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.

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

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2020-January-01
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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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Too much, too soon: a toolkit for teenagers who learn more about sexuality through their phones than in the classroom

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2017-January-01
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Too Much, Too Soon is a curriculum toolkit that simultaneously educates young people about the realities of sexting while providing tools to critique the structures that frame sexting as a problem in the first place. Through a speculative design exercise...

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Women on the Front of Change: Personal Histories from Japanese Female College Students from 1960 to the Current Day

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2015-January-01
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This thesis will use narratives from five female alumnae of Japanese high schools and university to construct a more complete understanding of how education reform actually affects women in high school and university. After the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL)...

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