Faulty Phrases: "Only Human",
2012
Illinois Wesleyan University
Faulty Phrases: "Only Human", Jaret Kanarek
The Intellectual Standard
After a forceful lesson demonstrating his incompetence as a green lantern, Hal Jordan, the hero of 2011's blockbuster Green Lantern, claims, ''I'm done. He's right. I'm only human" (IMDB, 2011). This anti-man attitude pervades the movie, and seems warranted given the portrayal of a reality in which there are non -human species capable of accomplishing feats incomprehensible to mankind. Unfortunately, this anti-man attitude is not limited to the realm of fantasy and science fiction where the facts of reality, i.e. laws of logic and physics, have no bearing. For millennia, this attitude has been just as prevalent in the earthly …
The Mormon Plot That Wasn't,
2012
William & Mary Law School
Revolution And Democratization: Can Egypt Transition To A Modern Day Democracy?,
2012
Western Michigan University
Revolution And Democratization: Can Egypt Transition To A Modern Day Democracy?, Kristin M. Horitski
Honors Theses
On January 25, 2011, demonstrations began in Egypt against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. These demonstrations were the culmination of decades of abuses by the government such as police brutality, corruption, and the provisions of the emergency law that restricted the freedoms of the people and limited the opposition to the regime. The protests grew into a revolution that toppled the Mubarak government and put the military temporarily in charge of the country. The popular uprising and resignation of President Mubarak left the country in a state of euphoria and hope, yet there are uncertainties about the future. This …
Human Rights And U.S. Foreign Policy In The Multilateral Development Banks,
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Human Rights And U.S. Foreign Policy In The Multilateral Development Banks, Daniel Braaten
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Promoting human rights is an important foreign policy goal for the United States. There are many foreign policy areas through which the U.S. promotes human rights including voting against countries which violate human rights in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Promoting human rights, however, is not the only foreign policy goal of the U.S. in the MDBs. The U.S. also seeks strategic goals such as supporting allies and promoting domestic economic prosperity as well in the MDBs. Realist international relations theory posits that strategic interests will trump promoting human rights in the MDBs. For the U.S. however liberal international relations …
Sino-Speak: Chinese Exceptionalism And The Politics Of History,
2012
Singapore Management University
Sino-Speak: Chinese Exceptionalism And The Politics Of History, William A. Callahan
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
This article examines how recent books by academics and public intellectuals reshaping the discourse of the rise of China. While earlier trends argued th China was being socialized into the norms of international society, many text now proclaim that due to its unique civilization, China will follow its own path to modernity. Such books thus look to the past - Chinas imperial history- for clues to not only Chinas future, but also the worlds future. This discourse which could be called " Sino-speak," presents an essentialized Chinese civilizati that is culturally determined to rule Asia, if not the world. The …
Catholic, Jewish Communities Stand Together,
2012
Seton Hall University
Catholic, Jewish Communities Stand Together, Lawrence Frizzell
Department of Religion Publications
Public statement regarding the attacks on churches in Nigeria, Shi'ite mosques and shrines in Iraq, the anti-Jewish attacks and defacing of synagogues in Highland Park, Maywood, Paramus and Hackensack, NJ and the homicidal attack on Rabbi Nasson Schuman and his family of Rutherford, NJ.
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 246. Campaign letter, 25 July 1913, written by F. Youree Patterson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his candidacy for the Warren County Clerk’s office in the primary election on the dry ticket.
Myanmar's Road To Democracy,
2012
Singapore Management University
Myanmar's Road To Democracy, Bridget Welsh
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 239. Letter written by Alben Barkley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, to J. Marion Robertson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing his gratitude for Robertson’s work in Warren County during the recent primary election.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Franklin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.
Justice, Culture And The Political Determinants Of Indigenous Australian Health,
2012
Western University
Justice, Culture And The Political Determinants Of Indigenous Australian Health, Dominic O'Sullivan
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Indigenous Australian health is distinguished by a median age of death in the order of 20 years less than that of the non-indigenous population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2009). This makes Australia unique among comparable post-colonial societies in failing to make substantive reductions to the indigenous/non-indigenous health differential. Relatively poor indigenous housing, educational attainment, labour market participation and access to traditional resources for economic purposes contribute to the differen- tial. These contributing variables have an inherently political character which is integral to examining the just distribution of public authority, the purpose of political activity, equal political participation and cultural responsiveness …
The Taiwan Elections In Historical Perspective,
2012
French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Hong Kong)
The Taiwan Elections In Historical Perspective, Sebastian Veg
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
During a recent trip to Taipei to observe the January presidential and legislative elections, like many people with little first-hand knowledge of Taiwan, I was struck by the unique traits of Taiwan’s democracy. The elections also seemed relevant to many debates in China, not only because they were closely followed and tweeted by critical voices on the mainland, but also because of their significance against the broader historical and geographical context of the history of modern China, a connection which holds true even if one subscribes to the view that Taiwan had no previous connection with this history before 1945 …
Book Review: Developmental Fairy Tales,
2012
Columbia University
Book Review: Developmental Fairy Tales, Nicole Kwoh
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
At the 1996 APEC Economic Leaders Meeting, Jiang Zemin concluded his speech on economic development with a quote from Lu Xun: “For actually the earth had no road to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made” (1921). This quote highlights the important role played by the first generation of modern Chinese literature in shaping the current rhetoric of building a road to progress. In Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture, Andrew F. Jones explains the construction of this ubiquitous concept of cultural and historical progress. With a focus on Lu …
Salvaging Memories From The Ruins Of The Three Gorges,
2012
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Salvaging Memories From The Ruins Of The Three Gorges, Daisy Yan Du
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world. The construction of the dam began in 1994 and was completed in 2009. Proponents bill it as a symbol of China’s rise on the global stage, while critics worldwide see it as a huge humanitarian crisis that has the potential to worsen in years to come. The biggest controversy of this project concerns the forced migration of around two million people, who, due to the rising water, have been displaced from their hometowns along the upper reaches of the Yangzi River in Chongqing and Sichuan and Hubei …
Digital Chinese Whispers: Death Threats And Rumors Inside China’S Online Marketplace Of Ideas,
2012
La Trobe University
Digital Chinese Whispers: Death Threats And Rumors Inside China’S Online Marketplace Of Ideas, James Leibold
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The Chinese internet is a wonderfully raucous and interesting place. It has greatly expanded the scope of public discourse and activity, despite the party-state’s extensive censorship regime. Not surprisingly, the world’s largest cyber-community exhibits tremendous depth and diversity: progressive cyber-activists and professional agitators; navel-gazing starlets and steam-venting gamers; mundane infotainment and the banal waxing of quotidian life; and, sadly, dark corners of fear, hatred and paranoia. It’s all there; it simply depends on where one looks. Like other technologies before it, the internet is normatively neutral, and thus can be put to good, bad and anodyne uses: individuals—not tools—shape the …
Behind Bo Xilai’S Halo,
2012
Inside-Out China
Behind Bo Xilai’S Halo, Xujun Eberlein
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In the wake of Bo Xilai’s sudden downfall, shortly after what could be called an online carnival among China watchers—probably more in celebration of a rare, real-life political drama than anything else—international media is changing its tune and beginning to paint a more sympathetic image of Bo than previously reported, by focusing on Chinese people’s love of him. Reuters, for example, has a report titled “In China’s Chongqing, dismay over downfall of Bo Xilai” that quotes a working “stick man” (棒棒军, a porter-for-hire) who praises Bo as “a good man” that “made life a lot better here.” The Telegraph‘s Malcolm …
Book Review: Chiang Kai-Shek’S Interpersonal Relationships: Perspectives Across The Strait,
2012
University of Oxford
Book Review: Chiang Kai-Shek’S Interpersonal Relationships: Perspectives Across The Strait, Sherman Lai
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This book brings together papers and panel discussions of a conference on Chiang Kai-shek held in Taipei in January 2011 with the joint participation of historians from both the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. It reflects new scholarship on Chiang Kai-shek in the Chinese-speaking world and showcases the approaches that historians in the PRC adopt in handling challenges that their Western colleagues do not encounter. While Chinese historians have enormous audiences, they do not share the academic freedom enjoyed by their colleagues in the West and Taiwan. Because their careers and livelihood are dependent on the Chinese Communist …
Inaugurations Past And Present ... From George Washington To Barack Obama,
2012
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Inaugurations Past And Present ... From George Washington To Barack Obama, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Elections/Voting
Photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
No. 10: Gender And Food Insecurity In Southern African Cities,
2012
Western University
No. 10: Gender And Food Insecurity In Southern African Cities, Belinda Dodson, Asiyati Chiweza, Liam Riley
African Food Security Urban Network
This gender analysis of the findings of AFSUN’s baseline survey of poor urban households in eleven cities in Southern Africa in 2008 and 2009 has implications for urban, national and regional policy interventions aimed at reducing urban food insecurity. By comparing female-centred and other households, light is shed both on the determinants of urban food insecurity – which relate fundamentally to income, employment and education – and on the manifest gender inequalities in access to the largely income-based entitlements to food in the city. These insights can be used to design and implement practical and strategic interventions that could simultaneously …
