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The impact of environmental regulations on the West Virginia coal economy: assessing the “coal means jobs” mantra and the prospect of deregulation
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Together We Know How to Achieve: An Epistemic Logic of Know-How
Get PDFThe existence of a coalition strategy to achieve a goal does not necessarily mean that the coalition has enough information to know how to follow the strategy. Neither does it mean that the coalition knows that such a strategy exists. The paper studies an interplay between the distributed knowledge, coalition strategies, and coalition know-how strategies. The main technical result is a sound and complete trimodal logical system that describes the properties of this interplay
Transplanting the womb: an examination of the ethics and potential of uterine transplantation
Get PDFDiversity in American advertising: a case study of Coca-Cola advertisements and their role in homogenizing the diversity movement
No full textThrough a historical study of advertising, this project aims to show how the idea of “diversity” is used by corporations to benefit the dominant hegemonic, and ultimately attempt to homogenize the diverse populations that they supposedly are highlighting. Analyzing the growth of the advertising industry and considering socio-political movements, this project traces how advertisers have represented minority populations, and how these representations have changed through the years. Coca-Cola is used as a case study in this project due to its global scope, but more importantly because its ads have been lauded for carrying positive messages. Specific Coca-Cola advertisements from different time periods are used to further illustrate the path through which the idea of using minorities to show diversity was taken. Hopefully this project will serve to complicate the idea of diversity, and help illustrate how representation (specifically, representation controlled by the dominant hegemonic) is not necessarily as beneficial for minorities as often assumed it is
