This article explores the language in the four plays of Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Footfalls. It considers the way in which Beckett uses language, especially through fragmentation utterances, repetitions, monologues, contradictions, and silence. It discusses the function of language in modern society, in the Theater of the Absurd, and in the plays. Parad...

In this paper, we report on experience building our geographic information system GODOT on top of an object-oriented database system. In particular, we describe our experiences and methodology in selecting such a system, some of the problems we encountered, and possible solutions. Speciically, after identifying a range of spatial predicates, we show that the intersection join is of crucial impo...

A Revista Entre-Lugar apresenta a todos/as o primeiro número de 2023, sua vigésima sétima edição. publicação é resultado do empenho dos autores, pareceristas e apoio técnico recebido da Editora UFGD, qual tem dedicado esforços para manter qualidade funcionamento portal periódicos. Esse registro papel desempenhado forma institucional coletiva se faz importante deve ser constante em todas as ediç...

Leadership is an under-studied topic in the international development literature. When the topic is broached it is usually in support of what might be called a ‘hero orthodoxy’: One or other individual is identified as the hero of a specific achievement. The current article offers a three part argument why this orthodoxy is problematic and wrong for many developing countries, however. It sugges...