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Stephanie Leite deposited Target 2015: A Youth Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPrepared by Young Delegates to the 2nd World Youth Congress, Casablanca, Morocco – August 16-28, 2003, under the leadership of Peace Child International & the Moroccan Youth Forum. Excerpt: “This magazine, like the Casablanca Declaration, outlines the vision of young people on what needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (…[Read more]
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João Gilberto N. Saraiva deposited Para americano e brasileiro ver: uma memória das relações bilaterais por meio da rede social Flickr in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]
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João Gilberto N. Saraiva deposited For showing to U.S. and Brazilian people: a memory of bilateral relations through the social network Flickr in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReFueling the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReFueling the Future is the first project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how will we fuel our future?”, the purpose of this project is to get acquainted with the current state of our energy supply system,…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReFueling the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReFueling the Future is the first project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how will we fuel our future?”, the purpose of this project is to get acquainted with the current state of our energy supply system,…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El Juego de Ender’: La realidad flojea in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: ‘El juego de Ender’ (1977, 1985) es una de esas ficciones en las que la realidad flojea, donde se circula de modo inesperado o sorpresivo entre niveles de realidad y de representación, donde a veces no queda claro si la acción está transcurriendo en un mundo sólido o en uno virtual, y donde a veces creemos estar en uno y est…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
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Juli Gatling Book deposited Waiting and Burning Out: War Memory, Psychological Resilience, and Interwar Disillusionment in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis article examines interwar peace activism by focusing on the personal emotional process that provokes disillusionment. This study documents how peace aspirations collapsed for two activists during the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference and again at the start of the Second World War. The former destroyed their faith that peace could be…[Read more]
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