What was the Monroe Doctrine (issued in 1823)? don’t mess around in our hemisphere & we’ll stay out of yours (to Europe) What is “Manifest Destiny”? The belief that the U.S. would someday control the land from coast to coast. What change in voting requirements allowed the “comm...
international relationspolitical philosophyThe events of September 11th, 2001 changed the way in which the United States of America (USA) participates within the global community. In Less Safe, Less FreII Jason Lee MitchellSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
When I first began writing in the field in the late ’70s and early ’80s the term “Spiritual Formation” was hardly known, except for highly specialized references in relation to the Catholic orders. Today it is a rare person who has not heard the term. Seminary courses...
Or, Why was I not entitled by birth, to advantages which others were born to? The apostle alludes here to Isaiah 45:9, where, in answer to the objections and cavils of the unbelieving Jews, disposed to murmur against God, and arraign the wisdom and justice of his dispensations, in ...
Two (or maybe more) possible explanations for the geographic distribution of Clovis culture exist. One is that a new wave of immigrants brought the complex with them from Asia after the ice sheets started retreating. That after all was the original explanation for Clovis, ie the “ice-free co...
“a whole raft of sexless creatures”; clearly for Roosevelt the best way for men to prove their sexual performance was to make war instead of love, which is clearly a contradiction in terms; quoted by Zinn (1999), p. 369 in Chap. 14, with the title: ‘War Is the Health of The ...
One of the perceived obstacles in the path of modernisation however was the fact that ideas about law in the less developed world were rather formalistic and driven by a set of culturally-inspired attitudes, beliefs, and expectations.Footnote 21 Legal rules were thought to be abstract and rigid...
When I first began writing in the field in the late 70s and early 80s the term “Spiritual Formation” was hardly known, except for highly specialized references in relation to the Catholic orders. Today it is a rare person who has not heard the term. Seminary courses in Spiritual Formation...