Genealogical thinking, Hesiod'sCatalogue, and the creation of the Hellenes

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Great Pleasure ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Better Than

Genealogy was important in early Greece. One thinks readily of aristocratic lineages proudly recited by Homeric heroes, and the family lore carefully recorded by epinician poets; but passing remarks are even more revealing. In the seventh book of theIliadNestor tells of an embassy he once led north to Phthia, where he hoped to enlist the aid of Peleus' mighty son in the coming campaign. Welcoming his Argive guests, Peleus asks eagerly about their ‘ancestry and descent’, and hears the answers with much pleasure:In Peleus' part of the country southerners were not often seen. He seeks by his questions to relate the unknown to the known; he is hoping that somewhere in the pedigree a familiar name will turn up to give him a point of reference. Genealogy gives him his bearings. For those within the system a genealogy is a map. They can read its signs. To the names are attached stories, thousands of them; collectively they gave the listeners their sense of history and their place in the world. Hence Peleus' great pleasure in hearing the answers. Centuries later, the Greeks were no different; the sophist Hippias says that the crowds at Olympia like to hear nothing better than his recitations of genealogies.

scholarly journals Błędni rycerze Juliusza Słowackiego — Zawisza Czarny i Beniowski

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Jakub Rawski
Keyword(s):  
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Spanish Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Chivalric Romances ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Title Character

Knights-errant by Juliusz Słowacki — Zawisza the Black and Beniowski„Zawisza the Black” and „Beniowski” drama there are one of poorly discussed works by Juliusz Słowacki. The unfinished dramas by the poet, dating from the late, mystical phase of his literature, opens awide field of research. It appears advisable to place the thesis of apossible inspi­ration Słowacki „Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra when writing drama „Zawisza the Black” and „Beniowski” drama. Spanish novel, which is amockery of chivalric romances and epics, perhaps, has become for author of „Kordian” point of reference for the creation of the world presented these works. Exemplification of these claims is to analyse „Zawisza the Black”, whose title character is seen as knight-errant possessed by madness and unhappy love, like the character of „Don Quixote”. Reinterpretation of the conditions of polish culture made by Słowacki based on demythologization the most famous knight.

A Note on Origen, in Ev. Joannis XIX.5

1954 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-318
Author(s):  
Ralph Marcus
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Image Position

In Origen's discussion of the part played by the Logos in the creation of the world, In Ev. Joannis xix.5 (PG xiv. 568 b–c), there occurs a long sentence which is not altogether clear, chiefly because of the uncertainty of the punctuation. The text, as given by the four modern editors, Lommatzsch, Migne, Preuschen and Brooke, who agree throughout except in the two instances to be noted, is as follows (with punctuation after the biblical quotation omitted):

scholarly journals How the scripts of Latin American screenwriters Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Anna Muylaert (Brazil) and Claudia Llosa (Peru) have made a mark on the world stage

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-346
Author(s):  
Margaret McVeigh ◽  
Clarissa Mazon Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The films of Latin American female screenwriters, Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Anna Muylaert (Brazil) and Claudia Llosa (Peru), have achieved international prominence in recent years. In this article we create new insights into the ways in which these screenwriters have developed scripts for films that have made a mark on the world stage. To this end we will investigate how this acclaim has been enabled by their screenwriting decisions which focus on the creation of women-centred films, as well as their use of the family story as a means of exploring contemporary social and political themes, to tell universal stories that highlight the global in the local. In doing so we canvas the personal, industrial and social factors which have impacted Martel, Muylaert and Llosa’s screenwriting careers which have been instrumental in the script development of the films: La Ciénaga (The Swamp) (Martel 2001); Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother) (Muylaert 2015); and La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) (Llosa 2009). The research for this article is based on personal and media interviews with the writers, as well as contemporary information available only in Spanish and Portuguese, as translated from the original Spanish and Portuguese by Clarissa Miranda.

The Children Act 1989: Success or failure

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Governmental Agency ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

Heralded as the most progressive legislation of the world, the Children Act of 1989 revolutionized children’s law in England and Wales. It is underpinned by six principles: the supremacy of the child’s interest in all decisions concerning their upbringing and education; the recognition that it is best for any chid to be brought up by their blood family, that his religious and ethnic background must be respected, and that siblings should not be separated; the abolition of the stigma of illegitimacy and its replacement with the attribution at birth of paternal responsibility to the child’s father; the unification of public and private law, and the creation of the ‘menu’ of Residence, Contact, Prohibition, and Specific Issue orders available to the court; the establisment of the new principle that time is of the essence in all cases relating to children; and the creation of the presumption that ‘no order is better than an order’ thus the ingerence of the court must be minimal. I believed in those principles and in the benefits that the Children Act would bring to my clients—children and parents alike. I had some reservations: the system was expensive to implement on two counts: first, it gave the child a ‘guardian’ (a qualified social worker appointed by the court through CAFCASS, a governmental agency), as well as their own solicitor paid for by Legal Aid, as was the representative of the parents, who had the right to instruct independent experts; second, because its requirements of social services and other agencies involved further training and increased resources, as well as further involvement of the judiciary, and increased court time. Hornby and Levy were at the forefront of its implementation: our entire staff received in-house training that was open to other disciplines, within the spirit of cooperation between agencies that permeated the Act and its implementation. I also lectured in Britain and abroad and was proud to tell others that social services were under a duty to keep families united, rather than removing children from parents, and make efforts to return to the family the child removed from it, or if this failed, to place the child within the extended family, or with adoptive parents, within a year.

Truncated log-logistic Family of Distributions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohadese Akbarinasab ◽  
Ali Reza Arabpour ◽  
Abbas Mahdavi
Keyword(s):  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Method ◽  
Likelihood Method ◽  
Logistic Distribution ◽  
Real Dataset ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Of Distributions ◽  
Better Than

Background & Aim: There are various data associated with any events in the world which need to be analyzed. In response to this, many researchers attempt to find appropriate methods that could better fit these data using new models. One of these methods is to introduce new distributions which could better describe available data. During last few years, new distributions have been extended based on existing well-known distributions. Usually, new distributions have more parameters than existing ones. This addition of parameter(s) has been proved useful in exploring tail properties and also for improving the goodness-of-fit of the family under study. Methods & Materials: A new family of distributions is introduced by using truncated log-logistic distribution. Some statistical and reliability properties of the new family are derived. Results: Four special lifetime models of the new family are investigated. We estimate the parameters by maximum likelihood method. The obtained results are validated using a real dataset and it is shown that the new distributions provide a better fit than some other known distributions. Conclusion: We have provided four new distributions. The flexibility of the proposed distributions and increased range of skewness was able to fit and capture features in one real dataset much better than some competitor distributions

scholarly journals EKSPLOITASI PEKERJA ANAK DI INDONESIA DAN REKONSTRUKSI ARAH KEBIJAKAN SOSIAL

KOMUNITAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Miftahul Jannah
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

The children are persons who have the age under 18-years old who havestill the right to be protected from life-threatening matters, from acts of exploitation, and the things that interfere their future. Remembering that the childhood is a growth process, both physical and mental, ideally children should avoid the various behaviors that interferetheir growth. Therefore, children need to be guaranteed their rights, and play. In this paper, the writer wants to describe the forms of exploitation of children such as the loss of children’s rights so they must go the world of work due to poverty problems which become main foundation of children to participate in fulfilling their needs. The factors of exploitation are certainly due to the lack of understanding of the head of the family about the importance of children’s education. Therefore it is important to reconstruct the social policy purposes of the children, in order to avoid exploitation actions which can disturb the growth of a children’s lives, by the reconstruction of social policy of the government, it is able to restore the rights of children in life, so that the fulfillment of all needs and the creation of welfare for children.

Plato's Vision of Chaos

1976 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry S. Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Creation Myth ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Independence ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Prime Source

In the creation myth of the Timaeus Plato describes God as wishing that all things should be good so far as is possible. Wherefore, finding the whole visible sphere of the world not at rest, but moving in an irregular fashion, out of disorder He brought order, thinking that this was in every way an improvement. To achieve His end He placed intelligence in soul and soul in body, reflecting that nothing unintelligent could ever be better than something intelligent (30 a—b). From this account of creation it would seem that God confronted a chaotic world whose disorderly motions existed in full independence of the principle of soul. Yet, in his doctrinal pronouncements in the Laws (892 a) and the Pbaedrus (245 e) on the origin of motion, Plato declares soul to be elder born than bodies and the prime source of all their changes and transformations.

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