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A Proxy For Piety: A Closer Look At Religious Cost In The Substantial Burden Inquiry, Philip Andrew B. Wines

Fordham Law Review Online

This Comment discusses whether the Establishment Clause and “religious question” doctrine prohibit courts from considering the subjective religious harm suffered by free exercise claimants when determining if laws impose a “substantial burden” on the claimant, as defined by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). It explores a dilemma that courts are presently facing. They must choose either to wade into constitutionally perilous theological debates to decide cases on their merits, or to defer to free exercise claimants on their own assertions of substantial burden and risk swallowing up the law …

Canola In Prairie Canada: Its Development As A Regional Crop And Its Challenge To Wheat, Thomas A. Rumney

The Geographical Bulletin

Canola (Brassica napus), a variety of rapeseed used for edible vegetable oils, animal feed, and industrial oil products, is a relatively new addition to the repertoire of crops grown by farmers in the Canadian Prairies. Becoming common only after approximately 1960. Canadian canola production has been concentrated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and has become a serious rival to wheat in terms of acreage and production levels. This paper examines the growth and development of this regional agricultural phenomenon from the poi nt of view of its location and distributional characteristics.

Undermining Our Best Nature: A Defense Of Dysart Woods, Scott Ruescher

Appalachia

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At Hikers Believe In Magic, Roger Sheffer

Appalachia

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The Real Cold Mountain In Pisgah National Forest, Danny Bernstein

Appalachia

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Accidents

Appalachia

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Tundra Frogs: Previously Unrecorded Amphibian Life In The Northeast's Alpine Zone, Michael Jones

Appalachia

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Black Bears: Beyond The Myth, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

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"The Best Job In State Government": Buzz Caverly Reflects On His Career As Director Of Maine's Baxter State Park, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Little Lyford Pond Camps: From Frontier Logging To Backcountry Bliss At A Traditional Maine Sporting Camp, Sarah Jane Shangraw

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2005: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Liberty To The Captive: The Two Definitions Of Equality In The Abolitionist Movement, Justin Searls

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

The matter of the debate on equality’s definition between black Christian ministers and white Christian ministers is an understudied topic of discourse that merits attention in the historical profession. In recent years, there has been discussion surrounding the general racial divide within abolitionism. However, the religious perspective on this matter has received little to no attention. How did black ministers and white ministers address the question of emancipation and enfranchisement for African Americans in the abolitionist movement from the 1830s through the Civil War and beyond? There is a significant disparity in the discussion of equal rights for African Americans …

Books Of Note

Appalachia

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Laying Waste To The Land To Produce Electricity: Rupert River Projec Could Be An Important Tipping Point, Paul Rudershausen

Appalachia

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A Light In Winter Woods, Douglas Haynes

Appalachia

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Avalanche Training On Alaska's Slopes: Hard Lessons From Arctic Snow, Alys Culhane

Appalachia

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Mushing In New England: From Commerce To Competition To Cooperation, Sarah Jane Shangraw

Appalachia

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In Grizzly Country: The Wonders And Hazards Of Hiking Alaska's Brooks Range, Mark Goodreau

Appalachia

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High-Country Currents: Leaving The Journal But Not The Pack, Lucille Stott

Appalachia

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Appalachia Winter/Spring 2006: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Learning As A Child In Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby, Christopher Joseph An

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Learning as a Child in Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby

The Androgynous Baglan: Interruption, Withdrawal, And Reclaiming, Aurelio S. Agcaoili

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

The pursuit of decolonization is a first act in the manifold acts of real, because substantive, liberation of a colonized country like the Philippines. The reason is clear: every colonizer not only colonizes a country but invades and occupies the mind of the people of that country, puts a claim to their bodies, and replaces their language and cultural practices with his own to complete his violent act of “discovering” the Other. Even with independence granted to a colonized people, the intellectual residues in a colonized consciousness that has coopted with the colonizer if only to survive continue to haunt, …

Philosophical Research And Narrative Inquiry, Jovino G. Miroy

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

This article endeavors to re-understand philosophical research through narrative inquiry. It proposes that inquiry in philosophical research leads to new relationships based on the articulation of the individual’s interaction in terms of temporality, spatiality, and sociality. Philosophical research may be considered as asking questions that emanate from the life situation of inquirers. Such investigation seeks to keep the questions alive and to tell better stories through doubt and movement. Research conceived as such is a way of living with others, especially those who cannot tell their own stories. Philosophical research, I argue, turns out to be crucial to democracy as …

Reconsidering Resentment, Christianne A. De Guzman

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Resentment typically carries a notorious reputation and is often painted as a negative emotion that impedes communal peace, as it traps its victims in the past. The stigma against resentment, conceptualized broadly as a politicized form of anger, can be attributed to the influence of Nietzsche’s notion of ressentiment. Nevertheless, certain forms of resentment are acknowledged by philosophers as valid reactions to legitimate moral infractions. Resentment, they argue, is intrinsically tied to one’s notion of self-respect and moral values. While standard accounts of resentment may be theoretically cogent when applied to singular and individual issues, they are not conceptually adequate …

Nietzschean Conceptions Of Ressentiment, Justice, Love, Good And Evil: Their Implications For Philippine Political Culture, Rainier A. Ibana

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Nietzschean Conceptions of Ressentiment, Justice, Love, Good and Evil: Their Implications for Philippine Political Culture

Ressentiment Of The Strong And Entitled: A Nietzschean Perspective On The Backlash Against Social Justice, Gio Theodore D. Apostol

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Contemporary discourses often associate group resentment with leftist identity politics. At times, these discourses contain Nietzschean undertones that represent social justice as slave morality. Harold Bloom calls these groups the “Schools of Resentment,” which are comprised of putatively resentful groups such as “Feminists, Afrocentrists, Marxists, Foucault-inspired New Historicists, or Deconstructors.” The assumption that commentators like Bloom make is that these groups, not their opposing counterparts, are resentful. This essay aims to interrogate this assumption and proposes the alternative view that hegemonic groups that social justice movements seek to resist are also susceptible to ressentiment. I argue that the “ressentiment of …

Environment Education And The Ethics These Encourage: A Case For Outdoor Education In The Philippines, Isabella Ann Mendoza

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

This paper discusses the role of environmental ethics and the values and motivations that can influence a person’s perspective and willingness to engage in pro-environment behavior. It explores the concept of outdoor education as an experience-based learning approach that has the potential to encourage pro-environment behavior by positively influencing the learner’s relationship with nature (ecosystemic), themselves (interpersonal), their community (intrapersonal), and the impacts of human societies on the environment (ekistic). It presents the possibilities of outdoor education as a strategy for strengthening environment education and the opportunities that can be explored through pursuing this approach in the Philippine setting.

Iniciación Deportiva En El Taekwondo, Bezerra Rodrigues Diogo, Eduar Alonso Ceballos Bernal

Ciencias del Deporte y la Educación Física

El taekwondo es una de las artes marciales tradicionales de Corea del Sur —más sistemática y científica—, porque no solo enseña las habilidades físicas de la pelea, sino que es una disciplina que realza el espíritu y la vida de quien lo practica a través del entrenamiento del cuerpo y de la mente. Hoy, se ha convertido en un deporte global, que ha gana fama internacional y se encuentra dentro de los deportes oficiales de los Juegos Olímpicos.

La práctica del taekwondo demostró ser más que un simple deporte, pues es un arte marcial que combina defensa y desarrollo personal, …

Ai: A New Lone-Wolf Terrorism In The Digital Era (Preliminary Analysis), Marthsian Yeksi Anakotta Mya

Journal of Terrorism Studies

This article addresses two fundamental inquiries: can AI engage in acts of terrorism? If so, how might such a phenomenon occur? My hypothesis posits that AI is capable of independently committing acts of terrorism, a classification derived from the study of terrorism known as lone-wolf terrorism. To address these dual issues, this article adopts a criminological approach, which is further elaborated through an examination of lone-wolf terrorism and the advancement of artificial intelligence. As is widely recognized, contemporary terrorist organizations have harnessed technological advancements in the realm of information and communication to perpetrate acts of terrorism within the digital sphere. …

Finding Them Before They Find Us: Solving The Emerging Infectious Disease Crisis, Daniel R. Brooks

MANTER: Journal of Parasite Biodiversity

The human population grows daily, it’s on the move, and it’s carving a deep technological footprint on our planet. We alter landscapes and perturb ecosystems, inserting ourselves and other species into novel regions of the world, leading to potentially irreversible changes in the biosphere. This is not news. More than 75 years ago, Charles Elton, one of the founders of modern ecology, wrote, “We must make no mistake; we are seeing one of the greatest historical convulsions in the world’s fauna and flora.” We are also in the midst of a public health and epidemiological crisis. Climate change alters movements …