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.

Looking: Storytelling and Flânerie in the Arcades of Grindr

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2014-January-01
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It is through storytelling, Walter Benjamin believed, that wisdom and experience are shared, letting open narratives achieve an amplitude that information lacks. And Charles Baudelaire considered the window-shopping flâneur to be the observant ne plus ultra of urban modernity. By...

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Vassar Students' and High School Counselors' Perceptions on the Role of the School Counselor: A Study on the Similarities and Differences

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2021-January-01
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This study was conducted to distinguish between the perspectives of current Vassar College students and high school counselors on the functions and expectations of school counselors. Based on previous literature, I predicted that students would not fully understand the scope...

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Virgil's Bumpkins: An examination of rural idealization and denigration in Virgil's Georgics and 21st-century American culture

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2021-January-01
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Vergil's Georgics has been known throughout history as a didactic, "how to" guide on farming. However, as scholarship has progressed, the Georgics is now seen less as a guide on farming and more as a "self-insert" farming fantasy for the...

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