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Politics, Religion, And The First Amendment, Mark W. Cordes

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

This article examines some of the lesser-studied constitutional issues surrounding the religion-in-politics debate. Part I of the article examines the perceived relation of religion and politics at the nation's founding, focusing on two issues: 1) the role religion played in America's political vision at the time, and 2) the nature of church-state separation anticipated by the First Amendment. Part I does not attempt to resolve the numerous questions revolving around both of these issues, but rather simply examines the issue of religion and politics. On such a basis, this article argues that religion, though not the dominant vision, was certainly …

Annual Meeting: Making A Difference In The 21st Century, Mary K. Bendixen-Noe, Kim Metcalf

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The Mid-Western Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting, October 25–28, 2000

2000-2001 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

1999-2000 Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Reports of the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University - Archives

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Sclerosis: Retributive Justice And The Rwandan Genocide, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

In the 1994 Rwandan genocide 800,000 people were massacred. The victims were overwhelmingly of the minority Tutsi ethnic group and the aggressors of the majority Hutu group. At present, 125,000 Hutu prisoners remain incarcerated while awaiting trial on genocide-related charges. This article argues that these trials, and the extensive incapacitation that necessarily precedes them, may do little to promote justice, regime legitimacy, or national reconciliation in Rwanda. This, in turn, raises broader questions about the role of criminal punishment and sentencing in situations of mass violence. Criminality usually attaches to deviant conduct. Mass political violence -- from Nazi Germany to …

Louisiana Agriculture Winter, 2000, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Granular Activated Carbons From Agricultural By-Products: Preparation, Properties, And Application In Cane Sugar Refining (Bulletin #869), Mohamed Ahmedna, Wayne E. Marshall, Ramu M. Rao

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

The objectives of this investigation were to convert select Louisiana agricultural by-products to GAC and to characterize these carbons in terms of those physical (surface area, pore structure) and chemical (surface charge, functional groups) properties directly related to adsorption of raw sugar colorants.

Exact Relations For Effective Tensors Of Composites: Necessary Conditions And Sufficient Conditions, Yury Grabovsky, Graeme W. Milton, Daniel S. Sage

Faculty Publications

Typically the elastic and electrical properties of composite materials are strongly microstructure dependent. So it comes as a nice surprise to come across exact formulae for effective moduli that are universally valid no matter what the microstructure. Such exact formulae provide useful benchmarks for testing numerical and actual experimental data and for evaluating the merit of various approximation schemes. They can also be regarded as fundamental invariances existing in a given physical context. Classic examples include Hill's formulae for the effective bulk modulus of a two-phase mixture when the phases have equal shear moduli, Levin's formulae linking the effective thermal …

The Royal Captives, A Fragment Of Secret History: Ann Yearsley's "Unnecessary Curiosity", Judith Dorn

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

Tocqueville's Aristocracy In Minnesota, Paul D. Carrington

William Mitchell Law Review

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E-Discovery: Preparing Clients For (And Protecting Them Against) Discovery In The Electronic Information Age, Carey Sirota Meyer, Kari L. Wraspir

William Mitchell Law Review

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Warning! Failure To Read This Article May Be Hazardous To Your Failure To Warn Defense, Hildy Bowbeer, Wendy F. Lumish, Jeffrey A. Cohen

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Products Liability And Intellectual Property Licensors, Melissa Evans Buss

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Solly Robins And The Development Of Products Liability Law In Minnesota, Leo F. Feeney

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Through The Mists: Adr And Product Liability Claims In The Twenty-First Century, Michael A. Landrum

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Acifluorfen Sorption, Degradation, And Mobility In A Mississippi Delta Soil, L. A. Gaston, M. A. Locke

Faculty Publications

Potential surface water and groundwater contaminants include herbicides that are applied postemergence. Although applied to the plant canopy, a portion of any application reaches the soil either directly or via subsequent foliar washoff. This study examined sorption, degradation, and mobility of the postemergence herbicide acifluorfen (5-[2-chloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-2-nitrobenzoic acid) in Dundee silty clay loam (fine-silty, mixed, thermic, Aeric Ochraqualf) taken from conventional till (CT) and no-till (NT) field plots. Homogeneous surface and subsurface samples were used in the sorption and degradation studies; intact soil columns (30 cm long and 10 cm diam.) were used in the mobility study. Batch sorption isotherms were …

Causes And Prevention Of Youth Violence, Jeffrey M. Jenson, Matthew O. Howard

Denver Law Review

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Basketball Diaries, Natural Born Killers And School Shootings: Should There Be Limits On Speech Which Triggers Copycat Violence, Juliet Dee

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

Free Speech And Public Schools In A Post-Columbine World: Check Your Speech Rights At The Schoolhouse Metal Detector, Clay Calvert

Denver Law Review

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Nonlinear Self-Organization In Photorefractive Materials, Partha P. Banerjee, Nickolai Kukhtarev, John O. Dimmock

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This chapter discusses self-organization and its effects in optics. One of the most exciting and potentially useful areas of current research in optics involves the understanding and exploitation of self-organization in nonlinear optical systems. This self-organization may sometimes lead to the evolution of complex spatial patterns that can be regarded as the nonlinear eigenmodes of the system. Generation of these patterns is characteristically marked by the presence of intensity thresholds. In a nonlinear system with complicated temporal dynamics, it turns out that one cannot retain purity in spatial dimensionality. It is therefore equally important to investigate the dynamics of the …

The Gendered World Of Disney: A Content Analysis Of Gender Themes In Full-Length Animated Disney Feature Films, Beth A. Wiersma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research has focused on the gender messages portrayed in television programs, cartoons, advertisements, literature, picture books, and fairy tales. One venue that has not received as much attention in the research is the Disney 1 full-length animated feature films. This is a qualitative study of the gender themes and portrayal of gender roles in full-length animated feature films by The Walt Disney Company. The findings in this research indicate there has been little change in the stereotyped portrayals of Disney characters from the release of the first full-length animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to …

The Virtues And Limits Of Codes In Legal Ethics, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

In the absence of codified standards of ethics, the ethical quality of law practice would degenerate into inconsistency and unpredictability. The presence of an ethics code can unduly burden and limit the practice of law. However, ethics codes should not be thought of as tools to ensure the law is practiced humanely. Instead, they should be viewed as attempts to ameliorate the impediments to a humane practice and to call lawyers to that goal.

Tom Schaffer, a scholar and professor of Ethics at Notre Dame, lamented the fact that the codification of standards of attorney conduct could induce lawyers to …

The Problem With Scorecards: How (And How Not) To Measure The Cost-Effectiveness Of Economic Sanctions, Richard Parker

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Analysis And Direction For The Changing World Of Breakfast Cereal Advertising: A Content Analysis Of 1998-99 Television Advertisements, Megan Ann Lane

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

This investigation sought to build on past content analysis of children-focused advertising to better understand how advertisers have responded to the changing television advertising market. It is important because little attention has been paid to the effects of cable specialization and FCC regulations on the methods and appeals used in children-focused advertising.

On The Cost- Effectiveness Of Economic Sanctions, Richard Parker

Faculty Articles and Papers

For over one hundred years, the attraction of economic sanctions as a middle path between talk and violence has prompted the use of sanctions for a wide variety of purposes ranging from weakening adversaries, toppling governments, and promoting human rights to opening foreign markets, promoting intellectual property, and protecting the global environment.

In recent years, however, economic sanctions have been subjected to stricter scrutiny than ever before, due to a sustained media and lobbying blitz by the U.S. business community under the banner of "USA*Engage." The campaign, begun in 1997, has produced a deluge of newspaper editorials and stories, virtually …

Academic Tenure: Its Historical And Legal Meanings In The United States And Its Relationship To The Compensation Of Medical School Faculty Members, Lawrence White

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Sorting Out Voices On Women’S Rights In Morocco, Sumi Colligan

Journal of International Women's Studies

From the Article:

In this chapter, I intend to expand on the theme of developing “our listening capacity, to be sure that we hear everything” in an attempt to avoid perpetuating the stereotype of the passive, victimized Third World woman whose only hope of liberation is through the consciousness raising and activist efforts of Western feminists. Much of the current writing on human rights and women’s rights in North Africa and the Middle East suggests that world-wide endorsement of such principles and platforms is most likely to be successful if the people to whom they apply feel a sense of …

The Discourse Of Denigration And The Creation Of “Other”, Joshua Miller, Gerald Schamess

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

This paper attempts to reduce the distance between intellectual frameworks that inform different fields of social work practice by exploring the relationships between intrapsychic mechanisms, family dynamics, small group processes and such society wide phenomena as public denigration, scapegoating, and the systematic oppression of politically targeted population subgroups. Clinical theories are used to explore disturbing social trends such as the redistribution of wealth while cutting services to the needy, the growth of prisons and disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color, societal retreat from social obligation and commitment and divisive political rhetoric. Suggestions are made about how clinical social workers …

Viewbook- 2000, Admissions Staff

Student Handbooks

Student guide

Robert W. Rawlins, Jr. (1928-2005): From Gas Station Attendant To Chief Judge, Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Bob Rawlins, Jr., who served on the Hillsborough County Criminal Court of Record and Florida's Thirteen Circuit.