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Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:

Untitled film, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017spring_chi_shuaiding.pdf
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"A young man embarks a strange journey in a summer night." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Update My Wikipedia Page, 2024

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Identifier: sf_2024spring_shaffer_shai.pdf
Overview "Update My Wikipedia Page. is a feature-length screenplay telling the story of two people living in different universes. Rose and Gint meet when they begin seeing each other in reflective surfaces, only to realize they each know the other from a different fictional world. Unsettled by the endings foretold for them in the other universe, they join forces in an effort to change their fate and in the process form the closest friendship of their lives. This unconventional drama explores how we...
Dates: 2024

Urubú, 2024

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Identifier: sf_2024spring_figueiredo_isadora.pdf
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"Urubú is a feature length script that details the story of Fina, the queer prodigal daughter of the Da Silva crime family, as she returns home in order to avenge the murder of her brother, Nio. In a journey that explores themes of resilience, family, and grief, Fina must uncover Nio's past, relive her own, and confront the moment the two diverged in order to make peace with the person she could have been had she never left." -- Abstract

Dates: 2024

Use of high-tech visual scene display (VSD) by an adult with chronic nonfluent aphasia to improve participation in storytelling conversations, 2016

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Identifier: cd_2016spring_holz_kristen.pdf
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A participant with chronic nonfluent aphasia learned to use a high-tech Visual Scene Display (VSD) application installed on an iPad to improve the quality of his storytelling conversations with unfamiliar partners. The findings suggest that it is possible to teach a person with aphasia to use a VSD to support storytelling conversations. -- Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Using Audio Data to Transform the Narrative of Gun Violence within Boston, 2023

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Identifier: md_2023summer_chambers_neve.pdf
Overview "Although Boston has a low rate of gun deaths compared to other major cities in the United States, this does not diminish the value of those lives that are lost. Nor does it dismiss the experiences of hundreds of individuals, predominantly individuals of color, who are impacted each year by gun violence in our city. The media coverage and narratives surrounding these neighborhoods often ignore the peace and healing that is happening, instead defining them by one tragic moment which...
Dates: 2023

Using Audio Data to Transform the Narrative of Gun Violence within Boston, 2023

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Identifier: md_2023summer_saelee_tomina.pdf
Overview "Although Boston has a low rate of gun deaths compared to other major cities in the United States, this does not diminish the value of those lives that are lost. Nor does it dismiss the experiences of hundreds of individuals, predominantly individuals of color, who are impacted each year by gun violence in our city. The media coverage and narratives surrounding these neighborhoods often ignore the peace and healing that is happening, instead defining them by one tragic moment which...
Dates: 2023

Using response to intervention for speech sound disorders : exploring practice characteristics and geographical differences, 2018

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Identifier: cd_2018spring_swaminathan_divya.pdf
Overview "Speech sound disorders (SSDs) comprise a large percentage of school-based speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) caseloads. Many service delivery models have been proposed to manage rising caseload sizes. One particular approach, Response to Intervention (RTI), was introduced in the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This model ensures that children who do not require special education services still receive individualized support. Given the risk...
Dates: 2018

Variability in interpreting IDEA and "Educational Performance" for children with speech sound disorders : SLP survey results, 2017

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Identifier: cd_2017summer_boldini_lisa.pdf
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"This study investigated eligibility criteria and the definition of 'educational performance' for children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) by surveying public school speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the United States...We found that significant variability exists among states, as well as within each state, for eligibility criteria and the definition of 'educational performance' for children with SSDs." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Velorios, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022summer_molina_velarde_juan.pdf
Overview "This manuscript, titled after the plural form of the Spanish word for wake, would be best read as a mounrful study on the death of childhood. The stories herein seek to inhabit the minds and emotional states of a Panamanian-American couple in the aftermath of the end of their relationship, complicated by the colliding of youthful passion, abandon, and naivety, with the harshness of consequence, guilt, trauma, and regret. It is not a moralistic tale. Rather, it explores the ways we grieve...
Dates: 2022

Vernon and Violet, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017spring_kanakis_nikoletta.pdf
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"A story about two peculiar individuals with macabre interests who aspire to find love and acceptance via an online dating site. It's also a story about living your truth, finding healthy ways to handle grief due to the loss of a loved one, and knowing that self-worth and happiness come from within." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Versus: Theatre Games, Competition, & Collaboration, 2024

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Identifier: te_2024spring_crystal_paxton.pdf
Overview "Theatre games often contain competative dynamics, pitting players against one another individually or in team formats to focus their playing towards an unsharable. Throughout the last century, it has become a common practice to incorporate playing games into acting training and educational spaces alike. This competitive pressure can elicit strong reactions from players, and can have a significant impact on a player's ability to collaborate with others or feel invested in playing. Using a...
Dates: 2024

Vibrant And The Invisible Girl, 2024

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Identifier: pf_2024fall_petillo_kristian.pdf
Overview "Vibrant And The Invisible Girl is an 80,000-word urban fantasy novel for Middle Grade readers. In a world where everyone has magic, a 13-year-old known only as The Invisible Girl has no powers. Zilch. Bupkis. Luckily, there's more to The Invisible Girl than what doesn't meet the eye. Her boyfriend, Vibrant, is a magical prodigy. He's also a literal natural disaster. Ask anyone, Vibrant is going to save the world. So long as he doesn't accidentally destroy it first, that is. Vibrant and The...
Dates: 2024

Violence in the dark: More Voice and Platforms are helping, 2022

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Identifier: md_2022summer_fu_grace.pdf
Overview "Due to the foundation and the history of the United States, guns owned by individuals are very common which gives gun violence chances to hurt people in the country. By researching gun violence-related issues, the news reports and data showed that it is still a big problem in America. The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute is a non-profit organization that supports gun violence victims and their families in the Boston area in Massachusetts. And since the collaborative partnership was with them,...
Dates: 2022

Visiting, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_wen_bo.pdf
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"Visiting is a short narrative about the relationships between different generations of a Chinese immigrant family at a time of loss. A grandson needs to go back to his family to be with his sick grandfather for his last hours. At the same time his girlfriend is pregnant yet he is not ready to be a father." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Voice of Lavinia, 2020

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Identifier: pf_2020fall_lutzeier_deanna.pdf
Overview "In the summer of 1984, Cate Smith Cruz, a teenage musical prodigy, is on the cusp of her freshman year when a disturbing apparition, Devoid, reappears. The last time she saw this evil spirit was at the age of eight. Cate escapes by writing lyrics and playing the piano, for it transcends time and space. She is driven to harness music's mystical forces to counter the ghost that threatens her sanity and happiness. Yet, the very thing she loves is attracting trouble as her ambition crosses...
Dates: 2020

Voila, Juliette!, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_hagerdon_shelby.pdf
Overview "Voila, Juliette! is a feature length script designed for streaming platforms and minor theatrical release that features a feminine voice with an experimental perspective on love, jealousy, loss, and vengeance all under the guidance of the French New Wave. Set in a small Midwestern town, the script follows an obsessive young artist losing her mind as she desperately searches for understanding in art while discovering too late that this understanding did not come in the shape of art, but in...
Dates: 2023

Voluntary Manslaughter, 2019

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Identifier: pf_2019fall_baldwin_adam neil.pdf
Overview "Voluntary Manslaughter is a mystery/thriller set in Nashville, TN in the not-sodistant future. The novel follows Charlie Watson, an ordinary young high school English teacher disillsioned with life. In his first week, at his new post, a student is found dead in the girls' locker room. Charlie quickly suspects a connection between the girl's death, his principal, John Hinkley, and his franternity. He takes his suspicions to his friends, Kat and Dave, who confirm Hinkley's involvement in the...
Dates: 2019

Waiting in Wally’s, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_sherodclyburn_shane.pdf
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"This collection of poems chronicles a young man, lost and in love with love, moving from warm bed to warm bed, drinking along the way. He laments the passing of youth and yearns for a promising future, as yet unwritten." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Waking up dead, 2018

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Identifier: vm_2018spring_elliott_shannon.pdf
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"Waking Up Dead is a narrative short about Maggie, a young woman who wakes up the night after her own murder and goes on a quest not only for answers but also revenge upon the person who killed her." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Wall, Mirror?, 2018

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Identifier: vm_2018fall_xu_bin.pdf
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"'Wall, Mirror?' is an interactive visual installation designed to explore the mystery boundaries between reality and virtual reality. It is an experiment, through the form of interactive art, trying to raise people's awareness how technology can impact the way we see things. This is a designated gallery installation exploring the relationships between human and interior space." -- Abstract

Dates: 2018