Who am I?: Identity Transformation Through Distance Learning

Relay Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Ena Hollinshead
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Way

Identity is hard for many people to articulate. It is something that is always evolving and which varies depending on the context you are in and the things you do. In this article, I outline my journey through distance learning and the profound impact this had on my sense of identity and how I see myself and my place in the world. I will discuss the challenges and the support I received along the way and how autonomy played an important role for my identity transformation.

scholarly journals Der Ubersetzungssektor in Krisenzeiten in Spanien und die Erscheinung der neuen Technologien. Die neuen Ubersetzung-Apps für Android-Smartphones

2014 ◽  
pp. 285-310
Author(s):  
Concepción Mira Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The Way

During the last few years, the financia! crisis in Europe and other countries in the world has had a profound impact on every professional branch. Among these, we lúghlight its negative influence on the translation and interpreting branch. In tlús paper, we will tackle three main questions. Firstly, we will analyse the way labour market for translators and interpreters has been undermined by the crisis. Subsequently, the decisive factors will be explained. In addition, we will see how the financial crisis has become a matter of particular concem to more and more Translation scholars. Secondly, we will deal with new technologies that have emerged and become a successful product in the midst of the current economical crisis. However, we will not deal with new technologies on the whole, but those that have to do with Translation, i.e. new apps for Android-srnartphones. We will see how soplústicated are they and the way, sornetirnes, are they used in order to satisfy punctual translation needs on the part of individuals and enterprises, who rnay consider professional translations and interpreting like a luxury that not everyone can afford. Next, we will compare the latest translation apps: autornatic translators and voice translators. Lastly, we will focus on how the crisis is influencing on the Spanish Universities in terrns of Translation and Interp~ting studies. We will contrast the number of student enrolnlC'nL-, nnd what is the situation (reasons, goals and motivations) of the students who enrolled Translation and h1terpreting studies.

scholarly journals Hybrid identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Saifalla Walid Mohamed Awad ◽  
Kenneth Alan Feinstein
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Way

Current society is constantly fixated behind a screen. Every moment of our waking lives is uploaded and shared online for the rest of the world to browse; and the way people view us has become vastly important to us. Our sense of identity has been sy. This study will delve into whether our self-identities have drastically changed due to the world revolving around haped to focus on how others might think of us; rather than forming and under-standing our own self-identitdigital media. Additionally, whether this is leading towards the development of a new ‘hybrid’ form of identity that goes hand-in-hand with technology.

scholarly journals Education of international migrants’ children during the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.А. Омельченко
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
International Migrants ◽  
The Way

Весной 2020 года, когда мир охватила пандемия новой коронавирусной инфекции, многие дети из семей мигрантов, как и другие школьники, столкнулись с необходимостью перехода на дистанционное обучение. Для многих маленьких мигрантов переход на освоение знаний в режиме онлайн оказался невозможным из-за отсутствия гаджетов и компьютеров, нестабильного интернета или его полного отсутствия. Но, кроме чисто технических проблем, возникли и другие препятствия на пути к получению этой категорией детей качественного образования. Среди них – невозможность получения дополнительных консультаций, сокращение сферы коммуникации на новом для них языке и социальная изоляция. В статье анализируется влияние, которое оказало распространение коронавирусной инфекции, на сферу обучения и интеграции детей из семей международных мигрантов. During the spring 2020, when the world was captured by the new coronavirus contagion, many children from migrants’ families along with other students, faced the need of transition to a distance learning. For many little migrants the process of gaining knowledge online appeared to be unreal because they do not have any gadgets or computers, their internet connection is unstable or absent. But, besides clear technical problems, there arose other obstacles on the way to good quality education for this category of children. The obstacles involve the impossibility to get supplementary language consultations, a cutback of the sphere of communication with the use of a language that is new for such children, a social isolation. The author of the article analyzes an influence that the spread of coronavirus infection has made on the sphere of education and integration of children from the families of international migrants.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Restrained Airs: The Diegetic Surface and Nondiegetic Depth of British Film Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443
Author(s):  
Paul Mazey
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
The World ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Way

This article considers how pre-existing music has been employed in British cinema, paying particular attention to the diegetic/nondiegetic boundary and notions of restraint. It explores the significance of the distinction between diegetic music, which exists in the world of the narrative, and nondiegetic music, which does not. It analyses the use of pre-existing operatic music in two British films of the same era and genre: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and demonstrates how seemingly subtle variations in the way music is used in these films produce markedly different effects. Specifically, it investigates the meaning of the music in its original context and finds that only when this bears a narrative relevance to the film does it cross from the diegetic to the nondiegetic plane. This reveals that whereas music restricted to the diegetic plane may express the outward projection of the characters' emotions, music also heard on the nondiegetic track may reveal a deeper truth about their feelings. In this way, the meaning of the music varies depending upon how it is used. While these two films may differ in whether or not their pre-existing music occupies a nondiegetic or diegetic position in relation to the narrative, both are characteristic of this era of British film-making in using music in an understated manner which expresses a sense of emotional restraint and which marks the films with a particularly British inflection.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

Los criterios de textualidad en la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur. Un análisis crítico

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Bertorello
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Material Base ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Text Writing ◽  
The Way

RESUMENEl trabajo examina críticamente la afirmación central de la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur, a saber, que el soporte material de la escritura es el rasgo determinante para que una secuencia discursiva sea considerada como un texto. La escritura cancela las condiciones fácticas de la enunciación y crea, de este modo, un ámbito de sentido estable en el que se puede validar una concepción de la subjetividad que está implicada en las dos estrategias de lecturas (el análisis estructural y la apropiación), esto es, un sujeto pasivo que se constituye por la idealidad del significado. Asimismo, el trabajo intentará precisar una serie de ambigüedades en el uso que Ricoeur hace del «ser en el mundo» para sostener la referencialidad del discurso.PALABRAS CLAVETEXTO, ESCRITURA, REFERENCIA, SUBJETIVIDAD, MUNDOABSTRACTThis paper critically examines the main assertion of Paul Ricoeur´s hermeneutics, i.e., that the material base of writing is the determining feature to consider a discursive sequence as a text. Writing cancels the factual conditions of enunciation and creates, in this way, a background of stable meaning where it is possible to validate a conception of subjectivity implicated in the two reading strategies (the structural analysis and the appropriation), i.e., a passive subject constituted by the ideality of meaning. Likewise, this paper aims to clarify some ambiguities in the way Ricoeur uses the «beings in the world» to support the discourse referentiality.KEY WORDSTEXT, WRITING, REFERENCE, SUBJECTIVITY, WORLD

The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Gisa Jähnichen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The Way

The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge. In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.

Causality Then and Now

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Karen Harding
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

Ate appearances deceiving? Do objects behave the way they do becauseGod wills it? Ate objects impetmanent and do they only exist becausethey ate continuously created by God? According to a1 Ghazlli, theanswers to all of these questions ate yes. Objects that appear to bepermanent are not. Those relationships commonly tefemed to as causalare a result of God’s habits rather than because one event inevitably leadsto another. God creates everything in the universe continuously; if Heceased to create it, it would no longer exist.These ideas seem oddly naive and unscientific to people living in thetwentieth century. They seem at odds with the common conception of thephysical world. Common sense says that the universe is made of tealobjects that persist in time. Furthermore, the behavior of these objects isreasonable, logical, and predictable. The belief that the univetse is understandablevia logic and reason harkens back to Newton’s mechanical viewof the universe and has provided one of the basic underpinnings ofscience for centuries. Although most people believe that the world is accutatelydescribed by this sort of mechanical model, the appropriatenessof such a model has been called into question by recent scientificadvances, and in particular, by quantum theory. This theory implies thatthe physical world is actually very different from what a mechanicalmodel would predit.Quantum theory seeks to explain the nature of physical entities andthe way that they interact. It atose in the early part of the twentieth centuryin response to new scientific data that could not be incorporated successfullyinto the ptevailing mechanical view of the universe. Due largely ...

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