Thomas Jefferson National Portrait Gallery via Smithsonian Institution When Thomas Jefferson was elected in 1800, he had already served as secretary of state and vice president in the two preceding administrations. Jefferson was a two-term president. He served from 1801 to 1809. James Madison Left:...
Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut “American Fiction” is what satire should be: funny while succinctly pointing at truths. Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated academic up against the wall of what Black books must be to sell. He takes action. The film is also about families and the weigh...
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. —Thomas Jefferson 17 There must not be...
Hu, A.G.; Jefferson, G.H. A great wall of patents: What is behind China’s recent patent explosion? J. Dev. Econ. 2009, 90, 57–68. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Schmookler, J. Invention and economic growth. In Invention and Economic Growth; Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA,...
While some theories, such as the Media Equation, suggest that men will evaluate sex robots to be attractive, other assumptions (e.g., biases of norm adherence) would contradict this hypothesis. Therefore, the present study aimed at empirically comparing men’s explicit and implicit evaluation of...
In 1872, the U.S. government signed the Yellowstone National Park Act into law and created what the National Park Service (NPS) refers to as "the world's first true national park." Today, there are thousands of national parks throughout the world, and four of them — Rocky Mountain, Me...
Jefferson Fox 2 1 Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706, USA 2 East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. ...