Law School Abroad

Summary

With the appropriate planning and the right frame of mind, working abroad is both adventuresome and exhilarating. The author shares her learning and experiences in directing summer law programs in Italy and Ireland and offers some practical advice to those contemplating a foreign work experience.     

Latins and Georgians and the Crusader Kingdom

Partly because the First Crusade had weakened the Seljuk Sultanate in 1097–1099, David III of Georgia was able to extend his power over much of the Caucasus. The rulers of the Crusader States who stood in need of Eastern Christian allies sought to co-operate with him. Yet although some Western knights served in his army, the practical difficulties of co-ordinating joint action against the Islamic powers of north Syria and Anatolia in the twelfth century proved insuperable. In the thirteenth century the Georgian crown offered an alliance to the leaders of the Fifth Crusade: their forces would attack the northern provinces of the Ayyūbid Empire while the crusaders were invading Egypt. This strategy was sound, but the rise of the Mongol Empire prevented it from being implemented. Nevertheless, the desire for military collaboration between Georgia and the Western powers persisted until the mid-fifteenth century.     

Historical perspective—weaving the lives of Florence Nightingale and Florence Nightingale David into the statistics classroom

This paper describes an activity to celebrate the lives of Florence Nightingale and Florence Nightingale David in statistics classrooms.     

《夜莺颂》的酒神精神解读

约翰·济慈的生命短暂而辉煌,他在代表作《夜莺颂》中探讨了生存的痛苦和对艺术永恒之美的追求。而苦痛是酒神狄奥尼索斯的基本精神,音乐是狄奥尼索斯所表现的艺术。酒神精神是正视生命痛苦、崇尚自然美的精神。诗人济慈在《夜莺颂》中对酒神精神进行了完美地阐释。     

解读《论公民的不服从》中梭罗的政治思想

在亨利·大卫·梭罗的政治思想体系中,个人良心被视为比法律更高的一种道德原则.他主张个人利益高于机构组织利益.任何机构化了的组织都不能将自己的意志强加于人,而应当尊重每一个人·的权利.当政府机构运作出现偏差和失误时,公民有权拒绝与政府结盟,有权反抗政府.发表于1849年的<论公民的不服从>,集中地表达了梭罗的这些政治观点,并对世界产生了深远影响.     

戴维·佩珀的人类中心主义探究

戴维.佩珀是生态社会主义思潮中第三代重要代表人物。面对有些学者把生态危机的责任归结为人类中心主义时,他提出要重返人类中心主义,对生态中心主义及其后现代主义倾向作出批判,并在此基础上提出以马克思主义改造生态中心主义,实现红绿联盟和建立本质上是人类中心主义的生态社会主义。     

The Semi-biographical Novel of Charles Dickens——David Copperfield

David Copperfield, according to Charles Dickens, is the best of his books. Whether it is a semibiographical novel of Charles Dickens will be discussed in the essay.     

My Life in Libraries

The article is a memoir of the author's career, which she spent primarily at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. As Slavic Bibliographer there, she organized the Slavic Reading Room in the Slavic and East European Library and was the first head of the Slavic Reference Service. She reinvigorated the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES). She was a founding member and/or was very active in virtually all of the national and international Slavic librarians' organizations. In addition, she served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Beyond just Slavic librarianship she established the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois and served as its founding director. She was also a member of George Soros's Network Library Program Board, part of his Open Society initiative.     

戴维·佩珀的生态学马克思主义思想及对中国的启示研究

戴维.佩珀的生态学马克思主义思想包含的内容丰富,如肯定马克思的＂自然＂概念包含丰富的生态意蕴,从历史唯物主义中寻找生态保护的方法,从资本主义制度中寻找生态危机的根源,并提出解决生态危机的出路等。尽管他的思想在一定程度上具有乌托邦的性质,但是对我国生态文明建设具有重要的启发意义。