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Motivation to Participate in Accent Training Services Among Bilingual and Multilingual Individuals in the US, 2024
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Identifier: csd_2024spring_grader_lior.pdf
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"Accent training services, facilitated by Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), aim to help individuals who speak English with an accent to work on their communication and pronunciation skills. This practice has sparked debates within the field, questioning whether it perpetuates bias against culturally diverse individuals or serves as a beneficial tool for career advancement and social integration. Using a mixed method approach of quantitative and qualitative data collection, we elicited...
Dates:
2024
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
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"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
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"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 Married Friends, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_zaleski_madison.pdf
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"My Married Friends is a TV pilot inspired by the experiences of my college roommates, each of whom found their life partners during our time in school. Set in the suburban landscape of 2024 Cleveland, Ohio, this narrative, though loosely rooted in real-life friendships, takes creative liberties to portray a young woman's journey of self-discovery and romantic pursuit amidst a backdrop of friends who have transitioned into various stages of adulthood. Designed as a single-camera, 30-minute,...
Dates:
2024
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
Nafs Said, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020fall_hussain_huma.pdf
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"Nafs Said is a story about an Indian-Muslim housewife, Maryam, whose mundane life is abruptly interrupted by an opportunity to finally explore her desires. Maryam is a new immigrant in America and has always craved agency. Despite this being a source of unease and frustration, Maryam resigns herself to a relationship that allows women to only participate passively. Nafs Said is a study of the rhythms of domestic life and how women mold themselves around religious and cultural expectations...
Dates:
2020
Nalb Noun, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_stone_xzaviah.pdf
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"Nalb Noum is an animated short horror film that follows a young Black teen who is in love with African American folklore. After his father's passing, he sets out to prove that the folklore is real. While the film gives the normal elements of a creature horror film, at its core, the film touches on the underlying themes of systematic racism and cultural appropriation that plague our societies including our imaginations." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Native Speakers, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_szymanowski_mathew.pdf
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"Native Speakers, a psychological drama script set in Poland, tells the story of twenty-something Mark, an American expat English language teacher, and his womanizing, hedonist old highschool friend, Anthony, who unexpectedly shows up, disrupting Mark's life, eventually leading to his retaliation. Through the perspective of the main protagonist, Mark, the script examines the often contradictory way that chauvinism and shamelessness, when disguised with charm and confidence, are often...
Dates:
2019
Navigating Teen Girl Identity in the Digital Age Through Applied Theatre, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_gitten_victoria.pdf
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"In the era of social media, Applied Theatre empowers adolescent girls through the #i-am project at a suburban middle school in Massachusetts. This thesis explores using theatre to delve into the intersection of social media and identity among girls. Through six workshops featuring activities such as creative writing, role work, and kinesthetic strategies, the project fosters face- to-face communication and encourages girls to challenge biased messaging, providing a safe space for...
Dates:
2024