scholarly journals Scrutiny of Self in Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Dr. G. Keerthi
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
American Life ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
Great Writer ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Natural Life

An Outstanding novelist of human predicament, Arun Joshi is ranked with the great masters of contemporary Indian fiction in English. He believes that reality lies within the consciousness of isolated individuals. As he is the great writer of psychological perception, he envisions the inner crisis of the modern man in his five novels. In particular, his second novel The Strange Case of Billy Biswas is the apple of his eye. It portrays the story of the protagonist who is dragged by the mysterious world of the tribal society. The protagonist, Billy’s strange quest leads him to leave his position as the sole inheritor of a wealthy family and lead to live a natural life. There is no comfort in his American life as well as in his marital life too. Further, the story visualises Billy’s quest for individualism and self-identity at the cost of leaving materialistic world. This paper focuses on the clashes between the civilised world and the primitive one as well as it looks at the root of the protagonist Billy’s quest for the self.

Two Feminist Views on the Self, Identity and Collective Action

Hypatia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Margaret A. McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity

The Self-Undermining State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Interstate War ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice ◽  
The Cost

This chapter provides an informal rationalist model of state formation as an exchange between a central authority and a population. In the model, the central authority protects the population against external threats and the population disarms and pays taxes. The model specifies the conditions under which the exchange is self-enforcing, meaning that the parties prefer the exchange to alternative courses of action. These conditions—costly but winnable interstate war—are historically rare, and the cost of such wars can rise beyond the population’s willingness to sacrifice. At this point, the population prefers to avoid war rather than fight it and may prefer an alternative institution to the state if that institution can prevent war and reduce the level of extraction. Thus the modern centralized state is self-undermining rather than self-enforcing. A final section addresses alternative explanations for state formation.

Minimizing the cost of products manufactured by the assembly line

2020 ◽  
pp. 483-487
Author(s):  
N.I. Aristova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Modeling ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Manufactured Products ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Assembly Operations ◽  
Automation Tools ◽  
Probabilistic Nature ◽  
Product Assembly

A significant criterion for the functioning of an assembly line is to minimize the cost of manufactured products, for the achievement of which approaches are currently used that apply computer modeling and the hierarchical principle of product assembly, the approach, as well as taking into account the probabilistic nature of the assembly operations. An overview of scientific research aimed at solving these problems is given. An approach has been proposed that makes it possible to assess the efficiency of production in the self-reproduction of automation tools by the criterion of minimizing the cost of manufactured products.

Research on Control Power and Self-Sensing Technology for GMM Self-Sensing Actuator

2010 ◽  
Vol 34-35 ◽  
pp. 1314-1318
Author(s):  
Xin Hua Wang ◽  
Shou Qiang Hu ◽  
Qian Yi Ya ◽  
Shu Wen Sun ◽  
Xiu Xia Cao
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Time Dynamic ◽  
Scheme Design ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Micro Controller Unit

Structure and principle of a new kind of diphase opposition giant magnetostrictive self-sensing actuator (SSA for short) is introduced, for which a kind of double outputs high-precision NC stable voltage power is designed. With the method of combining with the hardware design and the software setting, the controllability and reliability of the actuator are greatly improved. And the whole design becomes more reasonable, which saves the cost and improves the practicability. In addition, based on the micro controller unit (MCU) with high-speed control, the scheme design of the real-time separation circuit for dynamic balance signal can effectively identify out and pick up the self-sensing signal which changes from foreign pressure feed back. Then the SSA real-time, dynamic and accurately control is realized. The experiment results show that the voltage power can high-speed and accurately output both output voltages with high current, and that the self-sensing signal decoupling circuit can isolate the self-sensing signals without distortion

Barth and Buddhism in the theology of Katsume Takizawa

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
John Parratt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Basic Relationship ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractKatsume Takizawa (1909–1984) was one of the most innovative of twentieth-century Japanese philosophical theologians. His study with Barth (1935) led him to attempt to bring together aspects of Barth's theology with concepts derived from Jodo-shin and Zen. He found in both religions a basic relationship between God and man which transcended both identity and distinction, which he expressed in Nishida's concept of the self-identity of the absolute contradiction. This relationship he called ‘Emmanuel 1’. The fulfilment of the relationship is ‘Emmanuel 2’ and is reflected for Christians in Jesus.

scholarly journals Gambaran Konsep Diri Orang dengan HIV AIDS (ODHA) di RSUD Kabupaten Indramayu

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Bestina Nindy Virgiani
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Descriptive Approach

The self-concept of PLHIV is a decisive factor in interpersonal communication, because everyone behaves as much as possible according to his concept. The results of interviews with 10 PLWHA showed that the respondents still felt ashamed and felt that they were not useful for this life and felt excluded by their family and environment. The purpose of the study is to describe the concept of self (PLWHA). The design used in this study is quantitative with a descriptive approach. The sampling method uses accidental sampling as many as 188 respondents. The data collection tool uses a questionnaire. The results showed 113 respondents (60.1%) had a positive self-concept. 98 respondents (52.1%) had a positive body image, 116 respondents (61.7%) had an ideal positive self, 96 respondents (51.1%) had negative self-esteem, 167 respondents (83.5%) had an appearance negative role and 98 respondents (52.1%) had a positive self-identity. Conclusion in this study more than half the number of respondents have a positive self-concept, the respondent has accepted what happened to him and is ready to face life in the future and considers that life is a process of discovery. Keywords: PLWHA, self concept.

scholarly journals Post-secular sociology: modes, possibilities and challenges

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitte Johansen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Western History ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
Politics And Law ◽  
Epistemological Shifts

It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive relationship with the category of the secular – a relationship that implies an understanding of religion as something distinct – and ideally # – from other categories such as science, politics, and law. The place of the category of religion as part of this semantic as well as institutional landscape of separations makes it relevant to probe the possible consequences for sociology, if we are, as some scholars have argued, living in contexts which are increasingly post-secular. What happens, then, to the object – as well as the self-identity – of the study of religion? This article discusses some of the possible epistemological shifts inherent in the idea of a movement from secular to post-secular and it will reflect upon the possible avenues they open up for the sociological study of religion.

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