Borderlands

Everyone has different perspective to look at the world. These perspectives help us learn about events and people which then shape into values which are embarked upon our children. Every culture upholds different values and teachings, which distinguish it from the other, and it is not justifiable to ignore or disrespect one’s perspective, socially or culturally or otherwise. “Culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective…

Filmic interpretations of the apocalypse often focus on the anxiety between progress and destruction, because the way we see different technologies is intimately tied to how we see ourselves. Technology is shown alternately as our savior in trying times, a testament to our intelligence, or a testament to our mastery, but also as an accident waiting to happen, an isolating force, or a feeble attempt to raise ourselves to the level of deities. The stories we tell about technology, (especially…

In 2001, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo allowed three sessions on Tolkien to be presented. That seminal event was the ‘nucleus’ from which this collection sprang. For forty years, editor Jane Chance, Professor Emerita in English of Rice University, has written and taught medieval literature, medieval culture, medieval women and modern medievalism. She has authored or edited five critical studies of Tolkien’s work, as well as numerous…

In the twentieth century many reached the understanding that disputes are normal in human society, and not necessarily destructive, and that if they do not get out of hand they may have within them a potential for growth, maturity, and social changes, an opportunity for new ways of thinking and new experiences. Because conflicts are an integral part of human interaction, one should learn to manage them: to deal with them in a way that prevents escalation and destruction, and arrives at new,…