A fresh look at the hip-hop movement and the fierce battles being waged to control it. Beneath the glitz and glut of mainstream hip-hop, there's an underground movement of "conscious rap," political angst and an anticapitalist ethos that would make even Bill Gates throw his hands in the air. That conscious rap is what Watkins, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, champions in this solid book. It's an ambitious attempt to cover a culture that began in the late '70s ...
Covers major figures and events in Vietnam and the United States from 1945 to 1975. Includes French colonialism, the First Indochina War, U.S. Cold War policy, Ngo Dinh Diem and the Republic of Vietnam, John F. Kennedy and the first U.S. involvement, Lyndon B. Johnson and Americanization, the Tet Offensive, the U.S. antiwar movement, Richard M. Nixon and Vietnamization, and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
Apostle Paul (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
+ Coursebook)
Taught by Luke Timothy Johnson
Emory University
Ph.D., Yale University
Coming to grips with Christianity means coming to grips with Paul. There is no figure aside from Jesus himself who is more important to the history of this world religion, and no figure from the age of the early church about whom we know more or of whom we have a more rounded view.
This course addresses many questions concerning Paul's embattled life and work. Is Paul the inventor of Christianity or part of a larger movement? Is he best understood from the Acts of the Apostles or from his letters? Why does he focus on moral character of the community? How do his supporters and detractors depict him?
You consider his letters to the Thessalonians, Corinthians, and Galatians. You explore his religious commitments as a member of the Pharisaic movement, his persecution of the Christian sect, the dramatic experience that changed him into an apostle, and his work as a missionary and church founder.
Course Lecture Titles
01 An Apostle Admired and Despised
02 How Should We Read Paul?
03 Paul’s Life and Letters
04 Problems of Early Christianity
05 First and Second Thessalonians
06 Life in the World—First Corinthians
07 Life in Christ—Second Corinthians
08 Life and Law—Galatians
09 Life and Righteousness—Romans
10 Fellowship—Letters from Captivity
11 History and Theology
12 Paul’s Influence
Taught by Richard Brettell
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D., Yale University
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Professor Richard Brettell creates a vivid, "virtual" museum through which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the Impressionists: the men and women who, in but a few short decades, forever changed the art of painting.
Who Were the Impressionists?
They appeared in a period of upheaval. They saw the rebuilding of Paris, the rise of industrialism, the ruin of the Franco-Prussian war.
They displayed their works—paintings that were startlingly, even shockingly, new—in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886.
And by the 1890s this "loose coalition" of artists who rebelled against the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic movement in history. "They" were the Impressionists, and Professor Brettell is your expert curator and guide to a movement that created a new, intensely personal vision of the world.
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