Some Notes On The Tragedy In William Faulkner\u27s The Sound And The Fury

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Whatever else it may be, and it has run the gamut of critical evaluation, the novel The Sound and the Fury is a tragedy. Whether or not it is a tragedy. Whether or not it is a tragedy in the dynamic tradition of Sophocles and Shakespeare or Whether it is so lacking in moral resonance as to be merely an agglomeration of perverted and questionable ideas remains to be seen, but by a complex interweaving of incident and character, the personages in the novel are destined to doom, and nothing in the finite world can alter that destiny

The Fog of War: Large-Scale Smoke Screening Operations of First Canadian Army in Northwest Europe

Smoke screens have been employed in sea and land warfare for many centuries for a variety of purposes. They have been used to conceal troop movements, to deceive the enemy as to combat strengths, point of attack, and preparations for offensive operations. During the Second World War all armies made use of smoke screns in their operations to a greater or lesser extent. Canada was no exception and was considered to be extremely innovative in the use of smoke equipment in ways for which it was not designed. The First Canadian Army first employed large-scale non-artillery-projected smoke screens during the campaign in Northwest Europe. For the first time, at least in the history of Canadian operations, units of trained specialists worked to lay down smoke screens in the field

Fair Deals for Watershed Services: Lessons from a Multi-country Action-learning Project

Payments for ecosystem services make good sense. In the case of watershed ecosystems, downstream beneficiaries of wise upstream land and water stewardship should compensate these upstream stewards. These 'payments for watershed services' (PWS) should contribute to the costs of watershed management and, if upstream communities are also characterised by poverty, these payments should contribute to local development and poverty reduction as well. Debates about both conservation and development have seen a wave of excitement about payments for watershed services in recent years. But on the ground an equivalent surge of action is harder to see. IIED and its partners have been building on earlier international case study work to set up new PWS schemes - to 'learn by doing' and to improve our understanding of the opportunities and the challenges.This report is about the complex business of trying to put a simple conservation and development idea into practice. The idea is that watershed degradation in developing countries might be better tackled than it currently is if downstream beneficiaries of wise land use in watershed areas paid for these benefits. There are some examples around the world of this idea being put into practice - this report reviews these and describes what happened when teams in six developing countries set about exploring how the idea works on the ground

The Tree House

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Benjamin, a rather Frail boy of seven and a half, unhesitatingly walked through the forge puddle which obstructed his way. The water, especially toward the middle, proved too deep for his worn, patched rubbers. But Benjamin didn\u27t mind a soaker . In fact he rather enjoyed the momentary pleasure of the warm, muddy rain water on his feet. Nor did he even consider the scolding which invariably followed when he came home with his feet wet, his only unpleasant feeling arising when his feet later became chilly in the coolness of the June late-afternoon. His two older brothers would have been home from school long ago; first communion practice had detained him. Still, he would have been home earlier had he not remained after the others. When there were no people in the church he liked to walk its long aisles: he enjoyed the feel of the thick carpet as he walked: he imagined he might sink in it if he followed it through the small opening into the dark room next to the St. Joseph\u27s altar and he always shivered and felt a kind of pleasant weakness when he approached it

Flip

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. The innocent, naive, child-like enthusiastic love play sounds of Charlie Hoxie\u27 s horn which, in the underplay of saying little, said so much, mingled with the four-to-a-bar, tinny piano sounds emanating from the catsup-red and egg stain-yellow frontage of a brick building, billeted, in purple letters, with the notice Jesus Saves . The two sounds fled from opposite sides of Lenox Avenue and, in their mad anxiety to proclaim to the world their respective messages, met and destroyed each other, their energies dropping in a death heap on the scattered base markers, painted on the street for the Sunday game of stickball

Downstream Processing in Developing Countries: Opportunity or Mirage?

Oil, gas and mineral production are capital-intensive activities that attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and generate taxes and royalties for host governments. But they do not create as much employment or skills enhancement as manufacturing or service industries. In many lower income countries, raw or intermediate materials are often exported for processing in other parts of the globe. For example, although Africa possesses 26% of world bauxite reserves and produces 9% of world bauxite, it only produces 4% of primary aluminum. Leaders of resource-rich developing countries see lack of local processing as foregone opportunities for job creation, skills development and linkages to the rest of the economy. For decades they have tried to encourage reluctant foreign investors to invest in local processing capacity. But from an economic point of view, this may be a misguided strategy because processing of crude or ore into finished products does not directly add much value