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In this sequel to 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' the year is
1991. Caesar (Roddy McDowall), the son of Zira and Cornelius, has
been sheltered for 18 years by circus owner Armando (Ricardo
Montalban). Following a plague which wiped out all cats and dogs,
apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Caesar sees them
being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion
against their overlords.
The Montgomery bus boycott, Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), and Brown v. Board of Education reveal incentives
to reform as a result of economic, political and legal threat. It
is difficult to change a person's heart, or to change based on
moral conviction alone. However, policies and laws can be
established that will change a person's behavior. Historically,
there was rarely a time where societal changes were the result of a
desire to do what was morally right. Doing what is right was
contingent upon economic advantages, political motivation or the
threat of litigation. By the mid 1900s the NAACP had learned a
valuable lesson in the South, that litigation or the threat of
litigation was an effective tool in the quest for educational
equality (Douglas, 1995). More recently, the #metoo movement and
the Los Angeles teacher's strike exposed corrupt behavior and
insufficient working environments that have existed for decades.
What is different? They have been exposed through political,
economic and legal means. As it pertains to educating African
Americans, there was an ongoing role of servitude in the political
economy of the South (Anderson, 1988). This was subsequently
disrupted through political, economic, and legal measures during
Reconstruction. Racist ideologies and economic advantages were seen
through Jim Crow Laws (Roback, 1984) that were again disrupted
through political, economic, and legal methods. Education has also
been cited as what perpetuates our democracy. It is institutions
that afford its citizens the skills and knowledge necessary for
political participation (Rury, 2002). Even when legal cases are
unsuccessful, such as Puitt v. Commissioners of Gaston County or
Plessy v. Ferguson, they can forge the way to successful litigation
dismantling racist ideologies that oppress African Americans.
Although the Puitt decision did not remove the processes of
discrimination against Black schools, it left intact the legal
basis on segregated and unequal education (Douglas, 1995). As
citizens, it is imperative that we participate in the political
process and use our authority to mandate the changes we would like
to see in urban education. When theorizing this book, the intent
was to provide an interdisciplinary look at solutions to critical
issues in urban education through political, economic, and legal
avenues. This book seeks to provide an interdisciplinary approach
to solving the issues in education while connecting it to the
effects on teacher preparation. Using historical and recent
examples, scholars can piece together solutions that will guide
others to political, economic, and legal action necessary to
dismantle systems that have bound Black and Brown children. It is
our intent to offer innovative, yet grounded solutions that can
purposefully move the conversation about solutions to critical
issues in education to political, economic, and legal actions.
In The Christ-Man Chronicles, Cooper-Giles posits a compelling
argument for both clergy and politicians, and their social issues,
which should manifest and morph into models of progressive change
and enlightenment.This book chronicles somewhat the search for bin
Laden and Al Qaeda, the "War on Terror," and the incidental attacks
on Iraq in March 2003. The narrative also alludes to some reasons
why there is much animosity and hatred toward America and some of
its allies, especially so-called Israel, in the Muslim world. It
affirms the double-standards, dubious, and often racist nature of
America's government policies in both domestic and foreign affair:
particularly, its arrogant imperialistic attitude in dealing with
Third World countries.Nevertheless, Cooper-Giles proclaims that
everyone has the conscious potent ability to become Christ-Men in
their personal journey here on Earth with the discovery of one's
"divine" mission and purpose, and the eventual understanding of
being the person that one is meant to be: this knowledge is gained
by distinguishing the difference between the illusionists and the
creative value-producers around us Everyone should understand that
they are made in the image of God, our Creator, as a distinct
individual, who has a divine, a unique, and a separate soul-force
different than anyone else on this planet...
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Fire in My Soul (Hardcover)
Soon Bong Choi, Jin Ki Hwang, Max J Lee
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This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language
produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using
contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus
analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of
learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and
characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners.
Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined, this original
work makes a significant contribution to the study and
understanding of ESL spoken language at university level. It will
appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, corpus
linguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis.
In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma
(1925-1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in
the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most
substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer.
La Guma's book is consequently a rare and important document of the
anti-apartheid struggle and the Cold War period, depicting the
Soviet model from an African perspective and the specific meaning
it held for those envisioning a future South Africa. For many
members of the African National Congress and the South African
Communist Party, the Soviet Union represented a political system
that had achieved political and economic justice through
socialism-a point of view that has since been lost with the
collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. This new edition
of A Soviet Journey-the first since 1978-restores this vision to
the historical record, highlighting how activist-intellectuals like
La Guma looked to the Soviet Union as a paradigm of
self-determination, decolonization, and postcolonial development.
The introduction by Christopher J. Lee discusses these elements of
La Guma's text, in addition to situating La Guma more broadly
within the intercontinental spaces of the Black Atlantic and an
emergent Third World. Presenting a more expansive view of African
literature and its global intellectual engagements, A Soviet
Journey will be of interest to readers of African fiction and
non-fiction, South African history, postcolonial Cold War studies,
and radical political thought.
In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by
the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the
Netherlands. Here researchers and practitioners from 28 different
countries gathered to exchange ideas on how to merge the spatial
sciences and design worlds. This book brings together experiences
from this international group of spatial planners, architects,
landscape designers, archaeologists, and geospatial scientists to
explore the notion of 'Geodesign thinking', whereby spatial
technologies (such as integrated 3D modelling, network analysis,
visualization tools, and information dashboards) are used to answer
'what if' questions to design alternatives on aspects like urban
visibility, flood risks, sustainability, economic development,
heritage appreciation and public engagement. The book offers a
single source of geodesign theory from a European perspective by
first introducing the geodesign framework, then exploring various
case studies on solving complex, dynamic, and multi-stakeholder
design challenges. This book will appeal to practitioners and
researchers alike who are eager to bring design analysis,
intelligent planning, and consensus building to a whole new level.
As political leaders acknowledge the limits of their power they
increasingly integrate constructive input from inside and outside
government into their decision-making. A Ministry or Commission of
Public Input is necessary to collect, process and communicate input
more effectively and politicians need to work with the public to
identify solutions.
This work looks at Asian American identities, families and
schooling. It covers topics such as: growing up Asian in America,
Asian Indian families in the United States, the formation of a
political identity in Korean students and more.
China's Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance examines how
a twenty-first century contradiction-the country's combination of
authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy in state-led
capitalism-has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of
domestic dissatisfaction. Balancing policy analysis with detailed
investigation of escalating popular unrest, this essay collection
explores the discontent that stems from the Communist leadership's
obsession with growth and control, and anticipates new space for
alternative governance. As the sixth-generation leaders come of age
at this critical juncture, the way out of internal crises will not
necessarily be the way of the Chinese Communist Party..
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Historians commonly agree that the understanding of the Bible as a
supernatural text conveying both spiritual and historical truths
came under devastating assaults from the natural sciences and
German historical critics in the 1800s. According to this account,
by the latter years of that century, the image of the Bible as a
supernaturally inspired and infallible text eventually crumbled in
the eyes of many intellectuals under the relentless opposition of
secularizing forces. This book corrects this narrative by arguing
that in America, the road to skepticism was unintentionally paved
by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders. From the
eighteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century,
theologically conservative Americans defended the Bible from
critical attacks. However, the Bible's defenders altered their
conceptions of revelation to preserve their faith in light of
changing standards of plausibility. In doing so, they gradually yet
radically undermined their traditional understanding Holy Writ by
denuding it of its supernatural nature. Thus, skeptics were not
responsible for knocking the Bible off of its pedestal; the fault
lies with the Scriptures' orthodox apologists.
"The Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political
marketing, drawing on 100 interviews with practitioners. It also
shows that authenticity, values and vision are as much a part of a
winning strategy as market-savvy pragmatism"--
This authoritative text examines the arrangements at the centre of
Whitehall for advising the British prime minister and Cabinet,
especially during the Thatcher and Major governments. The
traditional coordinating centre has shifted from the Treasury to
the Prime Minister's Office and the Chief Whip's Office in Downing
Street, and to the Cabinet Office in Whitehall. Exploration of the
separate but interlinking contributions made by these three parts
of the centre shows they form a flexible but not entirely adequate
support for modern government.
In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's
fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has
never been given its due place. In 1909 and 1910, fresh from the
presidency, Rooosvelt embarked on a grand expedition that fulfilled
a long-held dream for the hunter-naturalist. Moving from Egypt to
British East Africa to the Belgian Congo, Roosevelt hunted
elephants and rhinos, parlayed with mercenaries and tribal kings,
and observed the changes wrought by European colonialism. Along
with his big game rifles, Roosevelt also brought his bully pulpit
and accompanying ideals, lecturing diplomats and politicians on
both continents on the exertions required to maintain the burden of
empire.
In this engaging narrative, J. Lee Thompson traces the
exhilarating adventures Roosevelt undertook as well as periods of
doubt and disillusionment. Even as TR realized one dream of nature
on safari, he came to believe another, more vital to his heart and
legacy, was being undermined at home by President William Howard
Taft. Having initially assumed that the new president would
continue his predecessor's cherished conservation policies,
Roosevelt came to realize that Taft, left alone in the political
jungles of Washington, was directly undermining his legacy. This
led to an acrimonious split between the two old friends,
Roosevelt's explosive return to the American political stage, and
ultimately the election of Woodrow Wilson.
A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a
friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, "Theodore
Roosevelt Abroad "is the first full account of a critical episode
in the life of an American icon.
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