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Independent Service-Learning Capstone Guidelines | Office of Civic Engagement and Servi... - 0 views

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    A roadmap for a possible service learning "capstone" project to close the junior year course. Could couple with a critical ethical reflection and launch a student's second summer experience if based on a relationship with an ATL-area non-profit (e.g. New American Pathways)
Christopher Yarsawich

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.
Christopher Yarsawich

Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Addressing Islamophobia head-on, with reference to relevant politics, Orlando, and 9/11
Christopher Yarsawich

On death penalty, is this the company we want to keep? - 0 views

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    Compares US death penalty stats with Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China.
Christopher Yarsawich

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.
Christopher Yarsawich

The Montreal massacre: Canada's feminists remember | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Connects with Belle Jar personal narrative
Christopher Yarsawich

Rape survivors' stories told through virtual reality in new documentary - ThinkProgress - 0 views

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    Empathy building through powerful personal narratives. VR platform makes viewer a participant. Focus is more on the consequences of rape for victim (as opposed to dominant narrative of weepiness for the "suffering" of the criminal.
Christopher Yarsawich

No Comment - Video news without commentary | Euronews - 0 views

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    Minute long footage with subtitles but no commentary on current issues.
Christopher Yarsawich

Man Shoots 11, Killing 5 Girls, in Amish School - The New York Times - 0 views

  • A dairy truck driver, apparently nursing a 20-year-old grudge, walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse here Monday morning and systematically tried to execute the girls there, killing four and wounding seven b
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    Connects with Belle Jar personal narrative
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