Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
7th Night, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023summer_ou_wen.pdf
Overview
"7th Night is an experimental short film that tells the story of a young Chinese woman's encounter with her dead grandfather's spirit on the 7th Night after his death. As a queer woman, and a granddaughter, she fights to break free from her conventional Asian household and at the same time, stumbles on her self-exploration journey, seeking acceptance from her family and herself. This film tries to uncover the patriarchal powers over Asian women that have long been excused under the cultural...
Dates:
2023
18 Years: A Letter to Zora A Proof Concept Film for Onyx and the Chronicle of the Seers, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_cox_brianna.pdf
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"18 Years: A Letter to Zora is a proof-of-concept episode for a series, Onyx and the Chronicle of the Seers. This film is a piece of speculative fiction within the tradition of Afrofuturism. The story revolves around a line of women who have the ability to commune across space and time with the aid of their special meditation jewelry and their extrasensory Empathic abilities to show each other memories and visions through ritual. We follow Quasheba Blackstone, our protagonist on earth in the...
Dates:
2022
93 miles, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017fall_canavan_noah.pdf
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"The story of Miguel, a fictional baseball prodigy, whose journey is inspired by the many Cuban players who defected from Cuba prior to 2014. These young men made the difficult choice to leave the island, believing they could never return to see their loved ones." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
100 moves ahead, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_hunt_riley.pdf
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"An attempt to address the issue of homelessness through video games. The game intended to show the user challenges homeless people in the Boston area deal with, and in turn create a sense of empathy for this demographic. Through a fictional narrative based on gameplay actions, the player learns that homelessness is not something anyone deserves." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
575 Main Street, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_traniello_annamaria.pdf
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"575 Main Street explores the life of Vincent Hayes as he attempts to start over with his family and escape past abuse. Vincent's journey of self discovery begins at a young age when he learns that he has the ability to see ghosts, an obstacle that overtakes his sanity. The constant paranoia causes Vincent to lash out on the people closest to him resulting in leaving everything behind. Vincent now has nothing and must suffer working for free as a janitor to have a roof over his head. While...
Dates:
2023
1438 touches, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_foreroarnias_kimberly.pdf
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"1438 Touches seeks to mobilize the female body by exposing its ability to transform and reconfigure itself through drawn animation. The film explores the tension between the representation of the female body and itsactive, expressive potential. The structure of the film follows a woman touching herself as the artist touches the medium, leading to a masturbatory act on a representational and material level. The film is constantly moving between the body of the drawn figure, the body of the...
Dates:
2017
2121 : promoting women into political leadership through play, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_weaver_jessica.pdf
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"2121 is an educational tabletop card game designed to educate about the issue of gender parity, generate excitement around the prospect of running for office, and build political imagination through role-play." --page 31.
Dates:
2017
A Bitter Path, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_blackwelder_morgan.pdf
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"Desmond is looking for revenge. Ashe is looking for a missing prince. As their paths cross their plans go awry, and an unexpected opportunity presents itself. In the hopes of finding his next target along the way, Desmond convinces Ashe to let him accompany her to find who she's looking for. Though reluctant, Ashe understands her need for help—and the importance of her mission. Their way is mired with dangers and difficulties, especially after Desmond ends up injured. But at the end of...
Dates:
2023
A Caregiver's Journey, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_smith_steven.pdf
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"A short documentary film chronicles the challenges of a full-time dementia caregiver. Leandra Manos is 45 years old, single, unemployed, and a full-time caregiver to her 84-year-old father, who has dementia. According to the Alzheimer's Association, one in three U.S. seniors will die while suffering from Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. This short film looks at the challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
A Chance to Shine: The Long-Term Effects of Participation in High School Theatre Productions, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_stillman_dyane.pdf
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"This study's purpose is threefold: first, to expand the field of research in secondary education through investigation of long-term effects of involvement with extracurricular theatre programs in the adult lives of graduates, secondly, to provide qualitative evidence in service of arts advocacy, and thirdly, to demonstrate the applied theatre skill of devising a playscript from community stories. The study examines elements of arts education research and legislation in the United States in...
Dates:
2021
A Collection of Essays About Place, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_hatfield_bill.pdf
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"Inhabitants, permanent or temporary, who write about spaces have been known as travel writers. The implication in the moniker is that the writers are on scene to accomplish something, to seek out answers or realities, to find out about some unknown part of their history, to figure out their identity, to learn something new that will somehow shed light on their awareness or understanding of the world or of themselves. The essays in this collection attempt to set ambition aside and convey a...
Dates:
2019
A Collective Win-State for the Community and the Players: Facilitating a Co-Creative Design Process with the Boston Ujima Project, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_baeza_emily.pdf
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"Within one of the nation's most racially segregated cities, the Boston Ujima Project is an organization that feels a sense of urgency and responsibility to unlock the innovation potential trapped in Boston's poverty-stricken communities. The Boston Ujima Project operates with a paradoxical joyful militancy (bergman, Montgomery, 2017) to redistribute the financial power to communities of color who have been long displaced. This thesis explores how a community and organization-driven design...
Dates:
2019
A Collective Win-State for the Community and the Players: Facilitating a Co-Creative Design Process with the Boston Ujima Project, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_nielsen_leandra.pdf
Overview
"Within one of the nation's most racially segregated cities, the Boston Ujima Project is an organization that feels a sense of urgency and responsibility to unlock the innovation potential trapped in Boston's poverty-stricken communities. The Boston Ujima Project operates with a paradoxical joyful militancy (bergman, Montgomery, 2017) to redistribute the financial power to communities of color who have been long displaced. This thesis explores how a community and organization-driven design...
Dates:
2019
A Fitting End, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_robichaud_brian.pdf
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"This collection of stories explores the realities and abstractions of loss and endings, and the far-reaching consequences of actions made in haste, doubt, or denial. Beginning with a series of flash stories ranging from realistic to absurd, the collection observes the briefest of instants in the lives of the drunk, the criminal, and the lost. From there, 'Despair,' a novella in thirty-four parts, mimics the descending spiral of Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' as a young man struggles with an...
Dates:
2021
A Girl Worth Fighting For: Stage Combat and the Adolescent Female Sense of Self, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_odonnell_amanda.pdf
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"Following a stage combat workshop with a group of high school girls, I examine how stage combat education is both similar to and different from generalized theatre education. Both offer students the opportunity to develop community, grow their personal and social skills, express themselves, and have fun. Additionally, I found that stage combat's unique focus on consent and boundaries makes it a promising tool to help adolescents (particularly young women) develop their interpersonal...
Dates:
2022
A Gospel in Thirds, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_mangual_mary.pdf
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"A Gospel in Thirds is a novel-length work of literary fiction set in a fictional southern Ohio town called Feeder in 2013. The story unfolds in three parts, each with a different lead character. Gloria Sánchez, a transplant to the town, is living with untreated cancer because the grandmother who raised her believes receiving medical treatment equates to lack of faith in God. Lula Brewer returns to Feeder after a romantic relationship with a fellow aspiring nun compromises her plan to enter...
Dates:
2023
A Hometown Love, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_woodside_patricia.pdf
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"Selena Martin left campus a decade ago following the untimely death of her parents. One upperclassman caught her attention, but never spoke. Grayson Landry has been haunted by the memory of the curly-haired freshman who left campus before he got up the nerve to approach her. One day she was there, and the next, she vanished. He never knew why she left, but he also never forgot her. A chance meeting at his best friend's wedding brings Grayson and Selena back together. She fears he will want...
Dates:
2021
A Knock at the Door, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_bekenstein_andrew.pdf
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"An over-compression of divergent thought into a mainframe inadequately prepared to handle such has resulted in the dissolution of moral communality, leading to the fraying of a crucial component of the unspoken but agreed upon tenets necessary to configure individual consciences towards the common cause of civilization. And so, here we are. It's not too late, but close. Or: a few stories I wrote about a world that very close to being ours, but not quite." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
A long way home, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_williams_molly.pdf
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"The dual first-person narrative guides the reader through a present-time reflection on my sexuality and upbringing while highlighting my struggle with procrastination while researching a Midwest killer with connections to my family. You’ll also find included in this piece: mother-daughter drama, struggles of a gay chick raised in a Southern Baptist household, an epic road trip and a lot of reminiscing." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
A Matter of Time, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_liu_yang.pdf
Overview
"'A Matter of Time' is a 15-minute short film written, directed, and edited by Yang Liu. The story describes an independent grandma YING(70s) is in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease living in a small town in China by herself. She insists on working, making a modest living by owning a small tailor shop, while her daughter XIAO YU(late 30s) is married to a laborer working and living in a big city. Xiao Yu travels back to Ying's hometown with her son WEI WEI(7) in order to persuade Ying to...
Dates:
2020