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Hide and Seek, 2021
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Identifier: vm_2021fall_yung_miranda.pdf
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"'Hide and Seek' (2021) is a visual mixtape illustrating the author's personal experiences with existential depression and anxiety through a surreal, artful lens. Expansive and profound, the film utilizes this narrative to unravel and investigate the nature of humanity's withered connection to love, purpose and spiritual grounding. Combining truth, dance, music, and metaphoric imagery to craft a unique and personable audio-visual experience, 'Hide and Seek' aims to break past the barriers of...
Dates:
2021
Hisaab & Half-Truths, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_palla_rukhsar.pdf
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"The following collection of short stories explores a group of Pakistani Muslims moving through the world. The stories are linked, but can also be read as stand alone pieces. My intention for this work is to tell some of the stories of the South Asian diaspora, and to explore the complexities of first generation Americans, Muslims who practice Islam at varying degrees, and Pakistanis from different class backgrounds. When these characters engage with one another, both kinship and conflict...
Dates:
2019
Home of the Cuckoos, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_sanderford_rachel.pdf
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"Home of the Cuckoos' is a family saga novel exploring the themes of generational trauma, female autonomy, and agency. Sarah returns to her small hometown after the death of the family matriarch. What starts as the misguided attempt to save the family homestead turns into a search for answers. Buried deep underneath the hard exterior of the Doyle women is a pain that has never healed, and the belief they are all cursed. With nothing left to lose, Sarah is willing to dig deeper into the past...
Dates:
2021
Homecoming: A Memoir, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_pendergast_kellie.pdf
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"The purpose of 'Homecoming: A Memoir' is to explore the baffling, contradictory promises of wealth and education the suburbs of Long Island, New York offered my family. The chapters are arranged chronologically and are meant to mimic the back-and-forth travel from school to home. Some themes include grief, gender roles, and student-teacher relationships. I argue against some of the traditions I believe many Long Islanders refuse to question, like the Top Ten ranking in the first chapter and...
Dates:
2021
Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_relick_amanda.pdf
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"Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories is a story collection that investigates the push and pull between grief and memory. Within these stories, the very act of remembering presents itself
as a form of grief, where nostalgia becomes an act of mourning and the fallibility of memory is its own kind of loss. In grappling with these themes, characters are either running from their pasts or deeply indulgent in them. For the main character in the flash story, "The Outside Room," precious memories...
Dates:
2023
Honeymoon Alone, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_diebold_nicole.pdf
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"Honeymoon Alone is a women's fiction manuscript told in the first person and present tense, through the lens of Lucy Gray. Lucy is a twenty-six-year-old school teacher who lives a comfortable and routine life. After a public humiliation – and some insight from a psychic – Lucy throws caution to the wind and decides to see what life could be like if she shook things up a little. She takes off for London on her sister's throwaway honeymoon and is inspired to take chances for the first time....
Dates:
2019
Hoop dreams, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_dendy_shaka.pdf
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"Hoop Dreams is a multimedia installation consisting of three pieces: You Play Ball?, Hoop Dreams, and Memorabilia, which combine performance art, video projection, photography, and sculpture to explore themes at the intersection of race, identity, and opportunity." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
House on Swandon Hill, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_williamson_john.pdf
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Parts one and two (of an intended four) of a novel which follows Walter Bellamy from childhood to his thirties as he tries to decipher the truth behind an old family tale which has subtly fractured relationships within his family for generations. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
How Many and Why? An Exploration of the Frequency and Function of Questions Posed by Children with ASD and Their Mothers, 2019
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Identifier: cd_2019spring_mitchell_clare.pdf
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"Typically-developing (TD) preschool-age children ask questions competently, but despite nearly identical maternal input, question-asking remains sparse for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Current literature fails to describe the pragmatic functions served by the questions of children with ASD and their mothers. This study investigated the similarities and differences between two groups (one TD and one with ASD) of preschool-age children in the frequency and function of...
Dates:
2019
How the light gets in, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_herlihy_elizabeth.pdf
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"The story of Kate Cahill, a thirty-eight-year-old woman who seems to have it all, but who is driven to the edge by the impending loss of her beloved father. To cope, Kate develops an addiction to online porn chatrooms. As Kate, her three sisters and her mother gather on the Cape in her father’s final weeks, she quickly loses control over the situation and struggles to keep her secret while surrounded by family. In the wake of her father’s death, Kate continues to unravel, and eventually,...
Dates:
2018
How to Lose a Planet, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lucas_neil.pdf
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"The mission, I would say, of How to Lose a Planet is to create a future where Black people are centered. As a science-fiction fan, I was taken by Carl Sagan's critique of Star Wars: A New Hope: "They're all white. The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is sort of [points to himself] like this." I wanted to create a story set in a future where the lives of Black people don't just matter, they thrive. And not just Black in the sense of having melanin, but Black in the sense...
Dates:
2021
Human trap, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_keogh_jennifer.pdf
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Illustrates the world of a twenty-something college graduate trying to understand her familial relationships, friendships, and explorations of self. The poems seek to construct the trap of being human emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The speaker is attempting to discover ways out of the traps within her relationships with the world, herself, her family, her friends, and her lover. The limitations placed on human experience are a large part of the narratives told in this body of...
Dates:
2015
Humphrey Catskill, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_gillick_matthew.pdf
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"The purpose of this novel was to focus on one character's three defining life events. For the first section, the protagonist is a memory of his estranged mother. For the second, a shell of a man examined from a distant, analytical perspective. For the third and largest section, he is a fully fleshed-out person displayed over the course of twenty vignettes told through third-person omniscience. The goal was to start with a plain-spoken narration, albeit in transcript form to give the most...
Dates:
2021
Hyphen, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_servellon_maria.pdf
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"Hyphen is a magic[al] realist, short fiction film based on the director's own memories and experiences. It follows the transformative chronicle as four character versions: Mimi, Maia, Mia, Ria. They learn to use imaginative forms of art, dance, and music to realize each of their dreams, fears, and achievements. Conjuring the impalpable power of creativity, they are able to overcome different challenges to create their own identities past cultural and gender expectations." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Hysteria, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_cordes_hope.pdf
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"Hysteria is a young adult novel about a teenage girl named Emma who witnessed her granmother being kidnapped by something inexplicable when she is young. Now a decade later, strange things are once again occuring and Emma is determined to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance once and for all. One evening she finds an injured boy in an alley and they are transported into Emma's favorite novel, Hysteria. She discovers the not so fictional world is much richer and more...
Dates:
2022
I am an Assasin [sic] Named Lazarus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_doolin_lily.pdf
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"'I am an Assassin Named Lazarus' is one killer's journey to survive. After waking up from a coma, Lazarus knows only two things: Her name, and that she's a notorious up-and-coming gun for hire. Even that information was given to her by "The Doc" and his cheery nurse, both of whom bear an ominous black cross on their clothes. As Lazarus puts back the pieces of her shattered memory, she's hunted by fellow assassin Raphael, who takes credit for the accident that left Lazarus with extensive...
Dates:
2023
I of the Beholder, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_digennaro_alexandra.pdf
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"I of the Beholder will be a quarterly magazine anthology discussing the cultural norms, products, celebrities, and superstitions surrounding the world's beauty practices. Each volume will act as a case study for a new country, featuring a contrastable history on their standards of beauty, current trends and messaging, and how that image is evolving. The prototype magazine will highlight French beauty practices and cultural beliefs. I of the Beholder will be a resource for beauty experts,...
Dates:
2021
I Think He Did It, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_purtell_brigid.pdf
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"I Think He Did It is a cozy mystery set in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains. Walker, a Sheriff's Deputy in a small town, is trying to help his former fiancée, Vera, track down what may have happened to their best friend three years earlier. Walker is determined to do whatever he can to keep Vera safe in a town that has only just emerged from a major corruption scandal, while Vera is determined to cause as much chaos as she can until her friend is found, safety be damned." --...
Dates:
2023
iCivics Explorer: A Media Literacy Approach to Empowering Student Voices Through Civic Media Creation, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_bullen_giles.pdf
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"iCivics Explorer is an app designed to be used by students, both in and outside of the classroom, as a tool for assisting them and their teachers in conducting interviews as well as collecting, documenting, and sharing stories of local and personal interest. The guiding principle behind the design of this app has been to provide students with three key opportunities: learning foundational media creation skills, creating expressive content around topics of personal interest, and contributing...
Dates:
2019
iCivics Explorer: A Media Literacy Approach to Empowering Student Voices Through Civic Media Creation, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_servatius_herman.pdf
Overview
"iCivics Explorer is an app designed to be used by students, both in and outside of the classroom, as a tool for assisting them and their teachers in conducting interviews as well as collecting, documenting, and sharing stories of local and personal interest. The guiding principle behind the design of this app has been to provide students with three key opportunities: learning foundational media creation skills, creating expressive content around topics of personal interest, and contributing...
Dates:
2019