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Title: Free the Planet (FTP) Wind Turbine Petition
Description: Petition and cover letter, addressed to the trustees of Grinnell College, advocating the use of wind turbines as a source of clean, renewable energy.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:194

Title: Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize Award Ceremony, 2011, Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize Award Ceremony, 2011, Grinnell Prize Award Ceremony, 2011
Description: An edited recording of the award ceremony for the first Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:166

Title: Grinnell Identities
Description: This study was interesting to examine how identity is tied to place. Positioned in the minds of those that give it meaning, “sense of place issues in a stream of symbolically drawn particulars-the visible particulars of local topographies, the personal particulars of biographical associations, and the notional particulars of socially given systems of thought” (Basso 1996:144). In other words, movement within a landscape will assign meaning to different places in that area. Meaning arises from interactions with the landscape-whether it be oral traditions tied to places within a place or events that happen in a place within recent time. As identity develops around place, “without hegemony, means and meaning may never come together, landscape representation may never become a reality, and social conflict will be open as space remains contested” (Harner 2001:676) and power can be exerted through the naming of “geographical entities, most particularly over the way in which places, their inhabitants and their social functions get represented” (Harvey 1990:419).So, we began to shape our study with this in mind.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:50

Title: Haggling for Human Rights : the Paradox of Achieving Human Rights at the Cost of Peace, Paradox of Achieving Human Rights at the Cost of Peace
Description: Using Gambia as the location, the author explores the question of whether it is possible for Human rights organizations to work with/alongside authoritarian regimes to benefit the people in the country.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:174

Title: Managing the Faithful: The Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church, Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church
Description: Although economists in recent years have begun to apply economic theory to the activities of religious organizations, very few have ventured deeply into the realm of the Roman Catholic Church and almost none have considered the confluence between Internal Labor Market Theory and the promotional job ladder for ordained Catholic clergyman. This analysis explores the implications of the Catholic Church’s internal promotional ladder on its level of theological flexibility and hence its ability to adjust to changing market conditions. Specifically, by treating the Catholic Church as an organization subject to many of the same market forces as ordinary business firms, the research presented in this analysis shows how much of the “crisis” the church is confronting in the modern era—such as the rapid decline in the number of priests—can be explained by microeconomic structures that have developed over the past two millennia. At the broadest level, this analysis offers a new paradigm for viewing resistance to change in the church and provides a model for understanding the long-term implications of inflexibility on the viability of the church as an institution.
PID: grinnell:31983

Title: Mock Convention
Description: Photograph of the mock convention "Demonstration" during the Republican nominating session
PID: grinnell:4955

Title: Music and Metaphor: Legacies of Representation in Abstract Instrumental Music, Legacies of representation in abstract instrumental music
Description: Understanding why critics’ responses to Beethoven and to Schoenberg were so different lies in recognizing the commonality of the critics’ approaches.
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:114