Should We Plan for Places or People? The Case of Improving Urban Schools in American Inner Cities
“Should we plan for places or people?” It is a question that has vexed planners for decades, with no end in sight. Even the…
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The European Union’s Foreign Policy Ambivalence
Discussion of the ambivalent issues within the European Union’s foreign policy as it is represented through the Common Foreign Security Policy and the European…
Privacy, Rights, and Wife-Beating: Understandings of Interpersonal Violence in Post- Revolution America
Argues that a change in social conventions, rather than a change in laws, empowered women to fight off domestic violence in the nascent United…
Radically Unprepared: The New Left, its Excesses and Successes in Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay
As a response to neo-liberal policies that have exacerbated inequality in Latin America, a leftist movement has risen in Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay. Though…
Historical Complexities of NGO Relationships in Pakistan
Due to Pakistan’s history as a colonized state, its close involvement with foreign aid, and the U.S.-led War on Terror, the people of Pakistan have…
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The Need to Suffer vs. The Desire to Suffer - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky explores human suffering in his The Brothers Karamazov dividing humanity in two groups: those who willingly romanticize their suffering and those who…
CBC’s Funding Cuts and the Impact on Canadian Culture
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has faced tough economic times due to a lack of funding. As it was established to protect the public…
The Death of Ramon Gonzalez
Through the story of the peasant Ramón González, Angus Wright explores the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Mexico. With the introduction of…