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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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Finding Feminism: The Ideologies of Hip-Hop from Black Women in Spaces of Higher Education

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

Hip-hop is the most affluent subset of Black Culture today. The globalization and mass appeal of hip-hop has made this genre bigger than music; it's style, it's dance, it's art, and even literature. Hip-Hop music is a genre that is...

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Gaming Across the Divide: Racial Dynamics in e-Sports and the Changing Landscape of East-West Relations

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kim, Michael H.
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The racial dynamics of professional <em>StarCraft</em>, an online game subject to e-sports, or competitive video games, are placed in the context of globalization and the development of new media technologies.

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Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kevin Ros
Department or Program
Computer Science
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

We propose an algorithm that constructs relationships among any number of seed words. A relationship consists of a set of iteratively-generated paths of similar words, where each path links one seed word to another. The similar words are generated using...

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