John starts his letter with reminding the conversation he had had with his son the night before that he might be gone someday. He talks about death and how dying people have asked him what death is like. He has always said that it is like going home. John starts looking back on his life, reminding his parents and grandparents. His father and grandfather were ministers too and ment a lot to him. John talks about a trip he and his father took to find Johns grandfathers grave who had been an itinerant preacher. It had been a rough journey, which lasted for week. They had very little to eat and nowhere to sleep. It had been a bonding experience for them. John Ames is amazed by the fact that everywhere he goes people seem to know that he is a reverend, even strangers. Mr. Ames thinks about the brightest memories of his childhood and writes them down hoping that his son learns something from every story he has put down for him. He mentions his good old friend Mr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language, (2010) 23. Romani people = Romani people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people, (2010) 24. Romani society... = Romani society and culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_society_and_culture, (2010) 25. Sving = Sving. http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sving, (2010) 29 Romani music Summary The Romani (also called Gypsies) are an itinerant people believed to have originated in northern India. They are an ethnic group with diverse and interesting culture. Furthermore, their music and musicians are highly valued in the whole world. I have always been interested in music, but especially in folk music. Romany music has affected a lot of different people´s folk music, especially in eastern Europe. I wanted to know why Romani music has become so popular and well-known and also what characterizes Romani music
students are being taught in various and subtle ways beyond the content of courses. AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE CAMPUS If education is to be measured against the standard of sustainability, what can be done? I would like to make four propsals. First, I would like to propose that you engage in a campus-wide dialogue about the way you conduct your business as educators. Does four years here make your graduates better planetary citizens or does it make them, in Wendell Berry's words, "itinerant professional vandals"? Does this college contribute to the development of a sustainable regional economy or, in the name of efficiency, to the processes of destruction? My second suggestion is to examine resource flows on this campus: food, energy, water, materials, and waste. Faculty and students should together study the wells, mines, farms, feedlots, and forests that supply the campus as well as the dumps where you send your waste. Collectively, begin a process