10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class for Hard Working Americans: Making Work Pay in the 21st Century

10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class for Hard Working Americans: Making Work Pay in the 21st Century, is a road map to restore the promise of the American dream, that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will be able to provide a good life for your family and a better life for your children. The steps proposed in this report are based on a simple idea: the great American middle class, the engine of the economy, is not built by accident -- we build a broad middle class by decisions we make together

The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Same Femme, Different Fate

Siblings Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti both lived during the Victorian era and wrote poetry which epitomizes the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Although they were related, these two poets were drastically different, and their differences are evident in their poetry. Dante Gabriel was infatuated with beautiful women and many of his poems express sexual desire, while Christina was intensely devoted to God and many of her poems provide moral instruction. However, these poets both make femme fatales the subjects of their poems “Body’s Beauty,” “The Card-Dealer,” “The World,” and “Babylon the Great.” This paper analyzes the different ways in which Dante Gabriel Rossetti uses the image of a dangerous, eroticized woman to symbolize the threat that the power of female beauty poses to a man\u27s life, while Christina Rossetti uses this image to symbolize the threat that worldly desires pose to a person\u27s eternal life

The International Criminal Court: Current Issues and Perspectives

The creation of a permanent international criminal court (ICC) has been seen as a desirable objective for a long time, but its implementation is hampered by controversy. Proponents of the court believe that the ICC has great potential to render justice in cases of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to deter the future perpetration of those crimes. Skeptics question the wisdom of placing the power to adjudicate highly politically charged cases into the hands of an international tribunal

Surface Lifshits tails for random quantum Hamiltonians

We consider Schr\"{o}dinger operators on $L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{d})\otimes L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{\ell})$ of the form $H_{\omega}~=~H_{\perp}\otimes I_{\parallel} + I_{\perp} \otimes {H_\parallel} + V_{\omega}$, where $H_{\perp}$ and $H_{\parallel}$ are Schr\"{o}dinger operators on $L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{d})$ and $L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{\ell})$ respectively, and $V_\omega(x,y)$ : = $\sum_{\xi \in {\mathbb Z}^{d}} \lambda_\xi(\omega) v(x - \xi, y)$, $x \in {\mathbb R}^d$, $y \in {\mathbb R}^\ell$, is a random 'surface potential'. We investigate the behavior of the integrated density of surface states of $H_{\omega}$ near the bottom of the spectrum and near internal band edges. The main result of the current paper is that, under suitable assumptions, the behavior of the integrated density of surface states of $H_{\omega}$ can be read off from the integrated density of states of a reduced Hamiltonian $H_{\perp}+W_{\omega}$ where $W_{\omega}$ is a quantum mechanical average of $V_{\omega}$ with respect to $y \in {\mathbb R}^\ell$. We are particularly interested in cases when $H_{\perp}$ is a magnetic Schr\"{o}dinger operator, but we also recover some of the results from [24] for non-magnetic $H_{\perp}$.Comment: 21 pages, typos correcte