Electronic thesis
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Intentional Playmaking: Integrating Sheltered English Immersion into the devising process, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_schreiber_megan.pdf
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"This project explores the planning and implementation of a theatre curriculum designed to serve English language learners and all students. The curriculum adapts and includes Sheltered English Immersion strategies and Sheltered Content instruction within the theatre classroom, using Playmaking and Devising exercises in hybrid and concurrent learning models. Due to the structured supports and equitable access to the playmaking process, throughout the project engagement increased; as did the...
Dates:
2021
International coverage and media effects : Setting the agenda for U.S. college student's perceptions of Tibet's independence, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_hou_jue.pdf
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"The purpose of this study is to investigate the tendency of mainstream media when reporting Tibet independence related stories as well as measure its ability to influence college students' perception of Tibet's independence. The three targeted research areas of this thesis are students' exposure to mass media affected by technology improvement; U.S. mainstream media's tendency when reporting Tibet's independence related stories; media's ability to influence students' perception over Tibet's...
Dates:
2016
Intersection, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_xiang_yu.pdf
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In Boston, a Chinese couple, an old policeman, and two teenagers' lives intersect with each other because of a wallet.
Dates:
2018
Intimacy issues, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_tallent_mark.pdf
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"This collection of short stories traces the subtle, often complicated, relationships between high school and college age youth in southeast Tennessee. Involving head-injuries, hemophiliacs, porn stars, psych majors, and ghosts, these stories portray an inequality of love between men and women, men and men, lovers and friends, the living and the dead. No one here knows quite what they're looking for, only that they must dive into these swift and treacherous waters, only that they must seek a...
Dates:
2018
Invisible, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_wojick_victoria.pdf
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"This is a story about human connection and how our childhood can shape our lives as adults. An adolescent boy who is traumatized both psychologically and physically is befriended one summer by an empathetic and eccentric adolescent girl. She inspires and empowers him in ways that he only fully realizes when he becomes an adult. Inspired by true events." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Invisible Green, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_liu_dinghui.pdf
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"Invisible Green is a 13-minute short film written and directed by Dinghui Liu. The story is about a middle-aged housewife, MARY, who decides to take a road trip to see her lover, but her daughter, ALIYA, insists on coming along. Mary tries to continue the affair and hopes to have the romantic weekend she wanted, but Aliya confronts her about it. Mary opens up to her daughter and Aliya begins to see her mother as a person who has needs. We shot this in muted color and used a 4:3 frame to...
Dates:
2022
Invisible women project : the use of the art of devising as a tool for empowering the feminine voice in women, 2017
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Identifier: te_2017spring_snavely_rachel.pdf
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"Devising, a form of collective creation, is a style of theatre used within the field of Theatre Education. Devising is used to create original plays with a group of devisors and at least one facilitator. This thesis explores the concepts of masculine and feminine identities, and argues for the use of Devising as an empowerment of the feminine voice in women. The argument is supported by The Invisible Women project, an originally devised play by a group of Emerson College students who...
Dates:
2017
Is the sky blue? : question-asking in autism spectrum disorder, 2018
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Identifier: cd_2018spring_netburn_amanda.pdf
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"The current study investigated the frequency, content, and development of question-asking in typically developing (TD) children and children with ASD through an online survey of 145 caregivers of children under 6 years old. Children with ASD were found to lag behind TD peers in both frequency and proportion of questions asked. Children with ASD were reported to ask more closed-ended (yes/no) questions as compared to more open-ended wh-questions. In exploring question function, differences...
Dates:
2018
Is this where you've been? : a collection, 2018
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Identifier: pw_2018summer_lazerwitz_catherine.pdf
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"In this collection ... is the story of someone in the process of growing up and trying to find the right place." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Itchy, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_zhou_yimo.pdf
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"'Itchy's' strength mainly thanks to the well-written script. After several revisions, the script transit from one-dimensional drama into a mixture of comedy and anti-drama. The dynamic among characters is intriguing and creative. For example, the front desk lady tells a unforgettable story about her husband and how she was trying to slowly kill him, reflects the relationship dynamic between Yuki and Richard. She speaks in a point of view where women (or older married women) taking charge in...
Dates:
2019
It's Better to Have Nothing, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_glass_kathryn.pdf
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"Charlotte, or Charlie, becomes a drifter and leader of a women's street-art movement called "You Go Girl" after her apartment burns down, her relationship with long-term lover Bellamy ends, and she checks out of McLean Psychiatric Hospital with PTSD. With her boyfriend and all of her belongings gone, Charlie adopts the cause as her life, moving from city to city every few months, living on insurance money, sleeping in shelters, on couches and floors, in beds that come with monetary or...
Dates:
2016
It's Kind of the Same, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021summer_oei_robert.pdf
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"'It's Kind of the Same' is a series of multimedia art installations which examine the ontological differences between analog and digital photographs and video. The pieces examine how reality is captured by these various mediums, the effect of hyperreality on our lives, and what it means to capture something authentically. 'It's Kind of the Same' seeks to raise questions about what it means to capture and experience reality in an increasingly hyperreal world." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_dever_sean.pdf
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"I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now deals with the selfreflective understanding of a disabled man coping with his diseases and his overall livelihood in a world that marginalizes the voice of the disabled. It's intended to challenge the ways in which society looks upon those with serious health complications. The poet intends to raise awareness of the ongoing struggle endured by those like him living with disabilities. This is further evoked by detailing...
Dates:
2019
Jackalope, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018fall_west_georden.pdf
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"The ecstasy of a queer saint brings her to the gates of heaven. In a celebration of the Divine Queer, the "Patron Saint of Jackalopes" reimagines religion and history as queer deities wearing Jamall Osterholm's fashion line interact within a mystical landscape." -- Abstract
Dates:
2018
Johanna Van Gogh, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_griffith_patrick.pdf
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"JOHANNA VAN GOGH is a TV Pilot inspired by the true story of the woman who saved Vincent van Gogh's legacy – the story behind the story of the two brothers. Primarily set in Paris in 1891, following the tragic death of Theo only six-months after Vincent, this historical drama follows his grief-stricken widow Johanna and one-year-old son; the sole heirs to hundreds of Vincent's paintings. Designed for streaming platforms as a limited series, JOHANNA VAN GOGH attempts to reveal the events...
Dates:
2023
Jynxed: The Revenant, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_hudson_paige.pdf
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"Jynxed: The Revenant is the first novel of a trilogy which details a teenage girl's journey coming to terms with the Jynx, a rare type of magic responsible for the thousands killed the very day she was born. Sole living Jynx Jackie Krowley is released after a life incarcerated, now under the protection of Title Eighty-Three per her dead parents' wishes, arguing the autonomy of Jynxed individuals. The majority of New Hampshire's magical community opposes this decision, and a people's party...
Dates:
2023
Karukéra Blues, 2017
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Identifier: ma_2017summer_huberson_pierre.pdf
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"Karukéra Blues takes its audience on an immersive journey around the Islands of Guadeloupe, exploring the concept of home in a post-colonial society from a diasporic vantage. The film depicts customs and tradition seldom witnessed by foreign eyes with an observational style. The non-expository narration guides the audience throughout the experience with an essay that weaves between poetry and social commentary in exploring the archipelago's colonial heritage, with its social and cultural...
Dates:
2017
Keeping the Drama on the Stage: A Year-In-The-Life of a High School Theater Program During COVID-19, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_ohara_aidan.pdf
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"A year-in-the-life of any lifelong educator is filled with particular and striking moments that differentiate it from the others. Teaching high school drama classes and running a co curricular theater program during a global pandemic is a school year that distinguishes itself from all others. This project follows the story of a drama teacher and his students in a suburban high school outside Boston, Massachusetts. Over the course of 14 months, this high school theater ensemble navigated...
Dates:
2021
Kevin's Declassified Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_krauth_daniel.pdf
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"A dysfunctional bunch of high school students must work together to survive a zombie outbreak that infiltrates their high school. Kevin is an insecure nerd. The main perpetrator of this ridicule is Brendan, a cocky jerk. Kevin has a big crush on Hannah, a theatre girl. Kevin’s best friend is Alex, a laid back stoner and skater. Emily, the overachieving class president, has been going around the school warning everybody about the toxic chemical spill at the dump behind the school. She...
Dates:
2022
Kill Me, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_li_yushi.pdf
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"Kill Me is a short dark family drama that tells a story that a female care worker needs to keep a dying boy alive until January 13th. But, as they get to know each other better, it turns out that they are both sad people who are controlled by others. A helpless compromise or a final rebellion? Everything will end on the 13th." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022