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Origin Myths: Performativity and the Geography of Meaning
(Georgetown University, 2018)Origin myths tell the founding of a place. They signify membership and locate in time and space by providing a context and etiology for identity that is historical, theological, social, and geographic. This identity, ... -
Chaos in the Academy- A History of and Challenges to Liberal Education
(Georgetown University, 2018)For more than twenty-five hundred years of recorded history the creation and communication of knowledge has increased in quantity and complexity. The method of communicating that knowledge has evolved in difficulty along ... -
THE DISJOINTED AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM STRUGGLES TO FULFILL THE ORIGINAL MISSION OF EDUCATING ALL CHILDREN EQUALLY
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A NEW WORLD ORDER: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF AMERICAN PRIMACY
(Georgetown University, 2017)Over the past twenty-five years, the United States has moved from optimism to considerable pessimism about its role to do well in the world. Indeed, President George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” stands unquestionably in ... -
AESCHYLUS' PROMETHEUS BOUND: BUILDING A FRAMEWORK FOR SUCCESSIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE DEITY AND THE UNIVERSE
(Georgetown University, 2017)Reading Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (460-50 BCE) prompts the following questions. First, how does Prometheus’ gift to man of hope, fire and knowledge affect the relationship of man to the deity and the universe? Secondly ...
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