Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, LMU Munich (Institut fur Anglistik), language: English, abstract: In general, poetry seems to be a fairly neglected topic in today's classrooms. Reasons for this may be multiple1 and it is probably difficult to determine universally valid explanations. It does not make a difference whether it is poetry in the mother tongue or poetry in a foreign language; it just seems that poetry in general does not seem to be very popular. Skipping through the current schoolbooks the impression...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der demographische Wandel - ein Begriff, der oft in Politik, Medien, Diskussionsrunden und Literatur verwendet wird. Bei genauerer Betrachtung wird schnell deutlich, dass "Der demographische Wandel" nicht nur eine Tatsache, sondern tatsachlich unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Phanomene beschreibt. Die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen und die unterschiedlichen Diskussionen der Ursachen und Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels werden in der vorliegend Arbeit...

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. The question of who these anti-genocide activists are and what motivates them to call for the use of violence to end violence is undoubtedly worthy of exploration.

Based on extensive field research, Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect analyses the ideological convictions that motivate two groups of anti-genocide activists: East...