Folklore as a Response to the Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Emili Samper
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Situation

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken to the core the daily life of the world´s population and made fundamental changes to how people relate to one another. Like all great changes, this new situation has caused a variety of reactions, and as is always the case in troubled times, people have used folklore to express their concerns and fears. This chapter analyses some of the rumors that have circulated about the coronavirus and which exemplify how people have reacted to these circumstances in an attempt to find (very often quite unlikely) answers to questions and doubts about the origin of the virus, how to cure it, and vaccines. The aim is to use folklore to show how people express their doubts and fears in the face of the changes that are transforming society and even resort to humor to relieve the tension of such delicate situations.

Devolution processes and the theory of historical development by S. Sanderson

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
A.V. Verkhoturov ◽  
◽  
A.A. Obukhov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
World System ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Evolutionary Trend ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
American Historian ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
Main Ideas

Analyzed is one of the most comprehensive modern approaches to the problem of the existence of evolution of human society as such and of specific human communities, i.e. “General Theory of Historical Development” by American historian and sociologist Stephen Sanderson. While agreeing, in general, with its main ideas, we believe that it is important to note that the issue of existence of individual communities demonstrating devolution (regression to an earlier historical state), stagnation or degeneration at certain historical stages is practically ignored in the framework of the theory under consideration. This creates its vulnerability in the face of specific empirical data, indicating a deviation from the evolutionary trend. We believe that overcoming this theoretical difficulty is possible in the process of comprehending the theory of S. Sanderson in the context of ideas of the world-system approach of Immanuel Wallerstein. We want to show that examples of devolution, stagnation and degeneration of societies do not deny general progressive evolutionary tendencies, characteristic for the world-system as a whole, but only indicate the transition of a particular society to a lower level within the world-system (from the core to the semi-periphery, or from the semi-periphery to the periphery).

scholarly journals Finding God in All Things through Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Novita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

Poetry is a language of devotion. It is the melody that resonates from one’s pure conscience. Being the most important and richest part of our spiritual practice, people read and write poems to help them gain understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. Examining world poetry, mainly from America, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka which  tell about the presence of God, this article attempts to find out how God the Creator is present and represented, focusing as it does on the connection between poetry and spiritual exercises. Each of the seven poems under discussion is read by considering Ignatian Spirituality of which the core is “Finding God in All Things”. The selected poems show that God can indeed be found in three main spots. First, God resides in the universe. The presence of God in nature is a common theme shared by the poets discussed. Second, the speakers of the poems find God within themselves. They find God through discretion. Third, some of them find the face of God in that of other people because humans are created in His image. The poems open an awareness that God is present in the sufferings of others. In conclusion, poetry serves as both prayers and spiritual exercises that can improve people’s inner compassion and justice.

scholarly journals Design and Fabrication of Elevators Using AVR Microcontroller

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Keykha
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Vertical Movement ◽  
Control Panel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Engine Room ◽  
The World ◽  
Avr Microcontroller ◽  
Motor Acts ◽  
New Facilities

Abstract Men, along with the progress in his civilization and daily life, felt the need more and more every day that in addition to all the facilities and tools he had created for himself to move horizontally, he needed a tool to move himself and his tools and loads in the horizontal direction. Is. Images have been recorded in history that show that he invented methods for vertical movement in the distant past. Initially, this was done by levers and animals. An elevator is a permanent public vehicle that moves between predefined levels. The elevator is the only means of transportation used by all age groups and is the most common means of vertical movement in the world. The elevator is installed inside an environment that consists of three parts: 1. Engine room 2. Elevator well 3. Well. The gearbox motor acts as the heart of the elevator and the control panel acts as the core of the elevator. The aim of this research is to simulate and build the circuit and the building of the elevator so that it can be equipped with new facilities and sensors by using reprogramming if necessary to make its operation safer and provide more comfort for the passengers. Here we have programmed the AVR microcontroller using codevisionAVR software and performed the simulation using Proteus software.

scholarly journals Face Mask Detection Using Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 817-822
Author(s):  
Kavita Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Near Future

Abstract: COVID-19 epidemic has affected our daily life disturbing the world trade and transport. Wearing a face mask has become a new necessity for safety. In the near future, many institutions will ask the customers to wear masks to avail of their services. Therefore, face mask detection has become a necessity to help society. This paper presents a simplified approach to achieve this purpose using some packages like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV and Scikit-Learn. This method detects the face from the image in frame and then identifies if it has worn a mask or not. As in a surveillance task, it can also detect a face along with a mask in movement through image processing. The method attains accuracy up to 93% and 91.2% respectively on two datasets. We explore optimized values of parameters using the Sequential CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) model to detect the presence of masks correctly. Keywords: Face Mask Detection, Convolutional Neural Network, TensorFlow, Keras, Image Processing

The Securitarian Personality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hibbing
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The Core ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face

This book identifies the core motivations of Donald Trump’s strongest supporters. Previous research suggests that Trump’s followers are authoritarians or even fascists—individuals who are comfortable only when a powerful person is controlling their lives and providing direction and certainty in the process. This book advances and empirically supports the thesis that what Trump’s base craves is not authority but rather a specific form of security. The disposition of Trump’s strongest supporters leads them to strive for security in the face of threats from members of out-groups, and they define out-groups broadly to include welfare cheats, unpatriotic athletes, norm violators, non-English speakers, people who subscribe to a non-majority religion, people not of the majority racial group, people who do not follow prevalent national customs, and certainly people from other countries. Fervent Trump supporters’ primary purpose in life is to protect themselves, their families, and their larger cultural group from these outsider threats. A similar motivation is present in subpopulations around the world as can be seen in the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom as well as the success of nativist candidates around the globe. By detailing these desires, this book makes it possible to understand a political movement that many people find baffling and frustrating, which in turn could make it easier for Trump’s base and those who stridently oppose Trump to communicate with each other.

Out of the Ordinary

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
William H. Durham
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
Native Species ◽  
World System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Perturbations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Marine Iguanas ◽  
El Niño Events

Galápagos stands out for its vast collection of extreme life: the world’s only tropical albatross, its only flightless cormorants, and its marine iguanas; three colorful species of boobies; and 15 species of giant tortoises, one on each major volcano, except for one especially large volcano that has two. Each of these organisms has evolved adaptations to the unique rigors of life in an isolated archipelago on the equator. As Galápagos has recently grown ever more connected to the world system, many species’ adaptations have become vulnerabilities in the face of human-induced change. Fortunately, long before people arrived, evolution also endowed native species with forms of resilience to local perturbations like El Niño events and periodic droughts. The eight case studies in this book highlight these vulnerabilities and resiliences and argue that the mismatch between them, stemming from human impact, is the core conservation challenge today.

scholarly journals O PROTAGONISMO INFANTIL POR MEIO DA RESISTÊNCIA EM KAMCHATKA (2003)

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Keyla Andrea Santiago Oliveira ◽  
Pollyanna Rosa Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

Our assumption is that cinema and its aesthetic devices can reveal subtleties that the daily life so often does not allow us: the child's look on the world and its inherent dramas of childhood. And what can we access about childish afflictions in the face of social control governed by the centralization of power in the military and by the loss of rights? The proposal of this work is to developa discussion about the reading of the child in a vulnerable social context through the Argentinean film Kamchatka (2003). It shows thepower of childresistance. It is from the perspective of the 10-year-old protagonist, Matías (Harry), who accompanies the confluence of tension,playfulness and also the enigma of resistance that parents experience before the dictatorship. This article is linked to the research ...,it has as a research methodology the filmic analysis and takes as theoretical reference Adorno and Horkheimer (1985), Adorno (1992), Bernadet (1985),Bordwell (2013),Gardies, Rojas (2014), Truffaut (2005).The results point to the vigor of the filmic work by unveiling the impact of the imperative penetration of barbarism of the dictatorship in the various social intricacies, especially in childrenlives.

Mülteci olmak: Mersin’de yaşayan Filistinli mültecilerin göç hikâyeleri

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Bilge Deniz Çatak
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Refugee Experience

Filistin tarihinde yaşanan 1948 ve 1967 savaşları, binlerce Filistinlinin başka ülkelere göç etmesine neden olmuştur. Günümüzde, dünya genelinde yaşayan Filistinli mülteci sayısının beş milyonu aştığı tahmin edilmektedir. Ülkelerine geri dönemeyen Filistinlilerin mültecilik deneyimleri uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir ve köklerinden koparılma duygusu ile iç içe geçmiştir. Mersin’de bulunan Filistinlilerin zorunlu olarak çıktıkları göç yollarında yaşadıklarının ve mülteci olarak günlük hayatta karşılaştıkları zorlukların Filistinli kimlikleri üzerindeki etkisi sözlü tarih yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Farklı kuşaklardan sekiz Filistinli mülteci ile yapılan görüşmelerde, dünyanın farklı bölgelerinde mülteci olarak yaşama deneyiminin, Filistinlilerin ulusal bağlılıklarına zarar vermediği görülmüştür. Filistin, mültecilerin yaşamlarında gelenekler, değerler ve duygusal bağlar ile devam etmektedir. Mültecilerin Filistin’den ayrılırken yanlarına aldıkları anahtar, tapu ve toprak gibi nesnelerin saklanıyor olması, Filistin’e olan bağlılığın devam ettiğinin işaretlerinden biridir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPalestinian refugees’ lives in MersinIn the history of Palestine, 1948 and 1967 wars have caused fleeing of thousands of Palestinians to other countries. At the present time, its estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees worldwide exceeds five million. The refugee experience of Palestinians who can not return their homeland has a long history and intertwine with feeling of deracination. Oral history interviews were conducted on the effects of the displacement and struggles of daily life as a refugee on the identity of Palestinians who have been living in Mersin (city of Turkey). After interviews were conducted with eight refugees from different generations concluded that being a refugee in the various parts of the world have not destroyed the national entity of the Palestinians. Palestine has preserved in refugees’ life with its traditions, its values, and its emotional bonds. Keeping keys, deeds and soil which they took with them when they departed from Palestine, proving their belonging to Palestine.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

Jalan Kesempurnaan Menurut Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil di Cijati Desa Cikareo Selatan Sumedang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 

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