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Spartan Daily, December 6, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily, December 6, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)
Volume 129, Issue 53
Spartan Daily, October 17, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily, October 17, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)
Volume 129, Issue 29
Spartan Daily, September 26, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily, September 26, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)
Volume 129, Issue 17
From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson
Spartan Daily, March 19, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily, March 19, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)
Volume 128, Issue 30
The Logic And Language Of Torture, Jonathan H. Marks
The Logic And Language Of Torture, Jonathan H. Marks
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his paper "The Logic and Language of Torture," Jonathan H. Marks explores the tragic temptation of torture in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks. Emotive responses to terrorism fueled by ticking bomb scenarios and other narrative constructs caused the U.S. to reconsider torture and the boundaries of permissible interrogation tactics in the aftermath of 9/11. While many in the media and the academy debated the necessity of "interrogational torture," the government decided that something more than moral reconstruction was required. For that reason, it embarked on a campaign of legal exceptionalism. While affirming its commitment to the …
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The Bridge
The Nordic Sagas provide the background and basis for this novel about three women-Katla, a "thrall" (slave) who is the daughter of an Irish Christian woman captured by Viking Raiders along the Irish Coast before Katla was born, Bibrau, Katla's daughter, who is conceived after a brutal sexual assault, and Thorbjorg, who is a seeress and healer to the Viking settlement in Greenland and a faithful servant to the Nordic God, Odin. Fate brings these three women together and the story is told through their thoughts and feelings about each other, the events which bring them together, life in the …