Electronic thesis
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Found in 1013 Collections and/or Records:
The Angie Archive, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_maske_claire.pdf
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""The Angie Archive" is a personal experimental documentary short film. Told through a combination of narration, home videos, 16mm footage, hand-drawn animation, and family photos, it tells the story of Claire Maske's search to find every single photograph in existence of her mother, who died ten years ago. It explores the relationship between photography and grief, the construction of fantasy and identity through family photo albums, and the failures of archives." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
The apparatus, 2017
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Identifier: pw_2017fall_moore_nicholas.pdf
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"A startup proposal in media innovation that uses a content marketing model to grow from a blog to a publisher to a platform. The mission of the platform is to investigate the role of power in politics in life. The project is split into three parts: media criticism, content analysis, and growth plan." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_chao_michael.pdf
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"This thesis investigates relationships between identity, mental health, and familial dynamics through the lens of growing up a mixed race Chinese-American. Both lyric and prosaic forms are used to explore how the act of remembering folds image and emotion together, becoming what we carry as memory, shaping our sense of self. The title is borrowed from a mid-20th century book on Chinese paper folding, which provided a framework for the construction of the collection. The act of folding paper...
Dates:
2021
The Art of Screaming Internally, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_rando_kristen.pdf
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"Bowie Robbins doesn't know much. But what she does know is designing clothes, her twin sister, Presley, her melodramatic mom and her boyfriend, Owen. That is, until Owen is caught cheating on her in front of the whole school. Reeling from the breakup, Bowie suddenly finds herself with lots of free time just as the theater workshop finds themselves without a costume mistress. With a nudge from her sister, Bowie takes on the role and discovers that she's capable of a lot more than she ever...
Dates:
2021
The Backside of God, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_seidel_hogan.pdf
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"'The Backside of God' is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist's relationship with their late uncle, Doug Seidel." -- Abstratct
Dates:
2020
The Banquet, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024fall_lemle_natalie.pdf
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"The Banquet is a novel told from the alternating viewpoints of Mariana and Cecily, two adult sisters whose lives become newly intertwined when they bring their families to Tuscany on an ill-fated summer vacation that culminates in the mysterious death of their host. As the sisters try to make sense of what has happened, they are forced to reckon with with their marriages, their identities, and their blindspots. Set against the backdrop of the Palio, a legendary annual horse race in Siena's...
Dates:
2024
The Big Guave, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_garcia_arleny.pdf
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"The Big Guava is a feature length screenplay that tells the story of Gabriela, who travels back to her hometown in Tampa, Florida, to help plan her sister Sofia's fifteenth birthday party. While there, she must reconnect with her estranged mother, Danna, and face the harsh memories of their tumultuous past. As mother and daughter clash against opinions over the party, Gabriela struggles between leading a life of conformity versus risk and spontaneity. This family drama reminds us how our...
Dates:
2024
The Body Book Reclaiming the Desi Female Body Through Performance Storytelling, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_paracha_mariam.pdf
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"Performance and storytelling have always been powerful tools in challenging injustices. However, for women, the intersection of culture, tradition, patriarchy, and race often plays a significant role in shaping their self-esteem and perception of body image. Focusing on South Asian women, I delve into this topic through interviews, field observations, and a personal book of Spoken Word, essays, and poems, supplemented by an activity guide for Desi women to share their own narratives. My aim...
Dates:
2024
The Body is Black, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_crocker_kristin.pdf
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""The Body is Black" is a memoir that follows the life of Kristin Crocker, a young, biracial woman who struggles with her personal identity in the face of familial turmoil. Kristin always felt she was different from other people, but it wasn't until her parents' divorce, her aunt's estrangement with her, and the 2016 presidential election, all of which happened concurrently, that she started to understand who she was. In a world founded on binaries and labels which limit people's personal...
Dates:
2022
The Bone Maker, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_cliff_tanya.pdf
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"When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...
Dates:
2023
The boots, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_noto_joseph.pdf
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"This collection of poems focuses on letter poems to a variety of people in my life. In between these letter poems there are a different blend of poems that offer a glimpse into the life of the writer. This work offers a well-balanced mix of emotional urgency and interior monologue. Often, my work involves details of what it is like living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and this work is no different. The poems that are not letter poems often offer an inside view of the...
Dates:
2023
The Braid, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baron_gabriela.pdf
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"This thesis explores threads of identity, weaving together influences that shape the sense of self, including ancestry, childhood, culture, and religion. These themes spread across three sections; "on a loom" is a meditation on interfaith upbringing and the reconciliation of two belief systems, "heirloom" relates to paternal ties, and "bloom" speaks to maternal heritage. The collection highlights two matriarchs and how they lived out their individual cultures (Jewish and Colombian) and...
Dates:
2023
The Breaking Door, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_rasmussen_lydia.pdf
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"The Breaking Door thesis project is a walk-through of the business side of publishing the first book in a young adult Fantasy trilogy. The project approaches publication from three unique perspectives: author, editor, and marketer/sales. The project compels the writer to consider the salability of their work. It provides insight into how publishers acquire clients based on the evaluation of a manuscript's content, marketing potential, and profitability. In the case of this project, the...
Dates:
2019
The Brimstone Princess / The Flick, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_af_geijerstam-lindberg_liliana.pdf
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"The Brimstone Princess is an hour long fantasy adventure that follows Princess Antonina as she tries to save her kingdom from ruin. After the assassination of her brother, Crown Prince Fredrick, she sets off on a journey across the world to find her younger sister Grace and bring her home before assassins can close in on her too. Her faithful guard Sir Hamford and his page Keven join her on this clandestine mission, unaware of the dark truths that will emerge along the way, and the...
Dates:
2024
The bull of heaven, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_robotham_thomas.pdf
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"Genetically optimized, bot-born Rex finally meets his match in the natural born rival Felix Kidd, who becomes his friend and fellow adventurer. Together, they face evil, bizarre creatures, and death." --page 12.
Dates:
2018
The Burning Sands, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_firestine_marisa.pdf
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"The Burning Sands' features two distinct races locked in a simmering, centuries-long conflict. Spara is a half-wind, the offspring of those two races: the human-like dathrals and the subha, a race of wind-wielding, genderless people. Raised among the subha but too dathral bodied to truly belong, Spara lives isolated and alienated. Shi dedicates xyr life to serving Kingship, the ruler of xyr land, in hopes of earning a place within subha society. Yet obedience to Kingship leads to harm for...
Dates:
2020
The Cartographer's Apprentice, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_smith_alanna.pdf
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"On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...
Dates:
2021
The Castle's, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_agee_carrie.pdf
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""The Castles"a prequel to Dirty Dancing is a full-length screenplay that delves into the untold past of Johnny Castle, set in 1930's New York City. The story follows the tumultuous relationship between Arabella Armstrong, a New York aristocrat, and Isaac Castle, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The screenplay opens with Arabella and Isaac's unlikely romance, which leads to an unplanned pregnancy and a hasty wedding. As their marriage progresses, cracks begin to show as Isaac...
Dates:
2024
The Color Line, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_johnson_chantel.pdf
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"John Matthews (mid 70s), a man once bold and adventurous, is now nearing the end of his life. Officially retiring, John is being given an honorary award for his famous photography work that spans sixty years. One of his most celebrated piece, a black and white photo showing a beautiful Ghanaian woman is the main photograph that everyone is raving. The London Times is also doing a feature on his work and this photograph specifically, with Kwadwo Asante (31) interviewing him personally. As...
Dates:
2021
The Colorful Life of Kitty Swan, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_rockefeller_laura.pdf
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"This is a historical novel about one woman's trajectory as an artist during the Age of Revolutions. As a young woman coming of age in Boston in 1800, Kitty Swan is aware that she is living in a new century in a newly created country. She wants to find a place for herself as an artist in this world. Her path toward achieving this goal is blocked by the plans of her strong-willed mother, Hepzibah Swan, who is adamant that all of her children must marry well to secure the family's finances,...
Dates:
2021