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    Uncovering freedom: a story of empowerment

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    This article tells the story of a woman suffering from food anxiety and unintentional weight loss and how shifting to an empowerment-based model of care led her onto a path of health and healing

    Echoes In The Depths Of Conscience: The Story Of Moral Injury In The Context Of War

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    During the latter part of the last decade, mental health professionals working with war veterans began to realize that some of their patients were dealing with something more than complex PTSD. Awareness of a type of wound known as moral injury came from observations in the field of PTSD in war veterans and active duty personnel. In five chapters this dissertation approaches moral injury by drawing on the stories of the Christian tradition. The first chapter tells the story of moral injury. This chapter discusses guilt, shame, suicide, and responses to moral injury. Next, it discusses the issue of identity, Chapter 2: The Story of Self. This chapter approaches the topic of killing by considering how the military trains soldiers, how Hollywood tells the story of killing in combat, and how new technologies present challenges to a soldier’s identity. Chapter 3: The Story of Evil and Suffering discusses the problem of evil, moral failure, and virtue Chapter 4: The Story of Redemption, uses the sixteen panels of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica. The author suggests that one may view the panels that form four rows thematically. The last chapter tells the story of healing. It presents a retreat program, “Warrior’s Path Home.

    Models for Change: Building Momentum for Juvenile Justice Reform

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    Models for Change: Building Momentum for Juvenile Justice Reform tells the story of how innovative state leaders from across the country are creating a new path toward fair, rational, effective and developmentally appropriate models for juvenile justice reform. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana and Washington are already moving to reform and reshape their juvenile justice systems. These states have demonstrated strong leadership in juvenile justice policy, value collaboration and engagement and, because of their efforts, have changed the political climate to make deeper systems reform possible. Models for Change, a new initiative from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is seeking to build on their efforts in the hope that these states develop new model policies, practices and procedures that will strengthen their reform work, and possibly represent changes that could be replicated in other states

    From Brown to Busing

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    An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation. This paper uses newly assembled data to document when and how Southern school districts desegregated as well as the extent of court involvement in the desegregation process over the two full decades after Brown. We also examine heterogeneity in the path to desegregation by district characteristics. The results suggest that the existing quantitative literature, which generally either begins in 1968 and focuses on the role of federal courts in larger urban districts or relies on highly aggregated data, often tells an incomplete story of desegregation.

    S1E4: How do you get from the Maine woods to Broadway?

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    In this episode, we explore the unique career path of lighting designer Don Holder, UMaine class of ’80 who has worked on Broadway, in film, television, opera and dance across the globe. His lighting designs have earned 13 Tony Award nominations and two Tonys — most notably for Disney’s “The Lion King,” which garnered him his first award in 1998. In this episode, Holder tells his story — beginning in the late ’70s when he was, of all things, a forestry major at UMaine

    Chasing Destiny: A Novella

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    Chasing Destiny tells the story of Lyric Angel de la Cruz. She is the only daughter of five-time world heavyweight champion and three-time tag team champion Manuel de la Cruz and the oldest granddaughter of Julio de la Cruz, a legend in the wrestling world. For as long as Lyric can remember, her life has been surrounded by wrestling, and she wants to be involved with the business. But unlike her family that came before her. Lyric wants to create her own way in the business, however, when she tells Manuel her career path, he is furious that she would want to do something that he sees as trivial—beneath her and the de la Cruz name. She dedicates her life in the wrestling world to prove her father wrong, that she doesn’t need to rely on in-ring skills or even the de la Cruz name to become successful in the world she grew up loving

    A Multi-Country Study of the Information in the Term Structure about Future Inflation

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    This paper provides evidence on what the term structure (for maturities of twelve months or less) tells us about future inflation in ten OECD countries. The empirical results on the information in the term structure contrast with those that find that the level of interest rates help forecast the future level of inflation. Instead, they indicate that for the majority of the countries in the sample, the term structure does not contain a great deal of information about the future path of inflation. The results for France, the United Kingdom and Germany tell a different story, however. In these countries, the term structure contains a highly significant amount of information about future changes in inflation. The evidence in this paper suggests that central banks for most of the countries studied here should exercise some caution in using the term structure of interest rates as a guide for assessing inflationary pressures in the economy, as is currently under consideration in the U.S. central bank. Although there is significant information in the term structure about the future path of inflation for a few of the countries, this is not a result that is true in general. The empirical evidence does reveal, however, that for every country studied except the United Kingdom, there is a great deal of information in the term structure of nominal' interest rates about the term structure of real' interest rates. This finding is an extremely useful one because it suggests that for most countries researchers can examine observable data on the nominal term structure to provide them with information about the behavior of the real' term structure.

    Socrates and the Story of Inquiry

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    Argument and myth, historical figure and archetype, Socrates dominates our image of inquiry. How did this come about and should it continue

    From Brown to Busing

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    An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation. This paper uses newly assembled data to document when and how Southern school districts desegregated, as well as the extent of court involvement in the desegregation process over the two full decades after Brown. We also examine heterogeneity in the path to desegregation by district characteristics. The results suggest that the existing quantitative literature, which generally either begins in 1968 and focuses on the role of federal courts in larger urban districts or relies on highly aggregated data, often tells an incomplete story of desegregation

    Edipo Re. Edipo a Colono. Il faticoso viaggio dell’uomo alla ricerca della verità. Da Sofocle a Glauco Mauri

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    Oedipus is the “why?” man. And what journey more than Oedipus’s is the paradigm of effort, sorrow and devastating courage for achieving the truth? “Let everything take its course as it is supposed to, and let it destroy me, but light must be shed, for I want to know who I am”. This is what Oedipus shouts from the deepest darkness of himself, but above all he shouts that to all of us. Even if man will be submitted to Gods, Destiny, Fate, Society (everyone can provide the interpretation that best suits him), let’s remind ourselves that knowledge is the first act of revolution and independence; to know is already to do! In Sophocles’s tragedies, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, the “fable” of Oedipus searching for the truth is recounted poetically and in its completeness. Those tragedies represent the sublime lamentation on the human condition in its quest for the truth. Oedipus, despite its tortuous path, remains always a man, not a god neither a saint, and that is what makes him similar to all of us. With his long journey, a secular via crucis, Oedipus not only tells us his story, but the story of Man
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