Attitude by Margaret Atwood Byliner Jun 1983 9 mins. A 1983 commencement address given at the University of Toronto. I am of course overjoyed to be here today in the role of ceremonial object. There is more than the usual amount of satisfaction in receiving an honorary degree from the university that helped to form one’s erstwhile callow and ignorant mind into the thing of dubious splendor that it is today; whose professors put up with so many overdue term papers‚ and struggled to read
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story in which are intertwined many characters. But I selected these three like a most interesting for me: Nickolas‚ Alisoun and Absolon. Clerk gentle Nicholas is the poor young scholar who rents a room in John’s house. He had studied the liberal arts. But his wish was learning astrology. About his character we must recognize that he is very secretive‚ sly‚ confident‚ and there is his ability for consolation. He is a person without company‚ but he is womanizer. We conclude this fact because
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” where pretty much everything we would ever want to do would be at our fingertips. It is reckoned that Colleges’s campus is meant for just that. It is a place for students to expand their horizons‚ explore themselves‚ and‚ most of all‚ get a liberal arts degree. Essentially this is all true. We are all privileged to be here‚ but if we are going to expand‚ and explore and graduate with a degree‚ however‚ we we have to figure out how to utilize our the college’s resources ‚ and create our an own
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that universities as well as secondary schools devise strategies to encourage greater flexibility‚ creativity and independence for the student‚ without which full‚ adult learning cannot take place. Specifically‚ Goodman proposes that prestigious liberal arts universities institute a new requirement: students shall engage in a “maturing” activity for two years before matriculating. Examples of “maturing” activities are “working for a living [...]; community service‚ [...]‚ volunteer service in hospital
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Democracy is seen as one of the ultimate ideals that modern civilizations strive to create‚ or preserve. Democracy as a system of governance is supposed to allow extensive representation and inclusiveness of as many people and views as possible to feed into the functioning of a fair and just society. Democratic principles run in line with the ideals of universal freedoms such as the right to free speech. Importantly‚ democracy supposedly serves to check unaccountable power and manipulation by the
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This is the core of Inglehart and Welzel ’s ideas on the subject of modernization. They claim that economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely. This concept is a liberal point of view. It can be supported by peace
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The peaceful resistance to laws that this essay discusses assumes that the system‚ one of Western liberal democracy‚ is ultimately the best for the United States. The protesting discussed in this essay does not seek to dismantle the liberal democracy and instate any number of alternatives‚ from fascism to communism. It instead strives to make the government adhere to the principles of the Constitution‚ to better represent the people; protesting against laws is a check on the fallibility of the members
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Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multilayered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflict in the political arena‚ a dramatic increase of ethnic and religious violence and the danger of national disintegration. Ten years after the collapse of the New Order‚ Indonesia has made significant progress; however‚ the quality of democracy is still low. Theoretically innovative and empirically sound‚ this book is
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in reported membership of UK political parties over the post-war period. In 2010‚ only 1.0% of the electorate was a member of one of the three main political parties. Labour had approximately 187‚000 members‚ the Conservatives 134‚000 and the Liberal Democrats 42‚000. However in the early 1950s‚ the Conservatives claimed nearly 3 million members while Labour claimed more
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smaller spectrum of interests‚ thereby leaving some voters feeling unrepresented. Furthermore‚ in the 2010 election the similarities between the parties lead to a coalition government‚ which in turn meant that neither the Conservative or the Liberal-Democrats could fulfil their manifesto’s promise which‚ in many cases‚ led to public unrest due to the feeling of poor representation. The tuition fee protests in December 2010 are the best example of this. Therefore‚ it is clear the decline in party membership
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