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.

Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination

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2015-January-01
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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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Crack Systems Analysis of the McCartys Flow, New Mexico, USA

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2014-January-01
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The McCartys Flow is a 3.9-ka vesicular porphyritic basalt lava flow in the Zuni-Bandera Volcanic Field (ZBVF) near Grants, New Mexico. The Lava Falls area on the southern part of the flow is dominated by pahoehoe sheet flows. Topographic features...

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I heard it through the grapevine: Gossip as observational learning at college

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2013-January-01
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After personally engaging in the communication networks present at Vassar College, I have chosen to research the function of gossip in small communities such as college campuses. After collecting data on the many facets of gossip and informal information sharing...

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The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England

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2015-February
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A catalogue of the exhibition The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England February 12 – June 17, 2015 Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library Vassar College.

Cover design by Nikolai Firtich Layout and typesetting by George...

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