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Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US relations with Taiwan and on the confirmation of Leonard Woodcock as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
No full textSenate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. relations with Taiwan and on the confirmation of Leonard Woodcock as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. A compilation of the complete hearing conducted on February 5, 6, and 7. With the voices of Edwin K. Snyder, Robert Scalapino, Ray S. Cline, A. Doak Barnett, Senator Frank Church (D-ID), Senator Charles Percy (R-IL), Senator Richard Stone (D-FL), Senator George McGovern (D-SD), Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY), Senator Don Riegle (D-MI), and Leonard Woodcock
Jacob Viner’s Reminiscences from the New Deal (February 11, 1953)
Get PDFThis paper presents and reproduces an unpublished oral history interview given by Jacob Viner in 1953. The interview released by Viner for the Columbia Oral History Project gives us a valuable opportunity to throw light on his advisory activity during the New Deal Era. In our introduction we attempt to make a critical appraisal of Viner's reminiscences and to state the contribution they can provide to our general knowledge of the period. In addition, we also attempt to find out some biographical and interpretative elements useful to understand Viner’s own vision and his contribution to important economic policy processes during the New Deal.
1884 Acts of Synod (original Dutch)
No full textGrand Rapids, MI: Lammert J. Hulst, president; Leonard Rietdijk, vice-president; Gerrit K. Hemkes, first clerk; Jacob Noordewier, second cler
1879 General Assembly Minutes
Get PDFChicago, IL: Leonard Rietdijk, president; Gerrit K. Hemkes, vice president; Jacob Noordewier, first clerk; Geert H. Hoeksema, second cler
1884 Acts of Synod (English translation)
No full textGrand Rapids, MI: Lammert J. Hulst, president; Leonard Rietdijk, vice-president; Gerrit K. Hemkes, first clerk; Jacob Noordewier, second cler
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
Get PDFThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
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The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, the the Fall of the Founders\u27 Constitution, 1780s-1830s
No full textThis article is a forum on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell\u27s The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders\u27 Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN 978-1-107-02416-8
Roundtable Contents: Introduction by Matthew Crow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Review by Katlyn Marie Carter, University of Notre Dame Review by Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Review by Jessica K. Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law Review by Stephen J. Rockwell, St. Joseph\u27s University Author\u27s Response by Saul Cornell, Fordham University Author\u27s Response by Gerald Leonard, Boston Universit
The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, the the Fall of the Founders\u27 Constitution, 1780s-1830s
Get PDFThis article is a forum on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell\u27s The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders\u27 Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN 978-1-107-02416-8
Roundtable Contents: Introduction by Matthew Crow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Review by Katlyn Marie Carter, University of Notre Dame Review by Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Review by Jessica K. Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law Review by Stephen J. Rockwell, St. Joseph\u27s University Author\u27s Response by Saul Cornell, Fordham University Author\u27s Response by Gerald Leonard, Boston Universit
Balanced Leonard pairs
No full textAbstractLet K denote a field, and let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension. By a Leonard pair on V we mean an ordered pair of linear transformations A:V→V and A∗:V→V that satisfy the following two conditions:(i)There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing A∗ is diagonal.(ii)There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A∗ is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing A is diagonal.Let v0∗,v1∗,…,vd∗ (respectively v0,v1,…,vd) denote a basis for V that satisfies (i) (respectively (ii)). For 0⩽i⩽d, let ai denote the coefficient of vi∗, when we write Avi∗ as a linear combination of v0∗,v1∗,…,vd∗, and let ai∗ denote the coefficient of vi, when we write A∗vi as a linear combination of v0,v1,…,vd.In this paper we show a0=ad if and only if a0∗=ad∗. Moreover we show that for d⩾1 the following are equivalent; (i) a0=ad and a1=ad−1; (ii) a0∗=ad∗ and a1∗=ad-1∗; (iii) ai=ad−i and ai∗=ad-i∗ for 0⩽i⩽d. These give a proof of a conjecture by the second author. We say A, A∗ is balanced whenever ai=ad−i and ai∗=ad-i∗ for 0⩽i⩽d. We say A,A∗ is essentially bipartite (respectively essentially dual bipartite) whenever ai (respectively ai∗) is independent of i for 0⩽i⩽d. Observe that if A, A∗ is essentially bipartite or dual bipartite, then A, A∗ is balanced. For d≠2, we show that if A, A∗ is balanced then A, A∗ is essentially bipartite or dual bipartite
Jewish, Christian and Muslim Subjects in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen
No full textTato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na náboženské kontexty písňových textů židovského zpěváka, skladatele a autora Leonarda Cohena. První kapitola pojednává o společném jádru abrahamovské religiozity. Druhá kapitola je věnována rozboru Cohenovy tvorby. Cílem práce je přiblížit vliv křesťanských a muslimských motivů a poukázat na jejich vztah k motivům židovským.This bachelor thesis focuses on religious contexts in the lyrics of Jewish singer, songwriter and author Leonard Cohen. The first part deals with similarities between the spirituality of Abrahamic religions. The second part focuses on the analysis of Cohen's work. The aim of the thesis is to ascertain influences of Christian and Muslim motifs and point out their relationship to the Jewish subjects.Fakulta filozofickáObhajoba proběhla úspěšně.Dokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
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