Inarticulate Society

Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416576792

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Inarticulate Society by Tom Shachtman Pdf

Thomas Schachtman, author of Skyscraper Dreams, approaches the muddy, intolerant world of political conversation through the belief that Americans have lost the ability to respond and argue differing points of view without coming swiftly to blows. Considering the rising tide of political violence in America and the hateful and intolerant speech that appears to incite it, Thomas Schachtman argues that political debates are in danger of moving from the Senate chamber to the streets, taking the social stability needed for a working democracy with it. Blaming this decline on the jargon used by specialists in the professions and academia in order to distinguish superiority over common citizens, Schachtman proposes a concrete, multifaceted program for rehabilitating eloquence through the constructive use of media in combination with political and educational reform.

Author : Freya Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199251827

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Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791 by Freya Johnston Pdf

Johnson's centrality in the late eighteenth century makes his fretfulness about the social and aesthetic boundaries of writing especially fertile and influential. This book suggests that literary taxonomies, inventories, and canons simultaneously construct and reject a hierarchy of ethical as well as aesthetic values, and examines how figures of cultural authority conceive of their relationships to and with the margins of writing and of society.

Author : Babashola Chinsman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412204040

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Uncommon Thinking by Babashola Chinsman Pdf

When independence arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1960s, everyone was optimistic higher living standards would quickly follow. But after almost half-a-century of intensive policy and institutional reforms, and massive foreign grants and loans, the condition of the majority has hardly improved. Bad governance has been a key factor, and must be rectified before the region can attain its aspirations. But the need for reforms extends beyond African governments alone. Some of the prescriptions donors enthusiastically promoted were flawed. Others acted as disincentives to development. Market principles, backed with external aid mostly targeting humanitarian relief, did not lay a solid foundation for growth. The problem though is not with the basic principles, but with the failure to apply them contextually. The response to poverty - the major challenge in the region - is a typical case in point. Conventional programmes try to mitigate the suffering of the poor, only to keep them hovering at the edge of hardship. A pragmatic response would recognize that poverty prevents an economy from operating at its full potential, and would elicit action to bring the poor into mainstream economic activity. Reducing poverty is no longer a magnanimous gesture, because it makes good economic and business sense. This uncommon perspective, taking social realities in the region into account, is the basis of the new strategies for policy and institutional reforms, aid management and governance, that are advanced. It is not policies and strategies alone that need to be fixed. Complex delivery processes need to be simplified. Progress would not require a revolution, but a gradual accumulation of small results, interacting to produce big impact. Most importantly, development should be promoted as an activity people do for themselves. With the right incentives, people can organize themselves to beat the adversity of poverty.

Author : Kathleen J. Turner,Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739190999

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Communication Centers by Kathleen J. Turner,Theodore F. Sheckels Pdf

Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management addresses what communication centers are and why they are valuable, examines their rich rhetorical roots, and offers advice to faculty who are asked to develop a communication center. Directors of established centers and peer tutors will also find valuable information.

Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400824199

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Gifted Tongues by Gary Alan Fine Pdf

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2052 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Credit insurance
ISBN : UCBK:C047349473

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Consumer Credit Industry by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Crime
ISBN : UIUC:30112004582018

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Controlling Crime Through More Effective Law Enforcement by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures Pdf

Author : Vicki Abt,Leonard Mustazza
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0879727527

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Coming After Oprah by Vicki Abt,Leonard Mustazza Pdf

Examines the evolution and cultural significance of these programs, disputing claims that they are nothing more than harmless entertainment. The first half uncovers the mechanics of the talk show game. The second reveals the web of commercial and political interests that influence the shows' production, as well as describing corporate players and their revenues. The study concludes with suggestions for what we as a culture might do to protect ourselves from deception and misinformation. Paper edition (unseen), $20.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Patricia Aufderheide
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816633428

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The Daily Planet by Patricia Aufderheide Pdf

The Daily Planet is a long-awaited selection of Patricia Aufderheide's most important critical essays, updated and organized thematically to demonstrate the breadth of her thinking on media and film, public telecommunications policy, and contemporary society. The result is a pithy and provocative exploration of "the culture of daily life under capitalism". Here, Aufderheide demonstrates criticism that is both activist and analytical. She probes the processes that shape our culture by examining diverse subjects, including the struggle to create quality children's television programming, the meaning of Paul Harvey, the evolution of the war film over the past thirty years, and the ways journalism is changed by the Internet and other new technologies. Throughout, Aufderheide foregrounds democratic values, displaying the penetrating insights that have made her a leading public intellectual and commentator on contemporary culture.

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268091811

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Seamus Heaney’s Regions by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish “Troubles” beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map—the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s regions—the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one—offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney’s body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas—and the texts representing them—to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney’s regionalist poetry contains a “Hegelian synthesis” view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney’s Regions examines Heaney’s work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet’s work to date.

Author : Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1617 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446275702

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SAGE Qualitative Research Methods by Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont Pdf

SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods, not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the ′empirical′ journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGE′s deep backlist of qualitative research methods journals, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delmont, editors of Qualitative Research, have selected over 70 articles to represent SAGE′s distinctive contribution to methods publishing in general and qualitative research in particular. This collection includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as: explanations and defences of qualitative methods; ethics; research questions and foreshadowed problems; access; first days in the field; field roles and rapport; practicalities of data collection and recording; data analysis; writing and (re) presentation; the rise of auto-ethnography; life history, narrative and autobiography; CA and DA; and alternatives to the logocentric (such as visual methods).

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020208196

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Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World by Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods Pdf

Author : Elena Torreguitar
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 3631579950

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National Liberation Movements in Office by Elena Torreguitar Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2008.

Author : Gerard Carruthers,David Goldie,Alastair Renfrew
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042018836

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Beyond Scotland by Gerard Carruthers,David Goldie,Alastair Renfrew Pdf

Scottish creative writing in the twentieth century was notable for its willingness to explore and absorb the literatures of other times and other nations. From the engagement with Russian literature of Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan, through to the interplay with continental literary theory, Scottish writers have proved active participants in a diverse international literary practice. Scottish criticism has, arguably, often been slow in appreciating the full extent of this exchange. Preoccupied with marking out its territory, with identifying an independent and distinctive tradition, Scottish criticism has occasionally blinded itself to the diversity and range of its writers. In stressing the importance of cultural independence, it has tended to overlook the many virtues of interdependence. The essays in this book aim to offer a corrective view. They celebrate the achievement of Scottish writing in the twentieth century by offering a wider basis for appreciation than a narrow idea of 'Scottishness'. Each essay explores an aspect of Scottish writing in an individual foreign perspective; together they provide an enriching account of a national literary practice that has deep, and often surprisingly complex, roots in international culture.

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521445701

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The Genesis of the French Revolution by Bailey Stone Pdf

This book, first published in 2004, offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution.