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The Mystery Of Lauren Lansky, Maya Nucci

LMU Theatre Arts Annual New Works Festival

Two hotshot detectives yearning to rise above their station take on the case of “Lauren Lansky;” a mysterious girl with a mysterious secret. Through twists and turns in this seemingly 1940s noir world, we follow our detectives as they work to solve this mystery, finding clues and seeking help along the way. When it comes down to the wire, we find ourselves dying to figure out “what is the mystery of Lauren Lansky?” and at the end, we just might.

The Simple Life, Ian Piexoto

LMU Theatre Arts Annual New Works Festival

When a human from another planet meets an old friend at a diner, he must choose between space heroics and his newfound simple life of love and waffles on Earth.

Ten minute play, New Works Festival 2025, First Place Playwrighting University Writing Awards

With A Little Help From My Friends, Jack Forgea

LMU Theatre Arts Annual New Works Festival

A fictional play about the change in The Beatle's group dynamic after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein.

Something Around Storytelling | Risd Mfa Illustration Anthology 2025, Illustration Department, Illustration Mfa, Yimiao Wang, Tori Hong, Qing " Christine" Wen, Rong Xu, Esther Du, Anum Naseer, Maren Curtis, Yuanhui "Yan" Li, Sadie Levine, Georgia Darley Oldham, Mawra Tahreem, Margaryta Winkler

Illustration MFA Anthologies

What follows is a collection of twelve essays by the students of RISD’s Illustration Practice MFA programme, variously reflecting upon their thesis projects, or their creative practice more generally. It allows us an opportunity to chart the many themes and perspectives that inform their work—to notice moments of both overlap and divergence. This anthology not only offers us a window into their individual practices, but also provides a glimpse of the spirit and camaraderie that underscores their experience as a cohort. The very making of this anthology is a reflection of that collective spirit, and you will find many traces …

The Complex Legacy Of Martha Graham, Izabella Entrekin

Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics

Second-generation modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham is, to this day, recognized as one of the art form's most influential figures. Her distinctive technique, which has been applauded as a momentous innovation by critics throughout her life and after, is a dynamic mixture of elements Graham plucked from various experiences and aesthetics. Many, throughout history and to this day, mark Graham as a primary developer and architect of modern dance movement. She has continuously been labeled a pioneer of angular movement, dramatic contractions, asymmetrical posing, and the incorporation of ritualistic elements into her emotional compositions. However, such identifications fail to …

Presenting Rewards With Effective Pacing To Heighten Engagement, Titus Thompson

Level Design Theses and Dissertations

This thesis (1) builds a theory of rewards as a pacing device by synthesizing principles of games and theatre and (2) posits that linear regression can model engagement. The paper aims to establish a preliminary empirical basis for both by gathering data from an original video game. It covers the theory’s application to the game and other essential considerations in the design process.

This Night, Roshni Jayakrishnan Nair

Theses

"This Night" is a 2D animated Graduate Thesis Film. The story centers on a devout elderly woman who receives a vision foreshadowing her departure from life. Guided by this vision, she embarks on a profound journey. In her garden, she plucks a hibiscus and offers it to the deities in her home. As she prays with closed eyes, she envisions her hibiscus offering reaching the temple doors. Recognizing this as her sign to depart, she resolves to set out on her journey to meet the goddess at the temple. Plucking another hibiscus to carry with her, a sudden gust of …

An American Song Cycle: A Performance Guide To The Rim Of Love By Andrea Clearfield, Margot Marie Porter

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Philadelphia-based American female composer Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960) arranged the cantata The Rim of Love into a song cycle for soprano and piano, featuring poetry written by Manfred Fischbeck (1940–2021). Fischbeck and Clearfield met in 1985 while both on faculty at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where they cultivated a lifelong creative partnership and friendship, along with being romantic partners for 20 years.

Clearfield has composed over 170 works, including opera, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, chorus, and orchestra. In 2005, the nonprofit mentoring program Astral Artists, based out of Philadelphia, commissioned Clearfield to compose The Rim of Love …

Legacy - Spring 2025, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Lean Times for Archaeology, and Legacy Goes Digital

Director’s Notes

Maritime Research Division- A Year of Fieldwork in Review 2024

29 Years on the Camden Battlefield

The Reburial of a British Soldier on the Camden Battlefield

The Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey: 20^th Anniversary

Francis Marion Continues to Elude Both Enemies and Friends on Snow’s Island

Cosmic Impacts as Indicators of Abrupt Climate and Cultural Change

2024 Update on the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey

SCIAA on Scholar Commons

The ART Board Research Grant Program

Annual Report for 2023 and 2024

Historic Archaeology: Chester DePratter Retires

Behind The Curtain: The Influence Of Tourism And Production Costs On Broadway Success, João Branco Chaves, Alice M. Brawley Newlin

Management Faculty Publications

This study explores the relationship between Broadway's financial success, NYC tourism, and production costs. By analyzing data from 1980 to 2023, the study finds that tourism plays a crucial role in Broadway's performance, while cost management, particularly cotton prices, also influences its financial outcomes.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2025, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents

Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members

Essays: "Beyond the Fever: One-Sided Love and the Fetishization of Race in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever"; "The Female Husband"; "Double-A Manifesto", "A Critical Introduction to Frozen: On What Side Does The River Freeze?"; "'See what I hunger for': Roxanne Gay's Hunger"; "They Cannot Touch Her: Evocations of the Oedipus Complex in Taxi Driver"

Reviews: "Anatomy of a Fall"; "Anne With an E"; "Bladerunner"; "Genderqueer"; "Intermezzo"; "Message From Our Planet"; "Pinocchio"; "The Laramie Project"; "The Message"; "Who's Afraid of Gender"; "Wicked"; "Wildhood"

Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook, April 11-12, 2025, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook, based on the books Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook and Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren by Barbara Park, adapted by Allison Gregory, directed by Michael Oberton.

Synopsis: This play follows kindergartener Junie B. Jones as she navigates school drama after her new, fuzzy mittens are stolen. When she finds a fancy multi-colored pen, she faces a moral dilemma: keep it ("finders keepers") or return it, while also managing a crush on a new boy, Handsome Warren.

Write Free Or Die: Vol. 11, No. 02, Unh Writing Programs

Writing Program Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Voyages Spring 2025 Inner Pages, Florida Southwestern State College

Voyages Magazine

Voyages Magazine: FSW Embracing AI. Spring 2025 inner pages.

Tartans: Weaving A Warped History With Myths, Heritage And A Whole Lot Of Heather., Bethany Sassen

LSU Master's Theses

Scotland has many tartans throughout the whole of the country. Each has a different meaning and is used for different clans and purposes. Tartans are the plaids that are seen throughout the Highlands and the patterns and colors have a wide range depending on where and when the tartan was created. The purpose of this research is to investigate the history of the tartans and how they interact with our current culture. I also built two outfits to show how tartan is still being used. One a more traditional outfit and the other more avant garde. Tartans have a long …

Wooster Magazine: Spring 2025, Caitlin Paynich Stanowick

Wooster Magazine: 2021-2030

In the spring 2025 Wooster magazine, alumni share insights from their fields for the lifelong learners The College of Wooster inspires. Creative graduates including Kent Sprague '14, Kathryne Hall ’99, Scott Doty ’97, and Will Strohmeyer ’19 share techniques from behind the scenes, keyboard, and camera. Lisa Skeens ’88, David Roney ’21, Brenda Major ’72, Martin Danial ’05, and Grace Bouker ’21 illuminate meaning behind approaches and processes in health-related fields. Other features showcase how alumni involvement expands the Wooster community, the 50^th anniversary of Freedlander Theatre, and the dedication of The Piper sculpture. Oak Grove features a new …

The Effect Of A M-Health Application Compared To Standard Of Care On Adherence To Preoperative Fasting Instructions Among Adult Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Study, Ivy Njeri Wanyoike

Master of Medicine in Anaesthesiology

Background: Preoperative fasting has been a pillar of the practice of anaesthesiology with the main aim of enhancing patient safety by reducing the risk of aspiration. Current clinical guidelines on preoperative fasting guidelines encourage shorter durations of fasting in keeping with current evidence that shows better patient outcomes while maintaining patient safety. Despite this, adherence to preoperative fasting instructions remains universally poor, with patients enduring long fasting periods. Advances in mobile technology, improving internet access and the widespread availability of smartphones have made mobile health a useful tool in patient care. mHealth applications are being increasingly used in perioperative …

Research Showcase Program, St. Mary's University

Program - 2025

No abstract provided.

Building Services Engineering March/April 2025

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Honoring Intellectual Risk-Taking: A Dialogue, Julie Bowman, Alexis Teagarden

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Presented in the form of a Socratic dialogue, this piece considers what honors courses should strive to teach. Bowman, an experienced instructor of both non-honors and honors classes, notes that while universities’ honors colleges prize intellectual curiosity, her honors students might not. Teagarden, the other interlocutor and a writing program administrator, wonders whether curiosity is a sufficient end goal for honors or any teaching. The speakers turn to whether curiosity or courage is the more important virtue to instill, explore a classical difference between courage and audacity, and then discuss whether and how courage could be taught.

Jenifer Michaels. A History., Farrah Freibert

Publications

Jenifer Michaels was a legendary subcultural star within the gay liberation film milieu of 1970s Los Angeles. Taking three paths to approaching and interpreting Michaels’s filmic and archival image, this article is structured by an analysis of Michaels’s documentary appearances, her performance in sex films, and her statements published in a textual interview. Working against what I call historiographic gentrification, the article utilizes archival and micro-historical methods to think through Michaels’s subcultural stardom as a nexus for complicating biography, documentary, and the politics of veracity.

Rising From The Ashes : How African American Women From North Tulsa Overcame The Oppressions Of Race, Gender, And Class And Achieved Success, Cynthia A. Talley

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A City Divided: Norfolk, Virginia And Public Higher Education In The Era Of Desegregation, John Edward Wiley V

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the 1978 suggested merger of predominantly white Old Dominion University and historically Black Norfolk State College (now Norfolk State University), two neighboring public higher education institutions. That year the Federal Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the Office for Civil Rights (ORC) claimed that the two universities offered nine duplicative degree programs. According to HEW and the OCR, this duplication was a violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in all public institutions receiving federal aid. The duplication also represented the last vestiges of Jim Crow segregation in the …

It Ends With Us: How Social Media Algorithms Shape Recommendations In Online Reading Communities, Alana Nicole Whitley

Communication & Theatre Arts Theses

My thesis explores social media algorithms and their influence on recommendations of authors for people who engage with reading communities online. During a three-week research period, I examined algorithmic behaviors in online book communities using an alias. Findings revealed that BookTube, BookTok, and Bookstagram facilitate book discovery but offer weak algorithmic recommendations and suggestions. While social media algorithms excel at providing opportunities for creators and authors, they fail to promote trending and diverse books. These insights indicate that algorithms shape literary consumption by limiting readers’ choices. This research contributes to discussions of online reading communities and the role of algorithmic …

Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Creation, And The Future Path Of Copyright Law, Peter K. Yu

Faculty Scholarship

Most literature at the intersection of copyright and AI has focused primarily on what copyright law is or ought to be. Frequently overlooked is the question of what copyright law will be in the AI space. Understanding this question is crucial because the path of copyright law chosen by the United States will have a major impact on the country's economic and technological future.

This article begins by scrutinizing two lines of arguments that have been advanced to deny copyright protection to AI-generated works: constitutional and incentive-based. The article then discusses a third line of arguments—harmonization-based arguments—and identifies select instances …

Beware The Wandering Woman: Depictions Of Female Spatial Transgression In Athenian Public Dramas Of The 5th And 4th Centuries Bce, Anne E. Mcgrath

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

This paper explores how ancient Greek literature and culture construct autonomous, mobile women as threats to the ideological and spatial order of the polis. Referencing mythological precedents and closely reading Classical texts, I propose the category of “excepted women” to address the threads of female transgression woven throughout this extensive literary corpus. Focusing on figures who transgress imposed spatial boundaries, I examine how such women are positioned as disruptors of gendered norms and civic stability, thus reflecting deep cultural anxieties about female agency and movement into spaces coded as masculine. The paper engages theoretical frameworks from Althusser and Butler to …

Flow Experience In Immersive Tourism Performance: Antecedents And Tourists’ Satisfaction, Xiaoli Zhu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

With the deep integration of culture and tourism, immersive tourism performance has emerged as a new form of experiential consumption and has gradually become an essential vehicle for shaping destination branding and enhancing tourists’ cultural identity. By breaking the boundaries of traditional stages and integrating spatial construction, narrative mechanisms, and multidimensional interactive experiences, immersive performances create a sense of presence and immersion for tourists. This study focuses on the mechanism influencing tourists’ flow experience and satisfaction in immersive tourism performances. A theoretical model incorporating authenticity, interactivity, sense of presence, and value congruence was constructed and tested to reveal how multidimensional …

Exploring The Minuet: A Study In Piano Instruction Including Stylistic Concerns, Technical And Musical Challenges, And Pedagogical Analyses, Zhenyu Gao

Theses and Dissertations

The minuet, originating in 17th-century France, evolved from a courtly dance emblematic of aristocratic refinement into a significant form of instrumental music. Over the centuries, it has maintained its prominence in musical pedagogy and performance. This study provides a comprehensive exploration of the minuet’s historical development, tracing its Baroque significance in dance suites and individual keyboard repertoire to its transformation into a distinct movement during the Classical era. Furthermore, it examines the reinterpretation of the minuet within the contexts of Romantic and neoclassical compositions, including its enduring legacy in pedagogical collections, individual movements, and as a stylized dance form. This …

The Impact Of Ballet Techniques On Singing Performers, Julie H. Welch

Theses and Dissertations

Singing performers are tasked to being a multifaceted artist using their acting and even dance skills in a performance. Voice teachers have long incorporated physical activity into training, but traditional ballet techniques—such as core tension and neck elongation—can contradict healthy singing practices. Given ballet’s deep historical connection to opera and stage performance, this study aims to examine whether integrating ballet into vocal training enhances or hinders a singer’s technique and overall performance. This investigation surveyed forty subjects who identified as teachers, singing performers, or students earning a performance degree and interviewing select subjects for further information; results will be discussed.