Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Best of My Love, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_brown_keilaj.pdf
Overview
"The Best of My Love presents a drama/comedy feature-length script that explores the joys and challenges of maintaining a relationship between mother and daughter. Elizabeth, an actor who's just been nominated for her first Academy award, struggles to find her place both in the Hollywood industry and in life. Returning home to celebrate her parents' 30th anniversary, Elizabeth finds hope and healing through recounting stories of her mother, Joey's journey to finding love and hope in the bond...
Dates:
2022
Between Deaths, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_turner_charles.pdf
Overview
"The purpose of this thesis is to showcase eight individual stories of fiction that are connected by distinct literary themes. These themes include parenthood and its subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle fallabilities [sic]; emotional disorientation; and the complexities of individualism. In lieu of traditional happy endings, I am examining how characters with unfortunate circumstances can learn to accept themselves for who they are, rather than who they are not. The goal behind this is...
Dates:
2021
Between Devotion & the Dead, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_sholomicky_eileen.pdf
Overview
""Between Devotion & the Dead" is the first 100 pages of an adult dark fantasy novel, the first in a planned trilogy. The novel follows formerly betrothed princes Declan and Valerian in their quest to stop the resurgence of a magical plague, which Valerian has accidentally triggered in his search for the legendary Gods' Well, before it kills their kingdoms' mages—including Declan's secret life partner, the healer Mylor. The novel explores themes of choices and those that are taken away...
Dates:
2024
Beyond the Horizon, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_peterson_erin.pdf
Overview
"This memoir is the story of a 6,000-mile road trip, a journey undertaken to understand my father's suicide and grapple with the guilt of not having seen it coming. I embark on a quest to reconnect with my siblings, who are scattered throughout the country, and to find and gather what is left with our father gone. Driving over mountains and prairies and deserts, I find hope and companionship in a small furry creature at my side: a dog who came unexpectedly into my life just before I left."...
Dates:
2020
Beyond the letters by Julie Eyer., 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_eyer_julie.pdf
Overview
"This project took traditional devised playmaking elements and brought them to the Internet. A survey was sent out over the Internet with questions revolving around the topic of the Greek life system in American colleges. From the verbatim responses, a script was created. Auditions were held, and six actors presented a staged reading of the script. A talkback with the cast, creator, and audience followed. This project created a safe, anonymous way for people to express thoughts about a given...
Dates:
2015
BGKB: Black Girl Korean Boy, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_jackson_lily.pdf
Overview
"Financial consultant ASIA JONES (27, Black American female) and Big Pharma heir JASON KWON (30, Korean male) engagement is running smoothly. Asia's family likes Jason well enough, and they have a good life together in LA. However, Jason receives a call from his mother SUSAN (50s, Korean female) that his father PHILIP (50s, Korean male) had a car accident and is in critical condition, prompting Jason to return home after four years abroad. It wouldn't be so bad, except Jason's parents have...
Dates:
2021
Big Time Tief, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_felix_winelle.pdf
Overview
"This thesis is a collection of fictional stories linking together the brokenheartedness of locational displacement. The stories closely follow characters toggling back and forth between a past they once knew and a present they will never belong to. These stories explore central themes of the American Dream concerning Caribbean migration, isolation, and assimilation, all present in the landscape that is the American society." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Billy, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_rolincik_kylie.pdf
Overview
"President of the Massachusetts Senate, Billy Bulger, sacrifices his political legacy to protect his mob boss older brother, Whitey Bulger." --Abstract. --page 7.
Dates:
2018
Black Hole, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_yihang.pdf
Overview
"Black Hole is a sound work featured with electroacoustic composition and field recording taking place in a dark space. It creates a journey/transformation a fish travels from the fish market back to the ocean in a seaside city in southern China, Shenzhen. Black Hole is a sound installation talking about happened and happening." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Black Rabbit, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_correia_jennifer.pdf
Overview
"A tattoo, a coded journal, a Jane Doe who may or may not be a former girlfriend—these are the only things that Mari Cassidy knows about her life from before she arrived in Mission, South Carolina two years ago. And, if graduating high school with no plan wasn't bad enough, Mari's past is finally catching up with her. Her visions are growing increasingly disorienting, the pain from skin contact is becoming unbearable, and her only remedy is to wear gloves despite the summer heat. Hoping to...
Dates:
2022
Black Sea by the handful, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017fall_dannenberg_kenan.pdf
Overview
"From villages on the Turkish-Syrian border, to the bustling neighborhoods of Istanbul, Black Sea by the Handful spans the varied locales of Turkey through five stories following such people as an exhausted florist training a neighborhood stray to blow up the president, a smuggler trafficking a girl who claims to be pregnant via parthenogenesis, a swimmer hoping to escape the gravity of Soma mine, a father who loses his three daughters in the wake of the Gezi Park protests, and the daughter...
Dates:
2017
Black to Reality: Participatory Design of a Virtual Reality Training Program for Reentry with Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018fall_teng_melissa_qingping.pdf
Overview
"'Back To Reality' is a virtual reality-based reentry training program for a women's prison, created with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women as collaborators. Conceptually drawing on VR exposure theory, this first prototype consists of facilitated discussions centered around a series of guided, first-person 3D-360° video episodes that depict psychologically stressful situations that women commonly face when returning home. Critical story and production elements—including...
Dates:
2018
Blackbird Rising, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_pittman_allicia.pdf
Overview
"Blackbird Rising captures the experiances of a family through the lens of their youngest member, Alice. As Alice works to navigate the complications that had become her home life since her brother's return from Vietnam, she is also forced to face the reality of the social and political changes happening during the Civil Rights movement. This story has a focus on mental health, greif, and includes some violence. The aim of this thesis is to provide insight on not simply another area of the...
Dates:
2024
Blade mouth, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_roach_breauna.pdf
Overview
"Blade Mouth works to negotiate how the complexities of conflict can manifest into the kind of pressure that breaks and, maybe, the kind of pressure that purifies." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Blade of Hope: A Novel of the Virago, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_babin_sheryl.pdf
Overview
"Blade of Hope is a YA Fantasy of approximately 110,000 words that follows Harlow Stonehand, the orphaned daughter of a shunned magician and newest member of the queen select's personal guard. When a plot to assassinate the future queen select is uncovered, Harlow rescues her only to realize the corruption is not outside the kingdom of Thornewood. It's been right under her nose the entire time. To save the future queen Desminda's life, Harlow must brave great danger to smuggle her out of her...
Dates:
2022
Blind/Blend, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_severance_brittany_elizabeth.pdf
Overview
"'Blind/Blend' is a multimedia installation that explores perceptual awareness and alternate ways of seeing the world due to the artist's own visual impairment. Through original stereo cards with swapped left and right channels, layered portraits on silk at different stages of clarity, and soft and shallow focused videos, she invites the audience to engage in active forms of looking. As the spectator navigates this installation through a near-sighted perspective, the artist asks one question...
Dates:
2020
Bliss, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_caetano_sofia.pdf
Overview
A science fiction comedy film that follows The Scientist, a goddess-like woman who believes she created the perfect existence and the happiest civilization -- BLISS. The Scientist is, though, about to come to terms with accepting she failed on her endeavor. Therefore, she decides to send a couple of Blissed teenagers to the past, to Planet Earth. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Blood Incorporated, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_pruett_tyler.pdf
Overview
"This thesis consists of the first act of the novel 'Blood Incorporated,' a science fiction thriller. This story features Cowboy, the protagonist, who discovers himself alone on the tundra, stripped of his memories. He survives the elements to find more danger in the city of Fabula, where emissaries of the villain BA, a master of evil, patrol the streets and try to kill Cowboy. He finds friends to assist on his quest to retrieve his lost memories and connect him with supernatural powers,...
Dates:
2021
Blood Island/Go to Hell, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_krolick_william.pdf
Overview
"BLOOD ISLAND is an hour-long horror-comedy pilot that follows a group of reality tv stars on the set of a popular remote island dating show as a masked killer begins picking off the contestants, one by one. Think SCREAM meets BACHELOR IN PARADISE. GO TO HELL is a half-hour comedy pilot that follows a recently deceased workaholic as she navigates a tennis tournament in the underworld in the hopes of winning a second chance at life - all with the help of her new, unlikely companion, a talking...
Dates:
2021
Blood Will Have Blood: Shakespeare as Inquiry into the World, With the World, and With Each Other, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_pearl-styles_rainier.pdf
Overview
"While William Shakespeare's work permeates the United States education system, scholars debate the benefit. Through qualitative interviews and a review of literature, six pedagogical approaches to liberatory Shakespeare education were discovered and applied to a devising process. A group of unaffiliated adults piloted the co-constructed, devised process, which integrated social-justice theatre techniques with ensemble and community building activities with the goal of creating a performance...
Dates:
2023