Balkanization according to wikipedia (including a super cool map that rotates through the years of what the Balkans look like geopolitically since the Ottoman Empire!)
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Project for Awesome: Jhamtse Gatsal!
A Global LAB student of mine from last fall is fundraising for a school she is connected with in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Music Themes: Motivation
Eye of the Tiger, The Mortal Kombat movie theme (Eldon used to play during training)
driving repetative bass
minor verse, major chorus
repetitive lyrics that are easy to understand and relate to
driving repetative bass
minor verse, major chorus
repetitive lyrics that are easy to understand and relate to
Music Themes: Breaking Free or Realization
Don't have a name or an example for this one yet
I-I-I-I-I-I V(siton it) I-I-I-I-I-I V
with a melodic vocal line, possibly evocative suspended harmony that resolves itself.
I-I-I-I-I-I V(siton it) I-I-I-I-I-I V
with a melodic vocal line, possibly evocative suspended harmony that resolves itself.
Music Themes: Lonliness
together with someone, or many people, but alone in your head.
never happy no matter who you're with.
lonely because you are by yourself, thinking that being with someone or other people would fix the feeling.
missing one particular person, but surrounded by many many others.
no body knows you at all.
Suspension of the same notes or suspended (2 or 4) open picked chord over basic I-IV-V progression (different rhythms or time signatures for different emotions?) and a predictable ii-V-vii7-V-I bridge.
This came from an awful cover of an awful, but interesting song from NYE in Kathmandu (it was so loud I couldn't talk to my friends at the table - the band was literally screaming and I had to put my fingers in my ears to stop the pain) by Hoobastank (worst band name EVER) The Reason.
But there was something insistent and sad about the music. And the fact that the Nepali singer (which is typical) didn't actually know the English lyrics, but was just singing like we sing when we don't know the words, but we think we know... just singing sounds, was driving me crazy.
never happy no matter who you're with.
lonely because you are by yourself, thinking that being with someone or other people would fix the feeling.
missing one particular person, but surrounded by many many others.
no body knows you at all.
Suspension of the same notes or suspended (2 or 4) open picked chord over basic I-IV-V progression (different rhythms or time signatures for different emotions?) and a predictable ii-V-vii7-V-I bridge.
This came from an awful cover of an awful, but interesting song from NYE in Kathmandu (it was so loud I couldn't talk to my friends at the table - the band was literally screaming and I had to put my fingers in my ears to stop the pain) by Hoobastank (worst band name EVER) The Reason.
But there was something insistent and sad about the music. And the fact that the Nepali singer (which is typical) didn't actually know the English lyrics, but was just singing like we sing when we don't know the words, but we think we know... just singing sounds, was driving me crazy.
Understanding Federalism
Wikipedia
says it is is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head. The term federalism is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units (like states or provinces). Federalism is a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and central (state) governments, creating what is often called a federation. Proponents are often called federalists.
Federalism is the type of politics wherein a group of members create a sovereign constitution with central governing authority and political units.
Wiki uses the example of India as a unique form of Federalism... 28 states and 7 Union territories, but with exceptions based on caste and/or class of individuals or ethnic minorities. Does this give rise to uncontrollable separatist movements? i.e too much freedom = no enough central control?
US is given as another example where parts came together to create a functional whole. Though, the debate continues to rage about state vs. central government control of things like speed limits and health care.
I'm curious about Nepal's process and their vision of the term.
says it is is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head. The term federalism is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units (like states or provinces). Federalism is a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and central (state) governments, creating what is often called a federation. Proponents are often called federalists.
Federalism is the type of politics wherein a group of members create a sovereign constitution with central governing authority and political units.
Wiki uses the example of India as a unique form of Federalism... 28 states and 7 Union territories, but with exceptions based on caste and/or class of individuals or ethnic minorities. Does this give rise to uncontrollable separatist movements? i.e too much freedom = no enough central control?
US is given as another example where parts came together to create a functional whole. Though, the debate continues to rage about state vs. central government control of things like speed limits and health care.
I'm curious about Nepal's process and their vision of the term.
Engaged Buddhism
Toward a definition of this, I'm collecting perspectives that I find. Thay talks about the term from a Vietnamese Theravadin perspective which, unsurprisingly calls for radical action in every moment to recognize one's true nature.
Other groups like the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and The Interdependence Project are looking at developing their own definitions from a social activist standpoint.
A professor of mine is working on a paper striving toward a Buddhist theory of conflict transformation. He is coming from a Japanese Buddhist perspective but makes the point that dependent origination is the glue that holds together the conditions to create conflict and peace, or merely interaction between two sentient beings. From that understanding, one can unpack that judgments and meanings that we, ourselves, place on the interaction creating the aversion or the attachment to each interaction.
This professor of mine calls for responsibility on the inner level as well as the outer level in order to be engaged.
I can't help but continue to be the cynic and say that even according to Buddhism, my understanding is that we are human and predisposed given our afflictions in this realm of existence to humanity and its constraints and opportunities. We can recommit to being 'engaged' on many levels but the real activism is what Thay says it is - reconfirming that commitment by recognizing every time we stray and coming back to the radical nature of the moment.
but who knows.
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