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The World Cup as World History
No full textThe World Cup as World History uses football’s premier event to analyze modern sports and world history. William D. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a global phenomenon that generates intense political, economic, and cultural interest and profound discussions about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in the contemporary era. By focusing on the World Cup, the book keeps a tight thematic focus that allows for an integrated discussion of the core issues of globalization, money and finance, sport as spectacle, race and gender, and contemporary politics.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1163/thumbnail.jp
Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History
No full textThis up-to-date introduction to the complex world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories provides insight into why millions of people are so ready to believe the worst about our political, legal, religious, and financial institutions.
Unsupported theories provide simple explanations for catastrophes that are otherwise difficult to understand, from the U.S. Civil War to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Ideas about shadowy networks that operate behind a cloak of secrecy, including real organizations like the CIA and the Mafia and imagined ones like the Illuminati, additionally provide a way for people to criticize prevailing political and economic arrangements, while for society\u27s disadvantaged and forgotten groups, conspiracy theories make their suffering and alienation comprehensible and provide a focal point for their economic or political frustrations.
These volumes detail the highly controversial and influential phenomena of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in American society. Through interpretive essays and factual accounts of various people, organizations, and ideas, the reader will gain a much greater appreciation for a set of beliefs about political scheming, covert intelligence gathering, and criminal rings that has held its grip on the minds of millions of American citizens and encouraged them to believe that the conspiracies may run deeper, and with a global reach.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1165/thumbnail.jp
Efficient Solving of Birds of a Feather Puzzles
No full textIn this article, we describe the lessons learned in creating an efficient solver for the solitaire game Birds of a Feather. We introduce a new variant of depth-first search that we call best-n depth-first search that achieved a 99.56% reduction in search time over 100,000 puzzle seeds. We evaluate a number of potential node-ordering search features and pruning tests, perform an analysis of solvability prediction with such search features, and consider possible future research directions suggested by the most computationally expensive puzzle seeds encountered in our testing
A Hemingway Double Header: A Farewell to Arms and A [re]Moveable Feast [Feet]
No full textIn celebration of National Library Week 2019, Musselman Library held its sixth annual Edible Book Festival. Library staff, faculty, and students created many book-inspired treats to share with the campus community. Entrants were awarded prizes in the categories of best taste, best look, puniest, and best in show. The above creation, by Robin Wagner, was voted Puniest in 2019.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/edible/1090/thumbnail.jp
Seriously?: Estimates of Gig Work Dependence Vary with Question Wording
Get PDFIn this presentation, Brawley Newlin examines whether gig workers respond differently to questions about their dependence on gig income based on question wording and/or based on objective dependence measures (e.g., number of dependent children, hours worked in the gig). Results show that about half of the variability in responses is due to question wording, and half is due to more objective dependence factors
APPC Minutes - April 2, 2019
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, April 2, 2019
The Implication of Cultural Revolution and Economic Reform on Rural Women’s Political Participation in Post-Mao China
Get PDFSince the passage of the Organic Law of Village Committees in 1987, direct election of village leaders has been conducted in China, and eventually reached a national scale after ten years’ experiment. However, rural women’s political participation is discouraged by the social and economic reality in the countryside. Taking a historical retrospect, this research project attempts to analyze the impact of Cultural Revolution and Economic Reform on rural women’s voting rates and representation in local governments in post-Mao China. The results show that these two landmark political and social transformation in the 20th century have reinforced traditional gender roles, excluded rural women from power, and posed additional barriers to their political involvement by introducing new problems such as landlessness
