The World

Fascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZOTiIv_TQ&t=6s The above video was created for ISS 355: Portfolio Seminar in Integrated Social Sciences.  Fascism is definable as an authoritarian, right-wing approach to government, relying upon nationalism, capitalism, and militarism. Fascism may span from relatively “soft” forms such as Franco’s Spain to its most murderous exponents, such as Nazi Germany (Boggs 37-80). As a framework […]

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Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF2mOz5FwE&t=45s The above video was a presentation created for ANTH 378: Sustainability, Resilience, and Society.  Climate Change is defined by NASA as “. . . a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates” (NASA). Although there is a vast amount of data analyzed by

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African Myth

(The Sea, 2016. Joseph Kimsey) A final paper for SOC 362: Race Relations.  Part I Mythological epics largely represent the society or community in which they derive. Whether considering the Odyssey and Iliad of the Greeks, the Mahabharata and Ramayana of the Indians, the Shahnameh of the Iranians, the Arthurian romances of the British, or

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James Baldwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWwOi17WHpE&t=7s                       (Watch James Baldwin’s interview on The Dick Cavett Show) A paper written for POL S 312: Survey of American Political Thought.  Baldwin’s powerful essay, The Fire Next Time, is a rare instance where intellectualism of a very high order, supreme literary artistry, and

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Globalization

(Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, 2019. Joseph Kimsey). Globalization has proven to have a massive effect on nations such as Egypt. Globalization has been defined by Merriam Webster as “the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets” (Merriam Webster).

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Disinformation

(Frozen Alpine Lake, 2016. Joseph Kimsey) Disinformation is defined as “. . . false information deliberately and often covertly spread. . . in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth” (Merriam-Webster). Although espionage and political subterfuge are hardly new phenomena, the breadth and effectiveness of political disinformation campaigns have reached breathtaking new heights,

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