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Dialogue, Debate, and Narrative
No full textEric Yang, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, reflects on his recently completed, two week course in which students learned and practiced different philosophical methodologies as employed by historical philosophers, in particular Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, and Confucius. Students started with a close examination of Socrates’s use of the elenchus or the method of cross-examination, and we’ll practice the method by trying to answer certain questions: What is virtue? What is knowledge? What is bullshit? What is awesomeness? They then explored the method of disputation in Aquinas, focusing on condensing arguments and accurately summarizing objections and opposing positions, and we will hold formal debates in class following the medieval format. Finally, they studied the approach of Confucianism by reflecting on the sayings and actions of Confucius or sages who are regarded as moral exemplars. They then practiced this method by closely observing moral exemplars and trying to imitate similar patterns of decision-making and action. They concluded by assessing the strengths and limitations of the various approaches as well as attempt to devise other philosophical methods
The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America\u27s Elite Alpine Warriors
No full textWinner of the International Skiing History Association\u27s ULLR Award, The Winter Army is the epic story of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1111/thumbnail.jp
A&Q Presents: September 25, 2019
No full textKayley Boddy \u2722 is a first generation QuestBridge student from Knoxville, Tennessee. Though she intents to major in Classics and Archaeology, she is involved heavily in creative writing and performance on campus. She is the president of Poetry Slam Club and a member of several other clubs and publications, including Red Weather, Vibes, Hogwarts at Hamilton, and Untitled @ Large, and has performed at a variety of campus coffeehouses, open mic nights, last year\u27s Funktion, and the 2019 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Ruth Coolidge \u2721 hails from St. Louis, Missouri and is majoring in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies. Her biggest on-campus passions are playing rugby, paddling with the marathon canoeing team, and leading for Adirondack Adventure. In addition to being an aspiring filmmaker and a total film geek, Ruth also loves her summer job as a camp counselor and wants to spend her life being outdoors. These two aspects of her life are the driving inspirational force behind her creative work
Ray Charles in Paris: Race, Protest, and the Soundscape of the Algerian War
No full textIn October 1961 Ray Charles gave six concerts to sold-out crowds at the Palais des Sports in Paris. However, this record-breaking concert series almost never happened. Just before the first show, the venue had been transformed into a temporary detainment facility for seven thousand North African demonstrators arrested on October 17 as they attempted a peaceful protest in the city center. This historical convergence, which brought the commercial triumph of African American music and the state’s abuse of its minority population into the same physical space, has long been a curious footnote in histories of October 17, 1961. However, while convenient shorthand for French racism, this stark juxtaposition has a tendency to oversimplify the racial meaning and symbolic value of Charles’s music in this historical moment. By contrast, this article contends that the Charles concert series should be understood on its own terms: a strange coincidence that nevertheless transformed the terms through which race, empire, and music were understood and deployed in France. Drawing on a range of sources, including sound recordings, photographs, fictional narratives, and contemporary accounts, the article demonstrates how Charles’s music took on an overlapping set of meanings, signifying the voice of anticolonial and diasporic protest while connoting the sound of state and commercial power. In the twilight of the French Empire, Ray Charles thus came to represent both structural power and protest, a contradiction that reveals the malleability of race, music, and culture in the postwar Atlantic World
Costly Signaling Theory in Archaeology
No full textWhy do people engage in seemingly wasteful behaviors and invest in extravagant material displays? Since its introduction into anthropological archaeology two decades ago, costly signaling theory (CST) has been used to provide an answer to this question. With broad origins in biology and social theory, costly signaling theory seeks to provide an evolutionary explanation for why humans engage in seemingly wasteful behaviors. In this chapter, I take stock of costly signaling theory in archaeology by (1) tracing its theoretical origins and history of adoption into anthropological archaeology, (2) highlighting key issues that archaeologists have been wrestling with in order to make CST applicable to the past, (3) discussing the breadth of uses of CST in the recent archaeological literature, and (4) presenting an analytical framework that can make CST more rigorous and in the future. Despite persistent doubts about the explanatory utility of CST, the study of signaling from an evolutionary perspective remains a key aspect of evolutionary archaeology
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Get PDFFront and back cover illustrations: “A Beautiful Box of Gifts and Emblems of Presence Given to Calvin Green as a Token of Eternal Blessings….Copied November 25th 1847.” Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, #788
