This dissertation identifies a co-occurrence between the discourses about girl's 'hypersexualization' and those regarding the 'Islamic' practice of veiling, which have been generating similar concerns, discourses and anxieties in Quebec as well as in most Western societies for t…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
"People tell stories to help organize and make sense of their lives. In the past, their narratives have often been torn apart by social scientists looking for themes, variables, and specific answers to specific questions. But in recent years, the development of narrative analysi…
I have a dream: Ces discours qui ont changé le monde
"Il y a des mots qui portent celui qui les prononce et ceux qui les entendent au-dessus et au-delà d'eux-mêmes. Il y a des discours qui changent le cours des événements, le destin d'un pays, l'histoire du monde, l'âme humaine ... Les hommes tombent et disparaissent. Leurs parole…
"Il y a des mots qui portent celui qui les prononce et ceux qui les entendent au-dessus et au-delà d'eux-mêmes. Il y a des discours qui changent le cours des événements, le destin d'un pays, l'histoire du monde, l'âme humaine ... Les hommes tombent et disparaissent. Leurs parole…
Professor Shutt delivers lectures on the great epics of literature, from Homer's Illiad to Milton's Paradise lost. He examines the stories and the characters, and considers the various styles represented, as well as the societies in which the epics were constructed. He explains …
Understanding the fundamentals of classical music
A music appreciation course for the development of listening skills. It analyses the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
Rhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetoric today is no longer admired. Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, …
The origin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
The origin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in…
A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers helps scientists and engineers improve their skills at speaking in public in the course of their professional activities. The book shows how best to prepare papers for presentation at a technical conference and how to pu…