Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
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
Support Stop: Connecting Unhoused People with Health Services, 2024
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Identifier: md_2024spring_patnaude_codie.pdf
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"Addressing the healthcare needs of homeless individuals is a significant challenge. It's crucial to identify and understand the obstacles within the current system to ensure that the homeless population receives adequate care. This study focused on addressing the gaps in health service engagement for the homeless population, through comprehensive research, conversations with community partners, and application of design methodologies. A review of extant literature uncovered significant...
Dates:
2024
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
Sweetener, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thomas_brianna.pdf
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"SWEETENER is an hour-long limited series that focuses on themes of self-awareness, familial bonds, and corruption. This story blends the darkness of its deadly subject matter with humor to create an irreverent and cheeky take on the popular crime-solving genre. Taking inspiration from many of today's procedural dramas, legal thrillers, and women-led comedies, this script combines elements from all of those genres and wraps them into a comedic murder-mystery." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Swimming with Stones, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_yang_amber.pdf
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"Swimming with Stones is a narrative short film about the subject of grief. The story follows a woman's journey going through grief and reliving the memories on the anniversary of her daughter's death. She comes to a realization that unloading the weight doesn't mean leaving the memories behind. This film will have a heavy emphasis on cinematography. Through that, the goal of this film is to reach anyone who has or is currently experiencing the process of grief. It is to offer some insight...
Dates:
2022
Swipe right : a woman's field guide to dating apps, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_youssouf_carly.pdf
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"A companion guide for people who are curious about the vast and complex environment of dating apps. The text introduces daters to common app language, formats, users, and other cultural constructs in the style of a biological field guide. It mixes field research with memoir to present an educational yet intimate inspection of this environment. The purpose of the text is not to argue whether this atmosphere is good or bad, but to make sure potential users are aware of the unique intricacies...
Dates:
2018
Synchronized Lullabies, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_nieto_tnaus.pdf
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"This speculative Gothic Sci-fi project is meant to analyze the psychological consequences of generational and familial trauma and critique the state of contemporary mental health when dealing with repression and inner conflict through perceived and speculative spirituality, with themes and concepts derived and inspired by notable psychologist Carl G. Jung. The narrative follows Sophia, who is introduced to groundbreaking therapeutic technology and chronicles her and her family members'...
Dates:
2024
T-Shirt in Winter, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_cushing_christie.pdf
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"T-Shirt in Winter, a mystery and suspense novel written in screenplay format, tells the story of a stranger who enters a small southern town centered around a cemetery. A literary blend of southern gothic and film noir, the book examines identity, individuality, authority, and oppression, while probing society’s propensity for snap judgements and stereotyping." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
TaiL, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_lee_yichien.pdf
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"TaiL is an 18 mins body horror-comedy about a wacky woman's journey to self-discovery with a penis stuck inside her vagina." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Take as needed and other stories, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_sears_hannah.pdf
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"A collection of linked short stories that centers on the lives of a cast of characters in small-town Texas."--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Take The Crown, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_seidita_nico.pdf
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"Take the Crown is a queer horror novel that follows Aaron Keye, an aspiring fashion designer that gets the chance to be on a reality television competition show. Promises of fame and fortune are at his fingertips, as long as he can win the crown. But a luxurious life in Hollywood hills isn't what he once dreamed of. The competition is cutthroat and cameras are watching as he is throttled toward his greatest nightmares. Soon, he realizes that if he wants to stay, he needs to adapt to the...
Dates:
2024
"Take Your Hoodie Off, We Can't See Who You Are": Reflections on a Social Justice-Themed Playmaking Project with Eighth Grade Students, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_vaughn_megan.pdf
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"Since 2020, when COVID-19 began sweeping through the country, students have had a lot of changes surrounding their education and curriculum. They've had to navigate different forms of instruction, ever-changing mask mandates, and pooled testing. Due to these circumstances, lots of decisions regarding their education were made for them. For my Thesis Project, I facilitated a gentle Playmaking process with an underserved, urban, eight-grade classroom, to explore how creating a play based...
Dates:
2022
Taking Back Magic, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_heatherington_patricia.pdf
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"'Taking Back Magic' is a supernatural drama that uses corrupted witch hunters to examine how far both jealousy and hatred of the misunderstood can go, and that by partnering with the "other" can work through these issues. After learning about a group of witch hunters taking witches' magic for their own personal use, one witch hunter seeks out a witch to help stop them. Magic provides a visual way to tell this story and brings back a reminder of past witch hunts, that have come to mean an...
Dates:
2021