University of Wisconsin, Parkside
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: August 9, 2010
Latest Update: August 9, 20109
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Volume 37, Issue No. 1: Week of January 10, 2010: Topics

• Scarce Resources: Land

  To what extent is the East-West struggle in the Middle East an issue over land as a scarce resource?

  Consider the game of musical chairs. If you were the last one to be left with no chair before the world's nations began to consider sovereignty inviolable, how does that affect the land that belongs to you? What did some of our philosophers have to say about the owning of land? What do U.S. indigenous peoples have to say about the ownership of land? What does the third world have to say about land? And what about sovereignty. What is it? Should it be inviolable? How does it fit into the concept of justice as fairness? What about law and justice? Law and fairness?

  No. We can't have all these conversations. Most of us are overcommitted to start with. But we can have some of them. Our memory sculptures are meant to

  Anyone picked up a souvenir that relates to Avatar? How does this recent blockbuster relate to issue of land and justice? Any memory sculptures you could share on this?

  Fear as a Means of Persuasion

  Will upload some links to recent studies. jeanne

  Fear as a Means of Governance

  Age and Reliance on Contracts Across Generations

  Consider that the young must rely upon their elders to educate and create opportunities for them to advance. And the older groups must rely upon the society as they know it and expect it to continue to care for them as they bring their life cycle to a close. This whole cycle is fraught with a need for trust and yet no over riding force that can assure that such trust will be honored. What a mess in terms of human relationships. For all of us. Even poor Mrs. Astor.

  • Introduction

    Notes from jeanne to jeanne on focus of essay and links to context.

  • Discussion Questions

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