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		<title>Setting Gerrymanders Straight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you live in a big-city suburb, and it’s a state election day. When you head out to vote and you wave to your next-door neighbor who’s doing the same, you probably assume that they’re voting in the same election as you. In truth, they probably are. But thanks to partisan-based redistricting laws, they might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=157&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook: Not Just a Social Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after deactivating my Facebook account in November 2010, I asked my sister why she uses the site. “I use it to keep in touch with people,” she said. This is how most of the 600 million people registered with Facebook use it: to communicate. In their efforts to keep in touch with others through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=154&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Rid of Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/get-rid-of-partisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if there were no political parties in government. John Lennon said that. Alright, he didn’t. But what if? “It’ll never happen,” you say. And you’re probably right. So does that make it crazy? Without party affiliations, our representatives would be more genuine and our country would run in tandem with the combined interests of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=151&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Cut ObamaCare?</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/why-cut-obamacare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do young adults need health insurance? Come on. We’re in college—we could eat plastic bags and still be healthy. This is how most young adults think, and it’s one reason why people aged 19 to 29 represent a third of the uninsured in the United States. The other, much bigger reason is that we can’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=148&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Not) Rocking the Vote</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/not-rocking-the-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latinos for Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought the Tea Party’s two-year-long barrage of government criticism without viable alternatives has been counterproductive, you haven’t seen anything yet. “Latinos for Reform,” a 527-political group run by a former director of Hispanic affairs for the Republican National Committee, is urging Latinos not to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. That’s right — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=141&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy on sale to the highest bidder</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/democracy-on-sale-to-the-highest-bidder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Midterm Elections approaching, an interesting contradiction appears between Americans’ idealization of democracy and the rapidly changing way in which it is run. Democrats and Republicans alike want a government free from corruption and conspiracy, but this very government is allowing fair representation to crumble underneath the weight of a corporate beast. In January [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=142&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa: A New Frontier?</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/africa-a-new-frontier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abolitionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary debates surrounding British anti-slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries focus on shifting perceptions of the institution in the West Indies and the slave trade.  What little information was available to Britons not involved in trans-Atlantic commerce dealt with slave life in the colonies and the means by which they got there.  Details [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=138&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Jefferson: Above All, a Patriot</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/thomas-jefferson-above-all-a-patriot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American slavery appears in most discourse today as a consequence of its time.  We view racial subjection in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries as a byproduct of colonial expansion and proliferation.  While this view does not justify the bondage of African Americans, it does help explain it, and it downplays the gratuitousness of slavery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=134&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness in the New World</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/happiness-in-the-new-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leonora Sansay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Thomas Jefferson wrote his first draft of the Declaration of Independence, he likely thought of including “happiness” alongside life, liberty, and the other rights of man for whose suppression he claims King George III is wholly responsible. But the draft he submitted to Congress states only the pursuit of happiness as a human birthright.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=132&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Righting the wrong in Greek mythology</title>
		<link>http://aricomart.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/righting-the-wrong-in-greek-mythology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aeschylus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clytemnestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elektra]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hephaestus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iliad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libation Bearers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orestes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As contemporary readers of mythology endeavor to draw ties between ancient Greek literature and their own cultures, perhaps the most important tool is personal identification.  When a present day reader can identify with a theme or notion in an ancient work, he or she is then better able to interpret the work and identify its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aricomart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6855427&amp;post=124&amp;subd=aricomart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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