Electronic thesis
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Refugee Heart, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_ebrahim_yussra.pdf
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"This thesis is a political memoir about war, identity, and finding home. The story takes readers through the Iraq War from the eyes of an Iraqi girl living in the United States. I visit five Middle Eastern countries, the five sections of my memoir, over the course of my childhood to stay connected to my roots and my family after having lost loved ones, our homeland, and our sense of self to unimaginable violence. The narrative unfolds with our history and the political and personal...
Dates:
2019
Reimagining sexual assault prevention : an iterative process of co-design towards college student sexual expectation alignment, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_hanebutt_rachel.pdf
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"A digital facilitation tool with intentions to reimagine collegiate health relationship education as an iterative process that is co-designed with students, Confi+ utilizes anonymous polling, crowd-sourced student discussions, and low-barriers of facilitation, in order to more intimately inform a campus' prevention education. Specifically, this prototype demonstrates the utility of customized, school-specific programming that can also provide key stakeholders with measurable insights into...
Dates:
2017
Relationship perception in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, 2018
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Identifier: cd_2018summer_sager_meredith.pdf
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"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social communication. Features of this impairment, such as difficulties initiating peer interactions, perspective taking, and interpreting social nuance, can make it difficult for individuals with ASD to build and maintain meaningful interpersonal relationships. [This study proposes] that the foundational skill of interpreting the interpersonal relationships of others may also be impaired and contribute to this difficulty."...
Dates:
2018
Remember This, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_cochrany-zquierdo_kelly.pdf
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"REMEMBER THIS is an eight episode limited series designed for streaming platforms. It focuses on the "what ifs" of advanced Alzheimer's research. The technology is designed to not only view memories but also manipulate them. With a family drama at the heart of this Sci-Fi thriller, REMEMBER THIS explores a mother/daughter relationship that is fraught with expectations and missed opportunities. Family secrets, constructed reality, and self-identity create a narrative that evoke personal and...
Dates:
2022
Repackaging Children's Books, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_roman_gabrielle.pdf
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"The aim of this project was to repackage Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novels: 'The Secret Garden,' 'A Little Princess,' and 'Little Lord Fauntleroy.' I updated and designed all three books as a cohesive box set and additionally planned out and developed a layout for a board book version of 'The Secret Garden.' The purpose was to study how designers make decisions to repackage classics, what choices they make while designing new formats, and what demands different formats hold. This...
Dates:
2016
Resaturation, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_puels_raina.pdf
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"Resaturation explores the myriad of ways I confined and shrunk myself in various relationships throughout my life. In fourteen essays, I examine the conditioning of my self-censorship in my relationships with family, friends, roommates, lovers, and my own writing. Eventually, I'm able to understand the consequences of shrinking away parts of myself to accommodate others. Through this examination comes the freedom to celebrate and deliberate on my sexuality, queerness, polyamory, kinks,...
Dates:
2019
Reset, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_li_jiayue.pdf
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"Reset is a short narrative that depicts the relationship between a couple that has already lost their love and passion to each other. It raises the discussion of the bonded relationship in marriage." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Ricochet: Into the Black, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_collins_emma.pdf
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"Captain Marcel Moffett of the deep-space freighter 'Vespera' is in trouble. A mysterious woman known only as 'Anubis' has threatened the life of his husband. To keep his family safe, Moffett must trick his mixed-species crew into flying deep into dangerous X-Space territory to salvage a derelict station full of secrets. Back on Earth, Jaeden Halifax is excited to start her life with her boyfriend and finally be free Pittsburgh's scrap yards…until a sudden betrayal sends her into a spiral...
Dates:
2021
Rituals, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_follett_gabrielle.pdf
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"Rituals is a two-channel installation utilizing direct animation on 16mm film and unsplit 8mm film projected onto a workspace covered in ink, tape, receipts, and love notes in order to explore the intricacies of the artist's romantic relationship." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
River drowns the able swimmer : a memoir, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_eberlein_xujun.pdf
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"Narrates the advances and steps backward for three generations of Chinese women living along the Yangtze River, from the turn of the last century to the 1980s." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Romanticizing disaster : debunking romantic comedy tropes, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016fall_moore_melissa.pdf
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Explores the negative stereotypes portrayed by many of the relationship tropes and romantic ideals in romantic comedy films. Includes an original play whose first act dramatizes these tropes, while the second act is a "horror film" version of the same text, anticipating further research on tropes associated with that genre. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
"Sad Men", 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023summer_wilson_christopher.pdf
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""...the world has become ambiguous...[it] is encroaching and trying to consume everything," says Hayao Miyazaki. The world is ambiguous and we are confused. In the absence of good answers, we must learn to ask better questions. "During childhood when children don't have much power but feel angst," says Miyazaki, "fantasy gives some kind of salvation." Just as children find salvation in fantasy, so too can adults—and no dragons required. The eleven stories in this collection examine the...
Dates:
2023
Sailing along, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_mesple_rebecca.pdf
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"Sailing Along, like my other scripts, is a story about a female protagonist who must dig deep within herself to overcome many obstacles. This story is a murder mystery set in a small quaint Cape Cod town. More than just a murder mystery, Sailing Along touches on multiple things: how a widow must deal with the demands of being a single parent to a teenage son, an insensitive boss, needing to
collaborate with someone who hurt her in her past, and trying to solve a crime that hard hits the...
Dates:
2018
Salamangka, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_paranada_daryl.pdf
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"What would make you give up the real world to live in paradise? That question is at the heart of my 83,000-word Young Adult novel Salamangka. When 15 year olds Marisol Garcia and Yussuf Yacoubi discover a magical portal to a colorful utopia, they must make a choice: live forever in paradise or at home. Life in Los Angeles is tough for these teenagers, who face discrimination and other issues that make living in the fantasy world Salamangka appealing. But is paradise really everything that...
Dates:
2018
Salt & Pepper, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_clayton_maisy.pdf
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"This half-hour children's animated series invites young, eager minds into the delicious and magical world of food and the culinary arts. Combining educational television with uplifting adventure, each episode of the series explores a new ingredient, where it's found in nature, how it's sourced, and how it can be used in various forms of cooking. This series aims to get children into the kitchen, and to be excited and inquisitive about the food that they eat. The work I've created throughout...
Dates:
2019
Samara, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_gomez_alexandra.pdf
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"This project is an excerpt of 'Samara,' a romantic Fantasy Adventure with the soul and sensibilities of the Victorian era. In a city ruled by strict class hierarchy and a militant Lord Protector, magic is outlawed as a dangerous an unpredictible curse. Here a young seamstress makes an unsavory deal to save her younger brother, discovering she has illicit magic of her own. After a literal tumble down a magic well with a lawyer-turned-criminal, they must find their way home in an unfamiliar...
Dates:
2020
Sandcastles, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_jaoude_sabine.pdf
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"Sandcastles is a short narrative drama set in a small town neighbouring Beirut, Lebanon. A young woman from a modest family, Samar, navigates her daily life through a patriarchal society whilst trying to find a better future for herself. One fateful night after trying to get back home from work, she takes a public cab home. The disturbing events of that night push her to take the decision to want to leave. But will she get to, amidst a heightened sensitive political climate? This original...
Dates:
2019
Sandshadow, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_rossi_tess.pdf
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"Inside Sun Haven, Seraphina is a woman determined to protect those she loves, especially eight-year-old Thea, even if that means relinquishing her freedom to Derix. Derix's final mission for her is a secretive delivery, along with eliminating those he deemed adversaries of Sun Haven. But when Seraphina finds herself shot and fighting to survive, she must decide whether to risk abandoning her mission while navigating who to trust within enemy territory. Sergeant Praxen Amiri harbors a...
Dates:
2023
Santa's Rookie Report, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_sainvil_deion.pdf
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"This feature film is a comedy/fantasy that takes place around Christmastime. It is about an Elf who aspires to become a licensed Santa Claus, which would make him the first Elf in the history of the North Pole to achieve this feat. In order to do so he must get a passing evaluation score on his rookie assignment. Parallel to this, the protagonist's estranged sister is a youth leader at a South Florida church that is putting together a play based on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' One of the...
Dates:
2020
Say it won't be lonely, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_ebel_alex.pdf
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"'Say It Won’t Be Lonely' offers insight into the life of a gay man whose transformation from nearly celibate to comically oversexed is both clumsy and unexpected. Told in the voice of a pop-culture-obsessed millennial with a staggeringly weak sense of self-awareness, the book uses humor to contrast the intimacy in platonic relationships with the absence of intimacy in casual sex. In addition, the book confronts themes of questioning the valorization of masculinity, the importance of...
Dates:
2018