Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Fall for You, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_brodzik_danielle.pdf
Overview
"Punk goes... romance? Nothing has been the same since Andrew's death. Adelaide and her rockstar-brother Alex lost a sibling, and the rest of We Say Summer lost their bassist, spiraling the band into an indefinite hiatus. Three years later and everyone is still struggling, especially Adelaide, who's a production runner for the very same venue that marked a turning point in We Say Summer's trajectory towards success, only now the theater is threatening to close its doors for good. At the same...
Dates:
2024
Fall of a God, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_grant_jacqueline.pdf
Overview
"FALL OF A GOD is a feature-length film that explores the concept of what society deems a "good person" and a "bad person" through a cast of questionable characters in a horror-inducing dream world. It aims to challenge society's assumptions of the relationships and power dynamics between various types of people. This horror film follows an anti-hero protagonist who attempts to regain control of herself from a volatile god in a modern-day retelling of the story of Hades and Persephone with a...
Dates:
2023
Falling Underground, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_zurbrick_alexandra.pdf
Overview
"In this fantasy feature film, Charlotte is killed on Hell Night as a pledge of a sorority, she has no idea that her real life is just beginning. She wakes up in a new world called Temple Gates and discovers her true identity as a warrior angel. A year later, she has trained hard and found confidence in her new life, but not purpose. She proposes to the Gods of the world, her parents, to use magic to return to Tate University and get revenge on her killer. Something that seems like a simple...
Dates:
2024
Families can be together forever, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_poplin_colleen.pdf
Overview
"Follows the filmmaker's journey out of the Mormon church -- a journey unexpectedly aligned with her first pregnancy. The film depicts her pregnancy from start to finish while exploring the emotional and spiritual weight of leaving Mormonism, its effect on the mother she hopes to become, and its effect on the mother who raised her." -- Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Fantasy Unchained, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_hempel_dustin.pdf
Overview
"Fantasy Unchained is a blend of the science fiction and fantasy genres, set in a near future Seattle and a new virtual reality online game that feels completely real. The story follows Aislinn Graham in her search for the Songmasters of Sarn in the game after she receives a mysterious letter from her dead mother. As she struggles in her search, the lines between the worlds begin to blur as she realizes the characters in the game may be sentient, and they have agendas of their own. Fantasy...
Dates:
2022
Farewell Day, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_ye_zikai.pdf
Overview
"My thesis project is a narrative short movie, around 20 mins. The story is about three young friends reunites to dig out three bottles they buried when they were high school students. During this journey, three of them have to face their life dilemma." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Fated to repeat, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_freeman_logan.pdf
Overview
"A story about a band's first show back after the death of their lead singer, an exploration on finding the ties that bind us to the things we love." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Father Rahm, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_vera_gregorio.pdf
Overview
"Inspired by a true story, this coming-of-age film follows Miguel and Jose, two teen best friends, through their struggle in surviving a crime-stricken neighborhood, oppressed by rival gangs during 1960 in El Paso, Texas. It was also the peak era of pachucos: classy set of gangsters impeccably dressed in zoot suits with drape pants, fedora hats, long chains and two-tone shoes. In this world, Miguel and Jose, both raised without father figures, try avoiding gang conflict. However, after a...
Dates:
2024
Fever, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_orrego_tomas.pdf
Overview
"Fever is an absurd short film that follows a man trying to poke his eye out with a pencil. Taking inspiration from Samuel Beckett's absurdist plays, Buster Keaton's slapstick antics, the elastic logic of Looney Tunes and low budget horror sleaze, Fever is a live action silicone flesh cartoon. The original name for this project was Days of Celebration which is sometimes why it is referred to as such in this document." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Fifteen Pounds of Pressure, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_cocco_david.pdf
Overview
"The characters in this collection are preoccupied with loss. Some are led by their attempts to avoid it and some are trying to pick up the pieces after it. A widow tries to make ends meet by entering her daughter into a talent contest. A man goes to extreme lengths to keep his girlfriend happy. A washed-up celebrity tries to recapture his former glory. All are locked in a fight with the fact that everything is temporary. A secondary focus for these stories is the tension between the...
Dates:
2019
Fighting: Stories, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_birkline_jeremy.pdf
Overview
"This stories [sic] explores the conflicts that exist in every relationship; whether platonic, familial, or romantic, diving into situations that force the protagonists to grapple with issues that they believed irrelivant to their situations. Through these experiences, the characters develop an ever-growing perspective of the complexities of the world they live in and come to a resolution within themselves that enables them to handle similar conflicts in the future." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Final Acts: Musings of a Life not Lived, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_weinberg_max.pdf
Overview
"A collection of essays describing the various anxieties that I have had in the past, some of which I continue to deal with in my life. Many of the essays reflect upon past scenarios where my anxiety and eccentricities had me handle conventional situations in unconventional ways. Some essays are focused on observing, and seen through that lens. Present throughout the essays are many strange characters that have become fixations to me in some ways. Essays also deal with changes in life and...
Dates:
2024
Finding Bigfoot, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022summer_schellin_courtney.pdf
Overview
"When I first set out to write my first novel, I knew I wanted it to be about self-discovery. At the time, I was feeling lost myself and wanted to get back to my favorite passion – writing. As someone who has always been a fan of oddities, folklore, and storytelling, using Bigfoot as my outlet seemed like the perfect fit. Annie is a woman with a troubled past who is looking for something more. Annie's will is strong and so is her personality. All the better, considering she is surrounded by...
Dates:
2022
Finding Home (Buscando Mi Hogar) Film, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024summer_miranda_isabel.pdf
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"Finding Home (Buscando Mi Hogar) is a personal hybrid documentary that explores the theme of identity through the experiences of Romulo, a Bolivian expatriate, and his daughter, Isabel. The film delves into the complexities of belonging and national identity as it contrasts Romulo's efforts to preserve his Bolivian heritage through music, language, and cuisine, with Isabel's quest for a sense of home amidst their global travels. By examining their differing perspectives on what it means to...
Dates:
2024
FingerPrint, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mihalek_katelyn.pdf
Overview
"FingerPrint is a collection of poems that weaves arcs of family and spirituality with bodily autonomy and acceptance. Expanding on the concrete and contrapuntal poetic forms, the poems physically create a set of hands by assuming the translated shape of the hands' cross sectional slices. The collection starts at the tips of the middle fingers, then moves down the fingers, knuckles, palms, and finally the wrists. These hands frame core questions: What do they reach towards? What do they hold...
Dates:
2024
First chair, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_mccabe_christina.pdf
Overview
"Amy, once a musical prodigy but now a graduate student in French, is reliving past trauma with the recent arrest of the man she once thought of as her boyfriend. The man, forty-five-year old Gregory Mercer, who took sexual advantage of her ten years ago, when she was fourteen, has just been arrested for similar crimes. Amy has never told a soul about this affair, and she contemplates if she ever will. Gradually, her secrets begin to weigh on her and distract her from the many facets of her...
Dates:
2018
First Day Jitters: The Demise of Joy in the Classroom, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023spring_wallace_tabitha.pdf
Overview
"Joy, while innate in every child, is often suppressed in the traditional United States school system. The focus of this thesis project is on the decline of joy in the classroom from kindergarten to 8th grade. Through a series of interviews and observations, data was collected based on student and teacher experiences regarding joy in the classroom. A review of literature focusing on the psychology of joy, kindergarten and middle school pedagogy, and Joy-Focused learning experiences was used...
Dates:
2023
First Fae: A Journey of Magic and Chains, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_payeur_jordan.pdf
Overview
"This thesis consists of the first 120 pages of a full-length novel in the fantasy genre. It is written in third-person limited and follows the story of three female points-of-view. Each chapter follows a different perspective, capturing the journey of the three main characters. The first point-of-view is about Edra, a former slave determined to earn her freedom. The second follows Blythe, a wealthy woman fighting to hold onto her independence. The final point-of-view is Myrna, a young...
Dates:
2023
Fish, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020fall_ni_zhengrong.pdf
Overview
"The visual elements of Fish is presented in the form of experimental narrative short Film. This project examines the flow of consciousness and awareness. It initially characterizes scenes in a more or less standard fashion, describing mental conflicts as 'detachment of image an sound'. But as movie progresses, it introduces several religious elements that serves to catalyze the conflicts between conscious and subconscious." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Fist fight in the Christ factory, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_schutt_kevin.pdf
Overview
"Fist Fight in the Christ Factory uses the themes and imagery of the pop surrealist visual arts movement, monster movies, science, science fiction, history, anarcho-punk culture, Brazilian culture, Saturday morning cartoons, and Florida back woods swamp country sentiments to explore intersectionality through poetry. Rooted in the statelessness of the immigrant experience, the poems move towards an exploration of faith and reprobation in search of grace. The poems use these themes and images...
Dates:
2018