Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
The Space Between, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_quinn_micheal.pdf
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"The Space Between is a feature-length film that follows a pair of international, life-long penpals over the span of three decades, as they navigate the transition of childhood to adulthood from opposite sides of the globe. When their friendship unexpectedly turns romantic, the two men find themselves being constantly separated from one another by their geography, cultures and laws. Set at the turn of the 21st century, The Space Between explores the role advancing technology plays in...
Dates:
2023
The state of the independent bookstore in America, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_greenway_brittany.pdf
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"This thesis seeks to determine the current state of the general-interest independent bookstore in America. The author cultivated her own research through extensive reading, personal interviews, and by surveying both industry professionals and consumers. Her findings identify potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the industry." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Statement Piece, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jaskiewicz_macy.pdf
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"In 1874 Paris, France, women are expected to focus on marriage, children and perhaps a feminine craft, but twenty-year-old Rosalie Autry desires none of these. As a result, she is banished from her family home due to her aspiration to be a renowned sculptor. She has the skill, talent, and creativity necessary to be successful, but because she is a woman, none of that matters. She is rejected from art schools, discriminated against at exhibitions, and is banned from having live models. With...
Dates:
2023
The Story of My Name: A Qualitative, Multimedia Exploration of Latinx Names and Identities, 2022
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Identifier: cd_2022summer_montes_de_oca_lopez_lucero.pdf
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"This qualitative research project investigated the name experiences of Latinx adults in person-centered fields (e.g., health, education, social work) and aimed to capture how personal experiences and perceptions about their names impacted participants in their area of study or place of practice to better inform current cultural competency practices. Twenty-four participants completed a Virtual Name Survey (VNS) including name demographic information, language history and name experiences...
Dates:
2022
The Tale of Pamuya, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_rhodes_camia.pdf
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"Pamuya is a spirit who fell from the heavens to rescue a human boy from drowning. By saving his life, she committed the ultimate taboo, and was banished from the heavens to live with the boy as a mortal on earth. However, their love for each other did not last, and both died. Now they have been reincarnated. Annalee must figure out who she was in her past life. They must figure out how to mend the fences of the past and move on with their futures. But, unbeknownst to either of them, another...
Dates:
2022
The Things That Follow, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_roberts_jayne.pdf
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"This novel navigates a young woman's journey to escape her traumas by literally becoming a new person. Renee Dawson creates personality after personality to hide behind until there's nowhere left to go. The story is split between the viewpoints of Renee who has lost her younger sister in a tragic accident, and Amari who is the first personality that Renee creates. These two women struggle with loss, relationships, and a disrupted sense of self. Renee, who defined herself in relation to her...
Dates:
2019
The Thirteenth Zodiac, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fasone_christina.pdf
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"The Thirteenth Zodiac is a bildungsroman fantasy novel. It follows Ella Brando, a junior in high school living in a small North Carolina town, who becomes the Pisces a member of the Zodiac Guardians after the previous Guardian dies mysteriously. The duty of the Guardians is to defeat the Physic Parasites who syphon off positive energy from people and create negative emotions, throwing people's lives off balance. When an old enemy of the Guardians' arises causing people in Ella's town to go...
Dates:
2023
The Throats of Birds, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_jafar_fatima.pdf
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"The Throats of Birds traverses adolescence, adulthood, relationships, and various cities to unpack how a life can be lived across borders, beyond both technical and emotional lines of demarcation. The collection centers a hybrid cultural experience that spans throughout the book, where the speaker is traveling on a journey that unfolds in three sections. In the first, the speaker charts her own intimate cartography of childhood and a coming-of-age narrative. In the second, the speaker...
Dates:
2023
The Tour, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_basel_kaylee.pdf
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"The Tour is a collection of thirty poems in varying forms. Its primary concerns include themes of family, addiction, homelessness, abuse, American complacency, illness and the female experience. As a whole, it moves as an inverted arc- the collection begins on a descending progression before reaching its namesake piece; "The Tour" is positioned as the fifteenth poem and acts as the collection's center of gravity. While much of this manuscript honors the urban landscapes in and around...
Dates:
2022
The Uncursing, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baaith-ducharme_nimalah.pdf
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"This collection, meant to be read as a spellbook, confronts generational curses: a term that acknowledges behaviors, traumas, and magic are passed down through family structures. Specifically, how one's place in the greater collective of the African diaspora, a site of constant migration and discussion, prompts questions about one's knowledge of personal history and its implications on the future. The author is formally concerned with the line, the expansion of the traditional lyric tercet...
Dates:
2023
The View From Monday, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_cortes_marissa.pdf
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"Sonnie has been able to see ghosts since she was revived on an operating table at twelve years old. Now at twenty, it's just an everyday part of her life – and why she's always late for her cashier shifts at the local drugstore. She helps ghosts pass on to another plane, all the while hoping to understand what happened to her late brother's ghost. Her coworker Murphy is understanding. He's been dead for the last seven years, courtesy of his ex-girlfriend binding Murphy's spirit to his...
Dates:
2023
The Way Out is in Community: Grief and its Impact on Community Building, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023spring_casey_matthew.pdf
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"Applied Theatre practices are used to build community amongst populations of people in diverse settings with and without prior experience participating in the performing arts. This thesis reflection explores the impact Applied Theatre practices can have on building community with people who have experienced grief through the lens of loss. The creative process of building an Applied Theatre workshop is examined in a collegiate setting from building and designing curriculum, reflective...
Dates:
2023
The Ways We Learn To Lie, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_bailey_corey.pdf
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"When Isaac Goff realizes the future expected of him by his family is not what he wants, he decides to apply to undergraduate school in Hawaii in order to leave the small, southern town of Redwater. He keeps the application secret, afraid to confront his strict parents and finally end the failing-relationship to his longterm boyfriend, Tom. Isaac works diligently to be accepted by the university until the police become involved in the sudden disappearnace [sic] of Tom. Sure that Tom is all...
Dates:
2019
The Wellingtons, 2018
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Identifier: pw_2018summer_gibbs_william.pdf
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"The Wellingtons chronicles a moment in the lives of the titular colonial family. The eldest son returns from the war, which, coupled with the murder of an infamous man in the town, serves as the catalyst for a tale of realization, redemption, and acceptance." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The wizard in the lighthouse, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_martin_bradley.pdf
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"Emily Miles has been adrift ever since she failed a mysterious test her parents gave her at the age of ten; since then she has been a stranger in her own home. Rebelling, she decides to skip her college applications. In an effort to unload their disappointing daughter, Emily’s family enrolls her at a mysterious, two-year institution in Maine. Emily is shipped across the country, only to find that her new school has a hidden curriculum: magic. With no inherent aptitude, Emily is barred from...
Dates:
2018
The Yellow Light, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_leffner_kate.pdf
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"In this collection of short fiction, I explore morality, sexuality, and existence through the eyes of children. These stories seek to understand the flash bulb memories that often form a kind of personal mythos we unconsciously adhere to. While adult perceptions are on the periphery, these stories center on the child's view of the world, be it their own, or a distorted presentation passed down to them by the adults in their lives. There is a feeling of danger that surrounds these stories...
Dates:
2019
Theatre Kids: Finding Affinity in a High School Theatre Program, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_jabour_charles.pdf
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"This study explores the impact of participation in a critically engaged high school theatre program on the cultural identity development of its adolescent participants. Drawing from research on critical pedagogy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, models of cultural identity development, and from interviews with eleven participants of a high school theatre program in an urban district outside Boston, MA, the researcher explores the role of affinity in cultural identity development and...
Dates:
2022
Theatre of the oppressed pedagogy in antiracism education with white adolescents, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016summer_bachman_lynda.pdf
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"This study aims to examine and describe the experience of educators using Theatre of the Oppressed as a pedagogical methodology in antiracism education with white adolescents. The focus of this study was to understand both how educators use and adapt Theatre of the Oppressed to teach antiracism curricula to white adolescents, and what educators experience using Theatre of the Oppressed to teach antiracism curricula to white adolescents." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Their Savage Daughters, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022summer_hill_ashley.pdf
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"Abducted from her homeland and forced into slavery, the magic that lives within Rana Nari is buried and diminished. But a single spark can start an inferno. An act of defiance escalates until Rana is a fugitive marked for death. Resolute to reclaim what was taken from her, Rana has no intention of dying before she has lived. Born of a magically powerful bloodline, Oni Machawi has never been cowed by others. When an unrefusable proposition is made by a foreign prince, Oni accompanies him to...
Dates:
2022
These Days, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_adams_paige.pdf
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"These Days is a feature length film designed for theatrical and streaming release. It explores the complicated bond between siblings as they navigate their fears for the future and resentment of their upbringing. This film brings to life a dynamic not often featured on screen: a significant age gap between siblings and examines how their lives became so much different because of it." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023