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    “Obama’s Pivot to Asia Policy Touches the Dragon’s Inverted Scales” by Yuri Nishiyama

    June 11, 2017 /

    During the time the United States was involved in wars with Iraq and Afghanistan and simultaneously faced an economic crisis in the early 2000s, China’s economy grew at an unprecedented speed, surpassing that of Japan in 2010 to become the world’s second largest economy. In response to the changing power dynamics caused by China’s rise, President Obama announced in 2011 his “pivot to Asia,” a rebalancing of U.S. strategic interests and military resources toward the Asia-Pacific region (Tong). Although the pivot reassured America’s Asian allies of its renewed commitment to the region, this U.S. policy initiative deepened the strategic distrust between China and the U.S. Strategic distrust in a bilateral…

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    “Security in the Real World: Gender Security, Globalization, and Women In India” by Madeleine Stokes

    July 26, 2015

    “Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Methods of Teaching” by Ingrid Rodriguez

    July 27, 2015

    “God’s in His Heaven, All’s Right with the World: The Need for the Timely Establishment of an International Legal Regime in Outer Space and the Privatization of Space War” by Einar Engvig

    August 1, 2015
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    “Voting in The Modern World: Examining Media Habits to Create a Relevant Guide for the 2016 General Election” by Krystal Lau

    June 10, 2017 /

    Over hundreds of voter guides exist in the United States today; they vary in content style, substance, and medium–including print, podcast, and video (Ballotpedia). The California Secretary of State sends out a Voter Information Guide to every voting household in California. The guide is currently available in ten languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese (California Secretary of State). Similar guides are put together by interest groups, nonparty newspaper organizations, as well as civically engaged individuals (Ballotpedia). However, although voter guides are numerous and varied, their information does not effectively reach a wide proportion of the population. In fact, 60 percent of intermittent voters say…

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    “Challenges and Opportunities for a Clean Technology Revolution: A Venture Capital Perspective” by Varun Mehra

    July 26, 2015

    “Obama’s Pivot to Asia Policy Touches the Dragon’s Inverted Scales” by Yuri Nishiyama

    June 11, 2017

    “Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Methods of Teaching” by Ingrid Rodriguez

    July 27, 2015
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    “A New Relationship with Death: A Synthesized Experiential Portrait and Analysis of Mid-Fourteenth Century Medieval European Society’s Reception of, Responses to, and Reflections on the Black Death” by Diane Bani-Esraili

    October 6, 2015 /

    Chapter I Introductory Remarks, A Synthesized Experiential Historical Approach, and Statement of Purpose Spanning the years between 1346 and 1353, a dreadful disease swept over Western Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, causing cataclysmic loss of life both in the countryside and in towns and cities. So graphic and deadly was this plague that the great contemporary Florentine author Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) legitimately worried that future generations would mistake historical eyewitness accounts of the event for tall tales. In a correspondence with a friend, Petrarch wrote: “O happy posterity, who will not experience such abysmal woe and will look upon our testimony as a fable.” The reference here…

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    “Challenges and Opportunities for a Clean Technology Revolution: A Venture Capital Perspective” by Varun Mehra

    July 26, 2015

    “The Obama Doctrine and 21st Century American Foreign Policy” by Madhu Narasimhan

    July 26, 2015

    “The Fetishization of the Panopticon” by Kailey Giordano

    July 26, 2015
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    “God’s in His Heaven, All’s Right with the World: The Need for the Timely Establishment of an International Legal Regime in Outer Space and the Privatization of Space War” by Einar Engvig

    August 1, 2015 /

    Acknowledgments This project is the end product of two years of intense study at the University of California, Los Angeles, an institution that has given me the freedom to engage in an incredibly rewarding and mind expanding major while allowing me to create, design and facilitate my very own political science class for spring quarter 2010. Specifically, I would like to thank my faculty mentor Russell A. Burgos for inspiring me to be independent, creative and to push myself as hard as it takes and librarian Joseph Yue for all the help in research. I would also like to thank all my friends in the Global Studies major at UCLA…

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    “The Peisistratid Tyranny At Athens: Conflicting Sources And Revisionist History At Work” by Mara Kutter

    July 17, 2015

    “A New Relationship with Death: A Synthesized Experiential Portrait and Analysis of Mid-Fourteenth Century Medieval European Society’s Reception of, Responses to, and Reflections on the Black Death” by Diane Bani-Esraili

    October 6, 2015

    “Security in the Real World: Gender Security, Globalization, and Women In India” by Madeleine Stokes

    July 26, 2015
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    “Investigating the Effects of I-55 On the Culture of Route 66 Communities In Illinois” by Monica Davila

    July 27, 2015 /

    Introduction The first few decades of the 1900s were a pivotal turning point for transportation in the United States. In 1910, there were approximately 180,000 registered vehicles in the country, and by 1920 the number had grown to over 17 million (“Before 1926: The Origins of Route 66”). However, while Americans were finding it more affordable to travel by car, only 36,000 of the nation’s 2.5 million miles of road were paved and capable of withstanding automobile traffic (“Before 1926: The Origins of Route 66”). Noticing the vital need for all-weather roads, the federal government passed the Federal Highway Act of 1921, which provided states with the funds needed to…

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    “Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Methods of Teaching” by Ingrid Rodriguez

    July 27, 2015

    “To Know a Hottentot Venus Feminist: Feminist Epistemology and the Artworks Surrounding Sarah Bartman” by Kayleigh Perkov

    July 26, 2015

    “Security in the Real World: Gender Security, Globalization, and Women In India” by Madeleine Stokes

    July 26, 2015
  • Online Articles

    “Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Methods of Teaching” by Ingrid Rodriguez

    July 27, 2015 /

    Introduction and Significance For years, state governments have attempted to find strategies to improve the quality of education for children. Though many initiatives have been taken, few have succeeded. George W. Bush hoped to change this. Three days after taking office in January of 2001 as the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush announced No Child Left Behind (NCLB), his framework for bipartisan education reform. Describing it as the cornerstone of his administration, Bush stated: “These reforms express my deep belief in our public schools and their mission to build the mind and character of every child, from every background, in every part of America.”[1] Although he…

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    June 11, 2017

    “The Fetishization of the Panopticon” by Kailey Giordano

    July 26, 2015

    “The Obama Doctrine and 21st Century American Foreign Policy” by Madhu Narasimhan

    July 26, 2015
  • Online Articles

    “Countering Public Perceptions of Religion: Faith Communities in Support of LGBT Equality” by Michelle Lin

    July 26, 2015 /

    Beneath the heated political debates between interest groups arguing for and against same-sex marriage, there has been a gradual change in public opinion. Today, the percentage of people who believe homosexual couples should have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples has doubled to 53 percent, as compared to 1996, from a December USA/Gallup Poll.[1] Surveys conducted in 2011 by the Pew Forum[2] and the Washington Post-ABC News[3] poll also reflect the growing public approval rating for gay marriage in America. This brings to light a monumental shift in societal attitudes towards LGBT individuals, where for the first time in history, the majority of Americans now show approval for same-sex…

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    “Voting in The Modern World: Examining Media Habits to Create a Relevant Guide for the 2016 General Election” by Krystal Lau

    June 10, 2017

    “God’s in His Heaven, All’s Right with the World: The Need for the Timely Establishment of an International Legal Regime in Outer Space and the Privatization of Space War” by Einar Engvig

    August 1, 2015

    “Typhoid: Lessons from India and Pakistan UCLA Department of International Development Studies” by Hannah Spero

    July 26, 2015
  • Online Articles

    “Collaboration, Resistance, and State-Sanctioned Journalism in Vichy France” by Nicholas Matthews

    July 26, 2015 /

    Introduction Wartime censorship of the press was far from an unusual occurrence during the Second World War. Government efforts to control the headlines, whether through volition or compulsion, were a logical byproduct of the nescience that characterized the information flows of the early and mid-20th century. But what of censorship in occupied countries? In France, the Third Republic censored the media prior to its surrender in 1940, and censorship continued in earnest with the introduction of Vichy and the commencement of the German occupation. These were, of course, two entirely separate experiences. I shall examine the latter of these experiences—state-sanctioned journalism under Vichy. Vichy journalism had many clashing agents and…

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    “Security in the Real World: Gender Security, Globalization, and Women In India” by Madeleine Stokes

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    “Challenges and Opportunities for a Clean Technology Revolution: A Venture Capital Perspective” by Varun Mehra

    July 26, 2015

    “Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Methods of Teaching” by Ingrid Rodriguez

    July 27, 2015
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    “To Know a Hottentot Venus Feminist: Feminist Epistemology and the Artworks Surrounding Sarah Bartman” by Kayleigh Perkov

    July 26, 2015 /

    Taken from her home in South Africa and displayed across Europe for her “exotic” body, Sarah Baartman (1789-1815) was transformed from an individual to a symbol of Otherness. Since the 1980s, Baartman has re-emerged as part of a discourse on post-colonialism, gender, sexuality and race theory. The scientific “facts” of Baartman have been refuted by Stephen Jay Gould[1], explored and examined in scholarly discourse by Sander Gilman[2] and Sadiah Qureshi[3], and reflected upon by countless individuals who have looked both at her history and their own lives. This paper attempts to examine how the contemporary artists Renée Green, Penny Siopis, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Tracey Rose have used Sarah Baartman to…

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    “Security in the Real World: Gender Security, Globalization, and Women In India” by Madeleine Stokes

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    “Revisiting the Three Generations of Imbeciles: The Impact of Buck v. Bell on the American Eugenics Movement” by Hanbee O.

    July 13, 2015
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    “Challenges and Opportunities for a Clean Technology Revolution: A Venture Capital Perspective” by Varun Mehra

    July 26, 2015 /

    Introduction Climate change and global warming have put markets, governments, and society in a unique yet pressing situation; standing idly by as carbon emissions and pollution externalities exacerbate current climate conditions is not a viable solution to economic prosperity. However, there does not need to be a negative correlation between environmental degradation and GDP growth. In order to meet the needs of rising populations, markets must rethink their energy dependence and move towards achieving low-carbon growth. If one looks at the major source of energy in today’s world, it took an enormous amount of time, policy implementation, and infrastructure development for coal and oil to receive significant slices of America’s…

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    “Investigating the Effects of I-55 On the Culture of Route 66 Communities In Illinois” by Monica Davila

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    “To Know a Hottentot Venus Feminist: Feminist Epistemology and the Artworks Surrounding Sarah Bartman” by Kayleigh Perkov

    July 26, 2015

    “An Acceptable Scandal? A Study of Public Response to Xenophobic Political Rhetoric in Germany” by Melis Tusiray

    July 26, 2015
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