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    Disaffection and Othering: Beyond Our Coordinates

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    Othering” is just one of many tools nations use during war time to garner support for the war effort. “Othering” in media often goes undetected, a subtle framing of one’s own viewpoint as the viewpoint and the gaze, often at the exclusion and alienation of others. This collection of essays explores how individuals and institutions “Othered” during wartime. Essays “A Review of Walt Disney’s Life and ‘Othering’” and “Walt Disney’s ‘Reluctant Dragon’ and the 1941 Strike,” study how and why Walt Disney “Othered” certain audiences in his films The Reluctant Dragon, Saludos Amigos, and The Three Caballeros. “Who is Left: The Moral Burden of War” explores how Lance Corporal John J. Petchel “Othered” in his private letter collection to his fiancé during the Vietnam War. These essays identify a possible “cycle” of ideologically- motivated “Othering.” The final essay “Coordinates” offers a possible way forward to disrupt this cycle of ideologically-motivated “Othering” for generations to come, with media and curricula designed to connect children with peoples and cultures furthest from their coordinates

    Digging in the dark: the underground war on the Western Front in WWI

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    Throughout the First World War, with the trenches largely static, the combatants tried to break the deadlock by tunnelling under one another’s trenches. The Tunnelling Companies of the British Royal Engineers were engaged in a bitter struggle against German Pioneers that left both sides with heavy casualties. A project to determine the location of one particular act of heroism in that underground war has resulted in the erection of a monument to the Tunnellers at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée in northern France

    The Theurgist

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    The symbolic dimension of the city : the presence of a dragon in the urban space of Krakow

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    Praca porusza problematykę symbolicznego wymiaru miasta tworzonego z podsystemu urbanistycznego i społecznego. Miasto i jego krajobraz są tu rozumiane jako system znaków funkcjonujący w dwóch odrębnych, zależnych od siebie porządkach rzeczywistości: porządku materialnym i porządku wyobrażeniowym. W pracy stawiane są pytania o rolę symbolu we współczesnym procesie tworzenia specyfiki miejsca; jest tu też mowa o tożsamości miejsca, o nadawaniu miejscu cech swojskości, o społecznej potrzebie dostrzegania symbolu. Jako przykład do rozważań na temat symbolicznego wymiaru miasta wybrano obecność smoka - stwora zrodzonego w ludzkiej wyobraźni - w przestrzeni miejskiej Krakowa. Kraków jest miastem historycznym, dawną stolicą Polski, jest miastem bogatym w zróżnicowane kapitały symboliczne. Symbolem Krakowa jest smok; smok jest obecny w legendzie o powstaniu miasta, jest też powszechnie obecny w materialnej przestrzeni Krakowa. Jest częścią tożsamości miasta.The paper deals with the issues of the symbolic dimension of a city created from the urban and social subsystems. The city and its landscape are understood here as a system of signs functioning in two distinct orders of reality, yet still dependent on each other, i.e. the material order and the imaginary one. In the paper, we ask questions about the role of the symbol in the contemporary process of creating the specificity of a place. We also speak about the identity of a place, about endowing a place with features of familiarity, about the social need to recognise the symbol. The presence of a dragon, a creature born in the human imagination, in the urban space of Krakow was chosen as an example of the symbolic dimension of the city. Krakow is a historic city, the former capital of Poland, a city rich in diverse symbolic capitals. The dragon is a symbol of Krakow. It is present in the legend about the city’s origins, and is also commonly present in the material space of Krakow. It is part of the city’s identity

    From the Shire to the Somme: Comparing Military Themes in The Hobbit and Up to Mamtez

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    The Hobbit, by J.R.R Tolkien, tells the story of the titular Bilbo Baggins who goes on an adventure to help a band of dwarves retake their home from a dragon. Throughout the adventure, Bilbo and the dwarves endure many hardships similar to those of a British soldier fighting on the western front in the First World War. These hardships are especially comparable to Llewelyn Wyn Griffith\u27s World War One experience described in his book Up to Mametz. Military themes of enforced adventure, constant and escalating danger, comradeship, and the devastation of war can also be found in both the Hobbit and Up to Mametz

    Astral motifs in Revelation 12

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    Disturbing Stereotypes: Fu Man/Chan and Dragon Lady Blossoms

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    Article Submission (Accepted with Revisions): Disturbing Stereotypes: Fu Man/Chan and Dragon Lady Blossoms Article Abstract: In documenting anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, critic Sally L. Kitch argues that they were not only directed against mixed heritage African Americans but also against Asians after the Civil War. Kitch writes, Fourteen states, including many that entered the Union after the war, adopted or revised anti-miscegenation statutes to apply to Mongolians, or Malays in general or to the Chinese in particular. Gender was also paramount to western lawmakers as they determined that the blacks white women were most likely to marry were Chinese men.[1] Other anti-miscegenation statutes were directed specifically against Asian women. Assuming all Chinese women to be prostitutes, the 1875 Page Law drastically diminished the immigration of Chinese women to the United States.[2] Anti-Asian sentiment and the fears of Asian-white miscegenation have also historically been represented in film and literature through the stereotypical figurations of Asians as alien outsiders. Critic Karen Shimakawa cites these stereotypes: Writing about filmic representations of Asian women in her essay Lotus Blossom Dont Bleed, Renée Tajima notes that there are two basic types: the Lotus Blossom Baby (a.k.a. China Doll, Geisha Girl, shy Polynesian Beauty), and the Dragon Lady (Fu Manchus various female relations, prostitutes, devious madams) (309). As for Asian men, Tajima notes, quite often they are cast as rapists or love-struck losers (312).[3] All of these stereotypes are manifestations of the longstanding binary image of Asians as the yellow peril and the model minority which continually functions to exclude Asians from white American society.[4] What happens when Asian Americans, specifically mixed heritage Asian Americans, are aware of and perform these stereotypes? By examining the characters of Doc Franklin Hata, his adopted biracial daughter Sunny Hata, Jerry Battle, and his biracial daughter Theresa Battle in Chang-rae Lees A Gesture Life (1999) and Aloft (2004), respectively, I argue that Lees characters performatively complicate and destabilize the gendered binaries of the Lotus Blossom/Dragon Lady and Charlie Chan (love-struck loser)/Fu Manchu (rapist) stereotypes. Single heritage, male figures such as Doc Hata and Jerry Battle also perform and complicate Asian American stereotypes by demonstrating the slippage between the binary of the asexual, submissive Charlie Chan and the lascivious, insidious Fu Manchu figurations. Their imperfect performances of each side of the stereotypical coin, as it were, attempt to resolve the problematic racializations of Asian Americans through the figurative and literal containment of the racial contagionthat is, themselves and their mixed heritage families. Defying patriarchal containment, the mixed heritage women of both novels performatively spread the yellow peril of their Lotus Blossom/Dragon Lady mélange by complexifying the stereotypes and reproducing mixed heritage children. In addition to deconstructing the discursive opposition between the Lotus Blossom and Dragon Lady through their sexualities and maternities, they both layer added binaries to each figuration. Theresa clearly exhibits the ways in which the model minority performance of the Lotus Blossom leads easily to that of the cosmopolitan savior. Sunnys feminized yellow peril performance of the Dragon Lady alternates with her role as the victimized tragic half-breed. While the single race characters, Doc Hata and Jerry, likewise disturb the binary stereotypes of Asian men, their menacing mimicry of white culture reinscribes other binaries by relying on the further abjection of their mixed race daughters. Their first-person, knowledge-producing narrations are symptomatic of their discursive power over their daughters.[5] On the other hand, the mixed race female charactersTheresa and Sunnynot only destabilize gendered model minority/yellow peril stereotypes but also demonstrate that their identities are multiple, uncontainable, and not necessarily dependent on the reinscribed binaries of white/Asian and male/female. [1] Kitch, 143-144. [2] Kitch, 196-197. [3] Karen Shimakawa, National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2002) 16. [4] Shimakawa states, The destabilizing threat posed by this contradiction, in turn, produces spectacularly divergent resultsimages and representations, as well as legal rulings and governmental policies, that vacillate wildly between positioning Asian Americans as foreigners/outsiders/deviants/criminals or as domesticated/invisible/exemplary/honorary whites. Radically unresolvable, the tension generated in that social/historical contradiction results in the production of racial stereotypes of Asian Americans in representation (15). [5] In Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977), Michel Foucault famously writes, We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another; that there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations (27-28)

    Article 66: Revelation at a Glance

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    Chasing the dragon – an overview of heroin trafficking

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    There are many problems encountered during the attempt to tackle the heroin trade on a global level. Afghanistan is largely responsible for the production of heroin, providing a global distribution amount of 75%. The trafficking of heroin has continued using the traditional Balkan and Northern routes, however due to the increase in intelligence and border force controls, alternative routes are being established. This demonstrates a key issue being faced by law enforcement agencies. The development in strategies and techniques being used for undetected smuggling are growing, causing a lapse in the effectiveness of detection techniques currently being used. The failure in the success of tackling heroin production and trade towards Europe is being increasingly recognised, which has resulted in a shift in focus onto the organised crime groups involved in the heroin trade within mainland Europe and the United Kingdom. An estimated 5,300 organised crime groups are believed to be active within the United Kingdom with an annual cost of in the region of between £20-40 billion. The complexity and level of intelligence within organised crime has evolved rapidly, and this, along with the increasing levels of corruption within heroin trading countries, give reason for the continual loss of the war against heroin. Concluding that until corruption and the highest hierarchical levels within organised crime groups are overthrown, positive results against the heroin trade will remain unseen, demonstrating that these key areas require further attention by governmental agencies and policies if the war is to be won
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