The Gothic tradition originated in response to a period of rapid and far-reaching societal, cultural, and theological change in eighteenth-century Europe. I n the beginning, there is only darkness.

“1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery. As Discourse and the ‘Myth’ of Homogeneity [1] [Indonesian Translation Available Here].

Crickets chirp and cicadas buzz. There is some small comfort in the auditory, a living hum in the blackness and blindness. Listen to the episodes … Everything is in a fog. Here are a few possibilities: 1. It is not sufficient to fight against myths by destroying one myth and replacing it with another, as in, for example, criticising the myth of the homogenous nation by replacing it with the myth of the mixed nation (Oguma 2002: 349) This report summarizes and communicates the results of EPA’s ongoing Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) project.

The primary goal of the CIRA project is to estimate the degree to which climate change impacts and damages to multiple U.S. sectors (e.g., human health, water resources) are avoided or reduced in the 21 st century due to global reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs). The Dust Bowl was a natural disaster that devastated the Midwest in the 1930s. Society, Culture, and the Gothic INTRODUCTION REPRESENTATIVE WORKS PRIMARY SOURCES OVERVIEWS RACE AND THE GOTHIC WOMEN AND THE GOTHIC FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION. I intend to speak of both the title of Julius Scott’s book, The Common Wind, and the common wind itself. In the above-linked article, Fund seems to be asking the question rhetorically. Joel Mayward . cultural tourism, where the increasing supply of cultural products has in many cases outstripped demand (Richards, 1996), increasing competition and driving a search for alternative models. But it’s a good question, so let’s try to answer it. But, if Ferguson really did have a series of previous errors, then, yeah, Why did anyone ever listen to this guy? Chris Burgess. It’s a great title. Religious Cinema for Non-Believers: Martin Scorsese’s Silence.

Through the void, the sounds of nature build and crescendo, peaking to an almost unbearable cacophony until… Silence. When winds blew, they raised enormous clouds of dust.

It was the worst drought in North America in 1,000 years.

She has been a driving force in shifting climate change from a science and policy issue to a cultural issue, as she has worked with a number of celebrities on these issues, founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March 10 campaign with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and US Senator John McCain, and has helped coordinate many concert, television and print specials. Works written in this tradition are inherently linked to … Multicultural Japan? It deposited mounds of dirt on everything, even covering houses.   Unsustainable farming practices worsened the drought’s effect, killing the crops that kept the soil in place.