Call the airwaves but thank you so much for joining us today and a very special welcome to our guests, assistant secretary and peaceful Deputy Assistant secretary for the Global Public affairs bureau. We are honored to have them here today. Special welcome to our commissioners the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy and vice chairman and commissioner. Today as you know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission we have called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the newly formed gpa and where it sits in state Department Vision for public democracy Going Forward for the 21st century. As the executive director it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the microphone over to my colleagues are opening comments i want to tell you about how things will go today. Mr. Farah will give us brief comments and then turn it over to our passable speakers and they will speak in the tech Team Formation and at the end of their presentation we will be happy to take your questions an
Professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid20th century Oil Interests. He describes the expansion of he describes the east Texas Oil Boom and the expansion of u. S. Oil businesses abroad to places like saudi arabia and alberta, canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. In 1941, it was famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940
Legislative power that is addressed in article section 1 from the election of senators in article 1 section 3. And again in smiley that made clear that the meaning, as this court reiterated just last week in yates, that the meaning of a term in an enactment may differ depending on the function that the term is serving. Now youre going to the statute. But just under the constitution youre saying the legislature in the first article of section 3, the now repealed section that talks about choosing senators means Something Different than it means in the following section. As this court explained in smith versus hawk, which was an article 5 question of the meaning of the word legislature for purposes of ratification. In smith versus hawk, this court said that in the article 1 section 3 election of senators by the legislature and in article 5 the ratification power, what was at issue was a power that is the power to elect and the power to ratify that specifically comported with the elected r
Have you ever pondered the intricate dance between society and technology, and what unfolds at the apex of their interaction? The world is hurtling forward, propelled by the relentless march of innovation. As we embrace the future, it encourages us to examine the profound changes that occur when technology advances. What does it take place