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...context of Somerville's welfare-to-workprogram, Gay has expressed concern for therepresentation of women in industrial jobs likeconstruction work. She advocates making surefemale former welfare recipients are steeredtoward non-clerical vocational positions...
...another reason for De Vere's alleged secrecy. The sonnets, he says, may have started as a playful artifice in courting the Earl of Southampton to marry De Vere's daughter, but they evolved into a dense homoeroticism. All the more reason to keep his authorship secret. (In this context there is a telling silence in Richard II. The historic King was notorious for a homosexual affair with the earl's ancestor Robert de Vere. Shakespeare's play begins after that affair is over, with no mention of the relative.) Thus while the earl lived, he hid behind the name...
...Instead of simply passing out a new problem set, Piel decided to use game theory, one of the primary topics studied in ESS, in order to subtly frighten students who might have felt tempted to glance at the lifted answer key. In a biological context, game theory is used to predict the optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every...
Further, it is crucial to understand the context in which the trial took place. Because of Jamal's long involvement in the struggle for African-American liberation, the racist Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had compiled an 800-page file on him by the time of his arrest. It appears the government had an interest in silencing this eloquent spokesperson for justice, like it silenced so many other freedom fighters, including former Black Panther Geronimo Ji Jaga, whose wrongful murder conviction was recently overturned after he spent 25 years in jail because it became clear that he was framed...
...themselves by wars that upheld, at least for a while, a guiding political culture of a Low Church, Calvinistic Protestantism, commercially adept, militantly expansionist, and highly convinced, in Old World, New World, or both, that it represented a chosen people and a manifest destiny. In the full, three-century context, Cavaliers, aristocrats, and bishops pretty much lost and Puritans, Yankees, self-made entrepreneurs, Anglo-Saxon nationalists, and expansionists had the edge, especially in America...