Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Portland of opportunity : co-designing a digital game with city government to aid refugees in providing feedback and learning about city services, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018summer_warren_justin.pdf
Overview
"This thesis project describes the design process of a single-player digital game, Portland of Opportunity, that was created as an educational resource for citizens of Portland, ME, while simultaneously acting as a public feedback tool. Gameplay focuses on exploring models of local city services, resource management, and skill acquisition in order to win." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Practice Makes Perfect: Seeking an Alternate Route to Rote Learning Through the Use of Theater, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_brown_kelsey.pdf
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"Neuro-divergent education can feel like a race against the clock. How can educators get these students up to speed, give them life skills and social-emotional skills, while still providing them with a meaningful education? Educators, specialists, caregivers, and the students themselves, seem to be fighting an uphill battle. This study seeks to examine alternatives to rote learning through the use of theater. A sub-separate preschool class participated in weekly theater lessons for a month....
Dates:
2022
Practicing How to Be in the World, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zuckerman_mjaime.pdf
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"Practicing How to Be in the World is a collection of lyric poems exploring self-definition and growth. From the influences of childhood upbringing, nature, art and writing, love, and life experience, the poems explore how an individual makes meaning of the world and defines the self. The poems are paper boats in the rising waters of the modern world." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Producing from the heart by Ashley Alivia Bierschbach., 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_bierschbach_ashley.pdf
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Reflection on the author's experience preparing to direct and produce a musical as a fundraising campaign for the YMCA of the North Shore Youth Theatre Company. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Project [wizi] : the Indo-European phoneme database, 2017
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Identifier: pw_2017fall_mell_emily.pdf
Overview
"This project is a web-accessible, interactive database of Indo-European languages mapped to their unique phonemic data sets and linguistic ancestries. This database coalesces the scattered and often difficult to locate phonological data into one comprehensive library and subsequently provides the opportunity for a user to disseminate the relationships between languages both within and across branches of the Indo-European language tree." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Promnesia, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023summer_su_yuning.pdf
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"Through a multi-layered narrative structure, "Promnesia" is a short film that explores the concept of how to confront reality better. Anchored by the concept of parallel universes, the protagonist Michelle, a stage actress, undergoes multiple lifetimes embodying the character Mary. Things that happened in Mary's life resonate with various aspects of Michelle's real life. As a result, the boundaries between fiction and reality in her life become increasingly blurred. After she attains...
Dates:
2023
Proof That We're Real, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_famularo_emily.pdf
Overview
"The things that plague us, as people, are in constant flux and motion, whether it be relationships, memories, or lapses of judgement. In this collection are seven stories that intertwine aspects of what it means to be human and vulnerable. Each represents a small moment, a sliver of time that remains lodged, and nagging in the back of your brain. Pulling together the human experience and then allowing it to unfold is what makes these pieces fit together. Whether it's understanding one's...
Dates:
2021
Public Servants, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019fall_frank_daniel.pdf
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"In the face of paralyzing polarization, disgust in American institutions, and public apathy, there are people who believe that public service is a civic duty and obligation. "Public Servants" is a documentary that takes us close to these volunteers and their chosen candidates, as they campaign for a seat in the US House of Representatives in the 3rd congressional district of Massachusetts. Their simple, daily acts attempt to convince neighbors, family and strangers that democracy is alive...
Dates:
2019
Put Your Problems in a Box, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_harrington_christian.pdf
Overview
"'Put Your Problems in a Box' is a collection of nonfiction humor essays about my difficult time navigating a simple life. With an emphasis on my tireless inner monologue, the essays show the perspective of a man at the mercy of an admittedly imperfect thought process. Despite covering a wide range of topics, including youth football, occupational ennui, and refrigerated dog limbs, the essays form a cohesive collection due to the self-aware and self-deprecating lens through which I examine...
Dates:
2019
Queen of Smoke and Mirrors, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_ferraro_isabella.pdf
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"Narcissa of the Rift has grown up wanting only one thing—to become the Advisor to her brother's royal crown. She has spent her entire life proving herself to be the most qualified for the role. The problem? Her brother isn't convinced. When a group of rebels that call themselves The Crux begin to threaten the very crown meant for her brother's head, Narcissa commits herself to the task of defeating them, certain it will prove her worthiness. But when the magical Mirror of Fates goes...
Dates:
2023
Questions for Strangers, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_sklan_marin.pdf
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"Over the last three years, a number of people very dear to me have passed away. A dancer, a photographer, a Shakespearean double, a grandfather still shrouded in mystery. Each, in their own way, harbingers of untold stories. I realized, slowly, that a sense of peace could be found through small acts of translation. Memories became settings became characters both unfamiliar and comforting. I suppose, at its core, this collection is an exploration of loss. But I have come to view it more as a...
Dates:
2019
Re-hear-sing Performative Traditions: Engaging With Cultural Practices in College Devised Theatre, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_thiel_john.pdf
Overview
"This thesis documents the methodology, findings, and theoretical underpinnings of a qualitative research study that investigates how a small sample of Emerson College undergraduate and graduate students engaged with cultural traditions from their upbringings in the devised theatre project 'What Moves Us,' which I directed in the spring of 2020. Recognizing in devised theatre the potential for intervention in college-level theatre practices that can privilege hegemonic cultural values and...
Dates:
2020
Reach You Tonight, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_janusis_jacqueline.pdf
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"My thesis is focused on themes of grief, loneliness, and the natural world. One of my goals for these poems was to take myself out of them, and to be an observer of my surroundings. There is also an emphasis on the connection of self to nature, and how that can sometimes be neglected. Considering these themes, another intention for this project was to employ as many forms possible. I utilize fragmentation as well as more traditional forms such as the sonnet. My title provides readers with a...
Dates:
2023
Reading and Writing in People with Aphasia Who Benefit from AAC, 2023
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Identifier: cd_2023spring_anderson_olivia.pdf
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"The AAC-Aphasia Categorical Framework (AACF) describes people with aphasia based on the degree of support needed to use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies (Lasker & Garrett, 2005). The AACF ranges from partner supported communicators to more independent communicator types. This study investigates reading and writing abilities in Stored Message and Generative Message communicators through standardized testing. Results reveal that Generative Message communicators...
Dates:
2023
Reading plays and discussing them : the PRBC and an audience development tactic for purposeful retention, 2018
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Identifier: te_2018spring_lindholm_aden.pdf
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"Audience development, and the field of research surrounding it, is intended to explore options and tactics on how best the theatre can expand to consumers that have historically been hard to reach. As the theatre is experiencing lower rates of attendance nationwide, this effort is especially important for the prosperity of the art form moving forward. This project researched the effectiveness of ArtsEmerson’s audience development program, the Play Reading Book Club (PRBC), an initiative put...
Dates:
2018
Realty check, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_cable_meghan.pdf
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"Realty Check focuses on a business woman's struggle to remain ethical and positive in the real estate world, as she shows her young daughter what it means to be responsible for one's own actions. While the plot narrows in on the specifics of sales goals and achieving high status in the workplace, the underlying theme is indubitably the importance of family and what it means to find your home, both in the physical sense and the emotional sense. The film situates itself into the body of work...
Dates:
2018
Red Glare, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kilstein_bruce.pdf
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"Red Glare is set in Georgia in 1939. Three protagonists: Clementine Barnes, a Black, female physician recently graduated from medical school; Calvin Taylor, a white, baseball player who has moved from Pennsylvania for his first professional job in the minor leagues; and Jackson Bennet, a white sports reporter for the local newspaper. Due to racial discrimination, Clementine is forced to practice medicine in the back of the cafe run by her mother, who is also a traditional healer....
Dates:
2021
Red Sauce, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_giardina_lynsey.pdf
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"Red Sauce is a feature length film designed for a theatrical and film festival release that focuses on childhood trauma. Set in a shotgun house in New Orleans, Lisa comes home for Thanksgiving to find not much has changed. Except for the fact that she is ready to confront her past trauma by wrecking her present life. Over the course of a single day, we follow the Campino family as the traumas of their past are unearthed during a Sicilian Thanksgiving day feast in Red Sauce." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Red years, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_ritchie_robyn.pdf
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"The Red Years is the first of three parts in a full novel. It tells the story of a small Southern town in the time of a serial rapist. In the final years of their adolescence, Marco and Henrietta, prominent children of prominent town officials, find their identity shifted and shaded by the recent attacks. As they both search for the rapist—in the name of recognition, responsibility and revenge—what they find is only the vast empty space that separates who they are and who they want to be."...
Dates:
2017
Refuge(e): Dispatches from the Pediatric Wards, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_jackson_benjamin.pdf
Overview
"In the mid 2010s, my daughter Emma was emergently admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital for what would become a five-month stay. This thesis examines that time as a travelogue, particularly from the point of view as someone seeking refuge. It considers not only the experience of the stay but also the people, places, and power dynamics I encountered during it." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023