Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
To raze the walls I've constructed, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_pitler_marc.pdf
Overview
"A personal photo essay exploring the ways the artist has dealt with, and seeks to move on from, a traumatic childhood. The project juxtaposes two image sequences to convey this process. One uses macro photography to document the different control methods used by the artist in childhood to mitigate the feelings of trauma. The other uses landscapes, photographed during a road trip from Seattle to San Diego. This contrast is intended to signify a broadening of perspective." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
To the Chapel, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_beatty_marissa.pdf
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"To the Chapel is a half-hour network comedy about a young woman in Las Vegas trying to rebel against her family expectations and pursue her own dreams as she starts her photography career at an eclectic wedding chapel on the Strip. Wild Inside is an children's animated television show about an uptight boy who learns to get along with a rambuncious raccoon. Both pilots focus on the theme of finding one's own way in the face of societal pressures as well as the anxieties of starting into the...
Dates:
2019
To the World I Am a Drop of Water, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_montana_christina.pdf
Overview
"This collection of short stories focuses primarily on the theme of stasis. Each story features characters trapped by their traumas and anxieties as they search for ways to free themselves from those mental restraints. These stories replicate the way family, friendships, and relationships echo through locations; the way memories fill walls, trees, dust, paper... the way in which the spaces people occupy are constructed of the things we project. While none of the stories are linked, they...
Dates:
2019
Tongue-tied : essays of a self-conscious journey, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_wells_ashley.pdf
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"Tongue-Tied is a collection of seven linked essays that explore the writer's experiences with generalized anxiety disorder and major depression." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Toward a Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: Coming to Grips with the State of Play, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022summer_lecuyer_timothy.pdf
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"This study discusses the devising of an online theatre piece, a totally unique project for the students involved, at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse Education Department in Meredith, New Hampshire. It is a first-person account of the motivations, insecurities, and growth inspired by this project for its director and participants. It looks forward to possible applications for a post-pandemic pedagogy." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Towards a Local Media Literacy: Community-Based Understanding in a Globally Connected World, 2022
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Identifier: md_2022summer_stier_cohen_aaron.pdf
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"This thesis project documents the process of designing a prototype to help the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) support and regularly engage its individual members. I focused my design prototype on Boston K-12 teachers as a trial demographic, with the understanding that each teaching and media ecosystem has its own unique challenges and context. On NAMLE's website, they define media literacy broadly as "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using...
Dates:
2022
Toxic Nostalgia, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_burr_patrick.pdf
Overview
"In the year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, drag artists in Boston and across the country have continually adapted their craft to new digital mediums, even as the queer spaces in which they once performed and earned their living close under the economic pressures of the time. 'Toxic Nostalgia' takes place in this liminal space between an idealized pre-pandemic past and an uncertain future. Through elements of documentary, drag, one-woman show and cabaret, the film guides...
Dates:
2021
Trademark Sunshine, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kobosko_katherine.pdf
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"Trademark Sunshine' is a collection of poems by Kate Kobosko that explores the link between place, history, and memory. The poems are set in wildly different locations from Costa Rica to New England (and numerous places in between). The poet explores geography, literal and metaphorical, and what it means to be a visitor in a place. These poems answer questions about what it means to be 'from' a certain place: both a tangible location that can be pointed to on a map, as well as the...
Dates:
2021
Traffic, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_ferguson_margaret.pdf
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"Poppy Flower, her name an unfortunate adornment stemming from the full bloom of her parent’s now faded affections, has held the title of Boston Black Cab’s best private car service driver for just over a year, and it’s one she would like to keep. When Mai, a teenager fleeing a human trafficking ring, climbs into the back of Poppy’s cab, Poppy tries to unload the girl and get back to work. Unfortunately, human connections are not shaken off as easily as Poppy wishes, and Mai won’t let help...
Dates:
2018
Trannifesto, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_phillips_elliot.pdf
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"Trannifesto is an creative nonfiction essay collection which focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, mental illness, and belonging. These essays range to the extent which they discuss each of these issues: some focus more on gender identity, while others focus more on mental illness. However, tying them all together is the theme that, no matter how marginalized or alienated a person may feel, connection with those around them is always possible -- and, this connection is vital and necessary...
Dates:
2020
Trans Embodiments: Examining Casting Practices in Educational Theater Settings, 2022
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Identifier: th_2022fall_taub_han.pdf
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"This paper explores how casting practices in educational theater programs, and the resulting experiences, shape gender identity development for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming adolescents. To examine this question, I interviewed four transgender and non-binary adolescents who participated as actors in educational theater programs. A two-part thematic analysis was conducted on the interview data; themes surrounding identity discovery, identity negotiation, and...
Dates:
2022
Trapped, 2021
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Identifier: vm_2021fall_kirker_william.pdf
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"'Trapped' is an experimental exhibition telling the story of the struggle with coming to terms with your sexuality, examined through the lens of 1970s queer culture and gender performance. The installation chronicles the story of one man, frozen in both time and his personal development, as he attempts to engage with the bright hopefulness of queer expression, only to be tamped down and destroyed by expectations of heteronormativity, addiction and the fear of his own femininity. 'Trapped'...
Dates:
2021
Treasured, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_neal_lorri.pdf
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"Treasured is a contemporary romantic thriller in which two former lovers are reunited in a desperate bid to track down a rare artifact needed to save their lives. This second chance romantic story line features African American characters who initially met at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee nearly 20 years prior. After meeting up again over a dead body they must work together by unraveling the mystery surrounding an antique book believed to contain a map that leads to a fortune in...
Dates:
2022
Tribulation, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_burnette_sally.pdf
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"Tribulation is a pre-apocalyptic collection of poems that experiment with form and genre in examining the intertwinement of various issues, especially religion, gender, and sexuality. At times funny but always serious, it also deals with themes of class, pop culture, trauma, violence, and mental health." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Tricentennial, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yeazel_christopher.pdf
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"Tricentennial is a sci-fi fantasy novel of approximately 50,000 words. Its protagonist, Marisol Rivera, is a cult survivor who leads a team of space-based commandos in a conflict she and many on Earth believe is being fought to ensure American dominance over the solar system's resources. Her greatest mentor, Michael Goff, is a publicly disgraced former military officer branded as a traitor by her government. As Marisol wrestles with distressing memories from her childhood, she is dispatched...
Dates:
2022
Tulip, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_romein_gregory.pdf
Overview
"The following is a description of the proposed work including narrative summary and major themes of the work. It highlights Romein's project goals, citing the origins of the film and the phenomena that is cryptocurrency while addressing the social, cultural, and personal reasons for undertaking the work." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Turkey Town, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_floyd_aynsley.pdf
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"Turkey Town is a documentary short that examines the recent population explosion of wild turkeys in urban areas in and around Boston. The film covers the history of the wild turkey population in Massachusetts, from extirpation in the mid 19th century through the intentional repopulation effort made by a government agency in the 1970's, to today, as the birds encroach upon urban spaces. Turkey Town addresses deeper philosophical questions about humanity's responsibility towards other species...
Dates:
2022
Turn around, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_jin_cheng.pdf
Overview
"Turn Around is a comedy about a young man falling in love with a stranger that he finds online. He is addicted to the beautiful bubble the social network creates for him. But the bubble breaks the first time he meets this girl in person." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Turn the Siren On, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_munn_brady.pdf
Overview
"Turn the Siren On is a collection of linked short stories that explores life in a small town and how living in such a place informs the relationships and connections one has with themselves as well as those around them. Each story examines some form of loss and how that changes and shapes the characters. Some of the stories attempt to show the ways in which loss can unravel a person and ripple through generations while others demonstrate how losing someone or something can open our eyes to...
Dates:
2021
Twenty Volume Deathtape, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_latimer_reid.pdf
Overview
"Twenty Volume Deathtape is a collection of poetry and experimental prose concerning the alienation, paranoia, and loss inherent under contemporary techno-capitalism. In the face of the looming climate disaster and mass extinction events, this collection grasps at the possibility of new modes of symbolic association via contemporary philosophies, psyc hoanalytic theories, technologies, and the great wealth of information concerning both recent history and deep cosmic timescales. Perhaps this...
Dates:
2019