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. Calcagno found most people knew bits and pieces, but that most of their information was colored by the media or political rhetoric. “What we get from the media or politics is not always right,” she said. “We need to educate others about the truth … to change the language so they can comprehend it and encourage them to change their life.” Currently, the ambassadors are working to ways to educate the community and motivate them to take action. Projects in the works include a documentary film, YouTube
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the Fulbright is all about,” she said. “The world is becoming a smaller place, and learning to identify with other cultures more matters in every aspect of life, from politics to economics to education.” PLU German professors encouraged Hummel and Wilson to apply for the program, with Hummel prodded by Kirsten Christensen and Wilson by Janet Holmgren. PLU professors also played a role in Henrichsen reapplying for the grant – last year, she received a research grant but wasn’t accepted to a Swiss
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. Not just the politics, but also the people. “I became them,” she said of being viewed as a person who looked like “the terrorists.” “There was ‘us’ and ‘them,’” she recalled. And it wasn’t just in America this “us-them” mentality played out. In Iran she was viewed as a Westerner. The reality was a fear of the unknown, she told the students. “And you fear of what you don’t know. “The Iran I knew was not the same as the Iran they show on the news,” Sarmast said. “It was not my intention to become a
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discusses his approach to leading PLU’s College of Health Professions Read Next Emily Peterson ’14 : Global policy, politics and partnerships COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus
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week in Dubai…MORE Comparative Education – Hungary Jan. 14,2013 By Amy Olson Dance: The Universal Language On January 9th, 2013 we went and visited a small village school in Abuiker, a town of 600 people about three hours outside Budapest. This school is a branch of the John Wesley Theological College, the school we have been working with in Budapest. This college also owns Heated Street, a homeless shelter and other organizations in the area that help those who need help. I am very impressed with
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, and enthusiastic. She has been teaching for 28 years, at PLU since 2008, and regards herself as lucky to be part of a faculty, and a community, that was supported, because she had training in online teaching, and had participated in Inclusive Teaching seminars before and during the pandemic. Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Urdangarain obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Secondary Education in 1991. She taught at a high school level for seven years until relocating to the
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eye-opening. I never got to learn about it really up to this point, and it was just something that led to me becoming a bit more conscious,” Kop said. “When I took Latino studies, that really opened the floodgates, learning the history and systemic issues.” Kop was so impacted he talked to Professor Emily Davidson, PLU’s director of Hispanic and Latino studies, about becoming a Latino studies minor. “That J-Term, I had Dr. Maria Chavez for Latino politics, and learning more about those systemic
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focusing on the social issues we pair with the feminists in the book and especially connecting some threads throughout their histories.” Since Spring and O’Leary started the original Dead Feminists series they’ve been entrenched in the feminist community, in which they’ve found an active and passionate audience that has helped give the series a life of its own. “When we began the series, we hoped to make a contribution for the record–to actively engage with politics, rather than simply consuming the
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foundation through which they can convey news of genocide to others. By doing this, they can help to instigate intervention. But even though U.S. newspapers contained news stories about the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, there was a disparity between the American public and the American journalists who wrote with a sense of moral obligation. The Cambodian genocide took place in a turbulent period in America’s history of foreign politics and intervention. With the Watergate scandal and Vietnam protests
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PLU to host TEDxTacoma 2016: Speakers include YWCA CEO, best-selling novelist and Army lieutenant general Posted by: Zach Powers / March 13, 2016 Image: PLU Associate Professor of Politics and Government Maria Chavez-Pringle gave a talk titled “(de)Americanization of Latino Youth” at TEDxTacoma 2015. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 13, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local
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