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.

Play as Emergence: Examining “Play” through Three Video Games

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2023-April-26
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Play is a fundamental human activity that has been enjoyed by people of all ages and cultures throughout history. In this essay, I hope to explore how the concept of “play” is manifested in video games about the emergence and...

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Power (in) play the articulation of the othered body and decolonization of historical memory through playwriting and performance

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2016-January-01
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Even within an increasingly digital age, the body on stage continues to operate as an impactful and historically charged mode of communication, on both an individual and societal level. Theatre, I argue, is inherently a <em>medium of memory, </em>and as...

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The Pressures of the Profession: Why Do Teachers Choose to Stay or Leave

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2024-April-20
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This qualitative study examines teacher satisfaction and teacher retention, and how that
affects teachers’ reasons to stay or leave the profession. The research question that guided my
study was: “How do the pressures of the profession affect teachers’ decisions to...

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Theater and Social Change: How Small-town U.S. Theaters Reproduce and Resist Inequality

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2014-January-01
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This thesis interrogates the social function of small-town theater in the United States. Through a series of interviews with theater artists working at regional and local theaters in the northeast United States, I demonstrate theater's capacity to both reproduce and...

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