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The American Political Animal

has invited one political animal to take root inside—the bed bug, the bad-tempered badger, the porcupine, the hobo spider spewing poison through mouthparts shaped like boxing gloves. Or the honey bee

Cultural, Political, and Choreographic Developments of Feminism in Classical Ballet

" Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 8 Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research Lydia Mariya Wirth 0 Recommended Citation 0 Wirth, Lydia Mariya () "Cultural, Political, and Choreographic ... Developments of Feminism in Classical - CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND CHOREOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS OF FEMINISM IN CLASSICAL BALLET LYDIA MARIYA WIRTH, BUTLER UNIVERSITY MENTOR: SUSAN MCGUIRE This paper explores how

The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois

the Saints from Illinois—and ultimately the United States. Relying on political theory and philosophy and his deep knowledge of politics in frontier Illinois, Simeone unpacks the paradox of a developing ... history of the Latter-day Saint experience in Nauvoo, Illinois, religious persecution and expulsion that is often rehearsed. In seven dense chapters, James Simeone, professor of political science at

“To Moderate and Unify” The Role That Latter-day Saint Citizen-Rhetors Can Play in Healing American Political Discourse

. Oaks stressed the importance of the rule of law and the best ways to participate as citizens in political processes. Although he focused on the United States, President Oaks reassured his global audience

Good Government Begins with Self-Government

select government officials. The exams tested not only scholars’ abilities in history, philosophy, government, and literature, but also—in theory at least—their personal cultivation of moral virtues such ... European political thinkers, including Voltaire, admired China’s system for using meritocratic criteria, as opposed to aristocratic birth, to select government officials.2 The exams tested not only scholars

Musical Hybridization and Political Contradiction: The Success of Arthur Honegger’s Antigone in Vichy France

HYBRIDIZATION AND POLITICAL CONTRADICTION: THE SUCCESS OF ARTHUR HONEGGER’S ANTIGONE IN VICHY FRANCE EMMA K. SCHUBART, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL MENTOR: SHARON JAMES Arthur Honegger’s modernist ... , political, and cultural realities. Honegger’s compositional hybridization of French and German musical traditions, as well as his opportunistic commercial motivations as a Swiss composer working in German

Agency Actualization and Artistic Awakening: The Poetic Rhetoric of Freedom School Students

greatly compelling. The social and political context surrounding the inception of Freedom Schools is discussed, as well as the need for further research and scholarship on the intellectual activity and ... is told by those with the social, political, and economic power and means to write it and manipulate it, effectively drowning out any conflicting accounts. When the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom By Spender McBride

political history and an associate managing historian of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, firmly situates the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within antebellum contexts. In ... political, legal, and economic responses to a culture that had failed them and, in doing so, underscores the unsettled nature of democracy in antebellum America. Similarly, McBride’s study challenges popular

The Campus as Commons: Educational Anchor Institutions and their Implications for Political Economy

THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY CAMERON N. CONNER, WHITMAN COLLEGE MENTOR: KEITH FARRINGTON In this paper, I analyze the growing call for institutions of higher education to better support the ... of the commons and the underlying political economy it represents. By framing the pioneering work of anchor institutions as acts of commoning, I create a theoretical justification for the proliferation

The Political and Economic Impact of Media Ownership Structures and Concentration on Global Communication

" Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 7 Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research Yuxi Wen 0 Recommended Citation 0 University of Nottingham Ningbo China - THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ... . The ways that different media ownership structures influence global communication in both economic and political significance are therefore worth exploring. This paper first introduces two types of

The Blood of the Canaanites

. Ian Shaw (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 172. 2. K. S. B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C. (Copenhagen: University of ... , and so establishing an incontrovertible chronology for Abraham’s life based on information from the Book of Abraham is not much more feasible beyond this. 3. Ryholt, Political Situation in Egypt during

The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America

other words, they defined it in preventive terms. And among Americans in the 1830s, per- haps the most poignant political discussion concerned the freedom to not be forcibly removed from the land on which ... was created, reflected a political philosophy that both drew from and appropriated America’s democratic tradition. “Whereas in all bodies laws are necessary for the permanent Safety and well being of

Almost 30 Years Later: Anti-Femicide Activism in Mexico from 1993 to 2022

shifts in the anti-femicide movement allows one to understand why social movements must adapt their strategies to the political opportunities they are faced with. Moreover, femicide is a global issue, and ... -femicide activists face a deeply gendered government that limits their political opportunity structure, yet they were successful in their advocacy for the passage of the General Law on Women’s Access to a

Women of Faith Speak Up and Speak Out The Genesis and Philosophical Underpinnings of Mormon Women for Ethical Government

States, I found myself growing increasingly alarmed during the 2016 U.S. election cycle as I watched the great rifts in our political landscape widen and deepen, abetted by the divisive and often vitriolic ... to our concern about what was happening in the wider political world. On January 25, 2017, shortly after the above email exchange with Melissa, I announced to my Segullah sisters that I would be

Human Sacrifice

transgressing religious or political boundaries and norms, sometimes done in a ritualistic or ceremonial manner. There is, in the words of one Egyptologist, “indisputable evidence for the practice of human ... , including foreigners who were seen as a threat to Egyptian political and social order.10 From this evidence, we can conclude that Egyptian “human sacrifice” during Abraham’s lifetime was more or less “ritual

Potiphar's Hill

.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 160–61, emphasis in original; compare Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988), throughout, but

On Being a Disciple of Hope

I am a political scientist, which means that I study patterns in politics. Most of the patterns in politics that I study are patterns of sexism. I work to accurately measure and carefully describe ... Being a Disciple of Hope Jessica Robinson Preece I Most of the patterns in politics that I study are patterns of sexism. am a political scientist, which means that I study patterns in politics. I work

Shulem, One of the King's Principal Waiters

,” 44. 6. Gee, “Shulem,” 384, quoting K. S. B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1880–1550 B.C. (Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern

Isis the Pharaoh

thus to the political aspect of [the king’s] divine nature; her role as mother of Horus and sister-wife of Osiris binds her even more closely into the Egyptian kingship, in which the living King Horus

Ur of the Chaldees

appears to have “adopted an archaizing political vocabulary which harked back to the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon and even to the Old Akkadian period. The perennial and unchanging nature of