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Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Vincent and the Grenadines Conference. It covers all aspects of education and training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines including: Academic achievement,economics of education, educational infrastructure, literacy and mathematics education
Norman Vincent Peale portrait
No full textPortrait of author and minister Norman Vincent Peale, ca. 1984. Peale was born on May 31, 1898, in Bowersville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and became one of the most influential ministers of the twentieth century, known for his dynamic and energetic sermons. He preached an optimistic message that many Americans accepted during such trying events as the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement. His sermons were broadcast on the radio and shown on television all across the United States. Peale also published forty-six books, his most popular being "The Power of Positive Thinking.
Ecce homo. Social classes
No full textDirected by Louis-Roland Leduc ; written by Claire Frémont ; produced by Vincent Leduc ; produced by Productions Coscient Inc. Narrator, George Morris ; guests: Craig Calhoun, François Dubet, Michel Guay, Jan Pakulski. Directors of photography, Marc Gadoury, Stéphane Ricard ; editor, Marie-Claude Bourdon ; music, Pascal Mailloux.Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, executives, laborers, and others of the stratified modern world, this program examines how each era has organized its members into social classes. Although the opportunistic meritocracy of the global marketplace has displaced earlier societal models, do older patterns of privilege still linger
François Vincent
No full textGrandbois introduces Vincent's paintings and prints from 1992 to 1998, analysing the artist's main source of inspiration - the body - while describing his use of the three studios he frequents. Includes a text by Vincent on humour in art. Texts in English, French and Japanese. Biographical notes on artist and author
Kara Gust interviews author Jeff Vande Zande
No full textAuthor Jeff Vande Zande talks about teaching and writing, poems vs. short stories, developing characters in his stories based on his personal experience, and his current projects. Vande Zande is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series
Histoire de l'épreuve sur dossier par Jean Leduc
No full textDans un article publié dans les Cahiers d'Histoire immédiate (2010), Jean Leduc propose de revenir sur l'histoire de l'épreuve sur dossier (ESD) à laquelle il a contribué pour l'histoire géographie avant d'en retracer le fonctionnement pour finir par évoquer la modification intervenue en décembre 2009
Histoire de l'épreuve sur dossier par Jean Leduc
No full textDans un article publié dans les Cahiers d'Histoire immédiate (2010), Jean Leduc propose de revenir sur l'histoire de l'épreuve sur dossier (ESD) à laquelle il a contribué pour l'histoire géographie avant d'en retracer le fonctionnement pour finir par évoquer la modification intervenue en décembre 2009
The changing role of the university : national aspects : speech [delivered at] Mount Saint Vincent University
No full textSpeech Mount Saint Vincent University by M.O. Morgan, The Changing Role of the University, National AspectsTitle from captio
Interview of author Rick Riordan
No full textRick Riordan, author of the "Tres Navarre" series of detective novels, talks about his teaching and writing careers, his life in San Antonio, and the need to write authentically about real places, people, language, culture, and history. He discusses his characters and the situations in which he places them, his own limits in writing about social injustice from which he has not suffered, but being familiar with life in San Antonio and the multicultural environment in the community. Riordan is also known for writing the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. Riordan is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Interview of author Walter Satterthwait
No full textWalter Satterthwait, author of a series of contemporary crime novels, talks about his protagonists Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon, and his novels set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Satterthwait describes how he came to writing crime stories and why he chose to use a Latina as a main character. He describes his exposure to different cultures, his childhood of frequent moves, how he came to writing, and how he developed his characters. Satterthwait is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
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