scholarly journals An Iconic Pillar of Hope in a Rural Township: The Emergence, Growth and Development of AIC Kapsowar Mission Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-194
Author(s):  
Nelson Amdany Kiptoo ◽  
Dorothy Nyakwaka ◽  
Isaac Tarus
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Mission Hospital ◽  
Good Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Child Mortality Rate ◽  
The Town ◽  
Rural Township

The article is about the emergence, growth and development of AIC Kapsowar Mission Hospital, the hospital that was central to the development of Kapsowar town since its establishment in 1934. The hospital was so iconic in the sense that it opened Marakwet District to the rest of the world. The hospital created employment opportunities for Kenyans who flocked the town in their thousands in search of jobs. Kapsowar which was once a frontier town transformed into a medical town making it display many signs of prosperity. However, it was not easy for the Africans living in Kapsowar to let go of their lands. They had to fight back and protect what according to them was given to them by their deity ASIS. Among the Marakwet, land was communally owned and its use was decided by the community elders. Individuals did not own land as the sole owners but the land was in the custody of clans. This factor made it very hard for the missionaries to acquire land to establish the mission hospital when they first arrived at the place. The locals were only convinced after a series of successful surgeries were conducted by the mission doctors and that was when they allowed them to settle in their land. That move marked the beginning of a new civilisation among the Marakwet. Many women began to visit the hospital for child delivery, and child mortality rate reduced drastically owing to the good works of the mission doctors. All the good things brought about by the mission Hospital including the development of the town, employment opportunities, improved infrastructure among others notwithstanding, challenges never seized to hit the Mission hospital and the latest challenge was posed by the outbreak of the novel corona virus in 2020 causing a lot of fear and panic to both the doctors and the patients.

Agonising Liminality: A Study Of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
A. Ezhugnayiru
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Unpleasant Experience

                      This article throws light on the distress a liminal experience could give for an individual or to a community who belong to a specific ethnicity, regarding the novel Snow written by the Turkish writer, Orhan Pamuk. Turkey located geographically in the edges of landscapes where the east and the west meet encounters this liminality over a couple of decades and stays as the setting of the novel Snow. In the liminal state, people fall in the breaks and crevices of the social structure which they think.The liminal stage individual encounters, a period of instability and vulnerability. Orhan Pamuk's Snow reflects the unpleasant experience of progress from the Islam arranged Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. The setting of the novel, the town of Kars, a periphery city fringe to Turkey stands as a representative of Turkey's minimization from the world. Pamuk supplements the fruitless condition of the city all through this novel.

When the Fences are Down; Language and Order in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Fields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church

The world of Tom Sawyer, both that of the character and of the novel which bears his name, is a world dominated by fences; the neat, straight palings that surround the Widow Dougla's property, the fence around the Teacher house over which the lovestick Tom gazes longingly after Becky, and all the other upright boundaries delineating St. Petersburg respectability. As the central icon of the novel, Aunt Polly's white-washed fence appropriately represents the care and maintenance of order to which the town is committed, an order upon which both Tom and his story depend. Although Twain first identifies St. Petersburg as a poor, shabby, frontier village, it is far from defenseless in its confrontations either with shabbiness or wilderness. Well ordered by its fences and undergirded, like Tom's story, by the central institutions of civil and cultural order — the court, the school, the church — it is a society where things have been assigned their proper places and where the primary function of the St. Petersburg elect is to tend those places. This is a world overseen by guardians and Sunday superintendents, schoolmastes, and judges, authorities who, if sometimes mistaken, or even slightly absurd, are essentially benign and nearly always reliable. Thus it is that the minister, praying for the community's children, does so in the context of a hierarchy of responsibility that from country officials to the President of the United States, an ordering presence that, among other reassuring work, is to guarantee the well-being of the young. As though to provide the fullest representation of this benevolent system, Missouri's most important senator, Thomas Hart Benton, makes a cameo appearance in the novel, albeit one in which he is judged of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a book about boyish freedom, it affirms at every turn an order of the most conventional sort and depends upon that order for the version of boyhood it depicts.

scholarly journals THE OSSETIAN MATERNITY RITES IN M. TUGANOV’S SKETCHES.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Б.А. Битиев
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Child Mortality Rate ◽  
Opening Up

В традициях любого народа особое место занимают обряды, связанные с рождением ребенка. Высокая женская и особенно детская смертность у многих народов мира предопределили формирование комплекса родильных обрядов, основанных на древних религиозных представлениях и предохранительной магии. Рассматриваемый цикл обрядности обстоятельно описан у осетин, с привлечением архаичного полевого материала, который успели зафиксировать исследователи 19501960 гг. Однако реконструкция родильной обрядности, ее глубокий анализ требуют привлечения дополнительных источников. В настоящей статье ставится задача рассмотрения родильной обрядности осетин с применением метода визуальной антропологии. Визуальные свидетельства дают яркое представление о традиционном аспекте жизни народов, открывают новые пути к пониманию прошлого, обогащая способы анализа данных. В качестве визуального источника, как правило, используются фотографии, фото и киносъемки. Мы предлагаем рассмотреть информационные возможности зарисовок и графических рисунков как визуального этнографического источника. Зарисовка как документ, зафиксированный текст, который создавался в реальности и повествует о ней, требует прочтения символов и знаков, сублимирующих в себе информацию. В статье предпринимается попытка исследования комплекса родильных обрядов осетин через призму этнографических зарисовок Махарбека Сафаровича Туганова первого профессионального осетинского художника, основоположника реалистического направления в изобразительном искусстве осетин. Созданные им в конце 20х начале 30х гг. ХХ в. зарисовки Роды в хлеву и Торжественный ввод невесты с новорожденным из хлева в хдзар рассматриваются в контексте обрядности детского (родильного) цикла осетин. Зафиксированные художником детали, их корреляция с полевыми и письменными этнографическими источниками существенно дополняют имеющиеся представления о родильной обрядности. Отдельные черты зарисовок, которые пока не удается прочитать , стимулируют дальнейший научный поиск, формируют новые вопросы к информантам и подтверждают возможность использования зарисовки как этнографического источника. In the traditions of any people, the rites associated with the birth of a child occupy a special place. High female and especially child mortality rate predetermined the formation of complex maternity rites based on ancient religious beliefs and protective magicamong many peoples of the world. The cycle of rites under consideration was substantially discussed and described in the Ossetian studies, with the involvement of field materialretaining archaic notions, which was recorded by researchers of 19501960. However, reconstruction of the maternity rite, its indepth analysis requires the involvement of additional sources. This article aims to consider the maternity rite of the Ossetians using the method of visual anthropology. Visual evidence gives a vivid picture of the traditional aspect of peoples lives, opening up new ways to understand the past, enriching the way data is analyzed. Photography and filming are usually used as a visual source. We propose to consider the information potential of sketches and graphic drawings as a visual ethnographic source. Sketching as a document, as a fixed text created in reality, is a narrative, which requires interpreting its symbols and characters sublimating the information. The article attempts to study the complex of maternity rites of Ossetia through the prism of ethnographic sketches by Makharbek Safarovich Tuganov the first professional Ossetian artist, the founder of the realistic direction in the Ossetian fine arts. His sketches of the late 20s early 30s of 20th century: Childbirth in the barn and The ceremonial entry of the bride with a newborn from the barn to the hdzar are considered in the context of the rites of the childbirth cycle of the Ossetians. The details recorded by the artist, their correlation with field and written ethnographic sources significantly complement the existing ideas of the maternity rite. Individual features of sketches, which have not been unveiled so far, stimulate further scientific search, pose new questions to informants and confirm the possibilities of using of sketch as an ethnographic source.

Covid-19, SARS -CoV-2, Origin, transmission and treatment aspects, a brief review

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahid Nawaz
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Clinical Manifestation ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World

: The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan (china) named as corona virus disease 19(covid-19) caused by the novel corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has caused hundreds of thousands of mortalities across the world ,while the mortality rate is in millions, leading it to be declared as a global pandemic. Numerous research activities are undergoing to reveal the disease and etiological features of covid-19. In this review, some of the interesting aspects of covid-19 are discussed, that includes, the origin of the SARS-CoV-2, clinical manifestation, treatment and future aspects of the disease.

Championing Ecology in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Ms. Aarthi. P ◽  
Dr. Aseda Fatima. R
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Consumer Attitude ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Barbara Kingsolver ◽  
World Today ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Town

Destruction and depletion of nature is prevalent widely in the world today mainly owing to the consumer attitude of the populance. This paper aims to focus on Barbara Kingsolver’s famous novel Animal Dreams in championing the need for safe guarding the environment and it’s ecology. In the novel, Barbara Kingsolver portrays a very important town in history: and speaks about it’s fight  against a dominant political bureaucratic corporation, to save the town from polluting it due to the act of mining. And the effect of dead tailings of the mine that are piled up which will bring calamity on the people of Grace and affect the natural resources such as the trees. Imploring this cause the novelist advocates the disastrous unhealthy outcomes of mining and the intensity of the problem. Her message to the readers is to prevent this folly and catastrophe of killing the earth only for the profit of some people. The ill-effects of industrialization which is paralysing the nation by it’s roots is spoken by the author. Barbara Kingsolver wants the people to be Eco-conscious and work for the welfare of the people and the earth.

COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Sonal Kanungo ◽  
Dolly Sharma ◽  
Alankrita Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Blood Clotting ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Infected Person ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Respiratory Problems ◽  
The World

The novel corona or COVID-19 disease spread from Wuhan city of China. The virus spread rapidly around the different countries, and now there are 6,040,609 confirmed cases across the globe. People inflected with virus are suffering from respiratory problems, blood clotting, etc. It is evident to be more dangerous for older persons and those who are already facing other serious illnesses. The virus spreads mainly through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose of infected person when he coughs or sneezes. The purpose of this review is to focus on social and economic impact of COVID-19 in India and how the world will change because of this pandemic and what will be the ‘new normal' with and after this pandemic. This deadly virus has put the globe on alert because of its the high mortality rate and expansion of new number of cases rapidly. Until now, four lockdown phases had helped India to prevent the spike in the curve of new cases, but currently the authors are witnessing steeper rise in new corona cases every day.

Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe: The Novel as Polemic

PMLA ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
pp. 522-529
Author(s):  
John J. Richetti
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Town

Theophilus cibber's Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) includes a substantial account of Mrs. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and points out the relevance of this lady and her works to contemporary affairs: “The conduct and behaviour of Mrs. Rowe might put some of the present race of females to the blush, who rake the town for infamous adventures to amuse the public. Their works will soon be forgotten, and their memories when dead, will not be deemed exceeding precious; but the work of Mrs. Rowe can never perish, while exalted piety and genuine goodness have any existence in the world. Her memory will be ever honoured, and her name dear to latest posterity.”

Coda: The Rosetta Stone

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Code ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Imagination ◽  
Origin Point

Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Conrad and Welles, they embodied the hybridity of writing or the images of film; for al-Hakim and Mahfouz, the persistence of links between ancient Pharaonic civilisation and a newly independent Egypt. For Joyce, hieroglyphs symbolised the origin point for the world’s cultures and nations; for Pynchon, the connection between digital code and the novel. In their modernist interpretations and applications, hieroglyphs bring together writing and new media technologies, language and the material world, and all the nations and languages of the globe....

Basic Andragogy-Oriented Strategies and Communication in Online Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-356
Author(s):  
Anca Sîrbu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The World

AbstractWith the rapid onset of an unprecedented lifestyle due to the new coronavirus COVID-19 the world academic scene was forced to reform and adapt to the novel circumstances. Although online education cannot be regarded as a groundbreaking endeavour anymore in the21st century, its current character of exclusivity calls for deeper understanding of, and a sharper focus on the “end-consumer” thereof as well as more cautious procedures to be exercised while teaching. While millennials are no longer thought of as being born with a silver spoon in their mouth but with an iPad or any sort of device in their hand (irrespective of their social status), adults are more hesitant when coerced to alter course unexpectedly and turn to new methods of attaining their learning goals. This is why proper communicative approaches need to be thoroughly considered by online instructors. This article aims at presenting teachers with a set of strategies to employ when the beneficiaries of online academic education are adult learners.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

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