“’When We Get Up Yonder, We Shall Have Them Rights Restored To Us:’ Sojourner Truth’s ‘The Injustice of Slavery’ and the Rhetoric of Black Liberation Theology of Hope” by Nordia Bennett, ’17. Bennett situates her reading of Sojourner Truth’s famous speech in the black liberation theology of James Cone, connecting Truth’s views of Jesus’ actions with Cone’s historical, Jewish Jesus. Her analysis continues with a mention of the socioeconomic circumstances of black people as expressed in Truth’s speech, connecting these observations to modern scholarship regarding the injustices of modern economics. Finally, she reads Truth in the light of Jurgen Moltmann, …

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Philanthropy And Immigration Enforcement: The Role Of Grantmaking On Nonprofit Influence During Secure Communities, Apolonia Calderon Jan 2018

Philanthropy And Immigration Enforcement: The Role Of Grantmaking On Nonprofit Influence During Secure Communities, Apolonia Calderon

Latino Public Policy

Uniquely positioned in our American democracy, foundations hold private resources they leveraged to promote their private values within our public arena. The independence of foundations, primarily private and family foundations, allows them to exert influence over public policy down to the local delivery of public good and services. An understudied policy area pertains to understanding how philanthropic funding impacts immigration policy and local enforcement. This report focuses on studying how philanthropic funding for immigration services is associated with reducing the identification of deportable immigrants, during Secure Communities. As foundations leverage their private resources to help fund nonprofits that promote their …

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The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Jan 2018

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio Jan 2018

University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio

SHU Libraries News

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University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio Jan 2018

University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio

SHU Libraries News

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University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio Jan 2018

University Libraries Sponsors Love Data Week, Michael Giorgio

Love Data Week

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Adt Final Report: Alternatives To Detention, Douglas County, Center For Applied Psychological Services, University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Madison Schoenbeck, Joseph Mroz, Joseph Allen, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Ryan E. Spohn Jan 2018

Adt Final Report: Alternatives To Detention, Douglas County, Center For Applied Psychological Services, University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Madison Schoenbeck, Joseph Mroz, Joseph Allen, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Ryan E. Spohn

Reports

About the Report The authors of this report are Madison Schoenbeck, Joseph Mroz, Dr. Joseph Allen, Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon, and Dr. Ryan Spohn. This report includes a variety of new data sources, including interviews with service providers, a focus group with Douglas County intake officers, and a stakeholder survey distributed across Douglas County. Data for this report was collected between May 9, 2016 and November 15, 2017 unless otherwise specified. Funding for this evaluation was generously provided by Douglas County, NE and The Sherwood Foundation, in contract with UNO’s Nebraska Center for Justice Research.

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Ideology In Physics: Ontological Naturalism And Theism Confront Big Bang, Cosmic Fine Tuning, And The Multiverse Of M-Theory, Anthony Walsh, Marc Ruffinengo Jan 2018

Ideology In Physics: Ontological Naturalism And Theism Confront Big Bang, Cosmic Fine Tuning, And The Multiverse Of M-Theory, Anthony Walsh, Marc Ruffinengo

Journal of Ideology

The most profound questions that philosophers and scientists have asked across the centuries have been metaphysical and existential, such as “What is the meaning and purpose of life, why are we here, and why is there something rather than nothing?” There can be no definitive answers to these questions, so those who pose and propose answers to them necessarily engage ideology. Some physicists have become philosophers in that they are attempting to answer these profound questions with highly speculative theories as, for instance, Hawking and Mlodonow’s book The Grand Design (2010) which they tout as providing new answers to age-old …

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The Diamond, January 31, 2018, Dordt College Jan 2018

The Diamond, January 31, 2018, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

Front Page: Bringing in the Women's Voices; North and South Korean Olympians Will March Under One Flag
News: Amazon Walk Out Grocery Store Opens to the Public; Theatre Students Experience a Week of Competition and Festivities; Prepare for Two Californias; "Don't Trust Everything You Read"; Musk Shoots for the Stars - or at Least for Mars; Future Student Leaders at Dordt; Dordt Prof: Government Shutdown Shows Weakness; Missile Alert in Hawaii Causes Panic
Feature: Reflections on Studying Abroad; A Storm for the Ages: Netherlands Edition; Last Word on Marriage; Women: We're Trapped, not Passive; The Dream Lives On; Dordt Screens …

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