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city of Córdoba to tour the Cathedral-Mosque of Córdoba. Through a guided tour, we learned the significance of the historic building that is made of a mosque surrounded by a cathedral. This is a landmark that represents the change of power between the (primary) Muslim settlers in the city, but then the eventual rule of Christianity and its leaders. However, there has been conflict within the city about who the cathedral-mosque belongs to– Muslims or Christians. The cathedral and mosque are still
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,” Keim said. “We have yet to go through a season here, but the transition has been exciting. New staff, new leadership — you have to embrace the change, but I think I’m in a unique position because I can still draw from all the things that made us great.” From a first-generation student to a multi-generation PLU family, Keim has never forgotten where it all began. “The values that I embrace and that have worked for me in my career, I learned here at PLU,” Keim said. “The impact that I was able to
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share the three compliments from teachers that she remembers to this day, how those brief moments of praise influenced her writing life, and ways that teachers can change a young person’s life in the briefest of moments. Erin Entrada Kelly is one of the most celebrated children’s authors writing today. She received the 2018 Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe, a 2021 Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, the 2017 APALA Award for The Land of Forgotten Girls, and the 2016 Golden Kite Honor Award for
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, advertising, stage set design and sound and lighting, which is all coordinated through Conference Services. We have a great working relationship with PLU’S staff; they go out of their way to make sure we have everything we need to have a successful camp. For those of you have have organized events such as ours, you know that things don’t always go as planned. We have found PLU’s staff to be able to change things late in the game to provide us with seamless service. PLU’s facilities are excellent, the
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of war, famine and disease caused by the Second Sudanese Civil War — including five of David’s siblings and his father. At one time, four million people were displaced. David, now 29, remains one of them. That will change Dec. 30, at least temporarily, when he travels to South Sudan for a four-week reunion with his mother, sister and other loved ones. The trip follows what David describes as a lifetime of isolation. “Most of what has happened to me is not good,” he says. “Pain is something that I
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.” Hofrenning was born in Colombia and adopted by parents in Northfield, Minnesota. He said he gravitated toward Hispanic studies as a way to study his native culture. His religion minor is a nod to his mother’s career as a Lutheran pastor. The latter, he believes, can act as a force for progressive action. “I just think religion is a really important part of my theory of social change,” he said. “I had to understand the theology of different religions and how they play out in terms of liberating people
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uplifting young people in the community. He says his education at PLU was fundamental in helping him channel those experiences into vocation. “PLU showed me that education can change your life no matter what circumstance you come from,” Cushman said. “I owe a lot to the PLU community. They have been my rock.”
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anthropology of power. Empowerment and disempowerment in changing structures. 1999. Escobar, A. Encountering development. The making and unmaking of the third world. 1995. Nederveen Pieterse, J. My paradigm or yours? Alternative development, post-development, reflexive development. Development and Change 29(): 343-73. 1998 Stoler, A.L 2002. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Warren, K. B. and S. C. Bourque (1991
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limitless opportunities to study abroad – all of those factors added to the university’s appeal for me. My PLU experience: When I first started out at PLU I was overconfident and unabashedly idealistic. When asked on that first day what I hoped to get out of the IHON program, I responded, “I hope to emerge at the end of all this a full-fledged Renaissance man, ready to kill poverty and change the world for the better.” Granted, I may have been trying to be a bit funny, but part of me honestly believed
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