Messages from Cape Town

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Camila Arguello describes her observations during her study abroad internship program at IE3 Global in Cape Town, South Africa

Political shadows: two brazilian adaptations of William Shakespeare's Richard III

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar como o personagem Ricardo é construído em duas adaptações teatrais brasileiras de Ricardo III de William Shakespeare: Ricardo III, dirigida e adaptada por Jô Soares, e Ricardo III, dirigida por Roberto Lage e adaptada por Celso Frateschi, ambas encenadas em São Paulo em 2006. De 2003 a 2006, o Brasil passou por um momento delicado em termos de política. Vários escândalos aconteceram durante o governo Lula, sendo Escândalo do Mensalão, Escândalo dos Correios e Escândalo dos Bingos os que vieram à tona nos anos 2005 e 2006 e que causaram grande instabilidade política. Levando em consideração o fato de que duas montagens de uma das peças mais políticas de Shakespeare foram encenadas no Brasil em meio a esse turbilhão de escândalos políticos, a análise tem como foco a construção do personagem Ricardo, em cada produção, em relação ao contexto político brasileiro da época. A análise mostra que a construção dos protagonistas difere em cada produção. Enquanto a produção de Soares parece fazer referências ao contexto político da época e ao presidente Lula por meio de um Ricardo irônico, quase cômico, a produção de Frateschi e de Lage demonstra certa neutralidade e procura mostrar, por meio de um Ricardo malvado, cruel e violento, outros problemas da sociedade brasileira, tais como violência e os efeitos negativos do capitalismo

Preventing a Risk/Risk Trade-off: An Analysis of the Measures Necessary to Increase U.S. Pollinator Numbers

This Note will proceed in four parts. Part II will discuss the importance of pollinators and the possible reasons for their declining numbers. Part III will delve into the current and proposed actions to increase pollinator populations that are taking place in the United States. Part IV will then discuss the generally desired and widely accepted solution: a ban on neonicotinoids. This Part will introduce the implementation and results of a neonicotinoid ban in the European Union, and the risk/risk trade-off presented by a neonicotinoid ban. Finally, Part V will compile the solutions discussed in Parts III and IV, and present possible legal and administrative solutions that can be put in place to protect bees, modeled after the legal actions that have successfully increased monarch butterfly populations while avoiding the issues the European Union faced with its neonicotinoid ban. Part V will conclude that banning neonicotinoids is not the save-all solution to pollinator decline, and propose that focusing on a multiplicity of avenues—both legal and administrative—that tackle the many reasons why pollinator populations are in decline is more likely to increase pollinator numbers than focusing on one single facto

Privacy, Restriction, and Access: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas

This paper examines the intersection of privacy and access in archival repositories. Archival repositories are well known for containing restricted material, and for protecting the privacy of the donors. This literature review examines the need for restricted material from both legal and ethical standpoints, as well as discussing culturally sensitive materials while determining what archives and libraries can do to protect both themselves and their donors while enhancing accessibility and freedom of information

Sustaining without Changing: The Metabolic Rift of Certified Organic Farming

Many proponents of organic farming claim that it is a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture due to its reliance on natural agro-inputs, such as manure based fertilizers and organic pesticides. However, in this analysis we argue that although particular organic farming practices clearly benefit ecosystems and human consumers, the social context in which some organic farms develop, limit the potential environmental benefits of organic agriculture. Specifically, we argue that certified organic farming’s increased reliance on agro-inputs, such as organic fertilizers and pesticides, reduces its ability to decrease global water pollution. We review recent research that demonstrates the environmental consequences of specific organic practices, as well as literature showing that global organic farming is increasing its reliance on agro-inputs, and contend that organic farming has its own metabolic rift with natural water systems similar to conventional agriculture. We use a fixed-effects panel regression model to explore how recent rises in certified organic farmland correlate to water pollution (measured as biochemical oxygen demand). Our findings indicate that increases in the proportion of organic farmland over time increases water pollution. We conclude that this may be a result of organic farms increasing their reliance on non-farm agro-inputs, such as fertilizers

Alterity, Otherness and Journalism: From Phenomenology to Narration of Modes of Existence

In a theoretical reflection, the aim of this paper is primarily to discuss alterity in journalism. We believe that journalism plays a fundamental role in the construction of knowledge on similarities and differences between human beings, stressing social diversity as one of its purposes. We associate the concept of otherness, understood as a singular mode of existence of the “other”, with the purpose of journalism and with actions of empathy, sympathy and compassion. Based on a phenomenological perspective, we discuss the importance of the meeting between the "self" and the "other", as well as the ability of journalists to perceive and narrate on the aspects that shape the identities of human beings. Moreover, we discuss otherness in journalistic narratives, approaching the relation between the lifeworld and the world of text..