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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.

Examining the Tension between Public Health and Educational Rights through the Study of Effect of Vaccination Mandate on Childhood Educational Opportunities: Is Childhood Vaccination Mandate Ethically Just for Children’s Educational Rights?

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2022-April-01
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Secular Dreams, Bloody Oracles: Staging State and Religion in Classical Athens and Enlightenment Paris

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2020-January-01
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I perform a comparative reading of <em>Iphigeneia Among the Taurians</em> by Euripides (around 414 BCE) and the adaptation <em>Iphigénie en Tauride</em> by Claude Guimond de La Touche (1757 CE). I aim to read the development of the secular with regards...

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Transgression and containment: transhistorical themes and tropes within televised American women's stand-up comedy

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2017-January-01
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Joan Rivers. Elayne Boosler. Roseanne Barr. Janeane Garofalo. Amy Schumer. What do these commedians–whose careers span seven decades–have in common? Starting in the 1950s and ending in contemporary times, we see that there are transhistorical trends–including self-deprecation, navigating one's anger...

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