Captain America: The Delicate Masculinity of an American Icon

What makes a good man? For this research, I examine the ways that Captain America, also known as Steve Rogers, portrays masculinity in the highest grossing movie franchise of all time — The Marvel Cinematic Universe. I propose that the ways in which an American icon who represents the ideal man behaves reflects larger cultural expectations of masculinity, specifically the expectations for white men. In addition to holding up a mirror to society’s expectations for a ‘good man’, the social messaging about masculinity in these films should be examined to understand what American men of every generation are idolizing. I examined every scene that Steve Rogers as Captain America appeared in during his story arc in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Throughout these appearances, I tracked different traits and behaviors that society would deem as masculine, including romantic relationships and usage of violence. I found that this character mainly reinforces traditional ideals of hegemonic masculinity that aligns with decades of research. In addition, I found that Captain America had the potential to be a more progressive pillar of masculinity in a queer relationship that was never fully played out on screen for assumedly monetary reasons. Despite the groundwork being laid for this character arc, Captain America ultimately chooses to go back to the past and embrace traditional masculinity over moving on to a new life

The Role of Privacy Protection in Business Models for Sustainability: A Conceptual Integration from an Ecosystem Perspective

Purpose: The principal purpose of this article is to address a critical issue emerging in the realm of interorganizational dependencies heavily impacted by digitalization, namely developing business models that would protect privacy in a sustainable way. On the one hand, companies have been jointly proposing, creating, delivering, and capturing value through an excessive, unethical exploitation of personal data and information. On the other, restricting and controlling flows of data and information hampers the processes that lead to social well-being. This article reflects on this paradox by building on the theories of business models for sustainability and contextual integrity, while offering a holistic conceptual narrative guiding the sustainable transition towards digital equity and inclusivity. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual article can be classified as a theory synthesis paper with the ambition to achieve an outcome that enhances knowledge on concepts and a phenomenon by a conceptual integration across two different, previously unconnected literature streams and theories. Findings: This article suggests that businesses which play any role in transmission of data and information cannot be sustainable without protecting privacy as a social value. Furthermore, it argues that privacy cannot be protected without addressing the appropriateness of both flow and use of data and information with respect to all involved stakeholders. Ultimately, via linking two distinct yet interrelated and rigorously developed research streams, a heuristic framework for privacy and sustainability in business models is proposed as a system of key considerations for managers to apply in assessing and planning a business practice, so it protects privacy in a sustainable way. Originality/value: The key theoretical contribution of this article can be considered twofold. Firstly, it unfolds the relevance of privacy protection for the stream of business model research directed toward sustainable development in a way that is theoretically rigorous, complementary with the stakeholder theory, and reflecting the changing interorganizational dependencies affected by digitalization. Secondly, it contributes to the contemporary debate on privacy as a social value through identifying theoretically thorough avenue for adapting the theory of contextual integrity to a social domain where value proposition, creation, delivery, and capture with and for stakeholders involves transmission of data and information

On the unifiability of repairs for the Person Case Constraint: French, Basque, Georgian and Chinook

The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions that exist only to fix it and not otherwise. Across the four languages considered here, the repairs are apparently heterogeneous, 'constructional': clitic-to-strong dative, agreeing-to-nonagreeing dative, pronoun-to-'pronoun's self' object, absolutive-to-ergative subject. Yet there are profound and far-reaching commonalities across them, hinting at a single mechanism of strengthening by added Case that underlies them all

On the unifiability of repairs for the Person Case Constraint: French, Basque, Georgian and Chinook

The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions that exist only to fix it and not otherwise. Across the four languages considered here, the repairs are apparently heterogeneous, 'constructional': clitic-to-strong dative, agreeing-to-nonagreeing dative, pronoun-to-'pronoun's self' object, absolutive-to-ergative subject. Yet there are profound and far-reaching commonalities across them, hinting at a single mechanism of strengthening by added Case that underlies them all

Laboratory equipment grant

Issued as Final project report, Project E-19-X9

INSURANCE Insurance Generally: Authorize Use of Preexisting Conditions Exclusions or Limitations in Group Policies or Contracts of Disability Income Insurance

The Act permits the use of preexisting conditions exclusions in group disability income insurance policies. Specifically, the Act provides a definition of preexisting condition and prohibits the use in group disability income insurance policies of any definition that is more restrictive than the statutory standard. The Act requires policies that exclude benefits for preexisting conditions to disclose such exclusions. Finally, the Act mandates that benefits will not be denied based on a preexisting condition if the resulting disability occurs more than two years after the commencement of coverage

PROPERTY Regulation of Specialized Land Transactions: Revise Georgia Land Sales Act; Remove Georgia Real Estate Commission as Administrator

The Act removes the Georgia Real Estate Commission (Commission) as administrator of the Georgia Land Sales Act (GLSA) and repeals the provision relating to fees and expenses, enforcement and sanctioning authority, and immunity of the Commission. The Act vests enforcement of the GLSA in the Attorney General or the district attorney. The Act repeals certain registration requirements of the GLSA, provides for mandatory use of the property reports in sales of subdivided land, and requires subdividers to keep business records. Furthermore, the Act changes the provisions of the GLSA pertaining to hearings and judicial review, cease and desist orders, and consent to service as it relates to actions by the Commission