In this thesis, I investigate the influence of the pro-Israel lobby, as a means of assessing more generally the role of interest groups in shaping American public policy, and whether the so-called “lobbies that can’t be beat” are truly unassailable. First, I probe the prevailing treatise on pro-Israel lobby influence, which portrays the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the ne...

This paper uses Thomas King’s novel Green Grass, Running Water (1994) to examine the contact between two cultures in Canada; culture of Indigenous people and white settlers. Taking postcolonial studies as its framework, this relies on works written by critics such Stephen Slemon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, others, analysis transcultural space which King creates his no...

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 214, Issue 8 p. 350-354.e1 Perspectives Vaccinations in patients with multiple sclerosis: review and recommendations Cassie Nesbitt, Corresponding Author Nesbitt [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-5895-3459 Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC Monash University, Correspondence [email protected] for more papers by this authorLouise Rath, Louise Ra...

Stephen Toulmin once observed that ‘it has never been customary for philosophers to pay much attention to the rhetoric of mathematical debate’ (Toulmin & al., 1979, p. 89). Might the application of Toulmin’s layout of arguments to mathematics remedy this oversight? Toulmin’s critics fault the layout as requiring so much abstraction as to permit incompatible reconstructions. Mathematical proofs ...