Trillions for War, Prisons, & Wall St. Bailout = No Progress
Millennium Goals, Global Poverty and the Peace Dividend - Turning Swords into Ploughshares
"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview
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The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
Diabetes in Urban Native American Populations
- Submitted by: Sara Riverston
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education as a means of social progress in values
Model cultural identity relations in political life
- Submitted by: Miguel Hernandez
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The Marquis de Sade and the Vampire Archetype
Violence, Eroticism, and Moral Character Conflict
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"Oh what a year it’s been! For those of us in the Anti-Nuclear and Anti-War Resistance Movement it has been a year of continued struggle against an ever growing (and out-of-control) Military-Industrial Complex. From drones to nuclear weapons and more, dedicated peacemakers have steadfastly resisted the dominant culture of war. At places like Fort Benning, Y-12, Kansas City, STRATCOM, Hancock Field, Downing Street and Jeju Island, resisters stood their ground taking a stand for justice and peace."
+ Swords to Plowshares Movement
"Cultural anthropology is the study of societies and culture. The key term is culture: the ways in which people live with, make use of and make sense of their social world and physical environment. Cultural anthropologists speak of systems: social systems (the ways in which social relations are organized, e.g. family and kinship), belief systems (including religion and metaphysics), economic systems (how people make a living and how that is integrated into social life, how class systems work, how resources are used in a society), linguistic systems (languages, what they are, how they change, and how people use them as part of social life), national systems (how nations form, the cultural aspects of nationalism), racial systems (what generates racial concepts and exclusions), gender systems (the cultural bases for concepts of male/female, gay/straight) and so forth. Cultural anthropology has strong links to archaeology, the study of material culture, that is, how artifacts carry information about the societies and physical environment in which they were made. These fields are linked in turn to physical anthropology, the study of human evolution. Cultural anthropology is based on ethnography, the on-site study of what people do and how they do it."
+ Cultural Anthropology - Terms
"I think it is very important to notice that our understandings of both money and power are also socially constructed. We live in one of the great ages of faith, like the high Middle Ages, with its belief in the incredibly complex cosmology of the Roman Catholic Church. All these beings and processes and entities and salvation, and so on and so forth. Well, we believe in money. And as anthropologists we should be sophisticated enough to remember that it doesn't exist."
+ Money Systems in Anthropology
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Albert Schweitzer: "all of life is holy and sacred"
Schweitzer’s Reform of Moral Concern & Social Values
- Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend
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Over 50% of Montserrat Island became uninhabitable
Natural Disasters & Caribbean Immigration to England
- Submitted by: Stephanie Grant
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Footbinding & High Heels - Photo: http://goo.gl/uULtR
Foot-binding & Concubinage in Feudal China
- Submitted by: Sara Riverston
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Globalization & Human Rights - A new vision of small-scale Democracy and Autonomy - Submitted by: Thomas Evers Where human rights can be used a propaganda force that masks the economic exploitation inherent in relations between advanced and developing nations in neo-liberalism, Shanon Speed discusses this in “Rights in Rebellion” by noting also the positive ways that the human rights frameworks can be used in organizing a solidarity movement. Solidarity was a very large aspect of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the altruistic nature of international civil society and the morally-aware individual was one basis of this appeal. |
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Medical Administration Theory - The clinical trial is based on two subject groups - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend Correlational method is considered by scientists in the experimental context as important in the process of validation. For example, if the results of an experiment can be verified through methods outside of the initial experimentation, then there is a higher chance that the conclusions reached are valid or even universal in application. Similarly, if other methodologies fail to produce corresponding results, or even produce data that conflicts with the experiment as referenced, then there may be serious dispute as to the validity of the conclusions involved. In... |
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Qualitative Research Texts - qualitative & quantitative methodologies - consumer research - Submitted by: Stephanie Grant Research in the travel, tourism, and events industry traditionally has followed the motivations, interests, and behavioral patterns of the consumer in understanding the products and services that people are looking for in the industry. As Bartunek and Myeong-Gu write in ‘Qualitative Research Can Add New Meanings to Quantitative Research,’ the marketing and consumer behavior analysis in this sector primarily comes from quantitative and qualitative methods of research studies. (Bartunek and Myeong-Gu, 2002) Quantitative research measures seek to... |
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The First Church of Pirate Bay
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/01/the-missionary-church-of-kopimism.html -
'The Missionary Church of Kopimism picks up where Piratbyrån left off: it has taken the values of Swedish Pirate movement and codified them into a religion. They call their central sacrament “kopyacting,” wherein believers copy information in communion with each other, most always online, and especially via file-sharing. Ibi Botani’s kopimi mark—a stylized “k” inside a pyramid—is their religious symbol, as are CTRL+C and CTRL+V.”