Electronic thesis
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Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
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
Reducing Appearance Anxiety: Technological Supports on Instagram, 2024
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Identifier: md_2024spring_liu_yaqi.pdf
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"Appearance anxiety, a distress stemming from dissatisfaction with one's physical appearance, disproportionately impacts young females. This study identifies certain Instagram features that correlate with increased appearance anxiety. In response, we designed three features for Instagram: a single-click option to hide likes and followers, redesigned time reminders, and altered content recommendations. These interventions aim to reduce the factors that contribute to appearance anxiety and...
Dates:
2024
Refuge(e): Dispatches from the Pediatric Wards, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_jackson_benjamin.pdf
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"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
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
Resisting and Perpetuating Dichotomies: Reflecting on a Drama-Based STEM Residency, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_galloway_sofia.pdf
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"This thesis evaluates the successes and challenges associated with a drama-based arts integration residency with adolescent learners. As the world becomes more reliant on STEM literacy, research shows young people, especially girls and young people of color, feel excluded from STEM learning. This project employed drama-based pedagogies to engage young people in STEM learning. The residency was evaluated through qualitative and quantitative methods. The data revealed how students and the...
Dates:
2024
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