Oakland Journal Number 03: Fall 2001
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Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Examining the lives of Christian missionaries, some of whom were caught up in the Boxer movement, and their impact in an extremely sensitive part of China, the Muslim northwest. -
In Xanadu I Had Such Friends: Teaching the Literature of Anticipation
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Teaching the poetry, drama, film, and fiction of old age presents a unique set of difficulties and opportunities subsumed in the phrase “teaching the literature of anticipation.” -
Remembering A Wartime (1944) USO Hospital Tour
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Letters written to family by Evelyn Thomas during a USO-sponsored national six-week tour of military hospitals during World War II. -
A Sufi Movement in Modern Bangladesh
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Recollections of a Sufi movement is Bangladesh in the 1960s. -
On Hamlet: A Symposium in Print
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)A conversation about the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
Interminability and Overdoing in Teaching Hamlet: An Exchange of Views between Niels Herold and Joe Kelty
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Continuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
“The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time” A Study of Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Continuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
And This the Latest!
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Continuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
Forum: What’s Good for the University?
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Perspectives on the future direction and needs of Oakland University. -
Is Science A Religion?
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Science and religion have been in conflict for hundreds of years as each claims domain over similar territory. -
The Soda Pop Monopoly, Or How I Learned to Love Pepsi: Observations from the Dismal Science
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Ask the Professor: Especially One Who Knows the Answer
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Isaac Newton’s stunning success, the theory of gravity, seemed disturbing to many contemporaries; it required one to accept that heavenly bodies could act on one another at a distance with nothing intervening. To some, ... -
Presidential Searches - Survivor Style!
(Oakland University, 2001-10-01)The next time YOUR university needs a new president, how will you search for the perfect candidate? Just take a page from today’s popular culture and create the “Presidential Survivor” program. That is what Sinistral ...