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Market and State-Supported Sustainability: A Tale of Two Rural Communities in Iowa and Italy
No full textThe aim of the article is to compare, using surveys, interviews and participant observation, long-term development strategies in two rural communities, one in Iowa (Amana Colonies) and the other in southern Italy (Val Comino). The Amana Colonies have chosen a market model whereas the Val Comino uses a model supported with funds from the European Community. Both strategies prioritise local ability to co-ordinate actions across geographical and institutional scales. The findings suggest that the efficiency of the two strategies is wearing out and their long-term sustainability is in question. In the case of southern Italy, this is because powerful members in local institutions operate on conventions of clientelism and corporativism; in the Amanas it is because shareholders who live in the community are interested in preserving the identity of the territory whereas those who do not are interested in the corporation's dividends
‘Weeping Tears of Blood’: Exploring Italian Soldiers’ Emotions in the First World War
No full textEmotion plays a vital role in any rounded history of warfare, both as an element in morale and as component in understanding the soldier's experience. Theories on the functioning of emotions vary, but an exploration of Italian soldiers' emotions during the First World War highlights both cognitive and cultural elements in the ways emotions were experienced and expressed. Although Italian stereotypes of passivity and resignation dominated contemporary discourse concerning the feelings and reactions of peasant conscripts, letters reveal that Italian soldiers vividly expressed a wide range of intense emotions. Focusing on fear, horror and grief as recurrent themes, this article finds that these emotions were processed and expressed in ways which show similarities to the combatants of other nations but which also display distinctly Italian features. The language and imagery commonly deployed offer insights into the ways in which Italian socio-cultural norms shaped expressions of personal war experience. In letters that drew on both religious imagery and the traditional peasant concerns of land, terrain and basic survival, soldiers expressed their fears of death, isolation, suffering and killing in surprisingly vigorous terms
JCU authors 2012: catalog of the exhibition held in the Frohring Library in celebration of the 40th anniversary of John Cabot University
No full textThe Open Graph Theorem for Correspondences: A New Proof and Some Applications
No full textIt is known that a correspondence from a topological space to a Euclidean space, with open and convex upper sections, has an open graph if and only if it is lower hemicontinuous. We refer to this result as the open graph theorem. We provide a new and simple proof of the open graph theorem. We also show that the open graph theorem leads to novel results on the existence of constant selections and fixed points for correspondences with non-compact and non-convex domain. Finally, we present an economic application of our results to a principal-agent model
The “Lover” and the “Beloved” : Jean-Paul Sartre’s Intersubjectivity in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and The Great Gatsby
No full textThesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Political Science)--John Cabot University, Spring 2012.In Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the bond between the "Self" and the "Other," concluding that the interaction between the “lover” and the "beloved" equates to a tyrant-slave relationship. This thesis applies Sartre’s philosophy to the interpersonal relationships in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. As both works portray love as a destructive force, Sartre’s philosophy allows one to understand that in the novels the failure of the “lover” and the “beloved” to establish a meaningful connection is a result of the conflicts within the Self
Microcredit in Bangladesh and Its Impact On Women
No full textThesis (B.A. in International Affairs)--John Cabot University, Spring 2012.Microfinance is an innovative tool which has spread worldwide to liberate impoverished people from poverty. In Bangladesh, Grameen bank is the most well-known due to Yunus who won the Nobel peace Prize in 2006. The thesis discusses on the extent microcredit has impacted the empowerment of women. There is no doubt that microcredit has impacted women positively, and lifting them not only out of poverty, but also increasing their socio-economic status. What has to be explored, is whether the women are partially or totally empowered. That is, if women have an increased decision-making power; if they send their children to school, or if they can lift their household out of the misery. Furthermore, it will be discussed how female empowerment has alleviated overall poverty; how it reduced bonded labour and child marriage. Microcredit has had an incredible impact on these issues, even though it is still limited and heavily criticized, it is still an effective tool to combat poverty
Being between: new languages between art curating and music
No full textThesis (B.A. in Art History, Minor in Business Administration)--John Cabot University, Spring 2012.This Art History thesis is on contemporary art and music. It is divided into 4 chapters, and it is about the role of curating throughout the years as a creative between innovations in the exhibition and music world. First, it is an analysis on the historical origins of the figure of the art curator and the innovations that he or she had made to the old exhibition style. Then, it becomes an innovative experience which mixes the curator job to underground contemporary music, i.e. minimal, techno, electro, and house music