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Die stil avontuur an evaluation of Hendrik Hofmeyr's song-cycle with an emphasis on the poetry of Elisabeth Eybers
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Forty-six opuses in Hofmeyr's oeuvre are either inspired by or set to Afrikaans texts. This is indicative of his love for the language and of the culture in which he feels most comfortable. Of these works, the Afrikaans song is the most predominant genre which spans his entire compositional career. However, only one cycle, Alleenstryd, has been the subject of extensive academic evaluation (Roos, 2000; May, 2003; Cupido, 2010). For the purposes of this dissertation, I have decided to investigate Die stil avontuur, a cycle based on seven poems by Elisabeth Eybers. Die stil avontuur, commissioned by Lina Spies in celebration of Eybers' ninetieth birthday traces, like Robert Schumann's Frauenlieben und -leben, the life of a woman from the first meeting of her beloved to his death. My motivation for selecting this cycle as the subject for my study, besides considering it a high-point in both Hofmeyr's oeuvre and South African song, is one of identifying a number of correlations between Eybers and Hofmeyr. Both being recipients of international awards for their respective arts, they also both left their birth country in self-imposed exile. Another aspect common to both artists is their struggle to reconcile aspects of their upbringing with their arts
Dr. Jared Diamond - Pulitzer-Prize Winner and Author of Collapse
No full textJared Diamond is universally regarded as one of the great minds of our time. His Pulitzer-Prize winning book, Guns, Germs and Steel, has been a runaway best-seller, and the top selling science book on Amazon.com for five years running. Now,Collapse, his follow-up book has landed on the major best-sellers lists as well and is drawing critical reviews.
Currently a professor of Geography at UCLA, he is also the author of two other best-selling books, The Third Chimpanzee andWhy Is Sex Fun? He has received some of the most prestigious awards the world has to offer. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grant, the Conservation medals of the Zoological Society of San Diego (1993), the Carr Medal (1989), and Japan\u27s International Cosmos Prize (1998). In 1999, President Clinton bestowed the USA\u27s highest civilian award in science, The National Medal of Science, for Dr. Diamond\u27s landmark research and breakthrough discoveries in evolutionary Biology. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, in recognition of his tremendous contributions to the field of conservation biology.
The breadth of his interests and expertise is truly remarkable, ranging from environmental history through evolutionary biology to molecular physiology. With Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond explained the environmental and geographic reasons why certain human populations have flourished. In his newest book, Collapse, he uses these same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. The book was an instant best-seller and has drawn critical accolades on a par with, if not even better than, the landmark Guns, Germs and Steel. Dr. Diamond\u27s body of work has also been the subject of a PBS special: Great Minds of Science: Evolution.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The ruined cities, temples, and statues of history\u27s great, vanished societies (Easter Island, Anasazi, the Lowland Maya, Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe and many more) are the birthplace of endless romantic mysteries. But these disappearances offer more than idle conjecture: the social collapses were due in part to the types of environmental problems that beset us today.
Yet many societies facing similar problems do not collapse. What makes certain societies especially vulnerable? Why didn\u27t their leaders perceive and solve their environmental problems? What can we learn from their fates, and what can we do differently today to help us avoid their fates?
Guns, Germs and Steel
Dr. Jared Diamond\u27s blockbuster bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel won him a Pulitzer Prize and a place as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. His lecture of the same name takes audiences on an intellectual odyssey that challenges our assumptions about the rise and fall of civilizations. Dr. Diamond asks and answers a very simple question: Why did Europeans and Asians conquer the indigenous peoples of Africa, the New World, Australia and the South Pacific, instead of being conquered themselves?
The answer touches on technology, genetics, genocide, zebras, pestilence, weather, geography, and luck. It also unconditionally refutes racist dogma that claims biological superiority for Eurasians. Geographical accidents, not intelligence, seem to be the reasons for Eurasia\u27s success. Audiences will walk away with profound insights into how we got where we are and what this may mean for where we are going. Entering an intellectual maelstrom, they will be discussing and debating these ideas for months to come.
Globalization: For Better or For Worse
Until September 11th of 2001, we equated globalization mostly with \u27us\u27 sending \u27them\u27 our modern accomplishments: the Internet and Coca-Cola. Now, we are painfully aware of the unpredictable and reciprocal nature of global contact: AIDS, terrorism, unstoppable illegal immigration and diabetes epidemics. What will globalization really bring the world, and how can we minimize its negative impact while continuing to benefit from the advantages of shared cultures and resources?
Globalization means that remote societies can no longer collapse without influencing the rest of the world (as with Easter Island and the Anasazi societies of many centuries ago,) and we are the first society in history with the chance to develop using a comprehensive contemporary and historical understanding of our collective path.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1055/thumbnail.jp
The Oakland Post 2008-06-11
No full textBon Appetit: What where and how students eat ; THIS WEEK 6.11.08 ; STAFF EDITORIAL Feed the people not our vehicles ; Student Congress wants your ideas: Steve Clark's office has some left-over money to spend for students ; Deferred payment allocated ; After giving $1.1 million back to OU students; board of trustees passes project to spend more of the deferred state appropriations ; OU student author waxes philosophical: Aleksey Bashtavenko's new book seeks the path to finding the meaning of life ; LGBT mentor program offers help to new students ; Rhetoric to offer new BA in writing ; POLICE FILES ; Obama visits Troy High ; Presidential candidate talks about job loss and tuition increases ; Local eateries offer sensible menu selections ; Don't panic - it's organic: Organic foods are becoming a choice among many consumers ; Brain food helps minds stay hungry to learn ; SPECIAL ORIENTATION INSERT CAMPUSQUEST ; Park it; walk it; deal with it ; What is the worst thing you have ever eaten? ; Food pyramid schemes: To reach peak performance; Grizzlies meticulously craft diet plans ; MENU OF CHAMPIONS ; Baseball season ends in sorrow: Grizzlies drop nine of ten to finish a disappointing spring COLUMN ; Solo record-breakers highlight track finale ; Make the best of bar night ; Tired of the same old dank pit? The Post advises you on the best area sports bars; where everybody knows your name ; POST UP ; Screaming for ice cream? ; Competition heats up on 'Iron Chef' spin-offs ; TUNE IN ; Makimoto serves up sushi ; Red Wings' cup celebration a parade of unintended laughs ; I am saving up for a hamburger ; Wild weather hits the Midwest ; N W BRIEFS ; Lord Stanley comes back to Hockeytown ; Saudi Arabia calls for summit on rising energy costs ; Clinton bows ou
The UK's Response to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
No full textFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair described the UK’s response to the Rwandan genocide as “We knew. We failed to act. We were responsible”; this thesis sets out to explore these three claims. The thesis, which draws on newspaper archives, oral history interviews and government documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act, as well as British and US official documents already made public, begins by exploring Britain’s knowledge and understanding of events in Rwanda in the build-up to, and during the first few weeks of, the genocide. It then moves on to review how the government responded and, by drawing on various theories of bystander intervention, to build up a multi-factor assessment of what influenced that response. The thesis finishes by addressing the question whether the British government, or indeed any other British foreign policy actor, bears responsibility for the crisis. It therefore looks at the Rwandan crisis from the perspective of various influences on foreign policy: the media, public opinion, Parliament and NGOs, as well as exploring the response of John Major’s government. The thesis concludes that media coverage of the genocide led to a significant misunderstanding of the crisis; this misunderstanding influenced the public response and shaped discussion within Parliament and government. In terms of official response, whilst it has to be acknowledged that the government initially failed to correctly identify the events in Rwanda as genocide and consequently delayed their response until the majority of killings had ended, the thesis shows that rather than failing to act the British government was in fact a leading aid donor to Rwanda and a leading provider of troops to the UN peacekeeping mission serving in Rwanda. This aid did come too late to prevent or halt the genocide, but did save many thousands of lives in the immediate aftermath
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
