Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
Gray house : chapters 1-6, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_braga_david.pdf
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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
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"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
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"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
Hairdryer Treatment, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_franklin_austin.pdf
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"HAIRDRYER TREATMENT is a feature length film designed for streaming platforms that features a diverse ensemble cast, exploring the concept of team as family. Set in 1982, the first year that the NCAA recognized women's sports championships, this comedy follows a fictional collegiate soccer program in their first year of competition. While there are numerous team-sport comedies that follow men, the amount that have women as the focus pale in comparison. HAIRDRYER TREATMENT attempts to change...
Dates:
2022
Hands-on Creative Projects in Youth Development: Benefits and Challenges of Engaging Youth in Puppetry and Climate Action, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023spring_huggins_brenda.pdf
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"In this applied theater project and qualitative study, puppetry artist and community arts practitioner, Brenda Huggins, investigates the benefits and challenges of engaging youth in puppetry and climate action in partnership with middle school age students in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. Findings include the capacity for creative thought and multidisciplinary hands-on learning to promote heightened engagement and focus, experimentation and the freedom to make mistakes during...
Dates:
2023
Happy to Be With You, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_cong_biwei.pdf
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"Happy to Be With You is a short narrative that depicts the emotional bond between an old woman and her lifelong AI robot. It raises the discussion of the potential relationship between humans and AI. It is also a film about companionship." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Harmony and other towns, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_zeitlin_jeremy.pdf
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"The four stories center in and around a small Maine lobster fishing community of the writer’s creation. They deal with a range of social, cultural, economic, and political issues inherent to working-class towns like the ones created for these stories. More, though, they are intended to expose areas of the human condition that transcend the regional and demographic characteristics in which the stories are seated. The people here and their stories—their fears, their hopes, their hardships—are...
Dates:
2018
Harvard Zero, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_smith_warren.pdf
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"While the script centers around a historical turning point for the United States with serious global impact, it focuses this moment on one individual and his choice to make a speech about standing up for what is right. Reframing this massive moment as one character's personal journey helps audiences both understand and empathize with events that occurred over 75 years ago. Though the U.S. tends to lean into the savior narrative of World War II, the script highlights how unpopular the idea...
Dates:
2019
Hauntings, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_lane_stephanie.pdf
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"Maddie has always been haunted, literally. She can't remember a time when she didn't see the dead. After her sister, June, dies, Maddie returns home to mourn the loss with what little family she has left. Once she arrives, she starts to believe that June's death wasn't suicide or an accident. Her death almost mimics the way their mother died thirteen years previously. Back then, Maddie suspected her father, but now she's not sure who to suspect. The truth has always been an elusive thing...
Dates:
2020
Have You Seen Me?, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_tate_maron.pdf
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"Lucy Brownstein is beautiful and mysterious, but we already knew that, because like all stories about women like Lucy, she disappears. The only thing she leaves behind is security footage from the laundromat a Sunday morning in which she can be seen folding laundry, taking a phone call, and then leaving it all behind. John Doherty, who knows Lucy from spending mornings together at her bus stop, told her a dark secret of his own the morning of her disappearance. When John starts digging into...
Dates:
2021
Heads, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_diem_nguyen.pdf
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"Ever since he could hold a crayon, Robbie has drawn the people around him in a peculiar way - they appear more as misshapen, macabre supernatural creatures rather than human. Although unsettled, Robbie's father David dismisses everything as Robbie's childish imagination. These drawings are no real sources of concern, that is, until Robbie's grade school class has a new homeroom teacher, Mr. Percy. Robbie starts making drawings of a man with children's heads growing out of his back. Shortly...
Dates:
2024
Hear the Wind Whisper, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_xu_liren.pdf
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"My short film named Hear the Wind Whisper, talks about an elderly woman Minyan living in a house with her daughter in America alone. However her neighbor Liling from the same hometown brings joy and warmth to her. In this afternoon, the memory of her dead husband comes back in a gentle breeze. Minyan tries to adapt to the life in Boston and finds the new connection with the surroundings." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Heart on the Ice, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_climer_tessa.pdf
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"Heart on the Ice is Book One in the Ballston Blackhearts tetralogy. This series follows a minor league hockey team based in Washington D.C. and each book will follow a different narrator on the team. There is a streamline focus on mental health throughout each plot—it is an intergyral piece in each story. Heart on the Ice follows Quinn Marley, who was recently traded to the Ballston Blackhearts after playing college hockey in Durham, North Carolina. Fresh out of college and new to the city,...
Dates:
2023
Heirlooms, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gomez_crystal.pdf
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"Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...
Dates:
2024
Hell Yeah The Champion, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_jones_colin.pdf
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"Ward Foster, a 21-year-old perpetual loser is on his way to a date (his first in years) when he is flattened by a semi-truck. He wakes up in the purgatory waiting room, and when his name is called to ascend to the pearly gates, he accepts his lot and makes his way to the afterlife. However, stairs can be tricky. One wrong step leads to him plummeting straight down to the doors of Hell and abandoning all hope. That is, until he meets Caydes DeMonium, a centuries-old demon slacker. Caydes...
Dates:
2024
Hellion, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_riter_jack.pdf
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"Elizabeth Ring is a young woman in Ohio. She is a daughter, a sister, and will in all likelihood one day be a wife. She is also a firebrand, an iconoclast, a perfectionist, an artist, and a woman on the verge of addiction. The first few years of her adulthood form the basis of this thesis, in the form of a novel, intended as part of a longer work." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Her Wild, 2023
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Identifier: Holly Mello_Her Wild.mp4
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Holly Mello passed away on January 31, 2023, and received her degree posthumously. Her thesis media component was submitted to the Archives by the Office of Graduates Studies but did not include her production book. Short film on gender inequality in climbing and the perception of women climbers. Kristin Re and Kelsey Confreda, co-founders of the Ladies Climbing Coalition, a non-profit organization whose mission "...is to connect and empower all women and non-binary people who are...
Dates:
2023
Here Be Monsters, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mcqueen_daven.pdf
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"HERE BE MONSTERS is a story about loss, both personal and collective. It asks what must be done to maintain hope in the face of immeasurable grief, exploring such themes as family trauma, class inequality, and the material repercussions of a warming planet that's been ignored for too long. But at its core, this is a novel about two people on a quest for answers—to their pain, their futures, and the mysteries of the world around them—that forces them to confront what they mean to each...
Dates:
2024
Here we go, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_torre_alanah.pdf
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"A visual novel containing the three proposed chapters for the purpose of this thesis project. A visual novel contains narrative and visual elements that allow the user to make decisions that will affect the story. This game would be best played alone because the choices a player makes may become personal. However, the game can still be played around others it is just a matter of preference. Here We Go is a story focusing on the relationship between a group of friends as they finish their...
Dates:
2018
Heretics, Genies, and Flames, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kalanish_emily.pdf
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"A heretic and a genie. Drowning and burning. Can a heretic convert her coworkers to heresy? Can a genie grant wishes and make life less boring? In these two stories, both characters know that sometimes we need the fantasy in order to tolerate the reality. They also know that metaphors are fun and real life is hard. But knowing the facts doesn't make their worlds any easier." -- Abstract
Dates:
2016