Finding a Safe House of Fiction in Nadine Gordimer’s Jump and Other Stories

2001 ◽  
pp. 197-204
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2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Chieh Yip ◽  
Abdul Kadir Marsono

Severe earthquakes in year 2004 had caused a destructive tsunami and killed more than 170,000 people in Aceh Indonesia. The disaster raises the public awareness and demand in safe house. This paper presented the structural failure behaviour, strength and performance level of two-bays double storeys safe house structure with the scaled of 1:5. Cyclic pushover test was conducted with compliance to the standard guidelines from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA 356) in year 2000. The structural behaviour and deformation patterns under repeated cyclic lateral loads were identified through experimental test. The structural stiffness capacity, performance level, seismic energy dissipation and spectral acceleration of the safe house model were obtained through calculations from the hysteresis curves. Experimental result shows the ultimate lateral load of safe house model was 9.9 kN with roof top displacement of 49.1 mm. The model has performance level of Immediate Occupancy (IO), Life Safety (LS) and Collapse Prevention (CP) at 6.3 mm, 16 mm and 49.1 mm roof top displacement, respectively. It was found that, the safe house structure is able to withstand seismic excitation of 0.98 g spectral acceleration.


1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ansolabehere ◽  
David Brady ◽  
Morris Fiorina

Nearly two decades ago researchers pointed out the sharp decline in marginal districts in elections for the US House of Representatives. That observation led to an outpouring of research describing the electoral changes, explaining their bases and speculating about their consequences for the larger political system. Recently Gary Jacobson has offered a major corrective to that line of research, arguing that ‘House incumbents are no safer now than they were in the 1950s; the marginals, properly defined, have not vanished; the swing ratio has diminished little, if at all; and competition for House seats held by incumbents has not declined’. While Jacobson advances an extremely provocative argument, there are complicating patterns in his evidence that support additional and/or different interpretations. We argue that the marginals, ‘properly defined’ have diminished, the swing ratio has declined, and party competition for House seats held by incumbents has lessened. While fears that the vanishing marginals phenomenon would lead to lower responsiveness on the part of ‘safe’ House incumbents have proved groundless, the collective composition of Congress does appear to be less responsive to changes in popular sentiments. Thus, the vanishing marginals have contributed to the occurrence of divided government in the United States and in all likelihood do have the effects on congressional leadership and policy-making that many analysts have claimed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Solmaz Sharif
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2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Fauzan ◽  
Sri Umiati ◽  
Nidiasari ◽  
Rinaldi E.P. ◽  
Jonathan V.O.

Construction workers play an important role in attaining a good construction and safe building. However, it has not been getting enough attention to the importance of worker’s roles since it is assumed that engineer has already enough knowledge to control and supervise the construction workers. Based on the survey results, more than 95% of workers in West Sumatera have lack of knowledge about the earthquake-safe house requirements and retrofitting of damaged houses. In this study, the expert team of Andalas University conducted training for the construction workers in Padang City and Padang Pariaman District. The training provides all activities that support the whole construction process of the earthquake-safe house and the retrofitting method for unreinforced masonry houses using ferrocement layers, which is presented by slides presentation and practice on the field. The result of the training program shows that the knowledge of the construction workers on requirements of the earthquake-safe house and retrofitting method using ferrocement layer improved significantly. The construction workers understood how to build the earthquake-safe house and to retrofit the weak or damaged houses. This training program is an effective way in disaster risk reduction to prevent the damage to houses due to the earthquake.


1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-14
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2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Pereira Lage

Pretendo analisar um documento que retrata os anos iniciais da Casa de Oração do Vale de Lágrimas, uma instituição educativa feminina que existiu próxima à Vila de Minas Novas, na Capitania de Minas Gerais, no século XVIII. O documento analisado é considerado, até então, como o mais antigo da referida instituição: um ofício do Arcebispo da Bahia, D. José Botelho de Matos, enviado para Diogo de Mendonça Corte Real, datado de 1754. Neste ofício, o Arcebispo solicita a verificação da existência de um Recolhimento feminino no sertão da Capitania de Minas Gerais. No processo de verificação é possível encontrar informações acerca da primeira Regente da instituição, das demais habitantes da Casa e das práticas educativas desenvolvidas na instituição, bem como alguns detalhes da habitação, da religiosidade e do apoio da população local à sua manutenção. Observa-se que as práticas educativas tinham tanto um caráter devocional, como também preparavam as mulheres para o trabalho doméstico e o aprendizado da escrita e da leitura. Encontramos ainda as manobras discursivas da Regente, dos padres e da população local para informar que a instituição não era um Recolhimento e, assim, não passar para a supervisão do arcebispado baiano. O documento é compreendido enquanto uma representação de um determinado grupo com a intencionalidade de enganar o arcebispo e se manter distante das normas que mudariam o funcionamento da instituição.* * *I intend to analyze a document which depicts the initial years of the Casa de Oração do Vale de Lágrimas, an institution for women's education that existed next to the Vila de Minas Novas, in the Captaincy of Minas Gerais, during the XVIII century. The analyzed document is considered, until now, as the oldest on the institution: a craft of the Archbishop of Bahia, Mr. José Botelho de Matos, sent to Diogo de Mendonça Corte Real, dated 1754. In this craft, the Archbishop requests to verify the existence of a female safe house in the backcountry of the Captaincy of Minas Gerais. Over this verification process is possible to find information about the first Director from the institution, the other residents and their educational practices developed there, as well as some details of housing, religiousness e the support of the local population for its maintenance. It is observed that educational practices had both a devotional feature, and also prepared women for housework and learning to write and read. We even found the discursive maneuvers of the Director, the priests and the local population to inform that the institution was not a safe house and, therefore, do not pass the supervision to the archbishopric of Bahia. The document is understood as a representation of a particular group with the intend to deceive the archbishop and to keep distant from the norms that would change the behavior of the institution.


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