Jacob Thomas
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5 Things You Need to Know Before Coming to China to Teach EnglishIf you plan on coming to China to teach English as a Second Language, here are 5 important things you need to think about before you make the trip over.
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ESL Lesson: Aesop's Fables and MoralsAn ESL lesson for advanced students using Aesop's Fables to discuss morals. Includes some intense vocabulary and a group exercise.
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George W. Bush's Foreign Policy Toward North KoreaA detailed timeline examining the George W. Bush administration's policy toward North Korea between 2001 and 2009.
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More Human Than Human: Bioethics and Science-Fiction CinemaThis essay uses science-fiction films to discuss major issues in bioethics such as cloning, genetic enhancement and artificial intelligence. Films include Gattaca, Blade Runner, The Matrix and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Individuality, Community and Identity in Italo Calvino's The Distance of the MoonAn analysis of the major themes in Italo Calvino's story The Distance of the Moon.
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Prenatal Genetic Testing and the Critique of Scientific AuthorityWhat kind of outcomes will prenatal genetic testing bring? Will they have an exacerbating or mitigating effect on discrimination post-birth? And, fundamentally, do parents even have the right to choose the sex of their children?
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Jurgen Habermas: Theory of Communicative Action, Discourse Ethics, Discursive Model of DemocracyThis article is a brief sketch of Jurgen Habermas's theories of communicative action and discourse ethics explaining his discursive model of democracy.
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Internet Forum Technology and the Atomization of SocietyInternet forum technology has changed society by altering the way in which individuals communicate socially, particularly those under the age of 30, in both positive and negative ways.
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Love, Pain, Loss in Ancient Poetry: China, Greece, Christianity and IslamExamining love and pain in the poetry of Sappho, The Chinese Classic of Poetry, The Song of Songs, Rumi and Farid Ud-Din Attar.
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The Connection Between Poetry and Philosophy: Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Sappho, and the Song of SongsPoetry, according to Aristotle, has the ability to describe human events with a "universal" eye focused on the "law of probability or necessity", but I contend that the connection between poetry and philosophy is much stronger than Aristotle thought.
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The Quiet American - Book and Film ComparisonIn many ways the film follows the novel closely, but the characterizations of the novel that underline its thematic aspects seem to be absent in the film.
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Gene Sequencing and Interpersonal Relationships in GattacaGattaca deftly illustrates that the reliance on gene sequencing has a negative, dehumanizing effect on the interpersonal relationships between genetically enhanced individuals.
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Why the Rational Actor Model Doesn't Work in Foreign RelationsThe Rational Actor Model makes four key assumptions that would guide logical policy decisions if they weren't sidelined by groupthink and other subjective factors.
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Global Trade in Small Arms, Light WeaponsThis article examines the history of small arms and light weapons as a human rights and security issue in domestic and international policy.
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Themes in the Ancient Chinese Poetry of T'ao Chi'en and Li PoExamining the differences and similarities of T'ao Chi'en, a poet in the late fourth and early fifth century, and Li Po of the early to mid-eighth century
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What is the National Security Council? How Does it Work?This article examines the history and formation of the National Security Council and how its role has changed since World War II.
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WMD and the U.S. Nonproliferation Regime: What Went Wrong?The U.S. took nonproliferation very seriously after World War II, but has become weak since the end of the Cold War. This article examines the four major reasons why.