videolectures.net Table of Contents - Magazine The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.
swissmiss Revista Arepa Lingua Franca Writing tutors, teaching assistants, usage columnists, and even word-processor grammar-checkers flag passives for “correction” because they have been told they should. (The disastrously confused Page 18 of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style is often implicated—but don’t get me started on them.) These critics are often clearly inexpert at accurate identification of what they deprecate: collecting published critical comments about the passive by soi-disant rhetoric gurus, I have found that the most frequently occurring score for telling passives from actives is zero (I put this extraordinary statistic aside to discuss another day). Naturally, the critics also have no idea how many they use themselves. Recently a colleague and friend with an American doctoral degree did me the kindness of commenting on a draft of mine. The piece I was writing—a sad task—was an obituary. Again, this is passive voice. I was genuinely amazed. Return to Top
Books News and Opinion on The Huffington Post Willkommen in der Ideenfabrik - BrainStore.com - Industrial IdeaProduction La Habana Elegante - Entrevista Julio Ramos, University of California at Berkley Francisco Morán, Southern Methodist University Un lector Néstor Rodríguez, University of Toronto En abril de este año, Reina María Rodríguez vino a los Estados Unidos a participar en un Congreso organizado por Brown University. Uno de los propósitos del congreso fue el de reconocer precisamente la trayectoria de la escritora, quien también hizo presentaciones en Princeton University y en la University of New York (CUNY). Conversando con ella por teléfono surgió la idea de esta entrevista, especialmente para La Habana Elegante. Luego de contactar a algunos colegas y amigos suyos (además de un lector que prefirió mantener su anonimato) le enviamos las preguntas que ella fue respondiendo según el tiempo se lo permitía. Julio Ramos Imagínate que te habla un joven lector que desea conocer mejor a los poetas. Reina María Siento que escribir es coser cada palabra, cada hilván, rematar un desprendimiento, porque algo se zafa y se zafa. Reina María
Word Spy How to change your view of Africa Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close... I once had coffee in Cape Town with a Cameroonian named Ntone Edjabe. He ran an English-language journal called Chimurenga, but what I remembered from our chat were his vignettes of Lagos (where he’d studied) and Johannesburg (where he went next). In Lagos, he said, you’d be driving down the highway and suddenly see a guy selling cars on the highway. Lagos was crazy, and yet it felt entirely safe. I sent Edjabe some articles, but otherwise forgot about Chimurenga until a recent issue arrived in the mail. It’s also more surprising: I love well-off media types from New York or London, but by now we do tend to know how they think. Edjabe arrived in South Africa in 1993, instantly had his passport and money stolen, but stayed. On a Skype call, puffing on cigarettes, he recalls, “I printed 1,000 copies, which I carried around in my bag. Sometimes Chimurenga dips to the bottom.
Kitchens And Appliances Of The Future - Announcing The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 It’s not always easy to predict the future. For its 2010 competition, Electrolux Design Lab went with the theme: The 2nd Space Age; this essentially translating to designing a home environment for the year 2050, when 74% of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas. Student designers had to predict how people will prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes. Quite a task but plenty of surprises from across the globe! Here are the Finalist 25, the countdown has begun! 25) A- Laundry: Community Laundry Concept by Kai Wai Lee A communal laundry for the entire apartment block! 24) Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev The Bio Robot fridge cools biopolymer gel through luminescence and uses non sticky, odorless gel to envelope stored food as individual pods. 23) Bio Tank, Robotic ‘FishWasher’ by Akifusa Nakazawa The Bio Tank does the dishes, is a pet and a composter…all-in-one! 22) Bx7 Preparation Unit by Losif Mihailo
Climate Debate Daily Tattered Cover Read & Feed February: Love it or loathe it. Don’t gobblefunk around with words. Celebrate your freedom to read with us. Don’t be Absurd. Read Banned Books freely. Vintage ads promoting reading. "…the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory….” Yeah, that’s what happiness is make of.