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.

“Starting Strong: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education at the Elementary Level”

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2024-April-26
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This is a senior capstone project that explores the landscape and functionality of current sex education practices within the US. Through an extensive literature review and original empirical research, this thesis aims to illustrate how comprehensive sex education in early...

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Budget-Constrained Dynamics in Multiagent Systems

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2017-January-01
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The paper introduces a notion of a budget-constrained multiagent transition system that associates two financial parameters with each transition: a pre-transition minimal budget requirement and a post-transition profit. The paper proposes a new modal language for reasoning about such a...

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NET/STALGIA: Nostalgia-Tripping on the Internet Aesthetic

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2014-January-01
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As the Internet drifts away from being a novel technology, people have increasingly become fascinated by the sometimes-garish, comparatively rudimentary aesthetics of the early web. Using Walter Benjamin's reflections on the Parisian arcades as a framework, I propose that this...

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