http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/79/joshua-c-feblowitz Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:44:05 -0400 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:44:05 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/126/breaking-the-cycle-violence-control-and-resistance-in-american-slave-narratives By Joshua C. Feblowitz - Yet Douglass’s conception of violence contains additional significance, offering the possibility for resistance and suggesting that those who lift themselves up from degradation and endure are less likely to be the victims of violence. The ubiquity and severity of violence in slavery is something that is represented in a great variety of slave narratives. Though many of these narratives served to promote awareness of the inherent brutality of slavery, this was not their only function; representations of violence also allowed slave narratives to evaluate how violence destroyed both master... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:55 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/126/breaking-the-cycle-violence-control-and-resistance-in-american-slave-narratives http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/124/confusing-the-wind-the-burj-khalifa-mother-nature-and-the-modern-skyscraper By Joshua C. Feblowitz - The Burj Khalifa is specially designed to conquer the wind, a goal that becomes more and more important as altitude increases. The building rises to the heavens in several separate stalks, which top out unevenly around the central spire. This somewhat odd-looking design deflects the wind around the structure and prevents it from forming organized whirlpools of air current, or vortices, that would rock the tower from side to side and could even damage the building. Even with this strategic design, the 206-story Burj Khalifa will still sway slowly back and forth by about 2 meters at the very top... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:18 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/124/confusing-the-wind-the-burj-khalifa-mother-nature-and-the-modern-skyscraper http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/115/once-there-were-two-towers-describing-tragedy-to-children-after-911 By Joshua C. Feblowitz - The attacks of September 11th have frequently been characterized as unimaginable, capable of inflicting confusion and emotional trauma beyond the scope of other historical events. On September 12th, 2001, N.R. Kleinfeld of the New York Times asserted plainly that the people of New York had “witnessed the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the unthinkable.”[1] Moreover, 9/11 has frequently been represented as a point of historical rupture, an event of extraordinary singularity. If society as a whole found the attacks traumatizing and unparalleled, then it follows that children would... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:52 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/115/once-there-were-two-towers-describing-tragedy-to-children-after-911 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/112/la-fin-dun-reve-french-newspaper-coverage-of-911 By Joshua C. Feblowitz - In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline of Le Monde reads simply “Nous sommes tous Américains” (We are all Americans).[1] Yet as early as September 13th, Le Monde began broaching criticism of American policy and scrutinizing the American response. Close readings of this rapidly changing stance reveal French resistance to a dominant US narrative of rigid moral dichotomy. On the whole, the opinions that appeared in Le Monde in the week following 9/11 trace a trajectory from cautious... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:03 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/112/la-fin-dun-reve-french-newspaper-coverage-of-911 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/107/controlling-the-weather-science-fiction-or-reality By Joshua C. Feblowitz - ... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:35 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/107/controlling-the-weather-science-fiction-or-reality http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman By Joshua C. Feblowitz - While creative interpretations of September 11th have taken on numerous and varied forms, no genre deals more transparently and explicitly with the themes of 9/11 than the superhero narrative. For decades, figures such as Superman, Batman, and Spiderman have been fighting evil and criminality in fictional worlds that re-imagine American society and offer clear and unequivocal ideas of justice. The fantastical stories of these superheroes generate frameworks within which endlessly complex social issues can be disentangled to reveal pure and didactic cultural ideals, collapsing moral shades of gray... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman