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AbstractThis study examines the life of Crips cofounder Stanley "Tookie" Williams and the controversy surrounding his multiple nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. After being sentenced to death for a quadruple murder, Williams underwent a period of radical transformation and became an internationally recognized ambassador for peace. From San Quentin's death row, Williams supported several internationally recognized gang peace initiatives including the 1992 Watts truce, the 1993 Summit on Urban Peace and Justice, Hands Across America, and the 2004 Tookie Protocol for Peace. This article explores the challenges Williams faced in his evolution from a gang member to a peace activist, his role in these projects, and how neoliberal criminal justice reforms undermined his global efforts to promote grassroots peace coalitions.

An analysis of a comprehensive archive of the State of California web domain, built between 2008 and 2010. This includes an investigation of how state agency server "robots.txt" rules impact the quality of an archive, and on how the archive supports the ongoing work of government information specialists across the University of California Campus Libraries.

"It doesn't take long after learning to speak for children to utter the cry, "That's not fair!" That familiar exclamation seems to emerge from a primal human sense: you know how you deserve to be treated, and you know that you have not been treated that way-you've been given a raw deal, you've not been done right by. In this volume for our Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, Robert Kaster explores how we treat others at the everyday, person-to-person level, taking as his source the ethical writings of the Stoic philosopher Seneca. Though Seneca does not quite address the demands of "fairness" as the central topic in any of his ethical writings, relevant principles and words of advice appear throughout them. Kaster has selected passages from "On Benefits" and "On Mercy," the twelve short essays on disparate themes collected in his "Dialogues," and the most influential of his works, the "Moral Epistles." He takes as his organizing principle one of the key premises of Stoic thought: you cannot do right by others unless you sort yourself out first, and sorting yourself out begins and ends with your mind. Doing right by others requires cultivating a great mind (magnus animus) and achieving magnanimity (magnanimitas), the quality that ensures (among other things) that one always give others what they deserve-in every way, from material goods to personal respect, and even punishment. He has organized the selections into five chapters, each giving a different view of doing the right thing when it comes to our relations with others: "Striving for Magnanimity"; "Being Calm, Thinking Clearly"; "Judging Yourself Fairly"; "Doing Right by Others"; and "Being Merciful.""--

Il "Seneca" mai scritto di Alberto Grilli. Nota bibliografica ; Riferimenti bibliografici alle note di commento -- De tranquillitate animi. Note aggiuntive al testo ; Note di commento tratte dagli scritti di Alberto Grilli ; Supplementi alle note di commento

Citation: Jones, John Seneca. The rise of forestry in the United States. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1908. ; Introduction: From a time practically contemporaneous with the first colonial settlements the problem of forest economics has been recognized and debated in the United States. The first colonial settlements were formed of men of almost every trade and profession, and it was then and there that they struck off into the forests from which they were to hew out their homes.