“Copied Out Big”

Old Schools ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Ramsey McGlazer

This chapter argues that James Joyce’s Ulysses seeks to counter the labor-saving and “liberating” discourse of progressive education, a discourse that begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and culminates with John Dewey. Joyce reimagines the pensum, or the punitive copying-out of text, as a model for both his own creative practice and his readers’ experience. This becomes especially vivid in Ulysses’ fourteenth episode, “Oxen of the Sun.” Here, copying the styles of others in a series of painstaking prose pastiches, Joyce also sends his readers back to school, administering a version of the labor-intensive instruction that he thematizes even while he also considers the labor that takes place in the maternity ward in which “Oxen” is set. Against Dewey’s demand that teachers do away with wastes of time for the sake of students’ freedom, Joyce sets these very wastes to work. As he makes the past palpable as dead weight that is not for all that dispensable, Joyce challenges the reproductive heteronormativity, as well as what Elizabeth Freeman would call the “chrononormativity,” that marks progressive educational theories from Émile through Dewey’s Democracy and Education. Joyce suggests strikingly that it is the old school, not the new, that shelters queer forms of life.

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 441-444
Author(s):  
M. Gabriel

In this review we discuss the problems raised by the discovery that the sun was, in the past, unstable towards non-radial oscillations.In 1972, Fowler (1972), in an attempt to explain the low-neutrino flux measured in Davis’ experiment (now 1.6 snu, while the standard solar model predicts 4.4 snu) suggested that the sun could have undergone, some 10 years ago, a change in structure because of sudden mixing of the inner core. During the same year Dilke and Gough (1972) suggested the sun is unstable to low-order gravity modes (g+ modes) of non-radial oscillation and that the mixing is triggered when the amplitude of the oscillation becomes large enough.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Dimitris Pavlis ◽  
John Gkiosos

<p>The reason for this publication has been our interest in educational issues on the one hand, and, on the other, in the philosophy of education of J. Dewey. This resulted in further approaching the philosophy of Pragmatism and considering its influence on J. Dewey’s philosophy of education. At the same time, we have sought the influences on his work from Aristotelian thought. In this direction, we show that the American philosopher considered the philosophy of pragmatism as applicable to a democratic education, which is also considered to be moral education.</p>


1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 540 ◽  
Author(s):  
RF Mullaly

The brightness distribution of 21-cm radiation over the Sun's surface has been studied for the past four years with the Christiansen crossed-grating interferometer (Christiansen et al. 1961) at Fleurs near Sydney. The observations described here were made using one arm of this cross as a simple grating interferometer, providing a transit instrument with a fan beam of about 2' of arc resolution to half-power points in the east-west direction and very low resolution north-south. The Sun was scanned repeatedly from east to west at time intervals of approximately 4 min.


1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. O. Weiss

One of the most exciting developments in solar physics over the past eight years has been the success of ground based observers in resolving features with a scale smaller than the solar granulation. In particular, they have demonstrated the existence of intense magnetic fields, with strengths of up to about 1600G. Harvey (1976) has just given an excellent summary of these results.In solar physics, theory generally follows observations. Inter-granular magnetic fields had indeed been expected but their magnitude came as a surprise. Some problems have been discussed in previous reviews (Schmidt, 1968, 1974; Weiss, 1969; Parker, 1976d; Stenflo, 1976) and the new observations have stimulated a flurry of theoretical papers. This review will be limited to the principal problems raised by these filamentary magnetic fields. I shall discuss the interaction of magnetic fields with convection in the sun and attempt to answer such questions as: what is the nature of the equilibrium in a flux tube? how are the fields contained? what determines their stability? how are such strong fields formed and maintained? and what limits the maximum field strength?


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 410-410
Author(s):  
M. Załuska ◽  
R. Żurko ◽  
M. Kuroń ◽  
G. Jakiel ◽  
A. Dudel

IntroductionMothers after childbearing are vulnerable to many stress related disorders.Objectiveto emphasize the role of the past obstetric complications, as so present infant pathology as risk factors for the mother's post partum stress related disorders.MethodsThe case analysis.Case descriptionThe thirty-year-old, women left the maternity ward with her baby unnoticed on the fourth day after giving birth. She was referred to psychiatry ward, after finding her by the police. In the past history the patient had spontaneous miscarriage in the first pregnancy. She has waited with her husband 6 years long for the next baby. The second pregnancy was at risk, the labor was premature and the infant has palatoschisis. The mother had difficulties with feeding. She feared about baby's life, and had feeling of being neglected by the staff. In psychiatry ward she did not reveal any symptoms of mental illness. She was interested in her child, however the period of the flight was covered with memory gap. The predominance of immature defense mechanisms, as so mild cognitive dysfunctions were revealed in psychological testing. The dissociative fugue was diagnosed. The patient was discharged without any medication to ambulatory psychotherapy.CommentaryThe interaction of past and present traumatic experiences in the patient with cognitive dysfunctions and immature defense mechanisms could impair ability of post-partum coping with fear about the child and consequently led to the loss of conscious control over the memory. Early diagnosing and supporting problematic patients of the maternity ward is needed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 451-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
COSTANTINO SIGISMONDI

The role of Venus and Mercury transits is crucial to know the past history of the solar diameter. Through the W parameter, the logarithmic derivative of the radius with respect to the luminosity, the past values of the solar luminosity can be recovered. The black drop phenomenon affects the evaluation of the instants of internal and external contacts between the planetary disk and the solar limb. With these observed instants compared with the ephemerides the value of the solar diameter is recovered. The black drop and seeing effects are overcome with two fitting circles, to Venus and to the Sun, drawn in the undistorted part of the image. The corrections of ephemerides due to the atmospheric refraction will also be taken into account. The forthcoming transit of Venus will allow an accuracy on the diameter of the Sun better than 0.01 arcsec, with good images of the ingress and of the egress taken each second. Chinese solar observatories are in the optimal conditions to obtain valuable data for the measurement of the solar diameter with the Venus transit of 5/6 June 2012 with an unprecedented accuracy, and with absolute calibration given by the ephemerides.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jarno Hietalahti

Abstract This article offers a pragmatist approach to concentration camp humor, in particular, to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s conceptualizations of humor. They both show how humor does not vanish even in the worst imaginable circumstances. Despite this similarity, it will be argued that their intellectual positions on humor differ significantly. The main difference between the two authors is that according to Frankl, humor is elevating in the middle of suffering, and according to Levi, humor expresses the absurdity of the idea of concentration camps, but this is not necessarily a noble reaction. Through a critical synthesis based on pragmatist philosophy, it will be claimed that humor in concentration camps expresses the human condition in the entirely twisted situation. This phenomenon cannot be understood without considering forms of life, how drastic the changes from the past were, and what people expected from the future, if anything.


1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 221-223
Author(s):  
Linda S. Nield ◽  
Jonette E. Keri ◽  
Randall G. Fisher ◽  
Nasha't M. Khanfar

This section of Pediatrics in Review reminds clinicians of those conditions that can present in a misleading fashion and require suspicion for early diagnosis. Emphasis has been placed on conditions in which early diagnosis is important and that the general pediatrician might be expected to encounter, at least once in a while. The reader is encouraged to write possible diagnoses for each case before turning to the discussion, which is on the following page. We invite readers to contribute case presentations and discussions. Case 1 Presentation A 10-year-old boy is brought to your office in late spring because of an erythematous rash on his arms and legs that has been present for 4 days and because he is having joint pains. The rash first appeared after the boy had been playing outdoors for several hours in the sun. He did have a new commercial sunblock lotion applied to his skin before going outdoors. His father is concerned because even though the rash is less pronounced, his son has been experiencing stiff and painful knees and ankles upon awakening for the past 2 days. The joint discomfort improves with movement during the day. The boy has had no other symptoms and has been free of fever.


Author(s):  
Joanna D. Haigh ◽  
Peter Cargill

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Earth's climate system—its composition, structure, and circulation—and some of the ways in which these vary naturally with time. It examines the key features of the structure of the Sun, its magnetic field, atmosphere, and its emission of radiation and particles. A comprehension of how the sun affects the Earth is a fundamental requirement for understanding how climate has varied in the past and how it might change in the future. This is particularly important in the context of determining the cause(s) of climate change and understanding natural factors in order to be able to attribute to human activity any past or potential future influence on a range of timescales.


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