intrinsic to the direction of this thesis. Advisors/Committee Members: Mitchell, Emily (advisor).