scholarly journals Mere solidarity is not enough: Exploring dystopian reality in Edward Bond’s 'The Tin Can People'

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Seçil Varal
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear War ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Utopian Community ◽  
New Perspective

Solidarity is an indispensable part of the utopian and dystopian world since people gather around a common cause either to create an ideal community or to get rid of a difficult situation. Unlike utopia, in which solidarity mostly comes out voluntarily, in dystopia, it grows up compulsorily triggered by emotions such as anxiety, distrust, paranoia, and fear primarily due to a totalitarian regime or the effects of a nuclear war. However, in The Tin Can People (1984), British playwright Edward Bond propounds a new perspective to postapocalyptic dystopia by portraying a group of people who create a utopian community, a heaven in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, as a result of living in solidarity. This article aims to trace how dystopian world reveals the bitter ‘reality’ against this illusionary heaven with the arrival of a stranger and dissolves the community despite the solidarity that the survivors have been preserving for years to show that mere solidarity is not enough to save a community.

Hawks, doves and owls: a new perspective on avoiding nuclear war

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham T. Allison ◽  
Albert Carnesale ◽  
Joseph S. Nye
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear War ◽  
New Perspective

“Victory over Communism: South Korean Protestants’ Ideas about Democracy, Development, and Dictatorship, 1953–1961”

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 233-258
Author(s):  
Jeongran Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The North ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
North Korean Regime

This article complicates the traditional narrative of anti-Communist Christians in Korea, examining the history of anti-communism among them in light of their claims to support democracy and development. Changes in Christian thinking in Korea followed the end of formal fighting in the Korean War. The conflict transformed Korea’s post-colonial history into a developmental struggle, pitting communism versus capitalism in a deadly battle. From the mid-1950s, South Korean Protestants saw the struggle as a competition between two systems, not simply one to eradicate the North Korean regime. From this new perspective, they began condemning political injustice and corruption under President Syngman Rhee. The contradictions in the ideas of Christians were partly embodied in their support for the civil uprising that would topple the Rhee regime, but also in their endorsement of Park Chung-hee’s military takeover in 1961. South Korean Protestants assisted the coup’s central leadership and helped a totalitarian regime come to power. This paradoxical aspect within Korean Protestant history is closely tied to the unique characteristics of its anti-communism and how it evolved after the Korean War.

The Dual Problems of Peace and National Security

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Robert G. Gilpin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Political Spectrum

The strategic consensus that has characterized American official and popular thinking about nuclear weapons since World War II has greatly eroded in recent years. That consensus consisted not only of an American determination to use nuclear weapons to deter a direct Soviet attack on the United States but also of a commitment to extend the American deterrent to cover a Soviet nuclear or large-scale conventional attack on America's principal allies. In the face of the recent massive and continuing growth of Soviet nuclear and conventional capabilities this consensus has come under growing challenge.This challenge to the consensus on the policy of nuclear deterrence has come from both ends of the political spectrum. On the political “right,” the Reagan administration has argued that deterrence alone is too weak a reed to forestall a Soviet attack on the United States or one of its allies; the prevention of a Soviet attack requires the development of a nuclear war-fighting strategy similar to that which the Soviets themselves are presumed to possess. On the political “left,” a large and highly vocal antinuclear movement largely under the banner of the “freeze,” challenges one aspect or another of the deterrence strategy and demands a deemphasis on, if not the complete elimination of, nuclear weapons. Both of these positions, I believe, are flawed and fail to provide a satisfactory solution to the difficult situation in which the United States finds itself in the closing decades of the twentieth century.

SREM observation of the interaction between the in-situ deposited Pd small particles and MgO cleavage surface

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 382-383
Author(s):  
H.-J. Ou
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Small Particle ◽  
Small Particles ◽  
Cleavage Surface ◽  
Metallic Particles ◽  
Microscopy Technique ◽  
Ceramic Surfaces ◽  
Reflection Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Perspective

The understanding of the interactions between the small metallic particles and ceramic surfaces has been studied by many catalyst scientists. We had developed Scanning Reflection Electron Microscopy technique to study surface structure of MgO hulk cleaved surface and the interaction with the small particle of metals. Resolutions of 10Å has shown the periodic array of surface atomic steps on MgO. The SREM observation of the interaction between the metallic particles and the surface may provide a new perspective on such processes.

Articulation Training: A New Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sallie W. Hillard ◽  
Laura P. Goepfert
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Remediation Measures ◽  
New Perspective

This paper describes the concept of teaching articulation through words which have inherent meaning to a child’s life experience, such as a semantically potent word approach. The approach was used with six children. Comparison of pre/post remediation measures indicated that it has promise as a technique for facilitating increased correct phoneme production.

The Principle of the Common Cause

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabor Hofer-Szabo ◽  
Miklos Redei ◽  
Laszlo E. Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Common Cause ◽  
The Common

Vergleichende Qualitätsmessungen Teil 2: Regelkarten

Pflege ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kottner ◽  
Armin Hauss
Keyword(s):  
Control Charts ◽  
Common Cause

Vergleichende Qualitätsmessungen und Beurteilungen spielen in der Pflege eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle. Qualitätskennzahlen sind von systematischen und zufälligen Fehlern beeinflusst. Eine Möglichkeit, mit zufälliger Variation in Kennzahlenvergleichen adäquat umzugehen, bietet die Theorie der Statistischen Prozesskontrolle (SPC). Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Regelkarten (control charts) als Werkzeuge der SPC vorgestellt. Es handelt sich dabei um grafische Darstellungen von Qualitätskennzahlen im zeitlichen Verlauf. Attributive Merkmale können mithilfe von p-, u- und c-Regelkarten dargestellt werden. Es gibt eine Reihe von Regeln, mit denen spezielle Variationen (special cause variation) innerhalb des betrachteten Prozesses identifiziert werden können. Finden sich im Diagramm keine Hinweise auf nichtzufällige Variationen, geht man davon aus, dass sich der Prozess innerhalb «statistischer Kontrolle» befindet (common cause variation). Eine Abweichung eines Datenpunktes um mehr als drei Standardabweichungen vom Mittelwert aller vorliegenden Datenpunkte gilt als stärkstes Signal nicht zufallsbedingter Variation. Im Qualitätsmanagementkontext sind Regelkarten für die dynamische Messung von Prozessen und Ergebnissen und deren Beurteilungen traditionellen Mittelwerts- und Streuungsvergleichen überlegen.

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