Electronic thesis
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Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
Leaving, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_huang_chenyun.pdf
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"A short narrative film captures the daily life of a three-generations of a Chinese family while the grandfather suffers through the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Through the eyes of a little girl, we see family members’ different emotional reactions to the old man’s irreversible dementia and how it affects the girl’s perception of death." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Lessons from the digital age : what the publishing industry can learn from online fanfiction, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_moura_tarsilla.pdf
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An examination of the successes and failures of various models of online fanfiction provides an in-depth study into the different, viable ways fanfiction can contribute to the publishing industry. --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Lethe, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_oneal_jerica.pdf
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"A plummet into a river. A struggle for life. A loss of consciousness. LETHE is the story of a woman who wakes up with no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. She is found by Hypnos, the god of sleep, who journeys with her as she tries to rediscover her identity. However, with souls going missing, and mysterious glimpses of catastrophic deaths, there is trouble afoot in the Underworld, and it all seems connected to Lethe. Armed with a burgeoning power, she must figure...
Dates:
2023
Let's Go Kill Your Father, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_rodriguez_isabella.pdf
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"LET'S GO KILL YOUR FATHER is a dark comedy and drama centered around a mother-daughter road trip that explores the complicated gravity of grief and guilt. Sprinkled with comedic levity, the film's emotional arc is tethered between the creation of one life and the ending of another. A young Cuban woman completing in vitro fertilization is suddenly jolted into a mission of the opposite nature when her estranged, sickly father asks her to travel from Miami to Portland to euthanize him. She...
Dates:
2021
Letters For Julian, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cortes_maria.pdf
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"Letters for Julian is a coming-of-age dramedy about a Boston teenager who, after a sudden death of his mother, learns that he has an older brother who was given up for an adoption at an early age. Exploring themes of family ties, the importance of friendships and human connection, the script follows one main character through his journey on discovering what true family stands for, which leads to a final realization that sometimes blood ties are not the strongest, and our home is truly where...
Dates:
2019
Letters From My Subconscious, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_peck_susan.pdf
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""Letters From My Subconscious" is a collection of short fiction containing a wide range of topics and styles. There are works of realism, surrealism, magical realism, fantasy, and satire, to name a few artistic approaches. Topic-wise, we dive into self-worth, death, love, familial relationships, spirituality, cultural critique, and much more. Whether the setting is in heaven, a hospital, or a doll factory, there will be plenty to contemplate, laugh at, and possibly relate to. This is...
Dates:
2024
Levels of Hell, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_quiroz-diez_tatiana.pdf
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"Where everyone's a sinner, the real virtue is figuring out how not to fall under the temptations. Levels of Hell follows a girl named Blythe who finds herself in Hell after some unfortunate incidents in her life right before she dies. In this version of Hell, The Seven Deadly Sins are the big bosses, and they are each responsible for their level. Only time will tell if she'll be able to overcome all Seven Deadly Sins and see if she can pass her final judgment and get into Heaven or stay to...
Dates:
2020
LGBTQ+ bookstores : past, present, and future, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_nisbet_stephanie.pdf
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"LGBTQ+ bookstores have provided an essential component of LGBTQ+ culture and history, serving not only as places to buy books, but also as cultural hubs and areas of discoverability, acceptance, and community. There were an estimated seventy-five to 100 LGBTQ+ bookstores in the United States at their peak in the 1990s, but there remain only six today. These bookstores have closed largely due to financial struggles, caused by high rent prices, the most recent economic recession, and...
Dates:
2018
LGBTQ+A : the need for a digital safe-space in a digital world, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018summer_bastien_rebecca.pdf
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"Young people within the LGBTQ community often find themselves without mentors as they begin to discover their gender and sexual identities, and potentially put their safety at risk by attempting to learn more about themselves online. LGBTQ+A is a digital safe space app prototype where those discovering their identities are able to connect with others like themselves and learn from those with similar experiences, making the LGBTQ+ community accessible to queer individuals all over the...
Dates:
2018
Life and death and pizza, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_papa_michaela.pdf
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"A collection of short stories focused on characters who find themselves slightly left of center." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Life's A Zoo, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_kendig_lauren.pdf
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"Life's A Zoo is a half-hour workplace comedy about a group of people working for the education department at the over a hundred year old Elohi Zoo. We follow the daily ups and downs of the dream team; director of education Betty and her second in command Marcus, the former public school teachers turned zoo educators Victoria and Stephan, the education animal outreach Dawn and Mia, and newcomer office secretary Katie. Their main goal, to share their passion for animals and to educate the...
Dates:
2024
Light Catchers, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"'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
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"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
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"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
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"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