When the movie Shenandoah was released in the summer of 1965, few Americans watched the film with... more When the movie Shenandoah was released in the summer of 1965, few Americans watched the film with much thought toward the slow but escalating tensions in Vietnam. Though one of Jimmy Stewart's lesser-acclaimed movies, the film presents Stewart in the lead role as Charlie Anderson, a widower with seven children, including six sons, who desperately tries to maintain his neutral status during the Civil War. His primary goal throughout is to remain uninvolved in the conflict, and he repeatedly explains that his family will not take part in the war until it concerns them. Even as he tries valiantly to keep all his sons on the family farm in war-torn Virginia, and thereby out of the fighting, the conflict continues to rage around them. Though Shenandoah was not intended to take a stand on the situation in Southeast Asia or promote a national dialogue about military service, compulsory or otherwise, a brief but notable statement by Stewart foreshadowed the controversial decision to draft young men into the Vietnam War. When a Virginia State lieutenant comes to collect Stewart's sons, the lieutenant smugly and presumptively explains that "Virginia needs all her sons." Vengefully justifying his decision to keep his sons on the family farm regardless of the war, Stewart passionately retorts, "They don't belong to the state. They belong to ME! When they were babies, I never saw the state comin' around here with a spare tit!" 1 Thus the Shenandoah doctrine was born, which D. Cooper et al. (eds.
The concept of motherhood in late antique Roman and the concomitant early Christian societies was... more The concept of motherhood in late antique Roman and the concomitant early Christian societies was rife with ambiguity and a certain degree of permeability. In late antique society, becoming and being a mother was the obligation of being a woman. While that attitude did not change with the advent of Christianity, many of the church fathers privileged virginity as a status superior to and more sanctified than the more traditionally female roles as wife and mother. Such teachings created an impossible conflict for Christian women who were already married or who were already mothers before or in the process of their conversions to the Christian faith. Moreover, the rhetoric of the Church Fathers concerning the Virgin Mary as a model of motherhood and its rhetorical tradition of referencing the Christian ecclesial institution as “Holy Mother Church confused the concept of ‘motherhood’ even more. This chapter addresses some of those confounding complexities and interrogates the purported “liberation” of Christian women from their traditional role as mother as motherhood became associated with spiritual rather than physical relationships, and men as exemplars for spiritual parenting.
Preface SECTION 1: Overview of the Transatlantic Relationship Post-WW II 1. Framing Essay - A Shi... more Preface SECTION 1: Overview of the Transatlantic Relationship Post-WW II 1. Framing Essay - A Shift in Transatlantic Diplomacy, Brian M. Murphy 2. Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World: Toward a More Equal and Effective Partnership, Michael Baun 3. Public Opinion and Public Diplomacy in a Transatlantic Perspective, Zsolt Nyiri 4. Curing Transatlantic Schizophrenia, Adrian Taylor SECTION 2: The Transatlantic Economic and Security Relationship Matrix 5. Framing Essay: Re-examining the Transatlantic Trade Agenda: Expanding Trade and Enhancing National Security, Mark Scanlan 6. A Shift in the Transatlantic Balance, Franck Biancheri 7. The Transatlantic Pivot, Daniel Hamilton 8. The Western Alliance in a Post-Western World, Simon Serfaty SECTION 3: The Future of the Transatlantic Community: New Concepts and Challenges 9. Framing Essay: Transatlantic Communities: A Re-examination of Theories and Meaning, Steven Galatas 10. The Transatlantic Relationship: From Oppression to Hopes of Partnerships, Kwame Antwi-Boasiako 11. European Union-Latin American Relations in a Turbulent Era, Joaquin Roy 12. Fateful triangle: The Americas and Europe, 1823 to the present, James Siekmeier SECTION 4: Transatlantic Ties that Bind: Media Representations, Cultures, and Values in the 21st Century 13. Framing Essay: Cultural and Political Ties within the Transatlantic Alliance in the New Century, Julie Harrelson-Stephens 14. (De)constructing transatlantic conflict representation in the media: A review of relevant literature from a communication and media studies perspective, Sudeshna Roy 15. Europe's Cultural Habitus: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century, Jessica Gienow-Hecht 16. Future Perspectives of Transatlantic Alliances, Peter Csanyi SECTION 5: Conclusion 17. Hearts, flowers and a common fate, Dana Cooper
At his death in 1902, Cecil Rhodes left an enormous amount of money to his alma mater, Oxford Uni... more At his death in 1902, Cecil Rhodes left an enormous amount of money to his alma mater, Oxford University to fund arguably the most recognized and prestigious scholarship in the world, the Rhodes Scholarship. Formally established one year after his passing, the grant quickly became the most famous educational award in the English-speaking world. Every year, 32 American college seniors are selected to study at Oxford University. 1 Many of these elite men have returned from England to distinguish themselves in their chosen fields. Indeed the list of recipients reads like a Who"s Who of American Leadership. Politicians such as senators J. William Fulbright and Bill Bradley, former President Bill Clinton, public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos, writer Robert Penn Warren, as well as Supreme Court Justices Bryon White and David Souter, to name but a few, all achieved the status of Rhodes Scholars, a designation that has followed them thorough their respective and impressive careers (Schaeper & Schaeper, 1998). Undoubtedly, this scholarship has had an enormous impact on the individuals who have been deemed worthy of its selection. Today, selection as a Rhodes Scholar is widely considered a golden ticket to future success for its recipients.
When the movie Shenandoah was released in the summer of 1965, few Americans watched the film with... more When the movie Shenandoah was released in the summer of 1965, few Americans watched the film with much thought toward the slow but escalating tensions in Vietnam. Though one of Jimmy Stewart's lesser-acclaimed movies, the film presents Stewart in the lead role as Charlie Anderson, a widower with seven children, including six sons, who desperately tries to maintain his neutral status during the Civil War. His primary goal throughout is to remain uninvolved in the conflict, and he repeatedly explains that his family will not take part in the war until it concerns them. Even as he tries valiantly to keep all his sons on the family farm in war-torn Virginia, and thereby out of the fighting, the conflict continues to rage around them. Though Shenandoah was not intended to take a stand on the situation in Southeast Asia or promote a national dialogue about military service, compulsory or otherwise, a brief but notable statement by Stewart foreshadowed the controversial decision to draft young men into the Vietnam War. When a Virginia State lieutenant comes to collect Stewart's sons, the lieutenant smugly and presumptively explains that "Virginia needs all her sons." Vengefully justifying his decision to keep his sons on the family farm regardless of the war, Stewart passionately retorts, "They don't belong to the state. They belong to ME! When they were babies, I never saw the state comin' around here with a spare tit!" 1 Thus the Shenandoah doctrine was born, which D. Cooper et al. (eds.
The concept of motherhood in late antique Roman and the concomitant early Christian societies was... more The concept of motherhood in late antique Roman and the concomitant early Christian societies was rife with ambiguity and a certain degree of permeability. In late antique society, becoming and being a mother was the obligation of being a woman. While that attitude did not change with the advent of Christianity, many of the church fathers privileged virginity as a status superior to and more sanctified than the more traditionally female roles as wife and mother. Such teachings created an impossible conflict for Christian women who were already married or who were already mothers before or in the process of their conversions to the Christian faith. Moreover, the rhetoric of the Church Fathers concerning the Virgin Mary as a model of motherhood and its rhetorical tradition of referencing the Christian ecclesial institution as “Holy Mother Church confused the concept of ‘motherhood’ even more. This chapter addresses some of those confounding complexities and interrogates the purported “liberation” of Christian women from their traditional role as mother as motherhood became associated with spiritual rather than physical relationships, and men as exemplars for spiritual parenting.
Preface SECTION 1: Overview of the Transatlantic Relationship Post-WW II 1. Framing Essay - A Shi... more Preface SECTION 1: Overview of the Transatlantic Relationship Post-WW II 1. Framing Essay - A Shift in Transatlantic Diplomacy, Brian M. Murphy 2. Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World: Toward a More Equal and Effective Partnership, Michael Baun 3. Public Opinion and Public Diplomacy in a Transatlantic Perspective, Zsolt Nyiri 4. Curing Transatlantic Schizophrenia, Adrian Taylor SECTION 2: The Transatlantic Economic and Security Relationship Matrix 5. Framing Essay: Re-examining the Transatlantic Trade Agenda: Expanding Trade and Enhancing National Security, Mark Scanlan 6. A Shift in the Transatlantic Balance, Franck Biancheri 7. The Transatlantic Pivot, Daniel Hamilton 8. The Western Alliance in a Post-Western World, Simon Serfaty SECTION 3: The Future of the Transatlantic Community: New Concepts and Challenges 9. Framing Essay: Transatlantic Communities: A Re-examination of Theories and Meaning, Steven Galatas 10. The Transatlantic Relationship: From Oppression to Hopes of Partnerships, Kwame Antwi-Boasiako 11. European Union-Latin American Relations in a Turbulent Era, Joaquin Roy 12. Fateful triangle: The Americas and Europe, 1823 to the present, James Siekmeier SECTION 4: Transatlantic Ties that Bind: Media Representations, Cultures, and Values in the 21st Century 13. Framing Essay: Cultural and Political Ties within the Transatlantic Alliance in the New Century, Julie Harrelson-Stephens 14. (De)constructing transatlantic conflict representation in the media: A review of relevant literature from a communication and media studies perspective, Sudeshna Roy 15. Europe's Cultural Habitus: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century, Jessica Gienow-Hecht 16. Future Perspectives of Transatlantic Alliances, Peter Csanyi SECTION 5: Conclusion 17. Hearts, flowers and a common fate, Dana Cooper
At his death in 1902, Cecil Rhodes left an enormous amount of money to his alma mater, Oxford Uni... more At his death in 1902, Cecil Rhodes left an enormous amount of money to his alma mater, Oxford University to fund arguably the most recognized and prestigious scholarship in the world, the Rhodes Scholarship. Formally established one year after his passing, the grant quickly became the most famous educational award in the English-speaking world. Every year, 32 American college seniors are selected to study at Oxford University. 1 Many of these elite men have returned from England to distinguish themselves in their chosen fields. Indeed the list of recipients reads like a Who"s Who of American Leadership. Politicians such as senators J. William Fulbright and Bill Bradley, former President Bill Clinton, public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos, writer Robert Penn Warren, as well as Supreme Court Justices Bryon White and David Souter, to name but a few, all achieved the status of Rhodes Scholars, a designation that has followed them thorough their respective and impressive careers (Schaeper & Schaeper, 1998). Undoubtedly, this scholarship has had an enormous impact on the individuals who have been deemed worthy of its selection. Today, selection as a Rhodes Scholar is widely considered a golden ticket to future success for its recipients.
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