Tuesday, October 07, 2008

random points

  • "basket case" symptoms = war, disease, famine (Source: Time magazine)
  • South Africa = largest economy in the African continent (Time)
  • Prosperity theology =
    "God will make a way for poor people to enjoy the better things in life" (Time)
    "Adherents will reap rewards if they prove their faith to God by contributing heavily to their churches, remaining mentally and verbally upbeat and concentrating on divine promises of worldly bounty supposedly strewn throughout the Bible." (Time)
  • complex emergencies = e.g. civil war, ethnic strife, terrorism, etc.

DS 100

1. "unholy alliance" 2. power and control 3. development 4. value-free Social Science 5. social situatedness when the DS Program w...