Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Human trap, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_keogh_jennifer.pdf
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Illustrates the world of a twenty-something college graduate trying to understand her familial relationships, friendships, and explorations of self. The poems seek to construct the trap of being human emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The speaker is attempting to discover ways out of the traps within her relationships with the world, herself, her family, her friends, and her lover. The limitations placed on human experience are a large part of the narratives told in this body of...
Dates:
2015
Humphrey Catskill, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_gillick_matthew.pdf
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"The purpose of this novel was to focus on one character's three defining life events. For the first section, the protagonist is a memory of his estranged mother. For the second, a shell of a man examined from a distant, analytical perspective. For the third and largest section, he is a fully fleshed-out person displayed over the course of twenty vignettes told through third-person omniscience. The goal was to start with a plain-spoken narration, albeit in transcript form to give the most...
Dates:
2021
Hyphen, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_servellon_maria.pdf
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"Hyphen is a magic[al] realist, short fiction film based on the director's own memories and experiences. It follows the transformative chronicle as four character versions: Mimi, Maia, Mia, Ria. They learn to use imaginative forms of art, dance, and music to realize each of their dreams, fears, and achievements. Conjuring the impalpable power of creativity, they are able to overcome different challenges to create their own identities past cultural and gender expectations." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Hyphenated, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_boateng_samantha.pdf
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"A hyphen is a bridge; it links together different elements, allowing its bearer to straddle those spaces simultaneously. In identity, the hyphen connects, creating a complex bond where, previously, one would not exist. Hyphenated explores this concept of duality while navigating physical and psychological spaces. In Hyphenated's pieces, the speakers are mothers, daughters, immigrants, children, and more, attempting to define who they are and where they belong. This body of work questions...
Dates:
2024
Hysteria, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_cordes_hope.pdf
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"Hysteria is a young adult novel about a teenage girl named Emma who witnessed her granmother being kidnapped by something inexplicable when she is young. Now a decade later, strange things are once again occuring and Emma is determined to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance once and for all. One evening she finds an injured boy in an alley and they are transported into Emma's favorite novel, Hysteria. She discovers the not so fictional world is much richer and more...
Dates:
2022
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...
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