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Mission StatementPrism exists to celebrate the work and achievement of the Division of Humanities as well as to promote continuing education among our colleagues and constituents. Focusing on important issues of the day, Prism provides a vehicle for contemporary reflection and opinion, while lifting up the enduring values of the Liberal Arts. The magazine endeavors to address topics of lively interest, from a variety of perspectives within the university community, and with the clear
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Free & Open to the PublicWhen: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 The Writer’s Story: 4:00PM, Ness Second Floor Lobby, KHP Reading: 7:00PM, CK East, AUCElissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She has received
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, government contractors, and scientific researchers. Voice (off-screen): Yay! (upbeat music) Meet the Professors More Stories Visit About As a PLU mathematics student, you’ll learn classical and modern mathematical tools and ways of thinking that you need to begin to understand recent developments in and applications of mathematics and statistics. Contemporary mathematics has played an integral role in the development of computer technologies, search algorithms, financial investing strategies, physical
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contrasting works from different periods and regions. If you have any questions regarding organ audition repertoire, please contact Dr. Oksana Ejokina, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies. PianoPrepare two contrasting pieces, with one from the Baroque or Classical period (e.g., a piece by Bach, or a movement from a sonata by Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven), and the second from the Romantic or Modern era. If you have any questions regarding piano audition repertoire, please contact Dr. Oksana Ejokina, Coordinator of
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needed to succeed. It begins with three-weeks of language acquisition and general introduction to Oaxacan society, followed by eight weeks of inter-disciplinary understanding of ancient, modern and contemporary Mexico. When each student is feeling acclimated to his or her surroundings, they begin on a four-week full-time internship in the community. Pfaff and Engh actually studied a year apart. But in talking with them, it is amazing how the stories they tell are similar – clearly they have a common
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. Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. New York, NY: Viking, 2020. “A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women”– Provided by publisher. Winters, Mary-Frances. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2020. “Black Fatigue tells the truth. Mary-Frances Winters brilliantly shows us how Black fatigue
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September of 2020, this state-of-the-art Center upgrades and expands the practice space available to PLU nurses. In this space, they will develop the skills required to become nursing leaders in our communities. A state-of-the art simulation lab is critical to any competitive contemporary nursing education program today. Students must have access to the safe clinical practice settings found in a simulation lab that provides guided learning experiences and real time feedback from faculty about their
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Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent and imagination?” In the latest PLU podcast, we pose these questions and others to a pair of RWW faculty members and acclaimed creative writers, Rick
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15th century. 18th century French planters brought enslaved Africans to work sugar plantations, 19th century British governments brought indentured workers from India, and Venezuelans came across the narrow waters to develop some of the world’s most sought-after Trinitario “fine flavor” cocoa. This heady mix of peoples produced one of the world’s great Carnivals which is the model for those currently held in Miami, New York, Toronto and London. T&T is the birthplace of Calypso songs, Soca dance
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Symposium 2010 Suggested Reading ListJohn Carlin, Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and a Game that Made a Nation (Penguin, 2008) A great introduction to or reminder of what apartheid was and how Nelson Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to unite South Africans. The new film: Invictus with Morgan Freeman (as Nelson Mandela) and Matt Damon, directed by Clint Eastwood is based on this book. Charles Cumming, Typhoon, (St. Martin’s 2009) In this novel, British and American spies clash in the
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