The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
Apr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the West has spread its preferred systems of ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
Oct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance (81.43 cm), whereas people from Latin ...
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From Crisis to Reform: Universal Healthcare is America’s Building …
May 13, 2024 · Here is our reality: Despite being the world’s largest spender on healthcare, the United States has faced higher Covid-19 death rates and worse Covid-19 outcomes than any other large, high-income nation. The pandemic has revealed the deficiencies of the American healthcare system, emphasizing the imperative for comprehensive reform that prioritizes equitable access to quality medical services.
Lessons of 2008: What the US Learned from the Great Recession
Nov 12, 2020 · The recent history of the world economy has been one scarred with recurring crises. The financial crisis of 2008 delivered a severe blow to the global economy, but it would be dwarfed in 2020 by the recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In both instances, economists largely agreed upon the urgency of substantive expansionary monetary and …
One Nation Under God: Prayer in the U.S. Federal Government
Mar 3, 2019 · On January 25, 2019, before the pledge of allegiance was even uttered, a session of the House of Representatives began with a prayer “unto Him, Christ Jesus our Lord eternal.”. In the 245 years between these two legislative meetings, the United States government was built from scratch, the capital of the United States changed cities, and ...
The Chaebol: A Curse in Disguise - Brown Political Review
Mar 26, 2023 · Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the largest and most innovative. Today, the country is one of the largest exporters in the world, with exports totaling 40 percent of GDP in 2016—a massive rise from just four percent in 1961. In the same period of time, average income in ...
Beating Bobby Fischer: An Interview with Anna Cramling
Ariella Reynolds | January 5, 2024. Her name may not be Beth Harmon, but like the fictional heroine of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Anna Cramling Bellon is taking on the traditionally male-dominated world of chess and paving her own unique path to success. Known as Anna Cramling across Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, this ...
The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
Nov 15, 2019 · The comprehensive analyses refuting trickle-down theory are numerous. A recent study found that tax cuts for lower-income groups do tend to facilitate encouraging employment growth, but that tax cuts for the upper 10 percent have a muted effect on job creation. This reflects the basic flaw in the philosophy of supply-side economics as a viable approach to advantaging the lower classes, as this ...
Beyond Paper Genocide: Taíno Recognition in Puerto Rico
Feb 17, 2022 · In 2018, a team from the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen managed to reconstruct the complete Taíno genome using an 8th to 10th century Taíno skeleton. The researchers were able to establish “clear similarities” between modern Puerto Ricans and Taíno genetic ancestry. Historians such as Antonio Sotomayor from the ...