Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Functional, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_badillo_gina.pdf
Overview
"Zorah, a recovered alcoholic jaded by personal tragedy, moves to London to get her doctorate in chemical engineering. She meets B-list actor Luke, who's trying to make his way in the film industry despite his too-thin skin and a father who disapproves of the path he's chosen. Despite Zorah's rough exterior and Luke's sensitive nature, they learn to love both each other and the ugliest parts of themselves." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Future Hacked , 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cusick_william.pdf
Overview
"Future Hacked is a near future conspiracy thriller prototype for interactive virtual reality play as a narrative game. The player controls the choices of a greenhorn FBI agent assigned to interview a suspected mole in the NSA. In a series of interactive dialogue scenarios, the player investigates and pursues different possibilities based on what they choose to believe. The game moves forward without any fail states or restarts as the player's choices build up statistics to impact the narr...
Dates:
2019
Ghosts!, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_owens_robin.pdf
Overview
"A young adult novel about a teenage girl named Sabrina who left a famous ghost hunting TV show for college after an on-set accident caused her to be able to see ghosts. After a new friend goes missing, Sabrina sees her ghost and is the only one who knows she's dead. While she tries to get justice for her friend's death, she has to adjust to college life, having a social life, and her feelings for her roommate's crush." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Girl at End of World, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_metter_laura.pdf
Overview
"Girl at End of World' is a novel about a young girl who must deal with both the dramas of her teen life and the supernatural events that start to occur around her. She starts the book as anxious, judgmental, and unsure of how to handle the problems handed to her, leading her to chase after the paranormal rather than deal with the normal. By the end, she learns how to process and confront her problems, understanding the depth of people and issues alike, and by doing so, she is able to make...
Dates:
2021
Girl at the witching hour, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_siew_angela.pdf
Overview
"Girl At The Witching Hour is a collection of poems about relationships." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Girl From the Moon, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kang_elisse.pdf
Overview
"What our minds label as "foreign," we tend to regard as exotic, threatening, or irrelevant. Our instinct is to neatly compartmentalize and hold at arm's length that which we have separated from ourselves. But what happens when the division between the foreign and familiar becomes ambiguous? Painful are the times in life when we discover the defection of the familiar to the foreign. A relationship with someone we love, an aspect of our own identity: it is disorienting, jarring, and unnerving...
Dates:
2016
Godsent, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_ganthier_ghanima.PDF
Overview
"On the island of Toussiant, the Creole people labor for the Church of the Ever-Lasting Light. The Church, centered in the stronghold of Konstantanapolis, rules as a segregated theocracy. Ezekiel, a Creole man from the Ayiti village, finds civilian life after conscription in the Church's overseas armies, slowly eroding his will to live. The Church's discrimination of queer people—those proclaimed Sodomites and Masisi—is a closet he finds suffocating. Even GOD's angels notice how far the...
Dates:
2023
Godspeed, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_jackson_tara.pdf
Overview
"My thesis marks the beginning of a memoir about the mental, physical, and spiritual growth that stemmed from my experience as a competitive distance runner in high school and college. Running was both poison and antidote to my natural anxiety, teaching me to cope with my fears even as it brought a host of mental and physical issues: anxiety attacks, iron deficiency, mysterious collapses, and, in the end, an unexpected hip surgery that stripped me of my ability to run. Why did I keep...
Dates:
2020
Gold That Frames the Mirror, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_melendez_brandon.pdf
Overview
"Orbiting a daisy-chain of fascinations that range from heritage & family to grief, music, & mental illness, 'Gold That Frames the Mirror' wants to know what "home" means, even when the answers can seem too blood-bright to bear staring at. Yet these poems are meant to extend beyond uncomplicated sadness: even amid deep loss, there is the possibility of wonder & joy. These poems are haunted by history but never in service of it. These poems want to know what comes after elegy,...
Dates:
2019
Golden Delicious, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_scherny_emily.pdf
Overview
"Along with a deep investigation of the human condition, this is a story that dissects, tests, and questions the foundations, fundamentals, and the fruition of a few lived-in experiences, and of the various full-circle warm-belly miraculous feeling of life happening. Ultimately, it all gets compared to one object—a Golden Delicious apple, whose symbolism, history, and lore (Biblical or otherwise) makes for a metaphor that both incites and soothes humanity's inclines and descents. The action...
Dates:
2022
Golder Birch Press Presents: The Light Bearer, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_wilson_chandler.pdf
Overview
"From the perspective of the fictious independent, science fiction and fantasy publisher, Golden Birch Press, this master's project presents the evolution of a manuscript being prepared for publication. The fantasy novel undertaken by Golden Birch Press is entitled, 'The Light Bearer' by Roman Baker. Beginning with acquiring the title to determining manufacturing and financial details, this project shows the steps the founder and editor, Chandler Wilson, took to adapt this manuscript into a...
Dates:
2020
Gone Fishing, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_shahon_benjamin.pdf
Overview
"Gone Fishing is a novel in progress that covers the formation and dissolution of a family, framed through a renegade fishing trip taken by father and son. The novel primarily covers two major periods in the characters' lives in parallel: the beginnings of parents Denise and Jared's romance in college and young adulthood, and Jared and Billy's fishing trip following the couple's years-long separation. The novel tackles themes of what makes adulthood, young love, and the stresses and...
Dates:
2022
Good lovin', 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_jackson_joshua.pdf
Overview
"Good Lovin' is a feature-length screenplay that tells the story of Joanne "JoJo" Gooding, an uptight college professor and Brooklynite, who has her world turned upside down by Duane "Sonny" Daring, a suave and carefree jazz musician from Harlem trying to restart his life after an unsuccessful music career. When Joanne needs inspiration for her book, they cross paths at a singles' mixer. Their relationship is far from perfect, but Joanne learns that sometimes love can be a good thing."...
Dates:
2016
Good pity : a family memoir, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kruis_juliana.pdf
Overview
"Good Pity is a family memoir that follows the narrator and siblings' journey through their mother's depression and gambling addiction, and their survival through the abuse from a stressed military father. Their journey spans over several states, both physical and emotional based on their father's assignments and their mother's evolving addiction. The children are challenged to take care of each other during the times when their parents are unable to do so. This memoir touches on how we...
Dates:
2016
Goodbye Love, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_green_briuana.pdf
Overview
"Kendall Allen is a seventeen-year-old high school senior who will do anything to leave Memphis, Tennessee. Seven years ago, Kendall's father, Kenny Allen Sr., a beloved NBA star, was gunned down in downtown Memphis and died in her arms. Kendall longs to graduate and attend Tennessee State University to study music, but her grandmother, Stella, who controls her father's estate, will only fund Kendall's education if she agrees to attend Princeton University. Following an armed robbery of the...
Dates:
2020
Goodnight, Chandrama, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_maharaj_kiran.pdf
Overview
"Goodnight, Chandrama is a collection of poetry that aims to weave the tale of a Trinidadian-American poet who constantly finds himself in a nebulous space between two cultures. At first, it explores what life is like through the eyes of teenagedom and young adulthood; a sense of "is this all that I am?" The poems work through thoughts of suicide, of loneliness, one of Caribbean mythology, and of innocence, long lost. They aim to capture and question the lives that surround the poet as well,...
Dates:
2024
Grand prospects, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_dier_lindsey.pdf
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2018
Gray house : chapters 1-6, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_braga_david.pdf
Overview
First six chapters of a novel that follows siblings who grew up under very different circumstances with their kind-hearted mother and domineering father. Now, estranged from each other and from their parents, they have been called home for one last weekend, so that they can put their dementia-ridden mother into a nursing home. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Green, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lumumba_menelek.pdf
Overview
"BYRON "BRICK" WILSON (Black, 40s) has just been released from a nine-year prison sentence for selling Marijuana. His best friend, ALLEN "A-TEE" THOMPSON, (Black, 40s) waits for Brick at the prison gates. As A-Tee drives Brick home, he is pulled over by Narcotics Detective DOUG SMITH (Black, 40s). Doug welcomes Brick home and provides a coded warning against going back on the street. Brick discovers his mother, TINA, (Black, 60s) has breast cancer. Tina dies the next day. Brick decides to...
Dates:
2021
Grip, Squeeze, Grieve, Repeat, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_sam_tyreetta.pdf
Overview
"My hometown, Donaldsonville, was deemed the worst city in Louisiana and the second worst city to live in America by an article published by 21wallst and BR Proud. The article was shared on social media and broadcasted news stations which further marginalized and stereotyped residents of Donaldsonville. Amidst the backdrop of the article, my novel, "Grip, Squeeze, Grieve, Repeat," unfolds through the lens of 15-year-old Montez Comeaux. Montez grapples with the fallout from the article,...
Dates:
2023