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Nov 4, 2024 · You Are What You Eat: How Free Trade Shapes Obesity Rates. Join BPR! the Brown Political Review is Brown's entirely student-run political publication. Across our ten boards, undergraduates explore the most pressing political issues of our day.
The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
Apr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the West has spread its preferred systems of ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
Oct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance (81.43 cm), whereas people from Latin ...
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Brown Political Review is Brown University’s entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. Founded in 2012, BPR aims to bring high-quality reporting on regional, national, and international politics to Brown, the Providence community, and beyond. Brown Political Review publishes a print magazine four …
Radicalism and Revolution: An Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Feb 20, 2021 · Bernardine Rae Dohrn (b. 1942) is a retired law professor from Northwestern University and the former leader of the Weather Underground Organization, a radical-left militant group prolific during the Vietnam War Era. The Weather Underground was responsible for the bombings of various government buildings, including the Pentagon, the United States Capitol Building, and a number of police ...
The Chaebol: A Curse in Disguise - Brown Political Review
Mar 26, 2023 · Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the largest and most innovative. Today, the country is one of the largest exporters in the world, with exports totaling 40 percent of GDP in 2016—a massive rise from just four percent in 1961. In the same period of time, average income in ...
Institutional Gaslighting: Investigations to Silence the Victim and ...
Apr 5, 2019 · When someone expects to trust the judgment of an institution, but the institution then betrays justice, survivors are gaslighted. For instance, Harvard University’s Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) was created to pose as an impartial investigative process to Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, particularly for sexual or gender-based harassment.
Beyond Paper Genocide: Taíno Recognition in Puerto Rico
Feb 17, 2022 · In 2018, a team from the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen managed to reconstruct the complete Taíno genome using an 8th to 10th century Taíno skeleton. The researchers were able to establish “clear similarities” between modern Puerto Ricans and Taíno genetic ancestry. Historians such as Antonio Sotomayor from the ...
BPR Interviews: Matthew Perault - Brown Political Review
Dec 26, 2019 · BPR Interviews: Matthew Perault. Matt Perault ‘02 is the director of the Center for Science & Technology Policy at Duke University and an Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He served as a director of public policy at Facebook, where he led the company’s global public policy planning efforts on ...
Beating Bobby Fischer: An Interview with Anna Cramling
Ariella Reynolds | January 5, 2024. Her name may not be Beth Harmon, but like the fictional heroine of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Anna Cramling Bellon is taking on the traditionally male-dominated world of chess and paving her own unique path to success. Known as Anna Cramling across Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, this ...