scholarly journals Book Reviewing Old Beginnings: Marjorie Watts' P.E.N. The Early Years 1921-1926

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Horatiu Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Golden Jubilee

This review of a 1971 book is meant to invite readers to reflect on the role P.E.N. International—a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote literature and intellectual co-operation among writers—might have given the increasing challenges in our contemporary society. Describing the beginnings of the organization, the book marked P.E.N.’s Golden Jubilee. Therefore, I felt it appropriate to discuss some of the issues it addressed—that is, socializing vs. political activism—as this year, P.E.N. International turned 100.

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2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Emotional Literacy ◽  
Forest School ◽  
Social And Emotional

‘Women may preach but men must govern’: Gender Roles in the Growth and Development of the Bible Christian Denomination

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
David Shorney
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Planting ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
Christian Denomination

When the Cornish lay evangelist, William O’Bryan, founded the first Bible Christian societies in the late autumn of 1815 he was responding, in the main, to female initiatives. This is not altogether surprising. For several decades before 1815 women had been playing a much larger role in English evangelical Christianity than they had done in the early years of the Evangelical Revival. The informal groupings which came into existence in its second phase, c. 1790-c. 1830, gave women opportunities to initiate, organize, and exhort on a much more extensive scale. As cottages and farmsteads became centres of worship, women were well placed to play a more important role as initiators and organizers, especially in those areas barely affected by John Wesley, George Whitefield, and their travelling preachers. The more articulate went even further and followed the example of some eighteenth-century Quaker women by speaking in their own localities and further afield. Before the eighteenth century came to an end a number had acquired the reputation of being gifted preachers and ‘holy women’, ‘owned by God’, and called to instruct others, both men and women, in the Christian faith. For a short while women were poised in Wesleyan, and later, Primitive Methodism to play a major role in evangelism and church-planting; but it was only amongst the Bible Christians that they, for a time, played perhaps an even more significant role as evangelists than their male colleagues. As such they were in no way inferior to men; but when the denomination acquired a governmental structure copied from Wesleyan Methodism the patriarchal ordering of contemporary society set limits to their Bible-based notions of sexual equality.

They First Saw a Mirror: A Korean Folktale as a Form of Social Criticism

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Huntley Grayson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
General Class ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

One of the most popular modern Korean folktales is Choi Tale Type 500, ‘The People Who Saw a Mirror for the First Time’. This tale however is neither a uniquely Korean nor East Asian tale, but an example of a general class of folktales found throughout the world. In the Aarne-Thompson Index it is classified as tale type 1336A, ‘Man does not Recognize his own Reflection in the Water (Mirror)’. The origins of the modern Korean tale may be traced back to the early years of the transmission and establishment of Buddhism in East Asia. The initial use of this tale in a Buddhist context, as a means to illustrate the illusionary nature of all things, had by the beginning of the twentieth century in Korea changed into providing a strong critique of certain features of contemporary society.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Image quality vs data obtainment in biological electron microscopy

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
J. E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Electron Beam ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Fluorescent Screen ◽  
Embedding Medium

In the early years of biological electron microscopy, scientists had their hands full attempting to describe the cellular microcosm that was suddenly before them on the fluorescent screen. Mitochondria, Golgi, endoplasmic reticulum, and other myriad organelles were being examined, micrographed, and documented in the literature. A major problem of that early period was the development of methods to cut sections thin enough to study under the electron beam. A microtome designed in 1943 moved the specimen toward a rotary “Cyclone” knife revolving at 12,500 RPM, or 1000 times as fast as an ordinary microtome. It was claimed that no embedding medium was necessary or that soft embedding media could be used. Collecting the sections thus cut sounded a little precarious: “The 0.1 micron sections cut with the high speed knife fly out at a tangent and are dispersed in the air. They may be collected... on... screens held near the knife“.

Early Years Care and Education in Europe

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-380
Author(s):  
S Wolfendale
Keyword(s):  
Early Years

Health and Class: The Early Years

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-557
Author(s):  
M.E.J. Wadsworth
Keyword(s):  
Early Years

Attachment change processes in the early years of marriage.

1999 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 783-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Davila ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Change Processes
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