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This chapter documents the links between Paisley's church and his party. It discusses church reservations about involvement in politics and party attempts to reconcile religious preferences with vote-winning. It also considers the impact of electoral success and generational succession on the party's principles. It concludes that contrary to popular images of a party divided in young secular and older religious wings, the DUP remains firmly united.

In this chapter, García Márquez the apprentice and young writer is examined. The early Gabo writes mostly of death and isolation, of souls and bodies trapped in graves and dreams, much different from the Gabo who wrote his revered novel. A morose and brooding García Márquez is seen in his stories such as The Other Side of Death and Eva is Inside her Cat. Also discussed here is García Márquez's novel Leaf Storm and its resemblances to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Another novel examined is In Evil Hour, which García Márquez wrote before One Hundred Years of Solitude.

It is survival of the fittest. At the Academy, beginners struggle to adjust cognitively and physically to the material objects, devices, and ways of doing and thinking required for their temporally-driven work. Then, as they progress to apprenticeship and working live traffic, we see how trainers fine-tune interpretive practices and how cognition is shaped by system structure, goals, technology, history, and culture. It is learning by mistake. These lessons are reinforced by controllers in the room, who are both audience and social control, leaving no error unnoticed. The trainer instills competing system goals as cultural scripts: in this case, the safe, orderly, and expeditious delivery of air traffic. The practical accomplishment is a highly developed cultural system of knowledge. In becoming experts, mind, body, technologies, and institutionalized cultural beliefs merge, becoming tacit knowledge, such that tasks can be done automatically, freeing controllers to think about the higher order matters of dead reckoning, such as planning, anticipating, and recognizing anomalies. When they have acquired tacit knowledge, they have reached the final stage of skill acquisition: expertise. Expertise is the ability to assess and respond to situations in the moment based on past experience, without articulated purpose or intentional decisions making.

This chapter focuses on Georges Bataille's notion of chance. This notion made its first appearances in Bataille's essays of the 1930s, most notably in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an important document from 1937 that deals with questions of politics, the fragmentation of the human being, the limits of action, and the aleatory experience of freedom. The essay suggests that chance is the potentiality for politics, structuring the field of relations between individuals and groups. It also reiterates that with love, and the world created by lovers, “what determines the election of the loved one—so that the possibility of another choice represented logically, inspires horror—is in fact reducible to a series of chances.” Thus, this chance-element in the experience of love gives force to human creativity and will to exist.

This chapter moves the argument into the post-emancipation period. In particular, it chronicles the story of the legal code’s deracialization during the years following the state’s 1864 emancipation decree. Many different groups, friends and foes of the freedmen alike, defined freedom as self-sufficiency and self-reliance, and it would be these liberal ideals that shaped the legal terms of emancipation. As federal agents worked to enforce black men’s wage contracts and ratify their marriage contracts, as formerly enslaved black men eagerly asserted their rights to possess both, and as an interracial coalition of activists confronted stubborn employers and an apprentice system still indebted to slavery, a fully realized property rights regime emerged. Through real work – through hard work – slavery died during the 1860s, and a seemingly color-blind legal order predicated upon male rights to wages and household autonomy arose in its place. In liberal terms, emancipation looked like a success.

This chapter explores how video games can seek to raise their artistic profile by using classical music to allude to cinema history. After describing some of the visual elements that can be incorporated in games to create a cinematic feeling for players, the chapter traces the use of classical compilation scores in games, connecting the practice to early cinema history. It then turns to more specific topics: first, video game versions of the Disney film Fantasia, such as the Atari 2600 title Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1983) and the Sega Genesis platformer Fantasia (1991), followed by the incorporation of Philip Glass’s score to the film Koyaanisqatsi in Grand Theft Auto IV.

This chapter looks at Lois McMaster Bujold’s use of medievalism, specifically at how Bujold uses feudalism in her Vorkosigan science fiction novel The Warrior’s Apprentice as a bridge between past and future. In constructing Barrayaran politics, Bujold simplifies feudalism by only showing us the basic chain from emperor to Vor nobility to armsman. She also presents an Imperium that, over the course of a century, has broken the power of the Vor nobility (as happened in late medieval and early modern France) and is moving towards a more parliamentary form of government (as happened in late medieval and early modern England). The chapter thus shows how Bujold’s feudalism is simplified from medieval European feudalism and, in terms of its history, is beginning to move beyond the medieval period. Nevertheless, as the chapter concludes, on Barrayar the bonds of mutual obligation created by feudalism remain crucial, as does the centrality of military protection and service.