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International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2008

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …


Noms De Personne, Noms De Lieux Et Noms De Peoples Dans La Tapisserie De Bayeux: Une Perspective Francaise, George Beech Dec 2007

Noms De Personne, Noms De Lieux Et Noms De Peoples Dans La Tapisserie De Bayeux: Une Perspective Francaise, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract available.


The Medieval Writing Workshop, Alex Mueller Dec 2007

The Medieval Writing Workshop, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

If we compare elementary and secondary school classrooms today with their grammar school predecessors of the Middle Ages, we might find few similarities. The terrifying image of the medieval schoolmaster, seated in a chair with his birch in hand, ready to strike supplicant schoolboys for incorrect answers, does not match our more recent and comforting portrait of the teacher who circulates throughout the classroom and nurtures students through a student-centered curriculum. Yet, as an educator trained as both a medievalist and a high school English teacher, I am regularly provoked by the affinities I discover in medieval and modern pedagogies, …


The Alternation Between Present And Past Time In The ‘Telling Of The Bayeux Tapestry Story, George Beech Dec 2007

The Alternation Between Present And Past Time In The ‘Telling Of The Bayeux Tapestry Story, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract available.


How Angleterre Came To Be The French Country Name For England In The Eleventh Century, George Beech Dec 2007

How Angleterre Came To Be The French Country Name For England In The Eleventh Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.


The Brief Eminence And Doomed Fall Of Islamic Zaragoza: A Great Center Of Arabic And Jewish Learning In The Iberian Peninsula In The Eleventh-Century, George Beech Dec 2007

The Brief Eminence And Doomed Fall Of Islamic Zaragoza: A Great Center Of Arabic And Jewish Learning In The Iberian Peninsula In The Eleventh-Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.