Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
The Retreat & Figuring It Out, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_durkin_colleen.pdf
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"THE REREAT is an hour long original dramedy pilot that dives head first into the ever enticing world of cults and how they operate, showcasing how susceptible we all are to the kind of tactics used by many infamous groups today. It explores how far curiosity can take you. The story underneath is about two friends trying to keep their sanity in pursuit of the truth, all with a little bit of humor and fun. This script is in line with a larger body of work which supports representation of...
Dates:
2021
The Right to the (Smart?) City: An Exploration of Community Empowerment Needs and a User-Designed, Practical Approach for Boston Neighborhoods, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018fall_stott_lauren.pdf
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"The Right to the (Smart?) City is an exploration of community engagement principles and needs in 2018, a time when pervasive technology promises to solve problems and make city dwellers' lives better. This work includes a comprehensive literature review, project methodology and design technique, as well as a working prototype to empower Boston community members in idea generation, problem-solving, and collective action. The submission documents the field scan, qualitative data collection,...
Dates:
2018
The Role of Imageability in Early Word Learning of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020
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Identifier: cd_2020spring_lin_kimberly.pdf
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"Throughout typical development, children rely on perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn words (Hollich, Hirsh-Pasek, & Golinkoff, 2000). Imageability quantifies the perceptual salience of a word as the ease in which it evokes a mental image. While imageability is a strong predictor for word acquisition in typically developing (TD) children, little is known about the effects of imageability in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study uses secondary data analyses...
Dates:
2020
The Romance Assist, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_brown_hannah.pdf
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"The Romance Assist is a sapphic romantic fiction novel centered around Maria and Emily. The first one hundred pages of this novel can be found here within the Master's Project. Maria is an aspiring vet-med student who is stuck with Emily (the University of Virginia women's soccer team's star player) as her lab partner. After an incident in the lab leads to Emily offering to be Maria's sex coach, the two women pursue a sexual relationship. Over time, this relationship develops into something...
Dates:
2023
The Sea of Souls, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_collins_monique.pdf
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"The Sea of Souls is a speculative fiction novel that spans generations of a Gullah-Geechee family. The novel takes place across two timelines, one in the past and the other in the future, and features beings from Gullah folktales and African mythology. Told from the point of view of a grandmother and granddaughter, the novel carries themes of love and female empowerment. At the novel's opening, the grandmother is a teenage girl who lives on an island near Charleston, SC. She is sent on a...
Dates:
2021
The search for signs of meaningful inclusion of disabled students in the public high school theater universe, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_pillsbury_marianne.pdf
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"This thesis seeks to illuminate the challenges and opportunities of intentionally including disabled students identified for special education services in a public high school theater context. The findings are based on the experiences of a theater educator, artist, and scholar running a "unified theater" program where students with and without disabilities come together to create and present an original devised play based on their interests. The author dramatizes what "meaningful inclusion"...
Dates:
2024
The Secret Eater and Other Stories, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marlin_sofia.pdf
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"The following collection of stories explores humankind at its most vulnerable. These stories range in length, from short story to flash and even micro fiction. Characters experience loss and isolation, learn to cope with grief, and come to terms with their own complex identities. Gender and sexuality are major themes present in these works of fiction, demonstrating both the dangers and pleasures that arise when people considered "other" enter society." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
The Senator and the Sagittarians, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_gorjance_sophia.pdf
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"The Senator and the Sagittarians follows Diana Hake, nee Graybeal, as she faces struggles both personal and public in her run for one of the seven Prime Senate seats for all of settled space. Set one thousand years in the future, the narrative is split between Di's present, where she deals with the ramifications of humanity's war with the alien Sagittarians, the fallout of her daughter's death, and the complexities of her campaign; and her past, which provides essential context for both the...
Dates:
2023
The Sharer: A Fantasy, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_dixon_jonathan.pdf
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"My thesis consists of the first six chapters a novel, titled The Sharer. The novel is a multi-character narrative spanning two centuries and incorporating historical and fantastic elements. The novel's main protagonist is Elizabeth Packet, a woman who since childhood has possessed a supernatural power of empathy. Elizabeth's story is told through two parallel narratives: one set in California, 1928, describing the final events of her life; the other set in the 1850s, relating her...
Dates:
2020
The shift, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_duffy_tara.pdf
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"A psychological, suspense-drama following 25 year old Mickey McVeigh over the course of one fateful shift at a Billiards Bar in rural Connecticut. Mickey's morning begins by facilitating aggressive, intense sexual intercourse with her pseudo-partner and long-time friend, Adam. Mickey races over to work a closing shift at the bar. It is unusually quiet even for a sleepy, winter Sunday. Mickey soon meets the intriguing yet questionable Tennessee Baker, a customer she has never seen before. As...
Dates:
2018
The Shit List & Two-Hit Wonder, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_shiverick_deanna.pdf
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"This project consists of two pilots. 'The Shit List' follows Lily Hall as she one day happens upon her husband's "shit list" of five names, of which the first four are dead. When the fifth mysteriously dies, Lily realizes her husband has been murdering every person who has wronged him in his life. After some hesitation, Lily wants in. When Lily's first murder goes slightly awry, the Halls fall under the suspicion of newbie detective Ellen Pellegrino, who's desperate to crack this case after...
Dates:
2021
The Shooting on Atwood Street, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_nightingale_barrett.pdf
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"This story seeks to explore queer identity in small towns using an ensemble cast of most queer characters. The points of view explored include a young gay man, older gay men (some closeted), a bisexual woman, a child who does not realize they're transgender yet and a bigoted local woman. To stimulate these varied life experiences, the novel plays extensively with form. Different points of view switch between different verb tenses, types of narrator, and genre. The piece climaxes in the...
Dates:
2023
The Silent Decades, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_roberts_meghan.pdf
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"At an all-girls' Catholic high school near Boston in 1950, Gwen decides to distribute tampons -- specifically forbidden by the Church -- to her peers, a choice that fractures her relationship with her rule-following twin sister Margot. Twenty years later, Gwen and Margot haven't spoken since high school. Feeling trapped in her marriage, Gwen returns to her hometown with her teenage daughter Vivian, as she recalls the events that led to the twins' estrangement and tries to save Margot from...
Dates:
2021
The Silent Whistle, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022summer_li_yingtong.pdf
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"19-year-old girl Ming is a loner who works the night shift at a convenience store. One day near the spring festival, her neighbor Rui invites her for a "special" dinner, which summons up her hidden past…" -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
The Smog Vanishes, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_xu_siming.pdf
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"'The Smog Vanishes' is a short documentary film of 20 minutes long. This film tells a story about the profound effects of smog in Beijing, China, through the observations of a Swedish artist, - "Johannes Nielsen" about the changes in his life. The film reveals the struggles of Johannes about his choices concerning his artwork, family and living condition under the smog." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
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 Spectacle of Bubble Gum and Cuchi-Cuchi: A Memoir in Essays, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_costigan_kim.pdf
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"The essays that make up the body of this memoir have been written over the past several years. They are an attempt to make sense of a time when women and children were not protected and were subjected to the supremacy of a patriarchal society that centered and privileged white males. This was not a long-ago time. In my small hometown of Winthrop, Massachusetts in the 1970s, secrets and shame experienced by a family were a family's business. The institutions that were meant to protect and...
Dates:
2024
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