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Extending A Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 2: Climate Action, Claudia Radel
Extending A Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 2: Climate Action, Claudia Radel
Claudia Radel
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. In two parts (here and in a previous article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justice concerns have been identified within three related realms: (i) the characterization of climate change itself and the assignment of responsibility for that change; (ii) the differential or uneven impacts of climate change; and (iii) the actions taken to address the problems associated with climate change, including both mitigation and …
Using Tragedy, Gene Washington
Using Tragedy, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Describes how three groups of people use tragedy: readers, writers, critics. Some effects are criticism of institutions, emotional effects, political, historical changes.
Existential Vertigo, Gene Washington
Existential Vertigo, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
A MICROPLAY OF THE ABSURD. Two mountaineers out to summit a mountain in record time and win a prize. The logic of space is complex, as students of geometry can attest; yet people deal with it intuitively most of the time and have little trouble understanding it at the level of concrete operations. This play is absurd because it depicts a kind of confusion about space that people are not liable to fall into.
Pollyvocal: Short Stories, Gene Washington
Pollyvocal: Short Stories, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Most fiction writers write (or attempt to write) in a univocal voice (or "style"). Hemingway's voice differs from Faulkner's, Carver's from Fitzgerald's and so on. Difference, it seems fair to say, helps to establish their identity. By contrast, this collection of stories embodies an attempt, over the last 55 years or so, to write in the polyvocal. One can see this "attempt" as an "interruption" of the old by the start of something "new." The voice of each story, with the exception of #1, interrupts that of a preceding one—just as the birth of a child invariably interrupts the voices …
Hemingway And Normal Fallibility, Gene Washington
Hemingway And Normal Fallibility, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Representing failure is common in literature. It is one of the major ways one keeps the plot going on and increasing in complexity. Hemingway's particular type of failure can be called "normal." It is the kind of failure that can happen to anyone. Thus it becomes an important part of his depictions of reality. the 'way things are."
Undergraduates And Topic Selection: A Librarian’S Role, Kacy Lundstrom, Flora Shrode
Undergraduates And Topic Selection: A Librarian’S Role, Kacy Lundstrom, Flora Shrode
Flora Shrode
Research shows that undergraduate students struggle with the initial stage of the research process, mainly identifying and defining a topic. Little current research addresses how undergraduates engage in this process, including how and where they seek help. The results of focus groups indicate that students have individual and varied methods for topic selection, but that many of them choose topics based on their perception of a few major characteristics, mainly perceived ease, pleasing the instructor/following the assignment, personal relatability and/or interest, and the ability to locate sufficient resources to research a topic. Many students identified their instructor as a person …
An Interstate Runs Through It: The Construction Of Little Rock's Interstate 630 And The Fight To Stop It, Darcy Pumphrey
An Interstate Runs Through It: The Construction Of Little Rock's Interstate 630 And The Fight To Stop It, Darcy Pumphrey
Darcy Pumphrey
Completion of the first mile of Interstate 630 (I-630) occurred in 1969. However, demands from organized community groups and litigation delayed completion of the full seven-and-a-half mile route until 1985. While the freeway resistance movement in Little Rock did not stop the construction of I-630 – it did gain influence over many key decisions within the planning and construction process.Through an examination of the construction of I-630, this thesis advances the basic understanding of the elements of an organized freeway revolt and serves as a guide for other communities as they navigate their own freeway planning efforts. In order to …