scholarly journals “Let there be No Quarrel among Us” (Genesis 13:8-9): Using Abraham’s Model for Restructuring in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-68
Author(s):  
Ekenedilichukwu A. Okolo ◽  
Christian Oziezi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sociological Method ◽  
Common Man

Nigeria is blessed with so many natural resources which are the principal sources of income through which she is sustained. Disparity in the income so generated has been posing a serious challenge to almost every Nigerian administration on the ratio for its sharing, hence  becoming a major problem and challenge affecting federal practice in Nigeria. The problem of resource control and restructuring so noticed has been as a result of disagreement within the three tiers of government of which no one seems to accept to sacrifice some pleasures in order to ensure that peace is attained. It will be germane to posit that for there to be a restructuring in Nigeria that will be effectively sustained and generally satisfactory, the Abraham’s model must be adopted who gave Lot his nephew the opportunity to choose from the best part of the vast arable land so that there may be no quarrel among them. In this regard therefore, Abraham is seen as a leader who is endowed with virtues of love, peace, selflessness and sacrifice and must be emulated by Nigeria leaders if restructuring will be achieved. This work adopts a sociological method and will be theoretically framed with relative deprivation theory. The paper observes that there has been tussle within the tiers of government on the sharing formula which has not been generally accepted. Secondly, it discovers that there has been agitations by the host states on resource control and restructuring which is not workable for the federal government, it goes on to observe that Abraham’s model could help to solve the problem if the federal government assumes the role of Abraham by allowing producing states to determine the percentage of the allocation. It finally observes that there has been lack of a leader who has the vision and willingness to handle the problem once and for all which has made the problems to continue lingering. The paper therefore recommends that the tiers of government should be willing to make sacrifices in order to ensure a harmonious and peaceful co-existence. The work also recommends the need for visionary and selfless leaders who will sincerely tackle and implement true and acceptable federalism for the good of the common man.

scholarly journals The Role of the Economist in Natural Resources Policy

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Emery N. Castle
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Price Controls ◽  
Uniform Rate ◽  
Natural Resources Policy

On April 5 of this year President Jimmy Carter addressed the Nation on energy. After a brief introduction the President said:“Federal government price controls now hold down our own production and encourage waste and increase dependence on foreign oil.”The President then went on to say:“–I have decided that phased decontrol of oil prices will begin on June 1 and continue at a fairly uniform rate over the next 18 months. The immediate effect of this action will be to increase the production of oil and gas in our own country.”

scholarly journals Fundamental Law pillars of sustainable agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 104-117
Author(s):  
Péter Hegyes ◽  
Csaba Varga
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fundamental Law

The purpose of the paper is to introduce the legal practices of the Constitutional Court in connection with the ‘sustainability clause’ of the Fundamental Law in relation to natural resources. Subsection (1) of Article P) of the Fundamental Law is in the centre of the research, according to which: „Natural resources, in particular arable land, forests and the reserves of water, biodiversity, in particular native plant and animal species, as well as cultural assets shall corm the common heritage of the nation; it shall be the obligation of the State and everyone to protect and maintain them, and to preserve them for future generations.”

scholarly journals VENUGOPAL'S SELF-CONFESSION AND POETRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Shahabuddin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Taking Action

English: Venugopal has a distinct identity in Hindi poetry. The atmosphere of disillusionment and the social status quo had an effect on your poem. Oriented towards Akavita. But soon you realized his regression. As a result, progressives were oriented towards the stream. The land of reality shaped beautiful dreams of the future. Your poem conveys the hopes, dreams, feelings, sensations of the common man. It also exposes the middle class weaknesses while being sympathetic towards the neglected workers and is a proponent of action against the power. It shares the golden dreams of the future, in retaliation for its oppression-exploitation-violence. It has the content of strategy and tactics for the youth taking action from the power. Sometimes it is very suggestive and expresses socio-political reality in an interesting way. Where the dialogue style is present in it, its symbolism is multidimensional. This poem also questions the role of media by taking a sarcastic pose. Hindi: वेणुगोपाल हिन्दी कविता में विशिष्ट पहचान रखते हैं। मोहभंग के वातावरण और सामाजिक यथास्थिति का आपकी कविता पर प्रभाव पड़ा। अकविता की ओर उन्मुख हुए। परंतु शीघ्र ही आपको उसकी प्रतिगामिता का बोध हुआ। परिणामस्वरूप प्रगतिशील धारा की ओर उन्मुख हुए। यथार्थ की जमीन ने भविष्य के सुन्दर-सुखद स्वप्नों को आकार दिया। आपकी कविता साधारणजन की आशाओं, स्वप्नों, अनुभूतियों, संवेदनाओं को रूपाकार देती है। यह उपेक्षितों-श्रमिकों के प्रति संवेदना रखते हुए भी मध्यवर्गीय कमजोरियों को उजागर करती है और सत्ता के विरुद्ध मोर्चेबन्द कार्रवाही की प्रस्तावक है। यह उसके दमन-शोषण-हिंसा का प्रतिकार करते हुए भी भविष्य के सुनहरे स्वप्न बाँटती है। इसमें सत्ता से मोर्चेबन्द कार्रवाही करते युवाओं हेतु रणनीति और रणकौशल की सामग्री मौजूद है। कहीं-कहीं यह बहुत विचारोत्तेजक है और सामाजिक-राजनीतिक यथार्थ को रोचक ढंग से अभिव्यक्त करती है। इसमें जहाँ संवाद-शैली मौजूद है वहीँ इसकी सांकेतिकता बहुआयामी है। यह कविता व्यंग्यात्मक मुद्रा लेकर मीडिया की भूमिका को भी प्रश्नांकित करती है।

The Role of Health Care Human Factors in Responding to COVID-19: Findings From an Industry Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Jessica Howe ◽  
Sarah Henrickson Parker ◽  
Neal Wiggermann ◽  
Vivian Zagarese
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Industry Survey

A survey of human factors practitioners working in health care was administered to understand their challenges and successes encountered when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus areas identified by survey respondents related to workflow, physical environments, communication, and implementation of new technologies. The results from this study can be used by human factors practitioners to demonstrate the common challenges and opportunities for applying human factors to system redesign within their health care organizations. These findings can also be used to encourage investments in human factors by health care organizations and the federal government.

THE WRITER AS THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS SOCIETY: A STUDY OF FESTUS IYAYI’S HEROES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Abdullahi Haruna
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Common ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

This article discusses the role of the creative writer as the conscience of his society using Festus Iyayi as an exam-ple. The study focuses on the themes and narrative technique of Iyayi's Heroes to present the author as a literary artist who exposes the corruption and other forms of social evil perpetrated against the common man and the soci-ety generally. Studies show that Iyayi’s Heroes is one of the literary works written on the Nigerian civil war fought between 1967 and 1970. Iyayi’s novel, however, is said to be different from other literary works on the war on account of its neutral perspective on the crisis. This is what informs the choice of the novel for this study. In the novel, Iyayi projects himself as the conscience of society highlighting the deceit, corruption, class-consciousness, insensitivity and avarice to which the common man and the society are subjected by the ruling class using the façade of fighting a civil war. The outcome of this study establishes Iyayi as a conscientious patriot who uses the genre of the novel to highlight the wrongs of Nigerian society with a prescription for social reform.

Homophobia in Twentieth-Century Music: The Crucible of America's Sound

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Nadine Hubbs
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
White Male ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man

Challenging notions of the composer as solitary genius and of twentieth-century homophobia as a simple destructive force, I trace a new genealogy of Coplandian tonal modernism–“America's sound” as heard in works like “Rodeo,” “Appalachian Spring,” and “Fanfare for the Common Man” – and glean new sociosexual meanings in “cryptic” modernist abstraction like that of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera “Four Saints in Three Acts.” I consider gay white male tonalists collectively to highlight how shared social identities shaped production and style in musical modernism, and I recast gay composers' close-knit social/sexual/creative/professional alliances as, not sexually nepotistic cabals, but an adaptive and richly productive response to the constraints of an intensely homophobic moment. The essay underscores the pivotal role of the new hetero/homo concept in twentieth-century American culture, and of queer impetuses in American artistic modernism.

Aristophanes And The Demon Poverty

1984 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Sommerstein
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
Marked Decline ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man

Aristophanes' last two surviving plays, Assemblywomen and Wealth, have long been regarded as something of an enigma. The changes in structure – the diminution in the role of the chorus, the disappearance of the parabasis, etc. –, as well as the shift of interest away from the immediacies of current politics towards broader social themes, can reasonably be interpreted as an early stage of the process that ultimately transformed Old Comedy into New, even if it is unlikely ever to be finally agreed whether Aristophanes was leading or following this trend. The decline in freshness, in verbal agility, in sparkle of wit, in theatrical inventiveness, which is perceptible in the earlier play and very marked in the later, may be put down to advancing years and diminishing inspiration. Such an explanation squares with the evidence of a marked decline in Aristophanes' productivity towards the end of his life. Whereas in the first seven years of his career (427–421) he seems to have produced, or had produced for him, not less than ten plays, and in the years 420–405 approximately another eighteen, the twenty years or so that followed Frogs yielded a further eleven at the very most unless some titles have been completely lost; and since it is not likely that after the outstanding success of Frogs, and the public recognition that followed it, Aristophanes would have experienced any difficulty in securing a chorus, the explanation can only be that he was writing less. But the truly puzzling feature of the two late plays we possess is the apparent sea-change in the author's social orientation. In his fifth-century plays, from Acharnians toFrogs, as has been shown (in my view conclusively) by de Ste Croix, Aristophanes reveals himself as one who instinctively speaks the language and thinks the thoughts of the well-to-do, even if at the same time he can laugh with the common man at ostentatious and useless wealth in the shape of Pyrilampes' peacocks, Leogoras' pheasants or the sultan-like garments of an Athenian imperial official – as one who was happy for the Demos to be sovereign so long as it was willing to be guided by the advice of its' betters', the καλоί тε κáγоθоί of (e.g.) Knights 738 or Frogs 727–9, and to leave them in the quiet enjoyment of their property. At first sight in Assemblywomen and Wealth this seems to have changed almost diametrically.

scholarly journals Geographical view on agricultural land and structural changes plant production Montenegro

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
G. Rajović ◽  
J. Bulatović
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Production Volume

This paper analyzes agricultural land and structural changes in plant production Montenegro. The Montenegro represents a significant potential for agricultural development, but plant production insufficiently developed in relation to natural resources and the demands of intensive agricultural production. Average possession by agricultural holdings in 1960 amounts is 5.34 ha with only 2.05 ha arable area per agricultural holdings. Yet more unfavorable is the situation with arable surfaces. Namely, agricultural holdings in the Montenegro in 1960 are on average dispose with maximum of 0.74 ha of arable land. Judging by the size of the cultivated area, production volume, as well as according other parameters, plant production in the Montenegro in 2007, mainly used for meeting need households. A smaller area for is market. The role of the Montenegrin village and agriculture must be first-rate, as are its potentials, the main power future development of Montenegro. This requires radically new relationship between society and science to agriculture and the countryside. Instead of the existing approach in which they observed the preventive as producers of cheap food has to be developed a new concept, a comprehensive agricultural and rural development, which will be based on demographic, natural, economic and socio-cultural potential of Montenegro. 

Will the Circular Economy and Related Concepts Save the World?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tauheed Mehtab ◽  
Tauheed Mehtab ◽  
Tauheed Mehtab
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
The Real ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
To Come ◽  
Life On Earth

The humans have been utilizing the resources for their sustenance since the birth of mankind. In fact, every living specie is dependent on the natural resources available to them for the nature to sustain their life on earth. As a result, the humans have reached on such a stage where they are standing on the verge of natural resources to extinct. However, the governments of various countries are taking serious actions in order to implement policies driven on the basis of circular economy to make sure the resources are utilized quite efficiently and also saved for the coming generations to come. It’s time for the common man to become aware about this serious issue of creating products of materials that cannot be reused or recycle. It is time we understand that the cycle of consumerism has to be not backed by production by the capitalists but rather using the resources and materials quite intelligently, smartly and in a limited manner to sustain living for the resent as well as for the generation to come. It’s time to understand the real meaning of sustainability and make it a part of the regime of this generation as mandatory prerequisite for the plans to be executed ahead. The need of the hour is to educate the people and bring the sustainable way of living in trend infusing it into the lifestyle of the people.

Crisis and Student Protest in Universities in Kenya: Examining the Role of Students in National Leadership and the Democratization Process

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice N. Amutabi
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Common ◽  
National Leadership ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Trained Manpower ◽  
The Impact

Abstract:The aim of this article is threefold: to interrogate the crises that have afflicted public universities in Kenya over a period of thirty years, starting in the 1970s and intensifying in the 1980s and 1990s; to examine the impact of student activism and protest on education policy; and to investigate the role of current and former university students in national leadership and the democratization process in Kenya. University students are destined to be the intelligentsia who one day will take over the reigns of power. Students also constitute the largest reservoir of technocrats in Kenya's development milieu, providing highly trained manpower in many sectors. To many they are also the vehicles of ideological dissemination and are often regarded as the representatives of the left and sympathetic to the cause of the common man. As such, to engage the students is to engage the common man. Yet there are lacunae in the research and academic knowledge in this area. Commentators have largely ignored student protest in Kenya despite the fact that universities have a long history of student activism in which students often have engaged authorities in running battles, some of them violent. In the national political arena, university students often rally behind radical politicians and former university students. The political course in Kenya would not be the same today without university students. This article seeks to interrogate their multiple roles.

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