scholarly journals Ferry Crossing, Travelling and Change in the Northern Sudan

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Maciej Kurcz
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Village ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Abstract In the past few years, the transport infrastructure of Sudan has radically changed. New roads, transport hubs, or means of transport have had a significant impact on the culture of travelling, and many of the older institutions connected with the phenomenon are things of the past now. One of those dying out phenomena is ferry crossing on the Nile. It was not long ago that a ferry was the basic means of transport throughout the riverine area of Sudan. It was the way of transporting people and goods, both along the river and across it. Today, because of the new era of modern motorways and bridges, its time is coming to an end. What can we learn about the Sudanese travel practices from the perspective of the Nile ferry? This is a fundamental question I will provide an answer to. In the paper I refer to the field observations made in the Northern Sudan in the village of ad Ghaddar in 2013.

scholarly journals Apprenticeship in New Zealand : its development, present organization and administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Vaughan Kriby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
The Village ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

"Lumen Accipe et Imperti ", says the motto of Wellington College; and, in becoming a teacher, after being a pupil of the College, I fully accepted the injunction to receive the light and impart it. But it took the preparation of this thesis on the apprenticeship system to bring home to me the<br>strength of the human impulse implied in those four<br>Latin words.<br>In the ideal, the impulse is personified in Oliver Goldsmith's description of the village schoolmaster who "...tried each art, reproved each dull delay; Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way."<br><div>It is this impulse to seek skills and to hand them on which helps to explain the enigma of a system apparently always on the point of being out-moded, and yet surviving time and change, depression and prosperity, wars and its greatest challenge, the machine age.</div><div>In 1898 - before the Boer War - a Member of the New Zealand Parliament announced that a pair of boots had been made in 25 minutes, passing through 53 different machines and 63 pairs of hands. The tone of the brief, ensuing discussion was one suited to the occasion of an imminent demise, and a Bill for improvement of the apprenticeship system then before the House quietly expired.<br><br></div>

The Potential for Immersive Technology combined with Online Dating

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
David Evans Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Immersive Technology ◽  
Made In ◽  
Immersive Technologies ◽  
The Way

Whilst online dating has been around for several years; immersive technologies are relatively new to this type of interaction. The first forays into immersive VR online dating have only just being made in the past year. To what degree this type of technology will change the way that we date is potentially quite different from the current way that online dates are conducted. The way the technology works could make virtual dates seem as real as a physical date. Understanding how immersive technology functions gives some insights into the future of online dating and also the impact on the digital economy.

scholarly journals A new era for the music industry: How new technologies and the internet affect the way music is valued and have an impact on output quality

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tassos Patokos
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Output Quality ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Since its early days, the Internet has been used by the music industry as a powerful marketing tool to promote artists and their products. Nevertheless, technology developments of the past ten years, and especially the ever-growing phenomenon of file sharing, have created the general impression that the Internet is responsible for a crisis within the industry, on the grounds that music piracy has become more serious than it has ever been. The purpose of this paper is to present the impact of new technologies and the Internet on the three main actors of the music industry: consumers, artists and record companies. It is claimed that the Internet has changed the way music is valued, and also, that it may have a direct effect on the quality of the music produced, as perceived by both artists and consumers alike.

The Working World of International Organizations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Yi-chong ◽  
Patrick Weller
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Working World ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

International organizations (IOs) matter. Based on extensive interviews and exchanges with key players in IOs in the past decade, this book uncovers the regular working world of IOs, to challenge the orthodox view that member states alone decide what IOs do and how they operate. This book provides a realistic and provocative account of the way IOs really work, a picture that would be recognized by those who work there. The Working World of International Organizations specifically examines three groups of players in IOs—state representatives, as proxy for states and often with schizophrenic demands, the head of IOs as diplomat, manager, and politician, and the staff of the permanent secretariat with their competing solutions. It explores their actions and interactions by asking who or what shapes their decisions; how and when decisions are made; how players interact within an IO; and how the interactions vary across six IOs. It argues that each and all of them must contribute if any progress is to be achieved in managing global problems. It shows why this is the case by examining how decisions are made in three key areas: agenda-setting, financing, and decentralization.

scholarly journals OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE SHEEP FARMS IN NORTHLAND: 2. The Adviser's Viewpoint

1967 ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
J.D. Currie
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
National Average ◽  
Sheep Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

THE Northland flock is increasing rapidly. The sheep population reflects the progress made in pasture development over the past fourteen years, the two million sheep wintered this year representing a remarkable 200% increase in numbers since 1953. It is the initiative of progressive farmers in pioneering improved management techniques, and the courage of the Lands and Survey Department in implementing these methods on a large scale, and with such convincing success, that have shown the way. But it is only during the last three favourable growth years that the extension message of more fertilizer and lime, and, above all, more stock, has been widely accepted. Fertilizer sales have doubled over this three-year period, and sheep owners (of which there are 1,000 with 500 or more sheep), reached a climax this year when they increased their flocks by three times the national average.

The Plays of Bhāsa

1921 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-382
Author(s):  
A. Banerji-Śāstrī
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sanskrit Series ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Towards the beginning of the fifth century a.d. Kālidāsa made his début with an apology for his temerity in addressing an audience accustomed to such old, wellestablished authors as “Bhāsa and others”. After the lapse of fifteen centuries Kālidāsa has held his own, while Bhāsa is practically forgotten. The reason is not the decisive verdict of Time, but the unfortunate loss of his works. But lately came a surprise. In 1912 Gaṇapati Śāstrī discovered and published thirteen dramas in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, and claimed them as Bhāsa's. For the past eight years Orientalists have been considering this claim, the general trend of opinion being unfavourable. The present article proposes to supplement the progress already made in the investigation of this question, and to point out the facts practically settled, thus paving the way for further research.

scholarly journals Identity of Ao-Naga and Sümi-Naga Women as Gleaned from Folklores

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Resenmenla Longchar ◽  
H. Salome Kinny
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

The word identity has drawn a lot of attention to itself more so in the present age where everyone seems to be in a quest to establish their own identity. This quest for identity is not an alien concept to Naga society which comprises of sixteen officially recognized communities. These communities rely upon their own set of folklores to glean their past. Folklores are a strong medium through which most of the traditional beliefs and cultural practices are embodied. It is a reflection of the past through which the identity of the community can be gleaned. Folklores are not mere spinning of tales to glorify one’s own community, but are narratives of the communities who follow oral-tradition. This paper attempts to glean the identity of Ao-Naga and Sümi-Naga women through their respective folklores. Ao-Naga and Sümi-Naga are two strong communities residing in Nagaland. Both the communities have rich folklores falling into different genres. A striking feature of most folktales is the way details are presented- the name of the village, location and presence of evidence in the present times suggesting the validity of the events in the folktales. After the construction of identity is done, this paper will compare the identity of women of these two communities. Women of both these communities have come a long way from what they were in the past. As the third and final component of this paper, it will analyse whether women are still under grip of their past identity or whether they have moved away from it to build a new identity for themselves in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century. This paper will further examine the identity of women in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century in the light of their past as constructed from the folklores.

scholarly journals Mary Holderness. Notes relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tatars. Written during the four years` residence among that people

2021 ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
Arzy Yu. Alieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Village ◽  
Crimean Tatar ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

This translation is based on the work “Notes Relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tartars…” by the English traveler Mary Holderness. This work was published in London in 1821. It contains detailed information about the way of life of the Crimean Tatars, among whom Mary Holderness lived for four years in the village of Karagoz (Karagoss, at present the village of Pervomayskoye, Kirovsky district of the Crimea) since 1816 to 1820. The work is based on the author’s personal testimonies about the conduct of marriage, funeral and many other ceremonies of the Crimean Tatars: their customs, traditions, methods of housekeeping and education, especially intra-family relations. In her notes, Mary Holderness describes the development of women’s handicrafts and leather production. The author notes that all the Crimean footwear production was made in Bakhchisarai and Karasubazar, and subsequently sent to other Crimean cities. The author provides information on the development of sheep breeding among the Crimean Tatars. Lamb skins, after appropriate processing, were highly valued and exported to Moscow. Jewelry production was also well developed. Various jewelry decorations were made by them: jewelry made of silver, glass, brass, lead, as well as gold with colored stones. The significance of work lies in the fact that it provided the modern reader with the opportunity to get acquainted with the way of life and customs of the Crimean Tatars of the period described. An abundance of background information: food prices, Russian equivalents of British measures, indication of the distance between settlements make it possible to assess the standard of living of the Crimean Tatar people in the period under review.

scholarly journals Pamięć protetyczna i nierealność czasu w serialu Watchmen

2020 ◽  
pp. 278-290
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Loska
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Collective Dimension ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Prosthetic Memory and Unreality of Time in Watchmen Starting from a reflection on the traumatic experience of racism, the author of the article considers the possibility of transmitting the knowledge about the past and retrieving memory, and then points out how the relationships between the past, the present and the future are problematized, if we change the way we think about time, namely when it ceases to be perceived as something real or objective. The point of reference for further considerations is the HBO Watchmen series, made in 2019, which exemplifies the mechanism of prosthetic memory. According to the definition proposed by Alison Landsberg, prosthetic memory includes continuity and rupture. It is connected not only with the individual but the collective dimension as well, as it is related to the sphere of politics. In other words, it is a vehicle thanks to which we can travel to other places and times, and thanks to which the viewer may refer to important social and psychological issues.

Unemployed in network of the professional support: subjective participant or passive con-sumer?

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Mateusz Rutkowski
Keyword(s):  
Professional Support ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

In this article the author tried to answer the question, what kind of role has the unemployed, who are using network of the professional support. For this purpose the author discussed the way of support for people staying unemployed and the relations between them and the helper. This subject was chosen, because of progressing professionalism in help services, which could lead to loss help in overcome difficult life situation. The support was showed just as unemployed see it. To emphasize, how few changes was made in time the author compared nowadays help relations and the situation of unemployed from the stories of the past, which are present in the book “Pamiętniki bezrobotnych”.

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