scholarly journals A Post-Apocalyptic Redefinition of Homeless Spaces in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Samuel Tascón Olmedo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
Important Change ◽  
The Road ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Strong System

Homelessness undergoes an important change in a post-apocalyptical setting: it becomes the norm, the only reality for the survivors. Through a process of defamiliarization and reinterpretation of the new reality, space goes back to its mythical sphere, where a permanent sense of anxiety and distress dominates everything. In the present paper, a new vision of homelessness in the characters and spaces portrayed in The Road is presented. Focusing on the new spatial conception will offer a fresh perspective to interpret how a father struggles in his attempts to instill in his boy a strong system of moral values while travelling through the vastness of a space without boundaries that only has one defining and common characteristic: the road.

On the Muslim Question

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Norton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The West ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Security Values ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Democratic Life

In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, “the Muslim question” has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up with others—about freedom of speech, terror, violence, human rights, women's dress, and sexuality. Above all, it is tied to the possibility of democracy. This book demolishes the notion that there is a “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam. What is really in question, the book argues, is the West's commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization. Moving between the United States and Europe, the book provides a fresh perspective on iconic controversies, from the Danish cartoon of Muhammad to the murder of Theo van Gogh. It examines the arguments of a wide range of thinkers—from John Rawls to Slavoj Žižek. It also describes vivid everyday examples of ordinary Muslims and non-Muslims who have accepted each other and built a common life together. Ultimately, the book provides a new vision of a richer and more diverse democratic life in the West, one that makes room for Muslims rather than scapegoating them for the West's own anxieties.

The Benefits of Home-Based Working's Flexibility

2009 ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Diana Benito Osorio
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Home Based ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Oil Crisis

The history of home working in Western economies can only be understood by means of changes in the systems of production in Europe and North America and through changes in the general sphere of women’s responsibilities, which typically include family work as well as paid work (Johnson, 2003). Both new situations produce the most important change: the change in work venue. The development in industrial production has been an uneven and changing pattern, beginning with artisanal guilds of the middle ages and continuing through to industrial production in the 19th and 20th centuries (Boris, 1996). Mistakenly, the process of industrialization has often been characterized as a unidirectional shift of production from home to factory (Johnson, 2003), but the reality has been very different. The earliest forms of industrialization first appeared within the home setting (Albrecht, 1982). One of the initial impetuses for the use of home-based working arrangements among such employees was provided by the oil crisis of the 1970s which, in conjunction with advances in computer technology, led to a surge of interest in “telecommuting” among white collar workers (Niles, Carlson, Gray, & Hanneman, 1976). However, it was not until the development of personal computers and networked systems in the 1980s that home-based working arrangements experienced significant growth, growth that has been particularly pronounced among executives, managers, scientists, and engineers in large corporations (Bureau of National Affairs, 1991). This home-based working’s revival, on the early 1980s, was linked to the shift in the structure of employment and production in post-industrial economies of North America and Western Europe (Lipsig-Mummé, 1983). Years later, in the 1990s, this subject was treated again but with a new vision. While adoption of telework was slow during the 1980´s, the subsequent decade’s information revolution resulted in considerable growth in new work forms (Moss, Whitfield, Johnson, & Andrey, 2006; Robertson, 2005) The “renaissance” was interpreted as a symptom of economic restructuring that put increased pressure on domestic industries from off-shore producers (Leach, 1998).

Why We Should Use the Term Illegalized Immigrant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Illegal Immigrant ◽  
Executive Editor ◽  
The Road ◽  
Senior Vice President ◽  
Associated Press

Introduction The Associated Press (AP) recently announced an important change to its Stylebook: it “no longer sanctions the term ‘illegal immigrant’” (Colford, 2013; Morison, 2013). AP suggested alternative phrases, such as “person entering a country illegally” or “without legal permission” (Morison, 2013). While these phrases may be accurate, they are wordy, prompting AP’s Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, Kathleen Carroll, to project that suitable terminology will evolve “down the road” (Colford, 2013). In this Research Brief, I argue for the adoption of illegalized immigrant to fill the terminology gap.

scholarly journals Céline héros de l’après-coup

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Boulanger
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World ◽  
Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Dans sa tétralogie des bombes, Louis-Ferdinand Céline revendique l’héroïsme déprécié dans son premier roman, Voyage au bout de la nuit. Suite à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Céline — narrateur des quatre romans — devient un héros de 1914. Comme dans Semmelweis, le héros célinien se constitue dans l’après-coup et conserve sa posture marginalisée. L’écrivain se construit en témoin héroïque et va jusqu’à s’arroger la place des véritables héros de la guerre : les rescapés des camps de concentration.AbstractCéline’s novels published after the Second World War present a new vision on heroism, previoulsy depreciated in his first novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit. In Féerie pour une autre fois, D’un château l’autre, Nord and Rigodon, Céline represents himself as a hero of the First World War and as an heroic witness. This article aims to examine the reasons and effects of this important change.

scholarly journals Digitalization and Decolonizing Education: A Qualitative Study of University of South Africa (UNISA) Leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 553-560
Author(s):  
Vuyisile Msila ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Vision ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The COVID-19 pandemic that shook the world in 2020 forced all educational institutions to search for new ways of teaching and learning. Furthermore, education institutions such as the University of South Africa (UNISA), like all other universities, found themselves with a huge task of promoting digitalization. As a traditional distance education institution, UNISA had to refine digitalization in a time of decolonization in the Global South. This case study examined the role of educational managers in sustaining effective digitalization. Eight UNISA managers were selected and interviewed to understand how they perceived the role of digital leaders. Furthermore, the study sought to understand why it is critical that managers should be in the forefront of digitalization. The study found that at present in Africa it is critical for digitalization to be combined with decolonization. Additionally, when digitalization and decolonization are implemented simultaneously, they become vehicles for social justice and democracy. This then means that education can be a tool for liberation and achievement where the digital divide is minimized. When implemented well, education institutions become institutions with access for success. The conclusions show that a set strategy based on a new vision for a university will harness digital leadership. The participants also mentioned strategic documents at the university; on the one hand are the Five Pillars of Change whilst on the other are the Eight Dimensions of Transformation. Furthermore, the participants claimed that their institution was on the road to success whilst building UNISA as an institution “Towards the African University that builds futures.”

Impact of Fourth Public Private Partnership Road Program in Colombia: Analysis of Accessibility, Goods Transportation Costs, and Territorial Cohesion Changes

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-406
Author(s):  
Jose Ignacio Nieto-Garcia ◽  
Andres Felipe Guzman
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Transportation Costs ◽  
Transport Cost ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Road ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Territorial Cohesion

The public private partnership model in Colombia has been the main vehicle to promote the development of transportation infrastructure during the last 20 years. Currently, the national government is developing the Fourth Public Private Partnership Road Program (4G) with a total investment of COP$53B (US$26,530) in 2013 and an average total length of 7,601 km (4,723 mi). In the development of this paper it will be quantified how 4G projects will change accessibility, goods transportation costs, and territorial cohesion in a future scenario when the road network will be finished. This goal will be supported by the creation of a database design in the geographic information system taking into account economic and technical characteristics to evaluate the accessibility and a generalized transport cost function ([Formula: see text]) in each link covering the whole road network, as well as gross domestic product (GDP) in each project region. As a result, it is important to note that 4G projects will represent an important change and positive impact in variables of corridors in the national road network. Even if the results show that some regions will receive benefits, this research also shows that some regions will not present changes in accessibility, [Formula: see text], and territorial cohesion because the 4G corridors do not cover the whole country, but the advantages in some regions will encourage the country’s competitiveness, which could not be reality without the support of private participation. Finally, this research provides enough insight to outline a new program that could enhance accessibility, [Formula: see text], and GDP in the regions.

New Vision Zero Measures with the use of Telematics and Mobility Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Hackner ◽  
T. Berger ◽  
P. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
New Vision ◽  
On The Road ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Safety Features ◽  
Vision Zero

Worldwide, 1.35 million people die every year as a result of road accidents [Status 2018]. More than half of all traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclist, and motorcyclists [1]. To reduce this number, there are many approaches, an effective and sustainable variant is the Vision Zero(VZ). First and foremost, VZ should be seen as a strategy based on an ethical foundation, creating and supporting a totally new perspective on the road safety problem and the approach to solve it. In Germany, the German Road Safety Council (DVR) has pursued the strategy since 2006 and in 2018 the German Parliament has committed to VZ in the coalition agreement [2]. Since the turn of the century, many European countries have been pursuing the vision of zero traffic fatalities. Numerous VZ measures for traffic infrastructure, vehicle safety features and for instruction have been defined, implemented and validated in order to improve traffic safety, but facing new digital technologies as telematics systems and mobility data via smart phone sensors, these measures need to be redefined in order to be smarter, more efficient and cheaper.

MULTI-AGENT DIFFUSION OF DECISION EXPERIENCES

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 1360001
Author(s):  
XIAOCONG FAN ◽  
MENG SU
Keyword(s):  
Single Agent ◽  
Massive Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Solution Synthesis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Road ◽  
Diffusion Geometry ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Multi Agent

Diffusion geometry offers a fresh perspective on multi-scale information analysis, which is critical to multiagent systems that need to process massive data sets. A recent study has shown that when the "diffusion distance" concept is applied to human decision experiences, its performance on solution synthesis can be significantly better than using Euclidean distance. However, as a data set expands over time, it can quickly exceed the processing capacity of a single agent. In this paper, we proposed a multi-agent diffusion approach where a massive data set is split into several subsets and each diffusion agent only needs to work with one subset in diffusion computation. We conducted experiments with different splitting strategies applied to a set of decision experiences. The result indicates that the multi-agent diffusion approach is beneficial, and it is even possible to benefit from using a larger group of diffusion agents if their subsets have common experiences and pairly-shared experiences. Our study also shows that system performance could be affected significantly by the splitting granularity (size of each splitting unit). This study paves the road for applying the multi-agent diffusion approach to massive data analysis.

scholarly journals Why We Should Use the Term Illegalized Immigrant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Illegal Immigrant ◽  
Executive Editor ◽  
The Road ◽  
Senior Vice President ◽  
Associated Press

Introduction The Associated Press (AP) recently announced an important change to its Stylebook: it “no longer sanctions the term ‘illegal immigrant’” (Colford, 2013; Morison, 2013). AP suggested alternative phrases, such as “person entering a country illegally” or “without legal permission” (Morison, 2013). While these phrases may be accurate, they are wordy, prompting AP’s Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, Kathleen Carroll, to project that suitable terminology will evolve “down the road” (Colford, 2013). In this Research Brief, I argue for the adoption of illegalized immigrant to fill the terminology gap.

The Benefits of Home-Based Working’s Flexibility

2011 ◽  
pp. 1577-1587
Author(s):  
Diana Benito Osorio
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Home Based ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Oil Crisis

The history of home working in Western economies can only be understood by means of changes in the systems of production in Europe and North America and through changes in the general sphere of women’s responsibilities, which typically include family work as well as paid work (Johnson, 2003). Both new situations produce the most important change: the change in work venue. The development in industrial production has been an uneven and changing pattern, beginning with artisanal guilds of the middle ages and continuing through to industrial production in the 19th and 20th centuries (Boris, 1996). Mistakenly, the process of industrialization has often been characterized as a unidirectional shift of production from home to factory (Johnson, 2003), but the reality has been very different. The earliest forms of industrialization first appeared within the home setting (Albrecht, 1982). One of the initial impetuses for the use of home-based working arrangements among such employees was provided by the oil crisis of the 1970s which, in conjunction with advances in computer technology, led to a surge of interest in “telecommuting” among white collar workers (Niles, Carlson, Gray, & Hanneman, 1976). However, it was not until the development of personal computers and networked systems in the 1980s that home-based working arrangements experienced significant growth, growth that has been particularly pronounced among executives, managers, scientists, and engineers in large corporations (Bureau of National Affairs, 1991). This home-based working’s revival, on the early 1980s, was linked to the shift in the structure of employment and production in post-industrial economies of North America and Western Europe (Lipsig-Mummé, 1983). Years later, in the 1990s, this subject was treated again but with a new vision. While adoption of telework was slow during the 1980´s, the subsequent decade’s information revolution resulted in considerable growth in new work forms (Moss, Whitfield, Johnson, & Andrey, 2006; Robertson, 2005) The “renaissance” was interpreted as a symptom of economic restructuring that put increased pressure on domestic industries from off-shore producers (Leach, 1998).

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