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Item Puppets in The Garden: Artifice and Nature in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop(2020-01-01) Pritchard, HazelPuppets are uncanny figures, both in and beyond literature. They embody a ‘thing life’, according to author and academic Kenneth Gross, combining object materialism with imitations of human thought, emotion, and action. The combination of unrelatable object life and relatable human narrative combines to create the emotion Sigmund Freud terms the uncanny, in which something strange and unknown invokes a sense of the familiar. British feminist author Angela Carter uses puppets, and their uncanniness, in her novel The Magic Toyshop. Her characters remind us of puppets, treading a line between familiar and unrecognizable.Item Illustrated Choreography of Spirals(2020-01-01) Britt, KaseyThis independent project was created for the yearlong Anatomy component class in Dance. The author utilized movement practice, viewing video recordings, anatomical study and analysis, sketching and drawing, to develop and produce a detailed visual representation of Spirals, choreographed by Irene Dowd © 1991. Spirals is a complex and comprehensive warm up and cool down choreographic sequence for dancers, built upon functional anatomy and neuromuscular training principles. During the fall semester and for the first eight weeks of the spring semester, the author learned and refined their performance of this material, as well as making anatomical drawings and engaging in movement analysis. Following the shift to off-campus instruction, the author chose to pursue in-depth study of Spirals through the creation of a visually rendered version. There are 92 individual images in pencil, which serve as specific directions for performance of the choreography.Item Undocumented and Undesirable: The Immigration Industrial Complex as it Affects LGBT Migrants(2020-01-01) Freeland, TylerIn the wake of Trump’s election as president in 2016, a striking amount of restrictive immigration policies have been implemented. These policies affect millions of undocumented people across the country, especially gay and transgender immigrants, who are already targeted by law and immigration enforcement that stereotype them as being inherently suspicious and deviant. To understand this subject, we will explore the origins of how LGBT identity has been stigmatized and criminalized in the United States, the history of homophobic and transphobic immigration laws, the nature of the immigration industrial complex, recent changes in policy, forms of resilience amongst LGBT immigrants, then finally tying this with intersectional and abolitionist theory.Item Somewhere Warm: A Collection of Short Stories(2020-01-01) Ammons, Christy“Somewhere Warm” is a collection of short stories about the journey of a middle-aged woman whose house is foreclosed. The collection focuses on the relationships between the woman and the people in her life and how losing her house affected not just her, but also her family, particularly her daughter.Item Independent Creative Component in Dance(2020-01-01) McMullen, EmilyThis semester-long project in dance utilized improvisation, anatomical study and analysis, reading, writing, and consistent movement practice, to develop a warm up focusing on areas of specific technical and creative interest to the author and initially, a research partner. The weekly research sessions were conducted in a dance studio for the first eight weeks of the semester. Following the shift to off-campus instruction, the work was adjusted to residential and outdoor spaces for the remaining seven weeks, and was conducted independently by the author. The report includes photographic records as well as detailed notes on the research and development process.