scholarly journals Rewriting the school story through racebending in the Harry Potter and Raven Cycle fandoms

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Justine Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
School Story ◽  
In Series ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Association

Racebending fan work has the potential to be a productive site of postcolonial critique. In a close analysis of two racebending young adult literature texts—the titular hero of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) and major character Ronan Lynch from Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle (2012–16)—fans' racebending of the primary characters permits postcolonial revision by challenging the predominantly white worlds they depict as well as recuperating the erasure of diaspora by other fans who insist Britishness and Irishness equate to whiteness. Racebending Harry and Ronan fan works center around queer romances: Harry with school rival Draco Malfoy and Ronan with his in-series boyfriend, Adam Parrish. Racebent Harry fan work, particularly work incorporating a queer romance with Draco, creates a space for fans to imagine alternative possibilities for the series beyond the heteronormative, hegemonic conclusion represented in Rowling's epilogue. Similarly, racebending Ronan offers a depiction of soft black masculinity and loving queer romance that subverts the common association of blackness with anger and aggression. By depicting two characters of color at the center of these queer schoolboy romances, fans disrupt the white homoeroticism and imperialism of the school story genre upon which both series draw.

The Effect of Two Rigid Spherical Inclusions on the Stresses in an Infinite Elastic Solid

1966 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Shelley ◽  
Yi-Yuan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Stress Field ◽  
Uniaxial Tension ◽  
Elastic Solid ◽  
Displacement Function ◽  
Hydrostatic Tension ◽  
Series Form ◽  
Spherical Inclusions ◽  
Spherical Cavities ◽  
In Series ◽  
The Common

Presented in this paper is a solution in series form for the stresses in an infinite elastic solid which contains two rigid spherical inclusions of the same size. The stress field at infinity is assumed to be either hydrostatic tension or uniaxial tension in the direction of the common axis of the inclusions. The solution is based upon the Papkovich-Boussinesq displacement-function approach and makes use of the spherical dipolar harmonics developed by Sternberg and Sadowsky. The problem is closely related to, but turns out to be much more involved than, the corresponding problem of two spherical cavities solved by these authors.

A Postscript to "Heteronormative Heroism and Queering the School Story in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series"

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tison Pugh ◽  
David L. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
School Story

A Model of Metabolic Supply-Demand Mismatch Leading to Secondary Brain Injury

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangling Song ◽  
Jennifer A. Kim ◽  
Aaron Frank Struck ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
M. Brandon Westover
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Mechanistic Model ◽  
Acute Brain Injury ◽  
Extracellular Potassium ◽  
Secondary Brain Injury ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Common ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Common Association

Secondary brain injury (SBI) is defined as new or worsening injury to the brain after an initial neurologic insult, such as hemorrhage, trauma, ischemic stroke, or infection. It is a common and potentially preventable complication following many types of primary brain injury (PBI). However, mechanistic details about how PBI leads to additional brain injury and evolves into SBI are poorly characterized. In this work, we propose a mechanistic model for the metabolic supply demand mismatch hypothesis (MSDMH) of SBI. Our model, based on the Hodgkin-Huxley model, supplemented with additional dynamics for extracellular potassium, oxygen concentration and excitotoxity, provides a high-level unified explanation for why patients with acute brain injury frequently develop SBI. We investigate how decreased oxygen, increased extracellular potassium, excitotoxicity, and seizures can induce SBI, and suggest three underlying paths for how events following PBI may lead to SBI. The proposed model also helps explain several important empirical observations, including the common association of acute brain injury with seizures, the association of seizures with tissue hypoxia and so on. In contrast to current practices which assume that ischemia plays the predominant role in SBI, our model suggests that metabolic crisis involved in SBI can also be non-ischemic. Our findings offer a more comprehensive understanding of the complex interrelationship among potassium, oxygen, excitotoxicity, seizures and SBI.

The 1920s and 1930s Voodoo Craze

Making Gullah ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
The Common ◽  
Black Magic ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Common Association ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the 1920s and 1930s "voodoo craze" by examing the way that negative ideas about "Africa" and "Africans" during these years, and the prevelance of the common association between Africa and spiritual primitivism (superstitions, the belief in black magic, and dark rituals) became a prominent theme in assessments of Gullah folk's African connection. Using newspapers that circulated in popular migration destinations, films, plays, and travel writers' accounts to trace popular ideas about African survivals, this chapter charts a mounting obsession with southern black voodoo and superstition that reenergizes the debate over African survivals in the academe.

Early sulfide saturation is not detrimental to porphyry Cu-Au formation

Geology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingguo Du ◽  
Andreas Audétat
Keyword(s):  
Lower Crust ◽  
Silicate Melts ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Sulfide Saturation ◽  
Southeastern China ◽  
Porphyry Cu ◽  
Magmatic Sulfides ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Association ◽  
Amphibole Fractionation

Abstract Ore-forming magmas are commonly considered to have been unusually metal rich. Because Cu and Au are strongly chalcophile, early sulfide saturation has been regarded as detrimental to porphyry Cu-Au mineralization. Here we demonstrate, based on amphibole-rich cumulate xenoliths and amphibole megacrysts from the Tongling porphyry(-skarn) Cu-Au mining district in southeastern China, that this view is not necessarily correct. Age data combined with petrological and geochemical evidence suggest that the mineralizing magmas at Tongling underwent significant fractional crystallization of amphibole, clinopyroxene, and magmatic sulfides in the middle to lower crust. The fact that the silicate melts nevertheless were able to produce substantial porphyry(-skarn) Cu-Au deposits implies that the formation of metal-rich cumulates at depth was not detrimental to their fertility. On the contrary, the common association of porphyry Cu (Au, Mo) deposits with high-Sr/Y magmas suggests that amphibole fractionation at depth even promotes the mineralization potential, despite the likely loss of metals.

Heteronormative Heroism and Queering the School Story in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tison Pugh ◽  
David L. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
School Story

Spartan Literacy Revisited

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen G. Millender
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political System ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Democratic Practice ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Common ◽  
Written Word

According to several fourth-century Athenian sources, the Spartans were a boorish and uneducated people, who were either hostile toward the written word or simply illiterate. Building upon such Athenian claims of Spartan illiteracy, modern scholars have repeatedly portrayed Sparta as a backward state whose supposedly secretive and reactionary oligarchic political system led to an extremely low level of literacy on the part of the common Spartiate. This article reassesses both ancient and modern constructions of Spartan illiteracy and examines the ideological underpinnings of Athenian attacks on the ostensibly unlettered Lacedaemonians. Beginning with a close analysis of the available archaeological and literary evidence on Spartan public applications of literacy, it argues that the written word played a central role in the operation of the Spartan state, which utilized a variety of documents and required routine acts of literacy on the part of Spartiate commanders and ocials. Both the broad eligibility for the ephorate and the Lacedaemonians' chronic oliganthropia demonstrate that not all of the important public functionaries whose duties customarily involved reading and writing were members of the Spartan elite. The fact that Spartan office-holders acquired their literacy skills from a compulsory and comprehensive system of public education, which promoted the creation of a collective identity, further argues in favor of a literacy that was more broadly based than previous scholars have concluded. The article then accounts for these representations of Spartan illiteracy by locating them in the context of the changing relationship between orality and literacy in fifth- and fourth-century Athens. It argues that as the written word played an increasingly important role in Athenian democratic practice and ideology, it began to performtwo interconnected functions: as a signicant component in Athenian self-denition and as a key indicator of cultural and political dierence between Athens and its Peloponnesian enemies.

scholarly journals ON THE METAMORPHIC MODIFICATION OF CR-SPINEL COMPOSITIONS FROM THE ULTRABASIC ROCKS OF THE PINDOS OPHIOLITE COMPLEX (NW GREECE)

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 781 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kapsiotis ◽  
B. Tsikouras ◽  
T. Grammatikopoulos ◽  
S. Karipi ◽  
H. Hatzipanagiotou
Keyword(s):  
Ultramafic Rocks ◽  
Cation Diffusion ◽  
Ophiolite Complex ◽  
Ferrian Chromite ◽  
The Common ◽  
Northwestern Greece ◽  
Common Association

Serpentinites and serpentinised ultramafic rocks from the Pindos ophiolite complex, northwestern Greece, contain Cr-spinel grains that are usually altered. The extent of alteration differs among Cr-spinels and two alteration trends can be distinguished. The most dominant is characterised by Cr-spinel overgrown by Cr-magnetite, while the second shows gradual replacement of Cr-spinel by ferrian chromite locally combined with Cr-magnetite development. Compared to cores, the altered rims are enriched in Fe and show elevated Cr# in both types of alteration, while they are impoverished in Mg and Al only at the second one. The common association of Crmagnetite with serpentine and ferrian chromite with chlorite provides insights to the metamorphic context of their formation through processes that include metasomatism by cation diffusion exchange

scholarly journals An Innovative Approach to Solving the Ergonomic Problem: Products’ Size Adjustment

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Ana Velkova
Keyword(s):  
Specific Problem ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Master Thesis ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
The Common ◽  
Size Adjustment ◽  
Common Association

The use of ergonomic principles is imperative for the design of each contemporary product and its success on the market.  Despite the common association of ergonomics with comfort, especially with products related to sitting, this master thesis has its focus on products with adjustable sizes, setting a main goal to make this product durable and adaptable to various physical differences between the users (children at different ages). In this thesis, the use of bionic methods and principles provide innovative insight and solution to the main issue at hand, adapting the seat to different sizes with application of layers of material. In shaping the layers of material, a fractal design is used, an algorithm method that creates a mathematical dependence in solving the specific problem of different sizes. In this case it solves the correlation between the sizes of layers of the material. The results of these interdisciplinary researches are implemented and evaluated through a design of a child bike seat, by which they are turned into an ecological, recyclable and modern product.

scholarly journals Stylistic Portrait of English Fantasy Texts (Based on Jordan’s The Eye of the World, Martin’s A Game of Thrones, Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Glinka ◽  
Yuliia Zaichenko ◽  
Anastasiia Machulianska
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Fantasy Novels ◽  
The Common ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Game Of Thrones

The paper is focused on stylistic features of English fantasy texts. The research materials include four fantasy novels written by British and American authors of the late 20th century: Jordan’s The Eye of the World, Martin’s A Game of Thrones, Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The research question of the study lies in need to systematize expressive means and stylistic devices used in the texts and distinguish the common stylistic features of English fantasy texts. To do this, the researchers implement the notion of a stylistic portrait of English fantasy text, and the main aim of the paper is to provide its definition and description. The study employed the complex of linguistic research methods, including analysis and generalization of theoretical sources, contextual analysis and the elements of quantitative analysis of linguistic units used in the texts. Based on three essential aspects of a stylistic portrait, the paper shows that the English fantasy texts are characterized by the dominance of expressive means and stylistic devices at the syntactic level of language. In addition, the researchers identified the most productive stylistically marked linguistic units at each level of language correlated with the semantic field within which they functioned, and studied connotative dominants in these texts.

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