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Christopher Yarsawich

The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling ScientificConsensus - 0 views

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    There was never a scientific consensus of an imminent cooling period or ice age. The majority of scientific research even in the 1970s predicted global warming caused by industrial/agricultural carbon dioxide and population growth. Many of the sources that considered the evidence for the end of an interglacial period also acknowledged the role that carbon dioxide emissions would play in generating global warming that would run counter to any cooling in the glacial/interglacial long-term cycles.
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This is the new front in the battle to control women's bodies - 0 views

  • This is couched in language that gives women all of the blame and none of the control
  • Men are not being advised to avoid impregnating women, because the idea of a state placing restrictions on men’s sexual behaviour, however violent or reckless, is simply outside the framework of political possibility.
  • Men are not being advised to avoid impregnating women, because the idea of a state placing restrictions on men’s sexual behaviour, however violent or reckless, is simply outside the framework of political possibility. It is supposed to be women’s responsibility to control whether they get pregnant – but in Brazil and El Salvador, which are among the countries where zika is most rampant, women often don’t get to make any serious choice in that most intimate of matters. Because of endemic rape and sexual violence, combined with some of the strictest abortion laws in the world, women are routinely forced to give birth against their will.
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In Memoriam, A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson - 0 views

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    Quoted by Ishmael in chapter 4 part 3 (pg 75): "Nature, red in tooth and claw..."
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Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools | Learning to Give - 0 views

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    Lesson plans on food insecurity and related concepts, could be used in conjunction with Power Band program in LS.
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Malia, The Rise of the Gap Year, and Ethical International Engagement | Stanford Social... - 0 views

  • social justice
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      Worth mentioning: there is at present an ideological backlash against the very concept of "social justice." I think we need to be aware of how language is constantly evolving in this regard, as well as how to debunk the primary charges (disparagements) levied by the Religious Right and the Right in general. 
  • the concept of human rights and major rights policy instruments
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      This gets at the heart of what we mean by "Global Citizenship"-I cannot think of a meaningful framework outside that of human rights. Challenge: "rights policy instruments" as active part of global education-what are they and how do we engage with them? Volunteerism is easy to do and to do repeatedly; social justice, I'm not so sure about what that looks like stemming from an educational setting.
  • Promotes social entrepreneurialism as a civic solution
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      How can we imagine "civic solutions" that are still project-based (i.e., Capstone-able)?
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  • we will need bolder and more imaginative civic spaces in schools and institutions of higher education.
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      That's the real challenge for us in designing a program that grows students into ethical agents of change: what the heck does it look like?
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"Two Voices" by Diana Der-Hovanessian - 0 views

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    Poem about complexities of identity, especially in the context of one forged by genocide, refugee flight and resettlement in America.
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What's in your suitcase? - 0 views

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    Video + challenge for students: what's in a refugee's suitcase?
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http://publication.suniyaluthar.org/6.pdf - 0 views

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    Rich (or dense, if you prefer) but a good thought piece. Sad, in many ways, but also very true. "privileged but pressured".
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"You're A Grand Old Flag" - 0 views

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    First half is about how Hispanics use (or don't use) the US flag as part of political protest. Second half (17 min in) is about Native American flag songs, military service, and relationship with the US flag.
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The Confucian Concept of Man: The Original Formulation.pdf - 0 views

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    Examines Confucian conception of the Junzi (ideal man) with emphasis on the ethical dimension of how the Junzi relates to others in society.
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Multiculturalism: America's Competitive Advantage - 0 views

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    Morgan Stanley's evaluation of various studies on changes in the U.S. economy as a consequence of increasing Multiculturalism.
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Is the U.S. a land of liberty or equality? - The Washington Post - 1 views

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    Article was basis for "The Durst Talk" (so-named by students). Starter for conversation on role of citizen in pursuit of social justice (I think the talk put into play the idea of justice eclipsing charity, but article is not limited to that function). A personal challenge type of article.
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Portraits of Reconciliation - The New York Times - 0 views

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    20 years after the genocide in Rwanda, reconciliation still happens one encounter at a time.
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The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 - 0 views

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    Museum in Minnesota looks honestly at the history of this conflict.
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Oum Kolthoum Ana Fi Intzark - ام كلثوم انا في انتظارك 1 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Oum Kolthoum (Umm Kulthum) song referenced in Chapter 5 of "A Map of Home"
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Plutarch, Antony, chapter 75 - 0 views

  • 75. And now Antony once more sent Caesar a challenge to single combat.1 But Caesar answered that Antony had many ways of dying. Then Antony, conscious that there was no better death for him than that by battle, determined to attack by land and sea at once. And at supper, we are told, he bade the slaves pour out for him and feast him more generously; [2] for it was uncertain, he said, whether they would be doing this on the morrow, or whether they would be serving other masters, while he himself would be lying dead, a mummy and a nothing. Then, seeing that his friends were weeping at these words, he declared that he would not lead them out to battle, since from it he sought an honourable death for himself rather than safety and victory. [3] During this night, it is said, about the middle of it, while the city was quiet and depressed through fear and expectation of what was coming, suddenly certain harmonious sounds from all sorts of instruments were heard, and the shouting of a throng, accompanied by cries of Bacchic revelry and satyric leapings, as if a troop of revellers, making a great tumult, were going forth from the city; [4] and their course seemed to lie about through the middle of the city toward the outer gate which faced the enemy, at which point the tumult became loudest and then dashed out. Those who sought the meaning of the sign were of the opinion that the god to whom Antony always most likened and attached himself was now deserting him.
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    Plutarch's description of when "the god abandons Anthony" (reference in A Map of Home)
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Global Speaker Series - Where There Be Dragons - 0 views

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    Speakers on all kinds of topics-potential for single-class plug in or even future GSRs...
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