Articles by Joshua R. Keefe

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Religion, Commodity, or Escape: Sports in Modern American Culture

October 27, 2009 - 1935 words | Anthropology » Sports

American sport has become far more than contests with rules played on fields, diamonds, or rinks. Our current conception of sport is more than just a ball moving between groups of athletes, or a struggle for a finish line, or an effort to impress judges, as various... Read Article »

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Sports Sports in American Culture Modern American Culture Sports Religion Sports Commodity

Redskin and All-American: Jim Thorpe's Malleable Symbolic Significance

October 26, 2009 - 2580 words | History » Baseball

In 1950 the Associated Press polled close to 400 sportswriters in order to name the greatest male and female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century. For the men, a crowded field of legends including Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Red Grange, George... Read Article »

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Jim Thorpe Sport Native Americans Olympics Football

Invasion of the Invaded: NAFTA and the Rise of Illegal Immigration

October 25, 2009 - 6069 words | Political Science » Nafta

On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement, the great neoliberal experiment that tested the economic waters of the post-cold war world went into effect, the southern Mexican state of Chiapas was under siege. They came from everywhere and nowhere... Read Article »

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Mexico Immigration NAFTA Illegal Immigration Invasion Of the Invaded North American Free Trade Agreement

The American Military and the Press: From Vietnam to Iraq

October 22, 2009 - 1947 words | Political Science » The Media

“News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else is just advertising.” This point is especially true in war journalism where every story, be it a heart-warming depiction of troops... Read Article »

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Iraq Vietnam Freedom Of the Press Military Censorship The Media

Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union

October 21, 2009 - 2472 words | History » Stalin

The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin consolidated his grip on power and was allowed to rule with impunity, instituting his “revolution from above” on the Soviet... Read Article »

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Joseph Stalin Stalin USSR Communism Soviet Union Industrialization Collectivism Collectivization

Joshua R. Keefe graduated in 2007 with a concentration in English from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.