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David Lampe, born and bred on the U.S. prairies, home dweller in a
Rust Belt border town, is a people's poet, readily understood, a
tribune of our common humanity, a teller of truth close to the
bone. This is a collection of stand-alone poems that enrich one
another through proximity between those of societal ruin and those
that dream longingly of paradise. Includes 6 black-and-white ink
drawings by Gabriela Campos.
Studies of varied aspects of Robin Hood legends and associated
topics: the greenwood, archery, outlawry, and 20c response to the
legends. The Robin Hood tradition has had a continuing appeal from
the middle ages to the present day, the hero himself holding a
distinctive place within popular culture, his exploits, and those
of his companions, being celebrated in multiple forms, from the
earliest rituals, plays and ballads to musical theatre, lyric
poetry, modern popular fiction, cinema and TV. The essays in this
volume provide a rich and coherent perspective on this enigmatic
figure and the legends which have grown up around him, offering a
wide range of approaches. Topics include place-name study;
examinations of surviving manuscripts and their cultural context;
appraisals of the links between Robin Hood and medievalarchery;
other medieval outlaws; mythic figures such as the Green Man;
patterns of masculine and feminine identity; and the popularity of
Robin Hood on stage and screen, in comic books and videos, and in
modern Japan. There are also extended overviews of the hero's
origins and status; and the future of Robin Hood studies. Professor
THOMAS HAHN teaches in the Department of English at the University
of Rochester, New York. Contributors:THOMAS HAHN, FRANK ABBOTT,
SARAH BEACH, LAURA BLUNK, KELLY DEVRIES, R.B. DOBSON, MICHAEL
EATON, KEVIN J. HARTY, STUART KANE, STEPHEN KNIGHT, DAVID LAMPE,
GARY YERSHON
Der Bericht beschreibt den Markt der Veranstaltungswirtschaft und
liefert eine UEbersicht zu dessen Angeboten an Aus- und
Weiterbildung. Mit der Auswertung von ausfuhrlichen
Leitfadeninterviews und einer Onlinebefragung werden Anregungen und
Denkanstoesse formuliert, die eine positive Entwicklung
ermoeglichen koennen und zum weiteren Dialog einladen. Dabei werden
u.a. folgende Fragen angesprochen und eroertert: Welchen Zuschnitt
hat der Markt der Veranstaltungswirtschaft? Welche Kompetenzen sind
erforderlich, um erfolgreich in der Veranstaltungswirtschaft zu
arbeiten? Und welche Strukturen kennzeichnen den Markt von Aus- und
Weiterbildung?
Julia is an cat whose human family decides that they no longer have
the financial resources to care for all their pets. Their decision
to surrender her to an animal shelter is especially devastating for
Tommy, the youngest member of the family. Welcome Home, Good
Kitties details Julia's journey from her original family to a new
household. Julia must adjust to life with different people, dogs
and another cat named Josephine. Her inner strength is the key to
her survival.
Adolf Hitler stated that after occupation Denmark would turn into a
model protectorate'. Winston Churchill, meanwhile, maintained that
the small country of (then) four million people would become the
sadistic murderer's canary'. In the end, neither was right. Though
their resistance organisation was slower to develop effective
tactics on a wide scale than in some other occupied countries, with
initially no help from the Allies the Danes set up a resistance
movement that proved to be a constant irritation to the Axis
forces. In time the Danish Resistance, the Modstandsbev gelsen, was
not a meek canary, but a dangerous and courageous bird of prey that
refused to be caged. The scale of the resistance to the Nazis in
Denmark is without equal: twenty-six million issues of illegal
newspapers had been published by 1945; radio guides for Allied
aircraft had been set up on the coasts; boat services ran between
Sweden, Denmark and Britain; a news bureau provided a stream of
inside information to the Allies; German ships were unable to move
out of the ports; and troops were frustrated by the sabotage of
railways and air bases. Incredibly, almost the entire Jewish
population, some 7,000 people, was shipped to safety in Sweden. The
selfless courage shown by the Danes, when collaboration would have
been an easy option, is astonishing. This story of heroism and
daring by a small country is a thrilling read, and provides a real
insight to the mindset of a people under occupation.
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