Generations, Genesis, and Genetically Engineered Plants: Fall and Salvation Narratives that Question The Goodness of Creation

As salvation and fall narratives predominate the arenas of both theology and biotechnology, the author presents here an exploration of the ethical and ecological implications of such narratives as they aim to moderate the relationship of human beings to God, Earth, and each other. There is real evidence for concern over the ecological threats created by the genetic engineering of plants. The “feed the world\" biotech salvation narrative might not save humankind from starvation, as it glosses over its own form of idolatry, namely, the worship of the market God. What sort of goodness can be found in or made of \"creation,\" one might ask, while pondering the problems and potentials arising out of two competing models for ethics, that of Prometheus and that of Gaia

Romantic Theology as Revelation through Tom Bombadil and Goldberry in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Tom Bombadil initially appears to be merely an eccentric, episodic character. Yet, upon close reading his enchanting spirit embodies moral significance throughout the trilogy when members in the war against Sauron recall his spirit in moments of hope and despair. Though he only appears to the Hobbits within the Old Forest, Bombadil represents ideals present throughout the entire story. As Tolkien wrote, “[Bombadil] represents something that I feel important, though I would not be prepared to analyze the feeling precisely. I would not, however, have left him in, if he did not have some kind of function” (Letters 178). While Bombadil’s “function” may appear unclear, his presence remains essential to The Lord of the Rings. Because Bombadil aids but also distances himself from Rivendell, literary critics struggle to understand how Bombadil informs The Lord of the Rings through his role in the war against Sauron

Spartan Daily, March 4, 1981

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Distances and Domination in Graphs

This book presents a compendium of the 10 articles published in the recent Special Issue “Distance and Domination in Graphs”. The works appearing herein deal with several topics on graph theory that relate to the metric and dominating properties of graphs. The topics of the gathered publications deal with some new open lines of investigations that cover not only graphs, but also digraphs. Different variations in dominating sets or resolving sets are appearing, and a review on some networks’ curvatures is also present

Monopolism versus Competition: Assessing Impacts on Export Capability (Comparative Study on Gum Arabic Export Merit)

This study aims to examine the impact of key policy changes on the gum Arabic sector after Gum Arabic Company concession withdrawn. Focusing on attitude of production and export performance. It is an attempt to contribute to solve the problem of huge decline and fluctuation of Gum Arabic production and exports in last decay. This decline had led to drop in revenues. Many factors were behind this problem ; part of them are naturally as drought, and mainly are human made as lack of policies and strategies of both government and the Gum Arabic Company (GAC),which was monopolized gum Arabic exports till recent years. The main object of the study was to evaluate the impact of de-monopolism policy on gum export performance, and generally, the paper intended to conduct comparative study between monopolism and competition. The study has formulated some hypotheses, concluded to that; monopolism policy of gum export is ineffective. Data has conducted through questionnaire, personal meeting, records and observation. Statistical Package of Social Studies (SPSS) has used to test the hypotheses and get results. The results confirmed that, monopolism policy is ineffective and mainly caused in the drop of the exports revenue and lowered Sudan world market share. Keywords: Gum Arabic, competition, monopolism, capability

Spartan Daily, November 15, 1977

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