Mending Mother’s Kitchen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Large Party ◽  
Difficult Position

This chapter focuses on a large party given for the wife of Pastor Mwanza, the leader of the congregation the Zulus had departed from. Like seed offerings, donations to this party sparked fears of choosing, since not everyone in the congregation was able to contribute the same amount toward the event. Those who gave the most were members of a subset of Pentecostal laity that called “supermembers.” These believers are both spiritually devout and materially wealthy, and as such they occupy a difficult position. Although their ambivalent status made the kitchen mending a risky event, these believers also played a central role in making it ritually successful.

PRZEŚLADOWANIA KOŚCIOŁA KATOLICKIEGO NA ZIEMIACH POLSKICH W DOBIE POWSTANIA STYCZNIOWEGO W ŚWIETLE RAPORTU KONSULATU FRANCJI W WARSZAWIE Z 1869 ROKU

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Jacek Wojda
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Apostolic See ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Seventieth of XIX century were very hard time for Catholic Church in Polish Kingdom. Mainreason was aim for independency in Poles’ hearts. Deeply connected with polish nation, Churchsuffered because of Tsar’ political repression. Although different stages of its history are not closelyconnected with post uprising’s repressions.Report of French General Consulate in Warsaw bearing a date 1869 stress accent on samekind of the Catholic Church persecutions, which were undertaken against bishops and dioceseadministrators, and some of them were died during deportation on Siberia, north or south Russia.Hierarchy was put in a difficult position. They had to choose or to subordinate so called Rome CatholicSpiritual Council in Petersburg or stay by the Apostolic See side. Bishop Konstanty Łubieński isacknowledged as the first Victim of that repressions.Outlook upon history of persecutions, which is presented, shows not only Church but pointsout harmful consequences Russia’s politics in the Church and society of the Polish Kingdom. Citedarchival source lets us know way of looking and analysing history during 1861−1869 by Frenchdiplomats.

Art, Forward Slash, Science

PMLA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-529
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Iconic Memory ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Horse Manure ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Internal Stimulus ◽  
First Time ◽  
Fiction Writer

Synesthesia … one day in 1997 (soon after the national gallery acquired the picture), i walked up the familiar marble stairs, crossed the rotunda, and was confronted, for the first time, by George Stubbs's Whistlejacket, the stunning, naked portrait—no groom or rider, no landscape—of a chestnut Arabian stallion. I smelled the stable, horse manure, and leather, and I had the thrill of knowing what was happening inside my skull. How the attention response had sent a cloud of fire leaping through my brain, tugging on associated traces, map on map of firing and partially firing neurons springing back into existence (never the same twice, yet continuous with my earliest childhood and the millions of years before that). Surprise and the power of the artist were making me read internal stimulus as external: recall had become once again perception (McCrone 194-217). This is an iconic memory for me. It holds, packed down and ready to unfold, both the direction my work has taken through my career and the context of that work: my own life and times; the history that made me; the Next Big Thing in science; and my privileged, difficult position as a science fiction writer, an arts graduate, and a woman.

scholarly journals Voices and Vacancies in Verse: Metamorphoses and Gendering the Ovidian Soliloquy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Khushi Jain
Keyword(s):  
Female Voice ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Open Question

Abstract Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a poem saturated with stories and heavy with the most colourful narrative elements. One such is the soliloquy, which Ovid bequeathed to poets and dramatists like Chaucer, Faustus and the Bard. Metamorphoses houses five soliloquies, all, interestingly, in the mouth of female characters. This essay attempts to understand the ‘gendering’ of the soliloquy through its aetiology and implications on the characters, narrative, themes and audiences. Medea, Scylla, Byblis, Myrrha and Atlanta are the only Ovidian soliloquists of Metamorphoses. This puts them in a difficult position, for they are a granted agency and comprehensive selfhoods and characterhoods through the expression of complex psychological interiorities. But at the same time, their identities are suffocated with erroneous rationales, moral didacticisms and tragic endings. The soliloquies operate within the liminality of gender and gendered literary traditions. The essay culminates in an open question: how authentic is the female voice narrated by a male author? Keywords: monologue, gendering, aetiology, characterhood, narrative, Ovid, Metamorphoses

Xinjiang issues place US firms in a difficult position

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Director General ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Investment Agreement ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Apparel Companies ◽  
Apparel Retailers

Significance Many are facing a combination of ethical and commercial dilemmas as China uses the commercial power of its domestic consumers to silence critics. Those targeted so far, mostly apparel retailers, have expressed concern about reports of forced labour by minority Uighurs in Xinjiang, where 20% of the world's cotton is produced. Impacts Upstream supply chain visibility in Xinjiang will remain opaque, even if downstream operations are sourced elsewhere. The WTO may take up the issue as its new director-general is keen to re-establish the agency's credibility. The EU's attempt to use its investment agreement with China to impose labour standards will be exposed as ineffectual. Viscose, of which Xinjiang produces 10-18% of global supply, may follow cotton as a 'forced labour' issue for apparel companies.

Slovakia

2019 ◽  
pp. 435-474
Author(s):  
Soňa Szomolányi ◽  
Alexander Karvai
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Formation ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Large Party ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Policy Agreement ◽  
Coalition Bargaining

In Slovakia, the main lines of conflict that determine coalition formation have changed over time. Iinitially the conflicts were based on national-ethnic issues, later this was followed by disagreement over the direction of reforms and the European integration process. Eventually they have settled around socioeconomic policies with alternating right and left governments in power. Only three coalition cabinets have served the full parliamentary terms, and all of them have both enjoyed a majority support in Parliament and included a dominant large party. In contrast, coalitions without a major leading party, and where the power structure has been more evenly distributed, have been more likely to terminate due to inter-party conflicts before the end of the full constitutionally mandated term. The coalitions of the second type coalitions have also been pursuing more of consensual style of politics. They have been based on social-economic policy agreement between the parties but differed considerably in terms of the GAL-TAN dimension. While socioeconomic policies appear is a strong driving force in coalition bargaining, the second (GAL-TAN) dimension tends to matters more when it comes to the survival of the coalition. In terms of coalition governance, six out twelve cabinets represented the Prime Minister Dominated model. The cabinets with a leading party (HZDS, SDKÚ-DS, and SMER-DS) did not have as many internal conflicts as the cabinets with a relatively even power distribution. The latter type of cabinets relied instead on their ability to negotiate and compromise in the name of consensus and so they represent a Coalition Compromise Model.

scholarly journals The Academic ‘Patras’ of the Arab World: Creating a Climate of Academic Apartheid

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi N. Nasser ◽  
Kamal Abouchedid
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Corrective Action ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This paper discusses factors that are contributing to the rise of what we refer to as an ethos of “academic apartheid” in Arab institutions of higher education. The paper examines the failure of these institutions to overcome their alienation from indigenous epistemology, to emancipate the education they provide from its colonial past, and to move towards the modern information age. The difficult position of Arab academics striving to rediscover, reintegrate and reorganize an epistemological framework to serve the indigenous world is also discussed. Current institutional approaches have deleterious effects on the performance of Arab academics, including arresting the process of transition to development. The paper concludes that Arab academics have a range of choices in determining how to establish a course of corrective action.

Tricks for Obtaining a Nuchal Translucency Measurement on the Fetus in a Difficult Position

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1261-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryann Bromley ◽  
Thomas D. Shipp ◽  
Mary Ann Mitchell ◽  
Beryl R. Benacerraf
Keyword(s):  
Nuchal Translucency ◽  
Nuchal Translucency Measurement ◽  
Difficult Position

Feminism Enters the Debate

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Fran Amery
Keyword(s):  
Legal Abortion ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Difficult Position

This chapter considers the entry of feminist arguments about abortion into UK parliamentary debates in the 1970s. A contingent of MPs willing to advocate for legal abortion on feminist grounds had developed. However, the wording of the Abortion Act placed feminist actors in a difficult position; the gendered implications of the Act were troubling, but at the same time it was essential to defend it from attack by opponents of legal abortion. This resulted in some tricky compromises, in which feminist actors would defend a ‘right to choose’ without examining the failure of the Act to provide exactly that. Yet difficulties were present for anti-abortion actors, who risked being perceived as being ‘against’ helping vulnerable women. Anti-abortion speeches during this period were ambiguous and confused in how they discussed women.

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