Electronic thesis
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Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
In Too Deep, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_messer_kimberly.pdf
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"In Too Deep is a YA novel about Autumn and Lucas, two teenagers that discover the value of friendship and trust while navigating the ins and outs of high school drama, divorce, and grief. Autumn must learn to love herself without validation from others. Lucas is a teenage sea monster who must keep his identity secret while maneuvering through the guilt he feels over the loss of his brother." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Inclusive Placemaking: Strategies for Enhancing Community Participation and Access in East Somerville, 2024
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Identifier: md_2024spring_ochoa_tovar_paula.pdf
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"East Somerville, celebrated for its vibrant arts scene and diverse community, is thriving with placemaking efforts fostering connection and belonging. Despite challenges, organizations like East Somerville Main Streets are making strides in engaging the community. Through insightful interviews and partnerships, valuable insights into community needs and ongoing initiatives have emerged. This thesis aims to explore these positive dynamics, culminating in the creation of Cubo, an innovative...
Dates:
2024
Infinity, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fitch_lauren.pdf
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"Infinity is a novel that explores what its like to think differently in the world. The novel follows Mari, a twenty-five year old with Autism as she navigates her first real relationship. The novel works with themes of domestic abuse, mental health, and living with Autism. It is meant to represent an underrepresented portion of the female population." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Ingredients, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_corsano_nicholas.pdf
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Installation that explores the complex relationship between the food production cycle, climate change, and everyday consumers. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Inheritance, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_quill_michael.pdf
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"In my thesis film, Inheritance, I sought to highlight the dysfunction that exists in most families, specifically, the way in which toxic behaviors have a tendency to be passed down, or inherited, from parents to their children. The story centers on a 16 year old boy who must navigate his parents' crumbling marriage, at the total expense of experiencing his own childhood. I found this subject matter compelling both because the ideas and themes are rooted in something that is personal to me,...
Dates:
2021
Insomnia and Other Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_rosenthal_laura.pdf
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"Insomnia and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and flash fiction revolving around identity, loss, and the complexity of love. In each story, characters grapple with their identities in the context of the people they love, the places they call home, and the narratives of their past—personal and historical, individual and collective. Many of these stories portray Jewish life in the contemporary world, examining the ways in which the personal is political and the political...
Dates:
2020
Instruments of ritual, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_title_cathryn.pdf
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"The characters in these stories are in degrees of estrangement—from lovers, from family, from religion, but mostly from themselves. They cling to rituals—therapy, remnants from organized religion, categorization of the world through listmaking, even things as mundane as making jalapeño cream cheese at a coffee shop five days a week. Whether they realize it or not, they are searching for something—maybe love, maybe spirituality, maybe purpose—all while wondering if finding solace can even...
Dates:
2017
Integrating Emotional Intelligence into the College Acting Curricula, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_neely_janet.pdf
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"Emotional Intelligence (EI) training can be used in the college acting classroom to add depth to learning and provide a concrete vehicle for faculty to address emotions. Along with movement and voice, EI education will create a strong foundation and give acting students the skills they need to hone their craft. This paper will provide support for integrating EI into the college acting curricula and reflections on the implementation of an EI unit into several acting courses. Anecdotal and...
Dates:
2021
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