Romanticism and Nations

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Ever since about a month ago, I’ve had a kind of niggling little problem eating away at my thinking. At that time, I was discussion nationalism and the rule of law with my famous Northstar class. I asked the class about what they thought of the Geneva Conventions and the justifiability of war… basically asking if the idea of a “just war” philosophy or tradition is acceptable, since the validity of that idea is something the code outlined in the Geneva Conventions to some degree implies. One of the students got herself into what I thought was a conundrum. Except that …

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Matrix 2, Animatrix…

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Over the last couple of months I have not seen a lot of movies. I have been busy enough to actually miss, in the theater, several movies that I was actually interested in seeing. Perhaps the only movie I have managed to see in the theater in the last couple of months is the new Matrix: Reloaded sequel. However, one of my friends here has become a sort of movie dealer to me… he feeds me CD-ROMs with downloaded films on them, and I watch them. Among the many films he has thus made available to me was the Animatrix …

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Big Move

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Well, here’s the big news, for those of you who didn’t see a mass email from me: I have taken a department job over at Jeonju University. It begins at the end of August, so I will be on staff at Wonkwang until the mid-August holidays, and then I will begin over at Jeonju University at the end of August. For now, I’m just getting my head around the idea of the holidays I’ll be enjoying, and trying to make sure the paperwork gets done properly and quickly. It’s not a huge change, either financially or in terms of my …

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근 소식을 왔어요!

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요즈음 고드가 너무 빠빴지만 이 블록에 엄정 쓰고싶었어요. 시간이 없었어서 생각을만 했어요. 찻는 소식이: 고드와 여자친구는 해였어요. 다시 혼자야… 하지만, 새옹 지마: 이 주일에 소식이 왔어요… 8 월에 고드는 교수님 될거예요! 전주 대학교에 가요. 그래서 행복 하고 있조! 어렵는 것은 있지만 고드의 생월이 좋아요! 그리고 새로운 노래들이 만들었어요… 한 노래가 고드 공연에 노래 핼거예요! 이 노래 “Spiritwood” 이다… 공항 생각 하기 때문에 이 노래에서 Saskatchewan 생각을 있어요. 아이고. 오늘은 수영 했어서 힘들어요! 가요…

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