scholarly journals Wallachia and Moldavia as Seen by William Wilkinson, Late British Consul Resident at Bukorest (1820)

Linguaculture ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Sorina Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article analyzes the way William Wilkinson, a Levant Company member, perceives two Romanian countries situated at the edge of the Ottoman Empire, one of the British Oriental Others, in his An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia with Various Political Observations Relating to Them, published in London in 1820 and written after several years of official residence mainly in Bucharest (1813-1816). Since the book has not been previously analyzed, except for the theme of religion by Professor James Brown, this article proposes to approach it from several different points of view: the author, the Company and the image of the Turks; economic opportunities, prohibition, organization; Romanian history; cities, monuments, travelling system, inhabitants. What this study wishes to demonstrate is that, through both criticism and appreciation, Wilkinson’s book is one of sympathy and mercy towards the Romanian people – a pledge for their freedom.

An Experiment in Grading Problems in Algebra

1914 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Eugene R. Smith ◽  
Harry D. Gaylord ◽  
Maurice J. Babb ◽  
William E. Breckenridge ◽  
Edward L. Thorndike
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Two hundred teachers of mathematics, chiefly members of the New York Section of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States and Maryland, ranked the twentyfive problems printed below for difficulty, “difficulty” being defined as in the instructions appended. The variations in the individual opinions were very great, being as shown in Table I. It is an interesting exercise to examine this table, and imagine, as well as one can, the points of view from which these varying estimates were each plausible-to divine, for example, why Problem Twas rated all the way from easiest to hardest of the twentyfive. How much of the variation was due to tenable points of view and how much was due to errors of judgment cannot, of course, be told until the problem in question has been tested with respect to the percentage of pupils able to solve it in the time allowed.

PATH-BASED SYSTEMS TO GUIDE SCIENTISTS IN THE MAZE OF BIOLOGICAL DATA SOURCES

2006 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 1069-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH COHEN-BOULAKIA ◽  
SUSAN DAVIDSON ◽  
CHRISTINE FROIDEVAUX ◽  
ZOÉ LACROIX ◽  
MARIA-ESTHER VIDAL
Keyword(s):  
Biological Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Single Experiment ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
Wet Lab ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Growing Network ◽  
The Way

Fueled by novel technologies capable of producing massive amounts of data for a single experiment, scientists are faced with an explosion of information which must be rapidly analyzed and combined with other data to form hypotheses and create knowledge. Today, numerous biological questions can be answered without entering a wet lab. Scientific protocols designed to answer these questions can be run entirely on a computer. Biological resources are often complementary, focused on different objects and reflecting various experts' points of view. Exploiting the richness and diversity of these resources is crucial for scientists. However, with the increase of resources, scientists have to face the problem of selecting sources and tools when interpreting their data. In this paper, we analyze the way in which biologists express and implement scientific protocols, and we identify the requirements for a system which can guide scientists in constructing protocols to answer new biological questions. We present two such systems, BioNavigation and BioGuide dedicated to help scientists select resources by following suitable paths within the growing network of interconnected biological resources.

A COMMENT ON MEHMET BENGÜ ULUENGIN, “SECULARIZING ANATOLIA TICK BY TICK: CLOCK TOWERS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE TURKISH REPUBLIC” (IJMES 42 [2010]: 17–36)

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-540
Author(s):  
Avner Wishnitzer
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
The Way

In his recent article, “Secularizing Anatolia Tick by Tick: Clock Towers in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic,” Mehmet Bengü Uluengin makes a significant contribution to our understanding of late Ottoman and early republican clock towers. Uluengin shows that Ottoman clock towers carried “complex and seemingly contradictory layering of meanings” (p. 31). These buildings were at times associated with Christianity and with European power but were also seen as modern extensions of the Islamic institution of the muvakkit (timekeeper) or as symbols of the Ottoman government and its modernizing project. The cultural meanings associated with clock towers were fluid, concludes Uluengin, and it was the context that determined the way clock towers were interpreted.

The Literary Unity of Luke-Acts: Questions of Style – a Task for Literary Critics

1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dawsey
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
Narrative Unity ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Literary Unity ◽  
Critical Methods ◽  
Or History ◽  
The Way

Joseph Tyson's The Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts and Robert Tannehill's The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts, published in 1986, are good examples of the interpretive wealth being mined by scholars who are adopting literary-critical methods for approaching the Lukan writings. What most distinguishes these critics' approaches from older, more familiar ones is the claim that the Bible's historical narratives are imaginative re-enactments of history – thus, in form, more akin to fiction than to theology, biography, or history. Robert Alter called the Biblical stories ‘historicized fiction’, meaning in our case that the author of Luke and Acts employed the artifices of fiction-writing, among others, supplying feeling and motives and creating speeches and dialogue for his characters. Professors Tyson and Tannehill, and other literary scholars like them, are helping us better discern how these techniques were used in Luke and Acts, thus opening new windows to the characters, the way that the author ascribes intentions to them, the plot, themes, nuances, points of view, uses of irony, and word-plays and associations in the writings.

Speculations about the Potestas Litterarum in medieval grammar (11th through 13th centuries)

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estrella Pérez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

Summary The aim of this paper is to study the concept of potestas, one of the three ‘accidents’ of ‘letters’ in the Roman tradition. More specifically, it intends to examine the way in which the speculative grammarians from the 11th to the 13th centuries dealt with speech sounds and which issues were attached to it. The commentators of the beginning of this period mapped out the route to be followed in the attempt at a thorough explanation and systematization of Prisician’s adumbrations. To that purpose, they forged the successful term modus pronunciandi and classified the potestas into five types. This chapter was granted as much discussion as any other: some concepts and terminology of the Aristotelian universe were employed in it (e.g., the opposition substantial/accidental, potentiality/act). Nevertheless, some remarkable differences between the points of view of the 12th-century grammarians and those of the 13th-century have been observed, among them the interest on the part of the latter in the generation of sound. In this century, two works, the anonymous Tractatus de grammatica and John Dacus’s modistic Summa, held for different reasons a very particular position in the evolution of the doctrine on the potestas. In this respect, the influence of the former on the latter has been noticed. With their speculations all these medieval grammarians succeded in differentiating two levels within the realm of speech sounds.

scholarly journals The Africa Platform and its awareness-raising activities. Panel discussion on the future of Rwanda (13 May 2015)

Afrika Focus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies Verdoolaege
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Future ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way ◽  
Artistic Performance

The reactions to this event were generally very positive; a great many interesting issues were touched upon and the atmosphere of the discussion allowed sufficient room for various points of view and an optimistic view on the future of Rwanda to be expressed. This was an excellent example of an event in which academic Africa expertise is made available to inform a broad public, in conjunction with an artistic performance. Also the input provided by the Rwandan diaspora was greatly valued. In the future, this is definitely the way in which the African Platform of Ghent University Association wishes to present itself to the academic community and beyond. 

scholarly journals La vinculación entre geopolítica y seguridad: algunas apreciaciones conceptuales y teóricas/ The link between geopolitics and security: a conceptual and theoretical assessment

2017 ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Lester Martin Cabrera Toledo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Assessment ◽  
The Way

El presente artículo establece una discusión teórica sobre la vinculación que existe entre la geopolítica y la seguridad. En este sentido, la discusión se aprecia desde un punto de vista en torno a la evolución que ha tenido la relación entre geopolítica y seguridad, particularmente sobre la forma en que se comprenden tanto los procesos conflictivos y los actores que se ven involucrados. Así, se establece la vinculación desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta la actualidad, donde se percibe la necesidad de comprender tanto a la geopolítica como a la seguridad desde otros puntos de vista en los que incluso sus elementos básicos se ven cuestionados. Se concluye que se requiere una comprensión holística de ambas perspectivas para entender y explicar los nuevos fenómenos conflictivos, sin descartar la totalidad de los postulados clásicos. ABSTRACTThe present article seeks to establish a theoretical discussion about the link between geopolitics and security. In this sense, the discussion is seen from a point of view on the evolution of the relationship between geopolitics and security, particularly on the way in which both conflicting processes and the actors involved are understood. Thus, it is established the linkage from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, where it is perceived the need to understand both geopolitics and security from other points of view, in which even its basic elements are questioned. It concludes that a holistic understanding of both perspectives is required to understand and explain the new conflicting phenomena, without ruling out the totality of the classical postulates.

scholarly journals CLIMATE AS CLIMAX IN ‘KING LEAR’

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2349-2353
Author(s):  
Fatbardha Doko
Keyword(s):  
Weather Conditions ◽  
King Lear ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Local Weather ◽  
Harsh Reality ◽  
Structured Play ◽  
The Way

Shakespeare’s tragedies are among the most analyzed and discussed literary works. In his tragedies Shakespeare follows the Aristotelian pattern of drama, so it is easy to notice there all the elements of a tragedy presented in Aristotle’s Poetics. In this paper I will define what climax in literature is and explore the climax of one of the four great tragedies of Shakespeare, that of King Lear. As a masterfully structured play, the central part of the play is the climax itself. But what is the climax of this play, how is it presented, does it have any impact on the characters, how does it change the course of events, etc? Answers to these questions will be given here. As an example of the interactions between men and weather conditions in Shakespeare’s drama, I will explore climate as climax. The climactic moment of the play is the storm, in the 3rd act, when we see the psychological rage of King Lear. Unsurprisingly, Shakespeare exposes the issue of how the local weather durably affects the nature of men as well as by the way their humours are temporarily changed by climate and environment. Yet, I will argue that this issue actually prompts him to reverse traditional points of view in order to show that things also work the other way round. Indeed, in some of his plays, the playwright insists on men’s unfortunate capacities to provoke violent climactic disorders and to generate chaos on earth. So, it is not only the weather and climate that affect the behaviour and humour of people, but the way people feel and behave. The case with King Lear is a perfect example of this problem. The storm that Lear finds himself is actually reflected in his inner state, in his psychological rage due to his disappointment with his two daughters, and facing with the harsh reality for a father, but mostly for being unjust to his younger daughter, Cordelia.

scholarly journals From printed to handwritten book: A copy of the printed Gorazde Prayer Book in the manuscript of the library of the Serbian patriarchate №32

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Stanoje Bojanin ◽  
Milanka Ubiparip
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
The Way

This study deals with the manuscript book of the Library of the Serbian Patriarchate (Biblioteka Srpske patrijarsije = BSP) ?32 from the 1550s or early 1560s which is an exact handwritten copy of the printed Gorazde Prayer Book or Trebnik (1523). Aside from the handwritten leaves, the book of BSP ?32 contains 34 printed leaves which originate from Theodor Ljubavic?s printing shop in Gorazde: 30 of them belong to the Trebnik, and 4 to the Sluzabnik or Leitourgikon (1519). The handwritten and printed leaves have been skillfully arranged providing for the continuity of the text. The contents and the way in which the book of BPS ?32 was made open up new perspectives in the codicological-archeographical and cultural-historical researches on the printed book and its influence in Serbian written culture in the Ottoman Empire, wherein the handwritten book dominated. The short-lived old Serbian printing shops had a certain influence in shaping the later handwritten heritage of the Serbian and South Slavonic books of the 16 th and 17 th centuries. This influence is marked by the reversible process of the transmission of texts and learning from the printed book circulated in a great number of copies to the singular copy of manuscript. This process is most fully represented in the handwritten copy of the Gorazde Prayer Book of BSP ?32.

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