Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Tita's Cuba, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_surarez-rivas_maite.pdf
Overview
"This family memoir is a multigenerational story of the aspirations that moved my grandmother's family up and onward, through alternating episodes of opportunities and challenges, and out of one country into another. Events are told in a series of episodes that flow chronologically, beginning with my greatgrandmother's childhood and her marriage at seventeen. Each episode covers significant events in the lives of my great-grandmother and grandmother and includes anecdotal information about...
Dates:
2015
"To Be Heard", 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_barthelemy_steven.pdf
Overview
"'To Be Heard' follows an afro-latino poet as he stands at a crossroads between his artistic pursuits and his family. The film is meant to capture the struggle of growing up as the child of an immigrant, weighing the expectations of your family and the expectations one weighs onto oneself. The expectations of higher education pushes people to leave their communities, but this is more difficult to accomplish in a first generation family with no college graduates, especially being from a place...
Dates:
2019
To live and die in EV, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_mancinas_oscar.pdf
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"Anglo, Latino, Afro, Indigenous, and immigrant all struggle and blend with one another for preservation and evolution in El Valle, a sprawling, fictional city in the heart of Arizona." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
To raze the walls I've constructed, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_pitler_marc.pdf
Overview
"A personal photo essay exploring the ways the artist has dealt with, and seeks to move on from, a traumatic childhood. The project juxtaposes two image sequences to convey this process. One uses macro photography to document the different control methods used by the artist in childhood to mitigate the feelings of trauma. The other uses landscapes, photographed during a road trip from Seattle to San Diego. This contrast is intended to signify a broadening of perspective." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
To the Chapel, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_beatty_marissa.pdf
Overview
"To the Chapel is a half-hour network comedy about a young woman in Las Vegas trying to rebel against her family expectations and pursue her own dreams as she starts her photography career at an eclectic wedding chapel on the Strip. Wild Inside is an children's animated television show about an uptight boy who learns to get along with a rambuncious raccoon. Both pilots focus on the theme of finding one's own way in the face of societal pressures as well as the anxieties of starting into the...
Dates:
2019
To the World I Am a Drop of Water, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_montana_christina.pdf
Overview
"This collection of short stories focuses primarily on the theme of stasis. Each story features characters trapped by their traumas and anxieties as they search for ways to free themselves from those mental restraints. These stories replicate the way family, friendships, and relationships echo through locations; the way memories fill walls, trees, dust, paper... the way in which the spaces people occupy are constructed of the things we project. While none of the stories are linked, they...
Dates:
2019
Tongue-tied : essays of a self-conscious journey, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_wells_ashley.pdf
Overview
"Tongue-Tied is a collection of seven linked essays that explore the writer's experiences with generalized anxiety disorder and major depression." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Toward a Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: Coming to Grips with the State of Play, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022summer_lecuyer_timothy.pdf
Overview
"This study discusses the devising of an online theatre piece, a totally unique project for the students involved, at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse Education Department in Meredith, New Hampshire. It is a first-person account of the motivations, insecurities, and growth inspired by this project for its director and participants. It looks forward to possible applications for a post-pandemic pedagogy." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Towards a Local Media Literacy: Community-Based Understanding in a Globally Connected World, 2022
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Identifier: md_2022summer_stier_cohen_aaron.pdf
Overview
"This thesis project documents the process of designing a prototype to help the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) support and regularly engage its individual members. I focused my design prototype on Boston K-12 teachers as a trial demographic, with the understanding that each teaching and media ecosystem has its own unique challenges and context. On NAMLE's website, they define media literacy broadly as "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using...
Dates:
2022
Toxic Nostalgia, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_burr_patrick.pdf
Overview
"In the year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, drag artists in Boston and across the country have continually adapted their craft to new digital mediums, even as the queer spaces in which they once performed and earned their living close under the economic pressures of the time. 'Toxic Nostalgia' takes place in this liminal space between an idealized pre-pandemic past and an uncertain future. Through elements of documentary, drag, one-woman show and cabaret, the film guides...
Dates:
2021
Trademark Sunshine, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kobosko_katherine.pdf
Overview
"Trademark Sunshine' is a collection of poems by Kate Kobosko that explores the link between place, history, and memory. The poems are set in wildly different locations from Costa Rica to New England (and numerous places in between). The poet explores geography, literal and metaphorical, and what it means to be a visitor in a place. These poems answer questions about what it means to be 'from' a certain place: both a tangible location that can be pointed to on a map, as well as the...
Dates:
2021
Traffic, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_ferguson_margaret.pdf
Overview
"Poppy Flower, her name an unfortunate adornment stemming from the full bloom of her parent’s now faded affections, has held the title of Boston Black Cab’s best private car service driver for just over a year, and it’s one she would like to keep. When Mai, a teenager fleeing a human trafficking ring, climbs into the back of Poppy’s cab, Poppy tries to unload the girl and get back to work. Unfortunately, human connections are not shaken off as easily as Poppy wishes, and Mai won’t let help...
Dates:
2018
Trannifesto, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_phillips_elliot.pdf
Overview
"Trannifesto is an creative nonfiction essay collection which focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, mental illness, and belonging. These essays range to the extent which they discuss each of these issues: some focus more on gender identity, while others focus more on mental illness. However, tying them all together is the theme that, no matter how marginalized or alienated a person may feel, connection with those around them is always possible -- and, this connection is vital and necessary...
Dates:
2020
Trans Embodiments: Examining Casting Practices in Educational Theater Settings, 2022
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Identifier: th_2022fall_taub_han.pdf
Overview
"This paper explores how casting practices in educational theater programs, and the resulting experiences, shape gender identity development for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming adolescents. To examine this question, I interviewed four transgender and non-binary adolescents who participated as actors in educational theater programs. A two-part thematic analysis was conducted on the interview data; themes surrounding identity discovery, identity negotiation, and...
Dates:
2022
Transfixed, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_callihan_lia.PDF
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"In 1860s Chicago, two young ladies with supernatural abilities come of age while their guardians perform pseudoscientific experiments on them. While living together in the research facility, the girls' friendship evolves into romance. Years later, their relationship as a queer interracial couple is put to the test as they navigate 19th-century America while simultaneously trying to heal their shared past trauma. Both women are faced with the difficult decision of whether or not they must...
Dates:
2024
Trapped, 2021
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Identifier: vm_2021fall_kirker_william.pdf
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"'Trapped' is an experimental exhibition telling the story of the struggle with coming to terms with your sexuality, examined through the lens of 1970s queer culture and gender performance. The installation chronicles the story of one man, frozen in both time and his personal development, as he attempts to engage with the bright hopefulness of queer expression, only to be tamped down and destroyed by expectations of heteronormativity, addiction and the fear of his own femininity. 'Trapped'...
Dates:
2021
Treasured, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_neal_lorri.pdf
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"Treasured is a contemporary romantic thriller in which two former lovers are reunited in a desperate bid to track down a rare artifact needed to save their lives. This second chance romantic story line features African American characters who initially met at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee nearly 20 years prior. After meeting up again over a dead body they must work together by unraveling the mystery surrounding an antique book believed to contain a map that leads to a fortune in...
Dates:
2022
Tribulation, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_burnette_sally.pdf
Overview
"Tribulation is a pre-apocalyptic collection of poems that experiment with form and genre in examining the intertwinement of various issues, especially religion, gender, and sexuality. At times funny but always serious, it also deals with themes of class, pop culture, trauma, violence, and mental health." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Tricentennial, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yeazel_christopher.pdf
Overview
"Tricentennial is a sci-fi fantasy novel of approximately 50,000 words. Its protagonist, Marisol Rivera, is a cult survivor who leads a team of space-based commandos in a conflict she and many on Earth believe is being fought to ensure American dominance over the solar system's resources. Her greatest mentor, Michael Goff, is a publicly disgraced former military officer branded as a traitor by her government. As Marisol wrestles with distressing memories from her childhood, she is dispatched...
Dates:
2022
Tulip, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_romein_gregory.pdf
Overview
"The following is a description of the proposed work including narrative summary and major themes of the work. It highlights Romein's project goals, citing the origins of the film and the phenomena that is cryptocurrency while addressing the social, cultural, and personal reasons for undertaking the work." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022