Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Buttercup, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_novack_sarah.pdf
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"This thesis is the first third of my novel, titled Buttercup. It is a young adult high fantasy novel immersed in Jewish mythology. The story follows sixteen-year-old Opal living in a high fantasy world, called Medina. The people of Medina have supernatural powers, and there are four varieties—serafers (powers based on fire), seviaths (powers based on water), solems (powers based on earth), and spirahs (powers based on air). Non-supernatural people are called commons, but they have an...
Dates:
2023
By any other name : a feminist anthology for fangirls, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_rivera_jennifer.pdf
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Book proposal for an anthology of feminist academic and personal essays involving women in geek and sports fandom. For the purposes of this project, the term "geek" applies to fans of comics, video games, science fiction, and fantasy. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
By My Own Hand: A Master's Poetry Manuscript, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_wagner_jennifer.pdf
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"This thesis project is a 40-page poetry manuscript written largely in free verse. The poems focus on relationships in all forms—family, friends, lovers—, gender issues, evangelical faith reckoning, and the natural world. Throughout the collection the speaker grapples with finding and exercising their voice." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Bystander, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_dugan_andrew.pdf
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"The poems in Bystander hold the private spaces in our lives up to the light. This examination yields a reconsideration of what we assume mundane, but also shows us the things we thought were solid are perhaps fluid--perhaps a mirage. Relationships between people and objects are explored, as well as the relationship among the mind, the body and consciousness that can elude us all." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Cabin 12, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_elsea_katherine.pdf
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"Chris and his best friends, single-man Westley and settled-father Shawn, prepare of [sic] a weekend away from the daily humdrum of suburb life in celebration of Chris's upcoming nuptials. His future brother-in-law Asher makes a last-minute addition, and brings with him a disdain for the outdoors and for the three friends. Once they are alone in the woods, however, they begin to realize that someone means them harm, and they much [sic] decide who amongst them can be trusted. Screams in the...
Dates:
2024
Call Home, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_cohen_elise.pdf
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"How isolated can we feel in a foreign country? How much do we feel the need to constantly stay connected with our family? And how do we cope with the fear of losing the traditions transmitted by our loved ones? Working with a collection of Home movies filmed by my grandfather from his time in Morocco, and a series of recordings of conversations I've had with my grandmother, Call Home reflects on the preservation and transmission of the memory taking the form of a visual poem." --...
Dates:
2023
"Can You Hear Me Now?": Perspectives on Speech-Language Teletherapy from Adults with Neurogenic Communication Disorders, 2022
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Identifier: cd_2022summer_powell_lauren.pdf
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"The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in countless speech-language pathologists and clients with communication disorders transitioning to the use of telepractice for speech-language pathology services. Using a qualitative approach, the current study examines client satisfaction with the receipt of teletherapy services. It provides first-person perspectives from adults with neurogenic communication disorders who received remote speech and language therapy services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This...
Dates:
2022
Capturing unconventional language use over time in individuals on the autism spectrum: A preliminary study, 2021
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Identifier: csd_2021spring_arnold_rachel.pdf
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"The language expression of children on the autism spectrum has often been described as atypical or unusual. However, little is known about how this unconventional use of language changes over time and how it may relate to adult outcomes. This qualitative study provides a longitudinal language analysis of seven unconventional language features in three individuals across the spectrum. Video recordings of participants at three time points were transcribed and coded for each linguistic...
Dates:
2021
Care is an Incision, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_meneghin_livia.pdf
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"'Care is an Incision' explores self-care and self-preservation in the event of a severing—what does it mean when a painful act, like letting someone go or undergoing surgery, are necessary for wellness and safety? In 2019, I was diagnosed with cancer and was left behind by someone I cared for very dearly. This manuscript experiments with form to push the boundaries of memory; I rely on the ghazal's repetition to mirror the obsessiveness of anxiety and the depression of sitting in what is...
Dates:
2021
Cat Black and the Curse Breakers, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_busch_andrew.pdf
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"Jordan is a high schooler and aspiring guitar player that grapples with losing his grandfather, Eddie Wilde, a famous guitarist from the '70s rock band Cat Black. Jordan and Eddie's shared passion for music and their inability to connect before Eddie's death makes this loss more painful. Eddie Wilde's presence looms over Jordan as he carves out his own path in Chicago's music scene. Enter Sly, a long-dead musician and one of the founding members of Cat Black. Sly battles his way back to the...
Dates:
2024
Ceylon, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_brown_kaleigh.pdf
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"High-achieving Manhattan-native Mulan is supposed to go to Princeton. She's not supposed to think about her crazy Aunt Tabitha's suspected suicide. However, it's hard not to, when Tabitha is sending her messages from the other side. The signs seem to lead to Hawthorne College's mysterious summer program in the jungle. The program not only allegedly involves magic, but it's also highly competitive with students sent home every week. If Mulan wants to learn the truth about her aunt, she'll...
Dates:
2020
Characters in the trees, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_bercovici_elizabeth.pdf
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The spiritual adventure of a young woman who goes to teach English for a year in China.--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_bruno_daniel.pdf
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"'Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain' is a middle-grade fantasy adventure novel set in a Narnia-like world. Charlie Parker is a 12-year-old boy living in a normal town at the foot of a mystical mountain. He wishes he was anyone else, living anywhere else. His only safe haven is the dojo, where he practices karate and meditation—a road his mom started him on before she died giving birth to his little sister. Everything changes for Charlie when he finds a magic key from the hidden world on...
Dates:
2019
Chasing Shadows in Barrowed Light, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_danish_elahi_safina.pdf
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"Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light is a work of fiction that deals with friendships and mental health across countries. A group of four friends who went to school together separate following a painful event, are thrown far apart from each other. In an attempt to disengage, three leave the country, while one stays back. The story begins when one of them reaches out to another announcing she would not be around any longer. The novel deals with complex issues such as molestation, childhood...
Dates:
2023
Checking Behavior, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_currell_anna.pdf
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"'Checking Behavior' is a nonfiction collection of essays written by MFA student Anna Currell. The work is a collection of humorous essays about the writer's experience in therapy and relationship she forms with her therapist. After a breakup, the writer has trouble sleeping and seeks therapy to find out that she has something much bigger to learn about herself." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Cheek to Cheek, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_bradley_christopher.pdf
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"Cheek to Cheek is a romantic comedy thriller which tells a story of finding love while outrunning that which threatens to destroy it – in this case, a vengeful soon to be husband of the protagonist's former lover. The story is a dramatization of the corporate existence and the quest for self-satisfaction and liberation through preternatural machinations of fortune and luck, where characters dream to the heights of casino towers and sums of magazine sweepstakes. This project adds to the...
Dates:
2021
Chinese Student Assimilation at Emerson College: An Analysis of CHUANG Stage, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_zheng_shuyu.pdf
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"With an increasing number of Chinese students studying in the United States, there is an observable phenomenon in which they tend to create their own community in order to secure a sense of cultural belonging. This thesis explores the process of establishing a theater group, emerging out of an interest in the possibilities of adapting Chinese theatrical works in a way that better connects various ethnic and cultural groups. Through in-depth interviews with different team members of a...
Dates:
2020
Chosen Permanence, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_cubilette_genesis.pdf
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"Gathered here, in a collection of narratives, is a personal reflection on the post-traumatic lived experience of survivors of sexual violence. Chosen Permanence challenges the portrayal of sexual violence that centers rape, by offering an incisive look at what is achieved when survivors are provided a safe space to speak up. The decorative but necessary elements of this project include: first-person narration that is applied to every story as a way for survivors to stand as one in an...
Dates:
2023
Citizen TALES Commons: The Transformative Power of Collective Voice in Academia, 2019
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Identifier: cm_2019summer_rapti_vassiliki_.pdf
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"Citizen TALES* Commons is an intersectional research and media project encompassing civic media design, civic dramaturgy, interdisciplinary research, textual criticism, storytelling and curatorial studies. Fueled by institutional critique —especially in today's academia in the United States, characterized by an adjunct underclass and the decline of the humanities— and committed to social justice and the democratic values, Citizen TALES Commons aspires to offer an innovative, holistic...
Dates:
2019
Clouds of Smoke and Whispers, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_lee_cassidy.pdf
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"The following is the first 112 pages of Of Smoke and Whispers, a queer, supernatural fantasy romance about two young women, one human, and one fae, who fight to understand their part in a prophecy and their growing attraction for each other. Piper, who doesn't see the value in loving when you're destined to lose, must fight to return home while battling the feelings blossoming where her heart used to be. The armor that Evanora, Crown Princess of Lendor built around herself is tested when...
Dates:
2024