Electronic thesis
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Found in 1004 Collections and/or Records:
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
Sapphic Dance Party: A Community Building Applied Theatre Project, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_cappello_camille.pdf
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"This project was built to explore the possibilities of using movement to facilitate spaces that feel welcoming to sapphic identifying people. A devised dance piece, inspired by stories collected rom [sic] local queer people, was performed at a local dive bar to kick off a sapphic dance party. The hope was to use dance and movement to transform the bar into a lesbian bar for a night, in response to the pervasive lack of sapphic third spaces. The Sapphic Dance Party project was an attempt to...
Dates:
2024
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
Scottish chiefs : a critical edition book proposal, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_schwertner_danielle.pdf
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"This proposal for a critical edition of [Jane] Porter's last work, The Scottish Chiefs, aims to bring both the novel and Porter back to the surface of popular and academic awareness. The proposal includes a market analysis, a marking and publicity plan, and sample chapters that now include textual and contextual notes." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Sea of doors, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_pailthorpe_jordan.pdf
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"Sea of Doors is a collection of poems that utilizes the form of the video game by using the rules (ethics, diction, perspective) of individual game worlds as the guiding philosophy behind each poem." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Secrets in Blood, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_schumaker_katherine.pdf
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"Sabine, a medical illustrator, and her father, Docteur Claude Cloutier, an experimental and shamed surgeon in the country of Val Romais, are summoned to the Palace to treat Princess Vivienne for a mysterious illness that turns her blood against her. As Sabine and her father work in the Palace with some of the brightest medical minds on the continent, they discover that certain illnesses cannot be explained through modern medicine alone. Blood stains the halls of the royal home, and...
Dates:
2023
Seedlings, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_eglitis_gerard.pdf
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"Seedlings is a feature-length children's animated film made for theatrical release. Set in the present day, Seedlings follows a young seed and her new human friend's exploration of what is on the other side of life as they know it. The film heavily focuses on the concepts of death and family, both chosen and biological. Although the feature is entertaining, Seedlings educates children and families on life cycles and reinforces the idea that change is inevitable and natural." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_guttmann_graeme.pdf
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"Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House is a cerebral road trip of poems exploring what it means to leave and be left, both physically – death, the leaving of a lover — and esoterically — what happens to the body and the mind when the things that have kept us stable leave? What happens when we exorcise the things that are holding us back or holding us together? Self-Induced Exorcism explores how grief manifests — how, even before loss, the anticipation of it can shape the way we move...
Dates:
2023
Send a Voice, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022fall_kopp_aaron.pdf
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"A young Lakota mother fights to do the best she can for her children in this poetic meditation on motherhood, trauma, and healing. Send a Voice is a lyrical documentary/fiction hybrid film about Kristina, a young Oglala Lakota mother navigating a hostile world. From the underbelly of Rapid City to the summit of Black Elk's Peak, the project explores the possibility of seeing through the material world to the spiritual. The film is a collaboration between Lakota writer and advocate, Sunny...
Dates:
2022
Serving face, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_grabeel_noah.pdf
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"Serving Face explores sexuality, gender identity, and kink culture in a variety of forms, with particular focus on gender play and queer identity...While not every story is overtly sexual in nature, they all touch on important aspects of queer or LGBT+ identity and culture. The characters vary in demographics, gender, sexuality, and race, but they are all unified in how they come to express non-normative sexuality and gender." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Sesame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_stewart_lisa.pdf
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"The aim of this thesis was to create a work of popular fiction in the horror genre. This thesis contains a section of a novel set in the rural New York town of Red Creek. A ten-year old girl named Laura lives with her mother, who is possessed by menacing ghosts. The mother, colloquially known as Mama, threatens Laura and keeps her isolated within their house that borders a vast rail yard. Laura, desperate to escape, explores the rail yard, dreaming of finding a way out. She meets a...
Dates:
2022