703 September 2015, Vol. 105, No. 9 HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in South Africa – still a problem To the Editor: Awareness of global health issues is most effectively raised through global campaigns.[1] In 2002 2003, the World AIDS Campaign adopted the theme ‘Live and Let Live: Stigma and Discrimination’ to address various hostile determinants powering HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination ...

This essay engages two questions: first, it is a response to current attempts to make sense of various literary traditions in an era associated with postmodernity and globalization. I argue for a global but period-specific approach to the study of literary history. Secondly, this essay applies the period-specific theoretical model to the study of one poem: Octavio Paz’s Blanco (1967), known for...

The impact of the work that we do daily, what the value of these efforts will be to those who follow us, and what the challenges will be to providing high-quality burn care are issues that we must understand if we are to build to the future. As a society, we can look to our past to gain important insights about what the future may hold and the problems we will encounter. The past also allows us...

This paper traces the development of certain aspects of Japanese Buddhist ethics in the period immediately leading to, during, and following the Second World War, with specific focus on the justifications of warfare on the part of several prominent Buddhist scholars during this period. I will look, particularly, at some of the prewar and wartime writings D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966), Nishida Kitarō...

This is an outstanding interpretation of Christianity's impact on the social and political life Wales. In his Forward, Rowan Williams reminds us that course Christianity in Wales was characterized by periods brutal suppression spiritual recovery. early period struggle between ‘indigenous’ British imposition ‘foreign’ religious orders reflected outplaying dynastic control territorial reach non-n...

Accounting for human activity through physics does not require anything more than a switch of mind. Objectivity needs first to be recognized as an epistemological principle that should mostly be ignored when modelling human activity, lest it is decided that methods from physics should not apply to man out of principle. Secondly, it needs to be understood that two dimensions of human activity ar...

The way of viewing truth in the Church differs from common philosophical concept as something that corresponds to historical or present facts a given situation. Church's version is it possessed by God, never varies, eternally fixed, and made known humankind through revelation.2 This absolute view problematic because open being used those positions power influence manipulate oppress others. Ever...

Authoring and delivery environments for Web-based instruction should be based on information and knowledge constructs and not on the manipulation of data. This higher level approach can be realized using the object-oriented paradigm, not just as applied to software but also to instructional design. This note summarizes our work in this direction and points out how some classical problems with h...

The purpose of this paper is to determine to what exíent the contemporaneous state of chivalry has influenced Chaucer's Knight in his literary endeavor. First I analyze the Knight's personality, which evinces his militant and nonconformist nature: as opposed to the majority of knights, Chaucer's Knight, in an attempt to uphold the ideal of chivalry, is engaged in religious campaigns, while he r...