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  • Beginning again, from refugee to Citizen

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    BEGINNING AGAIN: FROM REFUGEE TO CITIZEN Keynote Presentation by Professor Ahmed I. Samatar. “Somalis in America,” conference held at Macalester College, July 15-17, 2004. I. Introduction: II. Why People Decamp A.Push. B. Pull. C. Terms. III.Waves and Models IV.The Somali Moment A.Tacabir vs. Qaxootin: B.Issues: V.The Dialectic of Critical Adaptation A.English Language B.Racism C.Somali and…

  • Faith and Social Justice

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    Yongho Kim March 11, 2004 Anthropology Internship: Faith and Social Justice Prof. Sonia Patten Finding Common Grounds: Religious Morality as a Catalyst for Economic Justice What Faith Groups Say About “The Right to Organize”, by the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ), brings together the strongest arguments made in alliance with the workers’ rights…

  • Multi-language plugin for WordPress

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    The Multi-language plugin for WordPress is a plugin in development, used between 2005 and 2009 as a MyHacks.php patch under http://yokim.net/text . Its basic engine is the use of categories reserved for specific languages. Through the selective use of theis_category() and in_category() tags which are built into the WordPress core. Scheme Suited for Those who…

  • Weatherford rocks

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    amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609610627/qid=1080489130/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_3/103-6648822-4747822?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the making of the Modern World ranks 31 in Amazon.com rankings! I gotta buy one and send to my younger bro. [added in 2005] heh heh. what was THAT review If all history books were this fun I wouldn’t have flunk…, November 10, 2004 Reviewer: Ma WenRui “soukouslover” (Minneapolis, MN…

  • Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation

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    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004. (due May 7th – three days late ) Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation In reflecting on the production of “Forgotten”, I want to focus on the difference between the performance at the Union Hall and the one at Macalester in the level of…

  • imagined conversation between Benjamin Filene and Ruth Glasser on "authenticity"

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    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004 (due April 15 – 3 weeks late) [DJ plays “We shall not be moved” by the Almanac Singers] Glasser: I like how the band uses the banjo, which gives it a more folk feel. Were the instruments made in the east coast before being sold to…

  • Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919

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    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill…

  • I just saw this on Tapestry

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    I finally found him! He’s Roger Guenver Smith and he did The Huey P. Newton Story in the Fall of 2001. I loved his performance, and his after-discussion in which he advocated having holistic aspirations – I still recall him saying “Say, I my major is the sky.” Oooh! Happy happy.

  • Next year plans

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    So, some things I want to pull together for next year just don’t work. This year I was lucky and managed to always leave large chunks of time to be used for my off-campus work study. Next year, I’ve got these two annoying major requirements that stick in the middle of the day – MWF…

  • Class schedules are partially up!

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    And the anthro classes seem to be all up! Yay MS. Byrne! Fall 2004 Medical Anthro W 7:00 Patten Gender and Family in Africa 2:20 Patten Anthro of War 1:00 Weatherford Untitled 2:45 Dean Globalization 1:10 Dean? History of Anthro Ideas 10:50 Guneratne Intermediate German II Huener Philosophy Mind 2:45 Laine FIlm Studies 10:10 W7…

  • Ejercicio Etnográfico: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los EEUU

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    Theorizing U.S. Latina/o Popular Culture. Prof. María Elena Cepeda Macalester College , Febrero 11, 2004 Yongho Kim Ejercicio Etnográfico #1: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los Estados Unidos Metodología: Mis preguntas podrían categorizarse en tres: Las dos primeras tenían el fin de aprender más de cerca la vida diaria de los entrevistados y…

  • [Cast] Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant

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    Forgotten The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant CAST LIST Principal Characters In Order of Appearance: Ella Bradford – Jennifer Foughner Allen Johnson – Senam Gbeho Henry Ford – Evan Kennedy Lewis Bradford – Joseph Sedillo Rosie Johnson – Kira Puett Father Charles Coughlin – Kenyon DeVault Harry Bennett – Josh Whitney-Wise Clara Ford –…

  • [Comment] Blues people: negro music in white america

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    Yongho Kim Telling Labor’s Story through Music February 10, 2004 Baraka points out in chapter 2 that West African music provided a baseline for the music sung by African-Americans who came to the United States through slavery. Two main tenets of these West African roots are the multilingualism of its lyrics and the narrow albeit…

  • Evaluation of translation 8b (Fairest Friend, by Robert French)

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    Yongho Kim Russian 265: Literary Translation February 4, 2004 Evaluation of translation 8b (Fairest Friend, by Robert French) Having had the bias of looking at the uncle-tone styled Chapter I translations of the poem, French’s tone, which sets up a relationship of clandestine lovers between the poet and the interpelate (3-10), which given its detour…

  • Protected: Sample interview on Bon Appetit

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  • Sweet '38 Latin major story at Lilly

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    [Jan. 3rd, 2004|09:19 am] All of you Classics majors should read Margaret Lukins Ferguson (’38)’s story in the Macalester History Project by Lilly. Refreshing! http://www.macalester.edu/lillygrant/history/view.html

  • Witchbuster

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    Yongho Kim December 12, 2003 Anthropology of Religion Are there any conditions under which it could be justifiable to punish a witch? If yes, what are those conditions, what might be appropriate punishment, and what assumptions are you making to support this position? If no, why not? Yes. A witch should be punished when he…

  • JC’s Place: Individual Analysis

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    Yongho Kim December 12, 2003 Anthropology of Religion JC’s Place: Individual Analysis 1. Describe any ontological categories and the tags that contradict them which you have identified based on your (jointly gathered) data and reading. I could observe several ontological category violations – some within the religious practice per se and others in the stated…

  • JC’s Place: Rescue, Develop, Send

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    Mary Guerra Ben P. Johnson Yongho Kim Anthropology of Religion December 12, 2003 JC’s Place: Rescue, Develop, Send Our group studied JC’s place, which is a semi-informal Pentecostal Christian gathering based in the Emmanuel Christian Center. The Emmanuel Christian Center is located at Spring Lake Park, a suburb located close to Anoka County, to the…

  • JC's place – paper outline

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    Mary Guerra Ben P. Johnson Yongho Kim Anthropology of Religion December 9, 2003 Semester Project Outline Joint Paper 1. Introduction a. Physical surroundings b. Temporal structure c. What makes the site a religious setting? Also discuss secular/profane (3.a., Durkheim) 2. Methodology a. Site self-publicity (website) b. Contacting and reaching the site c. Data gathering (participant…