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Ola
No full text"When Olamaiileoti Monroe takes her seventy-five-year-old father, Finau, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, both are caught up in a search for udnerstanding of each other and the ties that bind them. Their story unfolds on an international stage--in Samoa, New Zealand, New York, and Israel--and opposes the modern selfishness of Ola to the moral complexity of Finau."--Back cover
Dr. F.S.J. Ledgister, CAU, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. F.S.J. Ledgister. Dr. Ledgister talks about his book, "Only West Indians: Creole Nationalism in the British West Indies". Ola Ijimayowa, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Dr. Abi Adegboye Awomolo, CAU, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Abi Adegboye Awomolo. Dr. Abi Awomolo talks about her book, "Wanna B Prez?: 10 Life Strategies From President Barack Obama's Journey to the White House". Ola Ijimayowa, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and catalytic activity of platinum(II) carbene complexes
Full text linkA novel platinum complex with 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-imidazol-2-ylidenyl ligand has been synthesized and characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, MS, H and C NMR spectroscopy, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. The XRD determination of the complex (monoclinic, C2/c) revealed a structure in which the platinum (II) centre coordinates two chlorides, a carbon atom of the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) and is stabilized by coordinating the nitrogen atom of a 3-chloropyridine molecule, forming an over-all square planar geometry. By prolonging the time of the reaction, it was possible to obtain the trans-dichloridobis(3-chloropyridine) platinum(II) complex under the same reaction conditions. The electronic and molecular properties of both complexes were investigated and compared by means of Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS), supported by numerical simulations. The platinum carbene complex obtained was tested in a series of C–H activation and hydrosilylation reactions
Sundown \u27Possum (As told to the author by Ola MAupin, Lillie Westmoreland, Maud Vincent and reiterated by Jack Maupin)
Full text linkSundown \u27Possum (As told to the author by Ola Maupin, Lillie Westmoreland, Maud Vincent and reiterated by Jack Maupin)
Mary Bursell Maupi
The blind spots of secularization
Full text linkAccording to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the particular Spanish case. This paper presents the background, methodology and major results of a discussion group-based study on antisemitism, which was conducted in Spain in the autumn of 2009. The study identifies and locates in different socio-economic and ideological milieus the range of stereotypical discourses on Jews, Judaism and the Arab–Israeli conflict in Spain. Analysis of the group meetings shows that, despite growing secularization in Spanish society, the central explanatory variable for persisting and resurging antisemitism in this country is still religion in a broad cultural sense.N
Albert Wendt como escritor pós-colonial : simbolismo, intertextualidade e a subversão de valores em Leaves of the Banyan Tree
No full textMestrado em Estudos InglesesO presente trabalho centra-se em algumas obras de Albert Wendt, escritor das ilhas de Samoa, pouquíssimo conhecido no nosso país mas que se aproxima cada vez mais dos horizontes literários Europeus. Como país já muito afamado pelas suas conquistas e descobrimentos, Portugal aproxima-se de todos os povos marcados pelo colonialismo, pelo menos num contexto teórico e comparativo. Albert Wendt esforça-se, através das suas obras, por dar a conhecer ao mundo todas as transformações sociais e culturais do povo de Samoa que vive agora no período pós-colonial. Ao analisar uma selecção das suas obras, pretendo fazer a correspondência entre a ficção e a realidade vivida pelo povo dessas ilhas numa perspectiva da área de estudos do pós-colonialismo. Muito embora abunde teoria relacionada com esta área de estudos, não se encontra ainda informação específica acerca de Albert Wendt em Porutgal. Como escritor contemporâneo que é, Wendt não está ainda academicamente divulgado entre nós, embora, de todos os escritores das micro-nações do Oceano Pacífico, seja o mais respeitado. Na presente dissertação, concentrei-me no seu romance Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979) fazendo uma análise próxima e, assim espero, exaustiva, e, com uma intenção comparativa, nos seus outros romances Sons for the Return Home (1973), Pouliuli (1980), Black Rainbow (1995), O/a (1995) e nas suas duas colectâneas de contos: Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1974), e The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man (1986). Existem muito poucas análises críticas das obras em questão tendo sido necessário uma leitura atenta e pormenorizada das mesmas. Contudo, julgo ter conseguido demonstrar as marcas de pós-colonialismo nestas obras, partindo de uma observação da presença do simbolismo, da intertextualidade e da subversão de valores.The author on whom this dissertation centres, Albert Wendt, comes from the islands of Samoa and, in spite of not being very well known in our country, he is slowly becoming a part of Europe's literary horizon. Portugal's colonial history, in turn, means that there are at least points of theoretical and comparative context with colonised peoples everywhere. Through his works, Albert Wendt strives to divulge the cultural and social changes brought to a postcolonial Samoa. By analysing a selection of his works, I hope to illuminate the postcolonial position of the Samoan people, as represented in Wendt's work. Even though there is no shortage of information related to the general issues at stake in this dissertation, specific knowledge of Wendt is not widely available in Portugal. As a contemporary author, Wendt isn't yet academically extended in Portugal, even though he is the most respected out of all the writers of the Pacific's micro-nations. In this thesis, I have concentrated on a close and, I hope, extensive reading of his novel Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979) and, for reasons of comparison, on his other novels Sons for the Return Home (1973), Pouliuli (1980), Black Rainbow (1995), Ola (1995) as well as both collections of short stories: Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1974) and The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man (1986). It became necessary to focus on a close reading of these works due to the lack of critical studies based on them. Nevertheless, I feel I have succeeded in demonstrating postcolonial features in these writings through the scrutinizing of their symbolism, intertextuality and subversion of traditional values
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A comparative analysis of Andre Gide's Oedipe and Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame, 2000
Full text linkAlthough there have been numerous and varied treatments of Oedipus throughout the ages, there is to date no detailed analytical study of myth based on Andre Gides Oedine and Ola Rotimis The Gods Are Not to Blame. This study is a critical analysis of these two dramatic texts, which have been reworked from fifth century Greek tragedy. The principal aim is to compare these two plays taken from different cultures, in an effort to show that they both have a common originSophocles Oedipus the King. Through this comparison, the author wishes to show that each playwright presents Oedipus as a classic, which transcends cultural boundaries, thus making Sophocles drama a classic work in world literature. The study is presented in four chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction, which deals with the origin of the Oedipus theme and some of the major writers who helped to popularize it. This chapter will also present references, theses and other critical works written on the plays in question. The second and third chapters deal with the plays of each playwright: Oedipe by Andre Gide and The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi. Each chapter will include a brief sketch of the authors life, a resume of the plays, and the development of major and minor characters. The fourth chapter will deal with the similarities and the contrasts in the plays and will also serve as the conclusion
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