a radical expansionist guided by the concept of Manifest Destiny, which he believed was a mandate from God that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. The problem was that much of the West that Polk wanted for the United...
Correia, D. 2008. Making destiny manifest: United States territorial expansion and the dispossession of two Mexican property claims, 1824-1899. Journal of Historical Geography 35(1): 87-103.For a review of the patterns, tactics, and consequences of land speculation during the territorial ...
It may not yet be clear how Descartes connects to Casey until we trace out the consequences of Descartes’ thoughts. We encounter reality in and through our senses and then form ideas about it. Those ideas are called true which correspond to reality as it really is. Truth, then, is the ...
In an ideal world (and assuming our two-party system), any harm done to the common good by a chosen representative would be merely accidental in the sense that the implementation of a policy failed or had unintended consequences. In other words, the ends would be good even if the means w...
Given this cultural divergence, research is replete with comparative studies of ethnocentrism and the intercultural willingness to communicate between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. However, to our knowledge, a comparison of these crucial cultural tendencies within and their consequences for ...
To the U.S., Operation Anaconda was a climactic moment at the start of its longest war, but to the Zurmat locals, it was merely another case of yet another foreign superpower learning the hard way about the consequences of bringing armies into their mountains. Then: Sadr City, Iraq (2004...
The consequences of western economic policies set to undermine their own currencies’ purchasing power will be felt more by China than Russia. Nevertheless, an increasingly likely banking and currency crisis in the West can be weathered by China with the correct economic approach. The era of the ...
At one time or another, all people experience the painful consequences of sin. Psalm 51 has been a comfort and a help to millions who have prayed these words as their own. It invites all who are broken to come before God and lean upon His compassion. It teaches that we need not only...
Further Consequences of the Suffering God If reversing the analogy was the worst part about this, then we might simply chalk it up as a misunderstanding. But the fact that it represents an attack on God’s nature eventually leads us into a theological pitfall that destroys our faith in God....
Further Consequences of the Suffering God If reversing the analogy was the worst part about this, then we might simply chalk it up as a misunderstanding. But the fact that it represents an attack on God’s nature eventually leads us into a theological pitfall that destroys our faith in God....