Introduction

Author(s):  
Kathleen C. Oberlin

This introduction provides an overview of the cultural, historical, rand sociopolitical context of creationism in the US throughout the twentieth century. It introduces plausibility politics as a key concept for understanding why Answers in Genesis built the Creation Museum. Plausibility politics is the process of disentangling accuracy from reasonableness and the opening is leveraged by a group to advance its point of view. For many, this feels new. For seasoned political pundits and historians, it does not. It is a dynamic as old as the institutions and representatives entrusted to govern society. Yet it is not just media outlets, politicians, or scientists who attempt to persuade the public of their claims. Social movements, like creationists, seek to carve out a sense of plausibility for their own arguments as well. Being able to closely examine how this unfolds in a particular location, at the Creation Museum, affords a better understanding of how groups fight to stretch and expand what we, as a public, find plausible and later credible.

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-221
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Conner

This chapter looks at the longer aftermath of WWII and traces the creation of the second generation of ABMC sites. Focusing on the process of securing grounds overseas, allowing family members to decide where their loved ones would be buried, and obtaining US government clearance on designs, the account is reminiscent of the start of the ABMC and its first project. By 1960, fourteen cemetery memorials had been dedicated. This chapter also highlights the leadership of the agency’s second chairman, General George C. Marshall, and his direction of the building of memorials in eight countries to remember the 400,000 Americans who had died and the 16 million who had served in WWII. Marshall’s high standing in the US government and in the public esteem, just as was true of Pershing, greatly helped the agency to fulfill its renewed mission. The special treatment shown the grave of General George S. Patton in the Luxembourg American Cemetery is also detailed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Nesticò ◽  
Maria Rosaria Guarini ◽  
Pierluigi Morano ◽  
Francesco Sica

The second half of the 20th century was characterized by rapid growth of the urban population and lack of attention to environmental quality in the urbanizes territories. Thus, the development of many cities during that period took place through policies which, over time, resulted in a disaggregated landscape, both in morphological and functional terms. In some cases, these policies have caused the creation of land portions without a specific characterization, and the generation of urban voids that negatively affect the city’s development. To solve this problem, the public administration sectors of many countries are looking for new intervention strategies that are feasible from a social and economic point of view which are able to guarantee sustainable development. From this perspective, the execution of urban regeneration initiatives, including forestation, allows for the improvement of both environmental quality and citizens’ well-being, and promotes economic development. Considering the multiple effects that these initiatives can generate and the limited availability of public and private resources, it is appropriate to use multi-criteria decision support tools through which it is possible to evaluate the interventions’ complexity and best identify the city areas that lend themselves to be recovered and improved through the forestation. The aim of this work is to develop a support tool for public administrations aimed at identifying the optimal forestry projects’ location according to criteria that not only refer to financial type, but also their social, cultural, and environmental nature. Using Discrete Linear Programming algorithms, the model has been tested through a theoretical case study and reveals the advantages and limitations of the model, as well as future research prospects.


Economica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Liubov Aricova ◽  

The article is devoted to the study and analysis of practical views on the nature of the concept of positioning, highlighting the main features, determining the importance of the positioning process in the formation of the overall marketing strategy of the company. In today's market the winners are those who sets the strategic goals and competes with the use of theoretically justified from a scientific point of view of methods and techniques. The processes that ensure the creation of strong positions in the market are reflected in the methodological recommendations developed by the author for the positioning of the product. The effectiveness of the positioning strategy depends on identifying the correct and accurate target audience, analyzing competitors' organizations and predicting consumer behavior. All this allows to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise, as well as to find out the public opinion about this enterprise.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (30) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Steiner

Women began reporting on war in the mid-nineteenth century, covering, among other wars, Europeans revolutions and the US Civil War. The numbers of women reporting on war increased over the twentieth century with the First and Second World Wars and especially the Vietnam War. This increased again more recently, when many news organizations needed journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Nonetheless, war reporting remains widely regarded as men’s domain. It remains a highly sexist domain. Women war reporters continue to face condescension, pseudo-protectionism, disdain, lewdness, and hostility from their bosses, rivals, military brass, and the public. They also experience sexual violence, although they are discouraged from complaining about assaults, so that they can keep working. This research focuses on the sexism and sexual harassment facing contemporary women war reporters, with particular attention to Lara Logan, whose career demonstrates many of these highly gendered tensions.


Author(s):  
Maria Elena Versari

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was founder and leader of Futurism, the first intellectual and artistic movement that explicitly defined the codes of avant-garde practice in the twentieth century. His work extended across a multiplicity of fields: journalism, poetry, literature, theater, visual arts, politics, but it’s probably his all-encompassing activity as a cultural leader and fosterer of innovation that made him one of the preeminent intellectuals of his time. He implemented and systematized the practice of diffusing avant-garde ideas through manifestos, performances, and happenings, capitalizing on a deliberately magnified antagonistic relation with the tastes of the public at large. His experimentations in visual/verbal relations and stage performances, which led to the creation of free-word poetry and synthetic theater, were pivotal for the development of new modernist codes in poetry and the performing arts.


SlavVaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
АЛЕКСАНДР СЕМЕНОВИЧ СМИРНОВ

The problem of personality in the dialogue of the author and the hero of “Notes from the Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky. The problem of personality in “Notes from the Underground” is considered in the article in two interrelated aspects. The first is an analysis of the anthropological views of Dostoevsky’s hero, radical for the time of the creation of the story, but positively presented in the existentialism of the twentieth century (Sartre, Camus, Frankl). The second is an analysis of the forms of expression of the author’s position, which paradoxically combines distance from the hero's ideology and attention to his point of view. Dialogism and the internal contradictoriness of the author’s position are considered as a factor that determines the structure of authorship, the organization of the narrative, the functioning of temporal images (“forty years”), the peculiarities of the plot-compositional structure of “Notes from the Underground”.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Shpykuliak ◽  
Olena Sakovska

The purpose of this article is to investigate agricultural territories and their impact on agricultural cooperatives. In this case, the cooperative acts as a mechanism for rural development. The defining feature is that the mechanism of integrated development of rural territory to provide a comprehensive solution to the problems of the economy of the area and settlement, the formation and increase of investment attractiveness of the territory of the rural settlement and the creation of a “working” climate for private business are agricultural cooperatives. Analyzing the state of cooperation in the context of the European integration tendencies, which currently permeate the agrarian sector of the Ukrainian economy, studying the experience of cooperation among farmers of the European countries can be useful both from the point of view of its adaptation to domestic realities, and from the point of view of the most significant mistakes in development and miscalculations in rural areas. In addition, marketing studies have been conducted in rural areas of Ukraine, which have revealed the most significant areas of rural settlement development, including the creation and development of enterprises of meat, construction, tourism and recreational clusters and the development of joint ventures as growth points that activate the development of small and medium-sized businesses around them and the formation of interregional ties and rural cooperatives. Methods. Creating an agricultural consumer supply cooperative is the most effective mechanism for developing identified growth points and creating infrastructure to support them in rural Ukraine. The basis for the construction of an agricultural cooperative in rural areas is the formation of a model of maximum cost reduction for all members of the cooperative. Results. The further development and effective management of the cooperatives will contribute to solving socio-economic problems, improving the well-being of the peasants and, as a consequence, ensuring the integrated development of rural areas. Value/originality. Analyzing the activities of agricultural cooperatives operating in the world, we point out that research on the institutional foundations of the cooperative and its functioning as a mechanism of economic self-regulation give reason to claim that the cooperative does not have sufficient state support for its development. As a consequence, the number of cooperatives is steadily decreasing, we believe that the cooperative system of interaction of economic agents in the agricultural sector should include nationwide programmatic measures on institutional adaptation of cooperation as a mechanism of market self-regulation, a special form of integration, institutional mechanism for regulating entrepreneurship and the basis of cooperation, rules, traditions, organizations and institutions, the task of which is to determine the behavior of economic entities for the sake of satisfaction individual and social goals in the system of production and exchange of goods and services.


Author(s):  
I.I. SMOTRITSKAYA ◽  

The article reveals the main trends of digital transformation in the field of public administration. The priorities of digitalization of public administration are considered, including the creation of a digital government and the achievement of" digital maturity " of the public administration system by 2030. The characteristics of digital transformations are given from the point of view of improving the efficiency and quality of public administration, the possibilities of digitalization for the development of a public administration model capable of comprehensively solving macroeconomic problems of the country's strategic development are determined.


2020 ◽  
Vol II (5) ◽  
pp. 03-42
Author(s):  
Marcos Antonio Gomes de de Albuquerque ◽  
Veleda Christina de Albuquerque

The Real Forte Príncipe da Beira, in Rondônia, is one of the largest forts ever built in Brazil. It was abandoned after the establishment of the Republic, it entered in process of destruction possibly accelerated by actions of looting as it says oral tradition. Located in the western border of the country, in the midst of Amazon jungle, it practically disappeared of popular memory, until a military mission that crossed the area, in the twentieth century, discovered it. It remained abandoned until, in 1930, with the creation of Contingentes de Fronteiras, the Brazilian Army started to build military installations near the fort. Listed by IPHAN in 1950, nowadays the fort is under the protection of 1º Pelotão Especial de Fronteira “Real Forte Príncipe da Beira” of Brazilian Army, which is responsible for its preservation. Several actions and studies have been carried out aiming the preservation of that monument. This work is a result of a technical visit, an invitation of Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Cultural do Exército, which included several specialists of different areas. Our observations, expressed here, addressed the issue from an archaeological point of view.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Kelley H. Pattison

Purpose: The study explores the description of nurses serving with the US Army and the American Red Cross during World War I as described in a collection of sheet music. The purpose was to identify themes within the lyrics which describe how the nurse was viewed at the time.Background: Analyzing the description of nurses who served during World War I allows the present-day reader insight into how they were perceived by the soldiers they cared for and the public. The contrast between the two types of songs; those written from the point of view of the soldiers and songs written from the point of view of the public, provides an insight into the depiction of the nurses.Method: Thematic analysis was used to review a collection of songs (N=29) for themes and examples of how nurses were described in the music lyrics of World War I music. Library of Congress music archives is the repository of the music reviewed.Findings and conclusions: The song lyrics from the soldiers' point of view describe these women as beautiful, selfless angels, and much like their mothers back home. The lyrics from the public's point of view describe the nurses as one who does her part for the war effort, one who doesn't get enough praise, and a woman of courage. Many songs ask God to save the nurse. Looking back 100 years later, it is interesting to see how the nurse was a revered member of the US war effort during World War I.


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