At my institution, the EcoCampus committee is charged with developing approaches to promote sustainable behavior on campus, specifically behaviors that will reduce the campus’s net carbon emissions. Approaches that provide new opportunities, such as coordinating a campus rummage sale to reduce end-of-year trash disposal and start-of-year purchases, have met with great success. More direct appro...

From one viewpoint we can look at speech work as a factor of significance in the solution of some of our social problems. The student may approach the work believing it to be a force, which may help towards the destruction of the unnatural barriers of class distinction. We all realise, after a moment's thought, how sensitive we are about our " accent," how a slur cast upon it fills us with rese...

Introduction Post-rehabilitative formal control mechanisms and conventional treatments within the justice system have been shown to be clearly ineffectual in developing pro-social behaviour of adolescents (Coates, 1981; O'Connor & Sweetapple, 1988). It has been well established that formal control mechanisms with by-products of labelling (McCord, 1978) and netwidening (Kleln, 1979; Pink & White...

The destruction of toxic organic wastewaters from munitions demilitarization and complex industrial chemical clearly becomes an overwhelming problem if left to conventional treatment processes. Two options, incineration and supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), exist for the complete destruction of toxic organic wastewaters. Incinerator has associated problems such as very high cost and public ...

The current research tested competing predictions on whether the experience of personal injustice would increase or decrease internal attributions of others’ success. Compared with the control condition, Study 1 found that individuals gave less credit to another person for his promotion after they recalled their own unfair experience. Study 2 revealed that personal injustice led weak just-world...

The fall of tsarism in Russia in 1917 was the culmination of many factors. It is perhaps widely noted that Nicholas II was not suited to his role as Tsar, mainly due to his character and personality. Resentment of his wife and her involvement with the mystical Rasputin was also widespread and helped contribute to the collapse of the monarchy. Also the state of the country during World War One l...

Some scholars of global governance advocate rebalancing from to national governance. They underline the incompatibility economic with democracies, which have right protect their social arrangements. discern fact that (economic) is under heavy fire a new vox populi, underscoring socio-economic and cultural sources resentment opposition liberal international order. While pointing at timeliness su...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, David Duke Patrick Buchanan drew on long-running discourses about White replacement displacement in their political campaigns. Duke, former leader of Knights Ku Klux Klan, used fears to earn elected office Louisiana state legislature. He then ran for governor, senator, president, but was thwarted these campaigns partly thanks Black voters. Duke’s presidential ...