Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, and the energy and food crises. This sense of ...

A young man fights to save his father from a spirit's curse in the epic finale to a series starring "a terrific hero" ( The New York Times)The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like a living creature underneath Johnny Dixon's feet. Johnny hardly ever sees his father, who trains Air Force pilots in Colorado, and their annual Florida fishing trip is the highlight of his year. They're on their way back to Duston Heights, Massachusetts,...

This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community.It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; although it was one of the world’s richest countries around 1850, extreme poverty and inequality were signif...

A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to the Johnny Dixon series.The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like a living creature underneath Johnny Dixon’s feet. Johnny hardly ever sees his father, who trains Air Force pilots in Colorado, and their annual Florida fishing trip is the highlight of his year. They’re on their way back to Duston Heights, Massachusetts, where Johnny lives with his grandparents, when a visit to ...

Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press’ spookiest series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each book tells the terrifying tales of some of the Haunted Mansion’s 999 ghosts.Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume III: Grim Grinning GhostsThe eerie Amicus Arcane has returned from beyond the grave to share more spooky stories from inside the Haunted Mansion. What frightening fictions does this once-living librarian ...

In the early hours of 19 March 2011, 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan left a nightclub in Swindon to make the half-mile journey back to her home. She was never seen alive again.The prime suspect in her disappearance, local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, was arrested a few days later. Seemingly an ordinary family man, in reality, Halliwell regularly visited sex workers and viewed incredibly violent pornography. Chillingly, he had once asked a fellow inmate during a prison sentence in...

Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent e...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Geschichte der Päd., Note: Sehr gut, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Institut für Pädagogik), Veranstaltung: WS 2004/05 Pädagogik der Aufklärung: Locke, Lessing, Kant, 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den Medien wird Erziehung immer häufiger thematisiert. Fernsehsendungen wie 'Die Super- Nanny' und 'Der große Erziehungstest' sind dabei nur die bekanntesten. Sie führten und führe...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Völkerrecht und Menschenrechte, Technische Universität Dresden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Deshalb scheint es mir gerechtfertigt, Locke als den eigentlichen ,Vater der Menschenrechte? zu bezeichnen.' (König 1994: 118) Dieser Satz ist ein Fazit in Königs Buch 'Zur Begründung der Menschenrechte'. Der Satz spiegelt zugleich das Interesse dieser Arbeit wieder. Locke stellte mit seinem Werk 'Two Treatises...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,6, Universität Rostock (Institut für Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: American Classics: O`Neill,, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Drama The Crucible spielt 1692 in Salem und erstreckt sich über einen Zeitraum von Frühjahr bis Herbst. Eine Gruppe von Mädchen um Abigail Williams wird beim Tanzen im Wald bei Nacht von Reverend Parris beobachtet. Daraufhin br...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Grundlagenseminar Literaturwissenschaft, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit analysiert John Donnes berühmtes Liebesgedicht 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Stilmittels 'metaphysical conceit'. Zuvor wird die metaphysische Liebeslyrik in den zeitgenössischen Kontext eingeordnet.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Universität), course: A Survey of British Literature, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: - definition of metaphysical poetry and conceits. - analysis of conceits in the poems 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Flea' with regard to virginity, sexuality and seduction in poetry of the 17th century. - comparison of Donne\'s and Marvell\'s...