The Myth of Louis Riel

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s1) ◽  
pp. s181-s198
Author(s):  
Douglas Owram
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Folk Hero ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Popular Interest

In recent years Louis Riel has become somewhat of a Canadian folk hero. At the official, scholarly, and popular levels the rebel hanged in 1885 has become the subject of much attention. Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the site of his two uprisings, have commemorated him in statue while the federal government which allowed his execution to take place in the 1880s has, in the 1980s, designated Batoche a national historic site. Canadian government money has also provided a half million dollar grant designed to allow the compilation and publication of all of Riel’s writings. Such scholarly and official interest is complemented by popular interest. Plays, poems, television dramas, and even an opera have been written about him. Riel has assumed mythical stature.

Conflicting obituaries: the Abyssinian ‘outlaw’ Debeb as treacherous bandit and romantic hero in late nineteenth-century Italian imagination

Modern Italy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-419
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Bruner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Character ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Hero ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Folk Hero ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In 1886 the Abyssinian chief Debeb became a public figure in Italy as a rapacious colonial bandit. However, over the next five years he acquired additional public personas, even contradictory ones: as a condottiero ally, a ladies’ man, a traitor, a young Abyssinian aristocrat and pretender to an ancient throne, a chivalrous warrior, and a figure representing the frontier and an Africa mysterious and hidden to Europeans. Upon his 1891 death in combat, he was the subject of conflicting Italian press obituaries. For some commentators, Debeb exemplified treacherous and deceitful African character, an explanation for Italy's colonial disappointments and defeats. However, other commentators clothed him in a romanticised mystique and found in him martial and even chivalrous traits to admire and emulate. To this extent his persona blurred the line demarcating the African ‘other’. Although he first appeared to Italians as a bandit, the notion of the bandit as a folk hero (the ‘noble robber’ or ‘social bandit’, Hobsbawm) does not fit his case. A more fruitful approach is to consider his multi-faceted public persona as reflecting the ongoing Italian debate over ‘national character’ (Patriarca). In the figure of Debeb, public debates over colonialism and ‘national character’ merged, with each contributing to the other.

scholarly journals Brazilian Education, National Education Parameters and Quality for Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 364-370
Author(s):  
Davi Milan ◽  
Richardson Lemos de Oliveira ◽  
Cristina Brust ◽  
Adriana de Menezes ◽  
Claudemir Santos de Jesus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Educational System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
National Education ◽  
Teaching Support ◽  
Dialogic Approach ◽  
The Subject

Under emergency conditions in the Brazilian educational system, since the turn of the 21st century, the National Curriculum Parameters consist of guidelines elaborated by the Federal Government with the purpose of guiding education, being separated by discipline. It is understood that reflective practice and critical involvement, in the context of extracting recreations in teaching, support debates and the development of teachers' productions and educational projects at the school, encourage reflection not only on pedagogical practice, but also about the planning of classes. Therefore, the objective of this work is to re-discuss, under the spectacles of the dialogic approach, some national parameters of education that govern Brazilian education, considering the expansion and potentializing of studies already carried out on the subject.

Security Council

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-306
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Civil Conflicts ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic

On December 12, 1948, the Committee of Good Offices submitted a special report on the direct talks between the representatives of the governments of the Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia which, together with its appendices, made available previously confidential documentation that had been the subject of Security Council discussion. Of special interest were the so-called Crichtley-DuBois Memorandum of June 10, 1948, and the Cochran Memorandum of November 10, 1948. In the former, the Australian and United States' representatives had submitted to both parties a working paper for the resolution of differences containing the following suggestions: 1) that the extent of the Republic's representation in the Provisional Federal Government be determined on the basis that Republican territory would include all those portions of Java, Sumatra and Madura in which, through a plebiscite, the population expressed a desire to be incorporated into the Republic; 2) that it would be possible to create a fairly representative Provisional Federal Government through machinery which would consist of a Joint Commission of Technical Experts to delineate boundaries of states; a Constituent Assembly elected upon the basis of one delegate for each 500,000 inhabitants and given power to accept the report of the Technical Commission making changes in proposed state boundaries only by majorities of both the Assembly and the delegates from the areas affected by changes; and a Provisional Parliament. The memorandum proposed that the powers of the Lieutenant Governor-General be limited, in the provisional period, to a veto over acts of the Provisional Federal Government which were contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or to the Union Statute and to the direction, after consultation with the provisional authorities, of the employment of federal armed forces in cases of civil conflicts which the provisional authorities were unable to control.

The Effects of Capital Cost Allowance Measures on Capital Accumulation in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-322
Author(s):  
D. G. McFetridge ◽  
J. D. May
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Capital Cost ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Equipment Investment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canadian Manufacturing ◽  
The Subject

During the past twenty-five years, the Canadian federal government has introduced capital cost allowance measures eight times in order to change the direction or level of investment expenditures. Although the effectiveness of these measures has been the subject of a good deal of recent public controversy, no econometric studies exist which measure their impact. In this paper we examine the change in net machinery and equipment investment in the manufacturing sector of the Canadian economy caused by the capital cost allowance measures. We discover the timing and size of the impacts of the measures to be quite different from that which fiscal policy authorities currently believe.

scholarly journals Professional Training in Educational Sports in Brazil: The Collaborating Teams of the Programa Segundo Tempo (PST) – Federal Government

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. e0311124269
Author(s):  
Sheylazarth Presciliana Ribeiro ◽  
Ana Cláudia Porfírio Couto
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sport Centers

PST is a public educational sport policy of the Brazilian Federal Government for the promotion of educational sports by the Ministry of Sport (2003-2018) with the support of the Collaborating Teams. The purpose of this article is to describe who these teams were, how educational sport was thought of by them, and how these Collaborating Teams approached teachers of Physical Education who worked in educational sport centers (Core Coordinators). For description and analysis, we used the literature review with the subject of professional training, educational sport and Programa Segundo Tempo [Second Time Program] and we count on documental analysis by Bardin (2011). We have conclude that the Collaborating Teams show the possibility of intervening in the training of Core Coordinators throughout the country, and for that, these Teams were formed by trainers (university professors) who worked in the search for dialogue with the Coordinators of Sports Core. This dialogue has the potential to reinvent sport, from a traditional sport to an educational sport aiming to ensure the rights of children and adolescents to access sport and leisure in Brazil.

scholarly journals (Not) Playing Games: Player-Produced Walkthroughs as Archival Documents of Digital Gameplay

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Newman
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
International Projects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
The Impact

The subject of digital game preservation is one that has moved up the research agenda in recent years with a number of international projects, such as KEEP and Preserving Virtual Worlds, highlighting and seeking to address the impact of media decay, hardware and software obsolescence through different strategies including code emulation, for instance. Similarly, and reflecting a popular interest in the histories of digital games, exhibitions such as Game On (Barbican, UK) and GameCity (Nottingham, UK) experiment with ways of presenting games to a general audience. This article focuses on the UK’s National Videogame Archive (NVA) which, since its foundation in 2008, has developed approaches that both dovetail with and critique existing strategies to game preservation, exhibition and display.The article begins by noting the NVA’s interest in preserving not only the code or text of the game, but also the experience of using it – that is, the preservation of gameplay as well as games. This approach is born of a conceptualisation of digital games as what Moulthrop (2004) has called “configurative performances” that are made through the interaction of code, systems, rules and, essentially, the actions of players at play. The analysis develops by problematising technical solutions to game preservation by exploring the way seemingly minute differences in code execution greatly impact on this user experience.Given these issues, the article demonstrates how the NVA returns to first principles and questions the taken-for-granted assumption that the playable game is the most effective tool for interpretation. It also encourages a consideration of the uses of non-interactive audiovisual and (para)textual materials in game preservation activity. In particular, the focus falls upon player-produced walkthrough texts, which are presented as archetypical archival documents of gameplay. The article concludes by provocatively positing that these non-playable, non-interactive texts might be more useful to future game scholars than the playable game itself.

Promoting Religious Tourism Management for Creating a Soft Image of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-174
Author(s):  
Kalsoom BeBe Sumra ◽  
Muhammad Mehtab Alam
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Free Environment

The religious tourism management has been the subject of much attention in academic literature and has made a significant contribution in creating soft image in tourists' behavior. Pakistan has one of the best archaeological and religious historical sites in the world. Buddhist civilization at Taxila, Islamabad, Swat, and Takht Bai are of great interest for tourists from Japan, Korea, Thailand, and other countries. The aim of this chapter is to determine the promotion of religious tourism management for creating soft image in Pakistan. In this regard, initiatives of religious tourism by federal government are analyzed while incorporating input from easing immigration services, establishment of national tourism coordination board, infrastructure development, and pollution free environment, which leads to the soft image. An exploration of the nature of soft image requires examining the two key drivers: cognitive approach and the more recent cognitive-affective approach. Using quantitative method, various analysis techniques will be applied.

From “Angel of Mercy” to “Fallen Folk Hero”: Zeitoun’s Story Travels

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Kate Parker Horigan
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Domestic Assault ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Folk Hero ◽  
Who Steps ◽  
Criminal Charges ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Dave Eggers

This chapter discusses Abdulrahman Zeitoun’s Katrina narrative, the subject of Zeitoun, Dave Eggers’ non-fiction bestseller. The story was first shared as a public blog by Mr. Zeitoun, then interview versions were published in Billy Sothern’s Down in New Orleans and in Voices from the Storm, edited by Lola Vollen and Chris Ying. Ultimately, Dave Eggers presents Zeitoun as a folk hero—an immigrant turned self-made businessman who steps up when disaster strikes—so when Zeitoun faces wrongful incarceration partly due to Islamophobia in Katrina’s wake, readers feel outraged. The public response to Zeitoun is complicated, though, by later criminal charges against him of domestic assault. Despite Abdulrahman’s early involvement in narrating his story, when it comes to Zeitoun, the survivor’s engagement with the narration is absent, and the result is a dangerously one-sided picture.

Part IV Federalism, B Federalism in Context, Ch.24 Constitutional Aspects of Commercial Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Anita
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Securities Law ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction

This chapter describes the constitutional aspects of commercial law and focuses on division-of-powers issues relating to banking, bankruptcy, corporate, and securities law. The chapter makes two important observations. First, the broader jurisdictional lines in commercial law areas are mostly settled. Banking and bankruptcy are areas of federal jurisdiction, for example, whereas the provincial and federal governments have overlapping jurisdiction over corporate law. Securities law is an exception. Although securities law has historically been under provincial control, the appropriate role of the federal government has been the subject of recent controversy and litigation. Second, the chapter explains that although the provincial and federal governments have separate constitutionally protected roles in various areas of commercial law, the role is rarely exclusively assumed (or the field occupied) by one level of government. That is, provincial legislation in one area of law impacts what is otherwise federal constitutional jurisdiction, and vice versa.

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