scholarly journals Highlighting the Undemocratic Hegemony of Totalitarian Regime: An Analysis of Bisma’s The Queue

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif ◽  
Humaira Ahmed ◽  
Bakht Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Basic Question ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Democratic Norms

The study highlights elements of totalitarian regime in the light of the pattern given by Hanna Arendt in her book Origin of Totalitarianism. The authorities of such regimes prove to be despotic, centralized, horrible, and non-democratic. They use different techniques such as tyrannical exertions, oppression by the state, fright and trepidation, constant war on purpose, censorship of media and demand of unquestionable obedience from the masses. The research article has taken into consideration The Queue by Bisma Abdul Aziz. There is a consistent approach on the part of the ruler to set up and sustain the absolute government. It projects the desperate struggle of the regime to impose authority on the masses and signifies that any possible revolt is stricken hard as it may prove to be a threat to the regime. The study contextualizes the current political upheaval across the globe since on the one hand, there are frequent efforts to develop the democratic norms across the world while on another hand, there are countries which smash these norms just for the sake of attaining the power. The article works on the basic question that how the selected text of fiction portrays the tyrannical exertions by the omnipotent authority for the accomplishment of its ends? The aims of the study are to highlight these horrendous efforts of the authority in the selected text and to highlight its undemocratic practices.

scholarly journals PLATFORM COOPS NOW!: A team entrepreneurship capacity building program to create platform coops

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Liher Pillado Arbide ◽  
Ander Etxeberria Aranburu ◽  
Giovanni Tokarski
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New School ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Building Program ◽  
Capacity Building Program

Traditional labour relationships have been disrupted due to the digital platforms based businesses. This article aims on the one hand to share the consequences the sharing economy has generated for workers, and how MONDRAGON’s principles as one of the best examples of worker owned business group in the world, can be applied within the new digital era. On the other hand, this paper provides a literature review on how digital platforms can operate with fairer principles based on the framework that platform coops consist of. Last but not least, Mondragon University and The New School have set up a capacity building program on team entrepreneurship and an online incubation program that aims to support the creation of platform coops, whose results after two editions and future opportunities for research are shared.

scholarly journals Improving Interior Environmental Quality Using Sustainable Design in Jordanian Hospital Bedrooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Saeed Hussein Alhmoud ◽  
Çiğdem Çağnan ◽  
Enis Faik Arcan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One

As the wave of sustainability is sweeping across the major countries and cities of the world, the effect of the inevitable change is finding its way through to the health sector as well. Since the main functions of the hospital include healing the patient, it aims to provide adequate health services to people. Hospitals managers should strive to realize facilities that meet a certain level of demand. This study aims to present the interior environmental quality (IEQ) of bedrooms in Jordanian hospitals and propose a solution to improve indoor environment quality using sustainable design principles. A qualitative research methodology is used in this study. A comparative analysis is made between the original set up of the hospital buildings and the present conditions in which they are in. During the research, it was found that the design to be applied for a hospital should be following the healing environmental characteristics. Besides, the design of hospitals should be made with the climatic conditions of the area in mind. In the advanced countries of the world, hospitals are generally built with extensive research and important factors such as temperature, wind direction and humidity are taken into consideration. The design for a hospital building should be assessed according to the German Green Building Assessment (DGNB) criteria. It has been found that the one-bedroom is ideal for patients because it provides the necessary privacy and also greatly reduces the spread of the disease. In hygienic practices, there should be a first-class healing environment with evidence-based medical research. It was concluded that the practices involving the use of sustainable designs can be followed with the hints received from hospitals in the advanced countries of the world. Keywords: Jordan hospital; IEQ; bedroom; interior design; healthcare; green building assessment; DGNB

Group Insolvencies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bork ◽  
Renato Mangano
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This chapter deals with European cross-border issues concerning groups of companies. This chapter, after outlining the difficulties encountered throughout the world in defining and regulating the group, focuses on the specific policy choices endorsed by the EIR, which clearly does not lay down any form of substantive consolidation. Instead, the EIR, on the one hand, seems to permit the ‘one group—one COMI’ rule, even to a limited extent, and, on the other hand, provides for two different regulatory devices of procedural consolidation, one based on the duties of ‘cooperation and communication’ and the other on a system of ‘coordination’ to be set up between the many proceedings affecting companies belonging to the same group.

The Philosophical Issues Involved in the War

Philosophy ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 16 (63) ◽  
pp. 242-256
Author(s):  
W. T. Stace
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Steam Engine ◽  
Professional Philosopher ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Rational Ground ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Present World

We are familiar with the statement that the present world-conflagration is, or involves, a struggle between two different philosophies. Obviously the statement is very vague, and it is exceedingly difficult to say exactly what it means. But if it has any meaning at all, a professional philosopher ought to be supremely interested in it. Philosophers are too apt to sit in their ivory towers, weaving curious distinctions and debating strange intellectual puzzles, without any consideration of their implications for humanity. For even the most abstract questions invariably have, in the end, important practical bearings. And we are apt to forget that, in the last analysis, philosophers are the uncrowned rulers of the world. For their ideas, secretly infiltrating among the masses, are among the forces which drive civilizations. Plato has had more influence on the destiny of man than the inventor of the steam engine. And so I make no apology for attempting to discuss here the question whether the two great nations now engaged in war, Germany and Britain, represent any philosophical ideas, what the philosophical issues of the war are, and where, in those issues, the truth, or the greater degree of truth, lies. And the paper will have two parts. In the first I shall try briefly to state what I believe the issues to be. In the second I shall attempt to discover whether there is any rational ground for preferring the philosophy of the one side to that of the other.

scholarly journals Civil Society Associations vs. So-called Non-governmental Organisations

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Csaba Varga
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One

Do­mestic lan­guage use makes a dis­tinc­tion between or­gan­isa­tions es­tab­lished on the basis of the in­ternal needs and ini­ti­at­ives of civil so­ci­ety, and non-gov­ern­mental or­gan­isa­tions, the lat­ter un­der­stood as form­a­tions cre­ated and op­er­ated as local agents of in­ter­na­tional net­works, from for­eign­ers’ in­tent and fund­ing. Al­though their pres­ence in the world is noth­ing new, the cur­rent large volume of such or­gan­isa­tions is the product of glob­al­ism and the pur­suit of global con­trol is the cause of their wide spread, ex­tent and net­work-like set-up and op­er­a­tion. The one-way dir­ec­tion from the start­ing point of the in­flu­ence to­wards the tar­get areas evokes the situ­ations of clas­sical col­on­isa­tion, al­though using the soft and hy­brid tools ad­ap­ted to our era. For this reason, as new forms of for­eign in­tru­sion and in­ter­ven­tion, they should ne­ces­sar­ily de­serve the na­tional se­cur­ity at­ten­tion and ap­proach that was once evoked by the former forms, re­gard­less of how this can be achieved in today’s legal situ­ation. However, the lack of dis­tinc­tion and the in­her­ent con­cep­tual am­bi­gu­ity already a pri­ori show the in­ten­tion to hide the genu­ine fea­tures of the lat­ter.

scholarly journals The ‘Public’ Indian Museum, Calcutta, 1858–1878

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Unemployed

The first museum to be set up in India in 1814 by the British Orientalists underwent a significant change when the Government of India took it over in 1858. The change was shaped by the experience of the great Indian uprising of 1857 to which, most importantly, the ordinary people (artisans, peasants, the unemployed etc.) rallied. Though the Raj succeeded eventually in suppressing the Revolt, its officials were deeply disturbed by the popular uprising and its effects. Policies were designed thereafter with these anxieties in mind—notably the one for running the museum in Calcutta. The authorities designed the museum as a ‘public’ space rather than as an ‘imperial’ edifice, and they hoped to get over their prolonged alienation from the masses by opening its doors to the ordinary people. This article examines the background and intent of the establishment of the Museum in Calcutta and its administration in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the conception of the ‘public’ that underpinned it. It also outlines how the public in question responded to the museum.

Constantine and the Church

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Stuart G. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea ◽  
Ascent To Heaven ◽  
The Church

Constantine was already on his way to sainthood when Eusebius of Caesarea delivered panegyrics in his honour in 335—6. His Laudes are in the tradition of pagan panegyric, in which the virtues of the emperors were praised, especially their piety to the gods and the divine favour to them. Such had earlier been given to Constantine himself, relating him to his persecuting predecessors. But now it is his services to the one God the Creator, who inspired him with justice and wisdom to rule the Empire, to root out idolatrous error, and to set up the symbol of the Cross for mankind’s salvation. In the Life of Constantine, which must be largely or wholly from Eusebius, the whole career is surveyed in a form which combines panegyric, biography, history, and proclamation. The Emperor was, it was claimed, deeply, skilfully, and consistently Christian. He had fulfilled apocalyptic prophecy by destroying the persecuting dragon that corrupted the world, represented chiefly by Licinius. Constantine had filled the Empire with churches and Christian governors; he had pacified barbarians and brought them to the knowledge of God and the rule of law. In death he lay between monuments of Apostles, sharing the prayers of the Church to whose bosom he had finally been received in baptism. Coins depicted his ascent to heaven on a quadriga (a pagan tradition which Eusebius saw with Christian eyes), and the sons of his body continued to exercise his single, quasi-divine government of the world.

scholarly journals Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab Di Indonesia Pada Era Revolusi Teknologi Tak Terbatas (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, And Threats)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Syindi Oktaviani R. Tolinggi
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Curriculum Materials ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Technology comes to facilitate all matters and needs. Still, on the one hand, this technological revolution does not always and forever provide positive opportunities, but can also pose a threat to several aspects, not least in learning Arabic. Therefore, the purpose of writing this type of library research article is to provide an overview of the challenges faced by Arabic, strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities that can be realized through learning Arabic in this era of unlimited technological revolution, especially in universities that will produce human resources to compete and meet the challenges and demands of technological development and globalization in the Arabic language field. The results of writing this article are, learning Arabic in Indonesia in the era of the infinite technological revolution has many challenges and demands to experience innovation in its components, such as the direction and objectives of learning, curriculum, materials, methodologies used, media, forms and how to evaluate, as well as educators. Based on this technological revolution, the Arabic language can also realize great opportunities both for employment Arabic graduates and for the existence of Arabic itself. Although on the other hand, due to irresponsible elements, the development of technology towards the world of Arabic learning raises several threats and weaknesses that must be constantly addressed.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Amelia
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

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