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. Belle was the daughter of Maria Bell [sic], an African woman and Sir John Lindsay, a white Royal Naval officer. Her mother, Maria was an enslaved woman who paid for her own freedom in 1774, and while it is not known exactly when Dido came to England, it was around this time that she was entrusted to her father’s uncle. This man was William Murray, more famously known both historically and in Austen-lore as the First Earl of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice, whose rulings aided the British abolition
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Philosophy and Law Sarah Klein Attorney Crystal Aikin ’97 Recording artist Alice Ripley Tony Award-winning actress and musician William Foege ‘57 Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Denny Heck Congressman Jason Reynolds Awarding-winning novelist and poet Sven Beckert Author and Harvard University history professor James McLurkin Senior Hardware Engineer Mae Ngai Professor of Asian American Studies and History at Columbia University Ijeoma Oluo Author The People’s Gathering Conversations About Diversity
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they attempted to find freedom. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, Yeonmi ParkStudent Comment: I read this book last summer and it made me appreciate my life on an entirely new level. This memoir raises awareness to the political climate in North Korea and what a person must go through in order to escape. It is filled with sadness, hope, love and bravery. Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia RankineStudent Comment: I nominated this book as it addresses the issue of racism in
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conversion to political activism. His voracious quest for knowledge collided with deep concern for social justice, and he founded United for Peace of Pierce County, serving as the (prolific) author of its website, which has received over 22 million hits since 2002. In parallel, he led “Digging Deeper,” weekly discussions of political and economic analyses hot off the press–totaling over 500 books (2004-2011). Mark’s sweeping intellect and fine legal mind have impressed colleagues and, occasionally
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The People’s Librarian: Brian Bannon’s passion for democratizing information led him to the New York Public Library In 1997, Brian Bannon was a PLU senior. An exemplary student, he wrote for The Mast, and was a double major researching social justice through the lens of queer rights movements. One afternoon, Bannon found himself in the office of history professor Beth Kraig, discussing… September 12, 2023 Alumni, Internships, CareerResoLute
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Political Economy and Classics from the University of California, Berkeley. Liu has been a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University (2018-2020), and a lecturer in the Social Studies department at Harvard University (2020-2023). In May 2023, she was appointed Assistant Director for the Center for Economy and Society and Assistant Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Event DetailsSpeaker: Glory M. Liu, Johns Hopkins
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Thank you all for attending the 2016 Food Symposium! Food Consumption PanelFood Production PanelPLU MediaLab Documentary - Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food EquationFood Symposium: Closing Keynote - Valerie SegrestFood Symposium - February 26-29, 2016Food and the EnvironmentDownload Flyer PLU’s Philosophy Department is hosting the 3rd Food Symposium on February 26-29, 2016 focused on the theme of the relationship between food and the environment. The symposium will feature two keynote speakers
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the third craft beer movement in which it started to make an impression. That time period started in 1978 and is still rapidly growing today. Craft beer is important in the history of the United States because it started around a time period where there were a bunch of changes going on, such as in politics, the ongoing civil rights movement, and also the shaping of women’s rights and equality. The craft beer movement is changing American culture from a society that is built around large
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Sociology MajorThe sociology curriculum at PLU is cumulative, such that the skills developed in lower-division courses set the groundwork for the skills to be developed in upper-division classes. We advise students to select their courses with this curricular philosophy in mind. Students are required to complete 40 credit hours in the major. In addition to the required courses, listed below, students also take several electives. 40 semester hours, including: SOCI 101: Introduction to Sociology
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Examined Life - VW PHIL 125 Ethics and the Good Life - VW PHIL 128 Politics and the Good Society - VW PHIL 220 Philosophy and Gender - VW PHIL 223 Bioethics - VW PHIL 225 Business Ethics - VW PHIL 226 Environmental Ethics - VW PHIL 227 Philosophy and Race - VW PHIL 229 Human Rights - VW PHIL 231 Ancient Philosophy - VW PHIL 238 Existentialism and the Meaning of Life - VW PHIL 311 Topics in Ethics - VW PHIL 312 Topics in Philosophy and Politics - VW PHIL 313 Topics in Philosophy, Science, and Religion
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