This study uses communication, critical race theory (CRT), and storytelling to examine environmental racism and environmental justice efforts. In New Mexico’s Petroglyph National Monument, a conflict emerged when officials moved protected rock carvings to build a road through the park. When creating the monument, stakeholders evoked cultural and environmental protectionism. Yet, proroad campaig...

The column offered by Mussolini to the city of Chicago in memory Italo Balbo’s trans­oceanic flight symbolized Fascist attempt penetrate American society. Over years, monument has become a symbol identity for Italian-American community city. article traces history Balbo Monument from its origins recent protest removal, questioning significance conservation date.

The article deals with the sacred groves of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic background, the historical documents from the 12th– 18th century, the key folklore motifs of the topic, as well as selected examples of groves. The article also discusses possible relationships between pre-Christian religious traditions connected with the sacred groves and the ones which have survived...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Document binarization is an active research area for many years. The choice of the most appropriate binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very difficult procedure itself. In this paper, we propose a new technique for the validation of document binarization algorithms. Our method is simple in its implementation and can be performed on any binarization algorithm since it doesn’t req...

An enduring problem in electoral systems is that of "disproportionality," i.e., the mismatch between a party's percentage of the popular vote and its percentage of legislative seats. Such disproportionality is quite common and extreme cases are easy to find in the real word. To give just one example, the Liberal Party in Britain polled 13.8% of the national vote in 1979 but was rewarded with on...

Abstract. The three-dimensional (3D) preservation and repair of historic sites are increasingly in practice using modelling digital documentation. This study focuses on replacing conventional techniques historical documentation by creating a procedure employing laser scanning for 3D mapping monument located Prayagraj, India. To quickly record the entire structure, four stations were planned, wh...

This study aims to determine the potential of Juang Rantauprapat Monument as a Historical Tourism Object in Labuhanbatu Regency. In this study, research method used by author is qualitative and interviews. Qualitative seeks understand situations natural settings; authors try not manipulate observed phenomena. The uses data collection guidelines, namely "snowball sampling" because, method, numbe...

This paper addresses a special problem with historical document images where handwritten characters from the reverse side appear as noise on the front side and even interfere with the front side characters. A novel method to extract clear textual images from interfering and overlapping areas of text is presented here. The proposed algorithm is interesting in that, with an observation that the e...