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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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Counterculture Cyberculture: Branding Apple products as tools for personal liberation
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2012-January-01
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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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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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How Analytics, Big Data, and Technology Have Impacted Basketball's Quest to Maximize Efficiency and Optimization
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2015-January-01
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Iconicity in the age of social media: Augmenting theories of iconicity through the study of a contemporary iconic photograph
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2019-January-01
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Infotainment: the pressure of ratings and their dangers for democracy in cable news
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2016-January-01
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In this thesis I argue that through the necessity to generate a profit, cable news organizations focus on attracting the most viewers so that they can then charge more for advertising and in turn make more money. This symbiotic relationship...
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Leaks: Tracing the path of secrets through democracy
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2014-January-01
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In this thesis, I explore the unique potential of political leaks to illuminate and critique the underlying power structure of the state. The primary motive of the institutional state is to maximize and preserve its own power; because of this...
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Listening Versus Skimming: What White Hip Hoppers at Vassar College Learn or Overlook When they Listen to Rap
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2013-January-01
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Marine to Muslim: Islam, Terror, and United States Foreign Policy on Homeland
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2015-January-01
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Media and Democracy: Problems of a Free Press in Times of War
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2013-January-01
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