scholarly journals THE PERILS OF BEING A SPY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CASINO ROYALE (2006) THEME SONG YOU KNOW MY NAME

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-156
Author(s):  
Chetan Trivedi ◽  
Rohal Raval
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
James Bond ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Secret Agent

The present article offers a critical analysis of the Theme Song You Know My Name that accompanies and serves as the title song for the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). A reboot of the Bond franchise, Casino is credited with introducing more physical and psychological realism to the series compared to previous instalments. As such, the song paints a picture of the constant perils that characterize the life of a secret agent along with the personal sacrifices (s)he needs to make in service of country and the greater good. Moreover, it raises pertinent questions regarding the psychological effects of taking lives, whether in self-defense or for safety and security of the country. The themes of death, killing, failure, betrayal, and the need of sacrifices on part of the agent are explored through an interesting blending or interweaving of ‘voices’ of past and prospective secret agents along with warnings from Fate and Bond’s own reply. The analysis goes on to reveal the depth and richness of meaning in lyrics which at first sight or hearing might be considered devoid of emotional or psychological depth and realism.

Deciphering Hume

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Evgeniy N. Blinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Radical Empiricism ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Philosophical Project

The present article analyzes an ambitious attempt to revisit and reevaluate Hume’s metaphysical project in the early 21th century, proposed by Vadim Vasilyev. His claim is to demonstrate that the problems raised by the author of Treatise of Human Nature and Enquiry concerning Human Understanding are far from being completely resolved and could provide us some valuable hints into the problems of contemporary analytical metaphysics. Against a widespread consensus that the evolution in Hume’s had been insignificant, Vasilyev maintains that his philosophical project underwent crucial transformations. He provides evidence of a gradual shift from a radical empiricism to a moderate rationalism by re-examining some classical problems of Hume’s studies and providing a critical analysis of the problems of causality and personal identity. This review provides some arguments for and against Vasilyev’s claims.

Judaism, Masada, and Suicide: A Critical Analysis

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Schwartz ◽  
Kalman J. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Response To Stress ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
State Of Israel

The story of the mass suicide at Masada is often given as an example of Jewish thought. In fact, the modern state of Israel is sometimes described as having a “Masada complex.” The present article examines Bellum Judaicum (the Jewish Wars) by Josephus [1], who was the primary, and for many centuries, exclusive source on this topic and arrives at far different conclusions. Analysis of speeches at Masada, and at a slightly earlier mass suicide at Jotapata, indicates clearly that suicide represents a Graeco-Roman rather than a Jewish response to stress. These speeches conform to Plato's dualism between body and soul and Seneca's sense of freedom rather than to Biblical and rabbinic thought. This conclusion is buttressed by the absence of a suicide narrative in Josippon, the Jewish reconstruction of Josephus [2], and by the presence of a number of examples of similar collective suicides in Graeco-Roman literature. The motives of Josephus are explored in the context of his desire to differentiate himself from the Sicarii while being both a good Jew and a good Roman.

Estimating the Quotient in Division: A Critical Analysis of Research

1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
Maurice L. Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Process ◽  
Inverse Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Research

There are several reasons why the process of division in arithmetic is more difficult to learn than the other processes. One of these reasons stems from the fact that division is not a direct process. It is an inverse process in which it is frequently necessary to estimate in finding the quotient. In the past, two methods of estimating the quotient have been in common use. One of these is generally called the “apparent quotient” method and the other is called the “increase-byone” method. There has been considerable research directed toward determining whieh of these methods is to be preferred for instructional purposes. The present article is not only a summary and critique of this research but also includes numerous comments upon aspects of the issue which have hitherto been largely neglected.

THE WORLD OF THE TURKS DESCRIBED BY AN EYE-WITNESS: GEORGIUS DE HUNGARIA'S DIALECTICAL DISCOURSE ON THE FOREIGN WORLD OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The World ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Ottoman Turkey ◽  
Sharp Criticism

AbstractGeorgius de Hungaria (b. 1422/23) went through extraordinary experiences while being a slave in Ottoman Turkey for the two decades after he had been captured in 1438. In his subsequent account, Tractatus de Moribus (first written down in 1481/82), he not only reflects upon his woeful experiences as a slave, but also provides detailed information about Ottoman culture. For some time Georgius seems to have been on the brink of converting to Islam and experienced forms of mystic visions that confirmed this new belief. But he eventually returned to Christianity and later, while writing his account, made every attempt to assert his firm adherence to Christian teachings. As a critical analysis of his treatise demonstrates, however, his open admiration of Ottoman culture is undeniable, and his sharp criticism of Islam ultimately proves to be the writer's self-defense against a deep-seated fear of having transgressed traditional European norms.

The Egyptian Cults at Corinth

1977 ◽  
Vol 70 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Edwin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman

Several recent publications have presented collections of various types of evidence for the Egyptian cults in the Greco-Roman World. Although valuable, they do not give sufficient critical analysis of the evidence through detailed study of particular sites. The present article attempts to provide for Corinth a more substantial picture of the Egyptian cults than has previously been available.

scholarly journals As execuções seletivas e a responsabilização de agentes terroristas

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Guerreiro
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Present Subject

Com o presente artigo é proposta a análise à crescente prática, no âmbito da luta contra o terrorismo, de execuções seletivas por alguns Estados, no que diz respeito à sua legalidade e licitude. Para este efeito, é feito um enquadramento histórico-político genérico da evolução da adoção de condutas que visam a concretização de execuções seletivas e outro de âmbito jurídico alusivo às situações em que um Ser Humano pode ser privado da vida. Deste modo, e com base na análise das normas internacionais em vigor, da jurisprudência mais relevante e também da doutrina que ou se pronuncia sobre o assunto ou contribui para a presente investigação, são dissecadas as duas atuais teses de conflitos armados e o terceiro modelo que tem vindo a ser reivindicado por um número residual de Estados como forma de legitimarem um quadro de supressão de todos os direitos básicos de pessoas de quem se suspeita estarem envolvidas em atos de terrorismo (concretizados ou a concretizar). Assim, é desenvolvida uma análise crítica no decorrer do artigo que concluirá que as execuções seletivas em contexto de luta contra o terrorismo constituem práticas ilícitas e violam o Direito Internacional propondo-se, como alternativa, que os terroristas sejam integrados no conceito de civil, qualidade esta que perdem se estiverem preenchidos cinco requisitos. (With the present article it is suggested an assessment to legality and lawfulness of the growing international practice of targeted killings, most of them justified within the context of the fight against terrorism by different countries. To this end, it is made a general historical and political framework regarding the evolution of the adoption of actions concerning targeted killings as well as the legal context according to which a person can be deprived of his/her life. Thereby, and considering the standards laid down in international law rules currently in force and also the most relevant jurisprudence and doctrine that deal with the present subject or that, at some extent, provide important means to support the present research, the two current official models of armed conflicts are dissected on this article. The same goes to the third model which is supported by a minimum number of States and takes into account the elimination of all basic rights to persons suspect of being involved in terrorist acts (committed or to be committed). Thus, a critical analysis is set along the present article which will come to the conclusion that targeted killings are unlawful and, consequently, contravene international law. Therefore, an alternative is suggested according to which terrorists shall be considered civilians unless five requirements are met.)

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Dimensions of Ghose's Aesthetic Views

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 240-245
Author(s):  
Asma Aftab
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
English Culture ◽  
Subjective Identity

The present article has attempted to discuss the essential Eurocentrism of the Anglophone Pakistani writer Zulfikar Ghose that has shaped his subjective identity as well as literary outlook. The argument has used Frantz Fanon's theorization about the colonized intellectual whose exposure to foreign culture engenders anxiety and eventually becomes a precondition for his cognitive maturation. However, reading Ghose's prose, we find no traces of any such conflict in his subjective and artistic expression as he chooses to call himself a native-alien with an ambivalence which, turns many times, into an alienation, even outright rejection of his native identity as an Indian-Pakistani. The article concludes that instead of coming to terms with his native subjectivity, Ghose's voice remains Eurocentric as it is predominantly based on an explicit admiration and identification with the dominant English culture and his simultaneous distance from his native culture and its historical memory.

scholarly journals FOLKLORIC DISCOURSE AS AN OBJECT OF PHILOLOGICAL RESEARCH

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (391) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Z.M. Bazarbayeva ◽  
T.K. Chukayeva
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Factors Influencing

Тhe article addresses the phenomenon of folkloric discourse in the light of philological research. There is a comparison and contrast of several approaches to the study of folkloric discourse and its components: fairy-tale discourse, ballads, songs, proverbs etc. In contemporary philological research there are various approaches to investigating discourse in general and folkloric discourse in particular: cognitive approach, critical analysis, contrastive analysis etc. The notion of folklore is sometimes utilized synonymously to the notion of folkloric discourse in reference to folkloric texts realized in the particular period of time. The present article attempts to draw a line of demarcation among these notions and define them as separate phenomena, though intricately connected to each other. This inquiry is based on the necessity of identifying the place of folkloric discourse in the system of linguistic and literary researches. The most common definitions of folklore and folkloric discourse are exemplified and their essence is analyzed. Commemoration in folkloric discourse is emphasized as one of the factors influencing the separation of this type of discourse in various research practices. Additionally, the main vectors of the influence of folkloric discourse are identified.

scholarly journals Notes on the Demographic Transformations in Postcommunist Romania

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Traian Rotariu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Natural Growth ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Demographic Situation

Abstract The article presents a few of the demographic transformations in Romania in the period after the fall of the communist regime in 1989, when the new social circumstances, along with legal changes, had an undeniable effect on the manifestation of the demographic phenomena and thus on the volume and the structure of the population. The present article summarizes and also describes the transformations, with a few attempts at explaining them, without, however, aligning to any major theory that attempts to explain what has happened and to predict what will come next. In order to avoid entrapment within an enclosed discursive universe, there will be references to the situation of other countries, mainly in the geographical area of Romania and, more widely, in the European Union. The demographic phenomena that are analysed individually are fertility and mortality, which have a direct impact on the natural growth of the population. There are only a few suggestions on transnational migration in the section devoted to the changes of the population. Last, but not least, the text is a critical analysis of some of the official demographic statistics put forward by the National Institute of Statistics and even by EUROSTAT – data that is questionable or outright false and risks misleading the reader that is less familiar with the demographic situation of Romania.

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