I’ve come to the conclusion I don’t agree with the definition of Gatekeeper. I do agree there’s more than just the two extremes — regardless…
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Applying aikido to life (1 of 2)
Part of a quick “reflection” written for my aikido class. Huzzah! My aikido class has a list of recommended readings. The first of those books,…
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This is an invite to the Open House being held for the Master’s program I’m in. It has been, quite frankly, life changing for me,…
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I don’t know if this is common knowledge, but I’m an Amazon.com Associate. In my postings here, I put links to all the books and…
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Well, after giving it the old college try, I think posting former papers from college in this format is way too much bother! If I…
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Possible Solutions It is a simple but appealing answer to say all that needs to be done to solve the problems delineated and explored above…
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In yet another essay which discusses violence against women, Kumar notes that it is the deliberately poor definition of what constitutes rape and wife-beating that…
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It would make sense the society of the newly established nation-state would incorporate both its previous, ‘historical memory’ based power within itself, whether theoretical, religious,…
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Thus the current fundamentalist and nationalist mythologies insidiously create and define themselves in an essentialist fashion because they are needed in order to define boundaries…
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These concepts of Anderson’s also seem valid today within the readings, and easily ‘borrowable’ in service of fundamentalism as well as nationalism. It is this…
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