Electronic thesis
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Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
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 Found God at the Vince Lombardi Service Stop, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_eisenberg_kayla.pdf
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"A cadre of strangers pass through the Vince Lombardi Service Stop in Ridgefield, New Jersey - an eternal monument to family road trips and fast food fantasies - in search of milkshakes and immortality: the kind of enduring legacy that can only be formed through the stories they tell one another and people they pretend to become beneath the fluorescent, flickering lights of Curly Diana's Diner. Over the course of the year following the fifteenth anniversary of her son's death, Janice the...
Dates:
2024
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
I Was Going to Lie: A Novel in Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_chupak_ashling.pdf
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"I Was Going to Lie is a novel-in-stories told from a range of perspectives following Catherine, a woman born in 1990 Brooklyn, New York, struggling with the disappearance of her father and seeking answers to the slew of partial-truths reported to her about him. But her pious mother, Joyce—sworn to secrecy by her locally-famous ex-in-laws— needs no excuse to estrange her daughter from the man who has betrayed her by revealing his truth: a decade-long affair with another man. When Catherine's...
Dates:
2024
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
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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
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...
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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...
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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.
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2015