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Our Monuments, Our History
Get PDFBeginning with Toni Morrison\u27s concept of rememory and the recent completion of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers on the University of Virginia campus, this essay explores the current monuments controversy by focusing on four Viennese monuments which have much to tell us about how new memorials might contextualize and reframe history. The first Viennese monument, a celebration of a series of fifteenth-century pogroms, was built into the wall of a house opposite the Judenplatz, a square in the center of what was once a thriving Jewish community. Four hundred years later, from 1998 to 2008, three additional memorials were built to emphasize the horror of the Viennese pogrom and others like it. The article ends with a brief mention of a 1955 rememorial in a cathedral in Lincoln, England to address the wrongs perpetrated in 1255 when Jews were accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy named Hugh. New monuments talk back to old and bear witness to people’s changing awareness of the significance of past horrors
Promoting Nutritional Health, Healthy Food Systems, and Well-Being of the Community
No full textFood and the manners by which it is produced and distributed across a community have profound implications for the livability and quality of life offered. In addition, health outcomes and economic viability are subsequently long-term outcomes of the food system that is created and maintained in a community. There is no doubt that community leaders and public health practitioners face a daunting task in seeking to meet the immediate needs of their citizens, while also having a forward vision for meeting future challenges. This chapter seeks to describe some of the key issues that are involved with food and nutritional health at the community level. It details the topics such as food security, food justice, community development, and systems thinking. The chapter helps the reader to evaluate a community food system for inequities and future opportunities, and apply a systems framework to promoting nutritional health and community wellness
Middle-Class German Migrants in the United States: Migrants, Immigrants, Expatriates, Transmigrants, Mobile Citizens or German Americans?
No full textDrawing on data from interviews with twenty-five German citizens, this paper aims to shed some light on the migration experience of contemporary middle-class Germans who migrated to the United States. The interview data suggest that while these individuals have achieved successful socioeconomic integration and do not encounter discrimination or negative prejudices, they exhibit a strong sense of their German identity, rejecting such common labels such as “immigrant,” “expatriate,” or “German American.” Instead, they continue to negotiate their identity as “Germans living in America.” Like most immigrants, they engage in “transnational activities”; however, in contrast to the transnational activities sought out by unskilled migrants and global elites, these migrants tend to favor personal, social, or cultural activities over economic or political activities
Boroughs and the Badge: Local Contexts and Confidence in Police
Get PDFAs citizens interact with the police more than most civil servants, increasing the citizenry’s confidence in police is key to helping maintain rule of law and internal stability within a state. One of the key areas to be investigated in the pursuit of better police-community relations is on the impact of public services and housing on police legitimacy. Historically, American cities have been widely segregated based on race and income, especially in urban areas, which in turn alters the services available in those areas. The public services and the neighborhoods in which they are delivered are key parts of many people’s lives, positioning them as an important variable in determining whether individuals have confidence in their police force. This paper will investigate the relationship between the satisfaction individuals have for their local context and their confidence in police to answer: Do conditions in an individual’s city or town causes them to lose confidence in the police
Digital German-Jewish Futures: Experiential Learning, Activism, and Entertainment.
Get PDFThe future of the German-Jewish past is, in a word, digital, and not only in the sense of digital humanities or digital history. Future generations of scholars, students, and the general public will engage with the past online in the same ways—and for many of the same reasons—that they engage with everything else. There needs to be something redeeming, enjoyable, or at least memorable about studying history for people to feel that it is worthwhile. For many, the act of learning about the past serves as a kind of virtual travel, even an escape, to another time and place. Learning about German-Jewish history becomes possible on a regular basis when it is easily accessible through the newest media on computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. Perusing a digital history project about the 1930s or reading posts on Twitter and Instagram does not take as much time, nor require the same level of commitment, as sitting down to read a history book. Watching a hit television show about the 1920s feels just educational enough to mitigate the guilt of partaking in a “guilty pleasure, ” yet not so stiflingly academic as to prevent it from being fun. Twitter is the new Times. Netflix is the new newsreel—and noir. We must begin to harness the potential of these platforms to cultivate opportunities to teach and learn about the German-Jewish past. In this essay, I explore three ways of establishing a connection to the past in digital forms suited to the twenty-first century: experiential learning in a traditional college classroom setting, social media activism, and streaming television shows. [excerpt
Analysis of an ODE Model for Sea Turtle Populations with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination
Get PDFThe sex of green sea turtles is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated. Recent studies have shown that the sex ratios of sea turtle populations have changed over recent years, likely due to climate change, which has produced a more female-biased population. This paper finds the nonzero equilibrium point of the novel system developed by Herrera et a. (2019) and attempts to determine the stability of the population at that point
Huang Li-Zhou (Zongxi, 1610-1695) the Venerable Warrior\u27s On the Monarchs, On the Officials, and On Laws in English Translations
Get PDFHuang Zongxi (September 24, 1610 - August 12, 1695), literary name: Li-Zhou, was an early modern Chinese Confucianist warrior, who advocated for a political system that divides power into regions and resembles a Euro-American federacy or confederacy. He had around fourteen years of experience, in which he militarily struggled against the Manchurian Ching government, and has tens of millions of characters of preserved works, such as his Waiting For the Dawn and more than five hundred poems. [excerpt from About the Author
Women against Women\u27s Rights : Pro-Life Women
Get PDFThe issue of abortion in the political arena became escapable after the 1973 ruling of Roe v. Wade. Nearly 50 years later, the issue of abortion continues to influence voting in all levels of government elections - from President to state governor. Although the restriction of legal abortion access disproportionally affects women, women are generally just as likely to support abortion as men. To research the phenomena of women voting and advocating against their own rights, I turned to religion - measured by how often a female attends religious ceremonies - as a possible explanation. In this paper, I delve into the correlation between religious commitment and abortion opinion to discover what motivates - or fails to motivate - a female’s opinion on legal abortions. Although this paper fails to reject the null hypothesis, I encourage future research that studies religious affiliation and age in relation to abortion opinion. Such research sheds light on voter tendencies and potential legislation in the United States
Religious Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars
Get PDFMore and more research has begun to look at the impact that religion has on armed conflict. This paper takes a closer look at religious polarization and the impact that it has on the duration of civil wars. The central hypothesis focuses on the idea that polarized societies are less likely to reach a settlement in conflict; therefore, religious polarization should lengthen the duration of civil wars. The research compiled looks at the topic from a variety of different facets while paying attention to other possible contributing factors that can lengthen war and how religion in general plays a role in conflict. While this particular data set shows that there is no significant correlation between religious polarization and the duration of intrastate conflict, further research is warranted