TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:
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DeKooning Willem DeKooning is considered by many as one of the greatest contemporary artist of his time. He used painting‚ most effectively figure-ground‚ and sculptures showing his expression of nature through abstraction. Much of his art comes from the human form and how he decides to construct it. His work is still studied and displayed across the globe‚ as some of his work is some of the highest priced work ever paid for. He can relate to Coomaraswamy‚ Maritain‚ Gilson‚ and Eliot in many ways
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Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins
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Network Security CPE (541) HW#5 Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers (Double-DES‚ Triple-DES & Blowfish) Supervised by: Dr Loái Tawalbeh Eng. Sulaiman Al-Basheer Simsam R.Hijjawi 20022171043 Review Problems: 6.1 What is the triple encryption? It is a three-stages encryption with three different keys‚ to avoid costly requirements arises from using three different keys with total length of 3x56 = 186 bits a triple encryption with two
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summer holidays in Brittany‚ birthplace of the crepes‚ when we would eat galettes every time we could. Then‚ at the beginning of my studies in Paris‚ and after being a waiter in a famous brewery of the Champs-Élysées‚ I started to work in La Crêperie de Josselin‚ one of the best crepe place in Paris‚ where Marie-Thérèse —a woman I consider as my second mother as for my culinary education— taught me and passed me down her know-how‚ her art and all the
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Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man‚ and it was about
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The American War against De Jure and De Facto Discrimination Throughout the semester‚ we have examined the differences between de jure segregation‚ that which is written into law‚ such as slavery and Jim Crow‚ and de facto segregation‚ that which is seen as customary. Even though the battle against de jure discrimination has been a victorious one‚ with the desegregation of the American military and federal government in the 1940s‚ the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson in the 1950s‚ and the passing
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Global Capital Markets 2014: The Quest for Revenue Growth by Philippe Morel‚ Nick Gardiner‚ Gwenhaël Le Boulay‚ James Malick‚ Pierre Paoli‚ Sukand Ramachandran‚ Shubh Saumya‚ and Astrid Woloszczuk MAY 06‚ 2014 Overview The capital markets and investment banking (CMIB) industry continues to try to navigate its way through a transformational period that requires tough strategic choices. Declining revenues‚ an extremely challenging regulatory climate‚ clients that demand higher service levels and
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In representing the Magistrate in different stages of torture Coetzee is able to highlight the function torture serves in the hierarchy of the Empire. By showing the de-humanization of torture and its establishment of hierarchy on individuals who are not in positions of power‚ J.M Coetzee shows that torture is established on the grounds of power. The topic of torture is significant to the novel because it shows the
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affiliates from their positions. The very critical successes that came from the aggressive actions of the U.S. were that Saddam Hussein was removed from power‚ terrorist organizations were disrupted‚ and Sunni soldiers and Iraqi forces worked with the United States military. It is obvious that these successes are tremendous
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