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David Bachner's Capital Ironies is a collection of twenty-three poems and short prose pieces, each a walk through some different aspect of Washington, DC-the city's monuments and public spaces, its boulevards and side streets, its trails and riverside promenades, its famous and less-known sites. Beyond being a tour of Washington's physical landscape, however, these writings are explorations of the deeper life of the city, a life, Bachner writes, whose "blatancies, nuances, and contradictions" he has come to know well after forty years of residency.
This volume asserts that international and intercultural experiences are powerful vehicles for first-year college students to learn the perspectives and skills necessary to function interdependently in a rapidly changing and complex world. This thesis is developed through an in-depth case study of efforts to provide such learning opportunities in a project called the First-Year Intercultural Experience at Hartwick College, a 4-year liberal arts and sciences institution in Oneonta, New York. The focus is on one of the courses, "Europe in Transition," which included an off-campus component in Germany and France. Fifteen first-year students participated. Findings from the case study show the us...
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Identify postsecondary, degree granting institutions in the U.S., its possessions and territories accredited by regional, national, professional and specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
Using both primary archival and printed sources, Mieko Nishida examines the perspectives of slaves, ex-slaves, and free-born people of color and the critical factors that affected their lives and self-perceptions. The book offers a new window on slave life in nineteenth-century Salvador, Brazil, and illustrates the difficulty of generalizing about New World slave societies.".