«At La Trobe, we are committed to making a positive difference to the world in which we live, and the Aspire program enables us to support the efforts of
inspiring young people whose values and ambitions align with ours,» he said.
Not exact matches
He adds: «As Ed's very broad support also shows, he has that X-factor which
inspires young people,
whose support, along with over four million others, we must win back to win again.»
As we prepare to spend tomorrow thinking about ways to nurture civic participation in
young people, we wanted to republish a great story about two Facing History students
whose study of history and the choices
people make
inspired them to petition the Oxford English Dictionary to add the word upstander to its pages.
The powerful and
inspiring debut from Susan Nussbaum invites us into a landscape populated with
young people whose lives have been irreversibly changed by misfortune but
whose voices resound with resilience, courage, and humor.
Among the main female protagonists that
inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi
whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's
people beyond the news coverage; an unknown
young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid
whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.