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From The Editor, Issue 26, 2002, Alvin White Jun 2002

From The Editor, Issue 26, 2002, Alvin White

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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History Of Mathematics, An Intuitive Approach, Alejandro R. Garciadiego Jun 2002

History Of Mathematics, An Intuitive Approach, Alejandro R. Garciadiego

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

The main goal of this essay is to discuss, informally, an intuitive approach to the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. The initial point of departure includes the analysis of some traditional definitions of the concept of 'history' taken from standard dictionaries. This concise dissection attempts to suggest the complexity of the discipline.

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Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression In The Course For Mathematics Teaching, Ada Katsap Jun 2002

Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression In The Course For Mathematics Teaching, Ada Katsap

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Loopy, George W. Hart Jun 2002

Loopy, George W. Hart

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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A Brief Look At Mathematics And Theology, Philip J. Davis Jun 2002

A Brief Look At Mathematics And Theology, Philip J. Davis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Notes On Formal Constructivism, D. Joyner, P. Lejarraga Jun 2002

Notes On Formal Constructivism, D. Joyner, P. Lejarraga

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

Our aim is to sketch some ideas related to how we (as in, we two) think we (as in, we humans) think. "That theory is useless. It isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli. Our hope in this paper is to provide a theory, admittedly somewhat vague, of how we think about mathematics. We also hope our ideas do not cause the reader to be reminded of Pauli's quote above. These notes were motivated by the interesting book by Changeaux and Connes.

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Calculus, Sarah Glaz Jun 2002

Calculus, Sarah Glaz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Aphorisms, Lee Goldstein Jun 2002

Aphorisms, Lee Goldstein

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Book Review: My Dance Is Mathematics By Joanne Growney, Sally Lipsey Jun 2002

Book Review: My Dance Is Mathematics By Joanne Growney, Sally Lipsey

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Equation Story, Whitney Perret Jun 2002

Equation Story, Whitney Perret

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Will Churches Respond To The Call? Religion, Civic Responsibility, And Social Service, Emily A. Leventhal, Daniel P. Mears Jun 2002

Will Churches Respond To The Call? Religion, Civic Responsibility, And Social Service, Emily A. Leventhal, Daniel P. Mears

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Despite national calls for churches to become more involved in social service, many churches may not be willing or able to respond. Drawing on sociological theory, previous research, and interviews with pastors and parish social ministers from Catholic congregations in a large, urban city in Texas, we examine key factors linked to church-based social service efforts. Particulara ttention is given to church leadership,r ace/ethnicity,o rganizational characteristics, social and political networks, and the intersection of these factors in affecting service provision and advocacy. We then discuss the likely impacts of policies calling for religious organizations to increase their social service activities.

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School Social Work In Hartford, Connecticut: Correcting The Historical Record, James G. Mccullagh Jun 2002

School Social Work In Hartford, Connecticut: Correcting The Historical Record, James G. Mccullagh

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper corrects the historical record on why and how school social work began in Hartford and who was instrumental in establishing the new service. The findings, based on a study of primary sources, revealed that a school principal, and not a psychologist as previously claimed, initiated the process that led the Hartford Charity Organization Society to appoint its Visitor, Winifred Singleton Bivin, a social caseworker, to also become the first social worker in the schools in January 1907. The social work profession, which owes its origin to the Charity Organization Movement, is also obligated to the Hartford Charity Organization …

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Westview: Vol. 21, Iss. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002) Jun 2002

Westview: Vol. 21, Iss. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002)

Westview

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When A Spider Is Only A Spider, James C. Schaap Jun 2002

When A Spider Is Only A Spider, James C. Schaap

Pro Rege

An earlier version of this paper was published in Leland Ryken, ed., The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing, Rev. Ed. (Colorado Springs: Shaw Books, 2002).

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Spiritual Warfare And Modern Science, Calvin Jongsma Jun 2002

Spiritual Warfare And Modern Science, Calvin Jongsma

Pro Rege

Response to Nancy Pearcey

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Recent Developments In The History Of Science And Christianity, Nancy Pearcey Jun 2002

Recent Developments In The History Of Science And Christianity, Nancy Pearcey

Pro Rege

Nancy Pearcey gave the first President's Convocation address at Dordt College on January 15, 2002. Her article below was given as a special lecture during her visit to Dordt. The following articles were parts of a discussion panel held in response to her lecture.

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Problems In The "Christian" Origins Of Modern Science, Keith C. Sewell Jun 2002

Problems In The "Christian" Origins Of Modern Science, Keith C. Sewell

Pro Rege

Response to Nancy Pearcey

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Reply, Nancy Pearcey Jun 2002

Reply, Nancy Pearcey

Pro Rege

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Grounds For Optimism About Science, Arnold E. Sikkema Jun 2002

Grounds For Optimism About Science, Arnold E. Sikkema

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Response to Nancy Pearcey

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'Militant Piety': Fundamentalist Tendencies In The Russian Orthodox Brotherhood Movement, Stella Rock Jun 2002

'Militant Piety': Fundamentalist Tendencies In The Russian Orthodox Brotherhood Movement, Stella Rock

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza Jun 2002

When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

While most critics agree that the quest for identity which underlies much of post-colonial literature is illustrated in the thematic approaches adopted by writers, this study further the argument by suggesting that it also conditions writers' selection of narrative strategies. In its representation of subjectivity in process, the apprenticeship novel seems to offer an enticing model of self-completion. This narrative strategy, however, presents particular complexities when used to portray coming of age in a society divided along ethnic lines. Simon Gikandi argues with regards to the Caribbean that the probability of a quest for identity reaching fruition is nil, but …

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A Tale Of Two Authors: Valenzuela And Borges , Sharon Magnarelli Jun 2002

A Tale Of Two Authors: Valenzuela And Borges , Sharon Magnarelli

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Although Luisa Valenzuela and Borges were friends for many years, it is only recently that we find traces of that friendship in her narrative. "La calesita" and "El otro libro," published in 1998 and 1999 respectively, evoke many of the elements we find in Borges's narrative. The latter story, which is the main focus of this study, employs nearly all the narrative elements we have come to associate with the Argentine master. Nonetheless, a single sign is changed as Borges's male characters are replaced by females in Valenzuela's work. The end result is a tribute to Borges but one that …

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Latin American And Comparative Literature, Roberto González Echevarría Jun 2002

Latin American And Comparative Literature, Roberto González Echevarría

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Latin American and Comparative Literature," Roberto González Echevarría asks whether comparative literature, a literary discipline dedicated to the proposition that linguistic boundaries must be transcended, can overcome the "cultural arrogance" of the "Eurocentrism" that he believes pervades it currently. González Echevarría argues that if it is to endure, comparative literature will have to undergo "a truly pitiless redefinition," one that effectively displaces "the hegemonic powers of nineteenth-century Europe" and that Latin American literature, by the nature of its historical development on the margins of these "hegemonic" texts and traditions, could -- and should -- play a central …

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First Peoples Of The Americas And Their Literature, Gordon Brotherston, Lúcia De Sá Jun 2002

First Peoples Of The Americas And Their Literature, Gordon Brotherston, Lúcia De Sá

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their paper, "First Peoples of the Americas and Their Literature," Gordon Brotherston and Lúcia de Sá turn their attention to the indigenous literature of the Americas. They point out that concerted attempts to edit, translate, and publish the main examples or "classics" of Native American literature began little more than a century ago. Since that time, more than a dozen major cosmogonies have appeared, some of them in editions, which seriously attempt to trace back to pre-Cortesian antecedents. Outlining key classics and the ways that these texts have been disseminated, Brotherston and Sá elaborate on how this rich tradition …

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A Historical Account Of Difference: A Comparative History Of The Literary Cultures Of Latin America, Mario J. Valdés Jun 2002

A Historical Account Of Difference: A Comparative History Of The Literary Cultures Of Latin America, Mario J. Valdés

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "A Historical Account of Difference: A Comparative History of the Literary Cultures of Latin America," Mario J. Valdés addresses the well-recognized limitations of literary history as historical research. Valdés outlines the theoretical thinking that has guided the editors of The Oxford Comparative History of Latin American Literary Cultures to plan, organize, and complete the first history of literary culture of Latin America. The project is comparative, recognizing the radical diversity of the continent while at the same time it is an open-ended history that informs but does not attempt to provide a totalizing account of more than …

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Towards A Map Of The Current Critical Debate About Latin American Cultural Studies, Julio Ortega Jun 2002

Towards A Map Of The Current Critical Debate About Latin American Cultural Studies, Julio Ortega

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Towards a Map of the Current Critical Debate about Latin American Cultural Studies," Julio Ortega surveys the shifting disciplinary, critical, and methodological paradigms used to study Latin American culture in both the United States and Latin America. Describing the post-theoretical period as a moment when grand analytical models are abandoned in favor of microanalyses, Ortega sees great potential in this new paradigm shift. In his paper, Ortega pays particular attention to the ways that the field of cultural studies has emerged and transformed in Latin American academic inquiry and he considers the disavowal of master critical models …

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Spanish American And Brazilian Literature In Inter-American Perspective: The Comparative Approach, Earl E. Fitz Jun 2002

Spanish American And Brazilian Literature In Inter-American Perspective: The Comparative Approach, Earl E. Fitz

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson Jun 2002

"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

On the dedication page of The Blacks, Genet writes "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" Prefiguring major issues and paradoxes of African American cultural studies today, The Blacks insists on the very real ways in which the black/white racial binary, like the very concept of race itself, is lived and socially enforced, and at the same time argues that the binary is ultimately a fiction, made real through performative reification. Genet's "clown show," ambiguously reversing the blackface minstrelsy tradition, …

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Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño Jun 2002

Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This paper analyzes the influence of postmodernism in Paloma Díaz-Mas's feminist approach through two short stories, "The World According to Valdés," and "In Search of a Portrait." The political situation after Franco's death embraced democracy which allowed writers to pay more attention to intellectual concerns. Women writers steered the radical positions of the 1970s toward a more philosophical and intellectual analysis of reality and artistic expression during the eighties. In these two short stories, Díaz-Mas addresses women's issues by questioning the scope of modernist and humanist views. She criticizes the modernist concept of unity (text/identity) pointing out the discrimination that …

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How To Make Enemies, Miroslav M. Kiš Jun 2002

How To Make Enemies, Miroslav M. Kiš

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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