Introduction: Visions of Rome in Shakespeare

This introduction draws attention to the fact that Shakespeare\u2019s Roman world, while having a distinct identity largely built on the characters\u2019 striving to achieve and maintain virtus, is simultaneously inflected with manifold different attitudes towards a broad range of issues that are open to a wide array of possible \u201cvisions\u201d both inside the dramatic world and outside of it, in the realm of criticism. The introduction then quickly surveys the main critical contributions concerning Shakespeare\u2019s engagement with romanitas, especially focusing on the upsurge of studies about Shakespeare and Rome that has characterized the past few years

New worlds for old: visions of utopia

Provides an introduction to and explanation of the art works/photographs of Lisa Scharoun and Frances Tatarovic in their Visions of utopia series.&nbsp

Bedell, Benjamin, b. 1969 (FA 796)

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 796. This collection features a term paper about personal experience narrative surrounding the issue of sleep paralysis and visions of shadow people. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Benjamin Bedell for credit in an “Introduction to Folk Studies” class

The role of expectations and visions of the future in the development of target-based environmental policies: the case of the UK Air Quality Strategy

Increasingly, policy-makers rely on forecasts to set targets for environmental and health protection. I examine the UK Air Quality Strategies (AQS) for particulate matter (1997-2007). Here policy-makers select and articulate visions for technological and policy developments in order to set targets and policies to achieve them. Despite growing evidence for adverse health effects of particulates, challenging targets in 1997 were followed by two revisions of Objectives without introducing measures for reducing pollution. In 2007 more challenging targets were resumed. This thesis is a study of the formation and evolution of a policy framework: of the interactions and contrasting roles of scientific expertise, wider political discourse, and the ‘futures’ presented by actors involved in the policy process. Sociology of Expectations has previously examined the roles of visions in innovation processes. I extended this framework to examine dynamics of visions in the policy-making process. My findings were based on analysis of visions and discourses identified in texts, model data, and interviews. Whilst none of the explanatory factors alone accounted the developments in the AQS, together they provide an explanation of change which highlights the role of learning by policy-makers . Visions for technological development articulated in each version of the AQS were in line with the dominant visions articulated in central government, but over time policy-makers responsible for the Strategy used them to present options for taking action on pollution. Co-construction of the AQS and modelled forecasts enabled policy-makers responsible for the Strategy to articulate visions for technologies and policies to promote taking action to reduce pollutants, and this led to the more action-oriented Strategy in 2007. This thesis proposes that visions can change more quickly than wider political discourses, and as such can provide opportunities for the introduction of new discourses

[Review of] Teodros Kiros, ed. Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community, Ethics

Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community, Ethics is a collection of ten essays written both by newcomers and by well-known African philosophers. Most of the authors are currently teaching in American universities. It is part of the growing literature that cements African philosophy as an integral part of the discipline of philosophy while charting new venues for the field. The objective of this book is to illustrate that African philosophy can serve African people as a moralactivity guided by the principles of practical reason in addressing the underlying problems of African economic, political, and social institutions. Teodros Kiros, the volume\u27s editor, chose the contributors because they were willing to describe phenomenologically entrenched practices of today\u27s Africa, subject them to critical assessment, and, when necessary, displace them with better visions and research. Kiros writes in the introduction that the authors address perennial cultural, political, and ethical problems that plague the human condition in Africa

SECTION 2: CRITIQUES AND NEW VISIONS OF LEADERSHIP - EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

This section invites readers to think more critically about leadership and to look at leadership from a moral perspective. Our question should not be simply, Is a particular religious leader or leadership style effective? We should also ask, Is it good?  Does it create goodness

introduction tensions of empire: colonial control and visions of rule

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136470/1/ae.1989.16.4.02a00010.pd

Designing for a Driverless Future in Downtown San Luis Obispo

The graduate class CRP 512 Introduction to Visual Communication and GIS, focuses on skill development in visual communications and GIS through a planning exercise. In the Winter quarter of 2018, the class was assigned the re-design of two blocks in downtown San Luis Obispo. The students focused on developing visions and design ideas for a future with autonomous vehicles