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Artistic Value in America: The Educational Significance of the Arts
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2013-January-01
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Hoynes, William
Hoynes, William
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Being Admittable: identity, meaning-making, and the presentation of self in personal statements of the college admissions process
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2013-January-01
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Big Dreams in a Little League: How Social Factors Influence Success in Competitive Youth Baseball
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2015-January-01
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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Exploring the Connection between Nationalism and Genocide through Classical Sociological Theory
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2013-January-01
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Capital Never Sleeps, and Neither Should We: The Good Sense of Social Movement Unionism
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2015-January-01
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Constructing dialogue around sexual violence: #metoo
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2019-January-01
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Counterculture Cyberculture: Branding Apple products as tools for personal liberation
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2012-January-01
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Counterculture Cyberculture: Branding Apple products as tools for personal liberation
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2012-January-01
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Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination
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2015-January-01
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My thesis scrutinizes the U.S. media construction of the events of September 11, 2001 as "national trauma," and the way in which this framing of the attacks has allowed '9/11' to invoke a visceral imagination of the deterministic relationship between...
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Diversity in American advertising: a case study of Coca-Cola advertisements and their role in homogenizing the diversity movement
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2017-January-01
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Through a historical study of advertising, this project aims to show how the idea of "diversity" is used by corporations to benefit the dominant hegemonic, and ultimately attempt to homogenize the diverse populations that they supposedly are highlighting. Analyzing the...
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Easier said than done: collaborative pedagogy and its challenges in the Vassar College Writing Center
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2017-January-01
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Embedded in Iraq: The Evolving Relationship Between the US State and the News Media during Periods of Conflict in post-9/11 America
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2014-January-01
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My thesis is an exploration of the evolving relationship between the US State and the news media in periods of conflict, ranging from World War I to the War in Iraq, and how this relationship culminated in the practice of...
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Framing Feminist Philanthropy: An Analysis of Online Press Releases from Mama Cash and the New York Women’s Foundation
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2024-April-19
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Framing Feminist Philanthropy: An Analysis of Online Press Releases from Mama Cash and the New York Women’s Foundation
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2024-April-19
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From Alternative to Integrative: An Exploration of Acupuncture Within the Western Medical Paradigm
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2014-January-01
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I argue that our current health care system—which is based in Western medicine—is inadequate, not only because it is costly, but because it is failing to keep individuals healthy. I posit that this is due to a number of factors...
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From Farm to School to Justice: How Social Problems are Constructed and (Un)Solved
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2015-January-01
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Gramsci and Us: Toward Gramscian Strategy in the Neoliberal Moment
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2015-January-01
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Hijacking the Media Hegemony: Culture Jamming in the Post Modern Condition
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2012-January-01
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Hijacking the Media Hegemony: Culture Jamming in the Post Modern Condition
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2012-January-01
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Hijacking the Media Hegemony: Culture Jamming in the Post Modern Condition
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