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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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"O'me alone?": Aristotle and the failure of autarky in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Marshall, Sarah
Department or Program
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis offers an Aristotelian reading of <em>Coriolanus, </em>with the goal of assessing the viability of individual self-sufficiency.<em></em> As political and moral treatises, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics are valuable intertexts through which Shakespeare's more imaginative work may be analyzed...

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Food Security and Choice: Poughkeepsie Plenty Community Food Assessment

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
report
Authors
Nevarez, Leonard
Document Type
Report
Abstract

The final report of the Poughkeepsie Plenty Community Food Assessment, published in January 2013. This report presents original survey data, focus group interviews, and additional research to document the extent of food insecurity and the nature of the food system...

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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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