Page 20 • (261 results in 0.093 seconds)

  • Raphael Lemkin’s dedication to the punishment and prevention of genocide, primarily through international legal intervention, was founded on a belief in the fundamental rights of all peoples.

    totalizing logics, logics that are assumed to be inherent, and perhaps most important, logics that, for wherever reason, a significant group of empowered people choose to enforce. Hannah Arendt wrote, largely in response to the crimes of Nazi Germany, that the most radical, most terrible crimes imaginable are perpetrated by organizations which “none of our traditional legal, moral, or common sense utilitarian categories could any longer help us come to terms with, or judge, or predict their course of

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    : The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Harvard 1987); Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (University of Illinois 1994); Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan, Animals and Women: Theoretical Explorations (Duke 1995); M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals (Princeton 1999); Eileen Crist, Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Temple 1999); Steven M. Wise, Rattling the Cage (Perseus 2000); Steve Baker, The Postmodern Animal (Reaktion 2000). One hopes that this interest in animals is

  • Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…

    subject to falsification is not to hold them as religious beliefs at all. [The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology, p.94] Many have agreed with this perspective, pointing out that Christians begin their confession of faith with the words, “I believe,” not with anything like “I have inquired, and found it reasonable to conclude.” On this view, anyone who would say the latter might be said in one sense to believe, but would have no religious faith at all. The very essence of religious faith

  • Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 Welcome! We, Rose McKenney and Adela Ramos, are excited to share with you the work of the 2020 class of Environmental Studies students.

    well as the amount of greenhouse gases which are produced. My project complements this mathematical analysis with an exploration of the ethics of food waste based on two religious frameworks: Creation Care and Eco-Liberation Theology. I conclude by offering possible solutions for food waste in catering using these frameworks and the work that is being done at PLU. Sharlaine Hesira I’d like to thank my mom and my sister for their never-ending support, especially being so far away from home. To thank

  • Jump to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

    Online PSYC 375 Psychology of Women A 4 Lecture Online PSYC 101 Intro to Psychology SO 4 Lecture Online RELI 236 Nat. Am. Relig Trads A, RG 4 Lecture Online RELI 232 The Buddhist Tradition C, RG 4 Lecture Online RELI 229 Christian Health & Healing RC 4 Lecture Online RELI 229 Christian Health & Healing RC 4 Lecture Online RELI 227 Christian Theology RC 4 Lecture Online SOCI 101 Intro to Sociology A, SO 4 Lecture Online SOCI 387 ST:Applied SOCI/Eval Resrch SO 4 Lecture Online SPED 912 Collaboration

  • Emily Bond, Senior Capstone Seminar When facing a nonlethal selective pressure, cells are in a state of growth arrest, meaning that they are not able to divide.

    numerous ailments from dysentery to sexually transmitted diseases. Phytochemical screening was performed on eight crude extracts; four extracts with varying polarity of solvents on root samples and four extracts with varying polarity on stem samples. The crude extracts were then tested for various phytochemical classes and antioxidant activity via a radical scavenging assay using DPPH to determine the IC50 value. We have found the presence of the following phytochemical classes within the extracts

  • Associate Professor of Biology Jacob Egge works with students during a summer semester research project. (Photo by PLU Photographer John Froschauer) Faculty-Student Research Provides a Cornerstone of the PLU Mission By Pacific Lutheran University Marketing & Communications and the Office of the Provost This year’s…

    , producing a reactive carbon-based radical. Our aim was to study these reactions with the long-term goal of using cobaloximes as thermal or photolytic catalysts for various transformations, including the reduction of carbon dioxide. Adam Glass, Ph.D., Gregg Lowery and Austin Erler Department of Chemistry Functionalized benzofulvenes: Coupling synthesis and computational chemistry to develop small molecule inhibitors at a primarily undergraduate institution H. Eugene LeMay, Jr., Summer Chemistry Research

  • The following terms are used to describe academic standing at PLU; separate progression and retention policies may be in place in individual programs; please see the individual program section of the

    Theology) Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics) Registration ProcessPacific Lutheran University’s registration process begins with the idea that all students have opportunity to register for classes in an orderly manner. Advising and Registration are intertwined at PLU and students are encouraged to meet with their advisor early in the registration process to determine the number, level and distribution of courses that meet major/minor and general education elements towards a degree. As with most

  • define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an “Aryan” spouse, Erna was initially exempt from the most radical anti-Jewish measures. However, even after Erna willingly converted to Catholicism, the persecution, isolation, and hatred leveled against them by the Nazi regime and their Christian neighbors intensified, and she and their son Silvan were forced to flee alone into the mountains. Through intimate and insightful diary entries, Erna tells her own

  • Book Award for best anthology for Antisemitism, the Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal which he co-edited and contributed to and which has appeared in French, Spanish and Russian editions. Forthcoming is his Introduction to the Russian edition of Jan and Irena Gross’ Golden Harvest. His Jews and Judaism in the Political Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists was published by the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University (2015) and his