Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
The shift, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018summer_duffy_tara.pdf
Overview
"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
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 Testaments of Rosaceae, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_zhao_wei.pdf
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"In the summer of 2012, a sculpture major student, Bai Zhao, brought his half- sibling sister, Qi Suisui, to work as a part-time summer teacher at an art school. They accidentally uncovered a missing persons case that had remained unsolved for decades. The dusty past, secrets, and the truth about the death of Bai Zhao's biological father are slowly revealed. Just when everyone believed the killer had been caught and there would be no more victims, another student went missing. Then the...
Dates:
2024
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 Triant Twenty-Seven, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_lyttle_missy.pdf
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"The Triant Twenty-Seven follows Ren, a burned-out tour guide working on a haunted spaceship with real ghosts. When management takes away the small break that Ren and her friends were expecting for a holiday, Ren decides to break a few rules of her own to get back at them. Unfortunately for Ren, this leads to some ghosts breaking out of containment, and taking over the ship in an act of revenge against the people who have kept them imprisoned there. Ren has to find a way to keep herself, her...
Dates:
2024
The Trumpet Cast Chronicles, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_hasegawa_sophia.pdf
Overview
"Log line: A temperamental college student assaults her grandmother's caretaker by mistake as she attempts to understand her family history. It is scarce to witness feminine characters in film or television externalize their emotions. To enforce physical action upon the tangible world as a result of internal realities is not a luxury that most women are afforded. When Asian women are depicted as submissive, exotic or lacking all emotion, any chances of being seen as emotionally complex...
Dates:
2024
The Uncursing, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baaith-ducharme_nimalah.pdf
Overview
"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