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This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using Bourdieu's notion of cultural capital to explain the interviewees' experiences in the elite school space, the article shows that success in one part of an educational field does not necessarily equate to success in another. Further, providing students with the financial means to access elite education does not mean that they enter into the school contexts as 'equal players'. As such, what the article highlights is that the acceptance of a scholarship for students from historically disadvantaged communities is far more complex and multi-layered than is anticipated by all stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article identifies for the first time the 'lone antiquary', which Charlotte Smith refers to in her poem Beachy Head, as Rev. James Douglas, one of the most significant and interesting early archaeological writers. My contention is that not only do Douglas's specific findings and theories about stratigraphy, fossilisation and the culture of Britain's earliest inhabitants contribute to the historical, antiquarian background to Smith's poem but also that the transformative nature of his poetics informs her work. In particular, both Douglas and Smith are concerned with the relationships between facts and fancy, rubble and aura, scepticism and belief. I argue that the barrows, which Douglas excavated and upon which Smith mused, were an important site for the development of the Romantic archaeological imagination and, as such, represent a suggestive contribution to the new Material Romanticism critical turn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context: Single-leg stability has been associated with injury risk and is a key component of many injury prevention interventions. Methods of measuring single-leg stability are varied yet often unreliable. Objective: To establish within- and between-day test–retest reliability for single-leg time to stabilization (SL-TTS) following a drop-landing maneuver of 20 cm in height among a healthy cohort. Design: Test–retest reliability study. Setting: Healthy cohort from a third-level educational institution. Participants: Nineteen (11 females and 8 males) healthy individuals. Main Outcome Measures: The SL-TTS in the vertical plane. Results: The SL-TTS showed good within-day (intraclass correlation coefficient =.715) and excellent between-day (intraclass correlation coefficient =.83) test–retest reliability. The minimal detectable change was calculated as 171.6 ms for within-day contexts and 123.8 ms for between-day contexts. Conclusions: This method of measuring SL-TTS is reliable and could be used to detect changes over time in a healthy cohort. This could be of value to clinicians in injury risk factor identification or assessing the effectiveness of single-leg stability training. However, further research is needed to investigate its reliability in pathological populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cléo de 5 à 7(1962) and L’Une chante, l’autre pas (1976) are two films by Agnès Varda that explore the figure of the chanteuse. In the first film, Cléo is a ‘modern’ chanteuse de variétés of the early 1960s, with her character containing echoes of both Sylvie Vartan and Edith Piaf. Yet, during the film, she sheds her mainstream singer image that is associated with narcissism and manipulation, and transforms her outlook by leaving her career behind. The second film follows Pomme, a young woman who also starts out in popular music in the 1960s, but later finds her calling as a chanteuse engagée for the Women’s Movement of the 1970s. Pomme’s empowerment is directly linked to her engagement with folk-influenced, protest music, which grows stronger as time moves on. This essay reveals Varda’s input into contemporary debates surrounding the female singer in the 1960s and 1970s, and it identifies overlooked aspects of the canonical New Wave film Cléo de 5 à 7, in comparing it to the lesser analysed L’Une chante, l’autre pas. Through close textual analysis of musical styles, lyrics and performance, this paper examines two different portraits of the French female singer in film. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of giving a lecture to the undergraduates of the University of Cambridge in the autumn of 2002.

The article discusses three central concerns- tragic drama, photography and ethics after observing the production of 'Antigone' where in the sequence of gunning down of Osama bin Laden in a trap laid by U.S. wherein Osama's body was occluded from the photography. It notes acts in tragic theater and photograph of current events raises question of recognition and self-recognition and influence of the politics is also debated.

There is a growing interest in the potential of bee venom in cosmetics as a rejuvenating agent. Products currently on the market do not specify exactly their content of bee venom (BV). Therefore, we developed a method for the detection and quantification of melittin, as a marker of bee venom content, in selected commercial creams which contained BV according to their marketing claims, in order to gauge the relative quality of such formulations. A quantitative method was achieved following a rigorous extraction procedure involving sonication, liquid-liquid extraction and solid phase extraction since carryover of excipients was found to cause a rapid deterioration in the chromatographic performance. The method employed a standard additions approach using, as spiking standard, purified melittin isolated from bee venom and standardised by quantitative NMR. The aqueous extracts of the spiked creams were analysed by reversed phase LCMS on an LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer. The purity of the melittin spiking standard was determined to be 96.0 %. The lowest measured mean melittin content in the creams was 3.19 ppm (±1.58 ppm 95 % CI) while the highest was 37.21 ppm (±2.01 ppm 95 % CI). The method showed adequate linearity ( R ≥ 0.98) and a recovery of 87.7-102.2 % from a spiked blank cream. An assay precision of <20 % RSD was achieved for all but one sample where the RSD value was 27.5 %. The method was sensitive enough for use in routine assay of BV-containing cosmetic creams. Differences in the melittin content of the commercial products assayed were nearly tenfold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the fundamental distinction between tragedy and laughter. She states that classical Greek tragedy is thought to portray the main hero as noble and statuesque and comedy relies on a spectrum of jokes, trickery, slapstick and good humor. She also mentions that the definition of tragedy is determined by the audience response that both conforms to and disrupts the generic expectation of the drama.

The article discusses English author Mary Shelley, focusing especially on her experiences editing the correspondence of her husband poet Percy Bysshe Shelley after his death, as recounted in her journal. It considers Mary's childhood education in classic literature, both the intellectual and physical relationship between the Shelleys, and Mary's studies in Greek language that began with her husband and continued after his death. It also considers the poems "Adonais" and "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe as well as the novel "The Last Man" by Mary.

Looks into the classical translation of the works of female classical scholar of the eighteenth century, Elizabeth Carter. Ornament of the literary world; Consequences of her dilemma by moving between London and Kent; Consistency of Carter's scholarship and feminity.

Analyzes the works of Homer. Period for development in European hellenism; Implications on the understanding of Romantic culture from the interest in literary authenticity; Revelation of Romantic sciences practices in response to fascination.

Discusses the significance of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's knowledge of Greek on the image of Victorian women writers in the 19th century. Image of women writers as emotional and sentimental rather than intellectual; Susceptibility of the female scholar to the attractions of male classicism.

• Scholarship students' experiences in elite South African schools. • Fitting into an elite school context as a scholarship student takes time, effort and emotion. • Benefits of elite schools, according to scholarship students, outweighed the challenge of learning to fit in. • Schools and donors need to provide ongoing support for scholarship students. Situated within the context of elite education, the empirical focus of this article is on the reflective accounts of former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite secondary schools in South Africa. Drawing on studies of scholarship students in educational institutions, the article discusses the costs and benefits, as narrated by the students, of their experiences of elite schooling. While there exists a growing body of literature on elite education globally, there is limited research on elite schools in South Africa and scholarship students within these institutions. Thus, the key contribution of the article is the discussion provided on scholarship students in elite schools in South Africa and their experiences of assimilating into the incongruent terrain of the elite school context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents historical information on Illyria, while studying the myths and legends associated with this land. Reference to the book `The Illyrians,' by John Wilkes; How this book is able to clarify uncertainty surrounding Illyria's existence; Origin of the ancient Illyrian tribes.

Analyzes poet Arnold Matthew's attitude towards translation. Arnold's ambiguous attitude to translation; Preference for the idea of internal penetration; Desiring comprehension and stillness; Representation of life in poetry; Concept of translation as cure.

Rules of social order are negotiated: actors' theories of negotiation in any particular setting affect what gets negotiated and how. This research looks at the negotiation process between two groups who had asymmetrical desires for the negotiations: one focusing on process, one on outcomes. Factors such as the balance of power, structural constraints, negotiation contexts and intergroup relationships help explain what gets negotiated and what gets changed. Actors' theories as a measure of reality become important in analyzing the "success" and importance of the negotiating process. Actors' theories affect not only what gets negotiated but the scope, durability, and volatility of negotiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers brief profiles of literature teacher and editor Mary M. Brown and Jennifer Wallace, a poetry editor.