The Real Stuff of History: Hanno, Niger, The Conquest of the Maya and Nine Against the Unknown

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
William K. Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Real ◽  
Final Volume ◽  
Human Goodness ◽  
History Books

Mitchell’s abiding interest in history and prehistory was a concomitant of his overarching commitment to human rights. This chapter studies the impulse underlying his dedication to the Diffusionist school of history, which most importantly served as a moral prop for his belief in human goodness. The four full-length history books that he published span his writing career and testify to the continuity of his ideological preoccupations, expressly with the welfare of the ordinary people and with the responsibilities of mankind with regard to safeguarding the rights of ethnic peoples and respecting the natural environment. His anti-imperialist sensibility is evident in his promotion of the rights of the peasant. This runs right through his biography of Mungo Park, with whom the author keenly empathises as son to a smallscale Scottish farmer, and his study of the pre-Columbian theocracies in his most academic treatise The Conquest of the Maya right up to his study of Fridtjof Nansen, which closes his final volume Nine Against the Unknown, hailed as the champion and embodiment of the most inspiring ethical, environmental, political and philosophical values.

Coming Home to a Foreign Land

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Michael Daxner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Final Curtain ◽  
Holding Back ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

These days, the old Europe is moving towards its final curtain call. The war in the Balkans is a spectre which repeats and concludes all that happened in the last century; and a ghostly farce unrolls before us. Concepts like war and peace, the rights of nations, humanity and human rights are the conceptual covers of a happening now ripening into fateful maturity. Its primary causes were a tactical holding back, a lack of knowledge of the real circumstances, secret and openly expressed prejudices, and a shabby mentality of 'not getting involved'. As a result of this, all structures are being destroyed.

scholarly journals The Events of June 1848: the ‘Monte Cristo’ Riots and the Politics of Protest

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Emeljanow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
The University

Theatrical riots are usually dismissed as occasions during which aesthetic reactionaries battled reformers over stylistic issues of little relevance to pressing and immediate social concerns. Yet how true is this? What were the real issues which boiled over at such apparently confined and innocuous occasions as the Old Price Riots at Covent Garden in 1809, the Paris Ernani riot of 1830, the visit of a celebrated English actor which sparked the New York Astor Place riot in 1849, or the first night of a play which brought about the Playboy riots in Dublin in 1907? The complex social and cultural tensions on such occasions clearly operated during the two days of disturbance which came to be known as the Monte Cristo riots in London in 1848, and there are curious modern parallels. Victor Emeljanow is Professor of Drama at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His full length works include Anton Chekhov: the Critical Heritage, Victorian Popular Dramatists, and, with Jim Davis, Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840–1880 (University of Iowa Press, 2001), which was recently awarded the Society for Theatre Research's Book Prize for 2002.

scholarly journals India: Problems of Modernization

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-159
Author(s):  
A. A. Kutsenkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Progressive Reforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Important System

In general, modernization in India follows the general laws of the formation transition: Individualism builds up pressure on collectivism in all areas of society, while the process of individualization of the individual intensifies. However, the dualism of structure-forming ties in Indian society leaves its mark on said process. Neither individualism, nor collectivism can prevail. There is a dynamic balance: Individualization of the individual occurs within the framework of collectivism, but for how long can this go on? Everything depends on the resource of collectivism, which is far from exhausted. In the study the author captures the reader’s attention on three points. First: the radicalism of modernizing transformations must correlate with the degree of society’s readiness (otherwise, even the most “progressive” reforms can be rejected by society). Second: of multiple modernization options, democratic is the most important for the destinies of the country and people, nationwide (it provides the least painful path of development, it is accompanied by the expansion of human rights and freedoms, and it helps to improve the lives of ordinary people. And the third: the importance of the personality type for the historical development of society requires a steady increase in the status of a person. Therefore, human rights movements, which are considered marginal in some countries, should be recognized as the most important system-forming factor in social progress. The legal base and the real scope of human rights, the tasks of human rights movements are becoming important indicators of the maturity of the country’s civil society in the depth of modernization.

scholarly journals Education in rights and citizenship instruction: epistemic elucidation as from Paulo Freire

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Albuquerque Bento ◽  
Fernando Da Silva Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Performance ◽  
Education In Brazil

Education is undoubtedly a factor that contributes decisively to human development. In this sense, the present study searches to evaluate, based on freirean assumptions, the contemporary scenario of education in Brazil and its reflexes in society. From a historical and structural analysis, the problems that are established as impasses to a contextualized, plural and accessible education are put in check, as we think new paths, from the epistemology of Paulo Freire, for the real performance of students in human rights and citizenship.

The Third Wave: Islamization of Europe, or Europanization of Islam?

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Maurits S. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Real ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Third ◽  
European Values ◽  
Made In

Abstract To understand the concerns and issues related to Muslims and Islam in Europe, this article makes use of a framework that qualifies ‘Islam’ as two manifestations of ‘physical’ and ‘virtual’ Islam and ‘Europe’ as two discourses defined as the political-legal and cultural-religious discourse. The resulting matrix of these four dimensions will be applied to several of the main issues of the interaction between Islam and Europe: the numerical presence of Muslims, their visibility, the legacy of centuries of European-Islamic interaction, and the (in)compatibility of Islamic and European values. Based on these examples, the author observes that the European concerns regarding ‘Islam’ mostly relate to virtual Islam and are dominated by cultural-religious discourse. The author therefore questions the often-heard two-choice question between ‘Europanization of Islam’ or ‘Islamization of Europe’, arguing that the real choice to be made in Europe is whether it will adhere to its political-legal values, such as liberalism, equalit and human rights, or will prefer its cultural-religious values.

‘It’ before It: Stephen King and the abhuman from Carrie to The Shining

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl H. Sederholm
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
The Real ◽  
Complex Transformation

Although Stephen King’s most famous use of the pronoun ‘It’ comes from his 1986 novel It, he nevertheless uses ‘It’ in highly distinctive ways well before then. These uses of ‘It’ before It need to be discussed because they signify a complex transformation of human characters into monstrous creatures. Focusing on texts ranging from Carrie to The Shining, this article explores how King developed these distinctive ‘Its’ from a somewhat vague sense of unease or twisted desires into complex signifiers of the ways human characteristics can transform into monstrous actions. But King’s focus is never solely on the spectacle or the general horror of this transformation from human to monster. Instead, he explores the unsettling problem of the ways even the most positive human desires and actions can turn characters into ‘It’ creatures. Thus, the real tragedy of becoming an ‘It’, this article argues, comes from recognizing that these ‘It’ creatures are never just simple variations on a monstrous theme; instead, they represent the ways ordinary people can become monstrous as they lose themselves to their own alluring, but ultimately empty, actions.

scholarly journals Social Skills Amongst MMORPG-Gamers: Empirical Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Sergeyeva ◽  
Anna Tsareva ◽  
Nadezhda Zinoveva ◽  
Olga Kononova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Interaction Skills

The research paper addresses the issue of the impact of MMORPGs on social culture and communication skills of individuals. The mainstream discourse about computer games which take individuals away from reality and substitute the real life by the fictional one is complemented by brand new ideas, which affirm that computer games do not substitute but supplement the real life and expand its possibilities. To confirm the presented point of view we use diagnostic questionnaire of interpersonal relations by A.A. Rukavishnikov. This questionnaire is aimed to evaluate typical ways of respondent’s attitude towards other people. At this point we have 43 gamers and 29 non-gamers involved in our research, aged 18 to 57. The comparison of a user and non-user answers gives a bigger view on an overall gaming experience. In the obtained indices we note that there are no fundamental differences between MMORPGs gamers and ordinary people. During research, MMORPGs users have showed many important social interaction skills such as striving to control own actions, collaborate with others, though with a low interest in emotionally charged relationships. Authors discuss the idea about the differences between addiction and fascination among gamers.

Mobile Devices and the Prevention of Human Rights Violations

2021 ◽  
pp. 553-572
Author(s):  
Ikbal Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Worrying Trend ◽  
Multiple Categories

With mobile devices always in their possession, users can report breaking events, including the violation of human rights perpetrated by states. Mobile devices have given ordinary people the power to acquire and produce any information, which in turn make power more dispersed than before, reducing the power of the states. However, there is a worrying trend, namely, the increasing number of human rights violations by ordinary people. Since human rights violations by a mob are difficult to stop and the violations of human rights have grown out of prejudices, it is better to prevent the spread of prejudices as early as possible. It can be done by counter-mobilization of alternative narratives, and promotion of public awareness that anyone has multiple categories. Promoting mutual interdependence between groups will also reduce prejudices.

Shaping the NGS-9,6t semi-trailer's construction in the aspect of increasing transport capabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Paweł Stobnicki ◽  
Aleksander Rakowicz ◽  
Krzysztof Zembrowski ◽  
Maciej Bajerlein
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Total Weight ◽  
The Real ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Virtual Models ◽  
Real Model

The article presents the results of modifying virtual models of the NGS-9,6t semi-trailer (a gooseneck semi-trailer with a maximum total weight of 9.6 tons) in terms of increasing its transport capabilities. The semi-trailer was developed at the Industrial Institute of Agricultural Engineering in Poznan as part of research and development project no. WND-POIG.01.03.01-00-164/09, which concerned the protection of wetlands against the succession of vegetation resulting degradation of the natural environment. The real model of the semi-trailer, in cooperation with the Institute, was made by Metalinvest company. The article contains information about the results of testing semi-trailer's virtual models in the context of strengthening the frame elements of the loading ramp, in order to increase its transport possibilities.

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