Picture: Caesar Addressing his Troops. Revisited for WASSCE & IGCSE (Drama) Students
The Part 1 of this piece centred on three aspects: One, the importance of Shakespeare’s work in bridging the gap between the ancient and modern, and cutting across cultures; Two, the heroic adventures of Julius Caesar, and his murder in the Roman senate; and Three, Mark Antony refuting Brutus’s claim that Caesar sought a kingly crown through excessive ambition.
A prelude to his historic visit to Ghana, July 10, 2009
Harvard University overflowed with various graduation ceremonies on June 4, 2009. At the Harvard Law School, on my recent educational tour, I sensed the atmosphere seething with optimism. Like Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, the 32nd and 35th U.S. Presidents respectively, a Harvard favourite son was making waves across continents, and all eyes were on him with great expectations. What was conspicuously missing at the function that Thursday was the presence of Barack Obama himself. The new U.S. President had cut his legal teeth at the School, having served as the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review.
The main title of this article was adapted from Barack Obama's impressive campaign. Dubbed the best managed ever in the political history of the United States, the campaign was a remarkable feat full of great lessons for quality education in Ghana. It’s all in the proper preparation. And yes, we can!
In the 1990s, while teaching in a school district in the United States, I came across a leaflet announcing some scholarships offered by Yale University for student summer internships.
Picture: Caesar Addressing his Troops. Revisited for WASSCE & IGCSE (Drama) Students
The Part 1 of this piece centred on three aspects: One, the importance of Shakespeare’s work in bridging the gap between the ancient and modern, and cutting across cultures; Two, the heroic adventures of Julius Caesar, and his murder in the Roman senate; and Three, Mark Antony refuting Brutus’s claim that Caesar sought a kingly crown through excessive ambition.
Time to harness water for rapid economic growth in Ghana
If someone had predicted that soon a bottle of water could cost about the same as a bottle of beer in a restaurant, the culprit would have been ridiculed and disregarded. Worse still, if someone had forewarned that, one day, to be caught in the simple act of watering flowers would attract a whopping $13,000 fine, the seer might have been declared insane.
