scholarly journals Hope amidst Despair: Revisiting John Steinbeck’s Novel The Grapes of Wrath in the times of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shanthi ◽  
◽  
Lizella Faria Gonsalves ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Times

Death has always been co-existing amidst all life-forms. But when it turns its vehemence on humanity with all its force by means of pandemics, epidemics, wars or natural calamities then it gets its due, acting as a great equalizer. The Catastrophic Corona, today has revolutionized the face of humanity and the Existential Angst is acutely felt. The boundaries and demarcations of caste, creed, religion, region and gender have been ignored by the virus levelling all to the mercy of greater powers. The subversion of capitalism and deconstruction of the binaries like positive and negative, the physical and the virtual have induced discourse subjected to critical study. Since Literature and Life has always gone hand-in-hand, it is natural to witness the saga of human turmoil and suffering being portrayed in literary works. Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague is a classic example of the precariousness of human life and existential isolation. But as devastating as a pandemic or an epidemic is, equally ravaging are the forces of nature and crippling circumstances which lead to unsurmountable suffering and pain. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is an evocative saga of resilience and survival amidst the onslaught of the Dust Bowl and the Great Economic Depression. The Joad family in the novel represents a microcosm of the universal suffering and their story finds echoes in the hearts of many in such times as the present COVID-19 crisis. This paper aims at a study of the socio-economic and psychological factors affecting humanity during crisis through the study of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. It would be an endeavor to evaluate the changes and adapt to the ‘New Normal.’

scholarly journals INTELLECTUALS IN THE FACE OF HISTORIC TURMOIL: “THE REVENGE OF THE PRINTER” BY STANISLAV ROSOVETSKYJ AS ACADEMIC FICTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (93) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
О.В. Блашків
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Academic Novel ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
Renaissance Man ◽  
Academic Fiction

Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as a separate literary genre centered on the life of professors. Often the action takes place on and outside of campus, revealing the professors’ private concerns. Satire is a characteristic feature of academic novels, which usually drives the action. In these novels university appears as a “microcosm of society at large.” Even though the academic novel is an emerging genre in Ukrainian literature, there are texts which fall into this category. In the article the author analyzes “The Revenge of the Printer” by Stanislav Rosovetskyj as academic fiction. The novel has two plot lines, one of which is set in late 1580s in the times of Ivan Fedorov, another is set in the summer of 1991. The plot lines are joined by the setting, which is St. Onuphrius Monastery in Lviv, which in the twentieth century was turned into the museum of book-printing. The novel has the following features of the academic fiction: the main setting and the object of satire is theIvanFedorovMuseum, a cloistered institution like the university campus; the protagonist Shalva Bukviani is an academic and a professor of history facing the choice to leave the institution or to conform to the changing ideology. Collectively, these characteristics allow to define the main theme as the role of individual in the times of historical turmoil. Special attention is paid to the image of Fedorov, whose life in the novel is portrayed as a literary biography, based on research of contemporary Ukrainian historians alternative to the Soviet narrative. Due to the image of Fedorov as “Renaissance man” in the novel, the image of contemporary scholar appears as Sick Soul (M. Andryczyk), “a small Soviet man” unable to engage in protection of cultural heritage in the time of sociopolitical change.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEARIFAN LOKAL NOVEL BIDADARI BERMATA BENING KARYA HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY DAN RENCANA PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARANNYA DI KELAS XII SMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Murni Cahyani ◽  
Kadaryati Kadaryati ◽  
Bagiya Bagiya
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Text Learning ◽  
Natural Flora ◽  
The Face ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
And Behavior

This research aims to describe: (1) intrinsic elements; (2) local wisdom contained in the novel Bidadari Bermata Bening by Habiburrahman El Shirazy; (3) the plan to implement the learning of Bening Edged Bening novel by Habiburrahman El Shirazy in class XII of SMA. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The results of this study concluded that (1) the intrinsic elements of the Bidadari Bering Bening novel, namely (a) themes: the major themes of the story of a woman's struggle in sustaining life, minor themes include, matchmaking, self-esteem, romance; (b) figures and characterizations: the main characters, namely Ayna and Gus Afif. Ayna is intelligent, assertive, patient and loyal, Gus Afif is intelligent, shy, responsible, humble, and independent; (c) flow: forward, (d) setting: setting, including Kanzul Ulum Islamic Boarding School, Lombok and Bait Ibni Sabil; time settings include morning, afternoon, evening and night; socio-cultural background including Javanese socio-cultural background); (e) point of view: the point of view of the all-knowing third person; (f) mandate: never put down others, never give up, and always be patient in the face of life's trials; (2) Local wisdoms in the Bidadari Bering Bening novel include (a) languages: Javanese, (b) knowledge systems: natural surroundings, natural flora, natural flora, and the characteristics and behavior of humans, (c) social organizations: systems kinship, (d) equipment of human life: food and shelter and housing, (e) livelihood system: merchants, (f) religious system: religious rituals and teachers / religious leaders, (g) arts: shadow puppets; (3) The plan for implementing novel text learning in class XII SMA based on the 2013 curriculum is contained in the basic competence 3.9 analyzing the contents of the novel and the language of the novel. The method used is a scientific-based Inquiry Learning method. Keywords: Clear-eyed Angels, intrinsic elements, local wisdom.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI POLA PERILAKU TASAWUF DALAM MEMBANGUN DINAMISASI MASYARAKAT GLOBAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Muhammad Natsir
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Islamic Values

<p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Islam agama Rahmatan lil ‘alamin yang mengajarkan sikap <em>wasathiyah</em> sesuai dengan metodologi Al-Qur’an, yaitu lembut, santun, ramah, berlapang dada, dan mengandalkan kekuatan doa. Wajah Islam Nusantara yang dibawa oleh para mujahid sufi wali sanga adalah  sangat kental diwarnai oleh corak Tasawuf, yaitu corak keIslaman yang lembut, santun dan toleran. Para Ulama’ dari kurun waktu ke waktu yang lain telah memposisikan dirinya sebagai obor umat, yang senantiasa membimbing umat agar menjadi sebatang pohon yang indah. Akar keyakinan yang kokoh; batang, dahan, ranting dan dedaunannya adalah istiqomah; sedangkan buah pohon keIslaman adalah integritas akhlak, etika, dan moral.</p><p>Ajaran Islam memiliki tiga pilar; iman, Islam dan ihsan, kemudian berkembang menjadi akidah, syari’ah, dan akhlak atau tawhid, fikih dan Tasawuf. Ihsan merupakan essensi Tasawuf dan sebaliknya, keduanya merupakan pilar utama untuk membangun pribadi Muslim yang saleh, yaitu pribadi yang tercermin pada diri dan perilaku Nabi Muhammad SAW sebagai Al-Qur’an hidup.</p><p>Indonesia telah masuk pada abad ke-21 atau abad global, banyak masyarakat muslim yang berhasil menduduki posisi strategis di segala ranah kehidupan; politik, ekonomi, sosial dan budaya, yang seharusnya mewarnai Indonesia dengan nilai-nilai keIslaman semisal etos kerja, produktifitas, professional, dan integritas yang berujung pada <strong>kemaslahatan umat manusia</strong>. Akan tetapi, moralitas mereka kotor karena hanya menunjukkan simbol-simbol keIslaman saja. Ihsan (Tasawuf) dipahami secara inklusif; terbatas pada ranah perilaku peribadatan saja, sehingga Rekontekstualisasi nilai-nilai Tasawuf pada seluruh ranah kehidupan manusia akan menjadi wujud perilaku nyata sebagai representasi dari nilai ajaran tasawuf itu sendiri untuk mewujudkan <em>maslahah</em> bagi manusia yang dinamis seiring perkembangan zaman.</p><p><strong>Kata Kunci : Representasi, Tasawuf, masyarakat, global</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p> </p><p>Islam Rahmatan lil 'alamin religion that teaches attitude wasathiyah accordance with the methodology of the Qur'an, that is gentle, courteous, friendly, diledang chest, and rely on the power of prayer. The face of Islamic archipelago brought by the Sufi sage mujahid is very strongly colored by the style of Sufism, ie the pattern of keIslaman gentle, polite and tolerant. The Ulama 'from time to time others have positioned themselves as the torch of the Ummah, who constantly guides the people into a beautiful tree. The root of firm beliefs; stems, branches, twigs and leaves are istiqomah; while the fruit of Islamic trees is the integrity of morals, ethics, and morals.</p><p>Islamic teachings have three pillars; faith, Islam and ihsan, then developed into aqidah, shari'ah, and morals or tawhid, fiqh and mysticism. Ihsan is the essence of Sufism and vice versa, both of which are the main pillars for building a pious Muslim personality, a person who is reflected in the self and behavior of Prophet Muhammad as the living Qur'an.</p><p>Indonesia has entered the 21st century or the global century, many Muslim societies have succeeded in occupying strategic positions in all spheres of life; political, economic, social and cultural rights, which should color Indonesia with Islamic values such as work ethic, productivity, professional, and integrity that lead to the benefit of mankind. However, their morality is dirty because it shows only the symbols of Islam. Ihsan (Sufism) is understood inclusively; confined to the domain of religious behavior only, so that Rekontekstualisasi the values of Sufism on the entire realm of human life will be a manifest behavior as a representation of the value of the teachings of Sufism itself to realize the maslahah for human dynamic as the times.</p><p><strong>Keywords: Representation, Sufism, society, global</strong></p>

scholarly journals DISKRIMINASI DALAM NOVEL ANAK SEMUA BANGSA KARYA PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER DAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA DI SMA

Widya Accarya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Gita Tri Lestari ◽  
Sri Mulyati ◽  
Vita Ika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Caste ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

Abstrak Novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Novel ini berlatar belakang kolonial Hindia Belanda. Pada kenyataannya, dalam kehidupan manusia sering terjadi banyak kasus diskriminasi yang dilakukan oleh para penguasa dan dialami oleh kaum tertindas. Diskriminasi pada novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer tercermin dalam gambaran betapa menderita dan terpuruknya bangsa pribumi Jawa akibat kekejaman yang dilakukan penjajah Belanda. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk diskriminasi dalam novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan implikasinya dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia di SMA. Pendekatan kualitatif digunakan pada penelitian ini, dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif.. Penelitian ini menggunakan sumber data dari novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer dengan wujud datanya yaitu penggalan wacana dan kalimat yang mengandung diskriminasi. Hasil penelitian ditemukan 48 data yang mengandung empat bentuk diskriminasi, yaitu diskriminasi suku/etnis, ras dan agama/keyakinan sebanyak 26 data (54,17%), diskriminasi berdasarkan jenis kelamin dan gender sebanyak 8 data (16,67%), diskriminasi terhadap penderita penyakit menular sebanyak 2 data (4,16%), dan diskriminasi karena kasta sosial sebanyak 12 data (25,00%). Kata kunci: diskriminasi, novel dan implikasi. Abstract Novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This novel has a colonial background in the Dutch East Indies. In fact, in human life cases of discrimination often occur by the authorities and experienced by the oppressed. Discrimination in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novel Anak Semua Bangsa is reflected in the description of the suffering and decline of the Javanese indigenous people due to atrocities committed by the Dutch colonialists. This study aims to describe the forms of discrimination in the novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and their implications in learning Indonesian in high school. This research uses a qualitative approach, a type of descriptive research. The source of data in this study is the novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer with the form of data that is discourse fragments and sentences that contain discrimination. The results found 48 data containing four forms of discrimination, namely ethnic / ethnic, racial and religious / belief discrimination as much as 26 data (54.17%), discrimination based on gender and gender as much as 8 data (16.67%), discrimination against infectious disease sufferers as much as 2 data (4.16%), and discrimination because of social caste as many as 12 data (25.00%). Keywords: discrimination, novels and implications.

Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660–1770

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Rogers
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Age Composition ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Class System ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Early Novel ◽  
British People ◽  
Structure Class

This article reviews some of the historic evidence on the evolution of British society, as changes in its structure impacted on the rise of the novel. It considers: (1) Demographic issues, including the size and age composition of the population, factors affecting the mortality rate, the growth in urbanism, and the professions; (2) The economic make-up of society and ways in which the class system operated through the ownership of land and the occupational spread of British people; (3) Issues of gender, as affected by rank, with the limitations and the changing possibilities for women in this era; (4) Writers and readers of the early novel, touching on the growth of literacy, the shifting dynamics of the reading public, the development of the book trade, and the opportunities for professional authors thrown up as patronage declined by new forms of distribution and delivery such as the circulating library.

The Citizens of Incubators

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Oron Catts ◽  
Ionat Zurr
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome Project ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artificial Life Support ◽  
The Human Genome Project

Neolife are technologically created and fragmented life forms that have been manipulated by humans and cannot survive without artificial life support. This essay focuses our attention on one of the main vessels of neolife - the incubator. In recent years, especially as a result of the human genome project and through the field of synthetic biology, there is a shift to obscure the incubator as a surrogate vessel and render it neutral, thereby obscuring how, throughout history, what life is chosen or forced to be put in an incubator reflects on human wants and desires. Neolife can be seen as the entanglement of life with its surrogate apparatus, echoing interests of human-centric control, which affect and effect the larger milieu. By focusing on the incubator as such, we question the very idea of biocitizenship, focused as it is on human life, on intact, whole bodies, and on the distinction between environment and biology. Furthermore, the incubator has, throughout its history, served to reproduce and recuperate the very ideologies of race and gender upon which normative biocitizenship depends, despite the fact that developments in biotechnology and the design of neolife may offer the illusion of a “new citizenship” that breaks free from hegemonic human social constructions of species, gender, race, and class.

Interplay of Power Relations in Neeharika’s Yogmaya: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Tirtha Raj Niraula
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Voice

This article aims at exploring how Neelam Karki Niharika‘s Yogmaya presents the complex web of power relations that comprise domination, submission, and resistance. It mainly draw son Michel Foucault‘s idea that power is pervasive, not just oppressive but productive as well. Viewed from the Foucauldian notion of power as a theoretical framework, the study reveals the interplay of dominant and counter discourses in propagating knowledge and truth that are constructed and reconstructed. The novel is treated as a site of struggle where the state power along with the discourses of religion, patriarchy, and gender roles prominently operate so as to suppress the voice of the dissent. Yogmaya, a rural woman of the humble background, continuously resists both verbally and physically against various forms of power in the face of threats. She exercises her power in the same way as those who traditionally believe they possess it. In this connection, the focus lies on the protagonist‘s persistent attempts of resistance through the bold interrogation of the hegemonizing discourses and regimes of truth. As the text under study is written in Nepali, I use transliteration and free translation in order to cite the lines for analysis.

Factors affecting students’ achievement in mathematics in secondary schools in developing countries: A rapid systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Lillian Ayebale ◽  
Gilbert Habaasa ◽  
Samson Tweheyo
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Achievement In Mathematics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Google Search

Mathematics is seen by society as the foundation of scientific technological knowledge that is vital in social-economic development of a nation. In fact, studies suggest that mathematics as a subject affects all aspects of human life at different levels. This paper is a rapid systematic review of factors affecting students’ achievement in mathematics. We searched literature on student achievement in mathematics. We used ERIC database and supplemented with Google Scholar and random Google search. Twenty six articles met the final selection criteria and were reviewed. The teaching methods, teachers’ attitude, students’ attitude towards mathematics were noted as key factors in almost all articles reviewed. There seemed to be consistency too that parents can exert a positive influence on their children’s mathematical performance, classroom environment, students’ previous mathematics achievement and gender related factors. Student achievement at secondary level determines whether they will opt to or qualify to study statistics at university. From this review, it is imperative that these factors be addressed early in the students’ career so as to have more student enrollment for statistics at tertiary institutions.

scholarly journals Culture, Education and Truth. The Perspectives on Help Offered to Contemporary Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Janusz Królikowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
Culture Education

This paper focuses on three fundamental notions-realities which describe human life and constitute at the same time its foundation and the space of participation in it. The triad culture – education – truth describes the most essential human experiences, simultaneously, defining the direction of their deepening and creative developing. Certainly, in the times like these when everything is questioned notions-experiences that belong to this triad are not problem-free. What is more, they are deemed to be superfluous, especially in ultra-left-wing ideologies in which suicidal tendencies are easily discernible. Taking this into consideration, it is hardly possible to avoid polemic attitude towards numerous questions even those most essential since in their semantic field the greatest confusion may be detected. That is why there are numerous attempts to answer the question how, in the face of such a dynamic spiritual condition of the world, those fundamental issues can be dealt with within the frames of anthropology, and how they can be justified from the anthropological point of view. This reflection is rather philosophical in character, however, it is also inspired by the fundamental Christian truth which says about the incarnation of the Son of God and about the salvation of man made by Him.

scholarly journals THE USEFULL OF AUGMENTED REALITY OVER THE NATIONAL INSIGHT IN LEARNING ERA DISRUPTION-BASED

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliya Rochmah ◽  
Erna Labudasari ◽  
Nurani Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Face ◽  
Augment Reality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

<em>Technological progress greatly affects all areas of human life, including in the field of Education. One use of technology in education that can be used is augmented reality that displays a virtual world into a real form that can be more easily understood and fun. Augment reality is used in learning history that is displayed in real way so it can facilitate students in learning. This technology is used to solve problems in learning that students feel bored with learning history that only uses lecture and discussion methods so that students are not eager in learning. In the face of this technological progress is utilized as an innovative form based on disrupsi era so that students can learn history more easily and can appreciate the services of heroes and not forget the history of the nation along with the times. The study was conducted at SDN Kanggraksan class VB with learning outcomes experienced improvement in each cycle.</em>

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