scholarly journals White Women’s Burden: A Postcolonial Study of Paul Scott’s Memsahib in The Tower of Silence

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Safia Siddiqui ◽  
Muhammad Ayub Jajja
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Special Technique ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Negative Stereotype ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Common

The Raj literature is mostly dominated by male characters with few negative stereotype women characters featuring in them. The Tower of Silence (1971/2005) by Paul Scott is one such novel which breaks the rule as it is women-centric, dominated by women characters of all ages. Unlike the common notion that Scott is critical of the Raj machinery, this paper will investigate the white women's burden a special technique used by Scott to displays the irrevocable British superiority of race, culture and moral obligations. The Tower of Silence (1971/2005) has a vast array of Memsahibs, and this novel connects the story of the previous two novels of the Quartet through these female characters, and it is almost devoid of any native female characters. This paper will study the glorification of the white women’s burden to display the vital role played by these Memsahib's in the propagation of the Empire.

scholarly journals THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Harrisson ◽  
Shawn Jones ◽  
Jessie Marchessault ◽  
Sâmia Pedraça ◽  
Mia Consalvo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

While many studies suggest media representations of marginalized social groups play a vital role in shaping one’s worldview (Gerbner et al. 1994) or normalizing power imbalances (Harwood and Anderson 2002), videogames continue to privilege characters that are White, adult and male. This paper revisits key questions addressed in Williams, et al.’s “The Virtual Census: Representation of Gender, Race and Age in Videogames” (2009) to examine how representations of gender, race, and age in videogames have changed over the last ten years. The present study analyses the United Kingdom’s top 100 best-selling games of 2017 and looks for changing and continuing trends in the representation of videogame characters compared to the original study. While our sample still shows a preference for White, adult, and male characters, a small but significant increase in the representation of female characters and people of colour offers hope for the future of gaming. By revisiting the 2009 census, we aim to provide empirical evidence that may contribute to further discussions of how gender, race and age are portrayed in videogames, both within academic and industry circles.

BUDAYA PATRIARKHI DAN PERJUANGAN PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL PESAN CINTA DARI HUJAN KARYA ERNI ALADJAI

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MUH RAFI'I
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Women Violence

This paper discusses patriarchy culture and women’s struggles in Pesan Cinta Dari Hujan, a novel written by Erni Aladjai (2010). Patriarchy culture can be seen in attitudes, behaviors, and actions conducted by male characters toward female characters. This paper adopts a feminist approach to explore patriarchy culture and women’s struggles in the novel. The findings show that patriarchy culture includes violence of domestic or women, violence of education and building children’s characters, and violence of space and movement given for self-actualization. Women characters’ struggles to fight patriarchy culture are determination, tear, and running..

The Saudi Influence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Problem ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Patronage Politics ◽  
The Common ◽  
Extreme North

This chapter explores the various manifestations of Saudi influence in Yemen’s extreme north, particularly with regard to the role of Saudi patronage politics in protection of the controversial and vulnerable border between the two countries. The beginnings of Saudi patronage policy can be traced back to the Saudi-Yemeni War of 1934 and the Treaty of Ṭāʾif, which resolved it. Since 1934 tribal elites in the Yemeni borderlands played a vital role in securing the common border. By considering the boundary problem through the lens of the borderland tribes, this chapter focuses on the influence of Saudi patronage politics in the area, the mutual interdependencies between Saudi boundary policy and the emergence of the Houthi conflict, and the vital role that tribes and tribal elites played in this process.

SUBSTANTIVE MORAL THEORY

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Common

Philosophy can serve two roles in relation to moral thinking: first, to provide a meta-ethical commentary on the nature of moral thought, as the methodology or the philosophy of science provides a commentary on the nature of scientific thought; and second, to build on the common presumptions deployed in people's moral thinking about moral issues, looking for a substantive moral theory that they might support. The present essay addresses the nature of this second role; illustrates it with substantive theories that equate moral obligations respectively with requirements of nature, self-interest, benevolence, reason and justifiability; and outlines a novel competitor in which the focus is shifted to requirements of co-reasoning and respect.

Spectrum of Imaging Findings in Rhino-Orbito-Cerebral Mucormycosis (ROCM) in Post COVID Patients - A Pictorial Review with Clinico-Radiological Correlation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (41) ◽  
pp. 3584-3590
Author(s):  
Devarajan Ellezhutil ◽  
Sajeeth Kumar Govindan Keeriyatt ◽  
Sunil Kumar Kunhiparambath ◽  
John Jimmy Nalappat
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Fungal Sinusitis ◽  
Mri Findings ◽  
Pictorial Review ◽  
Radiological Patterns ◽  
The Common ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri ◽  
Very High

BACKGROUND Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) is a devastating fungal infection with very high rates of mortality. Many patients post corona virus disease (COVID) infection are increasingly being diagnosed with mucormycosis (black fungus). Imaging being central to the early diagnosis of the infection, the study aims to characterize the major radiological patterns of involvement of mucormycosis. Computed tomography (CT) & magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of 10 patients who were subsequently conformed to have mucormycosis were analyzed and 7 major patterns of involvement were detected. Imaging plays a vital role in the early diagnosis of ROCM. Knowledge about the common patterns of spread helps in picking the subtle signs of infection. KEYWORDS Mucormycosis, Post COVID, Fungal Sinusitis, ROCM

scholarly journals On Smart Contracts and Organisational Performance: A Review of Smart Contracts through the Blockchain Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaheer Allam
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Common

AbstractAs the Blockchain technology is gaining momentum in popular culture through Cryptocurrencies, its full implication and application to businesses, on a concrete and factual level, is still seen to be in its infancy stage. While the technology provides numerous advantages regarding stability, trust, speed and others, the robustness of the technology is not widely disseminated. This is further coupled by the common notion of resistance to change in business management processes. This paper explores the concept of Smart Contracts through the blockchain technology and its relevance to the business sector and further outlines the advantages and limitations of its applicability as of date.

scholarly journals Curating light: daylight-centric design for promoting wellness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Sensory Awareness ◽  
Direct Light ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Experiential Process ◽  
The Common ◽  
Diffused Light ◽  
Design Factors

Daylighting in architecture has traditionally been a practice-based, intuitive and experiential process, based on the common notion that daylight enhances our spatial and sensory awareness. This Thesis tests the effectiveness of daylight as a mechanism for creating a psychological and emotional impact, and promoting wellness within the confines of designed spaces. The creation of the project is based on a Maggie’s Cancer Centre model of patient-centric design. Maggie’s Centers have been traditionally located in suburban settings, where they may be ideally oriented for day-light infiltration and outdoor connectivity. The Maggie’s model promotes three primary design factors: i) abundance of daylight, ii) connection to nature, and iii) a de-institutionalized environment. The design project was purposefully situated within the specific constraint of an urban environment, in downtown Toronto, Ontario; where the goal is to achieve a spatial character that embodies these three design factors where daylight and access to views of nature are limited by the urban context. The project demonstrates a method of daylight centric design that utilizes three primary techniques for daylighting that were extracted from precedent analysis: i) Direct light, ii) Bounced light, and iii) Diffused light. Through the methodical harvesting and manipulation of daylight, the project highlights its potential for positively enhancing patient experience and aptly demonstrates the curation of varied experiential narratives in light.

scholarly journals CELIE: A PORTRAYAL OF AN AFRO-AMERICAN WOMAN'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL VALUES

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut ◽  
Nuki Dhamayanti
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Purple

The world of literature can be a medium of expressing the writer's expressions and ideas. Universal topics such as, love, death, and war often become subject mailers in the world of literature. In the novel, of The Color Purple. Alice Walker describes the oppression experienced by Afro American women in the female characters of Celie, Nellie, Shug Avery, Sofia, and Mary Agnes who faced sexual discrimina!ions in a patriarchal society. Womanhood, education, and lesbianism are factors that help the Afro American women to free themselves from traditional values. The Color Purple puts into words the process of its main character, Celie, who tries to reject and escape from the male domination of her world. The other Afro American women characters that help Celie to find her selfidentity represent the manifestation of the rejection of the traditional values. This article. which uses the socio-historical alld feminism approach. is intended to analyse the Afro-American women's rejection of traditional values by focusing on the major character of' Walker's The Color Purple. Celie. as she develops from being a victim of traditional values to the rejoiceful discovery of her selfidentity.

scholarly journals Hybridity and the Shape of the New African Woman

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-361
Author(s):  
Regie Panadero Amamio
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
African Literature ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Gender Oppression ◽  
Dark Continent ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
African Writers ◽  
The Many

Hybridity is argued as an intricate combination of attraction and repulsion that describes the relationship between the colonizers and the colonized. This combination creates a challenge to and disruption of the monolithic power exercised by the colonizers of Africa who (mis)represented the land as a Dark Continent. Such monolithic power underpins the portrayal of the colonizers’ patriarchal tradition within which women characters in creative works by Africans are commonly situated. The inclusion of women as part of the many subjects of power strengthens the discourse on hybridity in African literature. To question power is to see men and women both apart and together as ambivalence that defines the idea of hybridity in the African literary tradition. In this paper, the employment of deconstruction in the  analysis of women characters in five selected stories by African writers reveals a new consciousness in African literature using the Dark Continent metaphor as a mirror of  the female aesthetics. In this sense, the use of women’s bodies in the short stories does not only point to the issue of gender oppression but also to a power that is disrupting and slowly dismantling the long-entrenched patriarchal stance forcing the male characters to question their current worldview and position. Overall, this paper has established that contemporary African literature on women recognizes the hybridized identity and shape of the new woman, consequently proving that the so-called Dark Continent is nothing but a myth.

scholarly journals Clinical spectrum, geographical variability of COVID-19 and its implications

Coronaviruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Hasanul Banna Siam ◽  
Abdullah Al Mosabbir ◽  
Nahida Hannan Nishat ◽  
Ahsan Ahmed ◽  
Mohammad Sorowar Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Clinical Spectrum ◽  
Surveillance Strategy ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Atypical Symptoms ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Common

: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a worldwide unprecedented public health crisis. Initially, COVID-19 was considered as a disease of the respiratory system as fever and at least one respiratory symptom was used to identify a suspected COVID-19 case. But there are now numerous reports of COVID-19 patients presenting with myriads of extrapulmonary symptoms and a substantial number of patients are asymptomatic as well. Additionally, there are significant clinical and epidemiological variations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCOV-2) infection across different geographical locations. The updated research thus challenges the existing surveillance system that is mainly based on fever and respiratory symptoms. As countries are coming out of lockdown to save economic fallout, a revised surveillance strategy is required to effectively identify and isolate the correct patients. Besides, since developing countries are becoming the new epicenters of pandemic and there are limited resources for RT-PCR based tests, so documenting the clinical spectrum can play a vital role in the syndromic clinical diagnosis of COVID-19. A plethora of atypical symptoms also aids in guiding better treatment and remains as a source for further research. It is therefore crucial to understand the common and uncommon clinical manifestations of SARS-COV-2 infection and its variability across different geographic regions.

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