Glen Sorestad (1937-) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His family moved to Saskatchewan in 1947, and he earned a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Saskatchewan in 1963. He ...taught in Yorkton for four years before moving to Saskatoon, where he taught at the Alvin Buckwold School for two years. He then taught at Evan Hardy Collegiate from 1969 to 1981, when he quit to write full-time. He has since published numerous collections of poems, and in 2000 he became Saskatchewan's first poet laureate. The following poem was published in the autumn 1997 issue and included in the collections Today I Belong to Agnes (2000) and Leaving Holds Me Here: Selected Poems, 1975-2000 (2001), which won the Saskatoon Book Award.
Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized.
Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard ...Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life , and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi , chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the Fight South , arguably his most personal book, Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when, against the advice of friends and colleagues in New York, he and his Jewish family moved from the Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where he received a tenured position in the political science department at Mississippi State University. For Ball, his wife, Carol, and their three young daughters, the move represented a leap of faith, ultimately illustrating their deep commitment toward racial justice.
Ball, with breathtaking historical authority, narrates the experience of his family as Jewish outsiders in Mississippi, an unfamiliar and dangerous landscape contending with the aftermath of the civil rights struggle. Signs and natives greeted them with a humiliating and frightening message: “No Jews, Negroes, etc., or dogs welcome.” From refereeing football games, coaching soccer, and helping young black girls integrate the segregated Girl Scout troops in Starkville, to life-threatening calls from the KKK in the middle of the night, from his work for the ACLU to his arguments in the press and before a congressional committee for the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ball takes the reader to a precarious time and place in the history of the South. He was briefly an observer but quickly became an activist, confronting white racists stubbornly holding on to a Jim Crow white supremacist past and fighting to create a more diverse, equitable, and just society.
Ball’s story is one of an imitable advocate who didn’t just observe as a passive spectator but interrupted injustice. Taking the Fight South will join the list of required books to read about the Black Lives Matter movement and the history of racism in the United States. The book will also appeal to readers interested in Judaism because of its depiction of anti-Semitism directed toward Starkville’s Jewish community, struggling to survive in the heart of the deep and very fundamentalist Protestant South.
The first International Congress of Garden Architects, organised in Paris as part of the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technologies by the French Society of Garden Architects (Société ...française des architectes de jardins, SFAJ), marked the initial phase in a collective reflection on the objectives and challenges in the training of landscape architects in Europe. Following the economic, political and social crisis caused by the First World War, the crisis of 1929, and the rise of a new public demand for open spaces for leisure, sports, and recreational activities, garden architects were called on to address profound changes in the commissioning and in the typology, objectives, and scale of landscape projects. Based on original hitherto unstudied documents held in the archives of the Association Henri & Achille Duchêne this article presents the initiatives that led to the organisation of the Congress and how it made a defining contribution in the training of French landscape architects.
Où se cachent les nouvelles sources de la peur? Quand la réalité montre-elle son envers angoissant? Le nouveau fantastique de Jean-Pierre Andrevon nous invite à parcourir avec le « King » ou « ...Lovecraft » français les chemins sinueux de l'étrange moderne. New sources of fear - where do they hide? When does reality reveal its distressing underside? Le nouveau fantastique de Jean-Pierre Andrevon invites us to walk the winding paths of the modern uncanny along with "the French King" or "the French Lovecraft".
White Ink Cixous, Hélène
2008, 20141205, 2014-12-05, 2008-08-31, 20080101
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Helene Cixous is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential feminist writers and thinkers. "White Ink" brings together her most revealing interviews, available in English for the first ...time. Spanning over four decades and including a new interview with the editor Susan Sellers, this collection presents a brilliant, running commentary on the subjects at the heart of Cixous' writing.Here, Cixous discusses her books and her creative process, her views on and insights into literature, philosophy, theatre, politics, aesthetics, faith and ethics, human relations and the state of the world. As she responds to interviewers' questions, Cixous is prompted to reflect on her roles and activities as poet, playwright, feminist theorist, professor of literature, philosopher, woman, Jew. Each interview is a remarkable performance, an event in language and thought where Cixous' celebrated intellectual and poetic force can be witnessed 'in action'. The accessibility of the interview format provides an excellent starting-point for readers new to Cixous, while those already familiar with her work will find unexpected insights and fresh elucidations of her thought.
La lucha contra la corrupción es uno de los temas de mayor actualidad del Derecho Penal Económico. La proliferación en nuestra sociedad de actores jurídicos de naturaleza pública y privada de cada ...vez más compleja estructura y organización, junto con el proceso de internacionalización de las empresas constituyen dos elementos clave en la formación de un escenario propicio para la realización de actividades corruptas. El objetivo de esta relatoría consiste precisamente en identificar los avances y retos a los que en este ámbito se enfrenta el Derecho penal a través del estudio de diferentes medios para combatir la corrupción. Los resultados de esta relatoría se identifican con las reflexiones presentadas y conclusiones alcanzadas por los ponentes del Congreso Internacional «Medios para la persecución y represión de la corrupción», organizado por el área de Derecho Penal de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y que tuvo lugar el 27 de octubre de 2022.
Empirical research identifies whistleblowing as one of the most effective internal antifraud controls. Very recently, Directive 1937/2019 became effective in the EU, aiming to deal with the ...defragmentation of whistleblowing legislation among the member states and provide common minimum accepted standards. The present article aims to provide a verified, weighted comparative maturity model. The suggested model has been constructed based on the methodology for constructing comparative maturity models and validated based on the Delphi method. The weights on each validated component have been calculated based on the summing of votes method. The study resulted in eight main components «scope», «corporate governance», «reporting mechanisms», «protection», «tone at the top», «organizational and human resource practices», «investigations» and «monitor and review» divided further into 18 elements. The suggested maturity model may provide a pathway for organizations to develop and maintain a robust whistleblowing maturity framework that will benefit both the organizations and the public welfare.
This book explores the massacre that occurred after the Japanese captured the Chinese capital of Nanjing in December 1937. In January 1938, three American diplomats arrived in Nanjing and sent ...numerous atrocity reports to the U.S. and U.S. diplomatic posts, extensively documenting the situation and the American diplomatic role.
