Electronic thesis
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Sesame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_stewart_lisa.pdf
Overview
"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
Seven Lives of Dinah Ash, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_kaplun_maria.pdf
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"This bildungsroman is about the search for and the meaning of identity, about the essence of culture, and, as any human pursuit, about love and death. Dinah Ash is a Russian Jewish ballerina, who grows up in the late Soviet Union and moves to the U.S. to escape the rising tide of antisemitism as her civilization is collapsing. Having lost her fiancé to the Afghanistan war and her grandmother to lymphoma, she is alone in a strange land, soon to discover she is losing ballet, too, to...
Dates:
2019
Shadows of Memory, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_johnson_emily.pdf
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"The story follows witty and sarcastic Zoe, a sixteen-year-old girl, as she and her fellow humans are being held hostage on the planet Sudeer by reptilian overlords called Trogs. She discovers who she is and what she is capable of while living in a harsh, oppressive atmosphere where she fights for the Trogs' amusement. Earth is just a shadow of a memory, but it is their best and only chance at living the life they always knew they could. A place where she could actually date Carter, the...
Dates:
2021
Sharing Moonlight, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_sterling_katsumi.pdf
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"Sharing Moonlight is the first installment of a multi-POV New Adult Fantasy series about Miro, a young survivor of the kaimeira massacre ninety years ago, and the challenges he faces after he is forced to seek the truth and his lost twin in human form. When the eadile clan's disappearance sparks mass panic, Miro's choices are limited. One of them is Aiden, an eadile enforcer who helped him before. Once found, Miro learns that Aiden is embroiled in a civil war that has drawn the ire of the...
Dates:
2023
Shattered Margins, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_savage_joseph.pdf
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"Shattered Margins is a 70,000 word science fiction medical thriller that picks up a century later where H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau left off. Dr. Kaz Smith is an "almost" man. He's almost rich, almost happy, and, as of this morning, almost dead. After he gets home from a night shift in a small New Mexico hospital emergency department, a woman comes to his front door, imploring him to leave immediately. But she won't say why. Naturally, Kaz is reluctant to go with her, until she...
Dates:
2023
Shattered Sun, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_vacanti_antonio.pdf
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"The nation of Anari has been entrenched in civil war for over two centuries as warring successor kingdoms vie for supremacy. Casil, born as a slave to the nobility, is bought by the enigmatic Captain Avreka of the mercenary company the Shattered Suns. the Suns become a second family to Casil. In the present, Casil now commands the Suns after the death of Avreka. He is haunted by his past and the newfound responsibility of his inheritance. The Suns have been employed by a Kingdom on the...
Dates:
2023
Short Stories: The Many Tests of Love, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_davis_kai.pdf
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"The goal of this thesis is to explore the concepts of forgiveness, love, what love can feel like, and what love looks like. It showcases how love can wither away with the wrong person and how it can grow beautifully with the right person. It also explores deep lessons within the idea that the discovery of self-love can be more important than any physical form of love we humans crave. With the four short stories shared in this thesis, Who's In There, Remedies, Camp and I Wanna Love Too,...
Dates:
2024
Show Me, Don't Tell Me: A Look At Theatre Makers of Today and Tomorrow, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_winton_alicia.pdf
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"I found my way to my thesis topic by starting with a subject that constantly occupies space in my thoughts: impact. I was born with something I call "detrimental empathy." It is a condition in which I have so much empathy for the people and things around me that it impacts my ability to interact with the world. For example, I cannot read or watch the news because if I hear or see something sad, I will cry and obsess over it for days. When I'm driving, I brake for animals in the street no...
Dates:
2022
Shraddha, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_padhye_jasraj.pdf
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"Shraddha is a short narrative drama that explores ideas of faith and spirituality in a land of many religions, India. The characters in the film are representational of the different perceptions people have about Hindu Saints/God-men in the country." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Shut your eyes I'm gonna dance ; My nature, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017fall_aviral_ulya.pdf
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"A trans man facing his alter ego in a fantastical mind-room and a woman escaping war in tunnels under the ground in the Middle East, this 2-film thesis project explores identity within social justice themes. This project aims to address gender, sexuality and ethnicity issues and connect the two films with the need for freedom and peace. These films investigate in ways of telling different stories through similar image strategies and experimental narratives." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_manley_courtney.pdf
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"Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines' is a literary short story collection that spans a wide range of genres from fabulist to contemporary realism. While varied in subject matter and content, the collection as a whole explores what it means for young queer women to grow up in a world inhospitable to them. The collection breaks down and explores themes of love, acceptance, and hope through the lens of race, sexuality, and gender." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Signs and Wonders, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023summer_hieber_leah.pdf
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"Yaeli, a young female rabbi, accepts her first rabbinical position in Siuslaw Oregon, the site of her greatest secret regret. She fears encountering her former best friend, Molly, whom Yaeli abandoned the morning after their secret wedding. Yaeli fears that Molly might still be living in Siuslaw and that an encounter might force them to confront this painful memory. While serving as the Siuslaw rabbi, Yaeli receives a surprise visit from her estranged twin brother, Danny, who she believes...
Dates:
2023
Silence, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_croasdale_caraline.pdf
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"Silence. is a modern fantasy with high fantasy elements. It explores the themes of growth, found family, love and how to communicate when the spoken word is insufficient. Set in 2001, Yeshaya, an alien in Area 51's custody, breaks out to exorcise the god of Death possessing her and threatening to destroy Earth. Along the way she accidentally picks up Brianna (a sixteen year old from Phoenix), and Eli Richter (the angel sent to retrieve Brianna). Together they puzzle out ingredients for a...
Dates:
2021
Skating backward, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_turner_andrea.pdf
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"From 'daddy's girl' to 'daddy issues' the journey to forgiveness and understanding is the road less traveled by, but the road the author takes nonetheless. It's messy and complicated, she comes to find, just the way she likes it. Sometimes that which we fear the most is what sets us free. Abused and broken, she looks in all the wrong places to make herself whole again. When she finds the answer, that had been there all along, she must find a way to forgive and accept in order to move on."...
Dates:
2015
Sköllson Saga, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcsheehan_ginny.pdf
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"In Sköllson Saga, Laisren, a bard with a mysterious new shapeshifting power looks for answers from his birth mother, and Ulfred, an ulfednar warrior with a tragic past wants to control his wolf transformation again. Both need help from Odin, and are tasked with finding beads containing lost memories of the god, scattered throughout Ireland to protect them during Ragnarok. Their path takes them through the tiny medieval villages, fortress cities, and lush forests of the island, where magical...
Dates:
2024
Small Spaces, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_vestuto_jessica.pdf
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"The essays in this collection reflect on my experiences in small spaces—from a closet-sized studio apartment, to the passenger seat of my father's car, to a windowless room in an electrolysis treatment center, to a single pew in a church, and more. In these spaces, I explore times when I have felt distant to people who are very close to me and close to people who I have never met. I also question whether places retain the memories of the people who occupied them, and whether this memory can...
Dates:
2021
Smart Girls, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_davis_kirby.pdf
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"With my essay collection "Smart Girls," I aimed to explore issues that I have personally encountered in my life that I've noticed are not in any way unique to me. I wanted to write openly about what it's like to deal with clinical depression, the loss of a loved one, religious conflict in families, and simply exist as a young woman in the twenty-first century. It was my goal when writing these essays to provide insight especially into navigating one's early- to mid-twenties while suffering...
Dates:
2023
So Extra, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_hutchins_derek.pdf
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"So Extra is a feature length comedy drama about a man who moves to Hollywood in pursuit of his dream: becoming an actor. However, this is easier said than done, and he is forced to find work as a background actor to make ends meet, where he gets to know several other dreamers who help him along the way. The script seeks to explore what it takes to "make it" in Los Angeles and how to cope with the frustrations of constant rejection when all the soul wants is to create, suggesting through use...
Dates:
2019
Sobering, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marshall_alyssa.pdf
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"Sobering is a collection of personal essays that span the Nineties to present day 2021. It's a conversation about culture, the things that shape us, the biases we come to hold and how we learn (or don't) to let them go. It traverses shame, trauma, addiction, and self-delusion, while navigating the repercussions of a difficult coming-of-age. Essays touch on subjects ranging from a pop culture icon ("of course we had a hand in Britney's suffering"), to an examination of substance abuse and...
Dates:
2021
Solo Artist: A Noise Musical, 2021
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Identifier: vm_2021fall_bierenday.pdf
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""Solo Artist: A Noise Musical" investigates the theme of sound as a device for communication and self-exploration. In the piece, solitude and unexpected circumstances impact the artist's relationship with sound expression. The story unfolds as a quarantined musician who fantasizes themselves as a vampire, following the artist as they become influenced– morphing their musical direction. "Solo Artist: A Noise Musical" explores a transition from composed music to experimental noise…and...
Dates:
2021