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The Mediated Lives of Muslim College Students in the United States: Identity and Community on Instagram, 2019
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Identifier: pr_2019spring_marcucci_susannah.pdf
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"Since 9/11, Muslim-American communities have been subject to discrimination and surveillance (Cashin, 2010; Sirin & Fine, 2007; Tindongan, 2011) and the situation has continued through the early years of the Trump administration. This study investigates how Muslim college students in the United States navigate identity construction and community building on social media within this context. Using a grounded theory approach to analyze the data from the Instagram pages of six Muslim...
Dates:
2019
The Midnight Trolley and The Arlingtons, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_lee_ariele.pdf
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"THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY When a magical trolley appears in a child's closet and whisks her away from her turbulent home to find the Last Poppy Flower, her moody and disengaged older sister must embark on a perilous journey across fantastical/educational, art-history-inspired worlds to get them both back before the Bog Man destroys the trolley, and the childrens' parents return for the night. THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY is an animated childrens limited series featuring stylistic world-building,...
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2023
The Miraculous, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_fdail_monia.pdf
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"The story takes place in nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties Morocco. The protagonist, Ayur, is a miraculous child who survives a severe elephantiasis. He and his family encounter many hurdles and obstacles throughout his childhood and journey to recovery. She, a mysterious creature, that follows Ayur everywhere ever since his birth, is despised, feared, admired, and blamed by Ayur's mother who obsesses over her baby especially when he falls ill. Rabab, the mother, who recounts the...
Dates:
2024
The miseducation of sexuality : a memoir of the development of sexuality over time, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_summer_lauralee.pdf
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"This thesis is the first quarter of a book-length memoir about the author’s sexual identity and preferences as they developed and were shaped throughout her life by her experiences and events of circumstance. The author describes the influence of her mother and her own life growing up in poverty on her sexuality, and how her high school years were also formative to her ideas of sexuality." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
"The Mississippi", 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_kernan_keely.pdf
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"The multiplatform documentary film, "The Mississippi," reflects back on Pare Lorentz's "The River" - 81 years later. Historically, it is a present day reflection on what Lorentz so clearly and passionately described in the first twenty minutes of "The River." To quote Lorentz's script, the story, the outrage, and the passion that he expressed about the Mississippi River still exists, "Poor land makes poor people." "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns - But at what a cost."...
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2019
The Mistress, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_bjerke_megan.pdf
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"The Mistress is the first installment of a young adult dark fantasy duology and follows twenty three-year-old Tayven as he finds himself abducted and imprisoned in Rivaena Castle, a place of legend and death. Chosen as an Offering for the Mistress, a woman cursed by the god of Death, Tayven's soul is destined to be ripped from him and ferried to the Underworld as punishment for a centuries long feud between the Mistress and the god. Desperate to escape with his life, Tayven fights, but...
Dates:
2021
The Music of the Spheres: An Anthology of Science-Infused Poetry, 1760-1925, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_guth_dana.pdf
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"The Music of the Spheres is a digital anthology of poetry written about or otherwise interacting with science, mathematics, technology, and/or medicine. This body of work is comprised of 70 English-language poems that were published between the times of the Industrial Revolution in Europe (around 1760) and the first quarter of the twentieth century (around 1925). It serves as a searchable database of writing and a repository of other science-literature resources, past and present, that will...
Dates:
2020
The Nature of It All, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hammond_ryanna.pdf
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"This master thesis aims to portray the nature of human life in light of our modern capitalistic world. Ego has been running amok on Earth—via Human Consciousness—for a few thousand years, which has led to disconnection and destruction on all levels: human to human, human to fellow animal, human to Mother Earth. However, there is hope for harmony, for this planet and all of its creatures to return to a state of Heaven again. Across three sections, entitled (1) a long-drawn sidewalk, (2)...
Dates:
2024
The New Tenant, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_amin_youssef_hesham.pdf
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"'The New Tenant' is a short mystery-thriller film that tells a story of a young man's escape from a violent incident and, perhaps, from who he is. The whole story revolves around international characters who end up living together, knowing nothing about each other. As Nader, the protagonist, tries to keep a low profile, he finds himself in the middle of more violence between his roommates that resonates with what he was initially escaping from. The film meditates on themes of loneliness,...
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2020
The Night, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_xueyi.pdf
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"The Night is a three-channel video installation. It is based on a Holorhyme poem which is about the miscommunication between a couple while they are having an indirect conversation during the night. The conversation between reality and dream indicates the difference between verbal words and external meanings of the narrator. As the expression starts, the three channels show the different stages of the man and woman's understanding of each other's words and the scene goes from reality to...
Dates:
2019
The Nile Has Always Been Ours, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_mubarak_nehal.pdf
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"I often think about the implications of the word "home." As a child of immigrants, migration and displacement have shaped how I define the concept of home my whole life. As I was writing these stories, I realized that in the past I avoided writing settings because I don't feel a connection to any one place. The characters in these stories occupy places, because place is undoubtedly still important, but they also navigate relationships and loss. They try to understand why they go through the...
Dates:
2020
The Oncoming Storm, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vantangoli_elizabeth.pdf
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"The Oncoming Storm is a young adult high fantasy novel about Eiowing – a girl who is perfectly content to live the life she has – whose safe world is shaken by rumors of a long buried evil which has returned. A quest is called to investigate and secretly find the one item that may vanquish the evil: a lost magickal sword. Representatives from the different provinces of Ithiel are assigned to the quest, including her brother Darion. When she secretly hears of a potential trap set for the...
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2023
The Passage of Friendship: Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_surges_kathryn.pdf
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"This collection of short stories shines a light on the impermanence of friendship while also asserting its transformative potential. Two girls become close and get separated by fearful parents, only to meet up again in later stories with a whole new set of challenges. A young man in college wants his social life to return to the way it used to be in a time before severe insecurity. People want to impress, to hide the truth, to dismiss reality at great costs to themselves. At the heart of...
Dates:
2020
The Perfect Fifth, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_haynes_noelle.pdf
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"The Perfect Fifth is a feature length film designed as an independent film that features an autistic female lead coming to terms with identity after her diagnosis. Set in present day, this feature follows an autistic woman. who's relationship with music changes as she stops chasing the life her father set for her. With very few accurate representations of autistic women in the film industry, The Perfect Fifth is different in the ways it addresses nuero atypical behaviors in women." --...
Dates:
2023
The Power of Drama to Promote Joy and Community for Pediatric Patients, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023spring_mcferren_kasey.pdf
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"The significance of the following qualitative research is to emphasize the vitality of joy in the pediatric healthcare field, specifically analyzing how drama-based pedagogy and applied theatre techniques can support creative and joyful moments for pediatric patients with chronic blood illnesses, such as sickle cell and hemophilia, and various forms of cancers. In an effort to evaluate how laughter, smiles, and community bonding can uplift patients both in and out of hospital settings, I...
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2023
The Practitioner, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_aronofsky_james.pdf
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"THE PRACTITIONER an hour long medical drama that revolves around the life and work of oncology nurse practitioner Katerina Nunez Crompton and her colleagues of oncology nurse practitioners at the esteemed Boston Children's Hospital. The series will represent a new era of postracial television, in which cast members are diverse but are not defined by their race, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity. After suffering from a third trimester miscarriage and a now withering marriage, Katerina turns to...
Dates:
2020
The Prestige of Power, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_cormier_jason.pdf
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"There is no destiny, no fated hero prophesized to save the world of Sobrius from the tyrant, Geirdaan. But there are legends of those who sacrificed everything to unite the people and free the lands. The Prestige of Power is the first of four planned books in an epic fantasy series that takes readers across the world of Sobrius and explores the unique races, creatures, and cultures that call it home. It follows three key protagonists with a rotating point-of-view: A Magi male with...
Dates:
2021
The Princess and the Pauper, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_mcgill_isabelle.pdf
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"Aisling, crown princess of the small European country Vyctorya, tries her best to live up to her parents' expectations but internally struggles with her sexuality. With her marriage to the Duke of Belare a week away, she has resigned herself to a loveless fate. Chava, a girl from America, is reeling from her father's death a year ago which resulted in a move back to her mother's home country of Vyctorya. With the anniversary approaching, Chava feels more lost than ever with no support from...
Dates:
2022
The Race of Daphne, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_beckmann_sarah.pdf
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"This collection of poetry, structured as a crew race, reflects a metaphor: life is a race, a battle. The speaker views life through the lenses of girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood, and through the experiences of being a rower and writer. Heroes, poets, and athletes crowned with laurel wreaths in ancient Greco-Roman times were usually male—these poems subvert that narrative in contemporary times by revealing unsung heroism in the ordinary, domestic, and female. These pieces describe the...
Dates:
2023
The Relationship Between Cross-Dressing and the Gender Binary in Theatrical Performance, 2019
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Identifier: te_2019spring_vonada_logan.pdf
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"Cross-dressing has long been an element of live theatre, despite the conservative foundation of the Western view of gender expression. In this thesis, I will explore the relationship between cross-dressing and the gender binary in live performance. How do these two entities complement and oppose each other, and how has the nature of this relationship evolved? During the Elizabethan era of theatre, cross-dressing was used as a performance device that upheld the traditional gender binary, but...
Dates:
2019