Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Ice Cream ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Strip Clubs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Variety Show

My final thoughts in the epilogue extend beyond Colombia, observing how the Escobar brand has been putting down roots in much wider settings, with its historical referent often bearing little to almost no resemblance. From a Chilean variety show with an Escobar character whose endearing joviality portrays the drug baron as a likeable fatty to the Netflix television series Narcos and the film Escobar: Paradise Lost featuring Hollywood icon Benicio del Toro, Escobar is undeniably present at the core of the argument, albeit not in a true-to-life rendition. Thus the capo has become a postmodern simulacrum and a catalyst for dynamic storytelling, where each new tale affords its own ideology, merely bouncing off Escobar’s notorious traits and life story. This chapter also traces the rise of Escobar-themed establishments all over the globe, from restaurants and bars to strip clubs and ice-cream parlors. It examines how Escobar’s memory is branded in a variety of ways and by different subjects, including Escobar’s son Sebastian Marroquín. It explores the tensions inherent in the conflict between trauma of Escobar’s violence and the ongoing aggressive commodification of his persona.

When language bites

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-211
Author(s):  
Sabina Tabacaru
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
Large Corpus

Abstract This article focuses on sarcasm, for which the definitions have often been loose and confusing, integrating it into the concept of irony. My approach is based on a large corpus of examples taken from two contemporary television-series, which help identify the wide range of linguistic processes at the core of sarcastic utterances. I present a quantitative and descriptive analysis of the main processes found in two American television-series: House M.D. and The Big Bang Theory. The results show the intricate meanings created in sarcasm through various linguistic mechanisms, such as repetition, explicitation, metonymy, metaphor, shift of focus, reasoning, and rhetorical questions. This more holistic analysis, including a broad corpus of instances and a more detailed analysis of the examples, aims to fill the unexplored gaps in more classical analyses, emphasizing the complexities and implications that can be drawn in interaction.

scholarly journals Anagnorisis (processing forgiveness): The mystical praxis-space of diaconal reaching out to the Other/others (the hopeful case of Joseph and his brothers)

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël J. Louw
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
The Other ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mode Of Life

The following question is at stake: What entails forgiveness and reconciliation within processes of healing regarding schisms in a very diverse and polarised society? Despite the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the burning question that still prevails: What is meant by a praxis of forgiveness and a spirituality of reconciliation within a post-apartheid dispensation? It is argued that forgiving and reconciling are not instant or merely ‘handsome pardoning’. Both are embedded in processes of reaching out to the pain and hurt of the other. As a process, forgiveness starts with self-acknowledgement and should manifest in modes of compassionate being-with and diaconal acts of reaching out, creating spaces of ‘mystical encounters’. In this regard, the notion of anagnorisis, as captured by narrating the encounter between Joseph and his brothers, should be read as an exemplification of reconciliation, directed by the missio Dei, promissio Dei and passio Dei. Within a Christian paradigm, Ernst Bloch’s notion of docta spes, very aptly captures the core of pastoral, reconciliatory care: Hope care to the human soul (nēphēsh) – the search for life and meaning. ‘Dum spiro – spero’ [While I Breathe, I Hope].Contribution: It is often the case that reconciliation is viewed as an instant event. The case of Joseph and his brothers illustrates the fact that reconciliation is in fact a mode of life, embedded over many years. In this way, reconciliation could be rendered as part of one’s life story; as a mode of journeying through life, exemplifying the how of authentic human encounters. Reconciliation then becomes an ontic feature of relational integrity and indication of the quality of the human soul: Habitus as feeling from the hurt being of the other.

Inventing la Môme

Édith Piaf ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
David Looseley
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Songs ◽  
Core Meaning

The chapter begins with a brief biography of Piaf’s early years as a singer but focuses primarily on how the Piaf myth—the imagined Piaf that France and the world would come to know--was invented. The process of invention was the work initially of Piaf herself, who fabricated a life story almost from the beginning. But she was soon joined in this task by her first impresario, Raymond Asso, who wrote the lyrics for many of her early songs, and Marguerite Monnot, who composed the music. This team, progressively joined by others, worked together to produce a new iteration of the well-known realist song genre: Piaf’s songs were read through the narratives of the singer’s life, but, at the same time, those narratives were themselves read through the songs. This reciprocal identification between song and life would form the core meaning of Piaf’s stardom.

scholarly journals “Communism Didn’t Touch My Kids Like Me.” Images of Communism in a Family Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-323
Author(s):  
Petra Schindler-Wisten
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Period Change ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Family Perspective ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The target of this study is to introduce one particular life story and on the basis of its content analysis to focus on the narrator’s connection with the period of so-called normalization era in Czechoslovakia. Based on oral history interviews with one narrator during the longitudinal oral history project, the author focuses on whether the memories of a given period change over time and how the narrator reflects on his memories. The author maps the narrator’s family background, the extent to which it shaped him and how he evaluated it as a thirty year old man and now, when he is fifty years old. The core of our narrator’s life story stays the same in principle; he did not change it after twenty years. The reason is that the narrator’s experience and the memories have sunk in and are consistent. What changed in the narrator’s story is the amount of self-reflection that was reflected during the last interview. It was confirmed that shifts in the reflection are a common phenomenon and that some variability may not be conscious. Interpretations and evaluations of life can change, but the experiences themselves do not change.

Trying not to get Paradise Lost in Translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Marián Andričík
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Line Length ◽  
The Core ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Lost In Translation

The author of a recently published translation of Milton's Paradise Lost into Slovak here gives an account of his approach. His version is in a form of blank verse and has a line count matching Milton's, whereas other Slavic translators (Czech, Polish, Russian) tend towards expansion both in line length and overall line-count. Structural differences between English and Slovak, and the different ‘semantic density’ of the languages, do not, it is argued, preclude the attempt. The core concern is how to construct iambic pentameters while also preserving Milton's meanings in a language to which blank verse does not come easily. Milton's language and the translator's handling of Milton's biblical references are more briefly considered.

The Life Story of King Shaka and Gender Tensions in the Zulu State

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Golan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
World Views ◽  
Symbolic Representations ◽  
The Core ◽  
And Gender

Hundreds of poems, novels, plays, and films have been devoted to Shaka, the king of the Zulu. His life story has been created anew each generation, and his image has changed over the years. For many whites he represents barbarism; for many blacks both within and outside South Africa, he has become a symbol of power. The ways in which Shaka has been portrayed reveal trends of thought and ideological influences prevailing in each period. They record the shifts in white conceptions of blacks in South Africa, and some of the developments in black consciousness.In this study I suggest that the core of the king's biography, the very basic life story which most historians accept, is but an invention. Shaka's biography closely resembles that of other African leaders such as Sundiata and Mbegha, and of biblical heroes, such as Joseph or Moses. These similarities to stories about other heroes point to the mythic character of the narrative and raise the possibility of investigating the various Shaka stories as symbolic representations of alternative world views, rather than as records of past times.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

A scanning electron microscopic study on dissolving process of cholesterol gallstones by chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA)

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-523
Author(s):  
T. Kanetaka ◽  
M. Cho ◽  
S. Kawamura ◽  
T. Sado ◽  
K. Hara
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Chenodeoxycholic Acid ◽  
Outer Surface ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Cholesterol Gallstones ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽  
Acceleration Voltage ◽  
Scanning Electron

The authors have investigated the dissolution process of human cholesterol gallstones using a scanning electron microscope(SEM). This study was carried out by comparing control gallstones incubated in beagle bile with gallstones obtained from patients who were treated with chenodeoxycholic acid(CDCA).The cholesterol gallstones for this study were obtained from 14 patients. Three control patients were treated without CDCA and eleven patients were treated with CDCA 300-600 mg/day for periods ranging from four to twenty five months. It was confirmed through chemical analysis that these gallstones contained more than 80% cholesterol in both the outer surface and the core.The specimen were obtained from the outer surface and the core of the gallstones. Each specimen was attached to alminum sheet and coated with carbon to 100Å thickness. The SEM observation was made by Hitachi S-550 with 20 kV acceleration voltage and with 60-20, 000X magnification.

The Structure and Development of Microbodies in the Fat Body and other Tissues of an Insect (Calpodes Ethlius)

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
M. Locke ◽  
J. T. McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Competitive Inhibitor ◽  
Dense Core ◽  
Urate Oxidase ◽  
Blood Proteins ◽  
Free Base ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Matrix

The fat body of insects has always been compared functionally to the liver of vertebrates. Both synthesize and store glycogen and lipid and are concerned with the formation of blood proteins. The comparison becomes even more apt with the discovery of microbodies and the localization of urate oxidase and catalase in insect fat body.The microbodies are oval to spherical bodies about 1μ across with a depression and dense core on one side. The core is made of coiled tubules together with dense material close to the depressed membrane. The tubules may appear loose or densely packed but always intertwined like liquid crystals, never straight as in solid crystals (Fig. 1). When fat body is reacted with diaminobenzidine free base and H2O2 at pH 9.0 to determine the distribution of catalase, electron microscopy shows the enzyme in the matrix of the microbodies (Fig. 2). The reaction is abolished by 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazole, a competitive inhibitor of catalase. The fat body is the only tissue which consistantly reacts positively for urate oxidase. The reaction product is sharply localized in granules of about the same size and distribution as the microbodies. The reaction is inhibited by 2, 6, 8-trichloropurine, a competitive inhibitor of urate oxidase.

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