...Throughout the interactive oral, with reference to Tomasi di Lamedusa’s novel The Leopard, we deliberated the mythological allusions that appeared persistently throughout the text. Prior to the discussion, I gave minimal importance to such citations not aware of their significant in reinforcing the characters connection to the Sicilian landscape where Lampedusa sets his novel. My personal knowledge towards Greek folklore is fairly scarce, and as a result I found myself frequently ignoring the clear implications made by the author in reference to the many protagonists of ancient Greek legends. Therefore given chance to further explore such topic I was able to understand and thus appreciate the connections drawn by Lampedusa between the elements found in ancient myths and the characters created in the novel. The most evident is the apparent inspiration drawn from the protagonist of numerous Greek myths for the development of the protagonist chosen for the novel. In fact, Don Farbrizio referred to, as “pater familias” is consistently described as a striking figure at times greater then life itself. Imposing on all other characters his somewhat “thunderous” strength and appearance prompts a connection to the “father of all gods”, the almighty Zeus. Furthermore the prince preoccupies his time observing Zeus’s realm, seeking comfort in the stars he contemplates the vastness of the universe comparing it to the ephemeral...
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...Conférence de Monsieur Actis-Grosso – Aristocratisme et décadence dans Le Guépard de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Aristocratisme et décadence dans Le Guépard de Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Conférence de Monsieur Actis-Grosso prononcée au CRDP d’Amiens, le jeudi 25 novembre 2007 Plan de la conférence 1. Un chef d’œuvre controversé 2. Profil biographique 3. Les diverses rédactions du manuscrit 4. Lampedusa et la critique : une propédeutique à l’analyse du roman 5. Les piliers thématiques du Guépard 6. Le Guépard : roman historique ou œuvre autobiographique ? 7. Structure et style du Guépard : - Chapitre I : analyse narrative parallèle des conversations du Prince et de Tancrède et du Prince et de Russo - Chapitre II : analyse de la visite de Don Calogero et Angelica - Chapitre III : annonce du mariage entre Tancrède et Angelica le Plébiscite à Donnafugata - Chapitre IV : entretien entre Don Fabrizio et Don Calogero - Chapitre V : discussion entre le Père Pirrone et l’herboriste - Chapitre VI : l’épisode de la bibliothèque - Chapitre VII : unique épisode de la mort du Prince - Chapitre VIII : conclusion globale N.B. : les deux derniers chapitres sont considérés dans leur totalité sans choix de passage(s) déterminé(s) pour une raison structurelle (VII) et thématique (VIII). N.B.2 : La conférence a été relue avec attention par M. Actis-Grosso et A. Orosco, qu’ils en soient ici remerciés. N.B. 3 : les notes en bas de page ont été ajoutées par Laure-Hélène Péquet lors de...
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...caratterizzazione del personaggio principale: Fabrizio, il principe di Salina, di cui vengono descritte le origini, il carattere ed i valori. Nel romanzo autobiografico “Una Donna”, la storia inizia con un’analessi sul passato dell’autrice, più precisamente la propria fanciullezza; che viene descritta come libera e gagliarda e come un’età piena di gioie e di felicità. La narrazione prosegue con la descrizione del rapporto con i genitori: il padre uomo brillante e interessante, di cui la figlia ne era profondamente innamorata, e la madre che non essendo altrettanto stimolante viene vista dalla figlia come una figura mediocre. Un’altra differenza tra le due opere è il sesso del narratore che ne “Il Gattopardo” è associabile all’autore Tomasi di Lampedusa e in “Una Donna” è palesemente la storia personale dell’autrice stessa, ovvero, Sibilla Aleramo. A parte l’appartenenza a grandi linee allo stesso genere le due opere non contengono fattori di somiglianza poiché né le marche spaziali e temporali congiungono né i temi in sé delle storia...
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...Donnafugata prende avvio nel 1983 dalle storiche cantine della famiglia Rallo a Marsala e nelle vigne di Contessa Entellina, nel cuore della Sicilia occidentale; nel 1989 Donnafugata giunge sull’isola di Pantelleria dove inizia a produrre vini naturali dolci. 2 Il nome Donnafugata, letteralmente “donna in fuga”, fa riferimento alla storia della regina Maria Carolina, moglie di Ferdinando IV di Borbone che ai primi dell’800 - fuggita da Napoli per l’arrivo delle truppe napoleoniche - si rifugiò in quella parte della Sicilia dove oggi si trovano i vigneti aziendali. Questa vicenda ha ispirato il logo aziendale, ovvero l’effige della testa di donna con i capelli al vento che campeggia su ogni bottiglia. Fu lo scrittore Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, nel romanzo Il Gattopardo, ad indicare con il nome Donnafugata quei possedimenti di campagna del Principe di Salina che accolsero la regina in fuga e che oggi ospitano i vigneti aziendali. 3 Donnafugata Vigneti e Cantine Marsala Cantine Storiche di famiglia (1851) Affinamento e imbottigliamento Pantelleria Cantina di vinificazione: Contrada Khamma 68 ettari di vigneti 4 Contessa Entellina Cantina di vinificazione 260 ettari di vigneti Contessa Entellina Un microclima straordinario 5 Contessa Entellina L’azienda agricola e i ritmi di campagna Vigneti...
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...«IS IT AN ARAB SPRING OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? RECENT CHANGES IN THE ARAB WORLD IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT" By Michael B. Bishku* INTRODUCTION What began in Tunisia in December 2010 and continues most violently in Syria today has been labeled by observers of and experts on the Middle East as the "Arab Spring," but is that the correct term? (It should be noted that Lebanon engaged in the Cedar Revolution in 2005 - following the assassination of Sunni Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri by Hezbollah operativeswhich resulted in the withdrawal of Syrian froops after 30 years.) While Tunisia seems to be emulating Turkey as a historically secular country with mildly Islamist politicians exercising the greatest amount of influence in their country's respective foreign and domestic affairs, Egypt, the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood, appears to be at the center of a struggle between the Islamists and the military, which has dominated politics in that country since the early 1950s, while secularists and the minority Copts feel as if they have been sidelined. Majority Shi'a in Bahrain were quashed in their attempt to have a minority Sunni government recognize their rights, while Yemen's longtime leader was replaced by that country's vice president. Libya toppled an erratic dictator, but has no experience with representative government and like in Yemen the population possesses tribal identities. Syria is now engaged in a brutal civil war in which at least 20,000 people have lost their lives by the...
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...PRÓLOGOHace un poco más de dos años tuvimos la idea dehacer una compilación de anécdotas, parábolas, fá-bulas y reflexiones organizacionales, como unacontribución a la pedagogía de los procesos detransformación. Estábamos pensando entonces enlos agentes de cambio: profesores, predicadores,asesores, conferencistas, entrenadores en cienciasdel comportamiento y muchas otras personas quetrabajan para tocar los corazones con mensajes detolerancia, respeto, amor y paz. Así nació La cartaa García y otras parábolas del éxito, como unaexpansión intelectual de dos personas que, por másde treinta años, se han dedicado a pensar en laforma de iluminar las mentes y los corazones deotros, para ayudarlos a conducir mejor sus vidas.Esa idea se transformó en un éxito editorial. No estamos sorprendidos. Mucho menos des-pués del 11 de septiembre de 2001, fecha a partirde la cual el mundo no será el mismo. La historia… 6. ha dado un giro total: la nueva realidad —Nueva idea de realizar esta nueva compilación: La culpaEra, Era de Acuario, tiempo del genoma humano, es de la vaca.como se la quiera llamar— ya está aquí. Nada de lo ¿Por qué este título? Porque solemos actuarque el hombre conocía seguirá siendo igual. Todo es como lo señala la historia del mismo nombre, larelativo, todo está en duda; las que fueron verdades primera del libro: si no encontramos fácilmente uninmutables pasaron a ser hipótesis. Hay, entonces, culpable de las cosas que nos pasan, somos capacesuna nueva manera de pensar. Pero...
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...[pic] Frank G. Madsen Queens’ College University of Cambridge International Monetary Flows of Non-Declared Origin This dissertation is submitted to the University of Cambridge to Fulfil the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy April 2008 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effetti del Buon Governo Siena, Palazzo Pubblico Sala dei Nove 1337-1340 Declaration This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing, which is the outcome of work done in collaboration. Chapter 3, “Complexity, TOC and Terrorism”, was presented in an embryonic form at the ISA conference in Chicago, USA, March 2007. Chapter 4, “Organised Crime”, is the further elaboration of a chapter of the same title published in 2007 in the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations Statement of Length The dissertation does not exceed the word limit of 80,000 words Fieldwork Thailand (money laundering); Indonesia and Burma (deforestation); New York (US money supply); Washington DC and Fort Worth, Texas (Organised Crime linked to terrorist funding); Australia (Sydney, (APG) and Canberra (money laundering, South Pacific); and Rome, Italy (Chinese organised crime). Contact Frank.Madsen@cantab.net Abstract Through an analysis of the presence and nature of international monetary flows of non-declared origin and their relation to deviant knowledge, the thesis...
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...Th e T yranny of Gui lt • Pa s c a l B ru c k n e r Translated from the French by s t ev e n r e n da l l The tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540 in the united kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock, oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu all rights reserved library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data Bruckner, Pascal. [tyrannie de la pénitence. english] The tyranny of guilt: an essay on Western masochism / Pascal Bruckner; translated from the French by steven rendall. p. cm. includes index. isBn 978-0-691-14376-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. civilization, Western— 20th century. 2. civilization, Western—21st century. 3. international relations—Moral and ethical aspects. 4. Western countries—Foreign relations. 5. Western countries—intellectual life. 6. Guilt 7. self-hate (Psychology) 8. World politics. i. title. CB245.B7613 2010 909’.09821--dc22 2009032666 British library cataloging-in-Publication data is available cet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre d’un programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des affaires étrangères et du service...
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...GLOBALIZATION THE ESSENTIALS GEORGE RITZER A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Globalization Globalization A Basic Text George Ritzer This balanced introduction draws on academic and popular sources to examine the major issues and events in the history of globalization. Globalization: A Basic Text is a substantial introductory textbook, designed to work either on its own or alongside Readings in Globalization. The books are cross-referenced and are both structured around the core concepts of globalization. 2009 • 608 pages • 978-1-4051-3271-8 • paperback www.wiley.com/go/globalization Readings in Globalization Key Readings and Major Debates Edited by George Ritzer and Zeynep Atalay This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. Readings in Globalization illustrates that major debates in the field are not only useful to examine for their own merit but can extend our knowledge of globalization. The volume explores both the political economy of globalization and the relationship of culture to globalization. The volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzer’s Globalization: A Basic Text for a complete student resource. 2010 • 560 pages • 978-1-4051-3273-2 • paperback Order together and save! Quote ISBN 978-1-4443-2371-9 GLOBALIZATION THE ESSENTIALS GEORGE RITZER A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first...
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...Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. The 2014 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. Additional resources related to the 2014 Human Development Report can be found online at http://hdr.undp.org, including complete editions or summaries of the Report in more than 20 languages, a collection of papers commissioned for the 2014 Report, interactive maps and databases of national human development indicators, full explanations of the sources and methodologies employed in the Report’s human development indices, country profiles and other background materials as well as previous global, regional and national Human Development Reports. Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Reports 1990–2014 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007/2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Concept and Measurement of Human Development Financing Human Development Global Dimensions of Human Development People’s Participation New Dimensions of Human Security Gender and Human Development Economic...
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