scholarly journals A Study of Endurance and Aspiration in Maya Angelou’s Poems The Caged Bird (1968) and Still I Rise (1978)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huma Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Current Analysis ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
Personal Consciousness

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994) manifests that Maya Angelou’s personal consciousness and public awareness sharpened her poetic capabilities. She used art to communicate the pathos and joys of her evolving spirit. This research paper explores the elements of survival, that is, endurance and aspiration in her poetry. The only freedom she enjoyed was the freedom to write which was rooted in her mind and not curbed by societal forces. The rationale of this paper is to trace how personal struggle and the quest for self-sustaining dignity in Maya Angelou’s poetry serves as an aspiration for America’s black community. Her cerebral autobiographies manifest her struggle for survival in a hostile and racist social environment and her poetry reflects the same. The objective of this research is to locate the motifs of endurance and aspiration in two of her poems namely The Caged Bird (1994) and Still I Rise (1994) from her anthology of Complete Collected Poems (1994). Caged Bird has become legendary due to the use of strong images, dichotomy and masked metaphors. Through these devices the poetess depicts her span of fragile development. As she grows physically and emotionally she discards her old mask and in Still I Rise, she presents her self-image with courage. The lyrical qualities of both poems provide soothing and healing power to the black community. In the light of the current analysis, this research paper concludes that the ultra fine resonance with repetition in Angelou’s poetry generates strong emotions. At the same time, it becomes a mode of free expression and endurance for the poetess. Furthermore, the outcome of this research is that it traces the dynamic elements of aspiration in her poetry through which she gains a voice, a voice to address her pathos with a modulated tone and to introduce the tools for productive survival.

Movement for Sustainable Development through Green Economics

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Rangwani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Heads Of State

Despite substantial improvements over the past 23 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals as aspired to in Agenda 21, adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and reiterated in subsequent world conferences, such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. While there have been some achievements in implementing Agenda 21, including the implementation of the chapters on “Science for Sustainable Development” and on “Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training”, for which UNESCO was designated as the lead agency, much still remains to be done. This decade had seen the idea of a “green economy” float out of its specialist moorings in environmental economics and into the mainstream of policy discourse. It is found increasingly in the words of heads of state and finance ministers, in the text of G20 communiqués, and discussed in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The research paper focused to establish a relationship between sustainable development and green economics. The research paper is descriptive and analytical in nature. The data collected from secondary sources such as report from niti aayog, IMF indicators, RBI reports, newspapers, journals. The research design was adopted to have greater accuracy and in depth analysis of the research study. The statistical tools for the analysis are also being used.

scholarly journals SHAMANEN, JOMFRUEN OG SKATTEVÆSENET: Portræt af en mirakelmager fra det sydlige Chile

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Southern Chile ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Local Taxation ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents the case of the shaman José Karipan, who is considered one of the most powerful and popular shamans in southern Chile. The article explores the success of his practice as a healer, by analyzing the relationship between healing, identity and the socio-economic and political context of Southern Chile. It is argued that shamanistic medical practice is so popular among patients in Southern Chile due to its sensitivity to their historical past and socio-political reality. The shaman’s practice and figure build upon symbols and aspects of his social environment; the shaman is Roman Catholic and claims to receive his healing power from the Virgin of Carmen, the national saint of Chile. Furthermore, he is publicly known for a conflict with the local taxation authorities, who accuse him of failing to claim tax for his income as a healer. These factors serve to challenge the logic of the Chilean state but also show how the shaman’s personal practices are embedded inside the logic of the state, and draw upon national symbols as a source of power.  

scholarly journals Para taekwondo

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Karla Ivček ◽  
Marko Buljevac ◽  
Zdravka Leutar
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Training Outcomes ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Athletes With Disabilities ◽  
Physical Capacities ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Insight Into

Sport and physical activity can play significant role in the lives of persons with disabilities. Participating in sports can improve their health and physical capacities, promote constructive use of their time, as well as provide a better way to integrate and be included in the community. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain insight into perspectives of six coaches regarding their work as para taekwondo trainers. The results present the challenges in the coaches’ work, ways of dealing with difficulties related to para taekwondo training, and positive training outcomes. The challenges faced by coaches indicate acceptance of the abilities of the athletes, ascribed incompetence to athletes with disabilities, lack of trust in the abilities of athletes among people in their social environment, and aggressive behaviour exhibited by persons with intellectual disabilities. Other challenges include limited financial resources, the importance of becoming aware of one’s own prejudice about the capabilities of individuals with disabilities, and building relationships with athletes with disabilities. The coaches deal with difficulties related to para taekwondo training by educating themselves and others, applying an individualised approach to training, cooperating with people from the social environment of athletes with disabilities, and considering the work done with athletes with disabilities as a reward. They recognise positive training outcomes for athletes with disabilities through improvements in bodily functioning, better self-image, and further inclusion in the community.

scholarly journals A Few Chapters of the Earlier History of Operational Urban Development in Central Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
László Bajnai ◽  
Attila Józsa
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
European History ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Member States ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
History Of

Abstract The necessity of operational urban development becomes obvious if we intend to respond with a planned urban development to the challenges posed by an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urbanization. We all know the means necessary to enable operational urban development, the ones making planned urban development possible in the most developed founding Member States of the EU as well as in Central Europe – the region of the former ‘Mitteleuropa’. Operational urban development needs to be fully consistent with its objective in a constantly changing public policy, market, economic, and social environment while also being guided by the current local conditions, which is why improving and developing its toolbox and methodology according to scientific standards is an ongoing task. In terms of the evolution of this process, the culture ensuring its control is a crucial factor, wherefore not only the existing toolbox and methodology, serving as its subject, is worth investigating but the very historical foundation it relies on. Indeed, this is a factor that, even despite an uncertain public policy and social environment, can prove conclusively that operational urban development, acting as a prerequisite for a conscious and planned urban development, is possible not merely because there is an established and rich toolbox in place in the most developed Western European EU Member States, which has been functioning continuously and efficiently since the end of World War II and which has, since 1990, increasingly provided for the reintegrating countries of Central Europe too, allowing for adaptation to the local conditions, but it is also possible because what we call in today's terms operational urban development is not some questionable practice of uncertain past but is nearly as ancient as the present-day European civilization with thousands of years of history, taken root in the wake of the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian cultures – and this statement holds true not only for the most developed and richest countries but for those of Central Europe as well. The activity known today by the name of operational urban development already yielded some results in the past without which our cities would not be the same. This is not just the case in Western Europe but also in Central Europe. The mainstream of the European history of operational urban development that can be identified in connection with Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and England is a better-known and internationally more addressed topic in the literature even if it does not emerge in public awareness directly by this name but as a phenomenon integrated in other dimensions of the history of urbanism and architecture, the history of ideas, engineering, history, and geography. At the same time, although the turning points in its Central European history are increasingly present in scientific publications, the latter is still awaiting substantive treatment. In the above-specified context, the present study aims to facilitate this European cognitive process focused on Central Europe for ‘the history of science is science itself’.

scholarly journals Emerging Research Areas in Social Sciences Due to Covid-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 01-04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The People ◽  
New Research ◽  
Better Than

Covid-19 has impacted all of the walks of life. It has changed the behavior of humans. Due to lockdown, people had the opportunity to rethink several perspectives of life. On ends of Lockdown, it is expected that, the customers will no more be the same, rushing towards product and reacting to every marketing advertisement. The Pandemic and Lockdown has taught the people to live with less. It also taught us, that technology development should be towards making humans life better. The term “Customer is king” has become more valuable in pandemic days. No matter, how many airlines one firm has, how much advance one economy is, if the health of humans is on danger, everything discontinues. This pandemic has taught us to focus more on creating the product, which improves humans’ life, do marketing and advertising that are customer centric. In education, more focus is required on mobile learning. The transportation dynamics have also change. The requirement of self-deriving cars has increased. The pandemic reiterated strongly that prevention is better than cure. Public awareness can sever more people than doctors' services in times of crisis. All these learning are will create new research areas in social sciences. This research paper highlights research areas for post- COVID developments.

Trouble at Fort Huachuca

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Michael E. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Scarce Resources

Almond had taken on one of the most difficult jobs in the Army. He dealt with all the normal challenges a division commander faced, such as housing, feeding, training, and equipping his unit, with scarce resources. The 92nd experienced some of the same turbulence other divisions did, including providing cadres of officers and NCOs to other African-American units. The educational limitations of his troops, the prevailing social environment, and growing pressure from the black community and his officers made his task all the more difficult. After several months of training at widely separated locations, Almond was directed to consolidate his unit at remote Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Many of the racial problems he experienced at the smaller bases became magnified as the unit came together as a whole. Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis visited to investigate racial problems.

scholarly journals Eksistensi Perempuan dalam Novel Mudhakkirāt Ṭabībah Karya El Saadawi dan Layar Terkembang Karya Alisjahbana

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Deffi Syahfitri Ritonga
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Consciousness

Abstrak Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa eksistensi diri bukan merupakan kodrati bawaan sejak lahir, namun dibentuk dari kesadaran pribadi yang dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan sosial. Kesimpulan besar penelitian ini sekaligus juga membuktikan bahwa karya sastra bukanlah sebuah benda budaya otonom yang berdiri sendiri, melainkan sebuah penggambaran dialektika panjang dengan banyak unsur  kehidupan dan keilmuan. Misalnya budaya, agama, dan kehidupan sosial, yang memungkinkan terjadinya kemiripan antara karya sastra suatu negara dengan karya sastra negara lainnya. ---Abstract The study found that the self-existence is not an innate, but it is constructed from the personal consciousness influenced by the social environment. A major conclusion of this research while also proving that a literary work is not an autonomous cultural objects that stand alone, but rather a portrayal of a long dialectic with many elements of life and science. For example, cultures, religions, and social life, which allow the occurrence of similarities between a country's literature with literary works in other countries.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.556800

scholarly journals Pengaruh Waterfront Terhadap Kondisi Lingkungan Sosial Kelurahan Benua Melayu Laut

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 007
Author(s):  
Nana Novita Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Index Value

Waterfront is a concept to support the availability of open spaces in Pontianak City. Besides functioning ecologically, Waterfront can also function aesthetically and economically so that its existence affects the social environment. One of the most popular Waterfront locations for visitors is the Waterfront  in Benua Melayu Laut Ubran Village. The study aims to determine the effect of the Waterfront on the conditions of the social environment in Benua Melayu Laut Urban Village. The analysis used is the frequency distribution and composite index. The results showed that the effect of Waterfront on social environmental conditions was high with an index value of 3.01. This influence can be in the form of a positive or negative influence. Positive influences include increased public awareness of the social environment, increased sense of responsibility in maintaining environmental quality, a high sense of care among fellow citizens and increased cooperation in improving environmental quality and aesthetics. The magnitude of this positive influence can have implications for the comfort and safety of the social environment. Meanwhile, the negative effects that can occur are high conflicts and unfair competition which have an effect on the decline in the social security of the Waterfront Benua Melayu Laut.

scholarly journals https://www.ijherjournal.com/journaldetail/the-eloquency-of-ethos-in-arabic-poetry_105#:~:text=THE%20ELOQUENCY%20OF%20ETHOS%20IN%20ARABIC%20POETRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Ayyoub HABIBI
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Linguistic Structures

This research paper aims to study some Arabic poetic verses through an argumentative approach of the poetic self-image, which poets draw about themselves inside and outside the poetic utterance. The poet aims through his poetry to convey a specific message, and to convince his addressees of it. The interest in studying Arabic poetry comes from being a discourse, carrying what is pragmatic, through which the seeker intends to persuade, prove or increase the evidence. Hence, the poet’s messages need argumentative mechanisms that make the recipients convinced of what is offered to them. Among the most famous of these argumentative mechanisms is the "ethos", which is the image that the poet draws about himself by means of linguistic and non-linguistic structures and patterns. We have tried to clarify the argumentative dimension of the self-image in poetry by presenting the characteristics of the poetic self and its images that are presented in its poetry to their addressees through the values it employs such as loyalty, generosity and courage… We have concluded that Arabic poetry is a discourse about worthy of study and analysis in terms of self-image, to reveal About the "Ethos", due to its noble human values. Keywords: Ethos, Poetry, Pilgrims, Values.

Transcendence: The Poetry of Maya Angelou

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Priscilla R. Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Self Acceptance

Maya Angelou's autobiographies present a dislocated self image, one which becomes new and assertive as she transcends the singular self through a wide and compassionate direct assertion of her statements against political injustice. Her love poetry—suggests her relationship to a world which can be stultifying, mystifying and oppressive, but one she will not allow to become these things and overwhelm her. The voyage through her life has not been filled with soft and pliable steps each opening into another opportunity for self acceptance and yet she has filled that voyage with fantasy, song, hope and the redefinition of her worlds view through art.

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