Reviews for New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth: Use of the Arts, Humanities, and Sports

The average rating for New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth: Use of the Arts, Humanities, and Sports based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-23 00:00:00 Justin Webster A moderately useful overview of Chinese attitudes towards Taiwan in the context of the fluctuating self-definition of the Chinese nation and consistent (and often legitimate) anxiety about Taiwan being used as a bridgehead to restrain the Chinese nation. The level of analysis drops abruptly regarding the 1940s, as Wachman unconvincingly speculates about Taiwan's sudden emergence as a salient issue in the Chinese mind. I do suspect, contrary to Wachman's attempt to convince his readers of the utility of 'geostrategic' motivations viz. zero-sum Pacific dominance and the outer geographical limits of China's conceptual boundaries, that Taiwan remains so important due to a confluence of factors, each of which would have to be utterly subverted to produce any shift in the PRC position.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-13 00:00:00 Gerald Huston ESPAÑOL: Excelente diálogo de Cicerón, que habla por boca de Catón el viejo. Veamos algunas de las citas más señeras para mí: [La vejez.] Hasta que es alcanzada, todos la desean; y en llegando a ella, le echan la culpa de muchos achaques. ¡Tanta es la inconstancia y el desconcierto de la necedad humana! Dicen que se les entró en casa más pronto de lo que pensaban. [El viejo] es de mejor condición que el mozo, porque lo que el mozo espera, ya el viejo lo consiguió. El joven anhela una larga vida, que el anciano ha vivido ya. Porque cuando [el fin] llega, lo que ha pasado se fue como el humo; y sólo nos queda lo que hayamos logrado con la virtud y la práctica del bien. Ennio [escribió]: "nadie me honre con llanto cuando yo muera..." Que no se debe llorar una muerte a la que sigue la inmortalidad. Y si algún dios me ofreciese volver a la niñez... rehusaría decididamente: anduve ya casi mi camino y no quisiera volver al punto de donde partí. Y si después de la muerte - como han sostenido filósofos insignificantes - nada sintiere, no temo que los filósofos que murieron se rían de mí. ENGLISH: Excellent dialogue by Cicero, who speaks through the voice of Cato the Elder. Let us see a few of the best quotes (for me): [Old age.] Until it is reached, everyone wants it; and in arriving at it, they blame it for many ailments. Such is the inconstancy and bewilderment of human folly! They say it came to them sooner than they thought. [The old man] is in a better condition than the youth, because what the youth expects, the old man already has. The youth longs for a long life, which the old man has already lived. When [the end] arrives, what has happened goes like smoke; and we only have left what we achieved with virtue and the practice of goodness. Ennius [wrote]: "Let no one honor me with tears when I die..." One should not mourn a death followed by immortality. And if some god offered me to return to childhood... I would resolutely refuse: I have almost finished my way and do not want to return to the starting point. And if after death - as insignificant philosophers have argued - there is nothing, I have not fear that those dead philosophers will laugh at me.