Electronic thesis
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Morel Season, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lepley_coltt.pdf
Overview
"Morel Season is a collection of gritty short stories by Coltt Winter Lepley that depict struggles new and old based around characters all subtly connected to the fictional area of Laurel County existing in the Appalachia region of the United States. Stories in this collection focus around the relationships and hard times of characters who are trying to navigate their way through the ash pile of the mythical American Dream, or at least what's offered to them from a region often overlooked,...
Dates:
2022
Mortality, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_matthews_kathleen.pdf
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"These pages are the start to a novel that I have been working on for over a year now. The characters in this story deal with the many varying hardships that come from being human. Through the eyes of our narrator, we see a journey of trauma and healing. This novel will unravel the deeply interwoven the threads of humanity as it attempts to see what happens when you mix love and codependecy." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Mother May I?, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_blankenship_damon.pdf
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"With the current social climate of our society becoming so polarizing, I've looked at the struggles I have faced in my own family and considered how they may affect future generations. How do we handle seeing two sides to those that we love? In this story, I'm interested in exploring the themes of duality, denial of guilt, and how repressed trauma can manifest itself and spill over into our children's lives for them to be forced to ultimately resolve. Edgar is an eight-year-old boy who...
Dates:
2021
Mother May I, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_wrobel_stephanie.pdf
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"Mother May I depicts the cat-and-mouse game between a young woman who believed she was sick for the first eighteen years of her life and the mother who caused her illness. The mother's timeline takes place in the present while the daughter's timeline begins five years earlier. This second timeline slowly fills in the missing pieces of the present-day puzzle. By the end of the story, the two narratives converge. Mother May I is a finished novel of 85,000 words." -- Abstract
Dates:
2018
Mother Tongue, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_saavedra_stephanie.pdf
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"MOTHER TONGUE is a feature-length family drama made for streaming platforms that explores the difficulties of forgiveness as the death of a loved one looms over the heads of a broken immigrant family. It features a young, first-generation Filipino-American girl struggling to find her own identity in the culture she feels pushed away from while simultaneously trying to find her own unique voice as a painter in her young adult life. The film encapsulates the grey nature of love given by...
Dates:
2022
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: Essays, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lipson_nicole.pdf
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"My thesis contains six essays from my collection-in-progress, 'Mothers and Other Fictional Characters,' which blends memoir and literary investigation to explore the forces shaping girls and the women they become. In my collection's three sequential sections—Maidens, Mothers, and Crones—I consider the archetypes imposed on the female life span. What happens, my essays ask, when our inherited narratives of womanhood collide with our particular experiences and circumstances? And what can...
Dates:
2022
Multitudes, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_barclay_hannah.pdf
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"June, an artist living in New York City, vetures [sic] to Austin, Texas, with her musician boyfriend and her best friend as a part of her boyfriend's national tour. The more time the group spends in Texas, the more June's psyche and relationships begin to unravel. June has the uncanny feeling she's been to this city before and when people begin calling her by a different name, she knows there's something her friends are not relling [sic] her. With the help of a local austinite, Priya, June...
Dates:
2023
Murakami's main character, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_chen_cheng.pdf
Overview
"A magic realism coming-of-age short film about an independent college freshman who hopes he can cut himself off from his helicopter parents. But after they are gone he discovers he needs family and tries to get them back." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Muralist's hand : stories, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_alyeumni_reem.pdf
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This collection of short stories examines "the subtle aspects of fate and its consequences by writing about Middle Eastern characters, who are scattered across the map of these stories but indirectly joined." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Museum of endangered sounds : essays toward a memoir, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_mcgill_caitlin.pdf
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"This memoir-in-essays, which unfolds more thematically than chronologically, explores themes of trauma, addiction, race, class, empathy, and the destruction that results from ignoring those very issues." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Museum of memory, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_churchill_alicia.pdf
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"The Museum of Memory is a series of essays exploring the author's experiences as the child of an ethnographic researcher. The first essays discuss trips to Liberia, Dahomey, and Brazil. The second half of the essays concern the author's attempt to make sense of the travel memories and give them context in terms of family history, art history, and recovery from trauma." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
My Body, Electric, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_perino_binx.pdf
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"'My Body, Electric,' is a journey through time, space, memory, and art; it is a retrospective, moving outward from the self into a sense of collective understanding. The poems within the manuscript explore the hostility of man-made climate change, the risk of deviating from one's assigned gender at birth, and the grief of the passage of time; all the while, there are reminder of joy, connection, and survival through nature, art, and expression. "My Body, Electric" dives fully into the...
Dates:
2023
My Dear Yeast, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_han_melanie.pdf
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"'My Dear Yeast' is a collection of poems based on Melanie Hyo-In Han's experiences as a TCK (Third Culture Kid) growing up a Korean in East Africa, facing struggles around identity and racism, as well as cultural and linguistic barriers between her and her family. The inspiration behind her poetry comes from her own childhood and an exploration of identity, belonging, and culture through the use of fragmented form and inclusion of multiple languages. By having formal inventiveness in terms...
Dates:
2021
My Dramatic Structure: New Artistic Director, Lyric Stage, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_oconnor_courtney.pdf
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"The position of artistic director is one that is much admired but little discussed. For my thesis project, I discuss the uncharted process and challenges in the first four months of being the new Artistic Director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Topics covered include building relationships with a board and the audience, and how those relationships were then tested, strained, and strengthened in the early days of a global pandemic (COVID-19). An article accompanies the paper,...
Dates:
2020
My Husband Isn't Cheating And Other Short Stories, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_fuller_daniel.pdf
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"The short stories included in this collection seek to explore the darker side of humanity. What happens when one person's obsessive love isn't reciprocated? How dangerous is a serial killer that knows how to control his impulses? Who would you side with, your husband or your best friend, when the consequences turn out to be deadly? What lengths would you go to find the answers you need? Some stories take a peek into the lives of those closest to us. How well do you know the man renting the...
Dates:
2021
My Indian rhapsody, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_achar_abijeet.pdf
Overview
"A 17-minute experimental-narrative short film. After an interview goes wrong, Trishul, a once successful author, works on a new book about a life with a brother he never knew, but is distracted by dreams of a lover he left behind. As Trishul works on his new novel, dreams of a past life meld with the potential of a future life with Sylvia, his ex-fiancé. Trishul continues to lose focus as he writes about the brother he left behind in India when an American family adopted him. Ultimately,...
Dates:
2016
My Share of the Body, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_capizzi_devon.pdf
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"My Share of the Body is a collection of short stories that revolve around grieving, ownership, and queerness. Each story confronts the process of grieving from an angle unique to character and circumstance, often positing loss as a yearning for the body of another. The collection attempts not to make sense of grief, but rather to explore the experience both in the immediate wake and beyond. As a whole, these stories question time, how time changes as we move through loss, and, still, how...
Dates:
2020
My structure, a sanctuary, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_cadorette_sarah.pdf
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"This collection of nonfiction essays engages narrative forms and structures of interpretation as methods of enacting control and ownership over intangible ideas." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
My Years with Prospero, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_christopher_alexander.pdf
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"My Years with Prospero is a feature length documentary on a recluse woodcarver who lives in the forests of Vermont. In the late 1960's, Mark Fenwick was living on the streets of Boston as a homeless adolescent, where he was experimenting with his lifelong interest of sculpture. Around this time, he heard of a group of likeminded individuals leaving the urban centers of Washington and Boston for the mountains of Vermont: what would be the genesis of the "Total Loss Farm" commune. Mark, or...
Dates:
2023
#MYDATAMYDOLLAR$, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018summer_perry_neil.pdf
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"The personal data that we generate on the Internet is one of the most valuable resources available to businesses and governments. Due to a variety of political, economic and social factors, however, a common language and understanding surrounding key aspects of personal data – ownership, value and privacy, specifically – has failed to emerge. This state of affairs undermines and distorts arguments for extending the financial and societal benefits of “big data” toward models that serve the...
Dates:
2018