Questa tesi esplora le rappresentazioni del multiculturalismo in Italia. Questa rappresentazione ha importanti implicazioni per i migranti in Italia oggi al livello sociale, legale e culturale. Questa tesi esplora due ...
From the very beginning of the U.S. Military’s evacuations of South Vietnam, things did not go as planned. South Vietnam’s sudden retreat down the Indochinese Peninsula and the North Vietnamese Communist forces’ subsequent ...
When World War II ended in 1945, Americans
flocked to Yellowstone National Park in unprecedented numbers. Since Congress established
Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872, notions of American ...
In April of 1880, six chiefs and headmen of
the Apsáalooke (Crow) Indians traveled in a delegation to Washington, DC to meet with
federal officials. In the city, they discussed a proposed land cession that ...
This thesis analyzes the cultural memory,
historical narrative, and political meaning of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset
County. It examines the memorial’s creation, its relationship to the local ...
Making claims about the natural world is a
social endeavor that is tied up in collaborative networks of people of varying statuses. In
early eighteenth-century England, as exotic plants were streaming into ...
Regarded as a setting for civilized debates
and gentility, the coffeehouse in eighteenth-century London distinguished itself as the
epicenter of political dissent, intellectual discourse, and the circulation ...
After four hundred years the island of Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, is a renewed symbol of international cooperation. This thesis summarized the value of Dejima during Japan's "closed country" period, but ...
In the first half of the eighteenth century,
the Habsburg family faced a dynastic crisis. Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI had no sons to
inherit his kingdom. Consequently, he presented his daughter, Maria ...
Diego Rivera’s murals explicitly called for political action on the part of the spectator, and his vision accelerated the formulation of a class conscious proletariat in Mexico which wished to advocate for its own interests ...
When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9,
1989, Berliners and foreigners alike seized the opportunity to smash, chop, and haul away
the barrier that had symbolized the global division of the Cold War for ...
This project examines the yellow fever
epidemics that ravaged the French army during the failed French occupation of
Saint-Domingue, from 1802-1803, that marked the end of the Haitian Revolution and the ...
This essay aims to employ a deconstructive
understanding of identity and representation in order to identify what an ethical approach
to representation should look like, especially with regard to the ...
Contemporary political philosophers studying
the effects of race approach it as being fundamentally a force of differentiation and
oppression, taking a thoroughly Rousseauian approach to inequality as based ...
The philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is
beset by an intolerable deadlock. In an attempt to answer the question of whether computers
can perform the same actions as humans, many philosophers have posited ...
The laws of nature are laws of nature in
virtue of their relationship to a singular entity which I am calling the law-like lump. The
law-like lump is a pattern within the time-evolution of the world, but ...
While it is a view that philosophy has
largely ignored since Gilbert Ryle's work in the 20th century, we ought to recognize that
explanatory knowledge serves a valuable role in expert behavior. With ...
Perspectivism of knowledge, in conjunction
with common epistemic assumptions, entails that perspectives are an inherently distortionary
force in the knowledge relation. Often reduced to the thought that ...
Derek Parfit argues that normative
anti-realism, the thesis that all normative truths are dependent on our normative attitudes,
is a form of Nihilism, the thesis that nothing matters. I shall argue that ...