Author Archives: Thomas Shane Lafferty

Thomas Lafferty Blog 5: Reflections

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Thomas Shane Lafferty

First of all, I genuinely enjoyed this course and Dr. Z’s teachings and teaching methods.  An important ethical lesson I learned as I am preparing to move on from my college career is to be careful of previously engraved beliefs.  … Continue reading →

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Soft Power and Globalization, takeaways from the Pockrass Lecture

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Thomas Shane Lafferty

One topic covered in Divya McMillin’s “Curing Taste: Lifestyle Television and the Globalizing Subject” lecture that I found very interesting is the concept of soft power (2013). She went by Joseph Nye’s definition of soft power as, “the ability to … Continue reading →

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Thomas Lafferty: Blog 1 – This I Believe…

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Thomas Shane Lafferty

You got time to lean you got time to clean. That was one of the favorite motivational quotes by my managers at Leo’s Steak Shop. I started there when I was 14, a freshman in high school, and not nearly … Continue reading →

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