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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:

Light Catchers, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
Overview "This project is a pilot and limited series for a run of ten episodes, revolving around a lone-wolf criminal assembling a heist team to steal a corporation's secret method of faster-than-light travel. The science fiction and heist hybrid follows the main character around a developed solar system, to recruit maladaptive experts into his team, including his distant mother figure and mentor, an ex-gang member robot, a deaf combat specialist, and a hacker addicted to existing in cyberspace." --...
Dates: 2022

Lightning body complex, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_cromwell_jordan.pdf
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"This is a collection of linked short stories about a man turned superhuman and his exploration into being super." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

"Like His Old Self": Communication and Life Participation Outcomes of a Recreational Sailing Program for a Person with Aphasia, 2019

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Identifier: cd_2019spring_dibona_catherine.pdf
Overview "This study employed a pretest-posttest design to investigate the effects on language, communication, communicative confidence, and quality of life for a person with aphasia following his participation in a 10-week recreational sailing program. BD, a person with longstanding severe aphasia, participated in this study. Following treatment, the participant demonstrated improvements in communication effectiveness and quality of life, as reflected by scores on the Boston Assessment of Severe...
Dates: 2019

Like Rats in a Swarm, 2022

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Identifier: pf_2022fall_raker_katie.pdf
Overview "Like Rats in a Swarm is a young adult fantasy novel. The first in a series and focuses on Yadira "Dead Eye" Alamilla, a one-eyed hunter living in an overgrown dystopian world. Magic has been lost and Yadira and her people are only protected from the overgrown animals and the dangerous faerie by the walls of their isolated city. They are fearful of anyone beyond their walls, including Druids, Faeries, and Free Travelers who navigate the overgrown world with ease. After a hunt goes wrong,...
Dates: 2022

Linxi and Her World, 2021

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Identifier: vma_2021spring_liang_xiaoya.pdf
Overview "'Linxi and Her World' is a 2-channel video installation that explores the artist's first motherhood, and her daughter Linxi's early childhood. All the footage was shot in 2020 when Linxi was between 2-3 years old. It was also when social distancing and wearing masks became a daily routine. In this installation, two experimental videos are projected onto the wall across from each other. The two videos share the same length and they start and finish simultaneously. On one side, the shaky...
Dates: 2021

Lions' Heads, 2021

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Identifier: vma_2021spring_li_ruoyu.pdf
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"'Lions' Heads is a short Chinese family drama that follows an over-caring mother who surprises her son with an overseas visit. While the film's delicious food elements create a warm family tone, at its core the story explores underlying themes of anxiety and depression in international student communities and domestic violence." -- Abstract

Dates: 2021

Liquid gold and Maybe later, 2018

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Identifier: wf_2018spring_savini_nicole.pdf
Overview "Liquid Gold is a pilot that sets the background for a half-hour comedy-drama series exploring the lengths single mothers must go to survive. The work confronts toxic gender expectations and our cultural discomfort with the biological female body, in contrast to our obsession with the sexualized female body. Lisette is a recently divorced mother of a new baby and 8-year-old son. In need of income and struggling to re-enter the work force, she discovers an untapped market of bodybuilders,...
Dates: 2018

LISTEN! Non-hierarchical Teaching and Learning through Co-Created Theatre in a High School Community, 2023

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Identifier: te_2023summer_hamilton_french_leah.pdf
Overview "This paper discusses and reflects on a devised theater project co-created by the author, a high school theater teacher, and four of her students in the spring of 2023. In addition to a describing the project design and outcomes, it weaves together research on the school-to-prison pipeline, restorative discipline, non-hierarchical pedagogy, and storytelling as methodology with participant interviews and anecdotal evidence from devising sessions and performances to advocate for co-created...
Dates: 2023

Litany of the Bone Saint, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_fergione_ken.pdf
Overview "Sister Roksana, Priestess of Death, recruits Mihaela, innkeeper aspiring to practice magic, to confront a mysterious evil surrounding the fabled city, Death's End. An evil that the city's Lord Mayor, August Bane, and Librarian, Ulyana, accidentally free—a millennia old Queen that once ruled. As their investigations progress the three point of view characters, Roksana, Mihaela, and Ulyana, wrestle with their responsibilities, to the world and to the people they love, and find their faith...
Dates: 2023

Locked Doors, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_romero_albert.pdf
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"The chief concern of this body of work is the function of memory as part of our daily lives. In the fleeting present moments of the characters investigated, I show how the memory of a place or a person tinges that moment. The purpose here is not to make claims or theorize about what memory is or how it functions, rather, it is to show how each of these characters copes with their past moving forward into their future." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Long emergency, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_dicello_nicole.pdf
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"This manuscript of poems examines the forces that shape us, from the astronomical laws of the universe to manufactured earthly possessions. How can we see that which pervades every cell, but is yet invisible? Do we fully understand the repercussions of what we create? Are we in charge of our desires, or are they manufacturing us?" --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Long Island Gothic, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_spica_kathleen.pdf
Overview "Built upon the premise of the regional gothic, LONG ISLAND GOTHIC is a gothic horror feature. The slow-burn horror takes regional specificity under its wing and transforms it into the macabre in a story about knowing when it's time to go and choosing what is worth sacrificing for. It features a twenty-six-year-old WALTER KHAH, a sculpture artist who comes back home to suburban Long Island after running away from his problems in the city and catapults himself head-first into a new...
Dates: 2022

Long summer night, 2018

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Identifier: vm_2018spring_wang_haoyang.pdf
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"A thirteen-minute narrative film that centers on a mother and son pair at a local laundromat. The mother does laundry for her neighbor in exchange for extra money, but the son accidentally causes a color spill and dyes the neighbor’s laundry. Having witnessed his own mother’s breakdown for the first time in life, the boy learns and realizes his responsibility to the family." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Lord of Nightmares, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_reichert_william.pdf
Overview "Lord of Nightmares is a Young Adult Urban Fantasy novel of roughly 135,000 words. When the tyrannical witch ruling over America's magical population is deposed, her son narrowly escapes with his life. Emeric spends his exile dreaming of reuniting with his sisters and avenging the life he was promised. Years later, he is discovered hiding in the woods and brought to the estate of a powerful witch family, who wish to clear him of the sins of his mother and reintroduce him to society....
Dates: 2023

Lost roads, 2017

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Identifier: ma_2017summer_attia_camille.pdf
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"Lost Roads is a twenty-two-minute fiction short film that depicts the memory of the last day between two friends, Iris and Noah. The film explores the feeling of being lost and stuck in a world that can only offer a bitter sense of freedom." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, 2022

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Identifier: md_2022summer_li_sharry.pdf
Overview "'Voices of the Unheard' is an interactive and virtual experience designed for college student activists in Boston to grasp the systemic causes of gun violence. This project incorporates storytelling methods to help audiences visualize the various psychological, behavioral, social, and familial factors that contribute to gun violence. The goal of "Voices of the Unheard" is for college students to learn about the complex nature of gun violence and how they can be involved in anti-gun violence...
Dates: 2022

"Lovable Roadblocks": How does the accessibility to affordable, high-quality, and available childcare positively or negatively affect the trajectory of a mother's life?, 2023

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Identifier: te_2023spring_cabezud_margaret.pdf
Overview "This pilot qualitative research study seeks to examine the role childcare plays in the everyday life of mothers. It investigates the accessibility of affordable, high-quality, and available childcare and how the search for and subsequent involvement in various childcare situations connects deeply to mothers' careers and life choices. Data collection consisted of a review of existing research and writing, on-site observations, and interviews with eight voluntary participants. The research is...
Dates: 2023

Love Hunt, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_vazquez_torres_natalia.pdf
Overview "In this speculative romance novel, Henry makes a deal with Hades, who prefers to go by the name of Gustav, and becomes a vampire in order to find his dead wife's reincarnation. He becomes a souls' collector for Hades, befriends a prostitute and loses his vampire best friend on the journey. When Henry finally finds his reincarnated wife, he learns she is very different from who he thought she was. He finds himself needing to decide whether he will accept her for who she is, or whether...
Dates: 2023

Love in Pain, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023fall_nash_meredith.pdf
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"This thesis delves into the multifaceted concept of love by examining the various relationships the narrator has experienced throughout her life, while concurrently exploring the impact of those relationships on her body image. Drawing on personal narratives and reflections, this story divided into chapters aims to shed light on the intricate connection between love, selfperception, and body image." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Love You, Darling, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_blank_madelynne.pdf
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"Love You, Darling is a novel about a young woman named Grace Donahue and her struggle with alcoholism. The main narrative takes place from 2017 to 2019, beginning in her final year of college, when a personal tragedy upends her relationships with family and friends. Over the next two years, she grapples with loss, love, addiction, the stress of adulthood, and what it means to find oneself amid the chaotic currents of modern life." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023