Ed t mcdonnell biography sample

  • Producer Ed McDonnell discusses his wide-ranging career and his role as judge for our inaugural screenwriting contest, The TITAN Awards.
  • McDonnell, BSBA '59, HDCS '84, has lived and worked in London, Brazil, and Asia.
  • Professor Thomas M. McDonnell is an expert in international law, and the author of The United States, International Law and the Struggle against Terrorism.

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    J. E. Macdonnell

    Australian writer

    J. E. Macdonnell

    BornJames Edmond Macdonnell
    (1917-11-03)3 November 1917
    Mackay, Queensland, Australia
    Died13 September 2002(2002-09-13) (aged 84)
    Buderim, Queensland, Australia
    Pen nameJames Edmond Macdonnell, James Macdonnell, J.E.M., Jim Macdonnell, J. Macdonnell, Macnell, James Macnell, James Unilluminated, Kerry Stargazer, Michael Owen.
    NationalityAustralian
    Period1942–1989
    GenreFiction
    SpouseValerie (1956–2002)
    Children3

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    Professor Thomas M. McDonnell is an expert in international law, and the author of The United States, International Law and the Struggle against Terrorism (Routledge, hard copy 2009; revised paperback ed. 2011). His book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the U.S. responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing the actions taken by the Bush and Obama administrations during the so-called "War on Terrorism" and their compliance with international law. Professor McDonnell highlights specific topics of legal interest including torture, extra-judicial detentions, targeted-killing-drone strikes, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and examines them against the backdrop of terrorist movements that have plagued Britain and Russia. The book extrapolates from the actions of the U.S., going on to look at the difficulties all modern democracies face in trying to combat international terrorism. Listen to Professor McDonnell talk about his book.

    Professor McDonnell has written scholarly articles on international law, international human rights law, international refugee law, lawyering, and legal writing and research. He was the principal author of an amicus curiae brief to the New York Court of Appeals on a right to counsel issue. Professor McDonnell teaches International

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    Dr. Toon: From Whence We Came

    My envy of the past two generations is boundless. When, someday in the future, they field questions about the cartoons they grew up with, they will have their memories of cable and satellite television to draw upon. Thousands of animated cartoons that never saw a moment on a theater screen have come and gone since the mid-1980s. These beneficiaries of the TV animation explosion are already writing books and blogs about their old faves. The animation meme was transmitted unto them not in faded driblets but in digital torrents.

    Speaking of torrents, the generations of which I speak have had (for the most part) the resources of the Internet available. Not only do they have beloved favorites, there are websites, blogs, and wikis dedicated to these shows. Even if a second-rate cartoon such as BraveStarr was your cup of sarsaparilla, your mouse could click up every episode or obtain detailed minutae about Thirty-Thirty, B.J, or Deputy Fuss. Need I even mention the VHS and DVD permutations of entire animated seasons.

    It was not always this way. Time was when the animation meme doddered along on its analog belly, a blind little mole seeking the loam of some – any – receptive young mind. It is the province of the critics to pay tribute to those t