Of debt acknowledged and for matters judged in court in iure thirty days shall be allowed by law [for payment or for satisfaction]. After that [elapse of thirty days without payment] hand shall be laid on manus iniectio [the debtor]. He shall be brought into court in ius. Unless he the debtor discharge the debt or unless some one appear in court in iure to guarantee payment for him, he the creditor shall take [the debtor] with him.
He shall bind [him] either with thong or with fetters, of which the weight shall be not less than fifteen pounds or shall be more, if he the creditor choose. If he the debtor choose, he shall live on his own [means]. If he live not on his own [means], [the creditor,] who shall hold him in bonds, shall give [him] a pound of bread daily; if he the creditor shall so desire, he shall give [him] more. Unless they the debtors make a compromise, they the debtors shall be held in bonds for sixty days. The five mandates of the Twelve Tables encompassing debt created a new understanding within social classes in ancient Rome that insured financial exploitation would be limited within legal business transactions.
The Twelve Tables have three sections that pertain to women as they concern estates and guardianship, ownership and possession, and religion, which give a basic understanding as to the legal rights of females. One of the aspects highlighted in the Twelve Tables is a woman's legal status and standing in society. Women were considered to be a form of guardianship similar to that of minors, [15] and sections on ownership and possession give off the impression that women were considered to be akin to a piece of real estate or property due to the use of terms such as "ownership" and "possession".
The Twelve Tables are often cited as the foundation for ancient Roman law. Although faced with many issues, the Twelve Tables provided a premature understanding of some key concepts such as justice , equality , and punishment. Although legal reform occurred soon after the implementation of the Twelve Tables, these ancient laws provided social protection and civil rights for both the patricians and plebeians. At this time, there was extreme tension between the privileged class and the common people resulting in the need for some form of social order. While the existing laws had major flaws that were in need of reform, the Twelve Tables eased the civil tension and violence between the plebeians and patricians.
The influence of the Twelve Tables is still evident in the modern day. For example, the Twelve Tables are tied into the notion of Jus Commune , also known as "common law. The Twelve Tables are no longer extant: Cicero claimed [20] that he learned them by heart as a boy in school, but that no one did so any longer. What we have of them today are brief excerpts and quotations from these laws in other authors, often in clearly updated language. They are written in an archaic, laconic Latin described as Saturnian verse.
As such, though it cannot be determined whether the quoted fragments accurately preserve the original form, what is present gives some insight into the grammar of early Latin. Some claim that the text was written as such so plebeians could more easily memorise the laws, as literacy was not commonplace during early Rome. Roman Republican scholars wrote commentaries upon the Twelve Tables, such as L. Aelius Stilo, [21] teacher of both Varro and Cicero.
Like most other early codes of law, they were largely procedural , combining strict and rigorous penalties with equally strict and rigorous procedural forms. In most of the surviving quotations from these texts, the original table that held them is not given.
Brooke writes, "I am looking for an apprentice to assist me in the writing of a book about directing for theater and performance. While many books on directing address the craft and technique of directing, this book will focus on the social, political and relational conditions that ground the practice.
Studies in directing or nine encounters between me and you. These performances explore the relationship an audience has to the live event, to the performer, and to the hidden, but ever-present, director. I would like the apprentice to work with me to parse through and analyze the rhetorical styles of contemporary books on stage directing. The student will need to become familiar with the theories of stage directing as well as the theoretical writings of Hannah Arendt.
No previous experience in theater is required, but the student should have great work habits, should be capable of organizing emotional impulses and responses into concrete ideas, and should be very generous and open when working with people. I am working on a series of poems on two of the characters who literally disappear from the novel on the first page. My apprentice will be tasked with perusing newspapers for stories, advertisements, and editorials that have to do with the lives of black people in Southern Ohio starting in the s and running up through the early 20th century.
Of particular interest is the history of Wilberforce University, where many black ministers went to be trained. The apprentice will then write up reports on what they find, taking care to describe the ways journalists and public figures use language. What constitutes slang in Ohio? What are the concerns of its residents? How are blacks figured into the body politic? And what is the world that Howard and Buglar find after they leave home? Lorene writes, "I need an assistant to help with the first year of SafeKidsStories , including soliciting, writing, researching, and editing for the website SafeKidsStories.
Plus social media chops and multimedia skills or interest. And initiative and resourcefulness. The apprentice will work with me to begin to develop a comprehensive set of sites and methods for the workshops. They will research what arts programs already exist in the city, where the need lies, and possible partners, funding sources and workshop sites. The apprentice will also research various methods of teaching creative writing and help me develop targeted curricula for each of the communities we will be engaging with. An ideal candidate would be an excellent researcher and communicator with a passion for civic engagement and how writing can make a difference in the world.
Dick writes, "For my Spring semester apprenticeship, applicants must have a strong interest in political journalism.
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The apprentice will learn how to stay on top of the fast-breaking political news, how to spot timely story ideas, how to recognize political trends, and how to most effectively research valuable material online. The apprentice will help me work on my daily political blog, National Interest at newsworks. I will edit those guest pieces; the editing process will provide more learning opportunities. Karen Writes, "I am looking for an editorial apprentice for Cleaver Magazine , an independent literary magazine that shares poetry, fiction, flash prose that is words or less , nonfiction, and visual art.
Cleaver is a quarterly magazine, so your apprenticeship will focus on the March and June issues. Please take time to familiarize yourself with the magazine before applying. As an apprentice you will have your hand in every facet of the editorial, production, and publicity work. Production duties will vary according to your software skills. Publicity duties include writing pieces for our Editors' Blog and helping out with social media. You will also write a book review or more, if you like of a new release from a small press. In addition, I have a couple of independent projects in mind that you might want to choose from.
The best candidate will be well-organized and dependable with excellent writing, editing skills, and communication skills and a strong interest in literary magazine publishing. If you're a skilled poet or fiction writer, that's a plus, but it's not necessary to be accomplished in all genres.
I am more interested in your taste and your editorial skills than your poetry-writing skills. Experience in editing and publishing is an excellent qualification, but not is required. Likewise, experience with web design, particularly Wordpress platform, would be nice, but is not necessary. Avery Writes, "In addition to my teaching, I am a freelance editor whose projects come from different areas, fiction and non-fiction.
My work depends on a deft reading of the writer as well as his or her text. For the spring it looks as if I will be editing at least two books, one a biography of a powerful politician and the other a medical malpractice saga. Each of these will require not just the streamlining of narrative, but also building a strong collaboration with the author, deriving a strategy to bring forth the best in the manuscript, and backstopping on research, tone and presentation. I also regularly team up with a playwright in New York and help a local food cupboard with media outreach.
Other assignments are likely to appear. A valuable apprentice would be nimble and curious, a self-starter who loves playing with language and has an interest in interacting with creative, sometimes anxious authors. He or she will participate in every aspect of what I do and come to know the back-stage process of how literary creations come together.
I say this because my interests are varied and reflected in my creative efforts — currently three screenplays in various stages of development, and a middle grade, quasi-fantastical book series loosely centered on climate change, the Jersey shore and pizza just because I love it. This would also hold true for any meetings with film executives during the spring. Must haves for this apprenticeship? A sense of humor and a love of reading fiction. Great time management skills to impart to me and a particular affinity for Pixar movies, especially Finding Nemo.
Expertise in science or government is not required, but a strong sense of curiosity is. Peter writes, "I would like an apprentice to help me bring a multi-year writing project across the finish line. In , I benefited from the editorial insights of an outstanding Penn undergrad, Aaron Walker, who discovered ways to streamline an ungainly historical narrative line.
That meant teaching the youngest generation of Filipinos to speak English. The army viewed this educational effort as a branch of counterinsurgency.
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I would like an apprentice to help me: I have taken their stories up through about I need to know what happened to several of them in later years. This will require excellent research skills and persistence; 2 open the narrative to a possible chapter-length extension, which will involve comparing the Philippines experience of American teachers with experiences of s — s Peace Corps volunteers who taught English in various countries including the Philippines!
The apprentice would help me determine the availability of letters home from specific Peace Corps volunteers, and could help me retrieve them; 3 thicken the narrative richness of the existing text by helping me to discover whether an archival treasure trove in Carlisle, PA contains any letters from U. Anthony writes, "I am a working journalist based in New York, who is blessed and cursed with juggling a variety of projects and assignments, often on short notice and mostly to do with popular music.
Here the harrowing truths of such work will be revealed -- the corners cleverly cut; the disasters deftly avoided; the mounting deadlines nudged imperceptibly into the realm of the possible.
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The apprentice's task will be to heroically assist in those processes while revealing nothing about how closely the abyss loomed at all times. For students who have worked at the Daily Pennsylvanian or 34th Street this will, of course, be familiar terrain, though such experience is not at all required. The work itself will typically involve research, and possibly some transcription and fact-checking.
Excellent research skills, reliability, and a passion for accuracy are therefore essential virtues. Top-notch computer abilities would be a plus as well. Because I live in New York and likely won't be around campus much in the spring, the ability to travel to New York from time to time would be valuable, though, again, it's not a deal breaker. I will routinely be available by phone, email, Skype, whatever, and, needless to say, conversations about the ever-changing journalistic world would be a central part of this experience.
This apprenticeship would probably be most useful to students who are considering journalism as a career, or who foresee writing in popular settings along with whatever else they might be doing later. The apprentice will be welcome to participate in my work as deeply as time, distance, and common sense will allow. Beth writes, "Not long ago I read about an ultimately debilitating disease that is rare, extraordinarily heartbreaking, and, in its earliest manifestations, eerily beautiful.
For a new young adult novel to be written for Philomel, a division of Penguin, I will be researching this condition and easing it toward a story based in a European city the particulars of which will also require ingenious research. Some of the leading authorities on this condition are based in Philadelphia. Research will therefore include time spent in the library with dust-encrusted books, Google explorations, medical searches, and in-person interviews. The book now being planned will be my eighteenth, and my third for Philomel.
The topics run the gamut, but always tend towards the dramatic, with complex characters or issues at their cores. Many of my articles have won writing awards or been anthologized in books, and several are in development as Hollywood films. As such, this apprenticeship will be a research-oriented one.
My apprentice should be curious, enterprising, a stickler for accuracy and someone who believes—as I do—that the answers are out there, waiting to be found. Regular visits to my Center City home office will be required. Taije writes, "This apprenticeship is an opportunity to co-teach a writing workshop at Project H. Once a week we will meet at the Honickman Learning Center in Northeast Philadelphia to run a creative writing workshop for those who live either independently or in a group residence for formerly homeless adults.
The class will culminate in a final public reading from work produced during the semester. The apprentice would help develop the curriculum, choosing reading material and creating writing assignments according to the interests and skills of the students. Jay writes,"I think I can say with certainty that I am now embarked on the strangest writing project so far in my career: It involves the theft of a manuscript, a lot of detective work, some vampire stories, at least one gypsy funeral, and concerns itself, intellectually, with themes of originality, preservation, derivation, variation, and the anxiety of influence in art.
So, in addition to helping with the larger and more rigorous work of book research, the apprentice will also get a chance to become familiar with the workings of a national magazine. Tasks will likely include tape transcription, fact-checking, proofreading, the hunting down of obscure articles, and possibly the conducting of an interview or two.
Since my first book, Kingdom Under Glass , named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of by the Washington Post , will also be newly out in paperback, the apprentice will also get to witness the final stages of publication and publicity. Shelf Life Press , a division of the The Faster Times , is creating new media editions of literary classics for e-book readers and tablets. Our editions will include images, original videos, and text links for readers interested in learning more about the work in question and the historical period from which it emerged.
Together with a team of editors and academics, the apprentice will assist in every aspect of book production, from background research to video production. Apple, the author of Schlepping Through the Alps and American Parent , will directly oversee all apprentice projects.
Rick writes, "The chocolate in those elegant gift boxes and, more universally, the candy rack at Wawa had to start out somewhere. If you see the words "local chocolate," don't believe it: The bean it comes from only grows in a slender band around the equator, a little south of it and a little north. It is called cacao. And for most of human history, it has played roles both sacred and profane, offering refuge to songbirds, and unleashing destruction on vast forests; providing a living for Costa Rican small-holders, wielding the whip on enslaved boys in Africa; candy, one minute; cage, the next.
More than a decade ago, I flew over the Andes in Peru to see if cacao-growing -- as advertised by U. And I traipsed through a "germplasm" plantation in Trinidad, to see the work of a long-dead British botanist credited with rescuing chocolate when it appeared headed -- in certain tropical precincts -- for near-extinction. It is that man's story -- and how it plays into the larger story of chocolate's own conflicted biography -- that I've long itched to tell. Tales of treks in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea, and that precious Fort Knox of cacao that endures to this day on an overlooked island off the coast of Venezuela.
Most Penn apprenticeships have attached to works in progress: There is a question that first needs answering: I would say this book is limited to a Jewish audience who is either familiar with Shlomo or who understands Jewish terms. Each chapter can be read separately and the larger print is easy on the eyes. There is no glossary or index. Contains a dozen photos. For Shlomo's Torah teachings, see this excellent book: One person found this helpful. I highly recommend this book to anyone who knew of Reb Shlomo Carlebach, anyone who ever heard of him and even to anyone who is curious what it was like to be around an unusual, unique, spiritual and at times controversial teacher as Reb Shlomo.
The essays written by his students are each unique, interesting and often brilliant.
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The second part of the book, actual transcripts of interviews and teachings with Reb Shlomo, provide a glimpse into the experience of actually being with Reb Shlomo. I am honored to be a contributor to this important inspiring anthology. I shared my experience of being a woman in the Carlebach shul and how my subsequent teaching in Jewish meditation and the many books I have written were informed from those early days with him.
Reb Shlomo revitalized Judaism for hundreds of thousands of Jews as well as uplifted non-Jews when he traveled to various countries such as South Africa, Poland, Germany, Morocco, etc. We who knew and loved him miss him deeply but now we are happy to know that that his music and teachings continues to quench the spiritual thirst of people today. This book is nectar to our thirsty souls. Principles in the Thought of Reb Shlomo Carlebach. This transcription picks up the nuances and the touches of humor in this insightful interview. I relived watching the video as I read it. Rabbi Joe and Reuven Goldfarb: An excellent anthology for the thoughtful reader.
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