Buffalo Arts and Culture

A 2003 study found that the combined spending of 700,000 tourists at 17 sample arts and cultural attractions and the organization\u27s own spending during the 2003 summer, had a $75 million impact on the Buffalo Niagara region. What is the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County? The Arts Council is a local organization, dedicated to advocating for and promoting the region\u27s arts and cultural industry. What role does New York State government play in supporting Buffalo\u27s arts and cultural organizations? The New York State Council on the Arts makes over 2500 grants each year to a variety of arts organizations throughout the state. What effect does Buffalo\u27s decreasing population have on arts and cultural organizations? A 2007 study found that 3.3 million people visited 61 arts and cultural organizations in the Greater Buffalo Region in 2005.40 87% of these visitors however, lived locally

Privacy Surrender for Security Theory (PSST)

Undergraduate Theoretical Proposa

MA

thesisAfter Japan's defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, the country became not only ground zero for the first use of atomic weapons, but also experienced year zero of the postwar, democratic era-the top-down reorganization of the country politically and socially-ushered in by the American Occupation. While the method of government changed, the state rallied around two pillars: the familiar fixture of big business and Economics;, and the notion of "peace" supplied by the new constitution. At this formative time, two uniquely postwar groups of people came to be excluded: the hibakusha, the atomic bombing survivors who epitomize ground zero, and the people of Minamata affected by industrial mercury pollution who symbolize the price of unbridled economic expansion which Japan embarked upon in year zero. As victims of technologically-based poisoning, both the hibakusha and the victims in Minamata became excluded in their own communities, due to the secrecy and reticence at a governmental level surrounding their poisoning, but also because of Shint? notions of purity, which further marked hibakusha and Minamata victims as "diseased." The stigmatization and rejection both of these groups suffered came at the same moment their nation pursued a democratic, representative path to recovery and prosperity for the citizens of Japan. These post-war "poisoned people" are symbols of the cost of technology to humanity and are important not only to Japan's history, but to that of the world

Academics may not be celebrities, but their careful research is improving public policy

Last week Phillip Blond proposed a simplistic solution to the problem of why academics are failing to make policy impacts: less evidence, more “big ideas”. Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin find substantial flaws in this reasoning. Academics are in fact, already impacting policy. While rigorous analysis is not as glamorous as the sweeping grand narrative, it is essential to determine which ideas should impact policy and politics