scholarly journals "Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Ohwovoriole
Keyword(s):  
African Literature ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Major Trend ◽  
Written Traditions ◽  
Relationship Of

The reflective disclosure of the past is a major trend in African literature as indicated in writers like Wale Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thi­ong'o. Personal memory is also often employed aesthetically to mirror what is embedded in the past. Toyin Faiola the author of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth presents his childhood and teenage years, fam­ily history and the social and historical events of Ibadan, Ilorin and Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He also details his personal experiences as a witness to the Agbekoya rebellion of 1968-70. In presenting actions in the two self-narratives, Toyin Faiola exploits the resources of indigenous and contemporary African songs, incantatory chants and transliterated version of many lyrics. He uses the lyrics to also investigate the symbolic meaning of words used in the past and reiter­ates the prevalence of songs in Yoruba culture. The lyrics link together many themes as well as serving as an avenue for community and individual expres­sion. We have memorial songs, songs of rebellion, songs of sexuality and sa­tirical songs which mock teachers, the police and government officials. Faiola presents an inseparable relationship of mutual exchange between the oral and written traditions. However, our point of emphasis is to evaluate the context and usage of the lyrics and panegyrics in the two texts.

The Impact of War on Population Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turkan Ahmet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Impact

The past few decades of ongoing war in Iraq has had a dramatic impact on the health of Iraq’s population. Wars are known to have negative effects on the social and physical environments of individuals, as well as limit their access to the available health care services. This paper explores the personal experiences of my family members, who were exposed to war, as well as includes information that has been reviewed form many academic sources. The data aided in providing recommendations and developing strategies, on both local and international levels, to improve the health status of the populations exposed to war.

scholarly journals Toward A Restoration of Societal Ethos with Reference on Chinua Achebe’s Writings

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mexan Serge EPOUNDA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Social Values ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Nigerian Immigrants ◽  
Societal Norms

Traditional oral literature of Africa is counted as one of the most distinctly and varied categories of African literature with Chinua Achebe as pioneer. In his writings, Achebe takes on the roles of social commentator and crusader through the conduit of orature to criticize the devaluation of cultural and societal norms. His later novels can be read imbued with the lamentation of the death of moral and social values in Nigerian society; the unspoken degradation of Nigerian immigrants in Europe and America, and the frequency with which corrupt practices have undermined the nation’s development. This paper examines how Achebe’s writings canvasses for a re-examination of societal ethos, which demands that the contemporary Nigeria settles. Therefore, the necessary actions should be taken in restoring, maintaining and preserving the oral tradition. Preservation is not just limited to keeping the form of oral tradition in the community, but the values that contained in the oral tradition with the past by recovering social, moral and cultural codes for the restoration of human dignity.

scholarly journals Relationship between Gender and Stress among the Staff Members of Educational Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S3) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
World Today ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Life Pattern ◽  
Organizational Roles ◽  
Relationship Of

Stress is a topical subject. It has assumed great significance in the present day world. Today, modern man is afflicted with stresses of various kinds. The origin of these stresses may be found in several types of frustrations, conflicts or pressures of the modern day life pattern. As the stress may emanate from either of these roots, personal experiences of stress differ. Role is the expectation of works from a person in respect of the social system and his own expectations. For better results the role has to be evaluated, shared with others and if these role expectations conflict with each other, it creates stress in role’s position. Researchers working on the increasing complexity of organizations have recognized the potential of conflict and stress in the performance of organizational roles. This paper is an effort by the researcher to know about the link relationship of gender and level of stress in staff members of educational institutions.

War and Social Policy1

2018 ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Effects Of War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern War ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the relationship of war and social policy. So far as the story of modern war before 1939 is concerned, little has been recorded in any systematic way about the social arid economic effects of war on the population as a whole. Only long and patient research in out-of-the-way documentary places can reveal something of the characteristics and flavour of social life during the experience of wars in the past. In discussing social policy, the chapter pertains to those acts of governments deliberately designed and taken to improve the welfare of the civil population in time of war. It also asks whether there were any recorded accounts of the movement of civilian populations in past wars as a calculated element in war strategy.

Intimacy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tulloch ◽  
Belinda Middleweek
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Social World ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 discusses the film Intimacy as constructed discursively from two entirely different perspectives: a film reviewer’s intertextual references and professional organization of knowledge in constructing for his readers a negative view of the film and the authors’ no less intertextual, no less constructed, interdisciplinary “overlapping” of frames, interpreting Intimacy by way of a “mutual understanding” between and a “galvanizing extension” of disciplinary assumptions. In this analysis the narrative is explored via the relationship of three milieus: the sex scenes of Jay and Claire; the social world of south London beyond Jay’s flat, where this sex takes place; and Jay’s own personal memory space. The tension and balance between language and silence explored between and within these scenes reveal the film’s exploration of modern intimacy at a time when sex for reproduction, marriage, and romantic love are under constant renegotiation.

scholarly journals Cultural and Social Life of Turkish Pasha in Belgrade – Example of Ali Riza Pasha

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danko Leovac
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Upper Echelons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of

This paper focuses on the analysis of a very peculiar relationship of the last commander of the Belgrade fortress Ali Riza-Pasha towards the social and cultural life of the Serbian capital. Having in mind that the relations between the Serbs and Turks at the time were very specific, this pasha decided to break with the shackles of the past and became the first pasha up until that time to get himself fully immersed in the Serbian social life. He personally participated in numerous festivities, while his wife Meyra became known as the first wife of a pasha to organize parlour receptions for women from the upper echelons of the Serbian society at the time. Her oriental-themed salons left a deep mark on the society of the Serbian capital. Our goal in this paper is to present a folkloric and cultural dimension of the life of a Turkish pasha, but also the life at court by showing the activities of his wife.

scholarly journals Transformation of the genre “Memoirs” in social network instagram

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Anna V. Ugro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
The One ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Relationship Of

Active development of the Internet communication and the expansion of technical capaсities caused the transformation of existing genres and determined the emergence of new ones. The article discusses the features of the implementation of the speech genre “memoirs” in the social network Instagram. The hashtag #воспоминание was chosen as the criterion for collecting entries, since, in our opinion, users can use this hashtag to mark the genre of a post. The aim of the work is to establish how genre characteristics of memoirs are reflected in the polycode space. The study revealed that in the social network Instagram, the appeal to the past is recorded as follows: 1) the narrative as a traditional form of the genre is preserved, while the photo, an obligatory element of this sphere of communication, performs an illustrative function; 2) there is a special type of representation of the speaker’s experience using a creolized text, in which the text, image and hashtags are in a relationship of mutual complement. The emergence of a new way of presenting memoirs, in which the reported information is distributed among several semiotic systems, is explained, on the one hand, by the desire of users to save speech effort, on the other hand, by the technical features of the social network. Under the influence of these circumstances, there is a loss of language indicators of significant characteristics of the genre and its modification. In addition, the author focuses on the difficulties of perception of records defined by users as #воспоминание. Given informative insufficiency of verbal components and the absence of a common apperception base for the addressee and addressee, understanding can be achieved by decoding the image.

scholarly journals Intercomunicação entre a organização da informação e do conhecimento, os estudos sobre memória e a produção de obras artísticas | Intercommunication among information and knowledge organization, memory studies and the production of artistic works

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagner Oliveira de Medeiros ◽  
Fabio Assis Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Treatment Mechanisms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science Information

RESUMO Trata-se da interlocução entre os sentidos que circundam a relação de comunicação entre a organização da informação e do conhecimento, os estudos sobre a memória e a produção de obras de arte pelo meio social. Apresenta, por meio de uma revisão de literatura, os enlaces que permeiam a materialidade dos registros do conhecimento e a sua característica como documento memorialístico construído com base nas impressões pessoais e coletivas do indivíduo social, permitindo a compreensão de sob quais perspectivas a comunicação entre esses conceitos acontece, gerando campo de discussão e pesquisa. Conclui que as principais esferas de sentido que ligam ambas as áreas partem da possibilidade de desenvolvimento de mecanismos de tratamento da produção intelectual e artística, enquanto registros de informação, que são construídos com valor memorialístico intrínseco, possibilitando a compreensão do passado, presente e futuro, na formação de saberes e no desenvolvimento do conhecimento humano.Palavras-chave: Ciência da Informação; Organização da Informação e do Conhecimento; Memória; Produção de Arte; Informação em Artes.ABSTRACT This paper discusses the interlocution of the meanings that surround the relationship of communication among the areas of Information and Knowledge Organization, as well as studies about memory and the production of artworks via a social environment. It discusses, through a literature review, the bonds spread in the materiality of the registers of knowledge. It also describes their role as a memory document constructed based upon the public and personal impressions of the social individuals that allow the comprehension of the perspectives on which the communication between those concepts happen, opening a field for discussion and research. All things considered, the main spheres of meaning that bound both areas come from the possibility of the development of treatment mechanisms for the intellectual and artistic production. While the registers of information, the ones that are built with intrinsic memory values, are responsible for making the comprehension of the past, present and future possible, as well as the production of new understandings and the development of human knowledge.Keywords: Information Science; Information and Knowledge Organization; Memory; Art Production; Information in Arts.

Ways and Voices in the Psychoanalysis of Links According to Enrique Pichon-Rivière

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Jaitin
Keyword(s):  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Different Levels

This article covers several stages of the work of Pichon-Rivière. In the 1950s he introduced the hypothesis of "the link as a four way relationship" (of reciprocal love and hate) between the baby and the mother. Clinical work with psychosis and psychosomatic disorders prompted him to examine how mental illness arises; its areas of expression, the degree of symbolisation, and the different fields of clinical observation. From the 1960s onwards, his experience with groups and families led him to explore a second path leading to "the voices of the link"—the voice of the internal family sub-group, and the place of the social and cultural voice where the link develops. This brought him to the definition of the link as a "bi-corporal and tri-personal structure". The author brings together the different levels of the analysis of the link, using as a clinical example the process of a psychoanalytic couple therapy with second generation descendants of a genocide within the limits of the transferential and countertransferential field. Body language (the core of the transgenerational link) and the couple's absences and presence during sessions create a rhythm that gives rise to an illusion, ultimately transforming the intersubjective link between the partners in the couple and with the analyst.

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