20 research outputs found

    The African Experience and Heritage in the Caribbean and Brazil Project

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    This project will be a culmination of work that the student will do over the course of the semester. The first step is for the student to identify a country that they wish to examine. By the end of the semester, the student will be able describe, in a 5 – 8 page paper, the experience/heritage of Africans and African identity in that country. Alternatives to a paper submission are also accepted with consultation and approval from the instructor

    The Burqa Ban: Legal Precursors for Denmark, American Experiences and Experiments, and Philosophical and Critical Examinations

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    As the title of the article suggests, “The Burqa Ban”: Legal Precursors for Denmark, American Experiences and Experiments, and Philosophical and Critical Examinations, the authors embark on a factually investigative as well as a reflective response. More precisely, they use The 2018 Danish “Burqa Ban”: Joining a European Trend and Sending a National Message (published as a concurrent but separate article in this issue of INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOURNAL) as a platform for further analysis and discussion of different perspectives. These include case-law at the international level while focusing attention on recent rulings and judicial reasoning by the ECtHR and the ECJ; critical thought-experiments in religion, morality, human rights, and the democratic public space; a contextualized account of burqa-wearing interventions by federal and state governments and, moreover, various courts in the United States; and philosophical commentary and, in some instances, criticism of the Danish and/or European (French, etc.) approach. The different contributions have different aims. The section on case-law at the international level reports on those central judgments that, in effect, helped to pave the path for the Kingdom of Denmark’s burqa ban. Concerning the concurring judges at the ECtHR, the opinions served to uphold a preexisting ban and to grant a wide margin of appreciation to the national authorities, thereby limiting the Court’s own review. As regards to the ECJ, the legality of company rules that contain a policy of neutrality for the workplace was examined, with a similar outcome. The authors who discuss religion, morality, human rights and the democratic public space are endeavoring to, respectively, appeal to ethics as a testing stone for law and to both challenge and address several forms of “expressivist worry” in connection with face veils. In doing so, the authors ask a number of thought-provoking questions that hopefully will inspire public policymakers to careful analysis. While the section that is devoted to American perspectives highlights a comprehensive survey of political and legal responses to, in particular, full-face veils like the burqa, the relevant author also incorporates public perceptions and, in the course of examining these, draws a parallel to “the fate” of the hoodie. The constitutionality of burqa-wearing in America, so it also appears, is partially an open question, but differentiating between religious, political, or personal reasons is a de jure premise. Given that the Danish legislators who drafted law L 219 to ban burqa-wearing in public places rely on a reference to political Islam, they relegate religious and personal reasons to the private domain, thereby also adopting secularism as a premise. This is explored in the last author response of the article, more precisely, in an account of the underlying materialism that, in turn, is applied to Muslim women. If policymakers and legislators engaged in Thinking Things Through exercises, they could, as a minimum, avoid law-making strategies that are not in the spirit of the theory they themselves invoke, albeit tacitly. While the aim of, as it were, arresting culturally self-contradicting legislators is unique for the section in question, all the authors who contribute to the joint research project have one end-goal in common, namely to inform about important perspectives while at the same time opening up for parameters for (more) fruitful, constructive and (if need be) critical debate in the future. With this in mind, four recommendations are presented by the research director for the project. Legally, politically, socially and culturally, conflict-resolution should not translate the relationship between rulers and the ruled into a separation ideology, an instance of controllers versus the controlled. All things being equal, that is the objective limit for a democratic society

    The state of the Martian climate

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    60°N was +2.0°C, relative to the 1981–2010 average value (Fig. 5.1). This marks a new high for the record. The average annual surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly for 2016 for land stations north of starting in 1900, and is a significant increase over the previous highest value of +1.2°C, which was observed in 2007, 2011, and 2015. Average global annual temperatures also showed record values in 2015 and 2016. Currently, the Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of lower latitudes

    State of the Climate in 2016

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    A TEST OF A MODEL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS' DIRECT EFFECT ASSISTANCE FACTORS AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS (READING ACHIEVEMENT).

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    A TEST OF A MODEL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS' DIRECT EFFECT ASSISTANCE FACTORS AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS (READING ACHIEVEMENT)

    THE LEGEND OF WILLIE : THE LION" SMITH" / Willie "THE LION" SMITH

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    Titre uniforme : [No, no, Nanette. Tea for two]Titre uniforme : [Ain't misbehavin']Titre uniforme : [Ain't misbehavin']Titre uniforme : [Shine]Titre uniforme : [Charleston]Titre uniforme : [Maple leaf rag]Titre uniforme : [Charleston]Titre uniforme : [Saint Louis blues]Titre uniforme : [The darktown strutter's ball]Titre uniforme : [Ain't misbehavin']Comprend : AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' / Andy RAZAF - Fats WALLER - Harry BROOKS - TEA FOR TWO - MAPLE LEAF RAG / JOPLIN - DARKTOWN STRUTTERS' BALL / S. BROOKS - ST LOUIS BLUES / W.C. HANDY - Charleston / MACK - J. JOHNSON - ECHO OF SPRING / WILLIAMS - HAMMOND - SMITH - BALLIN' THE JACK / SMITH - BURRIS - ROCK AND ROLL & WEEP / Willie "The Lion" SMITH - SHINE / MACK - BROWN - DABNEYBnF-Partenariats, Collection sonore - BelieveContient une table des matière
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