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Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria quartet: influences shaping his fiction.
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Transforming witnesses to actors: 100+ men against domestic violence
No full textIn this master's thesis, I examine 100+ Men Against Domestic Violence, a training program that was offered to Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff in September 2008 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This training program was designed to educate and empower men to end domestic violence in their communities by utilizing the bystander intervention model which aims to change underlying social norms and attitudes that contribute to the problem of violence against women. Ten months following the training program, interviews were conducted with several men that attended the program in order to evaluate the program. Both the training program and the interviews will be examined in this paper.I will introduce the topic area of violence against women; provide theoretical frameworks in which to examine these issues; outline the 100+ Men Against Violence training program; present the evaluation of the program; and provide further deliberation on the implications of this research and suggestions for the future. This paper particularly focuses on bystander intervention, which is a major component of the 100+ Men Against Domestic Violence Program, in order to evaluate the efficacy of its principles as a primary prevention program.M.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-96)by Alexandria Sarah Dic
Minnesota hospitality industry expectations of graduates from the Hotel-Restaurant Management Program at the Alexandria Technical College
No full textPlan BThis study examined Minnesota Hospitality Industry expectations of graduates from the two-year Hotel-Restaurant Management Program (HRM) at Alexandria Technical College in Alexandria, Minnesota. The study investigated industry management perceptions of the general business, general education, and industry specific skills and personal traits needed by graduates as they leave college and accept entry-level management positions. A questionnaire was given to a sampling of Minnesota’s lodging and foodservice industry. The questionnaire addressed demographic data, importance of general education and industry specific skills, skills best learned in industry or in the college setting, and a prioritization of personal traits expected of graduates. It was found that the highest ranking skills were delivering quality customer service, employee relations, motivating employees, problem solving, managing diversity, planning and conducting training, interpersonal speaking, sanitation, and food and beverage controls. General business skills were most valued, with general education and technical skills following. Traits that ranked the highest included positive attitude, honesty, and hardworking. The skills perceived to be best learned on the job included delivering quality customer service, housekeeping management, facilities and maintenance management, front office management, and employee relations. Skills found to be best learned in the classroom included writing skills, computer skills, hospitality law, accounting, math, and public speaking. The HRM program should strongly consider analyzing its current curriculum to include study in these priority areas, with future studies conducted bi-annually
Omelas and Bensalem: Liberty and Utopias
No full textIs it possible for a society to be good without liberty? Bacon’s The New Atlantis and Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas both aid in exploring this important question.
Author information: Alexandria Putman is a Coastal Carolina University student from Tega Cay, S.C. She is a double major in political science and communication. Her research interests include public opinion and utopian political thought, as well as campaigns and elections. She is currently an Edgar Dyer Fellow, an undergraduate research assistant, and the captain of the mock trial team at CCU. Upon graduating, Alexandria hopes to attend graduate school to study political science with a focus on political behavior, public opinion and a minor in statistics and political theory
Syzygies in Philo of Alexandria
No full textThe article concerns the problems of “categorical interpretation” of matrimonial images of the Old Testament by Philo of Alexandria. The author proposes that Philo perceived female images as objectivated aspects of corresponding types of mind (represented by male images), draws parallels between this concept and the dialectic of emanation in Platonism, and proposes some analogies with Gnostic teaching about syzygies
Towards Effective and Sustainable Urban Parks in Alexandria
No full textAbstractUrban parks are now viewed as an important part of the urban and neighborhood development rather than just recreation and leisure facilities. They are oriented for multifunctional services. Besides, they play an important role in improving the environment and landscape conditions that result in green spaces which have become an essential part in cities due to their strategic importance for the quality of life. As the world's urban population increases, urban areas encounter new problems such as: uncontrolled use of resources, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, …… etc. To face these problems of urban areas, sustainable urban parks have become a significant urban planning policy and development approach.The city of Alexandria (Egypt) is rich with its urban parks such as Al Montazah Park, Al Shalalat Park and Antoniadis Park. However, the lack of coordination of physical planning activities within the city, has resulted into an unpleasant quality of the environment and decrease in the number of sustainable urban parks. Moreover, urban population has rapidly increased, thus the city of Alexandria has been enlarged and gradually human relations with nature have been damaged. For these reasons, people in Alexandria have lost the opportunity to come in contact with nature.The paper will discuss the causes of decreasing urban parks and its effects on people's health and the significant need to improve these spaces to develop the city and achieve sustainability. It will also highlight the important role of urban parks and their design strategies. It will analyze an international example which was transformed to provide a high quality of living environment presenting the suggested ways to create sustainable open spaces as an integrated part of a sustainable city. Finally, the paper will focus on developing Al Montazah urban park in Alexandria to achieve sustainability. The aim of the paper is to transform urban parks within the environment of Alexandria to improve and enhance the quality of life in order to reach a sustainable city
The first pogrom: Alexandria 38 CE
No full textThe first pogrom documented in history took place in Alexandria in the year 38 CE. The only document describing this event is an eyewitness account by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It is a problematic source because the concern of the author is largely theological and also because he fails to inform the reader about the causes of the violence. These causes must be sought in the combination of a growing tendency among Alexandrian intellectuals to depict Jews as criminal misanthropes, and the Jewish tendency to side with the Roman occupiers of Egypt.
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
No full textGiovanni Ruffini, in addition to editing this title, is a contributing author, “Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid,” pp. 241-257.
Book description: As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so reminiscent of some modern cities) add to the interest. The present volume contains the papers given at a conference at Columbia University in 2002 which attempted to lay some of the foundations for a new history of Alexandria by considering, in particular, its position between the traditions and life of Egypt on the one hand, and on the other the immigrants who came there from Greece and elsewhere in the wake of the founder Alexander of Macedon. -- Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/history-books/1019/thumbnail.jp
Arithmêtikê stoicheiôsis: On diophantus and hero of Alexandria
No full textTwo ancient mathematical works, cited in ancient sources as the “Preliminaries to the Arithmetic Elements” and the “Preliminaries to the Geometric Elements”—of which the former is no longer extant, while the latter is an alternative designation of the Definitions, now commonly attributed to Hero of Alexandria—are here argued to be companion works by the same author, namely Diophantus of Alexandria. This attribution has implications for the dating of Diophantus
Alexandria: A City and Myth
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Alexandria was one of the most important cities of the ancient world, with achievements in the arts, sciences and religion. For the first time the author seeks to understand the wider picture, the longer period of evolution as a city, as both an urban concept and a literary and historical ideal. He does this by bringing together the disciplines of archaeology (including his own recent fieldwork), anthropology, history, geography, oral history, art and literature. As a result Alexandria is seen as a unique example of African urbanism, an Egyptian city facing the wider Mediterranean world, which became an archetype for social, religious and cultural cosmopolitanism. A work for undergraduates and postgraduates in the disciplines of classical and Egyptian archaeology, historical geography, art history, oriental studies and general history
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