Electronic thesis
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Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
American Junkie, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_sears_christian.pdf
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"American Junkie is a novel about recovery from addiction. Too often, stories about addicts and alcoholics—from The Great Gatsby to The Wire—fail to show what real recovery looks like. Frequently, they focus entirely on the tragic chaos of untreated addiction. If they depict recovery, it is simplistic and brief. But in this novel, Jack Sutherland goes through it all. He burglarizes a pharmacy, lingers in an abusive relationship, and unwittingly pushes and overdose into his friend’s veins....
Dates:
2023
American robot, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_hartman_zachary.pdf
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"The film is meant to vaguely mimic television narrative structure as a pilot for a potential web series. The plot follows awkward, fish-out-of-water protagonist Roger the Robot. One year after Roger's mad-scientist creator, robot fiancé and best frenemy all die at once in a fiery explosion, the lonely robot must face reality that he is a male stripper living out of a cardboard box behind the library he frequents and not an aspiring ballerino-in-training. Following a librarian's offer of a...
Dates:
2018
American Standard Time, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_burke_peter.pdf
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"American Standard Time is a novel that follows three individuals as they begin to fall apart in time. Joe Cleaveland, a disillusioned heir to a pet food fortune, confronts his friend, Keremcan Köroğlu, a misanthrope MIT neuroscientist, about his worsening symptoms, before setting off in search of comfort in the form of his preternaturally determined girlfriend, Ingrid Bell. Over the course of the day, on his own search for answers, Köroğlu alights on a mysterious force at work beneath his...
Dates:
2022
Amplifying narratives: First-Generation College Students Sharing Their Stories, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_tomas_kayla.pdf
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"Since our beginning, we have told and received stories to shape our understanding of the world around us. Still, it's not just the stories themselves that hold significance, but how they are shared, the spaces they encounter and who will listen. This thesis dives into the core of an applied theatre project that placed the stories and experiences of First-Generation College Students at the center. Within a singular institution, these narratives were amplified, shedding a light on their...
Dates:
2024
Amydee, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_depaola_amy.pdf
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"AMYDEE is a short memoir film that utilizes a narrative script and cinema verite documentary filming to tell the story of AMY (30) a bartender, who, after suffering a physical assault begins to reexamine her life and place the world." --Project description.
Dates:
2017
An average woman, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_bahret_abigail.pdf
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"An Average Woman follows a young woman through four pivotal moments in her life, starting at the age of eighteen and spanning a decade. Through the perspective of the protagonist, Cara Williams, this script examines what many women endure in our patriarchal society including abuse, harassment, and neglect. The film also looks at how women come back from difficult relationships. Cara slowly accepts her childhood sweetheart, Teddy, in an intimate relationship, learning to develop love and...
Dates:
2018
An Overlooked Publishing Industry Coming to Light: West African Publishing, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_brodie_tammy.pdf
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"West African publishing is a growing industry, gaining attention from investors both inside and outside the African continent. Historically, major Western publishing houses have controlled African literature including West African literature. Today, the pendulum swings back into African hands as more African-owned, independent publishers crop up in West African countries. Due to this shift in gatekeeping, traditional publishing models are being reinvented by new West African business...
Dates:
2020
An Unmothered Daughter, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_prinzo_ashley_michelle.pdf
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"'An Unmothered Daughter' is a short memoir about my mother, who I've been estranged from since I was 16. In the opening, I show how she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction since I was a kid, where she takes to her favorite bar. I try to define the characteristics of being a mom and a mother in chapter 2 by comparing the different woman my older brothers know. Sections 4,7 and 8 focus more on my life without her, while chapters 5,6 and 10 unpack my maternal family's dynamics. I...
Dates:
2020
"And Yet, Still I Hope": Participation-related and familial predictors of autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, 2019
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Identifier: cd_2019spring_kurzrok_jennifer.pdf
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"Parenting self-efficacy, i.e. the expectations caregivers have about their abilities to successfully parent their children, has been shown to predict parental ability to cope with the unique challenges of raising a child with ASD (Pastor-Cerezuela et al., 2016; Kuhn & Carter, 2006). Despite high parental participation requirements, little research has investigated the impact of a child's therapy programming on parental confidence. This study assessed the effects of participation- and...
Dates:
2019
Animal Bones and other stories, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_valcour_megan.pdf
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"'Animal Bones and other stories,' a collection of short fiction, explores the reverberations of loss and the strength it takes to rebuild in the aftermath. In "Lake Monster," a precocious eight-year-old girl and a grieving father find themselves linked in strange rotation around a prison and a polluted town lake. In "What Is Left," a newly retired man discovers a familiar kinship with the remains from the three small towns that now sit under the county's reservoir. And in the title story,...
Dates:
2019
Anywhere But Here, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_anwari_diva.pdf
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"These stories paint a vivid picture of love and grief in their innumerable forms. They encompass that raw and all-consuming feeling of wanting and needing to get away. This collection comments on generational trauma and the immigrant experience. In unconventional short shorts and traditional short story form, they explore what it means to survive, to be a family, and what it takes to follow your arrow wherever it may lead." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Approaching Media Literacy in Civic Life among Urban Youth, 2021
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Identifier: md_2021summer_angove_sydney.pdf
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"Given rapid technological advances "Young people today are reading, manipulating, and producing texts in ways that are fundamentally different than in the past" (Garcia, 2015). If we can acknowledge that having a core set of literacies extends into the digital space, we must then move to development of building competencies to enable critical media use. Further, research focused on the intersection of youth and media literacy assumes that "young people are not only interested and capable,...
Dates:
2021
Approaching Media Literacy in Civic Life among Urban Youth, 2021
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Identifier: md_2021summer_hsu_melody.pdf
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"Given rapid technological advances "Young people today are reading, manipulating, and producing texts in ways that are fundamentally different than in the past" (Garcia, 2015). If we can acknowledge that having a core set of literacies extends into the digital space, we must then move to development of building competencies to enable critical media use. Further, research focused on the intersection of youth and media literacy assumes that "young people are not only interested and capable,...
Dates:
2021
Ark, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_siefert_lynne.pdf
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"Ark is an experimental documentary about a cruise ship at the end of the world. In this film we tour the ship and discover through anonymous voices that the present is actually the future." -- Abstract
Dates:
2016
Arm Me To The Teeth, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vesey_alexandra.pdf
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"Fifteen-year-old Maria Reyes killed a man to save her family.. Haunted by nightmares, she attends a boarding school for troubled young mages. At school she meets Thomas, a ghost trapped halfway to godhood who claims to hate his worshippers and the blood they spill. He says he has a plan to end the war between his people and hers. She's skeptical, but the leaders on her own side seem more interested in winning the war, at whatever cost, than ending the bloodshed. She must decide who to trust...
Dates:
2023
Around This Impossible Black, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_alsamsam_dana.pdf
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"The poetry manuscript "Around This Impossible Black" unravels what it means to be a queer, Syrian-American woman in America. Through the incorporation of Arabic language, Syrian heritage, and Islamic tradition, the poet navigates her identity as a borderland, ruminating on the loss of the inherited mother tongue and land while not being fully comfortable in America. This conflict is punctuated not only by the war in Syria and widespread Islamophobic terrorism, but also by the breakage of...
Dates:
2019
Ars Prophetica, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_watson_edward.pdf
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"A poetic hybrid of verse and prose, 'Ars Prophetica' expresses through form and content the varying registers through which the queer self is constructed and mythologized in the wake of trauma both spiritual and emotional. Taking the reader through a mystic's wrestle with the familial, religious, and academic institutions that simultaneously provide him with both spiritual insight and hierarchical pushback, 'Ars Prophetica' follows an intuitive logic that resists the narratives typically...
Dates:
2021
Artificial, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_grad_samuel.pdf
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"Artificial is a feature length comedy that negotiates the dangers and fears many feel surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence in art and entertainment. The film follows a recently divorced TV writer, a tech CEO, an artificial general intelligence, and a large cast of other writers, workers, and revolutionaries as they navigate the influx of automation in the workplace. Set in the very near future, this satirical sci-fi takes aim at the self-righteousness of artists, the vanity of...
Dates:
2023
Ashes, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_jones_shaccera.pdf
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"Asen, father of five is dead. His five children: Devon, Roe, Sage, Mason and Zoey; twenty eight to eight attend his funeral. As they sit in the church, the all remember him. What kind of man was Asen ? In the end who decides what's true?." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
A.S.S. Crawler & Southern Haunt, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_fatima_aizzah.pdf
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"A.S.S. Crawler is a half hour comedy set in New York City in 2002. It follows the struggles of Nadia Malik, a queer Muslim female actor, living in post 9/11 America. When a wire transfer sent by her parents from Saudi Arabia gets flagged by the NYPD, Nadia gets picked up for questioning. During the interrogation, Officer Diaz entraps her into working for the NYPD's Arab Secret Surveillance (A.S.S.) Unit to spy on a mosque in Queens. This project is based on real events, and is a commentary...
Dates:
2021