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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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"O'me alone?": Aristotle and the failure of autarky in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Marshall, Sarah
Department or Program
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis offers an Aristotelian reading of <em>Coriolanus, </em>with the goal of assessing the viability of individual self-sufficiency.<em></em> As political and moral treatises, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics are valuable intertexts through which Shakespeare's more imaginative work may be analyzed...

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Deleting tonB4 and tonB6 in B. thetaiotaomicron

Publication Date
2023-September-15
Authors
Shu, George
Department or Program
Biochemistry Program
Document Type
Research
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Complex carbohydrates are composed of diverse monosaccharide subunits and various glycosidic linkages; a plethora of substrate-specific enzymes are needed to digest them for primary metabolism. A unique feature of the Bacteroidetes genome is the presence of polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs)...

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