Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Francesca Cadel
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Mutation Process ◽  
Mary Di Michele ◽  
The Many

The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive change, despite the many challenges involved in the mutation process, and the difficult hermeneutic of losses, necessary to reach awareness and a new sense of belonging.

The Small Planning Committee: A Tool for Meeting Human Needs

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 258-271
Author(s):  
Walter B. Boninger
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Planning Committee ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Blind Persons

An often overlooked aspect of services to older blind persons, and others as well, is satisfying their psychogenic needs: recognition, usefulness, new experiences, companionship, sense of belonging, self-esteem, etc. The small planning committee is a tool through which these needs are met. The membership of the larger group is divided into a number of small groups which each take responsibility for planning and implementing the program of one of the club's monthly meetings, rather than having staff and volunteers do everything for them. Guidelines and suggestions are provided for assigning members to groups, conducting planning meetings (chaired by a volunteer), the kinds of problems with which the group can deal, and the implementation by them of their solutions. The many advantages accruing from the use of this approach are also discussed.

Undergraduate Student Engagement in Informal Recreational Swim: An Exploratory Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Eubank ◽  
James DeVita
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
College Experiences ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
The Relationship

The current study examined the relationship between undergraduate student engagement in an informal recreational activity (swimming) and participants' overall college experiences. Engagement in informal recreational swimming was shown to positively affect the well-being and sense of belonging of participants, as well as to establish a sense of connection with others who swam. Participants also expressed a positive change in mood and energy from participation in informal recreational swimming. Recommendations for other informal recreational activities (e.g., running, climbing) as well as for additional swimming programs are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Sense of Belonging and the Notion of Home in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Nur Fatin Syuhada Ahmad Jafni ◽  
Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
William Glasser ◽  
The Family ◽  
Being Bullied ◽  
Strong Attachment ◽  
The Many

Human beings need to associate and mingle with their surroundings, be they the family, neighbours, colleagues, nature or a place, in order to feel attached and belonging to a particular society and its environment. This article explores the concept of a sense of belonging in Margaret Atwood‟s novel Cat’s Eye (1988). The story is about the protagonist, Elaine, revisiting her childhood memories, where she learned about friendship, longing and betrayal. Although she was being bullied by her own best friends, Elaine remained with them as she feared being alienated. Despite the many years spent outside Toronto and away from her sad childhood memories, Elaine still felt that her hometown was her real home. The notions of belongingness used in this analysis are aided by Abraham Maslow‟s Hierarchy of Needs and William Glasser‟s Choice Theory. Elaine‟s strong attachment to her hometown and her childhood memories is due to the human needs for love and belonging and in an attempt to evade alienation and loneliness. Parallel to what Maslow defines as a sense of belonging, humans on a very basic level long for belonging, respect and love, and Elaine‟s actions are seen as a desperate attempt to get through her days in the way that Glasser outlines in Choice Theory – the need for love and belonging is closely linked to the need for survival.

SCREENING FOR MUTAGENIC HAZARDS OF POTENTIAL CHEMICAL CONTRACEPTIVES IN THE MALE

1974 ◽  
Vol 77 (1_Suppla) ◽  
pp. S224-S239 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Bateman ◽  
H. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Mutation Process ◽  
Effective Contraception ◽  
The Many ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT At first sight it might appear that effective contraception, by preventing reproduction, makes mutagenesis irrelevant. The fallacy of this reasoning is explained. The ways in which mutation would constitute a hazard in man are presented. The nature of the mutation process is described and the manner of origin of the several kinds of mutation. A selection of the most appropriate of the many methods for recognising mutagens is briefly presented. Known mutagens should be excluded from use as contraceptives. Consideration of the possible approaches to contraceptive action in the male gives hope of discovering effective compounds which are non-mutagenic.

To empower or oppress: approaching duality in educational histories

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilda Keynes ◽  
Beth Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Educational Histories ◽  
The Many ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Dual Capacity

PurposeThis paper introduces key themes and debates in education and educational history that engage education's complicity in injustice and violence, as well as those that continue to position education as a vehicle for positive change and possibility. The paper introduces the papers that comprise the special issue “Challenges of Contested Spaces: Constructing Difference and its Legacies in Educational History”.Design/methodology/approachThe paper canvasses pertinent historiographical, theoretical and methodological debates that shed light on education's dual capacity to empower and oppress.FindingsPapers in this collection reveal the many ways that agendas justified in the name of education, training and reform have often invoked that name as justification for actions that harmed, discriminated or oppressed, and yet also, how despite this, education can still be imagined as a space of possibility and transformation.Originality/valueThe paper offers a summative introduction to the themes and papers of the special issue.

DIGITAL PLACEMAKING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowan Wilken ◽  
Lee Humphreys ◽  
Erika Polson ◽  
Roger Norum ◽  
Saskia Witteborn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Many

This panel introduces and critically examines the concept of "digital placemaking" as practices that create emotional attachments to place through digital media use. As populations and the texts they produce become increasingly mobile, such practices are proliferating, and a striking array of applications and uses have emerged which exploit the affordances of mobile media to foster an ability to navigate, understand, connect to, and gain a sense of belonging and familiarity in place. The concept of digital placemaking is both a theoretical and applied response to the spatial fragmentation, banal physical environments, and community disintegration thought to have accompanied the speed and scale of globalization—the implications of which include suggestions that our collective sense of place has been disrupted, leaving people unsure of their belonging within conditions and boundaries that seem increasingly fluid. While it is imperative to attend to the shifting social, economic, and political conditions that give rise to such concerns, it is also necessary to recognize the many ways people actually use digital media to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers. Papers in this interdisciplinary panel consider digital placemaking through a range of perspectives investigating lived experiences of assorted communities with disparate social and economic power to demonstrate how digital media can facilitate social and geographic boundary crossing while encouraging new ways of placing ourselves—symbolically, virtually, or through co-located presence.

Identifying suboptimalities with factorial model comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ji Ma
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Factorial Experimental Design ◽  
Factorial Model ◽  
Multiple Components ◽  
The Many

AbstractGiven the many types of suboptimality in perception, I ask how one should test for multiple forms of suboptimality at the same time – or, more generally, how one should compare process models that can differ in any or all of the multiple components. In analogy to factorial experimental design, I advocate for factorial model comparison.

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

The many faces of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract My response to the commentaries focuses on four issues: (1) the diversity both within and between cultures of the many different faces of obligation; (2) the possible evolutionary roots of the sense of obligation, including possible sources that I did not consider; (3) the possible ontogenetic roots of the sense of obligation, including especially children's understanding of groups from a third-party perspective (rather than through participation, as in my account); and (4) the relation between philosophical accounts of normative phenomena in general – which are pitched as not totally empirical – and empirical accounts such as my own. I have tried to distinguish comments that argue for extensions of the theory from those that represent genuine disagreement.

Hydrogen Cyanide Polymers from the Impact of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
Clifford N. Matthews ◽  
Rose A. Pesce-Rodriguez ◽  
Shirley A. Liebman
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Hydrogen Cyanide ◽  
Nitrogen Heterocycles ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Heterogeneous Solids ◽  
The Many ◽  
Comet Halley ◽  
The Impact ◽  
By Products

AbstractHydrogen cyanide polymers – heterogeneous solids ranging in color from yellow to orange to brown to black – may be among the organic macromolecules most readily formed within the Solar System. The non-volatile black crust of comet Halley, for example, as well as the extensive orangebrown streaks in the atmosphere of Jupiter, might consist largely of such polymers synthesized from HCN formed by photolysis of methane and ammonia, the color observed depending on the concentration of HCN involved. Laboratory studies of these ubiquitous compounds point to the presence of polyamidine structures synthesized directly from hydrogen cyanide. These would be converted by water to polypeptides which can be further hydrolyzed to α-amino acids. Black polymers and multimers with conjugated ladder structures derived from HCN could also be formed and might well be the source of the many nitrogen heterocycles, adenine included, observed after pyrolysis. The dark brown color arising from the impacts of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter might therefore be mainly caused by the presence of HCN polymers, whether originally present, deposited by the impactor or synthesized directly from HCN. Spectroscopic detection of these predicted macromolecules and their hydrolytic and pyrolytic by-products would strengthen significantly the hypothesis that cyanide polymerization is a preferred pathway for prebiotic and extraterrestrial chemistry.

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