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DíazStudent Explanation: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao addresses societal expectations and the intersectionalities between race, culture, and gender. Displacement is a central theme to the novel and fitting in, specifically in college, becomes a central narrative arc. More so than anything though, the book does  not seeks to vilify others, instead, showing characters otherwise unrespected by society, in a way that leads to understanding sympathy. It’s the book I wish was given to me for common

Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies. Activities: Twelve choral and instrumental ensembles, dance ensemble, theatre, speech and debate, newspaper, radio, television, literary magazine. Seventy-two clubs including community service, religious, environmental, social justice, political, cultural/ethnic, business, non-traditional student, nursing, science, computer and outdoor recreation. Athletics: NCAA Division III. Women’s intercollegiate sports: Soccer, cross-country, volleyball, basketball, swimming

masculinity, sports, and war in American Christian history. His book Family Values: Gender, Authority, and the Rise of the Christian Right is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.5:30 P.M. Dinner Break7:30 P.M.Evening Keynote Lecture - In Honor of Dr. Thomas Krise Thirteenth President of Pacific Lutheran University Dr. Larry Rasmussen, “New Wineskins: The Lutheran Contribution” – Science describes present changes to the planet as geophysical change and even announces a new geological age

hierarchical milieu marked by the separation of body from spirit, and earth from heaven, the reformers of Lutheran education came to a greater appreciation of embodied life on this earth as the arena in which God is truly present and active. Consequently, in this world, created by a loving God, no one can claim an intrinsic superiority over another by virtue of gender, race, or social status. All are of equal value and enjoy a God-given dignity and, by extension, all creation is a gift which demands wise

relationship between language, culture and ways of knowing; Address their own relationship to place in ways informed by their understanding of Indigenous relationship to place; Articulate issues of Indigeneity, race, gender and social difference as issues of power and equity, and identify different Indigenous peoples’ strategies for addressing colonialism, racism, sexism and other systems of social oppression; and Draw connections between their academic work and personal vocation by reflecting on the