Electronic thesis
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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
Soloist: Essays on Isolation, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_feltner_kerry.pdf
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"The essays in this collection are an exploration of isolation and how it can manifest throughout a life. Each essay offers an attempt to figure out what it means to be lonely and to self-isolate while also recognizing the drawbacks of not engaging with others or the wider world. Each essay is a look at how to find a balance between the giving of oneself to others and the protection of oneself from others and all the ways that paradox is made more complicated. The essays range in topic from...
Dates:
2020
Solveig's Saga, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_rhodes_kayla.pdf
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"This thesis explores the story of Solveig, a Viking shield maiden, as she confronts the challenges of an impending prophecy of war and nightmares of a terrifying being. As she navigates these obstacles, Solveig's faith in the gods is tested, and she must reconcile her belief with the unsettling events that unfold around her. In addition, she is driven by a quest for revenge for the murder of her adoptive father and seeks to claim the title of King of Jarls on the small continent island of...
Dates:
2023
Somali Blend, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_sellwood_peter.pdf
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"Jake Mars is a widower that will do anything to fight to keep his Minneapolis urban neighborhood from changing. Jake owns a greasy spoon diner that is famous for their world class cinnamon rolls. The diner hasn't been forced to change since the doors opened in the 1950's. A Somali woman opens up a wildly successful Somali cafe in the same neighborhood which forces Jake to fight for his cafe or run the risk of it going out of business. Jake will stop at nothing to save his cafe. His wife,...
Dates:
2021
Someone to talk to : a master's short story collection, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_brown_lorna.pdf
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"The stories in this collection are set in a small village in the West of Ireland in the early 1990's. A by-pass around the village has rid them of their once busy traffic. The residents feel forgotten by the world. The need to reach out and be heard is explored in every story, from the young woman who starts to have phone conversations with her husband's gay lover, to the dyslexic man who confronts his cruel teacher years later." -- Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Something Beautiful About A Bicycle, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_burdett_gregory_maxim.pdf
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"'Something Beautiful About A Bicycle' is a fictional anthology inspired by my experience as a bicycle commuter in cities across the country. In each episodic narrative the bicycle connects with a new protagonist and conveys their deepest desires through an amalgamation of magical realism, Classical Hollywood and Neorealist filmmaking. Originally conceived as a bicycle advocacy piece, each episode looks to highlight different social issues facing urban communities across the nation....
Dates:
2020
Something like prayer, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_ziegler_owen.pdf
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"What is more important: being good or trying to be? The characters in these 10 stories struggle with that question one way or another as the systems they either willingly choose or are forced into push down on them even further. Family, religion and community can all empower people to rise above their current standings, but these stories explore what happens when the dynamic moves in the other direction. At what point does individual desire trump safety and surety?" --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Song of Water and Air: An Amphiverse Novel, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_zacchia_jillian.pdf
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"Song of Water and Air is a YA sci-fi fantasy of approximately 100,000 words. When a tsunami hits Lake Superior, Pan and her boyfriend nearly drown...until Pan realizes she can breathe underwater. Compelled to understand what that means, Pan returns to the lake and finds an underwater portal. Once through, she's stunned by the new world she discovers and guilt ridden by everything she left behind in her search for answers. On this new planet, called Asophos, Pan meets beings called Amphis...
Dates:
2022