Litnet

"The Book of Wisdom alludes to Solomon and his wisdom. However, wisdom is personified in this book. She becomes a life companion to those who follow her. She was used by God to create the world."

"How do learners use their linguistic capital to navigate their educational processes at a school in the Northern Cape? Data were gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews held with two learners from Namibia, an Ovambo-speaking male learner and a Damara-Nama-speaking female learner."

"The South African legal framework gives too much discretion to individual operators, which increases the possibility of human rights violations. Secondly, it appears that ordinary CCTV footage can be used as a data source for AFR systems."

"As (apparently) genderless outsider, Nataniël’s artistic meta-text thus simultaneously mediates exceptional visibility and invisibility. Such self-fashioning, underlining contrasting aspects of his persona, empowers him to engage in a wide range of role play."

"He thereby consolidated the Dutch constitutional democracy at a time when the system was still young and, given the revolutionary climate at the time, still vulnerable. By means of his narrative emphasis on principled political engagement within a constitutional democratic framework he laid the foundations of the Dutch political party system."

"Given the challenges of the terminology, we advise that universities should teach in English and the prevalent local language, but use the English terminology as a form of standardisation. In doing so, students will get the proverbial best of both worlds: the English terminology and the best possible understanding."

"In conclusion, it is important to note that using WhatsApp in this way not only gave students an opportunity to interact with the lesson content, their peers and tutors, but also allowed them to create a community of inquiry, forging significant relationships that allowed them to learn from and with each other."

"What distinguishes Son of Saul from other mainstream Holocaust films, however, is how Nemes juxtaposes the film’s content with its form. Nemes opts for a modernist form of representation that rejects an omnipresent point of view and, instead, limits the film’s scope to Saul’s perspective."

"The purpose of this article is not to critique this biological approach to religion, but to draw attention to the questionable origin and influence of a key assumption at the basis of it, namely that religion can be defined only with reference to the supernatural and/or the extraordinary."

"Historians must interpret with care these contributions, which have informed the way Shaka has been portrayed as a child born out of wedlock who grew up under difficult circumstances but nonetheless became the king and founder of the Zulu nation in 1817."

"Reading the oeuvre of Schoeman’s novels from the perspective of music and dancing commands the reader’s admiration. The three extracts, studied from different musical, dancing and textual viewpoints, demonstrate his unique virtuosity."

"Participants’ perceptions revealed that they prefer smaller language classes that would allow greater opportunity to get to know one another, which could lead to their feeling more comfortable speaking Afrikaans in the classroom."

"Examples of intrapersonal-behavioural skills provided by participants are that teachers are “congruent inside and outside school” and that they possess the “ability to evaluate the problems [that] learners have”. This intrapersonal skill becomes evident in how a teacher acts towards learners."

"Times of crisis always lead to re-evaluation and restructuring of priorities. Luke 21:24 interprets the catastrophe of 70 A.D. as the end of an era: the special position of Israel. But it is also the beginning of a new era: the time of the nations."

"Indications are that autocratic states rely heavily on ethnic sentiments and ideological loyalties to consolidate a political ruling class."

"All the Church Fathers believed that it was expected of Christians to work hard. Chrysostom denounced those who were idle or unwilling to work. He then referred to Paul who was even willing to be a tentmaker, and he added that people who were craftsmen did not have to be ashamed of their craft."

"Is the spectre of nuclear terrorism and, concurrently, the depiction of nuclear terrorism as an existential crisis by the media, government officials and nuclear experts, justified?"

"To encourage the participation of post level 1 teachers in an expanded SMT and decision-making in a school-based management model would require that the roles and responsibilities of these teachers be developed and expanded. It was found that, to achieve effective change, a heightened focus on skills and abilities is important so as to make effective decisions as a team and not as individuals."

"According to Boshoff this language is the Word, or rather words, spoken by God when the world was created and that as spoken words they are closely related to breath: 'Creation happened when the creator broke the silence with his sound [breath or spoken words].'"

"In this article the ideas of António Damásio, one of the most influential neuroscientists of our age, about the role of feelings in well-being is developed as a theoretical framework for a speculative inquiry into the evolutionary pressures that would lead to the development of this ability."