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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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Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Celia Garrity
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

My thesis scrutinizes the U.S. media construction of the events of September 11, 2001 as "national trauma," and the way in which this framing of the attacks has allowed '9/11' to invoke a visceral imagination of the deterministic relationship between...

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Does Might Make Right? An Exploration of Policing in the Shanghai French Concession

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Sun, Alex
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis examines the use of policing to quell social unrest as a form of state management in the Shanghai's French Concession during the early twentieth century.

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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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Vassar Students' and High School Counselors' Perceptions on the Role of the School Counselor: A Study on the Similarities and Differences

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Marissa Steinberg
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This study was conducted to distinguish between the perspectives of current Vassar College students and high school counselors on the functions and expectations of school counselors. Based on previous literature, I predicted that students would not fully understand the scope...

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