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Meet the Professor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson, Sociologist, Educator, and Co-founder of Applied Worldwide
Stephanie: Sociologist, Creator, Researcher 2. As a co-founder of Applied Worldwide, could you briefly explain the organization’s mission? Stephanie: Our mission is to build a bridge between the discipline of sociology and everyday life to improve the well-being of society. As a sociologist, I see endless ways that sociological knowledge could benefit society, but our…
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Interview with Assistant Professor Katie Durante, University of Utah, Department of Sociology
1. If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be? Integrity, light-hearted, responsible 2. Can you discuss some of your key findings regarding racial and ethnic inequality in the criminal legal system and how it has evolved over the years? One of the areas of research I focus on is racial…
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An Interview with Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, Author or Aliya, The Girl From Ukraine.
Short Bio: Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his parents, who lived in Hungary, fled after its invasion by the Nazis. As a teenager, he came to study at Yeshiva in Westchester County, NY, where he graduated in Talmudic Law. Returning to Brazil, he married and joined the family’s…
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An In-Depth Interview with Charles Kern, Author of the Epic ‘Haldane Fall’
About the author: An avid reader, gamer, and historian (read the old encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z), Charles lives in South Jersey, not to be confused with the rest of New Jersey. Downsizing in transportation management during the Pandemic led him to pursuing his life-long dream of telling stories. 1. If you had to describe yourself…
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Interview with Dr. Christina Jackson: Insights into Sociology, Activism, and the Journey Ahead
Short Bio: Dr. Christina Jackson, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockton University, specializes in urban sociology, social welfare, and inequality from sociological and public health perspectives. Beyond academia, she’s an engaged scholar-activist, facilitating and consulting with community partners and creative groups on topics like anti-violence, gentrification, housing, food justice, and racial justice. She’s co-authored…
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Author Spotlight: An Interview with Diane Meyer Lowman, the Writer of The Undiscovered Country: Seeing Myself Through Shakespeare’s Eyes
Diane is an award-winning essayist, memoirist, and poet. She served as Westport, CT’s inaugural Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine; Brain, Child; and Brevity Blog. She also writes a regular column titled ‘Everything’s an Essay.’ Her first memoir, ‘Nothing But Blue,’ was published…
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Report: The Complete Factual Story of How Our Canadian Maple Leaf Flag “Became” the National Flag of Canada
The Complete Factual Story of How Our Canadian Maple Leaf Flag “Became” the National Flag of Canada The story of how a Brockville Ontario Vexillologist Robert J. (Bob) Harper successfully compiled the detailed facts of who and how the Canadian Maple Leaf Flag was brought to fruition in 1964/65. Nearly 53 years after the National…
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Change Your World
Abstract: A Plant Manager became aware of a concept for communicating better in employee meetings from a Group Dynamics course that a co-worker had attended. He began to use this idea and found that it addressed a problem he had been faced with many times. When an employee in the Q&A part of the meeting voiced a…
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The Post-Narrative World: A Crisis of Meaning
Though the word’s etymology differs from the current meaning, narrative means describing an event or articulating discourse, which gives a rhetoric. Historically, humans have given birth to different narratives and developed different rhetoric to make life sustainable. Narration is an old art; we can trace its history back to the Mesolithic stage of society. Mature…
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Book Review: Brave Falls (Drifters Realm) by AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia
Brave Falls, the third book in the Drifters Realm series by AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia, takes readers on an exciting journey where the risk is increased, the magic is deep, and the bonds of family are stronger than ever. With secrets to uncover and challenges to face, the siblings, their friends, and the Menace must come together…
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Humanism, Nationalism, and Cultural Evolution: The Interplay of Western Influence and Indian Identity
Despite despair all around the world, the evidence of humanity advancing is more evident in the present than ever. However, counter-forces still exists. The evil forces of certain political systems such as imperialism and fascism and economic systems of capital-based financing are not dead yet. Due to man’s craving for power, violence and exploitation are…