Acquiring "knowledge of our own continent": Geopolitics, Science and Jeffersonian Geography, 1783-1803

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Ex-US President Thomas Jefferson' had organized the Lewis and Clark expedition to gain geographical knowledge of North America's western interior and to advance United States' commercial interests in this region but had represented it as a scientific and "literary" enterprise to European officials. Jefferson's representation to European and domestic audiences of his motives for organizing the expedition and the methods of conducting geographical observations that he instructed the explorers to employ in his role as the President of America and as a man of letters is examined.

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Beyond Communitas: Cinematic food events and the negotiation of power, belonging, and exclusion

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Popular films are examined for brief, subtle but very resonant moments in which food functions to symbolize cultural and racial identity, negotiate power, exclusion and belonging. Two popular films My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Along Came Polly are discussed in this regard.

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''Where's the spinning wheel?'' Frank Sinatra and working-class alienation in Young at heart

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The alienation and disenfranchisement of working class in post-war America is portrayed through Frank Sinatra's performances. The bitter and alienated working class is featured through his masterpieces such as Young at Heart.

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