The Legibility of Literacy in Composition's Great Debate: Revisiting "Romantics on Writing" and the History of Composition

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Michael Harker ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Composition

Toward a Pastoral Reading of the Bible Not Confined to the Church

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-587
Author(s):  
Jorge Pixley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Composition ◽  
The Church

AbstractUsing the experience of the network of popular biblical study groups in Latin America and the biblical scholars who accompany them, this article outlines the basic requirements for a pastoral reading of the Bible. Special emphasis is given to the need for using the history of composition, necessarily hypothetical, in order to recover the political dynamics of the texts. The resulting pastoral reading will serve a public as well as a church function.

‘Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī and ‘Alī b. Muḥammad Binā'ī: two fifteenth-century examples of notation Part 2: Commentary

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
O. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Text Setting ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
History Of Composition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Part 1 of this paper was concerned principally with the various problems that confront any attempt to provide a satisfactory transcription of these two examples. Given the nature of the difficulties encountered, it is clear that any generalizations we might wish to derive from them can only be tentative and provisional. Nevertheless, the paucity of comparable material, which on the one hand renders the interpretative hurdles all the more difficult to surmount, on the other makes the urge to draw at least some conclusions from the material provided by ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī and Binā'ī well-nigh irresistible. Such conclusions would involve, essentially, an assessment of the extent to which their notations shed light on the musical practice of the period and provide reliable evidence for the history of composition and styles of textsetting. But in any evaluation of this nature it is essential to avoid the temptation to confuse the sources with the speculative editorial interventions that produce the versions presented in part 1 (exs. 26–8 and 30). The area about which least can be said with regard to the naqsh notated by Binā'ī is, therefore, the nature of the text-setting, while with regard to ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī's notations it is, rather, the first topic we may consider, the relationship between melody and the underlying articulation of the rhythmic cycle.

Darwin and “The Natural History of Doctresses”: The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James

Prospects ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 81-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bender
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Race Of Life ◽  
Descent Of Man ◽  
Fair Chance ◽  
Do So

Two years after charles darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex(1871) ignited a great debate about race, culture, and sexual difference, Dr. Edward H. Clarke drew the lines in what soon became a literary war in America over the supposed differences between the sexes. In his highly appreciative review of Clarke's Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls, William Dean Howells(?) wrote that “the subject is a very delicate one to handle,” not only because it involves certain embarrassing physiological details, such as “periodicity,” but because woman is the weaker vessel in many ways, and does not always care to be reminded of it. Yet the facts of anatomy and physiology are at the bottom of many differences in the capabilities and adaptations of the two sexes for the various offices of life. The female's muscles are weaker than the male's, and she must not be expected to do so much bodily work. The female's brain is five or six ounces lighter, on the average, than the male's, and she must not be expected to do so much “cerebration” as he can do. The special relation of the female to humanity that is to be, involves many disturbances, habitual and occasional, which handicap her, often very heavily, in the race of life.

scholarly journals The rise and collapse of Enron: financial innovation, errors and lessons

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Cabello ◽  
Elisa Moncarz ◽  
Raúl Moncarz ◽  
Benjamin Moncarz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Profile ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
Innovative Company ◽  
Business Failures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Energy Deregulation ◽  
A Company

<p>Recent collapses of high profile business failures like Enron, Worldcom, Parmlat, and Tyco has been a subject of great debate among regulators, investors, government and academics in the recent past. Enron´s case was the greatest failure in the history of American capitalism and had a major impact on financial markets by causing significant losses to investors. Enron was a company ranked by fortune as the most innovative company in the United States; it exemplified the transition from the production to the knowledge economy. Many lessons can we learn from its collapse. In this paper we present an analysis of the factors that contributed to Enron´s rise and failure, underlying the role that energy deregulation and manipulation of financial stat.</p>

They Eat Horses, Don't They? Hippophagy and Frenchness

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
kari weil
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
Human Food ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude

In the Nineteenth Century, France became a nation that ate horse. The introduction of horsemeat into French cuisine marks a rare occurrence in history of a change in attitude, if not taste, towards a once tabooed food. Whether or not to permit hippophagy was, indeed, a matter of great debate at the time, having to do not only with the status of French cuisine, but also with the status of the horse. While the legalization of horsemeat for human food in 1866 was justified primarily on socioeconomic grounds -- horsemeat was a ready and cheap source of protein for those in need -- the consumption of horse remained a controversial idea because of the complex and conflicting affections horses inspired. The debates around hippophagy reveal an increasingly ambivalent attitude toward the horse and its potential subjectivity, especially since horses, in turn, had the power to represent the questionable subjectivity of certain "breeds" of humans and their status within the nation.

Science: Part of the Problem, Most of the Answer

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 566-569
Author(s):  
Jere E. Goyan
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Drug Approval ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Drug Approval Process ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Small Manufacturers ◽  
Scientific Questions

The history of the drug approval process in the United States includes three phases. First, the Food and Drug Act of 1906 essentially required that the labeling of drugs be truthful. The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act added a requirement that drugs be proven safe, and the 1962 act added the requirement that drugs be efficacious. Each of these steps required more and more sophisticated science. Subsequent to the Kefauver-Harris Amendments of 1962, the number of innovative molecular entities each year has declined, the reasons for which have been subject to great debate. This decline has paralleled decreases in innovation across almost all American industry, leading to questions about the future of our country as an industrialized society. Both the Carter and Reagan administrations attempted to address this problem in a number of ways, including cutting back on those regulations that are perceived as unnecessary. Other innovative approaches have been used, such as the establishment of an Office of Small Manufacturers Assistance in the FDA Bureau of Medical Devices, mandated by the 1976 Medical Device Amendments. The latter came about in recognition of the fact that small businesses tend to be more creative and efficient than larger industries and more adversely affected by regulation. However, the problems raised in the regulation of technology transfer almost inevitably arise because of perceived scientific questions. Such questions, in turn, can only be answered by good science performed by the sponsor and understood by the regulator. Thus, it is essential that the FDA be staffed with knowledgeable scientists who can interact easily with their peers in academia and industry. Although science is often the cause of our troubles, it is also our only hope for minimizing the costs of new drugs and other technology. In turn, minimizing such costs will maximize the opportunities for innovation.

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