AIDS and American Apocalypticism

AIDS and American ApocalypticismLooks at how both anti gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis. Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries

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The New Institutionalism in Education brings together leading academics to explore the ongoing changes in K–12 and higher education in both the United States and abroad

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Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other

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Valjean and Cosette are haunted by figures from their troubled past

and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

The gap between important real-word problems and the workhorse mathematical model-based economics being taught to students has become a chasm

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the sixth edition is distinguished by its emphasis on practical applications