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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.

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(this never happened): Queer monstrosity, survival, & the monstrous-feminine on stage & screen

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Mallory Tyler
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

In what ways are monstrosity, the abject, and queerness connected? What are the mechanisms by which we as a culture twist perceptions of difference into denouncements of monstrous otherness? How can we use creation as a tool for healing? How...

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Lighthouse principle for diffusion in social networks

Publication Date
2018-January-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Azimipoor, Sanaz
Naumov, Pavel
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

The article investigates an influence relation between two sets of agents in a social network. It proposes a logical system that captures propositional properties of this relation valid in all threshold models of social networks with the same structure. The...

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Senior Recital: Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano

Publication Date
2014-April-26
Authors
Chelsea Skye Yamada
Department or Program
Music Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano, assisted by Thomas Sauer, piano; Kevin Lee (VC 2014), violin; Sofia Macht (VC 2014), violin; Maria Ichizawa (VC 2014), viola; and William Leith (VC 2014), cello

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The High Price of High Heels: How Women's Fashion is an Agent of Patriarchal Control

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Chloe Williams
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Women have made great strides over the past century gaining rights and achieving inclusion throughout much of American society but it is widely accepted that women still experience marginalization in what remains a patriarchal society. Some women feel that high...

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