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Torn Apart: A Closer Look At Our Cover Image, Sandra Rios

Culture, Society, and Praxis

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#Queer: Community, Communication, And Identity In The Digital Age, Margaret Allen-Young

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The creation and facilitation of community among LGBTQ+ people has always been necessary as a means of support, protection, and affirmation in a discriminatory society. The common perception of this community imagines the migration of people from rural areas to urban meccas like San Francisco and New York in search of likeminded people. However, the advent of new technology has allowed for community building and organizing to occur more easily without face-to-face contact. In this paper I utilize existing literature, including a large study on queer rural populations, and real-world examples such as the platform Tumblr to explore the evolution …

Video Game Audio Techniques Applied To Board Game Companion Applications, Jaydon Osborn

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Video games have been one of the most popular forms of entertainment since the turn of the 20th century. Starting in pinball machines that developed into arcade games and now lovingly into virtual reality, console, and handheld gaming systems, video games have become a normal factor in people's lives. It is no mystery why they are so popular; games not only give us a sense of accomplishment beyond what our physical and mental limits could achieve, but also evoke our imaginations by drawing us into a new world that is magical or something we would never have seen before. Think …

Traumatic Experiences Through The Queer Lens, Holden Guckenberg

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This is a collection of short stories based off of real trauma that LGBTQ+ individuals have experienced. I have interviewed seven people who identify within the LGBTQ+ community and listened to their traumatic stories. Based on their stories, I have written their accounts with trauma while expanding and taking creative freedom to better enunciate and bring-forth their stories. Trauma affects the LGBTQ+ community at a greater height than it does the general population. It’s important to recognize this fact so that we can support those people who have faced tremendous adversity in the form of trauma. In one form or …

12 Steps Might Not Be Enough: Playing Music And Its Effects In Addiction Recovery, James Crumm

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Music therapy is very well studied and has been used for such a wide array of reasons over the last half-century: from helping those with psychological disorders to improving cognitive ability for infants in the womb to aiding plant growth. This paper will analyze the effects of music therapy, specifically the action of learning and/or playing a musical instrument, in those who suffer from addiction. Specific forms of music therapy discussed will be one-on-one instrumental instruction, group classes, and instrumental practice. The paper will discuss different professional musicians who have successfully used this activity as a coping mechanism, as well …

Let Me Be Myself, Brandon Stettenbenz

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Let Me Be Myself is a collection of short stories, essays, oral history, and poems that deals with generational trauma, history, traveling, family, war, oppression, and healing. This project serves to inform, evoke understanding, lend perspective, and inspire others. It aims to help others understand the trauma of being born from a Holocaust surviving family, and its impact on somebody in modern day society. It explores the story of a first, second, and third generation Holocaust refugee. It connects a timeline of eighty years of trauma through violence and oppression, and a pursuit to find healing from Nazi Germany.

Bringing Music Back Into The Classroom And Its Benefits On Elementary School Students, Laura Alcaraz

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project brings to light the lack of music education in elementary classrooms despite its benefits to students. There are numerous positive advantages for students learning to play an instrument or participating in a choir, for example. The education system strives to educate its students to the best of their abilities. However, this focus has pushed away music education to math, science, and language arts, and prepared students for standardized testing. This senior capstone research project examines the benefits of bringing back music into the classroom through the use of literature review and anonymous interviews with public and private school …

Aggregation Services And Songwriter Independence, Saxon John Paul Ahern

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Digital download aggregation services are the modern songwriter’s greatest ally and independent record labels’ newest competition. Digital download aggregators like CDBaby, Distrokid, Tunecore, and Awal have made releasing an album for online distribution far easier than before. Many aggregators are affordable and also provide many services to the songwriter that historically involved employing additional middlemen.

Like distribution, the mastering stage of production has evolved. Mastering music can now be done through online services independently and on a very tight budget. Automated mastering services like LANDR and iZotope will be briefly discussed in section three, as well as additional options for …

An Untold History: Intergenerational Trauma & The Armenian Genocide, Erik Anderson

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The plan for my project is to do a video documentary in which I interview trauma victims and survivors and discuss their instances and some of the practices that allowed them to overcome this difficult time. More specifically I am going to focus on the theme of inter-generational trauma and the effects that genocides and mass killings can have on people and their offspring. Being. That I am the great-grandson and 4th Generation descendant of an Armenian genocide survivor I hope to interview my grandmother and talk with her about the experiences of what it was like being the daughter …

Smoothing It Out, Andrea Villegas

Writing Waves

Keywords: Breakfast, Smoothies, Health, Food, Activity System

Making Flan, Joycelyn Vasquez

Writing Waves

Keywords: Mexican Dessert, CHAT Analysis, Recipe, Community

Plastic Pollution In The Pacific Ocean, Sarah Van Nes

Writing Waves

Keywords: Preserve/Preservation, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The 5 R’s,

The Mysteries Of Storytelling Revealed, Delaney Temple

Writing Waves

Keywords: CHAT Analysis, Mystery, Story telling, Writing

The Art Of Hip-Hop In Digital Media, Lauren Sayre

Writing Waves

Keywords: Music Video, Production, Hip-Hop, Entertainment, CHAT Analysis

Stereotypes Across Cultures, Giovana Reis

Writing Waves

Keywords: Carnaval, Mestizo, #EleNão

The Biracial Identity Crisis, Laila Norwood

Writing Waves

Keywords: Identity, Race, Crisis, Identity development, Monoracial, Biracial

Csumb Issues For Track Athletes, Luna Mercenit

Writing Waves

Keywords: Track and Field, Field, CSUMB, Interviewing

How To…Logos, Faye Mensah

Writing Waves

Keywords: Genre, Logos, Pixar, YouTube, CHAT

Effects Of Model Minority On Adolescents’ Mental Health, Tiffany Ly

Writing Waves

Keywords: Model Minority, Mental Health, Interview, Asian American

Puppy Training: A Tedious Research Process, Elizabeth López

Writing Waves

Keywords: Kinesthetic Learning, CSUMB Library Tool, Visual Learning,

Research Process

Chating About Learning Plans, Abigail Lopez

Writing Waves

Keywords: CHAT Analysis, Education, Disabilities, IEP

Tackling The Rules Of Rugby, Rebecca Harbison

Writing Waves

Keywords: Rugby, Sports, CHAT Analysis, Logistics, Women’s Team

Student Disability: Research Paper, Lilly Hanna

Writing Waves

Keywords: Student Disabilities, Awareness, University, Inequality

Substance Abuse And College Students: What’S The Epidemic?, Monique Gomez

Writing Waves

Keywords: CHAT Analysis, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Health, College Students

It Could Not Have Been That Hard, Ilene Gomez

Writing Waves

Keywords: 9/11, Analysis, Emergency, Government

Espn Sports Articles From A Different Perspective, Morgan Goldschmidt

Writing Waves

Keywords: Genres, Sports Website, Access

Oh, Maria, Miguel Cruz

Writing Waves

Keywords: Genre, Culture, Music, Sampling, CHAT

Tolerance In Academic Debate, Mario Coronado Cartmell

Writing Waves

Keywords: Trigger Warning, Safe Spaces, Censorship

The Migrant Times, Jessenya Guerra

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This senior capstone newspaper shows how the Mexican diaspora has become integrated into American culture.

"Name Her Reiko!": The Ikemiya Diaspora, Morgan Ikemiya

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This creative-nonfiction project encapsulates a Japanese family diaspora to America beginning in the late 1880s. Through short stories, poems, and monologues, the author expresses familial struggles such as living in a foreign land and being Japanese in White America. The author reflects on her grandparents' time in the Japanese internment camps where they faced hardship and hegemonic oppression as well as her father's experience of growing up Japanese-American in Los Angeles. The stories weave together history, hardship, and race to create a unique diaspora story.