Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Spencer Family Adventure, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_jaggard_annabel.pdf
Overview
"In this thesis, the intricate tapestry of familial relationships and the pervasive presence of grief are interwoven with threads of humor and adventure. The Spencer family, shattered by the recent loss of their father, embarks on a transformative journey to South Africa, seeking solace and unity as a family. Amidst the breathtaking landscapes, the family endeavors to forge new bonds, allowing grief to be a catalyst for growth. As they grapple with the complexities of loss, life in Africa...
Dates:
2023
Spitting ink, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_shaban_dean.pdf
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"This collection intends to support the notion that the power of writing can revise a history unfathomed. While we may or may not recall an incident or an experience as true, we have the power to adjust memory to engage interpretation, and therefore continually rewrite our pasts to better effect a constantly shifting present. These poems address and grapple with that concern." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Stalking the edge, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017summer_alvarez_noe.pdf
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A story collection regarding two brothers who grew up in an environment of violence.
Dates:
2017
Stargazer A Novel, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_santiago_anthony.pdf
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"The first half of Stargazer, a science-fantasy adventure novel, takes place in the distant future of an alternate Earth. Protagonist Kieran-lan is an extraterrestrial archaeologist whose people have been stranded on Earth for 10,000 years. When she lands herself a job as a consultant on a deep-space survey ship, she believes that she will have just the opportunity to answer the ages old questions about what happened to her people and why their history disappeared. Kieran-lan's desperate...
Dates:
2019
Starhopper, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_carter_tayler.pdf
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"This animated half-hour pilot blends comedy and science fiction, following the adventures of human twins, Cassie and Leo, and their alien friend, Sid, as they travel the galaxies to aid beings in need. Exploring coming-of-age themes, family and community dynamics, and LGBTQIA+ representation is present throughout my work, both within this thesis collection and moving forward." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Steps: An Assistive Technology Prototype, 2021
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Identifier: md_2021summer_joyce_mikaela.pdf
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"Steps is an assistive technology prototype for autistic and neurodiverse students in higher education. It was created during the 2020-2021 academic year in the Media Design program at Emerson College. This prototype was created using participatory design and co-creation methodology in collaboration with a community partner, Next Step at Judge Baker Children's Center. Next Step is a transitional program for autistic and neurodiverse adolescents preparing for college. Research indicates that...
Dates:
2021
Stiff Jab, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_szulik_brendan.pdf
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"In this neo-noir, a violent mugging ends wiseass MMA fighter Eddie "The Enforcer" Engels' career—and his greatest romance. One year later, Eddie's a washed-up has-been until he receives an unexpected opportunity: a shot at the world title. But that's not all. He also learns the mugging that ruined his life was a hit gone wrong. His fiancée was the target. Talk about a one-two punch. Eddie soon realizes the mugging and the upcoming fight are mysteriously linked, and he fights his way through...
Dates:
2023
Still Growing: A Reminiscence Performance Project, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_taaffe_allison.pdf
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"As the United States population undergoes an unprecedented aging process, the field of creative aging serves as a powerful intervention to combat ageism while providing older adults with meaningful opportunities for personal growth and social connection. This paper delves into the successes and challenges of piloting a Reminiscence Performance project at a senior center. The primary objective was to underscore the generative potential and celebrate the lives of older adults within the...
Dates:
2023
Still here, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_rogan_william.pdf
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"A short dramatic narrative film about a 17-year-old boy named Cody whose parents have succumbed to an addiction to opioid painkillers after the closing of the local paper mill where they were employed. Faced with a bleak family life at home, and the depressing surroundings of an unraveling post-industrial community, while yearning for something better, Cody must decide whether to give in to the urge to escape or to remain and fight for a better future for himself and his family. This is a...
Dates:
2018
Still Waters, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_fong_steven.pdf
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"Still Waters is a short film exploring the ideas of mental health, unresolved childhood trauma, and the relationships we have with others and with ourselves. The story follows a distressed man when a mysterious boy appears in his home after a recent breakup triggers him to relive memories of the past. In order to save the boy, the man must find a way to confront his inner demons before they consume him." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Stillborns, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022summer_lule_liliana.pdf
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"My novel-in-progress, titled "stillborns," is structured as a triptych following a different member of the extended Cordero family at different points of their lives, specifically during significant life events (a birthday, a legal encounter, and a death, respectively). This project considers issues of migration and citizenship, with my specific interests lying in identity and belonging as experienced by 1st and 2nd generation Mexican(-American) immigrants. Other topics of interest include...
Dates:
2022
Stocks & Gallows / Forever 99, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_perkins_nicholas.pdf
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"Half Hour Pilot, Title: FOREVER 99, Logline: A former teen-star turned cult leader deals with the consequences of her successful suicide pact when those who took part are permanently stuck in 1999. Synopsis: CORA (27) was a popular teen actress until she aged out of her roles. She started a cult called the Eveites to feel the love of followers again, but when most of the cult goes through with a group suicide on New Years Eve 1999, something goes wrong. The Eveites are stuck on Earth as...
Dates:
2022
Stone Flower, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_zderic_tijana.pdf
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"Stone Flower is an exploration of personal, familial, national and political war trauma through recorded history and from living memory. It suspends the experiences of the poet, her family and the 'other' in the lead up to and during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, and unravels its decades-long painful aftermath. Through its mostly narrative poetic structures, Stone Flower's undercurrents buzz with deeper inquiries about how we honor and reconcile fragments of living memory with conventional...
Dates:
2022
Story Exchange Of and Around Sexual Assault: Building Connection to Educate, Heal, and Protect Community, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_schwall_erin.pdf
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"Incidents of sexual assault continue to occur at an alarming rate on college and university campuses across the country. While bystander intervention training is educating students to help prevent this crime from occurring, stories of survivors are still silenced in our classrooms, perpetuating the idea that they are alone in their trauma and need to handle it on their own. Using a theatre storytelling exercise, I developed a workshop to share personal stories of surviving sexual assault...
Dates:
2021
Strangers, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_cordelle_adam.pdf
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"Strangers is a short narrative film that focuses on a young Southern woman, Kathy, who moves to New England for college. She tries to form bonds with others but is hampered by her own difficulty with emotional communication and sense of cultural isolation and displacement. All of this comes to a head when she meets Isabel, a fellow outsider whom she tries to bond with only to fail due to her own shortcomings. The piece focuses on the effects of isolation, loneliness and deals with regret...
Dates:
2021
Struggles of Covid in Educational Theatre: Leaving Space for Social and Emotional Learning, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_doucette_thomas.pdf
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"This thesis project explores reasons for implementing SEL practices into educational theatre. Productions offer opportunities for collaboration, creativity, celebration and learning. Research shows that learning cannot happen when students are in crisis mode. Schools have reopened in 2021-2022, but many educators will agree; learning isn't happening. This project focuses on a production at a school south of Boston that has been suffering with racial tensions, violence, and a fractured sense...
Dates:
2022
Stupid Voices from the Future (a feature film), 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_ehrlich_cj.pdf
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"What if the future called, but it was the wrong number? Stupid Voices from the Future is a comedy/sci fi feature with the theme that even a hero needs to be part of a team. When Marissa, a humble artist, is contacted by the Future, she's thrilled when they explain that she's the One, the only one, who can change the course of history and save the world. She's not so thrilled when they tell her she's also the one who destroyed it in the first place. But when she realizes they meant to call...
Dates:
2021
Sunflowers and Other Stories, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_vidal_joseph.pdf
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"In this collection of short stories, a nearly-blind grandfather drives around town guided by his grandchild; a woman struggles to communicate with her demented elderly mother while trying to keep her marriage from falling apart; a teenager who blames himself for his mother's death searches for the perfect funeral flowers; a Puerto Rican woman living in Boston recalls her childhood on the island while awaiting surgery; a man literally meets God; another finds his calling as a sperm donor...
Dates:
2016
Survivor's Guide to Diaspora, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_markovic_sara.pdf
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"Survivor's Guide to Diaspora is an autobiographical documentary series that follows the filmmaker's endeavors as a new immigrant in the US. Told directly to the audience as honest advice one rarely gets before moving in search of a better life, the series unveils life's absurdities as this woman from the Balkans attempts to understand the consumer capitalistic society that now grinds her. The screened thesis project is the pilot episode of a series that will serve as a proof of concept for...
Dates:
2023
Swamp Pizza, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_reine_kelsey.pdf
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"Concrete's cooking in Opelousas, Louisiana and JOSELINE (16) desperately wants to forget about her troubles at home with a negligent mother and have the best Summer of her life with her two best-friends RODGER (15) and MIRACLE JOY (15). After what seems like a typical day at work cooking pizzas and selling beer to the trashy locals at the “great value” amusement park, the three friends get an alert that the park is on lockdown. Through the walkie talkie communication system they are alerted...
Dates:
2022