Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Integrity, shame and self-rationalization

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2004-February-01
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In orthodox economics, honesty or integrity is treated as either part of the constraint function or the objective function. This is at the origin of the statement, "every man has his price." However, if integrity has a price, why do...

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The Legacy of Colonization, The Damage of Gentrification, The Strength of Community: Examining Displacing Phenomena Throughout History in the City of Brotherly Love

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2023-April-30
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The aim of this project is to interrogate these processes, to examine how gentrification is impacting the firmly rooted Black community of North Central Philadelphia, to examine how colonization impacted and continues to affect Indigenous and marginalized residents of the...

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