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While talking to a Canadian climber about Afghanistan, I heard an American voice call out across the room: \"Holy shit, dude, were you in the U.S. military?\" Through the haze of burning yak dung fueling the stove in the middle of the room, I saw a young, bearded man. NOLAN PETERSON is a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and a former Air Force Special Operations pilot with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]a journalist, he returned to the Afghanistan War in 2013 as a war correspondent for United Press International, reporting from the front lines while embedded with U.S. and Afghan combat units.

The aim of this article is to present Jon Krakauer’s reportage Into Thin Air in the context of the main features of New New Journalism. The author critically discusses the most important elements of this paradigm, which refers on the one hand to the legacy of muckrakers from the beginning of 20th-century, and on the other hand – to the tradition of American reporters from the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed research was devoted to the Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, which has been described as a journalistic syncretic form, combining elements of auto-reportage, immersive reportage and paraliterature.

Not checking urea and electrolytes in a young man taking long term mesalazine for ulcerative colitis. Sitting on a bench looking out to sea in Borth, Wales, with a glass of wine in my hand and my family and friends with me. What poem, song, or passage of prose would you like mourners at your funeral to hear? \"Old and Wise\" by the Alan Parsons Project.

[...]I supplement my analysis with evidence from the many thousands of readers of Three Cups of Tea and I Am Malala who left questions and comments on Amazon, Goodreads, and GoogleBooks, partly to support my arguments about the books' cultural work, and partly because these particular memoirs' circulation in book clubs and schools has become such a crucial part of their existence. First published in 1983 when Menchú was twenty-four, Menchú's book is a girls' education memoir, and in particular, the story of the making of a revolutionary consciousness. [...]the new girls' education program depoliticized education itself, declaring it a means to market rationality rather than the culturally grounded and potentially liberatory practice that Menchú's testimony described. Onto communities educating themselves to resist an exceptionally violent government and military, usaid imposed a vocabulary of cultural deprivation, blaming those communities for their alleged ignorance and enlisting the government that was still attacking them to help remedy it. Because it was so closely tied to US Cold War counterinsurgency priorities, the girls' education program faltered almost as soon as it began.

A mission statement can be a useful tool for any organization. It clearly articulates what a group intends to do, how they intend to do it, and why their efforts are important. Referenced internally, this message can build cohesion and a shared sense of purpose. Outwardly, it is the public face of the organization. It also serves as a guide in uncertain times: a decision-making tool to prioritize our most important responsibilities. Considering current challenges linked to decreasing national emphasis, economic limitations, and a perception of irrelevance as compared to business and the sciences, I believe it would be useful, now, for the humanities to rearticulate their importance.To narrow this argument, I believe that English literature and creative writing programs could benefit by showcasing themselves in a new light. My thesis seeks to address the current “humanities crisis” where academic departments across the nation are experiencing funding shortages, limited job opportunities, and reduced program sizes because their value is poorly understood. I assert, alongside Eric Hayot and Gerald Graff, that a literary studies education is highly beneficial–both in and outside the realm of academia–but that its utility is obscured by financial, political, and social pressures that promote business and science over humanist inquiry. Taking small steps toward a solution, this thesis shares my personal experiences in the military–where the humanities have played a central role. It examines the concept of a mission statement, explains how they are used, and compares them across different English departments. It then documents a research study where members of the CU Boulder English Department participated in surveys, interviews, and working groups to investigate what we do, how we do it, and why it is important.Presenting research findings through data, analysis, and resulting mission statements, I hope that this project initiates a conversation about the importance of re-articulating the value of literary studies in these strained times. I also hope to share this information with faculty members of the CU Boulder English Department so that they might consider the benefits of adopting a statement of their own.

(2014) Directed by Amy Berg This documentary follows author Jon Krakauer and private investigator Sam Brower as they uncover the abuses, underage marriages and eventual conviction of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS) leader Warren Jeffs. After his father died in 2002, Warren created a school system specifically to prepare youth for \"the Holy Ghost,\" created a dress code for the girls and instilled a sense of impending doom; only those who followed the \"priesthood\" of Warren Jeffs, the truly faithful, would survive the coming apocalypse. After serving as a Chair of the Religion, Film and Visual Culture Group for the American Academy of Religion and then on the steering committee, Rubina continues to serve on the Executive Committee for the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion as President and is the Film Editor of the Journal of Religion and Film.