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Matt Flannery: Kiva Co-Founder and Social Entrepreneur

Learn about Matt Flannery, co-founder of Kiva and co-founder and CEO of Branch International, including Kiva’s origin, crowdfunding model, financial inclusion, fintech, and lessons in social entrepreneurship.

Arsalan

May 26, 2022September 7, 2026

Business and Finance

David Lurie in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Character Analysis, Themes, and Transformation

David Lurie, the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 novel Disgrace, is designed to resist easy moral classification. He begins as a 52-year-old university professor in Cape Town who is articulate, cultivated, and highly skilled at turning his own desires into intellectual explanations. When a coercive sexual relationship with a student destroys his academic career, he […]

Arsalan

May 26, 2022September 7, 2026

English

company of wolves and little red cap girl

Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” vs. Grimm’s “Little Red-Cap”: A Comparison

Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” and the Brothers Grimm’s “Little Red-Cap” begin from the same fairy-tale skeleton: a young girl enters a forest, encounters a wolf, and arrives at her grandmother’s house under threat. Yet the two stories use that structure for very different purposes. Grimm’s tale is built around innocence, obedience, danger, and […]

Arsalan

November 18, 2021September 7, 2026

English

Jesus, the Rejected Prophet: The Gospel According to Luke

Explore Luke 4:16–30 and how the Gospel presents Jesus through prophetic imagery, including Isaiah, Elijah and Elisha, mission, mercy, rejection, and fulfillment.

Arsalan

November 18, 2021September 7, 2026

Religion

Gramsci Develop Cox's Account of Hegemony

How Does Robert Cox Develop Gramsci’s Account of Hegemony?

The relationship between Antonio Gramsci and Robert W. Cox is sometimes described backwards. Gramsci died in 1937, decades before Cox developed his critical approach to international relations. The historically accurate question is therefore how Cox develops and internationalizes Gramsci’s account of hegemony, not how Gramsci develops Cox. The existing focus phrase, “How Does Gramsci Develop […]

Arsalan

November 18, 2021September 7, 2026

History

Plato and Aristotle: Views of Government

Plato and Aristotle are often taught together because they shaped the foundations of Western political philosophy, but their views of government are not interchangeable. Both ask what political life is for and what kind of community allows human beings to live well. They agree that politics has a moral purpose, that education matters, and that […]

Arsalan

November 17, 2021September 7, 2026

English