Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Convergence: Stories from the Red Island, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_chen_christine hiu-tung.pdf
Overview
"When people ask me where I'm from, they get a few seconds of silence from me. What do you tell people if you were born in one place, grew up in another, and live elsewhere? How did you end up where you are now? Who are you? Where do you belong? Those were questions that translated into six stories in this collection. They are populated by dislocated characters who grapple with identity and race while navigating complex familial relationships. The stories are set in Madagascar, known to the...
Dates:
2019
Counterclock, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_madrigal_lizzy.pdf
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"Taya Vigil has known one world for her entire seventeen years. She's the daughter of a highly esteemed leader, she's about to graduate as a top student at the prestigous Heritage College, and her future is set. But her seemingly predictable life as a Counterclock, or someone who's able to move time, takes a turn when she becomes a primary suspect in the death of a student during an annual intercollegiate competition. In her attempt to save that student, Taya unknowingly jumpstarts the...
Dates:
2024
Coventry Carol, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_rubin_rebecca.pdf
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"The goal of this thesis is to provide a thorough interrogation of memory and place from a personal point of view. Within this collection of poems, the town of Coventry, Rhode Island and its impact on my life is investigated, along with familial relationships, death, catholic school, and antisemitism that I have experienced and meditated on. Each poem offers a snapshot of a memory and is as accurate as my mind will allow. The way that returning to a place evokes memory is something that...
Dates:
2020
CRANE: A Case for a New Era of College Radio Engagement in the Digital Age, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018fall_goldberg_lindsy.pdf
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"This project advocates for college radio stations to unify in a new digital space in order to maintain relevancy, re-evaluate their value propositions and form a plan for sustainability in the digital age. With radio engagement and listenership transitioning to more customizable spaces such as streaming platforms, college radio's clear benefits are now more immediately evident to individual participants as opposed to listeners. College radio participants often cite the experience of...
Dates:
2018
Crane Wife, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_machugh_lily.pdf
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"In this speculative work of fiction, we follow a split narrative of a lonely girl named Jenny in a punk scene in the tristate area and a woman named Koda trying to escape a pocket dimension created by a man calling himself god. Through Jenny we see the beginnings of a cult and tendrils of the supernatural inching in. In Koda's narrative, we are left to deal with the aftermath, and watch as she tries to break free. Koda finds herself again as she journeys beyond the cult's compound, with the...
Dates:
2023
Crazy Chinese Father, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_wan_xin.pdf
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"This is an ironic comedy about a Chinese immigrant family. When a university offer arrives, conflict is heated up between the father and the daughter, right before her 18th birthday party. The story is inspired by personal experience." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Create to Learn, Learn to Create: Devising a Curriculum and Lesson Plans Using Theatre for English Language Classes in Japan, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_matsushima_sora.pdf
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"Learning different languages is not an easy process for everyone and requires lots of time and effort. In Japan, English has been taught as a foreign language in schools for decades. However, most of the students cannot use English as a communication tool in practice because students are sitting at their desks and teachers just convey their knowledge, even though the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and teachers have been gradually changing their...
Dates:
2024
Creating a Functional ESL Textbook, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_reddy_anupama.pdf
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"This project explores the need for a functional adult ESL textbook and provides a sample unit for multiple levels. Designed specifically to accommodate the needs of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) program’s curriculum, Everyday ESL’s sample unit, proposed front matter and back matter provide an example of an ideal text to teach adults necessary, transactional language for daily use." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Creating ensemble in You Can't Take It With You, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016fall_flynn_ian.pdf
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"This paper explores the obstacles faced in directing a production of You Can't Take It With You by George Kaufmann and Moss Hart. In particular it describes, and reflects upon, the challenges faced in taking an ensemble driven approach to the production." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Creating Safe Space for Difficult Conversations, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_christopher_brittany.pdf
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"Theatre education can provide a place of inclusion and understanding, welcoming people from all walks of life. The theatre classroom can promote opportunities for children to celebrate difference and otherness, queerness and diversity. Theatre is used as a tool for empathy development across a variety of fields and disciplines. In order to explore this further, a professional development workshop was crafted, using theatre as a tool to create space for difficult conversations. The goal was...
Dates:
2021
Creatures of Spirit and Clay, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_munoz_jonathen.pdf
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"This memoir details my childhood growing up in a chaotic family unit consisting of a mother with a personality disorder, a hardworking yet homophobic father, an older half-sister facing her own familial issues, and a younger brother born with a rare terminal illness that should have killed him before he was two years old. Equal parts a "coming of age" and "coming out" narrative, this text delves into the nuance of familial love during times of extreme hardship and explores the lengths to...
Dates:
2021
Crossing the river, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_petkov_plamen.pdf
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"The lives of three generations of Europeans are interlaced by a filmmaker who travels by train from Cambridge to Boston, Massachusetts and tries to find out if a story of a man that saved 1,000 children during the Second World War is true. The film is a reflection on the perception of past, true, and reality." -- Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Cruelties of Omission: Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_stachura_anna.pdf
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"CRUELTIES OF OMISSION is my attempt to grapple with questions of grief and time. In these five sometimes-speculative stories, characters inflict, wrestle with, and are products of pain. Adult siblings bring to life a simulacrum of their recently deceased father. A new technology offers fast, easy means to settle up with regret. A mother struggles to comprehend why her long-absent son won't come home to her. They're lost, they've lost, they're losing, they're losers—pushing back against a...
Dates:
2024
Cultivating Postpartum PTSD through Expressive Art Therapy In China, 2024
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Identifier: md_2024fall_yang_zijun.pdf
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"In the Chinese community, postpartum PTSD has raised awareness year by year. Despite this, due to cultural background, the public often has some taboos and limitations on topics related to mental health. It makes the community of mothers with postpartum PTSD have more challenges finding the resources for their healing journey. Expressive Art Therapy is one of the many healing methods that are very suitable for adult PTSD patients, and it is no longer an unfamiliar concept. This thesis...
Dates:
2024
Cultural Considerations When Working with Chinese-American Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Exploring Chinese Immigrant Cargivers' [sic] Journeys, 2023
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Identifier: cd_2023spring_lai_alisha.pdf
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"Culture plays a large role in how families access and navigate information related to their children's disabilities and disorders. Minority families have been found to have difficulties and to face disparities when accessing healthcare services. Limited information exists on how culture affects diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in US- based Chinese immigrant families. The current study aims to identify cultural considerations professionals should take into account...
Dates:
2023
Culture clash : 30 years of activism, comedy and cultural excavation, 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_makara_marybeth.pdf
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"This paper reflects on the performances of Culture Clash as a tool for social change, considering their 2015 Boston tour in celebration of their 30th Anniversary. Their show, Muse & Morros, was performed between March 10th and March 29th at ArtsEmerson in Boston, Massachusetts. Discussion of the artistry and impact of the group includes the content and context of their performances, interviews with the group members and consideration of their creative process." --Abstract
Dates:
2015
Curriculum Customizer: Designing an Online Space for Media Literacy Educators to Access Resources, Customize Curriculum, and Connect with Educators, 2022
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Identifier: md_2022summer_yesuf_fatimah.pdf
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"With the increase in the use of media to communicate and keep in touch with what is going on in the world amid the current pandemic and outbreaks, the importance of media literacy education being taught to kids has never been higher. This paper touches on the benefits of media literacy education and difficulties educators face teaching it or trying to integrate it into their curriculum and describes the design process that brought about the proposed intervention: Curriculum Customizer, an...
Dates:
2022
Curse of the Raven, Call of the Bluebird, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_poisson_kristy.pdf
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"'Curse of the Raven, Call of the Bluebird' is the first novel in a New Adult Fantasy duology set in a fictious world that blends magic and technology. The two main characters are brought together by Jai's mysterious powers of destruction and Klaus's desperation to explore the world of magic. Together they uncover a secret plot to summon the creation deity known as the Bluebird, thus ushering in a new era of magic and power for the select few at the top of society. Jai's powers are the key...
Dates:
2021
Cuts, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018fall_zeng_guangya.pdf
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"'Cuts' is a documentary about a 47-year-old man's career path and his relationship between his two fathers." -- Abstract
Dates:
2018
Daddy's Little Girl, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_leger_nico.pdf
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"Daddy's Little Girl is a collection of poems that moves through the speaker's grief—for their father, for the time before the speaker's own conception, and for the premature end of childhood. Grappling with identity as a pre-determined condition, these poems center cultural scripts and ideologies, assigned gender, socioeconomic status, and familial legacy, reaching beyond the fixed nature of the speaker's geographic locality and toward the immobility of girlhood in a fatherless, patriarchal...
Dates:
2024