Adil Najam
The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.
What do you make of this story? About the commentary on the story? About what it says about technology? About us as a society? About our notions of morality? And, indeed, about how violence and criminality gets legitimized in the confused clash of all of the above?
GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE WRITERS INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES FACULTY AWARDS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 1, 2009 ATLANTA, Aug. 26 — University System of Georgia of Georgia Perimeter College issued the following news release:
Georgia Perimeter College Writers Institute recently awarded its 2009 fellowships and grants to GPC professors working on a variety of publishable projects. The awards show the depth and breadth of the scholarly and creative writing by faculty at the two-year college, said Rob Jenkins, director of the Writers Institute.
The competitive awards give faculty members blocks of reassigned class time during the academic year to complete their projects; they are funded through the college’s part-time faculty budget.
Awarding the fellowships and grants “creates opportunities for our faculty to spend a year writing and conducting research,” said Jenkins “The result is good for them, and good for the college, because their scholarship helps them in the classroom and enriches the classroom environment for their students.” Fellowships, which give faculty members four courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Charles Fox, humanities professor, to complete his textbook helping students use creative strategies to revise their compositions; and Andrea Hendricks, online mathematics professor, for her series of algebra textbooks for college students. in our site creative writing prompts
Grants, which give faculty members two courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Lawrence Hetrick, humanities professor, for his work on a collection of poetry; Dr. Louvincey Brown, communications professor, to revise her doctoral dissertation on Gullah culture into a book; Elizabeth Cranford, humanities professor, for her poetry; Paul Hudson, history professor, for his article on Hazel Raines, Georgia’s first female pilot; and Chris Moser, humanities professor, to write a script for a television documentary on the Scotch-Irish in America.
Fox’s textbook working title, “Creative Control: Creative Writing Prompts for Controlling Ideas,” is slated for publication in 2010. “I’ve been accumulating the prompts for at least 10 years; the idea for the book came after talking to several colleagues at GPC and other colleges,” Fox said.
Hendricks is working on a textbook, “Intermediate Algebra for College Students,” which is to be published in November 2011.
This is the fifth year the GPC Writers Institute has awarded fellowships and grants. Since the program began, seven recipients have published books or have had their work accepted for publication. They include three authors of published nonfiction books: George Pabis’s “Daily Life Along the Mississippi”; Robert Alderson, “This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794″; and former faculty member Margaret Keiley-Listermann, for “Sinn Fein Women.” To qualify for a fellowship, applicants must be full-time tenured professors and must already be at least a third of the way finished with their book, and there must be clear evidence that the work will be published upon completion, said Jenkins. creativewritingpromptsnow.net creative writing prompts
“I feel so honored to work for a college that values the professional development of its faculty, said Hendricks. “Receiving the Writers Institute fellowship is life-changing. It has afforded me the opportunity to complete a project that has consumed much of my time over the last several years. Having this kind of support is overwhelming. I am forever grateful to the Writers Institute and to GPC.” Rebecca Rakoczy, 678/891-2691.
I came across this video this evening while making a new post for my blog. Adil, it might shivers you just like it would give to any noble and Khandani Pakistani person. Welcome to Lahore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Ui_SyhPPA
Offcourse modern and non-Talibanic type *intellectuals* would not pay attention to this unless the fire reach to their own homes.
Lo Ji, Ab taliban type hogaye. These clean shaved *intellectual radicals* are not going to leave us all alone either.
Baig, opposing ignorance of someone and discussing the issue does not mean endorsing the killing. Tell one single comment where any one endorsed the killing? If someone is opposing the ignorance of a person than it does not mean killing is being justified. Bhai apna dimagh ko Chashma pahnao takay saaf dekhay. This Mullah or Taliban bashing is not covering your ignorance about the entire matter. If you don’t have ability to give a solution then it does not mean you start shooting every one else.
I am aghast at ho many Taliban types are here who are essentially supporting MURDER because the girl “exposed” herself. Even if she did? Does that mean she should be killed by this criminal uncle of hers?
Hell with your morality. This is a human life that was taken by some jahil killer. And other jahils here are supporting him.
It gives me the shivers that we have extremists everywhere and that they would even leave comments here and defend their murder and killing!
Very nice .. Hasb-e-Haal is great program .. i like it very much
So, the girl is to blame!!!!!Why? Because she is a gir
It seems Humaira et all are quite OK that girl exposed herself to a boy and gave herself for a mobile video. err. It’s sounding more disgusting to me than anything else at the moment Kia zamana agya hay, moral aur Khandani values tu rahi he nahi society mey *shivers*
@Junaid: Unlike you I am not just talking around rather than discussing the issue. Instead of givig solution you also acting like “drawing room analysts”. As I said, Godforbig if this would have happened with some lady of your family then you would not have wasted your life moments in such such pointless argument.
@Humaira: Somebody scolded you back at home? Or you are being so naive?
This girl NEEDS TO BE BLAMED at some extend that like thousand other idiot girls that girl also SUBMITTED HERSELF to a moron guy and GOT READY to EXPOSE HERSELF infront of a gUY. The Girl was more idiotic than a Mamoo because like many other idiot Pakistani girls she was expecting dreams in the eyes of that wicked guy who ruined her life.*see i use same
It seems you live in a village where you are not allowed to find out outer world stories. Read the following story and it happened in an advanced country like US and it’s due to “openeess” and “modernism” offered by Western society.
/today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29546030/
Assumingly women in every part of the world get fooled by Men. “Welcome to Women’s Day”
@Ibrahim. Your comment is one of the inhuman and insulting thing I have ever read!
So, the girl is to blame!!!!!
Why? Because she is a girl?
YOU MORON… SHE IS DEAD… SHE WAS MURDERED…. SHE IS THE VICTIM…. The CULPRITS ARE IDIOTIC CUSTODIANS OF STUPID MORALITY….. GO AND WATCH A MIRROR AND YOU WILL SEE WHO KILLED HER!!!!!!
Amazing….if you’re going to spread propaganda at least do it in a subtle manner. The “acting” is quite obvious for these three sellout. They put the blame on everybody except the girl…oh, she just fell into some bad sin. And, how come this person knows that Mammo did a bad job? May be he did his best but the girl went on to fornicate anyway.
Let us have more free mixing and dirty programs on cable. This is just a start, it will only get worse.
All are guilty…the girl, the uncle for killing her when even by shariah this wasn’t allowed, the journalist, and the two boys for obvious reasons.
@truth_seeker: You’re ruined! So, you measure a person’s worth by his PhD thesis?