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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.

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Meditative Breath Promotes Healing in the Process of Loss, Grief and Mourning

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kiara Segal
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Death and grief are universal experiences. Although this suffering is endured privately, individuals are often encouraged to seek external resources such as medication, therapy or religion to ease their pain. The objective of this study was to determine how a...

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

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Juliany Taveras
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

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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