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The Art Of Passing: What Transgender People Can Teach Us About Gender, Jennifer Clark-Grainger

Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses

In this thesis I explore several published articles as well as the life-stories of five Caucasian, transgender informants from the Southeastern United States (specifically, long-term residents of Alabama). This research examines the role "passing" within the transgender community and contains information from interviewees who successfully passed as the opposite gender from the gender they were assigned at birth. These interviews helped me gain understanding, not only about the colorful lives of both those who are transgender and their partners, but also about patriarchy and the gender-binary system we, as Americans, are adhering to. It was my desire to learn from …

Dipl 6277 Na Global Health, Bioterrorism, And International Security, Yanzhong Huang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

In today’s world, international trade and travel threaten epidemics by transporting and spreading infectious disease globally at jet speed. The growing risk of exposure to infectious disease, coupled with the threat of bioterrorism, creates a situation in which health and security are interacting with greater frequency and intensity. This development parallels efforts to redefine the concept of security to encompass new global challenges. To what extent does health fit this new security agenda? What are the major linkages between health and security? Should other global health challenges (e.g., non-communicable diseases) be framed as problems that demand response from the national …

Longwood Magazine 2015 Fall, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Remnants Of The American War: An Interactive Documentary, Jacob Sussman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Remnants of the American War is an interactive documentary exploring the legacy of the American War in Vietnam. The project tells the stories of individuals who were affected by or are involved with the conflict’s legacy within an interactive web interface. Envisioned as the counter-narrative to existing American portrayals of the conflict, the project seeks to illuminate Vietnamese perspectives that are often unheard within Western culture.

Featuring interviews with veterans, social workers, and artists whom I encountered during a month long journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, the project highlights ongoing issues such as Agent Orange and Vietnam’s …

Dipl 1711 Introduction To International Relations, Sara Bjerg Moller Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

Designed as an introductory survey course to the field of International Relations, this course explores the causes, character, and consequences of conflict and cooperation in world politics. The course brings together history, theory, and current events to help students understand the main drivers and patterns of behavior in the international system. Core questions that will be tackled include: What are the causes of war and peace? Is international cooperation attainable? Is globalization good or bad? Is the U.S. a declining great power? What are the most dangerous threats facing states today? As a course designed to meet the Critical Thinking …

Dipl 4277 Aa Global Health, Bioterrorism, And International Security, Yanzhong Huang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

Global health issues, including infectious diseases, have affected world history more extensively than most of us can imagine. In today’s world, international trade and travel threaten transborder epidemics by transporting and spreading diseases globally at jet speed. The growing risk of exposure to infectious disease, coupled with the threat of bioterrorism, creates a situation in which health and security are interacting with greater frequency and intensity. This development parallels efforts to redefine the concept of security to encompass new global challenges. How did epidemics function as agents of historical change? What are the major linkages between health and security? Should …

The Flaws And Human Harms Of Animal Experimentation, Aysha Akhtar

Experimentation Collection

Nonhuman animal (“animal”) experimentation is typically defended by arguments that it is reliable, that animals provide sufficiently good models of human biology and diseases to yield relevant information, and that, consequently, its use provides major human health benefits. I demonstrate that a growing body of scientific literature critically assessing the validity of animal experimentation generally (and animal modeling specifically) raises important concerns about its reliability and predictive value for human outcomes and for understanding human physiology. The unreliability of animal experimentation across a wide range of areas undermines scientific arguments in favor of the practice. Additionally, I show how animal …

The Flaws And Human Harms Of Animal Experimentation, Aysha Akhtar

Morality and Ethics of Animal Experimentation Collection

Nonhuman animal (“animal”) experimentation is typically defended by arguments that it is reliable, that animals provide sufficiently good models of human biology and diseases to yield relevant information, and that, consequently, its use provides major human health benefits. I demonstrate that a growing body of scientific literature critically assessing the validity of animal experimentation generally (and animal modeling specifically) raises important concerns about its reliability and predictive value for human outcomes and for understanding human physiology. The unreliability of animal experimentation across a wide range of areas undermines scientific arguments in favor of the practice. Additionally, I show how animal …

Lincoln: The Constitution And The Civil War, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Photo galleries and supporting exhibits can be found on the LINCOLN: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library September 4 - October 16, 2015

Traces Volume 43, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

The Anti-War Adoption Of Lord Of The Rings, Kayla Spencer

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

Ten years after Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was first published in 1954, an unexpected party discovered Middle-earth. America’s counterculture adopted the series, despite its largely conservative, patriarchal, and militant ideologies. Tolkien himself was not fond of the hippie movement, calling them his “deplorable cultus” (Helms 7). Although always adamant that his books were not allegory, the hippies found it anyway and applied his art to their own agendas. Second-wave feminists understood Eowyn’s refusal to let her romantic interest and her father determine her fate, as well as her fear of being kept in a cage and unable to …

Dipl 3851/Core 3851 Religion, Law, War, Elizabeth A. Wilson Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course will examine wars of religion and religious views of war, focusing particularly on how religion has informed the international laws of war. We are living through an era fraught with religious warfare - wars animated by religious conflict and wars that use religious abuse as weapons to demoralize and subdue the enemy. The course will focus on three major religious traditions (primarily Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and set in dialogue their respective views of war, assess their contributions to the contemporary laws of war, and examine particular historical episodes of religious conflict - as well as contrary episodes …

Nkrumah, Kwame, Msrc Staff

Manuscript Division Finding Aids

The papers of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), teacher, statesman, and author, span the period from 1955 to 1987. The bulk of the papers covers the period from 1965 to 1974 and the collection totals approximately twenty-six linear feet. While Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, Nkrumah led the successful fight for the colony's independence from the British. From June 1960 until February 1966, he served as President of Ghana, while advocating the cause of a free and unified Africa. After the 1966 Ghanaian coup, Nkrumah settled in Conakry, Guinea, where he continued to promote pan-Africanism and denounce neo-colonialism. This collection primarily …

Joint Force Quarterly 79 (4th Quarter, October 2015), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

The Trojan Woman, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

By Ellen McLaughlin

Productions took place November 6-8 and 10-14, 2015

Heroic Depiction Vs. Modern Slaughtering -The Great War In The Middle East As A Semi-Modern War, Frank Jacob, Riccardo Altieri

Publications and Research

The paper discusses the reception of the Middle East during the First World War comparing different areas of campaigns and battles in the region.

Spaces, Alleys, And Other Lacunae: Emma Hardy's Late Writings Restored, Jon Singleton

Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Western Promises: Sustainability And Consequence For Baltic Security, Clay Moore

Ex-Patt Magazine

Renewed Russian expansion is raising concerns about security of its neighbors. The Baltic States seem unnervingly close to Russia, but how vulnerable are they to Russian influence?

Advocate, Fall 2015, Vol. 27, No. 2, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

EDITOR'S NOTE (p. 3)

CUNY NEWS:

- PSC calls for Disruptive Action and Strike Authorization Vote (p. 5)

- Wake Up Chancellor Milliken!: Photos from the PSC’s October Protest (p. 6)

- What the Union Wants: PSC CUNY’s Contract Demands (p. 8)

DEBATE: Not a Woman’s Issue: Gender Parity in the Workplace (p. 12)

CONVERSATIONS: Two Letters to Chancellor Milliken (p. 15)

FEATURES:

- Raising the Flag of Palestine (p. 17)

- How to Fly High Without Moving Forward: The Continued Drug War Waged by Prohibitionists (p. 20)

- A Genealogy of Violence: Understanding the Massacre in …

Hospitalitas, Andrew T. Young

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Good government requires a constitution that demarcates what political agents can and cannot do, and such a constitution must be self-enforcing. The medieval West was characterized by the estates system, where the political power of monarchs was roughly balanced by that of a landed and militarized nobility. This rough balance of power contributed to a Western tradition of limited government and constitutional bargaining. I argue that this balance has important roots in the fifth and sixth century barbarian settlements that occurred within the frontiers of the declining Western Roman Empire. These settlements provided barbarians with allotments consisting of lands or …

Gurkha Soldiers As An Intercultural Moment On The European Battlefields Of The Great War, Frank Jacob

Publications and Research

The article analyzes the role of the Gurkhas during the First World War to explain the intercultural contacts as they were created by the multi-ethnicity of the troops that were recruited for the Great War throughout the British Empire.

The Russo-Japanese War And The Decline Of The Russian Image, Frank Jacob

Publications and Research

The article analyzes the consequences of the Russo-Japanese War with regard to the military reception of Russia in Europe, especially Germany.

The Voice, Fall 2015: Volume 61, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

• Leading Off With the President: A Pleasant Place
• Editor's Notes: 60 Years
• News: A Front-Row Seat to the Political Process; Pitt Brings Energy, Experience to Journalism Program; Rankings Help Show Dordt's Value; Delmar Vander Zee Fellowship Supports Student Research; Dordt Welcomes New Faculty and Staff; Campus Kudos; Bajema Receives Sustainable Agriculture Funding; Stoub Awarded Grant for STEM Outreach to Regional High Schools; Drissell is Awarded Arts Fellowship; Faculty Bits; Lab Improvements Next for Sciences; Reducing Nitrates; Scholar-Athletes Recognized; New Coaches
• Features: Where Has the Time Gone?; A Focus on Global Hunger; Dante's Divine Comedy Speaks to Today's Dordt Students; Summer …

The Huntsville Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2015, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Army War College Review Vol. 1 No. 3, Larry D. Miller Dr.

Articles & Editorials

The Army War College Review, a refereed publication of student work, is produced under the purview of the Strategic Studies Institute and the United States Army War College. An electronic quarterly, The AWC Review connects student intellectual work with professionals invested in U.S. national security, Landpower, strategic leadership, global security studies, and the advancement of the profession of arms.

All issues are listed in the Army War College Review area.

Raised Afraid: The Media's Influence In Heightened Fear Of Terrorism, Paige Fetters

Honors Theses

Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, terrorism has become a household topic and a leading headline for the news media. Following the 9/11 attacks, coverage of the event was played around the clock for the first five days. 99 – 100% of Americans followed terrorism-related events by watching television listening to the radio, or reading print news. Exposure to terrorism-related media have increased substantially since the widespread use of smartphones and social media, where news and topics can be shared and discussed around the world in a matter of seconds. The psychological effects of this exposure could affect …

Holy Warriors And Bellicose Bishops: The Church And Warfare In Early Medieval Germany, Nicholas Edward Friend

Master's Theses

The Frankish kingdoms of the early Middle Ages were the inheritors of both Germanic warrior culture and the Christian institutions of the late Roman Empire. Under Charlemagne, the Franks conquered most of Western Europe by the early ninth century and established a new empire of their own. To do so, they had to reconcile the Christian doctrine of peace with the necessity of killing the enemy during war. This was especially challenging for the highest ranks of the clergy. Though forbidden by canon law to commit violence, bishops and abbots were responsible for defending the property and people in their …

Nexus Between Intelligence Education And Intelligence Training: A South African Perspective, M. A. Van Den Berg

Journal of Strategic Security

This paper examines the nexus of intelligence education and training from a South African perspective with the focus on current practices in light of the country’s transition towards democracy. A brief overview is provided on the history and development of the South African intelligence community with specific focus on the civilian intelligence services from the period prior 1994 to date (2015). The main focus, however, is on intelligence education that is currently available from training institutions and universities in South Africa as registered with the Department of Higher Education as well as private training institutions on the one hand, and …

Fall 2015, Department Of Conflict Analysis And Resolution

DCRS on the Move

No abstract provided.

Johnson, Campbell Carrington, Msrc Staff

Manuscript Division Finding Aids

Title: Papers, 1940-1955 Description: 15 linear ft.

Notes: Lawyer and U.S. Army officer. Official correspondence from Johnson's career with the Selective Service System, including case files and general subject files; speeches and statements by Johnson on the social and military status of blacks; autobiography and biographical material; and newspaper clippings, War Dept. press releases, and photos, relating chiefly to blacks in the armed forces. Includes material relating to Johnson's civic activities in Washington, DC, particularly in the field of social work and concerns. Gifts of Col. Johnson, 1947, 1970-1971.

Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of …