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40 Years of SBM and the Biopsychosocial Model: With Middle Age Comes Thinking of the Next Generation of Population Health – From Microbes to the Masses
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The moral virtue of open-mindedness
(2017-06-08)This paper gives a new and richer account of open-mindedness as a moral virtue. I argue that the main problem with existing accounts is that they derive the moral value of open-mindedness entirely from the epistemic role ... -
Social struggles of early Rome: 753-121 B.C.E.
(2016)This thesis is a short history of the social struggles of the Roman nation from the beginning of the Monarchy until the times of Julius Caesar in the late Republic. Some of the topics enclosed concern with the establishment ... -
Bodies and Binaries in _Black Swan_
(2016)The horror film, like other genres, has its characteristic conventions—a strong female protagonist, a sort of “monster,” gory spectacles, emphasis on sound, and the prominence of sex or sexuality, to name a few. However, ... -
Teaching a very Marcusean Piketty
(2015)This paper proposes a pedagogy using Thomas Piketty's data on economic inequality as a starting point towards a Marcusean project. The centerpiece of this pedagogy is the transfer of Piketty's credibility in presenting ... -
Marcuse and education today
(2015)Unlike other significant contributors to political theory, such as Karl Marx, C. Wright Mills, and W.E.B. Du Bois, the critiques of Herbert Marcuse remain trapped in the 1960s era of radicalism with his work referenced by ... -
Images from a historical interstice – Herbert Marcuse and the cyborg`s new sensibility
(2015)In this paper I will develop some implications about the concept of obscenity from Marcuse, to thinking over some political paradoxes that permeate our contemporary lives. To this, I assume a question: what has been ... -
Schedule of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Conference Society
(2015)Full schedule of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Conference Society which took place November 12-15, 2015 at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. -
Contributions to a critical pedagogy in Latin America since the footsteps of Simon Rodriguez
Mariana Ortiz is from Mendoza, Argentina. The city where she lives is a thousand kilometers from Buenos Aires. In Mendoza she works as a teacher at all levels (high school, college and university). In Latin America teaching ... -
An aesthetic challenge to education: Against a damaged subjectivity
(2015)This paper aims to reflect on the potential identified by Theodor W. Adorno in his Aesthetic Theory with respect to the subjectification process towards human emancipation. We begin from the complaint art/commodity within ... -
An Inconvenient Truth: A Documentary Film Where the Ethos, Logos, and Pathos All Depend on One Man
(2015)_An Inconvenient Truth_, 2006’s Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, is arguably one of the most popular films of its kind in the last decade. Among the highest grossing documentaries of all time, the movie centers ... -
Styling globalization: Iké Udé's Sartorial Anarchy
(Leila Heller Gallery, 2013)In Sartorial Anarchy Untitled #4, artist Iké Udé poses for his own camera in a manner that appears casual: hand on hip, legs crossed, with one finger casually touching the brass Boy Scout bugle sitting on a stool to the ... -
Iké Udé's glamorous rebellion
(2014)Iké Udé was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and became an avid consumer of magazines as an English boarding school student there. The codes of glamour and elegance in these magazines are part of what Udé is trafficking in with the ... -
The role of editing in the success of Steven Spielberg's _Jaws_
Editing presents a great opportunity for filmmakers to construct their films in a variety of ways. According to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, the decisions made during the editing period help to “build the film’s ... -
“If you can’t fix it, you gotta stand it”: _Brokeback Mountain_ and the western genre
There are many common associations that come with the western genre: cowboy hats, boots, spurs, horses, and a rugged hero, just to name a few. Classic westerns, like John Ford’s _Stagecoach_, have programmed us to have ... -
The aural identity of George in Tom Ford’s _A Single Man_
Tom Ford’s directorial debut, _A Single Man_ (2009), was widely acclaimed at film festivals across the globe. The film earned him several nominations, including Best Original Score at the Golden Globes, and The Golden Lion ... -
North–South relations and human rights
(2015)There are apparent differences between the developed North and the economically weak South. The relations between the North and South are marked by dichotomies and in order to deal with the challenges posed by the South, ... -
Dwight Eisenhower's leadership during the U-2 affair
(2009)Most assessments of President Eisenhower's foreign policy concentrate on the idea of deterrence as illustrated by the ''New Look" policy and the president's relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Instead, ... -
The effect of training and development on employee attitude as it relates to training and work proficiency
(2010)One of the fundamental issues facing businesses, organizations and institutions today is conflict management. An important aspect of that management is human resource development, which plays a key role in conflict management ... -
Complicating sex in Southern society: Bridging old Southern values with the new Southern belle
(2011)This graduate thesis unearths the complications that arose as a reaction to the generational gap between the Old South's illusion of the Southern belle and the modem New Woman who emerged following the Civil War. As a ...
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