Missing pages 204, 208, and 287. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University

Using critical code studies, this dissertation examines the Twine story format Snowman. Despite existing books on the authoring tool Twine, a central part of its functionality, what it names "story formats," is rarely covered. This study steps into this gap and, based on my own experiences through working on story formats and documenting examples using Twine, explores the greater social context of the story format Snowman through examining its source code. This dissertation consists of three chapters, each using a different set of research methods. First, the metaphor of a stack is used to better understand how software like Snowman is based on a past of other, older concepts and functionality. Second, the concept of a network is applied to better understand how software projects often rely on relationships of trust and hidden labor. Third, two other story formats, which are based on Snowman, are compared through first using a distant reading approach to find structures and then a closer reading to review how they are different. This research presents not only a greater emphasis on story formats missing from existing scholarship but also positions the story format Snowman as an important, but often overlooked, part of Twine's history.

Why she returned she did not know

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Macho Remixes: A Collection of Writings is a thesis containing short stories, poetry, and a personal essay that discuss the matter of toxic masculinity through the representations of male and macho sexuality in the Latinx culture. It covers depictions of how Latinx men have been stereotyped in today’s society. The works included here are my own perspectives of what masculinity means to me as a young multicultural male navigating life. Throughout these texts, I—my speakers and narrators—grapple with understanding the conflicting and oppressive expectations drawn from my roots, particularly those based in Latinx culture. The purpose is considering the negative and restrictive expectations and representations of Latinx men and redefining what it is to be a man.

This book is about what it means to enter the imaginary: In history. In body. On the page. What happens when, one day, we encounter in the streets, the lifelong friends of our imagination? Strange absurdities emerge: Empty coffins are raised. Selfies taken with soldiers. A belief in immortality confirmed. Then, when happens when those soldiers are shooting at friends and strangers in the streets; how do those moments come back to us then? These are the times we returned to and will keep returning to throughout our lives. These are our seasons. They exist beyond lines of latitude. They exist beyond lines of latitude because places, too inhabit the imaginary. “One million people live in Harare, but Harare exists as a ‘home' for many millions more, who exist somewhere else, but imagine the city into being every day with nostalgia,” wrote a friend, Helen Morris. Zimbabwean literature is full of leaving, of what it means to live in exile. But what does it mean to come back to a place? Which is to say, what does it mean to return to the places we left and continued to inhabit in our minds? Again, what does it mean to enter into the imaginary? On the page, this refers to writing a book that served its purpose before it existed. Hope, too, is a way of imagining.

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