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Theology In Public Reason And Legal Discourse: A Case For The Preferential Option For The Poor, Russell Powell

Faculty Articles

There is a strange disconnect between the formal understanding of the separation of religion from government in the United States and the almost ubiquitous use of religious language in political discourse, not to mention the web of complicated religious motivations that sit on or just below the surface of policy debates. This paper presents an argument for the relevance of the principle of the "preferential option for the poor" from Catholic social thought in public reason and legal discourse in order to explore the possible advantages of making the veil between religion and the secular state more permeable. As a …

Dynamic Human Relationships With Wilderness: Developing A Relationship Model, Bob G. Dvorak

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Dvorak, Robert, Ph.D., Summer 2008 Forestry

Dynamic human relationships with wilderness: Developing a relationship model

Chair: William T. Borrie

Wilderness managers are charged with the challenging goal of balancing resource protection and experience quality across a broad, value-laden landscape. While research has provided insight into visitor motivations, psychological outcomes, and meanings, a struggle exists to implement experiential concepts within current management frameworks. A need also exists to manage wilderness for concepts outside of setting attributes. This research posits the human experience of wilderness to be an evolving, enduring relationship. Therefore, research needs can be addressed by investigating and conceptualizing an …

Hate Crimes And The War On Terror, Cynthia Lee

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This chapter, which will be part of a 5 volume treatise entitled, Hate Crimes: Perspectives and Approaches (Barbara Perry ed. forthcoming 2009), situates the private acts of hate violence committed against Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Sikh-Americans, and South Asian-Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 into the broader context of the war on terror. In Part I, after providing some general background information on hate crimes, I discuss some of the hate crimes committed in the aftermath of 9/11. In Part II, I examine two common stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims which likely contributed to the post 9/11 backlash against Arabs and Muslims …

The Case For Tolerant Constitutional Patriotism: The Right To Privacy Before The European Courts, Francesca Bignami

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

The theory of constitutional patriotism has been advanced as a solution to the European Union's legitimacy woes. Europeans, according to this theory, should recognize themselves as members of a single human community and thus acknowledge the legitimacy of Europe-wide governance based on their shared belief in a common set of liberal democratic values. Yet in its search for unity, constitutional patriotism, like nationalism and other founding myths, carries the potential for the exclusion of others. This article explores the illiberal tendencies of one element of the liberal canon - the right to privacy - in the case law of Europe's …

The Sec's Global Accounting Vision: A Realistic Appraisal Of A Quixotic Quest, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In the most revolutionary securities law development since the New Deal, the SEC is poised to jettison rules requiring companies to apply recognized US accounting standards by inviting use of a new set of international ones created by a private London-based organization. This radical shift follows decades of gradual movement towards international standards that has gained momentum since 2005 when all listed companies in the European Union were required to use them. For the US, the SEC could give companies the option to use either or establish a medium-term plan to move US companies to international standards within a decade. …

Sustainable Development In The Atacama Desert? Community And The Copper Mining Industry In Northern Chile, Livia Christina Macias

Honors Theses

Antofagasta is a particularly difficult region to promote sustainable development given its location in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. In the single-industry community case in Antofagasta, the relationship between the copper industry and the surrounding community is essential for the survival of both. The purpose of this thesis is definitions of sustainable development on the international, national, and local levels, understand the challenges of sustainable development in the to scrutinize the many Antofagasta Region, analyze the important aspects of sustainable development promoted the initiatives for sustainable development between by a single industry, and compare state and private industries in …

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Fundamentals, Jessica Tillipman

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity is currently at its highest level since enactment of the statute in 1977. There were more enforcement actions brought in 2007 than in the years from 2004 to 2006 combined. The message is clear - the U.S. Government is committed to FCPA compliance and there is no evidence enforcement activity will slow any time soon. This article provides a general overview of the FCPA, including a primer on the legislation’s core components: the antibribery prohibitions and the books and records provisions. The article also provides practical guidance with respect to the more challenging …

Going Places: The Shift Of The Textile Industry To China, Vaughan Abbay Leatherman

Honors Theses

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Exploring The Factors That Shaped The Early Adventist Mission To Jamaica, Trevor O'Reggio

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Mission Of God's People In The Old Testament, Jiri Moskala

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Mission Of God's People In The Old Testament, Jiri Moskala

Faculty Publications

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Exploring The Factors That Shaped The Early Adventist Mission To Jamaica, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

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The Law Of Termination: Doing More With Less, Jeffrey M. Hirsch

Faculty Publications

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The Use Of Cmc Technologies In Academic Libraries, Courtney Crummett, Anna Perrault

School of Information Faculty Publications

Computer mediated communication technologies such as instant messaging, blogs, wikis, and podcasts provide new avenues to foster communication and collaboration in the academic library environment. These tools provide innovative ways to reach new technologically savvy academic library users, highlight library services, and allow the library to remain the intellectual center of the academic community. Additionally, these tools also provide mechanisms for internal staff development and collaboration, saving time and building a more technologically expert staff. This chapter highlights various ways that the academic library community can incorporate CMC technologies by providing current examples of instant messaging, blog, wiki, and podcast …

Health Privacy In A Techno-Social World: A Cyber-Patient's Bill Of Rights, Patricia Sanchez Abril, Anita Cava

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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Biological Evaluations: Blood, Genes, And Family, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article addresses a striking contrast at the center of contemporary social and legal views of family. The traditional family, forged in the early years of the Industrial Revolution to support the interests of the marketplace, has largely collapsed. In its place, the law and society have increasingly recognized the significance of autonomous individuality in the construction of family relationships. At the same time, however, society has become obsessed with the apparent significance of DNA in determining individual and familial identity.

As options for creating and defining families have multiplied, society and the law have struggled to construct a variety …

Judicial Review Of Local Land Use Decisions: Lessons From Rluipa, Ashira Ostrow

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article questions whether traditional judicial deference to local land use regulators is justified in light of the highly discretionary, and often corrupt, modern system of land use regulation. In 2000, Congress determined, first, that unlike other forms of economic legislation, land use regulation lacks objective, generally applicable standards, leaving zoning officials with unlimited discretion in granting or denying zoning applications, and second, that this unlimited discretion lends itself to religious discrimination. Congress therefore enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), which requires courts to apply strict scrutiny review to land use decisions that impact religious land …

Zero-Sum, The Niche,And Metacommunities: Long-Term Dynamics Of Community Assembly, S.K. Morgan Ernest, J. H. Brown, K. M. Thibault, Ethan P. White, J. R. Goheen

Biology Faculty Publications

Recent models of community assembly, structure, and dynamics have incorporated, to varying degrees, three mechanistic processes: resource limitation and interspecific competition, niche requirements of species, and exchanges between a local community and a regional species pool. Synthesizing 30 years of data from an intensively studied desert rodent community, we show that all of these processes, separately and in combination, have influenced the structural organization of this community and affected its dynamical response to both natural environmental changes and experimental perturbations. In addition, our analyses suggest that zero-sum constraints, niche differences, and metacommunity processes are inextricably linked in the ways that …

The Children Of War, Jennifer Plante

Human Rights & Human Welfare

There are more than 300,000 child soldiers in the world today. Complex economic and psychological factors have contributed to this large number; while some of these child soldiers qualify as slaves, many do not. Although there are several United Nations (U.N.) conventions that protect the rights of the child, many states have had difficulty implementing such protections. This has led to the perpetuation of the child slavery problem. Unfortunately for the children involved, their troubles do not end with the fighting. After the conflict, former soldiers must undergo the oftentimes-painful process of rehabilitation and integration back into society.

Forced Child Labor And Cocoa Production In West Africa, Marjie Sackett

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The cocoa industry has profited from the utilization of forced labor in West Africa since the late 1800s. Despite the Portuguese decree in 1876 abolishing slavery, and the release of cocoa plantation slaves, slave labor was quickly reemployed, aided by the exploitation of legal loopholes and government officials willing to turn a blind eye. In 1905, after hearing reports of unfavorable labor conditions, William Cadbury dispatched a member of the Anti-Slavery Society to investigate the cocoa plantations. Upon receiving confirmation of human rights violations, Cadbury boycotted Portuguese cocoa and persuaded two other chocolate firms to do the same. Cadbury’s actions …

Review: Imprinting The South: Southern Printmakers And Their Images Of The Region 1920s – 1940s, Edward Whatley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region 1920s – 1940s," by Lynn Barstis Williams.

Reconfiguring Law Reports And The Concept Of Precedent For A Digital Age, Peter W. Martin

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Brian D. Russell

Syllabi

GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to (1) the literature of the Old Testament in its socio-historical, literary, and canonical contexts; and (2) critical study of the OT. Note: This course is not a survey of the literature of the OT. If you desire a survey course to prepare for the Bible Competency exam, you should consider taking BS400.

Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Brian D. Russell

Syllabi

An introduction to (1) the literature of the Old Testament in its socio-historical, literary, and canonical contexts; and (2) critical study of the OT. Note: This course is not a survey of the literature of the OT. If you desire a survey course to prepare for the Bible Competency exam, you should consider taking BS400.

Ot 617 X The Book Of Judges, Lawson G. Stone

Syllabi

Course description This course explores the major exegetical issues in the Book of Judges and provides students with opportunities to apply original-language tools to several of the book’s salient passages. The primary concern in any exegetical work rests in the attempt to see beyond the limited perspectives of our particular cultural heritages and experience the text of the OT as a witness from a time, place, culture and ethnic location far removed from our own. Once we have learned to receive God's word across a cultural and ethnic divide, we become better able to communicate our witness to God's word …

Ot 617 The Book Of Judges, Lawson G. Stone

Syllabi

Younger, K. Lawson, The NIV Application Commentary:Judges, Ruth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002. Gregory Mobley, The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel. New York: Doubleday, 2005. Gunn, David M. Judges: Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Blackwell, 2005. Arnold, Bill T. and John H. Choi. A Guide to Hebrew Syntax. Cambridge, 2003. Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. A Hebrew-based Concordance or Biblical Software with full Hebrew root and grammar based search capability (For Wintel: Bibleworks, Logos; for Macintosh Accordance. The latter is sufficient reason to go out and buy a Mac!) The following are …

Examining Pre-Service Instructors' Use Of Powerpoint Based On Pre-Service Students' Perceptions: A Mixed Methods Study, Jennifer Fritschi

All ETDs from UAB

This study explored pre-service instructors’ use of PowerPoint based on pre-service students’ perceptions, and it identified pre-service students’ perceptions of the efficacy of specific elements of PowerPoint design and delivery. The effectiveness of various elements of PowerPoint design and delivery was based on an extensive literature review and was framed on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia (Mayer, 2000). The findings of the study identified pre-service instructors’ practices and pre-service students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of specific elements of design and delivery and were then compared with what research and expert literature purported were effective. This one year study was conducted …

The Effect Of Malaria And Intestinal Helminth Coinfection On Birth Outcomes In Ghana, Nelly J. Yatich

All ETDs from UAB

Several studies have reported the relationship between malaria during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes including maternal anemia, low birthweight, as well as preterm delivery and small for gestational age infants. Some studies have also demonstrated the linkage between helminth infection and maternal anemia. Few studies have assessed the occurrence of coinfection of these infections in pregnancy and its effects on maternal anemia and birth outcomes. The objective of this dissertation was to assess the effect of malaria and intestinal helminth coinfection on birth outcomes in Ghana. A cross-sectional study of 785 women presenting for delivery in two hospitals in Kumasi, …

Brake Drum Production By Centrifugal Casting, Timothy Charles Lebeau

All ETDs from UAB

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Evaluation Of Commuter Air Quality, Jason Edward Howanitz

All ETDs from UAB

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