Spirituality as a Process within the School Curriculum.

Spiritual education concerns the quality of our thinking about ourselves, our relationships, our sense of worth and identity, and our sense of well-being. All curriculum subjects can contribute to this search for meaning. Religious education and the act of worship can contribute but are in practice very problematic if dogma inhibits open reflection. No one tradition of spirituality should be promoted since spirituality is a process. The world faiths provide starting points, but life provides more. The human spirit may be finite or eternal; but we are concerned with the here and now and education should promote open qualitative questioning. * First published in 2003 in Prospero: A Journal of New Thinking for Education vol 9, no 1, pp.12-18. This version has been revised

Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge in Spanish

The comparative study of two published Spanish translations of Arthur Miller's A view from the bridge challenges the concepts of page-oriented or stage-oriented translation but also the concepts of drama translation and adaptation. The translation by José Luis Alonso, published in 1980, is assumedly a stage version deriving form Miller's revised two-act version, while the Spanish translation published by Muchnik in 1956 in Argentina most likely derives from the 1955 one-act original. A close comparison of both translations of Panorama desde el puente shows that the 1980 Spanish text seems to derive from the 1956 Argentinian text thus adapted for the Spanish stage

The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Prison Rape: Why the Prison Rape Elimination Act Failed and How to Fix It

Recent studies show the rate of sexual abuse endured in prisons has been steadily increasing. To remedy this issue, the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed in 2003, however it has had no legitimate impact on the rate of sexual abuse in prisons due to the absence of mandatory rules upon prisons and a private right of action. This note will argue that prison rape is an Eighth Amendment violation but is not punished as one and that the Prison Rape Elimination Act failed to provide Survivors of prison sexual abuse with any legitimate recourse against violators of the law. This note will outline Supreme Court precedent relating to sexual abuse and the rights of prisoners, the law of Eighth Amendment violations, the current state of prison sexual abuse, and the ways in which the current version of the Prison Rape Elimination Act fails. It concludes with a revised version of the Prison Rape Elimination Act showcasing the major changes that should be made

Report on Administrative Law to the Tennessee Law Revision Commission

The following discussion of certain aspects of administrative law is a revised version of a report prepared during the 1963-64 academic year in response to a request by the Tennessee Law Revision Commission for an evaluation of issues to be considered in adopting an administrative procedure act for the State of Tennessee. Because one of the Model State Administrative Procedure Acts would probably be used as the basis for a Tennessee Act, the discussion is based upon a comparative analysis of the workings of the original Model Act, the Revised Model Act, and the federal Administrative Procedure Act. Whether a generalized administrative procedure act is desirable for Tennessee depends in part upon how one assesses the present workings of the various administrative bodies within the state and the present allocation of functions between courts and agencies. The resolution of the question also depends upon an evaluation of whether new statutory criteria would generate more uncertainty and dispute than they would resolve and whether the uncertainties generated by anew statute would be outweighed by procedural improvements in various agencies. As will be apparent from the discussion throughout the paper, there is great diversity in the tasks and functions of the various administrative bodies; hence, the perennial question associated with administrative law reform must be faced squarely and answered honestly: Is there sufficient common ground among the several agencies that some aspects of their procedures can be treated profitably under a single statute? If the answer is affirmative, then that common ground must be specified

Triangular dissections, aperiodic tilings and Jones algebras

The Brattelli diagram associated with a given bicolored Dynkin-Coxeter graph of type $A_n$ determines planar fractal sets obtained by infinite dissections of a given triangle. All triangles appearing in the dissection process have angles that are multiples of $\pi/ (n+1).$ There are usually several possible infinite dissections compatible with a given $n$ but a given one makes use of $n/2$ triangle types if $n$ is even. Jones algebra with index $[ 4 \ \cos^2{\pi \over n+1}]^{-1}$ (values of the discrete range) act naturally on vector spaces associated with those fractal sets. Triangles of a given type are always congruent at each step of the dissection process. In the particular case $n=4$, there are isometric and the whole structure lead, after proper inflation, to aperiodic Penrose tilings. The ``tilings'' associated with other values of the index are discussed and shown to be encoded by equivalence classes of infinite sequences (with appropriate constraints) using $n/2$ digits (if $n$ is even) and generalizing the Fibonacci numbers.Comment: 14 pages. Revised version. 18 Postcript figures, a 500 kb uuencoded file called images.uu available by mosaic or gopher from gopher://cpt.univ-mrs.fr/11/preprints/94/fundamental-interactions/94-P.302

Integrable Structure of Conformal Field Theory II. Q-operator and DDV equation

This paper is a direct continuation of\ \BLZ\ where we begun the study of the integrable structures in Conformal Field Theory. We show here how to construct the operators ${\bf Q}_{\pm}(\lambda)$ which act in highest weight Virasoro module and commute for different values of the parameter $\lambda$. These operators appear to be the CFT analogs of the $Q$ - matrix of Baxter\ \Baxn, in particular they satisfy famous Baxter's ${\bf T}-{\bf Q}$ equation. We also show that under natural assumptions about analytic properties of the operators ${\bf Q}(\lambda)$ as the functions of $\lambda$ the Baxter's relation allows one to derive the nonlinear integral equations of Destri-de Vega (DDV)\ \dVega\ for the eigenvalues of the ${\bf Q}$-operators. We then use the DDV equation to obtain the asymptotic expansions of the ${\bf Q}$ - operators at large $\lambda$; it is remarkable that unlike the expansions of the ${\bf T}$ operators of \ \BLZ, the asymptotic series for ${\bf Q}(\lambda)$ contains the ``dual'' nonlocal Integrals of Motion along with the local ones. We also discuss an intriguing relation between the vacuum eigenvalues of the ${\bf Q}$ - operators and the stationary transport properties in boundary sine-Gordon model. On this basis we propose a number of new exact results about finite voltage charge transport through the point contact in quantum Hall system.Comment: Revised version, 43 pages, harvmac.tex. Minor changes, references adde