HSU Faculty Scholarshiphttp://hdl.handle.net/2148/2432024-03-28T20:09:38Z2024-03-28T20:09:38ZNgô Kha, Vietnam’s Civil Wars, and the Need for ForgivenessSchafer, John C.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2078142019-01-29T11:02:38Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZNgô Kha, Vietnam’s Civil Wars, and the Need for Forgiveness
Schafer, John C.
This article describes Ngô Kha, a teacher, poet, army officer, and anti-government activist from Huế who was seized by undercover policemen in February, 1973, and never seen again. It describes his teaching, writing, friendship with Trịnh Công Sơn, and his antiwar activities, including his participation in a breakaway unit of the Saigon army that fought Nguyễn Cao Kỳ’s forces in 1966. It highlights the sadness of Vietnam’s civil wars and the difficulty, in reconstructing wartime events, of finding unbiased sources. It concludes by proposing that “pure forgiveness,” discussed by the Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, may be the only way to end perpetual war.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZSex, Time and Power: How Women Sexuality Shaped Human EvolutionShlain, Leonardhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1800062016-10-27T22:38:56Z2004-02-01T00:00:00ZSex, Time and Power: How Women Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Shlain, Leonard
Leonard Shlain is the Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. He is also the author of several critically acclaimed, award-winning books. Art & Physics: Parallel Vision in Space, Time, and Light, (HarperCollins) published in 1991, is presently used as a textbook in many art schools and universities. It has also been translated into foreign languages. The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, was published by Viking in hardcover in 1998 and within weeks was on the national bestseller list. Penguin distributed his book internationally in 1999 and it is now available in paperback. The Washington Post called it “Bold and fascinating,” George Steiner in the London Observer wrote that it was “Provocative and innovative.” The New York Times’ Idea Section discussed his thought provoking theory. David Gergen interviewed Dr. Shlain for the Jim Lehrer News Hour and Frank Stasio did the same for National NPR.
Professor Tom Gage speaks with Leonard Shalin, February, 2004 @ HSU.
2004-02-01T00:00:00ZThe Alphabet Versus the GoddessShlain, Leonardhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1800052016-10-27T22:29:26Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Shlain, Leonard
Professor Tom Gage talks with Dr. Leonard Shlain at HSU.
In the bestselling book, 'The Alphabet Versus The Goddess', Leonard Shlain proposes that the invention of writing, particularly alphabetic writing, rewired the brains of the people who learned how to communicate using the culture-changing tool Great benefits to society followed. However, a precipitous decline in feminine values manifested by women’s status, goddess veneration, nature, and representative art occurred in tandem. For example, the European witch hunts followed closely in the heels of the printing press. The return of the image in the modern age through the medium of photography, film, television, and the internet have brought about a sharp rise in the values denigrated during the 5000 year reign of patriarchy and literacy.
2002-01-01T00:00:00ZBlack bear damage to regenerating conifers in northwestern CaliforniaFulgham, K.O. (Kenneth)Hosack, Dennis A.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1768922016-09-13T14:51:21Z1993-02-01T00:00:00ZBlack bear damage to regenerating conifers in northwestern California
Fulgham, K.O. (Kenneth); Hosack, Dennis A.
Damage by black bear (Ursus americanus) to second-growth coniferous trees was examined on fourteen sites in coastal Humboldt County, CA. Four different coniferous species were damaged by bears; redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) was the species most often damaged. Redwood was damaged in significantly (P < 0.05) greater proportions than it was available on eight of 13 sites investigated. Bear damage ranged from 4.2 ± 2.2 to 72.5 ± 8.2 trees per hectare (x ± SE).
On six of seven sites, damaged redwoods had a significantly (P < 0.05) larger mean diameter at breast height (dbh) than did the nearest undamaged redwood tree. On nine of 13 sites, the dbh of damaged redwoods was significantly (P < 0.05) larger than the mean dbh of redwoods on the site. Significantly (P < 0.05) more damaged trees were observed near roads or trails than were expected (based on the forest as a whole). There was a significantly (P < 0.05) greater number of trees damaged in the 76-100% girdled category than were expected. Average annual increment of bear damage ranged from 0.3 to 23.5 trees per hectare. The mean annual increment of damage was 6.0 ± 2.2 trees per hectare (x ± SE).
The yield loss due to bear damage was estimated using a redwood growth simulation model. Percentage of yield lost ranged from 0.5% to 54.3%, with a mean percentage loss of 21.4% ± 5.0 (x ± SE).
Nine sites between the age of 59-61 were surveyed to ascertain the damage present on near-rotation age stands. The mean number of bear damaged trees per hectare was 15.9 ± 3.6 (x ± SE). On all nine sites, greater than 93% of all damaged trees were redwoods.
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