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The Undergrads

Hebebrand, Matthew John
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240494875

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2009, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - Political Science.
This thesis is a novel set in a university not unlike Miami University. It explores the circumstances of ten freshmen students, all adjusting to their new lives as college students, as they all individually discover that they have gained superhuman abilities. They must learn how to control these new, fantastic powers and how to live with them while continuing to be normal college students. They must learn how to protect other people from their power and, in certain cases, how to protect themselves from their own power.I was inspired to work on this by the increase in popularity of the superhero genre in movies such as “Spider-Man” and in TV shows such as “Heroes”. What makes this story unique is that it takes place on a college campus in middle America. Most media of the superhero genre focus on teenagers or adults, and the ones that do star college-aged people take place on college campuses in major cities, with the city being the prime setting, not the college campus. This story focuses on the college experience. The superhuman abilities are a way to highlight the problems and situations most freshmen deal with as they adjust to a new lifestyle away from home. The novel addresses sensitive topics that students often face in new a new context once they reach college; drugs, alcohol, sex, race, religion. The novel also addresses the universal themes of friendship, loneliness, competition, love, and finding oneself.
Dr. Mary Fuller, PhD (Advisor)
Ms. Margaret Luongo (Committee Member)
Dr. Joseph Bates (Committee Member)
360 p.
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  • Hebebrand, M. J. (2009). The Undergrads [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240494875

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hebebrand, Matthew. The Undergrads. 2009. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240494875.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hebebrand, Matthew. "The Undergrads." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240494875

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