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.

Reflection, Reproduction, and Challenging at the Brooklyn Zen Center: Complexifying Cultural Capital, Gentrification, the Mindfulness Movement, and Scale

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2014-January-01
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This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how...

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The Relationship between Increased Stability and Coverage from Public Health Insurance and Opioid Miuse among Parenting Women: Study from The Affordable Care Act

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2022-May-02
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In this paper, I examine the impact that increased public insurance continuation for new mothers may
have on use among parenting women expecting extended coverage. This study compares the changes in
opioid and substance misuse between income groups with and...

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