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Tough-Cooled Maroon
Get PDFTough-Cooled Maroon is a collection of twenty-eight poems in three sections, which arc from an introspection amidst heartbreak to an external awareness of place and culture. Poems in each section, with this progression in mind, draw from a range of artistic influences, including not only those within the fine arts and poetry itself but also those within contemporary pop culture. While the writer experiments with nonce and established form, most poems appear in free verse. All moves occur in the interest of broadly engaging with art, craft, and media so that the writer may interact with her identity and surroundings as wholly as thesis parameters will allow
Creating Controversy: An In-Depth Look at the Creation of Redux
Get PDFThe following thesis will provide a detailed account of the process by which Redux, a devised play produced by The Radical Buffoons, was created. I will explain how I developed various original characters as well as the acting choices I made along the way. I will shed light on the social climate that inspired this piece and the historical implications that influenced our work. Redux was performed on January 28th, 30th, 31st, and February 4th, 6th, and 7th of 2022 at The Hotel Peter Paul in New Orleans, Louisiana
Holiday Ring
Get PDFAn LGBTQIA+ holiday film following the ups and downs of couple Audre and Doria as they navigate their evolving relationship and meshing of family during the jolliest time of the year
You Deserve to Be Here
Get PDFThis thesis is a collection of fiction written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans
Capitalism is the Virus: A Public Receipt of Financialization in New Orleans 1971-2021
Get PDFThis thesis explores the financialization of one residential-commercial corridor in New Orleans, Louisiana. The paper illuminates the transformations of neighborhoods and social spaces wrought by processes of rapidly inflating property values and the displacement of residents. The study works in the field of applied public research by mapping New Orleans property and land records valued through the Orleans Parish Assessor’s office and linking recorded corridor changes to stated goals and partner initiatives at the city level.
Taking specific umbrage with commercial corridor revitalization framework and urban street corridor mapping projects, this thesis offers a reworked lens of historical material analysis. It uses the Saint Claude Avenue corridor and the histories of some of its inhabitants to lay out a receipt of public record from the financializing operations, financial vehicles, and the subsequently related phenomena of financialization in New Orleans between 1971 and 2021
Weaving Lessons
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Weaving Lessons is a collection of twenty-six poems presented in various women’s voices. The arc of the poems begins in small town Midwest innocence and traces lives of women from girlhood to old age. Influences are drawn from real life in multiple generations. The natural world, the female body, and the complexities of identity are also present. While some poems were conceived in nonce and traditional forms, only one retains the original form; the remaining poems appear in free verse. The moves in this collection are designed to sing, whisper, and yell in varying degrees as the writer interacts with her birthright as a woman
Wishing Fountain
Get PDFWishing Fountain is a YA Fantasy novel driven by action, magic, and mythology. The main character, Larissa, a black teen from New Orleans, falls into a fountain and finds herself in a magical land. This alternate world is similar to feudal Japan, and its residents believe Larissa is a prophesied Shinto goddess. Larissa solidifies her role by displaying power over water. Her quest for answers leads her to open the legendary Tamate Box and release deadly objects into the world. Anyone possessing an object is negatively affected by premature old age, uncontrollable lust, a sleep they can never wake from, and the gods know what other atrocities. Joined by her new friends, a samurai, a prince, and a girl who turns into a crane, Larissa journeys to find these objects and safely return them to the box
Analysis of Forensic Artifacts in Database Memory using Support Vector Machine
Get PDFMemory analysis allows forensic investigators to establish a more complete timeline of system activity using a snapshot of main memory (i.e., RAM). Investigators may rely on such analysis to detect malicious activity and understand the scope of what data was exfiltrated. This is of particular interest in the presence of incomplete or untrusted logs, where a privileged user (or an attacker with such capabilities) can altogether bypass or disable logging. In such instances, a forensic investigator can still rely on the fact that data must ultimately be processed in memory, regardless of the information that is recorded in audit logs.
In this work, we propose methods to reverse-engineer query activity from a database management system (DBMS) process snapshot. Since DBMSes are used to manage and store an organization’s most sensitive data, they are of particular concern for data exfiltration. A DBMS processes queries using a series of operations, such as index sort, file sort, or joins, which produce their own set of distinct forensic artifacts in memory. Our methods use these artifacts to make conclusions about recent query activity even in the presence of untrusted or incomplete logs. Our methods use a supervised learning based model using support vector machines (SVM) to approximate recently executed queries given these memory artifacts. We extract feature vectors from the byte frequencies in a special area of the DBMS process called the sort area fragment, and use SVM to predict the type of the query operation under supervised learning. We demonstrate the capabilities and the accuracy of our methods for two representative DBMSes, PostgreSQL and MySQL. Experimental results show that, our model achieved an accuracy of 92% and 90% on MySQL and PostgreSQL datasets, respectively
Storm Intensity and Forward Speed Controls on Back-barrier and Shoreface Sediment Dynamics along the Louisiana Coast
Get PDFHigh energetic storms import sediment to back-barrier bays and marshes and produce a perennial footprint that contributes to the long-term evolution of the inner shelf, bays, and marsh platform. The magnitude of sedimentation in back-barrier bays and marshes varies with storm characteristics (e.g., storm intensity, forward speed, size, and track). However, quantifying the impacts of storm characteristics on the sediment exchange between the inner shelf, bays, and marshes and documenting the resulting net sediment import and export patterns across these interfaces remains largely unexplored. Here we applied a calibrated Delft3D hydrodynamics and sediment transport model to a microtidal bay-marsh complex in the central coast of Louisiana. The study quantifies the contributions of a suite of storms with varying storm characteristics to evaluate resulting sediment exchange volumes and assess bay/marsh sediment deposition. Model results show that storm forward speed and intensity are the chief and dominant storm characteristics that control sediment exchange between the inner shelf – bay – marsh environments, while other storm characteristics like storm size and track play a secondary role. Finally, shelf – bay – marsh sediment exchange volumes correlate non-linearly with storm intensity and forward speed
