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...replacement for the frontier would be: state universities. They could take on the mystical duties for democracy that free land had once performed--with, of course, an academic twist. "The test tube and the microscope are needed, rather than the ax and rifle, in this new ideal of conquest," he wrote...
Another Hoopes winner, Heather L. Clark '96, explored the Irish identity of James Joyce in "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity and the Politics of the Postcolonial in 'Araby...
Prizes were also awarded to Daniel T. Chrzanowski '96 for "Fertility in Western Kenya: An Engendered Explanation and an Application of Human Rights"; Heather L. Clark '96 for "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity, and the Politics of the Post-colonial in Araby"; Jill A. Corcoran '96 for "Beyond the Bell Curve and 'g': Rethinking Ability and Its Correlates"; Hugh G. Eakin '96 for "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage"; Steven A. Engel '96 for "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change"; and Eliezer M. Finegold...
...foul name. We were fitting an analytical classification to his amoral discourse about our country's sad history of violating black folks' humanity under Southern slavocracy and modern racism. This is no different than the classification that Native Americans put around the slaughter of their ancestors during the European conquest of North America and the subsequent "pacification" during the formative years of the American republic--that classification being "genocide" and thus those perpetrating this being "genocidists." Similarly, our classification of Jeffrey Vanke's amoral discourse was no different than the analytical classification that Jewish-Americans and Jews generally put around...
...struggle to preserve the "peculiar institution" of slavery was an attempt to resist the democratic ideals sweeping the Western world. While other enlightened nations were rejecting the barbarity of human bondage, the South still clung to the remnants of a shameful past. Likewise, Nazi Germany's visions of world conquest and racial purity were a return to the savageness of the Dark Ages...