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Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

Pale Through Her Eyes, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_demps_aladdin.pdf
Overview "Alana is a mystery among myths: A forbidden blending of dark elf and orc (driven to "extinction" centuries ago). Alana is truly a child of the African diaspora; and the bastard scion of a noble Elven house, and the last descendent of a lost Orcish clan. Trust, these ain't Tolkien's orcs. She is also supposedly destined to end the world, or save it, depending on which myths you read. Since she's known to be a screw-up, it could really go either way. Pale Through Her Eyes is an urban fantasy...
Dates: 2023

Paper dolls, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_joy_catherine.pdf
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"Paper Dolls is a collection of nine personal essays exploring author Catie Joy's emotional and political growth, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Several linked essays in the collection trace the author's coming of age as a domestic adoptee." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Para Las Latinas, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_alvarez_victoria.pdf
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"Para Las Latinas is a collection of short stories told in multiple perspectives on the themes of identity, womanhood, misogyny, and culture. My experimentation with point-of-view in this collection ranges from second, roving third, and omniscient to gain a deeper sense of characters, plot, and societal commentary. The collection challenges the reader to enter worlds they are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with through bilingualism, relationship dynamics, and setting." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Parental coordination in autism spectrum disorder : modifications of structural aspects of language, 2017

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Identifier: cd_2017summer_gibbons_eve.pdf
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"The purpose of this study is to determine whether parents of children with ASD offer a similar quality of linguistic complexity to their children as parents of typically developing children and if they coordinate structural aspects of their speech in relation to the expressive language abilities of their child." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Parental mind-mindedness in vulnerable dyads : examining the differences within family, 2016

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Identifier: cd_2016spring_milkie_devon.pdf
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Communication development may be best represented in terms of the parent-child dyad, reflecting the cyclical nature of parent-child communication. The construct of "parental mind-mindedness" examines the parent-child dyad to describe parent sensitivity to and verbalization about a child's mental state. This research sought to elucidate differences in parental mind-mindedness within family, between siblings, and according to the clarity of child communication. --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

¡Pa'rriba Esa Bandera!: An Exploration of Puerto Rican Representation in West Side Story and In the Heights, 2023

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Identifier: te_2023spring_jacuzzi_hannah.pdf
Overview "This thesis examines the relationship between the history of Puerto Rico and the stories told about the Puerto Rican experience on stage. Specifically, the thesis unpacks the 1961 and 2021 movie musical adaptations of West Side Story and the 2021 movie musical adaption of In the Heights. These two blockbuster Broadway musicals have received international acclaim for their artistry, as well as criticism for their presentation of Hispanic and Latin culture. To facilitate a robust conversation...
Dates: 2023

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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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

Patrón, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gonzalez_kompalic_luis.pdf
Overview "How important is the origin of a story? Patrón, a novel containing a novel, is the story of Alberto Saíd's construction of Samira Saéd, a fictional character inspired by Alberto's grandmother, Nayi. Alberto is a Venezuelan political journalist living under asylum in the United States who, after publishing the novel, receives a crushing review that sends him into a rage. The novel is constructed through a series of letters and novel chapters by the hand of Alberto. In the letters, he talks,...
Dates: 2024

Pearls Lost, 2024

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Identifier: vm_2024spring_ocampo_rebecca.pdf
Overview "Pearls Lost is a short fictional narrative film set in the Appalachian mountains of southeastern Kentucky in the early 1990s. The film illuminates a distinct perspective on being gay at that time and place and the repercussions of disclosing and not disclosing sexual identity in challenging the typical American family structure. Pearls Lost approaches this topic from the lens of a woman, Renee, trying to hold her family together in the face of these decisions outside of her control when her...
Dates: 2024

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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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