Wayne Moses Burke

I actually accomplished something to day. That’s not to say that I don’t accomplish something every day, but let’s be honest – fewer are the days that accomplishment feels like accomplishment than those that it drifts by as if nothing happened. Today wasn’t like that. Today, I can look back, see the accomplishments, and consider [...]

And so it begins anew… I have begun working on the Capstone project again – I’m finally ready to finish assembling it for final submittal to the Center for Global Affairs, create and make the video of our final presentation publicly available, and put the whole thing up on the web in a more user-friendly [...]

I’ve been having a hard time recently, but I think I’ve figured it out. I’ve been having a terrible case of writer’s block, and even research block, to coin a term, and I think it’s due to the nature of the subject that I’m working on. As I referred to in a previous post, I [...]

We have made an advance in our understanding of the capstone project this week. Danny and Patrick in researching economic development (one of our four original goals for the international system) realized that what we are attempting to describe is sustainable development. The definition for sustainable development has not been defined quite in the way [...]

If it is, as certainly seems to be the case, the public’s responsibility to stake out their freedoms, lay claim to them, demand them, and not take ‘no’ for an answer; then how do we engender that desire in the heart and soul of each individual? As I study the responsibilities of civil society in [...]

Capstone Proposal It has occurred to me that I never posted this prior to now and that it is critical to the focus of my work this semester. This is the proposal that we submitted for our Capstone project at the end of January. While our focus has changed slightly as we have researched, it [...]

And so it begins. It seems that the capstone project is about to fully take on a life of its own. This is an historic moment, whether or not we stop to realize it. Perhaps that history will only be pertinent to those of us directly involved, but the feeling, for me at least, is [...]