Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Partners, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_block_william.pdf
Overview
"PARTNERS is an action comedy feature length screenplay centered around a married couple in the LAPD who are forced to work the same case in order to catch a killer. Once they are partnered, the stress of the case and the extended time together forces them to confront the growing problems in their marriage. Thematically, PARTNERS tackles the universal struggle of finding the right balance between professional life and family life. When the two become one, the couple lose all sense of privacy...
Dates:
2020
Paseos, y Otros Cuentos [Paseos, and Other Stories], 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_martinez_jose_manuel.pdf
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"Mexicans are not a monolith, our stories have always had similar starting points—almost always with the immigrant ancestor(s). What happens to them next can be anyone's guess, but often times their primary goal is survival, though the meaning of survival depends on the family. Writing this collection, I did not presume that it would speak for every Mexican family out there, and each of those stories I haven't excavated contains a unique heart and waits further exploration.
In acknowledging...
Dates:
2020
Path of Participatory Resistance: A Gallery Guide for Radical Reflection and Collaborative Curation, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_frisbie_isaiah.pdf
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"Path of Participatory Resistance is a decal-based installation that asks visitors to actively interact with and question the issues and intersections of art, social change, and justice. The installation creates a gallery-wide pathway that features a series of prompts for visitors to respond to. As visitors and community members respond to the associated prompts, they're encouraged to position and leave their written responses amongst the exhibited art. In leaving these responses amongst...
Dates:
2019
Path of Participatory Resistance: A Gallery Guide for Radical Reflection and Collaborative Curation, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_hopkins_renee.pdf
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"Path of Participatory Resistance is a decal-based installation that asks visitors to actively interact with and question the issues and intersections of art, social change, and justice. The installation creates a gallery-wide pathway that features a series of prompts for visitors to respond to. As visitors and community members respond to the associated prompts, they're encouraged to position and leave their written responses amongst the exhibited art. In leaving these responses amongst the...
Dates:
2019
Paths of Exploration: An immersive critical pedagogy activity for the Salzburg Academy on Media Global Change, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018fall_elbaz_jonathan.pdf
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"Paths of Exploration is an immersive activity designed for the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change that provides students the opportunity to share their lived experiences with the program topic of digital media and engage with the diverse perspectives and knowledge present in their cohort. The activity involves personal reflection, conversation and collaboration, and it pursues the following broad objectives: to activate relationship-building among participants through...
Dates:
2018
Pemberley, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_grieve_jennifer.pdf
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"A novel excerpt about Pem Randall, a young lawyer who suddenly loses her mother, the only family she has. After her mother's death, Pem is forced to re-evaluate her close but complicated relationship with her mother." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
People / Places / Things / Ideas, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_wildes_april.pdf
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"People/Places/Things/Ideas attempts to unpack experience, we as humans, internalize. The collection is separated into sections—highlighting each piece through the central theme and placing them into its respected noun-home. There are poems of womanhood, abuse, and mental health— each carrying a weight that the speaker has borne over time." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Perfect Life, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_song_yiyun.pdf
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"Perfect Life is a short film which talk about that in the near future, with the explosive development of technology, an experiment that allows pregnant parents to perform experiential simulation of their children‘s life is created. In the short film, Xiao Mei's parents simulated and experienced Xiao Mei's future life for three times. In common views, Xiao Mei‘s three lives were all failures. As a traditional Chinese parent, Xiao Mei's father could not stand the imperfect life of his child....
Dates:
2021
Permeable, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_wang_li.pdf
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"A fictional narrative film about a desperate mother’s return from her new habitat to save her young son from dying in a polluted world. While the mother plans to save the child in a mysterious unconventional way, the father insists on the medical treatment for the boy and a life in the polluted world." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Personal, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_hadad_sonia.pdf
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"Personal is a narrative short movie depicting an immanent crisis in the life of a young Iranian woman who carries on a secretive modeling career. The story, which takes place against the backdrop of Tehran, a dizzying modern day metropolis, portrays the struggles of women living under an Islamic theocracy." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Personal pronouns in autism spectrum disorder : the role of overheard speech, 2018
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Identifier: cd_2018spring_georgeson_jennifer.pdf
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"The current study explored the role of overheard speech on first-and second-person pronoun mastery in children with ASD. Seventy-four caregivers of children with ASD (aged 2;2-5;11) participated in an online caregiver survey to measure overheard speech and pronoun mastery. Results suggested higher access to overheard speech was associated with greater mastery of the pronouns me, my, you, and your. Logistic regressions confirmed the role of overheard speech for the pronouns me, my, and you....
Dates:
2018
Phere, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_aggarwal_sonia.pdf
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"This manuscript follows a 'Bride' and 'Groom' through a series of seven 'coupled contrapuntals' which structurally mimic the Hindu wedding ceremony of "saat phere" or seven circles around the sacred fire. The positionality of the bride and groom provides a lens through which we see the intersection of three separate generations, creating an axle for the collection to pivot on. This allows forvoices from multiple different familial roles as they speak of the generational wonder and trauma...
Dates:
2022
Philadelphia Forever, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_fleischer_evan.pdf
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"Set in an alternate present, 'Philadelphia Forever' sees four characters explore the implicit question as to how one 'makes' and 'unmakes' a place. An amoral real estate agent, a melancholy mobster, an insightful teenager, and a happy cook test the figurative waters of a city filled with serendipity with the help of a robotic basketball player and a sentient cloud. Some embrace the serendipity. Some attempt to erase it. All of them live in Philadelphia." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Phoenix Wok & other stories, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_veloso_jonina-lee.pdf
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"Phoenix Wok and Other Stories is a collection of short stories linked together by a restaurant called Phoenix Wok. Set in Manila, Philippines, this collection explores the lives of characters who have worked or eaten at this Filipino-Chinese restaurant. Each story examines the lives of typical Filipinos when their capacity towards change is tested." --Abstract
Dates:
2015
PlaceBase : a site-specific forum installation, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_salling_erica.pdf
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"This thesis proposes an online platform, called PlaceBase, that provides a space for community activists [in Boston] to reach out to community members with information and questions, installing the platform within communities for easy participation. Response data is then archived and the community may analyze that data in different ways, easily putting together reports to hold larger development or planning entities accountable for community wants and needs. This thesis outlines how the...
Dates:
2017
Plague Days & River Roads, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fisher_caitlin.pdf
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"Plague Days & River Roads follows the protagonist, college junior Liv Ford, as she returns to her hometown in order to understand how and why her friend Juniper died—and whether the mystery of who Juniper's mother was related to her death. As she dives deeper into her memories with Juniper, Liv begins to piece together the shards of her eccentric family through her relationships with her own mother and with Juniper's father and brother during August 2020. The novel is a musing on grief,...
Dates:
2023
Playmaking and Devising: A Post-COVID-19 Workshop Adjustment, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_tidball_kelsey_maureen.pdf
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"In recent years, playmaking and devising have become more widely used theatrical processes in schools and professional theatre settings. The chance to create an original piece of theatre is one that many young theatre makers are given at some point in their theatrical careers; however, the playmaking process is still widely shrouded in mystery and widely reserved for college-aged students. With this playmaking workshop, which was intended to be offered to a group of ensemble members of the...
Dates:
2020
Plucked: A Memoir of Hiding, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_bannon_katherine.pdf
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"My thesis encompasses the beginning of a memoir exploring my journey with trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder that causes me to compulsively pull out my hair. Though 1 in 25 people pull out their hair, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery; there is no cure and little treatment. I began plucking when I was eight years old, an event that splintered open my family's carefully controlled, privileged life. For years, I believed I was the only one. I hid under makeup, headscarves, and...
Dates:
2020
Plume, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022summer_smart_hannah.pdf
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"Plume is a postmodern, fragmented novel that takes place across the time period of 2014 to 2035 but is anchored in the months of August – November 2035. In this near-future United States, several smaller religious political parties have replaced the Democratic and Republican parties, and police power has been privatized, allowing corporations to dictate the extent of that power. The central plot of the novel surrounds a new and improved" version of the MKUltra program entitled MKUber,...
Dates:
2022
Poles Apart, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_brook_alessandra.pdf
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"POLES APART is a romantic, road trip comedy about an uptight, environmentalist and a laid back Aussie farmer who ultimately discover that love can be found in unlikely places. The film explores different types of love – familial love, romantic love and self-love. It considers how to balance loving others with loving oneself. The protagonist is an American climate-change obsessed, control freak whose love and concern for her bi-polar sister distracts her from loving and caring for herself or...
Dates:
2020