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His grandfather, far from opposing Achebe's conversion to Christianity, allowed Achebe's Christian marriage to be celebrated in his compound.
Achebe's writing about African society, in telling from an African point of view the story of the colonization of the Igbo, tends to extinguish the misconception that African culture had been savage and primitive.
* Chinua Achebe's watershed English language novel Things Fall Apart takes its title from Yeats's poem.
" The album takes its title from Chinua Achebe's novel of the same name, which in turn took the phrase from William Butler Yeats's poem " The Second Coming ".

Achebe's and Achebe
"— to support for Achebe's view —" I now realize that I had never really read Heart of Darkness although I have taught it for years ," one professor told Achebe.

Achebe's and have
Reviewers have praised Achebe's neutral narration and have described Things Fall Apart as a realistic novel.

lecture and lively
These include a lively 1988 debate on Crossfire with black nationalist Steve Cokely, shortly following a controversial lecture Cokely gave in which he believed that Jewish doctors were inoculating black babies with the HIV virus, appearing on the History Channel documentary Nazi America: A Secret History, and a memorable June 1998 appearance on the Jerry Springer Show where he and his bodyguards ( Al and Joseph whom both were not Jewish ) rushed to defend him from members of the Ku Klux Klan after the leader of the KKK sucker punched him in the face while wearing a yarmulke.
The lecture is followed by a question period, which is invariably lively.

lecture and debate
Luten has said that although the book is often seen as a seminal work in the field, the Population Bomb is actually best understood as " climaxing and in a sense terminating the debate of the 1950s and 1960s .” Ehrlich has said that he traced his own Malthusian beliefs to a lecture he heard Vogt give when he was attending university in the early 1950s.
In 1984 he participated, with three other left-wing intellectuals, in a debate with the economist Milton Friedman, who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the " tyranny of the status quo " at the University of Iceland.
As a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, he was a prominent public intellectual, and his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure.
During early graduate studies, he attended a lecture by Saul Friedländer, in which he had what he describes as a " lightbulb moment ": the functionalism versus intentionalism debate did not address the question, “ When Hitler ordered the annihilation of the Jews, why did people execute the order ?” Goldhagen wanted to investigate who were the German men and women who killed the Jews, and their reasons for killing.
On Saturday 30 May the 1860 Oxford evolution debate featured Draper's lecture on his paper " On the Intellectual Development of Europe, considered with reference to the views of Mr. Darwin and others, that the progression of organisms is determined by law.
Adam Keller, editor of the Tel Aviv-based The Other Israel, spoke at length on the issue during a lecture tour of the US in September 2004, especially in the course of an intense and highly emotive debate with right-wing Jewish hecklers on the university campus at Fullerton, California.
On 21 January of that year he delivered a lecture before the Queen's University of Belfast ; later published as an article, " The Military Revolution, 1560 – 1660 ", that has fueled debate in historical circles for five decades, in which the concept has been continually redefined.
The BBC Today / Chatham House lecture series, developed with the Today programme, was designed to promote debate and discussion on key international issues of the day.
Macklin retired from the stage in 1753, then opened a tavern at which he gave a nightly lecture followed by a debate, which Macklin called the British Inquisition.
An extensive critical analysis of these contentions has been made by Martin Wolf, and a lecture by Professor Jagdish Bhagwati has surveyed the debate that has taken place among economists
For Hart House, a historic gathering place at the University and a home for debate, discussion and dissent, the lecture is a fitting medium through which the House can nurture civic leadership and participation.
During the crucial early months of the debate this and Hume's lecture distributed as a pamphlet were the only responses to Vestiges published by the established clergy, and there were just two other short works opposing it: a published lecture by the Anabaptist preacher John Sheppard, and an unorthodox anti-science piece by Samuel Richard Bosanquet.
The lecture was subsequently published in the political and literary journal, Quadrant, which at the time was edited by Robert Manne and is now edited by Keith Windschuttle, two of the leading " history warriors ", albeit on opposing sides of the debate.

lecture and reactions
I have two reactions to the pope's lecture: There is my concern about the degradation of relations and, at the same time, I see an opportunity.
Fukui had acknowledged in his Nobel lecture that, ' It is only after the remarkable appearance of the brilliant work by Woodward and Hoffmann that I have become fully aware that not only the density distribution but also the nodal property of the particular orbitals have significance in such a wide variety of chemical reactions.
His monograph on lime karst led to positive reactions in European scientific circles, but what made him famous was his being the first geotecomuscientist, and an introductory academic lecture that made him known as the first tectonicst among South Slavs.
Blanding was strongly affected by U. S. entry into World War II, including the knowledge of his island paradise as a military target, the reactions of those he met on his lecture tours, and the fall of Bataan.

lecture and at
The convicts were put in chains, paraded before the congregation at the Reverend Cotton's lecture as an example, and sent to prisons in various towns, where they languished all winter, chains included.
The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.
Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.
And at this point, Lucy thought, there should be a lecture on little cousins' sharing dolls -- but she could sympathize with Susan ; ;
* The full text of a lecture by John Melville-Jones on the life of this emperor is located at:.
The following month, Capp was charged in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in connection with another alleged incident following his April 1 lecture at Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire.
* Steinsaltz's lecture in winter 2005 at Florida International University
After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.
Buckminster Fuller, lecture tour 1972-3, University of California at Santa Barbara.
" In an 1880 lecture at Harvard, he wrote:
* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.
* ( iTunes link ) Podcast lecture on Candide, from Dr Martin Evans at Stanford University
The lecture that evening was on " Fairy Life ", and at the end of the meeting Polly Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.
After attending one such lecture, UFO investigator Robert Sheaffer wrote " Some of his “ rods ” were obviously insects zipping across the field at a high angular rate.
Only a year later, at the age of 39, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).
* Kainam Thomas Wong: Statistical Signal Processing lecture notes at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
The paper was originally presented as a Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford in November 1979.
Nils Berglund's lecture notes for a course at ETH at the advanced undergraduate level.
A close-up shot can also be used at the beginning of a scene to establish the setting ( such as, for the lecture hall scene, a shot of a pencil writing notes ).
Raymond has spoken in more than fifteen countries on six continents, including a lecture at Microsoft.
During a 1961 lecture for undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, a celebrated physics teacher and Nobel Laureate, said this about the concept of energy:
Meitner's and Frisch's interpretation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University.
In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news.
He was also known to be an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago, and was known for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation for a lecture.

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