Posted on November 16th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of November 16, 2009
News Item: As a major petroleum producer, Venezuela has one of the world’s largest reserves of crude oil, and President Hugo Chávez has been applauded for using his country’s oil wealth to establish social welfare programs that target the poorest populations. Yet, periodic electrical blackouts have frustrated many Venezuelan citizens [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of November 9, 2009
News Item: French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the fathers of “structuralism,” died on October 30. Educated in law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, some of Lévi-Strauss’ major works include Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, and Myth and Meaning. Through the years, structuralism has influenced studies in philosophy, film, and literature.
Anthropology [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of November 2, 2009
News Item: On Monday, November 2, Afghan officials declared President Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential runoff elections after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, dropped out of the race a day earlier. Dr. Abdullah believed a transparent election was not possible if changes were not made in the Independent Election Commission. [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of October 26, 2009
News Item: Fort Collins, Colorado - A six-year-old boy, his parents, and their homemade balloon recently made headlines after it was reported that the balloon floated away with the boy trapped inside its chamber. Not surprisingly, “Balloon Boy” received widespread media attention. Local law enforcement officials eventually declared the incident a [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by janestrudwick
‘”The thing about a visual form like a graphic novel is that so much of what you need to describe is done through art. It’s the impact of the visual that conveys the story to the reader.” Terry Brooks, “A very Graphic Interview,” Publishers Weekly, 07/07/08.
Those of us who did not grow up with comic [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
“In the News” is 2 Years Old! - Past Topics
Week of October 19, 2009
News Item: Food lovers across the country were shocked with the announcement that Gourmet, the 69-year-old “magazine of good living,” will cease publication after its November issue. Publisher Condé Nast cited the current state of the economy and losses in ad pages [...]
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Posted on October 12th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
“In the News” is 2 Years Old! - Past Topics
Week of October 12, 2009
News Item: The Nobel Committee announced that President Barack Obama would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway on December 10. Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature, and the Prize in Economics will be awarded in Stockholm, Sweden later [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of October 5, 2009
News Item: The Wizard of Oz, a 1939 MGM classic based on the book by L. Frank Baum, recently turned 70. Here are titles related to the culture of Oz.
The Age of William A. Dunning: The Realm of Myth Meets the Yellow Brick Road (FAU Dissertation)
By Kathleen P. Barsalou. Florida Atlantic [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 28, 2009
News Item: De facto Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi (sometimes spelled “Muammar al-Gadaffi”) recently made headlines when he spoke during a United Nations General Assembly session for 90 minutes, at least 75 minutes longer than his allotted time. The speech covered a wide variety of topics including swine flu (H1N1 Flu), [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 21, 2009
Fashion, Fashion Everywhere
News Items:
The September Issue, a documentary released in late-August, highlights the work of editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue as they prepare for the largest-ever 2007 fall issue (which eventually weighed over [...]
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