Holding a Mirror up to Nature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gilligan ◽  
David A.J. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Cultural Roots

Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their desire for retribution and revenge, apocryphal violence and political religions, justify and commit violence, and how love and restorative justice can prevent violence. Although our destructive power is far greater than anything that existed in his day, Shakespeare has much to teach us about the psychological and cultural roots of all violence. In this book the authors tell what Shakespeare shows, through the stories of his characters: what causes violence and what prevents it.

Discrepant Affects

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-200
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Actual Experience

This chapter addresses a puzzling feature of one’s engagement with certain kinds of fictions. This is the problem of discrepant affects: one sometimes takes pleasure in fictional events that one would deplore in real life; one aligns oneself with or even admires fictional characters whom one would find despicable if encountered in the actual world; and one forms desires for events to occur in fictions that, in actual experience, one would want to prevent. Highlighting certain dimensions of simulative and empathetic processes, this chapter explains such normatively deviant responses as reflecting an appropriate fiction-motivated breakdown in the quarantine separating how one really values things from how one only imagines doing so.

Radiology Basics: Overview and Concepts

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Trotter ◽  
Barbara Carey
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
X Rays

WHILE I WAS GROWING UP, THERE WAS A PERIOD OF time when I was no longer interested in fictional characters, but in real life heros. Certainly one of the books that influenced me was Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif. I was spellbound as these scientific heros discovered the unseen universe of bacteria that was all around us. No less thrilling or useful was the discovery of a new force that allowed us to see within the human body, x-rays.

Combustion or Incineration? Notes on English Translations of Holocaust-related Writings by W. G. Sebald

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
Edward Timms
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
German Original ◽  
English Translations

This paper examines certain discrepancies between the German originals and the English translations of three Holocaust-related works by W. G. Sebald: The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. The process of Anglicization is shown to involve tonal transformations. Attention is also drawn to variations in the use of the textually embedded illustrations that form such a distinctive feature of Sebald's narrative strategy, for example the omission from The Emigrants of a chalk drawing by the refugee artist Frank Auerbach that was featured in the German original, Die Ausgewanderten. This raises further questions about an aesthetic of hybridity that not only combines words with images, but transforms real-life originals into quasi-fictional characters.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zachary Michael Jack
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Beating Heart ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Middle America ◽  
Heart Section

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the portrayals of Middle America. How can such a beating-heart section of the country, the very cradle of regionalism, psychically ground and spiritually anchor a nation while simultaneously serving as its ultimate cautionary tale? Those who chose to leave Middle America sometimes hear in its portrayals a chilling message: Middle America is a place to avoid getting stuck in, a place whose fatalistic machinations the monied and mobile do well to escape. Many regionalists present Middle Americans as a Gothic people, from cradle to grave as mindful of death and dying as of living and thriving. Their stories and canvases illuminate an almost funereal-life-art practiced with fidelity in the heartland, where fictional characters and real-life citizens alike undertake the difficult task of living passionately and purposefully against a backdrop of finite and sometimes tragic limits. For true regionalists, however, the homegrown Gothic amounts to much more than mere pessimism or fatalism; it is an homage to Death, Life's less heralded twin, an animating force no less instructive and no less worthy of its own pages.

scholarly journals PENDEKATAN BRAIN BASED LEARNING DALAM PENANAMAN NILAI BUDAYA MELALUI PENDIDIKAN FORMAL

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulfikri Anas
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Brain Based Learning ◽  
The Brain

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengeksplorasi gagasan penggunaan pendekatan brain based learning dalam penanaman nilai budaya melalui pendidikan formal. Undang-Undang  menyatakan dengan tegas bahwa pendidikan adalah upaya sadar untuk mengembangkan potensi setiap siswa agar menjadi warga negara yang cerdas, kreatif dan berakhlak mulia.  Nilai-nilai budaya  mengkondisikan manusia untuk hidup saling menghargai dengan berbagai nilai-nilai yang diyakini bersama. Seyogyanya kehidupan menjadi harmonis karena semua yang melingkupi kehidupan manusia menggiring ke arah sana. Akan tetapi mengapa tatakrama, kreatifitas, kemandirian dan ciri-ciri kemanusiaan lainnya menjadi memudar? Dunia pendidikan termasuk yang paling disoroti. Berbagai pendapat ekstrim menyatakan, pendidikan telah mencabut anak dari akar budayanya. Penyebabnya adalah pembelajaran yang monoton, mengekang, dan mempoisisikan anak sebagai obyek pembelajaran, bukan subyek yang aktif. Untuk mengembalikan fungsi pendidikan ke arah yang diharapkan, harus diciptakan iklim pembelajaran yang semirip mungkin dengan kehidupan nyata serta pengintegrasian kurikulum dengan hal-hal nyata dalam kehidupan. Kondisi ini akan mendorong  peserta didik  untuk berkembang dan menjadi anak-anak yang cerdas, kreatif, dan berakhlak mulia. Hal inilah yang menjadi salah satu sasaran penerapan brain based learning. The objective of this study is to explore ​​the use of brain based learning approach in character education ​​through formal education. Law insists that education is a conscious effort to develop the potential of every student to become a smart, creative, and noble citizen. Cultural values suggest human condition to live with mutual respect with different values ​​shared together. If this condition is achieved, a harmonious life for all human life can be realized. However, why manners, creativity, independence and other human traits is fading? Education is among the most highlighted. Some extreme opinions has highlighted that the education has uprooted children from their cultural roots. This is caused by monotone and curbing learning, which places child as an object of learning, rather than active subjects. To restore the function of education in the direction expected, the learning climate must be created as closely as possible to real life as well as the integration of curriculum with real things in life. This condition will encourage learners to develop and become intelligent, creative, and noble children. This has become one of the target of the application of the brain based learning.

scholarly journals Pancasila as the Foundation of Political Ethics in Indonesia, Case Study of the Struggle for the Chairman of a Political Party in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munif Prasojo ◽  
◽  
Lukman Yudho Prakoso ◽  
Agus Mansyah ◽  
Afrizal Hendra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Cultural Roots

The world of politics is becoming something interesting to discuss. Every time there's something new going on. There is no eternal enmity or eternal friend in politics, but the infinite is only essential (read: power struggle). At some point, a person could be a friend, but other times he could be the enemy. It's still fresh in all of us how frenetic the last presidential election we held yesterday. The frictions have felt very hot, so people are wary from mutual claims of victory, to each other's accusations of cheating, to the last in the Constitutional Court. However, after that, it continued on social media for months. This feud resulted in two terms that are very viral in Indonesia, namely cebong and kampret. This is an accumulation of fanaticism of both sides' supporters (“Tidak Ada Musuh Atau Teman Abadi Di Dalam Politik – IndependensI,” n.d.). This article was written to give a clearer picture of the politics in Indonesia. So there is a difference between politics in Indonesia and other countries. The political system of a different government, including various cultural roots, will give its characteristics. Research through literature and various other readings and discussions conducted in the classroom and multiple seminars. Also, based on the development of the current political situation. There is still a need for a deeper understanding of political actors as well as from academia. So that political life in Indonesia will be better. Political education, especially political ethics in Indonesia as a State based on Pancasila, must be continuously improved. This is the shared responsibility of all components of the nation. Indonesia should not be destroyed because there are foreign hands who interfere in politics in Indonesia.

scholarly journals PURSUANCE AND THE PRACTICE OF DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED DEMOCRACY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Tynes ◽  
Claire Peters
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Social Actions

The internet offers the possibility of forming de-institutionalized, organizational structures that engage in the democratic process in ways that go far beyond volunteering, protesting, or voting. The digital space enables people to collaborate and communicate with one another more effectively, even if they have never met in real life (Shirky 2009). Formations such as Telecomix and Project PM show that this capability can be harnessed in the service of meaningful collective political and social actions. Journalist and activist Barrett Brown's latest venture, $2 , hopes to further that potential. Pursuance looks to empower political actors via "process democracy" (Brown 2018), offering participants a platform in which they can organize, build, and act on social justice endeavors. Pursuance is important because it provides a means for individuals to rapidly and effectively assemble, disassemble, and reassemble into mission-driven teams. This lessens the need for stable institutions to direct civic or political activism, thus reducing the problems that often follow, e.g. the Iron Law of Oligarchy (Michels 2015). We explore the potential of Brown's endeavor, asking: How can Pursuance most effectively further the practice of deinstitutionalized democracy? What can be learned from past groups that have engaged in the kind of activity Pursuance aims to facilitate?

scholarly journals R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-603
Author(s):  
Iolanda Ramos
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Cultural Features

Abstract This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire and the imperial project, thus providing a contemporary perception of Victorian worldliness and outward endeavours.

Social and parasocial relationships during COVID-19 social distancing

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110191
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Parasocial Relationships ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Face To Face

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an extraordinarily unique opportunity to investigate how sudden, involuntary alterations to social routines influenced not just social relationships, but also parasocial relationships with fictional characters and celebrities. Results from a four-wave panel survey administered during the COVID-19 pandemic ( N = 166) revealed that social relationships maintained their stability during social distancing, particularly among participants who increased mediated social engagement with friends and those low in attachment anxiety. Parasocial closeness with media personae increased over time, suggesting that favorite media personae became more meaningful as participants engaged in social distancing. Parasocial closeness increased with greater intensity among participants who increased parasocial engagement, reduced face-to-face social engagement with friends, increased mediated social engagement with friends, and those low in attachment anxiety. Results are discussed in terms of the potential influence of increased mediated social engagement with real-life friends on the parasocial processing of celebrities and fictional characters.

scholarly journals Epilepsy, literature and linguistics: spotlighting subjective symptoms

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sanchez-Davies
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Seizure Type ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Literature And Linguistics ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
And Linguistics

Literature can offer a wealth of information about epilepsy: from complex narratives to children’s picture books, it can help broaden people’s understanding, show what it is like to live with epilepsy and provide a medium to which people with epilepsy (PWE) can relate. The latter being particularly important in such cases where seizure experiences are highly subjective, such as those associated with ‘focal seizures’, a common seizure type, which are known for their variable and hard-to-describe symptoms, causing complications with diagnosis as many of the symptoms overlap with those of other psychological health conditions.Literature, however, has more to offer than acting as a source for demystifying epilepsy. On a disciplinary level, literature is surrounded by different frameworks for linguistic analysis which, importantly, are also applicable to real-life discourse. In particular, the well-established discipline, cognitive stylistics, provides ample theory for analysing the different facets of literature, from narratological and storyworld level, to the intricacies of characterisation revealing the structure behind the presentation of fictional characters’ experiences, attitudes and personalities. Such methods have the potential to transform and decode complex, subjective experiences into manageable pieces of information. This, then, holds great potential for shedding light on the experiences of real-life seizure narratives to the extent that the identified seizure’s linguistic ‘profiles’ can be used to aid real-life situations. Therefore, the present study calls to attention the potential evoked through the convergence between literature, linguistic analysis, fictional characters, PWE and seizure narratives. Extrapolating the qualities of these converging strands can enrich our understanding of the seizure experience, as well as bring to awareness the areas of risk that surround aspects of the diagnosis process.

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