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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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"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Clarke, Victoria Ashley
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...

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Powerless Children: How U.S. Immigration Policies are Impacting U.S. Citizen Children

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Eliana Corona
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Although immigration policies directly implicate the undocumented individual, it is important to note that generally undocumented immigrants are not living in the U.S. alone- they have a family. Therefore, when undocumented parents are faced with orders of deportation, not only...

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Somewhere in Between and Nowhere to Be Seen: A Look into the Asian American Transracial Adoptee Experience through Educational Programming

Publication Date
2023-April-24
Authors
Wood, Sophia
Department or Program
Education Department
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Throughout the 1990s-2000s, the number of international adoptions into the United States increased drastically, reaching a little over 20,000 international adoptions in 2002 with 25% being from China and 9% from South Korea (PRB, 2003). As these adoptees begin to...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Shui, Yuhan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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