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On the wings of a butterfly series : [book one] the dreamer of entity, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_pacheco_miranda.pdf
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"This is the first one hundred and eighty pages of the first book, The Dreamer of Eternity, in the epic fantasy trilogy, On the Wings of a Butterfly. The story follows seven characters through distinct multiple points of view as both their personal choices and events beyond their control impact their lives." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Once More With Feeling:Implementing Social-Emotional Learning into a High School Theatre Classroom, 2023

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Identifier: te_2023spring_frederick_alyssa.pdf
Overview "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) provides an important foundation for work in Theatre Education. This Thesis Project consists of five lessons designed to incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in the high school theatre classroom. The Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for Social-Emotional Learning is utilized throughout this Thesis Project, which is conducted in a high school Advanced Acting class. The Project provides examples of different arts...
Dates: 2023

Once Upon a Revolution, 2020

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Identifier: sw_2020spring_speelman_kathryn.pdf
Overview "Once Upon a Revolution is a one-hour television pilot and show bible that tells the epic story of how a professional thief becomes entangled in a battle between light and darkness. This series explores the complexities of war and its consequences by delving deep within the personal stories of characters that were affected by past and future wars. Neither side will come off completely innocent as the realities of war force both the righteous resistance and the dark knights to commit...
Dates: 2020

One Last Story, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_liu_jiyun.pdf
Overview "On a summer evening, a young girl witnesses a shocking incident and turns it into a tall tale that wins her unexpected attention. In a high school classroom, another girl dwells on her mother's wishes for her future while her fellow pupils follow the whimsical dictates of a drunken teacher. Others relive memories of family gatherings with consequences both farcical and tragic. 'One Last Story' is a quartet of stories examining identity, loneliness, and the complexity of familial love for...
Dates: 2021

Only as Much as We Remember, 2021

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Identifier: wr_2021fall_mahoney_anabelle.pdf
Overview "'Only as Much as We Remember' is a collection of short stories about love and loss. Each one deals with mourning in a different form, whether it be for the passing of a loved one, the loss of a special relationship, or an illusion surrendered. Stories range from the mundane to the magical, from brief snapshots to longer, more complex narratives. Some are set in our current time period, others decades in the past; in one, an elderly woman travels back through time to relive a crucial passage...
Dates: 2021

Only kingdom we've ever known, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_navarro_marisela.pdf
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Collection of nine short stories in which the theme of absence both unifies and distinguishes the stories, influencing the narratives in varying degrees: parents, communication, adulthood, requited love, and objects with sentimental value are examples of absences in effect. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Only What We Always Were, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_talton_caroline.pdf
Overview "Only What We Always Were, a short story collection by Caroline Talton, inspects the relationship between folklore and its connection to geographical place. Specifically, the author adopts the folk tales and ghost stories told in the state of North Carolina—from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the shores of the Outer Banks. Each of the nine stories in this collection contain elements of the strange, blurring the line between fabulism and realism in order to explore themes of...
Dates: 2022

Optic nerve, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_clarke_cassandra.pdf
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First six chapters of a novel about Kikai Sato, a Japanese-American bookmaker struggling to make it in New York. She is asked by Akiyo, her yakuza-boss brother, to return to Kyoto to do him one last favor: Take out their father's eyes and return them to him for a cash reward.--Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Other people, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_lakin_thomas.pdf
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"This collection of stories explores our fraught relationship with the past, and the ways in which we try to reconcile our memories--those elusive, shimmery ghosts--with the often dim, unsatisfactory present. In their examination of the intricate threads which bind us to our bygone days, these stories are at once an elegy for times and selves lost, and a celebration of that which urges us onward." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Other possible futures, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_caplan-bricker_nora.pdf
Overview "This collection of essays charts the emergence of a searching social consciousness throughout a young woman’s early adulthood. Interweaving the genres of memoir, criticism, and narrative journalism, these seven pieces explore the ad hoc nature of a moral education—from formative encounters with art and literature, to experiences that bring new light to the old maxim, the personal is political. These essays range broadly, taking up feminism's conflicted lessons on the subject of loneliness;...
Dates: 2018

Other Such Fevers, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_perez_celeste.pdf
Overview "This collection of lyric poems explores the tensions inherent in the mode of being: the manyness of the self, the patterns of grief that break way to joy and grief again. The poems here are concerned with the cyclicality of the living, the way we mark the hours with tender and worried hearts, considering themes such as motherhood and non-motherhood, as well as ancestry and the memories we are not witness to, yet somehow still yearn or burn for. This manuscript is preoccupied by such...
Dates: 2022

Otherisms, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016summer_mason-chambers_ashanti.pdf
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"Otherisms is a website featuring short videos covering topics that don't receive widespread coverage from mainstream media. This website combines the power of storytelling and journalism to deliver content in a non-traditional format. "Otherisms" is an umbrella term denoting the various systemic processes, in conjunction with white supremacy, which contribute to the "othering" of Black/African Americans, leaving them at a social, economic and political disadvantage." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Out of nowhere, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017fall_farah_david.pdf
Overview "Out of Nowhere is a binaural audio drama told in three acts and staged in a three-dimensional, virtual still-life. The game is designed as an exercise in active listening, and the user has full agency to explore the game space as they choose. The ambient tones, narrative arc, and music are all delivered through binaural recordings. This game should be listened to on headphones so the audio can fully immerse the user in the home with the characters, Porter and Lacy. Out of Nowhere is the...
Dates: 2017

Out of Time, 2022

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Identifier: pf_2022fall_bordelove_emily.pdf
Overview "This young adult murder mystery follows Veda, a time traveler from another realm who was born to lessen the death and destruction caused by humans throughout their history. When her sister is murdered at her graduation ceremony and the leaders make little progress, Veda takes the situation in her own hands to find out who killed her sister and why. While dealing with grief as well as worsening obsessions and compulsions, she, her best friend and crush, Nazem, and her brother, Elijah, travel...
Dates: 2022

Outcast Island, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_haber_lindsay.pdf
Overview "Outcast Island is a novel set in a near distant future. It takes place in a society that has rid the world of violent crime by banishing criminals to a faraway island. On his eighteenth birthday, Lucas Green, a seemingly good kid, gets sent to Outcast Island due to an algorithm that has been monitoring him since he was two days old. Throughout the novel, the reader is given both the perspectives of Lucas on the island and his younger sister in the community as they try to uncover the truths...
Dates: 2017

Outcomes of a modified motor learning guided treatment in an adult with chronic aphasia and apraxia of speech, 2018

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Identifier: cd_2018spring_baade_alison.pdf
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"This single case study investigated speech and language outcomes for an adult with aphasia and apraxia of speech after she participated in treatment using modified Motor Learning Guided (mMLG) treatment delivered via telepractice...Overall findings suggest that a combined speech and language approach, as represented in mMLG, yielded improved outcomes in language and comprehensibility for [the] client." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Overcoming, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017spring_dejkoska_katerina.pdf
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"Overcoming is a documentary in which Traumatic Brain Injury survivors delve into the experience after having sustained such an injury, supported by facts from medical professionals about TBI. The documentary explores how the TBI survivors cope with the consequences and what keeps them going." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Oyate, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016spring_girmus_daniel.pdf
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"Oyate is an observational nonfiction film about life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. The movie follows three families as they go about their daily activities over the course of a single summer. Meanwhile, the difficult realities of modern reservation life encroach upon them." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Paddy Wagon, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_hallinan_cameron.pdf
Overview "PADDY WAGON is a gritty crime drama with elements of dark comedy that focuses on a tough yet tender young thug. Set in Boston during the 1970s, the film aims to transports viewers into the world of organized crime within an unforgiving setting. The script takes cues from classic crime films like 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Dog Day Afternoon' but adds a modern spin to the genre. Ultimately, it's a period piece that reflects how increasingly corrosive the effects of violence have become...
Dates: 2021

Painted Smiles, 2024

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Identifier: pf_2024spring_stenico_lindsay.pdf
Overview "Painted Smiles is an upper YA novel with potential for New Adult crossover that follows beauty guru Randy McKnightly who – after having a viral meltdown while hosting a livestream for a prestigious makeup line release – leaves LA and returns to her small childhood hometown in Massachusetts in order to stay out of the spotlight until things cool down. Surrounded by self-doubt and anxiety, Randy has to rediscover who she is without the beauty industry. She's also trying to rebuild the...
Dates: 2024