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...making=Risk-taking.” Taught by Professor Ali Asani, students in the class experiment with differing media traditional to the Islamic world, such as calligraphy, mosque design and Islamic poetry. According to Asani, focusing on a more interactive and personal way of understanding Islamic art and culture is unusual and not without its challenges, but ultimately successful. As he says, “[The class has] convinced me of the effectiveness of the arts and literature as pedagogic bridges to understand the Islamic worlds. It may be useful to just my specific subject, but I think...
Abbott agrees that the Powwow is an excellent means to show the continued importance of Native Americans in contemporary culture. “It’s very important for people to understand that native people are their friends, their colleagues, their coworkers,” he says. “Often native communities are locked in people’s opinion in an historical context, so that’s one of the things we hope people will take away. We hope they’ll see their peers in a slightly different context...
This is the ice cream that made us think not of a majestic Vermonter cow, but the beautiful bovine of India. After the transcendent experience of eating this ice cream, you’ll understand just how deep that imagery was. The vanilla ice cream represents a perfect union of creamy texture and full vanilla flavor, and after we finished our cup, we felt ourselves yearning for more...
...United States illegally and authorities can charge immigrants with state crimes if they fail to carry proper immigration papers at any given time. In addition, it even grants citizens the right to sue their cities should they feel that the law is not being enforced strongly enough. While we understand that Arizona is arguably the nation’s most active hotspot for human and drug trafficking from Mexico, we nevertheless find its new immigration law entirely unacceptable since it can only lead to a heightened atmosphere of racial profiling...
...This helps the UC side of things in that they don’t have to deal with each of our 86 different programs applying,” Loney said. “It also allows us to better distribute the funds internally because we understand the finances of our programs better...