Electronic thesis
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Identify : an exploration of intersectional identity through image theatre, 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_fuqua_lydia.pdf
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"The purpose of this study is to utilize drama based pedagogies to examine the concept and understanding of individual, collective, and societal identity in Midwestern teenagers." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Identifying Age 5 Expressive Language Features that Best Predict Adult Language and Communication Outcome in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), 2020
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Identifier: cd_2020spring_legrand_kaya.pdf
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"Numerous studies have reported that "useful speech" at age 5 predicts outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but this skill has been vaguely defined. This study investigates which specific aspects of expressive language in 5-year-olds with ASD best predict adult language outcomes. Language samples from 5-year-olds enrolled in a longitudinal project (e.g., Lord et al., 2006) were transcribed and coded for spoken language features. Nonverbal IQ (NVIQ), noun diversity,...
Dates:
2020
If You Want to Know Why I’m Afraid of You, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_sneed_madeline kay.pdf
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"This is a novel about family, faith, and love. Set in the fictional town of Steinbeck, Texas, this story is told through the perspective of a daughter and a father, Emmy and Steve, through the course of a year following their estrangement after Emmy comes out as a lesbian. The novel explores the challenges of reconciling identity and place, faith and expectation, sacrifice and compromise. Ultimately, the novel is focused on love—romantic, familial, and spiritual—and what we must sacrifice...
Dates:
2019
Illuminating Mental Health, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_hamilton_elisa.pdf
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"Illuminating Mental Health is a participatory art model that explores combating the stigma that surrounds mental health issues through a participatory art method called the "illuminated collage." This paper documents the research and design process of the Illuminating Mental Health workshop models, which use education, dialogue, and participatory artmaking in an effort to increase awareness and build knowledge about mental health, as well as to provide an entrypoint for having conversations...
Dates:
2019
Illuminating SEL: Creating and Implementing a Social-Emotional Learning-Based Creative Drama Curriculum, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023spring_isotti_victoria.pdf
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"The importance of integrating Social-Emotional Learning into classrooms cannot be underestimated. Utilizing the arts as a conduit to develop these skills is at the heart of the creation and implementation of an original creative drama curriculum through a five-session workshop, with lessons focusing on Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Building, and Responsible Decision Making. This thesis provides detailed lesson plans, examines the outcomes discovered after...
Dates:
2023
I'm (not) okay, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_markey_samantha.pdf
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"A film about a Cuban-American, queer, teen as she navigates a toxic relationship with her abusive mother, set amongst the pop-punk, emo scene of 2006." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Image and text : a critical overview of the mainstream comic book industry, 2018
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Identifier: pw_2018summer_patel_palak.pdf
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"The purpose of this thesis is twofold: first, to understand the history and larger impact of the mainstream comic book industry and second, to critically approach the industry and the way it functions today. This thesis does both of those things through the use of critical theory, interviews, and historical research in order to put forth a thorough overview of the comic book industry and also examine the state of modern comics." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Imposter "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_savage_austin.pdf
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"'IMPOSTER' is an eight episode limited series designed for streaming platforms that features a a [sic] diverse ensemble cast and explores the concepts of identity and power through a fictionalized retelling of real-life events. Loosely inspired by "Dr. V's Magical Putter" by Caleb Hannan, the series reframes the events of the 'Grantland' article and creates whole new characters to delve fully into the events of a journalistic investigation that ended up leading to the tragic suicide of the...
Dates:
2021
Improving Outcomes for Complex Consumers with Traumatic Brain Injury: Experiences and Practices of Providers in a Medical Respite Center, 2023
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Identifier: cd_2023spring_shukan_leah.pdf
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"This qualitative study explored the experiences and practices of caregivers for consumers with suspected traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a local medical respite center serving individuals experiencing houselessness who need a safe place to recuperate from medical interventions or illness. It also aimed to identify ways to improve these consumer's outcomes. To address these questions, five ethnographic interviews and one focus group were conducted with staff members at Boston Healthcare for...
Dates:
2023
In Her Shadow, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_porcaro_sara_jane.pdf
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"Presented in this thesis project is the first 101 pages of an original work of fiction, the first book of a tentative trilogy titled "In Her Shadow." The genre is high fantasy and decopunk, a style of fiction revolving around the aesthetics of the 1920s/30s era, and is currently 32,555 words in length, extending across a sizeable portion of the first book's overall story arc. This has been my focus project across my entire two years of study within Emerson's Popular Fiction and Publishing...
Dates:
2020
In Lieu of Gravity, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_ellis_johnette.pdf
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"This sequence of poems works to embody the experience of finding, making and even abandoning ground—the poems move from the seemingly individual to that of the collective. With a range of prose poems and haiku threaded among a majority of free verse poems, the collection aspires to synthesize the abstract with the physical. Who are we outside of the constructs of this world—race, gender, time—how do we acknowledge a reality, while rejecting it altogether? Full of influences from the...
Dates:
2016
In the Blood of Angels, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_rogers_tatum.pdf
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"This high fantasy novel is set in a world where the angels have come down and enacted the Reckoning, killing off most of the human population. In this post-Reckoning world part-human part-stone creatures called the oraesti have popped up, and a church known as the Marble Basilica has taken it upon themselves to hunt these "monsters" to extinction in the name of the angels. Our story starts about 1,000 years after the Reckoning, when Elias, a man who's been trained since childhood to hunt...
Dates:
2023
In the hands of my fellow prisoners, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_medeiros_peter.pdf
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Historical novel featuring Miriam Hatch, a free black woman and huntress in 1852 Ohio and her efforts to secure a loan after her traps are vandalized. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
In Too Deep, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_messer_kimberly.pdf
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"In Too Deep is a YA novel about Autumn and Lucas, two teenagers that discover the value of friendship and trust while navigating the ins and outs of high school drama, divorce, and grief. Autumn must learn to love herself without validation from others. Lucas is a teenage sea monster who must keep his identity secret while maneuvering through the guilt he feels over the loss of his brother." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Infinity, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fitch_lauren.pdf
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"Infinity is a novel that explores what its like to think differently in the world. The novel follows Mari, a twenty-five year old with Autism as she navigates her first real relationship. The novel works with themes of domestic abuse, mental health, and living with Autism. It is meant to represent an underrepresented portion of the female population." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Ingredients, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_corsano_nicholas.pdf
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Installation that explores the complex relationship between the food production cycle, climate change, and everyday consumers. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Inheritance, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_quill_michael.pdf
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"In my thesis film, Inheritance, I sought to highlight the dysfunction that exists in most families, specifically, the way in which toxic behaviors have a tendency to be passed down, or inherited, from parents to their children. The story centers on a 16 year old boy who must navigate his parents' crumbling marriage, at the total expense of experiencing his own childhood. I found this subject matter compelling both because the ideas and themes are rooted in something that is personal to me,...
Dates:
2021
Insomnia and Other Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_rosenthal_laura.pdf
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"Insomnia and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and flash fiction revolving around identity, loss, and the complexity of love. In each story, characters grapple with their identities in the context of the people they love, the places they call home, and the narratives of their past—personal and historical, individual and collective. Many of these stories portray Jewish life in the contemporary world, examining the ways in which the personal is political and the political...
Dates:
2020
Instruments of ritual, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_title_cathryn.pdf
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"The characters in these stories are in degrees of estrangement—from lovers, from family, from religion, but mostly from themselves. They cling to rituals—therapy, remnants from organized religion, categorization of the world through listmaking, even things as mundane as making jalapeño cream cheese at a coffee shop five days a week. Whether they realize it or not, they are searching for something—maybe love, maybe spirituality, maybe purpose—all while wondering if finding solace can even...
Dates:
2017
Integrating Emotional Intelligence into the College Acting Curricula, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_neely_janet.pdf
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"Emotional Intelligence (EI) training can be used in the college acting classroom to add depth to learning and provide a concrete vehicle for faculty to address emotions. Along with movement and voice, EI education will create a strong foundation and give acting students the skills they need to hone their craft. This paper will provide support for integrating EI into the college acting curricula and reflections on the implementation of an EI unit into several acting courses. Anecdotal and...
Dates:
2021