Health and Hygiene School Program Initiative for Adolescents in Dhaka, Bangladesh

The level of knowledge on personal health and hygiene within the Bangladeshi society is limited. Poor hygiene and health practices restricts the socioeconomic, psycho logical and health well being of adolescents, especially girls. This case-study focuses on a health and hygiene school program initiative from two train­ers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. To create a comprehensive overview of the methods and activities of the trainers, interviews were conduct ­ ed with the trainers, materials and reports were reviewed, and one school was visited. The trainers organized interactive and participa­tory classroom sessions, providing adolescents with information ranging from basic hygiene to the effects of drugs and menstrual hygiene. The majority of the participating students were adolescent girls and many students were orphans. The program has re­sulted in an increased health and hygiene awareness among st u­ dents and changes in behavior related to food intake and hygiene. Recommendations for further improvement include training the teachers and combining education with installation of latrines and water taps and avenues for socioeconomic improvements to in­crease income available for health and hygiene investment

Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance

For entrepreneurial narratives to be effective, they need to be judged as plausible and have to resonate with an audience. Prior research has, however, not examined or explained how entrepreneurs try to meet these criteria. In this paper, we addressed this question by analysing the micro-level arguments underpinning the pitch narratives of entrepreneurs who joined a business incubator. We discerned four previously unidentified rhetorical strategies that these entrepreneurs used to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance. Our findings further suggest that temporality and product development status may shape how entrepreneurs use these strategies. By outlining these aspects of entrepreneurial rhetoric, we contribute to opening up the black box of narrative resonance and plausibility and advance work on the role of rhetoric in entrepreneurship

Review of George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Culural Discourse, Dutch Readings of George Eliot

In their very different ways these two studies contribute significantly to our understanding of George Eliot\u27s place in the wider context of European literary culture. Diederik van Werven examines the nineteenth-century reception of her novels in the Netherlands, thus filling in what is, for most of the English-speaking world, a blank space in the map of her contemporary reputation; while Deborah Guth reads her work through the lens provided by the well-known but relatively neglected Schiller, who was the fust German writer to arouse her enthusiasm, but who was later supplanted, both in her own life and in subsequent critical commentary, by his contemporary Goethe. Van Werven\u27s survey of Dutch reviews makes clear George Eliot\u27s popularity in the Netherlands during her lifetime, with Adam Bede, the original Dutch translation of which went through ten editions, proving her most successful work. The reasons for her popularity seem to lie in the way that the ethical concerns of her fiction were particularly congenial to the Dutch Protestant sensibility; and many of those who wrote about her were indeed, as van Werven points out, Protestant ministers of the church. The three figures that are his principal focus, Allard Pierson, lohannes van Vloten, and Conrad Busken Huet, also shared a common intellectual heritage with the novelist, and two of them left the church in the 1860s for reasons that were similar to hers twenty years earlier. Van Werven briefly traces the intellectual development of these three men, summarizes what they wrote about George Eliot, and discusses the importance to them of the thinkers that they had read and she had translated: Strauss, Feuerbach, Spinoza, and Vinet. George Eliot is not always kept in the foreground in all this, and some of the connections that are made between the reviewers and the reviewed seem a little strained. For instance, Van Vloten\u27s interest in Spinoza is not shown to inform his own reading of Felix Holt, but is used, rather, as a cue for van Werven\u27s view that Esther \u27s development can be understood as an advance through Spinoza\u27s different kinds of knowledge as set out in the Ethics; and the chapter concludes with the disarming question of whether van Vloten himself ever made the connection between Spinoza and George Eliot

Landinrichting:: Gevangen tussen landbouw en natuurbeheer of toch niet?

Dit artikel gaat over landinrichting, ooit omschreven als: "Het rotzooien met water, grond en ruimte(l)". Een iets duidelijker omschrijving is wellicht, dat "landinrichting een belangrijk middel is voor de verbetering van de werkomstandigheden en de inkomens situatie in de landen tuinbouw, voor behoud en ontwikkeling van waarden van natuur en landschap, voor het realiseren of verbeteren van mogelijkheden voor openluchtrecreatie en andere zaken die de woon- en leefomstandigheden in het landelijk gebied ten goede komen". In de praktijk komt het er op neer dat men door het opnieuw verdelen van kavels grond, het uitvoeren van diverse waterwerken en het eventueel aanleggen van nieuwe wegen tot een situatie probeert te komen, die voor iedereen voordeliger zal zijn