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Brew Games offers a portable solution to the lack of compact tabletop games. By packaging games like Card Classics inside screw-top aluminum cans, the product provides a convenient and travel-friendly option for social settings such as bars and breweries. With essentials like poker chips, cards, and dice, users can enjoy games like poker or euchre without bulky boxes. Targeting social, non-sports fans, Brew Games aims to offer an engaging alternative to watching TV or sports at slower venues. The company plans to expand its lineup with additional games, making tabletop gaming a regular, enjoyable activity in casual settings.
ContributorsKamdar, Mitali (Author) / Cagno, Connor (Co-author) / Belknap, Austin (Co-author) / Byrne, Jared (Thesis director) / Akers, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Thunderbird School of Global Management (Contributor) / Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor)
Created2025-05
DescriptionThis thesis paper explains the future of the tax profession given the advancements in AI.
ContributorsThomas, William (Author) / Shields, David (Thesis director) / Munshi, Perseus (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / School of Accountancy (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Gacha games, originating in Japan and spreading across the world, are a segment of mobile video games that has experienced significant international growth in the last decade. This thesis explores how the core mechanics commonly found in gacha games and the culture they exist in shape digital marketing choices for gacha game developers. Through case studies of the gacha game industry, this thesis analyzes how emotion based marketing contributes to player engagement and revenue generation. It further examines the implications of these strategies for other markets, as well as considering ethical concerns regarding player spending habits and regulatory scrutiny.
ContributorsWang, Angela (Author) / Pierce, John (Thesis director) / Dong, Xiaodan (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Marketing (Contributor) / Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Thrive fosters an inclusive and accessible sports community at ASU, encouraging students to prioritize physical health while building meaningful friendships. By transforming casual play into a powerful tool for connection, Thrive helps students feel a deeper sense of belonging. More than just sports, Thrive creates an energized, welcoming environment where students can engage, grow, and thrive together.
ContributorsSteenhard, Lily (Author) / Singer, Haley (Co-author) / Modi, Sahil (Co-author) / Niziolek, Danielle (Co-author) / Byrne, Jared (Thesis director) / Lee, Christopher (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / School of Accountancy (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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This thesis examines how authoritarian and transitional regimes within Eastern Europe and Central Asia construct and sustain national identity through propaganda, surveillance, and ideological otherization, and how individuals within these systems navigate the spectrum between acceptance and resistance. Through a comparative analysis of historical and contemporary contexts, including North Korea, Cold War Romania, modern-day Iran, postwar Germany and Poland, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, this study explores how regimes manufacture consensus, enforce compliance, and obscure dissent. Drawing on literature, film, archival testimony, and cultural critique, the project interrogates how state narratives are internalized or contested, and how silence, whether through passive complicity or surveillance-induced fear, becomes a political tool. Special attention is given to how outsider perspectives, from foreign soldiers to Western media, often misread authoritarian societies, reinforcing reductive binaries that echo the propaganda they aim to critique. Ultimately, this thesis argues that authoritarian power is never total; it must be constantly rewritten, reinforced, and reenacted, and therefore, it is always vulnerable to fracture, memory, and resistance.
ContributorsSiegerman, Jacob (Author) / Jakubczak, Laura (Thesis director) / Niebuhr, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor) / School of Public Affairs (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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This project uses the medium of zines to highlight systemic barriers faced by unhoused individuals in Tempe, Arizona, and to advocate for accessible, grassroots resistance. Drawing from the history of radical self-publishing, I translate academic research and theory into a visual, approachable format. By combining activism with zine culture, the project promotes small acts of care as meaningful forms of political resistance.
ContributorsBazbaz, Bertha (Author) / Meloy, Elizabeth (Thesis director) / Holman, Christine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Despite the rise of globalization around the world, refugee and non-native speaking populations in their respective host countries face persistent disparities in healthcare access, quality, and outcomes. These challenges are exacerbated by linguistic and cultural barriers associated with poor integration of resources for refugee and immigrant populations, as well as a lack of diversity education among healthcare professionals. This honors thesis explores the corroborating factors that contribute to the challenging landscape of healthcare provision and acquisition for non-native speaking populations through the revision of pertinent literature and the proposal of a clinically centered mobile language exchange application to facilitate the development of strategies for healthcare workers to navigate multicultural and multilingual clinical experiences while equipping non-native speaking peoples to successfully navigate clinical and social settings in their respective host countries.
ContributorsMaterna, Jenna (Author) / Coley, Brooke (Thesis director) / Sobrado, Michael (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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The purpose of this project is to follow the internal processes of rebuilding and revitalizing Lux Undergraduate Creative Review. The written portion contains an overview of the project, the history of Lux, processes, obstacles, and recommendations. There is also a final edition of the most recent Volume 19 that was completed this spring.
ContributorsKlopf, Lily (Author) / Fette, Donald (Thesis director) / Sivak, Henry (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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What Happened at Cabin 21 is a feature-length film script (in development) that explores the complexities of memory and identity. It's a story about relationships, the search for self-healing, and the need to escape, even when that means confronting painful memories from the past. What Happened at Cabin 21 follows a young woman, Claire, who is seeking refuge from city life. She retreats to a secluded cabin with her boyfriend to mend their relationship and brings their two friends for support. When an antique clock triggers dark visions, she is forced to confront the possibility that these images are memories of a forgotten past, leading her on an emotional journey of self-discovery.
I plan to continue writing the rest of the story so that I have a full-length film script. With that, I plan to make it into a film one day.
ContributorsGoebel, Lauren (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bowers, Mark (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Throughout Western art history and contemporary media, the depictions of Arabs and muslims are often distorted. These depictions are rooted in Orientalism. Edward Said, author of the book Orientalism and Palestinian-American academic, describes Orientalism as a body of knowledge and representation that imagines the “Orient” as exotic, backward, threatening, and in contrast to an idealized West. This thesis is both a creative project and an analysis of how art can highlight and subvert orientalist portrayals, humanizing arabs. How can the very art used to dehumanize arabs throughout history be utilized to restore humanity in arabs?
ContributorsAl-Battah, Namah (Author) / Pomilio, Mark (Thesis director) / Button, Melissa (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor)
Created2025-05