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26 Nov 06

Afghanistan’s cash crop wilts - May 2001: PARIAH NATION - MSNBC.com

  • This article overviews a situation going on in Afghanistan involving their production of their cash crop, poppys. Because of religious reasons a ban on growing this cash crop has gone into place. The article disucussed the damage such a ban has done to Afghanistan and it's people so far, and will continue to do. It helps to put a light to the damage forcing cultures to stop producing nutritional food for themselves, in return for cash crops, can produce. - kstout on 2006-11-26

The Space Review: Colonize the Moon before Mars

  • This article goes through the benefits of colonization of the moon, especially as compared to that of colonizing Mars. It outlines the econonmic benifits such as money from tourists, the political benefits, and the technological benefits such as an ability to be that much closer to research possibilities. - kstout on 2006-11-26

THE EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE

  • This article helps to clarify exactly what genocide is and the starting points for it. It opens your eyes to past situations by telling you the 8 common sign that genocide may take place. - kstout on 2006-11-26

ANTH204

  • This article takes a look at the economic, political and technological benefits of colonizing the moon. It provides an interesting launch pad for us to think about how desperate people are getting to find 'new' things to make money off of. - kstout on 2006-11-26
06 Nov 06

Religion, Politics, and the State: Cross-Cultural Observations by N.J. Demerath and Karen S. Straight

  • This article analyzes the effect of religion on countries around the world. It talks about politics especially in America. Here they contend that religion is used very faintly in campaigning to insure the vote of people and then once power is achieved religion becomes an obstacle. - kstout on 2006-11-06

Voodoo

  • This article focuses on explaining the origin of voodoo. It sheds a light of understanding on the subject instead of that of fear and ignorance. It goes to explain that voodoo orginated as far back as 10,000 years ago in Africa and reached it's commonly known form as it was popularized in Haiti. - kstout on 2006-11-06

Moscow Discovers Soft Power

  • Russia has found a new weapon. No, it's not anything to do with the military. In fact, Russia is now discovering the benefits of using soft power. This article discussed this change in Russia from it's past as the fighter to now as the helper. - kstout on 2006-11-06

An Overview of Social Inequality

  • It's easy to think of social stratification and go automatically to the caste system in India. However, it's a lot closer to home than we think. In fact, as this article points out, social stratification in the United States is greater than that of any other industrialized nation. - kstout on 2006-11-06

In Praise of Arranged Marriages

  • Written by a young 14 year old Islamic boy, this article discusses the up-side to arranged marriages. Because it is very involved within the fmaily, would point out that it is a unifying experience for the family. Also pointed out was that, as opposed to dating, people know that they are in it for the long haul. It becomes more committing and therefore people are more willing to work on their relationships. - kstout on 2006-11-06

Corporate colonization of our minds, by Wanda Ballentine, "the OTHER paper", April, 1996

  • In this article we learn one persons view that as a whole America has almost been brainwashed to "worship at the altar of economic growth". It says that as a whole corporations have even become a large enough part of our society that it effects our thoughts to the point of thinking there is no other way to live. - kstout on 2006-11-06

Subsistence Management Information: Subsistence Basics

  • This article was very informative about the history of subsistence control in Alaska. It was interesting to learn that the use of resources of subsistence is actually being carefully controlled by the government in Alaska and across the United States. - kstout on 2006-11-06

Personal Identity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  • This webpage was informative and interesting to read. It adressed such questions as how and why is an identity maintained throughout a life time? Where do we get our identity? And what are the set backs to such approaches as Psychology to explaining this? - kstout on 2006-11-06
16 Sep 06

Wait, don't tell me!

  • We talked in class about the phonemes being the smalled unit that have a meaning. With learning this I was interested to learn that certain phonemes can tip us off to other words. The article talks about words that we can't remember how to say but they are on the tip of our tongue (TOT's). The study that was done showed that if were are given another word that has similar phonemes, our likely hood of remembering the TOT is much greater. Perhaps a good thing to remember for tests. - kstout on 2006-09-16

APA Racism and Psychology Brochure

  • I thought this article was interesting to read because of what we were talking about in our recitation classes. We talked a lot about, how can we stop racism and the products that have been made because of past racism. This article would point out that it starts very, very young and actually there may be certain traits that we are born with that make us more suceptible to being predjudice. - kstout on 2006-09-16
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