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“Put Off Thy Shoes From Off Thy Feet”: Sandals And Sacred Space, John Gee

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

While many have written on ancient temples looking at the big picture, John Gee discusses one small detail on a single Egyptian temple from the New Kingdom. He focuses on depictions of Ramses III in and out of the temple of Medinet Habu. Outside the temple and when entering and leaving there are depictions of him wearing sandals. Inside the temple proper the king is always shown barefoot. Ramses III built Medinet Habu only slightly after the time of Moses and as Gee further notes, while not wearing footwear was a clear practice among the Egyptians it is far more …

Did Captain Moroni Lack The Typical Religious Virtues?, Duane Boyce

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In his well-known volume about the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy focuses primarily on the book’s main narrators. However, he also makes a number of observations about other figures in the book that are of particular interest, including some about Captain Moroni. In addition to those I address elsewhere, these observations include the claim that Moroni lacked the typical religious virtues — which Hardy identifies as “humility, self-sacrifice, kindness, and relying upon the Lord.” They also include the assertion that Helaman, in his manifest reliance upon God, serves as a counterexample to Moroni’s military leadership. A close look at the …

Joseph Smith As A Book Of Mormon Storyteller, Brian C. Hales

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

For nearly 200 years, skeptics have promoted different naturalistic explanations to describe how Joseph Smith generated all the words of the Book of Mormon. The more popular theories include plagiarism (e.g. of the Solomon Spaulding manuscript), collaboration (with Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, etc.), mental illness (bipolar, dissociative, or narcissistic personality disorders) and automatic writing, also called “spirit writing, “trance writing,” or “channeling.” A fifth and currently the most popular theory posits that Joseph Smith possessed all the intellectual abilities needed to complete the task. A variation on this last explanation proposes that he used the methods of professional storytellers. For …

Escalating Depth: Towards The Proper Narrativization Of Magic Systems In Shounen Anime Through Toriyama's Dragon Ball, Rolando Tate

Theses & ETDs

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Vaccine Passports: The Moral Debate, Nicos Ledakis

Theses & ETDs

No abstract provided.

Examining The Connection Between The Mechanism Of Commitment To Peace And The Number Of Casualties Arising In Peripheral Insurgencies, Caleb Dick

Theses & ETDs

Conflict is a common part of social life and is present whenever individuals or groups are learning to co-exist. Civil war is a complicated form of conflict that disrupts the world. In this work I examined the commitment problems that help explain why peripheral insurgency civil wars are difficult to end. This study builds upon Fearon’s work on civil war duration in Why Do Some Civil Wars Last so Much Longer than Others? I described the nature of commitment problems and how they are manifested in three civil war cases (Nigeria, Sudan, and Afghanistan) and then conducted a cross-case analysis …

Abstract Synecdoche In Finite Semigroups A General Theory Of Pointlike Sets And Related Phenomena, Samuel Herman

Theses & ETDs

We develop a general framework for functorial detection of pseudovariety membership by way of dualities between lattices of endofunctors on the category of finite semigroups and the lattice of pseudovarieties. These dualities arise when the action of these endofunctors may be described as pointwise selections of elements from functorially assigned finite lattices. To illustrate this phenomenon, we consider two examples. The first example involves the family of universal image functors, which send a finite semigroup to its maximal homomorphic image belonging to a given pseudovariety. The second example—which is the focus of much of the paper—involves the family of pointlike …

Overture: Journal Of International Affairs Vol. 1

Overture: Journal of International Affairs

Full issue of Overture: Journal of International Affairs vol. 1. Editors-in-Chief: Josh Brause '23 & Tom Cummins '21 Faculty Advisor: Professor Ken Rodman Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs.

Sea Shepherd: The Evolution Of An Eco-Vigilante To Legitimized Maritime Capacity Builder, Claude Berube

CIWAG Case Studies

(MIWS/03 - Maritime Irregular Warfare Studies, Book 3)

This case study focuses on the evolution and development of a non-state group, Sea Shepherd, in the maritime domain. While some might argue that this organization is too small to warrant the attention of the U.S. Navy, others, including the author, argue that its cross-jurisdictional activities and international reach provide important insight into how other groups, or even states, with small maritime capabilities, might challenge international maritime norms.

Phil 334-006: Engineering Ethics, Adam See

Humanities Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The Emergence And Recognition Of Symptoms Of “Shell Shock” Or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Julia Swirbalus

Undergraduate Review

This article explores the origins of the understanding of trauma and post- traumatic stress disorder through analyzing the written work of Charles S. Myers who studied and treated soldiers suffering from “shell shock” in World War I. As a result of Charles S. Myers’s research, recognition of causations and symptoms, and treatment of soldiers with “shell shock” during the Great War he unknowingly provided the world with a basic understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and how stress effects humans. I argue without Charles S. Myers’s research and various publications regarding “shell shock” it is hard to say if the modern …

Vulcan Historical Review 25 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Clashing Canons And The Contract Clause, T. Leigh Anenson, Jennifer K. Gershberg

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article is the first in-depth examination of substantive canons that judges use to interpret public pension legislation under the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. The resolution of constitutional controversies concerning pension reform will have a profound influence on government employment. The assessment begins with a general discussion of these interpretive techniques before turning to their operation in public pension litigation. It concentrates on three clashing canons: the remedial (purpose) canon, the “no contract” canon (otherwise known as the unmistakability doctrine), and the constitutional avoidance canon. For these three canons routinely employed in pension law, there …

Broken, Beaten, And Starved: Attacking Water Resources As Objects Indispensable To The Survival Of A Civilian Population In Yemen’S Internal Armed Conflict, Meagan Desimone

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Self-Defense To Cyber Force: Combatting The Notion Of ‘Scale And Effect', Thomas Eaton

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Era Of Accelerating Digital Convergence: Security, Surveillance, Data, Privacy, Big Tech, And Politics, John Taschner

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Authoritarian Regime Resiliency In The Middle East: A Comparative Case Study Of Syria And Jordan, Mohammed Al Awwad

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Following the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011, the authoritarian regimes of the Middle East were expected to crumble while paving the pathway to democratization. Yet many of these regimes have remarkably survived. Even the regimes that had been toppled following popular protests were displaced by more repressive regimes characterized by the same form of rule as their predecessors. A prominent example of this pattern is Mubarak's regime that was initially displaced by Morsi's democratically elected government until it was overthrown by a coup spearheaded by General Sisi and replaced with a military dictatorship that persists today. The number …

Strategic Culture And Cyber Strategy, Andrew S. Olejarski

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The intent of this paper is to explore the relationship between strategic culture theory and how it interacts with war-parallel usage of cyber methods. Cyber methods, at times incorrectly classified as "cyberwarfare", as a means of statecraft are becoming increasingly prevalent, and developing an understanding of how states use them, particularly during conflicts, would be a great boon to the field of security studies. Strategic culture theory, an international relations theory focusing on the relationship between culture and strategy, may be an effective means to analyze conflict-parallel use of cyber methods. This paper will consider the relationship between strategic culture …

Why The Taliban Have Been Successful In Afghanistan, Donovan Fox

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The purpose of this study is to attempt to solve why the Taliban have been successful in Afghanistan. In an attempt to solve why, I develop and test a theory on the Taliban's success against the U.S. in Afghanistan. My theory claims that the Taliban have been successful due to U.S. forces committing wrongdoings towards Afghan civilians. These wrongdoings, in turn, pushed civilian support away from the U.S. and its allies in this war. Afghan civilians would side with the Taliban, as they sought protection from the invading forces in their country. As a result of this gain in support, …

"Beyond The Lines": A Reassessment Of Civil War Prisons, Beth Kruse

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Beyond the Lines”: A Reassessment of Civil War Prisons, challenges the historical interpretations of Civil War military prisons. Specifically, it analyses the political, social, and economic conditions of these systems by not only adding omitted gender, class, and race scholarship but flushing out the power dynamics between these group and military administrations. The re-examination of primary source material by reading against the grain to find overlooked insights reveals these sources not only provide a wealth of information about omitted groups, but that they have been misinterpreted. Additionally, applying the concepts of historical memory establishes how the Lost Cause shaped not …

Martial Misconduct And Weak Defenses: A History Repeating Itself (Except When It Doesn’T), 54 Uic L. Rev. 867 (2021), Dan Maurer

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Keeping Score: Dodd-Frank Section 953(B) Reporting Ten Years Later, 53 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 495 (2021), Karl Muth

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Nexus Of Law And Warfare In The Twenty-First Century, 53 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 513 (2021), Waseem Ahmad Qureshi

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hate Speech On Social Media: Content Moderation In Context, Richard A. Wilson, Molly Land

Connecticut Law Review

For all practical purposes, the policy of social media companies to suppress hate speech on their platforms means that the longstanding debate in the United States about whether to limit hate speech in the public square has been resolved in favor of vigorous regulation. Nonetheless, revisiting these debates provides insights essential for developing more empirically-based and narrowly tailored policies regarding online hate.

First, a central issue in the hate speech debate is the extent to which hate speech contributes to violence. Those in favor of more robust regulation claim a connection to violence, while others dismiss these arguments as tenuous. …

The Power Of The Civic Mindset: A Conceptual Framework For Overcoming Political Polarization, Daniel L. Shapiro

Connecticut Law Review

This Article proposes a new conceptual paradigm for overcoming political polarization—the civic mindset. I argue that the primary psychological barrier to bridging political divides is an adversarial state of mind called the partisan mindset, and I explain its specific characteristics, fundamental operating principles, and triggers. To combat polarization, I introduce the civic mindset, elucidate its basic features and functions, and explain how societal embrace of this unique outlook can advance a vibrant political space within which partisan competition and national unity can thrive.

Student Tributes To Professor Kent Newmyer, Jessica M. Zaccagnino, Alexander G. Andrews, David K. Ware

Connecticut Law Review

The following are the published remarks of the students and former students of Professor Kent Newmyer who spoke at a celebration honoring his work on Friday, November 8, 2019, at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Curtiss Fly Leaf, 27:4, 1944

Documents

Vol. 27, No. 4 of the "Curtiss Fly Leaf" published by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, New York, in September/October 1944.

Federalism In The Algorithmic Age, Chad Squitieri

Scholarly Articles

The robots will not be pleased with Frank Pasquale. In New Laws of Robotics, the Brooklyn Law professor outlines two possible futures that can emerge from a growing conflict between human and robotic thought. The first is a future of robotic dominance. In that future, decisions traditionally made by human professionals (e.g., who goes to jail, what medicines are prescribed, and what news gets published) are decided by robots powered by artificially intelligent algorithms. The second future offers robots a less-favored role in the ordering of human affairs. Pasquale earns the displeasure of our would-be robotic overlords by outlining the …

The First, Circa 1945

Other documents

Booklet published by Stars and Stripes describing the service of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, nicknamed "The Big Red One", published circa 1945. The front cover of the booklet is damaged.

Who’S Off Limits? How Inconsistent Interpretation Of The Imminence Requirement Under Article 51 Of The Un Charter And Ineffective Accountability Protocols Expand Who Can Be Targeted And When Under The United States Targeted Killing Program, Maria Chrysanthem

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.