scholarly journals LOS CONTRASTES Y LAS IRONÍAS EN LA CIUDAD ALEGRE Y CONFIADA DE JACINTO BENAVENTE

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
Pol POPOVIC KARIC
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The People ◽  
Socioeconomic Structure ◽  
Wayne Booth ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Jacinto Benavente ◽  
Ideological Structure

Resumen: Este trabajo propone un estudio sobre los contrastes y las ironías en La ciudad alegre y confiada de Jacinto Benavente. Estos tienen un impacto estilístico y cómico característicos del teatro español de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Además, el contraste y la ironía definen la estructura ideológica de esta obra y justifican su cierre. En la primera sección, las características y los personajes individuales serán estudiados a través de las contradicciones e incoherencias sociales que contribuyen a la imprevisible naturaleza de la trama. En la segunda sección, el análisis de la estructura socioeconómica de la sociedad proveerá las bases para los conflictos individuales y colectivos. La última sección se enfocará en la relación entre la vida y la muerte. Los protagonistas Crispín y Desterrado están convencidos que la muerte es la única manera de purificar a la gente y de salvar su ciudad. Soren Kierkegaard, Wayne Booth and Peter Roster proveen los acercamientos teóricos a la ironía que se utilizarán en este trabajo.Abstract: This paper proposes a study of contrasts and ironies in Jacinto Benavente’s play La ciudad alegre y confiada. They produce stylistic and comical effects that are typical of the Spanish drama in the first decades of the 20th century. However, they also define the ideological structure of the play and justify its outcome. The contrasts and the ironies of this play will be studied in three sections. In the first one, the personal characteristics and roles will be examined. Their contradictions and incoherencies contribute to the unpredictable nature of the play. In the second section, the analysis of the socioeconomic structure of the society will provide the bases for individual and collective conflicts. The last section focuses on the relation between life and death. The key protagonists Crispin and Desterrado are convinced that death is the only way to purify the people and to save their town. Soren Kierkegaard, Wayne Booth and Peter Roster provide the theoretical approaches to irony that will be used in this study.

SPECIAL ASPECTS OF SELF-ADJUSTMENT OF MILITARY UNIVERSITY CADETS WITH DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE LEVELS

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
I. S. Morozova ◽  
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E. A. Pronin ◽  
M. E. Pronina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Military Institute ◽  
High Level

The search for ways to increase the efficiency of educational and professional activities of students during the period of study at a military university remains relevant at present. The provision of optimal methods for the students’ professional competencies formation considering their personality dimensions at the shortage of study time has particular importance. The subject of the research is the special aspects of self-adjustment of cadets with different performance levels. The study aims at identifying the features of voluntary self-adjustment and personal characteristics of cadets with different academic performance levels in technical disciplines at a military university. The authors determined the theoretical approaches to the study of self-adjustment as personal property, mental state, and conditions for the successful activity. The paper includes the systematization of the ideas of the self-adjustment role in the process of educational and professional activity. The authors theoretically substantiate the necessity of considering the peculiarities of self-adjustment of cadets of a military higher education institution manifested in the subjective focus on particular phenomena. The paper presents data on the respondents, which includes ninety-one first-year cadets of Novosibirsk Military Institute. The authors substantiate the division of respondents into groups with high and low levels of academic performance. The study identified special aspects of self-control of military university cadets with different levels of academic performance manifested in the orientation of voluntary self-adjustment. The authors determined the features of voluntary self-adjustment of cadets with a high level of academic performance manifested in the presence of the pronounced perseverance in educational activities, friendliness towards fellow students, and the pronounced cognitive need; identified features of voluntary self-adjustment of cadets with a low level of academic performance manifested in the lack of self-control and critical assessment of actions, ignoring their mistakes, and the desire to dominate in interpersonal relations.

Everything Seems So Illogical: Constructing Missingness Between Life and Death in Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110543
Author(s):  
Ori Katz
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Narrative Ethnography ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
The People ◽  
High Uncertainty

This paper discusses the case of missing persons in Israel, to show how the category of “missingness” is constructed by the people who have been left behind, and how this may threaten the life-death dichotomy assumption. The field of missing persons in Israel is characterized not only by high uncertainty, but also by the absence of relevant cultural scripts. Based on a narrative ethnography of missingness in Israel, I claim that a new and subversive social category of “missingness” can be constructed following the absence of cultural scripts. The left-behinds fluctuate not only between different assumptions about the missing person’s fate; they also fluctuate between acceptance of the life-death dichotomy, thus yearning for a solution to a temporary in-between state, and blurring this dichotomy, and thus constructing “missingness” as a new stable and subversive ontological category. Under this category, new rites of passage are also negotiated and constructed.

scholarly journals The disorderly body: considerations of The Book of Numbers, 19 and ritual impurity after contact with a corpse

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
Sandra Junker
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Living Body ◽  
The People ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Living Creature

This article deals with the idea of ritual bodily impurity after coming into contact with a corpse in the Hebrew Bible. The evanescence and impermanence of the human body testifies to the mortality of the human being. In that way, the human body symbolizes both life and death at the same time; both conditions are perceivable in it. In Judaism, the dead body is considered as ritually impure. Although, in this context it might be better to substitute the term ‘ritually damaged’ for ‘ritually impure’: ritual impurity does not refer to hygienic or moral impurity, but rather to an incapability of exercising—and living—religion. Ritual purity is considered as a prerequisite for the execution of ritual acts and obligations. The dead body depends on a sphere which causes the greatest uncertainty because it is not accessible for the living. According to Mary Douglas’s concepts, the dead body is considered ritually impure because it does not answer to the imagined order anymore, or rather because it cannot take part in this order anymore. This is impurity imagined as a kind of contagious illness, which is carried by the body. This article deals with the ritual of the red heifer in Numbers 19. Here we find the description of the preparation of a fluid that is to help clear the ritual impurity out of a living body after it has come into contact with a corpse. For the preparation of this fluid a living creature – a faultless red heifer – must be killed. According to the description, the people who are involved in the preparation of the fluid will be ritually impure until the end of the day. The ritual impurity acquired after coming into contact with a corpse continues as long as the ritual of the Red Heifer remains unexecuted, but at least for seven days. 

scholarly journals From the Individual's Fault to the Construct of Power (Development and Changes of Crime Theories)

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Mohamad Seddigh Mohamadi ◽  
Hasan Babaee ◽  
Mohamad Khaledian
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biological Aspects

The present paper aims to explain crime by investigating various theoretical approaches and to show that from the classic era to the recent postmodern theories, a slow but steady cycle of discourse concerning crime has been occurring. In the classic times, the criminal is assumed to be a sane person with sound will who commits crime with an individualistic choice and due to incorrect decisions; In the positivism approach, the theorists' concern is directed at recognizing criminals and clarifying more fundamental biological aspects and psychological performance and they seek to explain the phenomenon of crime by dividing the people of the society into normal and abnormal people; In the modern theories the social factors causing the appearance of crime are at the focal point while critical theories greatly emphasize on the role of the society in the criminal phenomenon and its definition, finally postmodern theories consider crime totally as constructed by mindset, language and power and question its existential reality.

Uninsured in America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Sered
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Court Ruling ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Coverage Gap ◽  
The People ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Single Person

Susan Sered, author of the seminal work Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (2005), returned to the same communities to learn how the people she originally interviewed were faring after the implementation of the ACA. Not a single person she interviewed had remained in the same coverage status for more than a few years at a time. Even with insurance, health care was hardly affordable for many. Most important, geographically driven health disparities had been exacerbated by the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, leaving large numbers of people to fall into the “coverage gap.” The existence of these gaps, together with the inconsistent nature of coverage and the absence of a human rights ethos, created barriers and resentment, with many people feeling that other categories of people received greater benefits.

Sinn Féin and the life and death of the republican newspaper

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paddy Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Authentic Voice

Sinn Féin’s far reaching commitment to activist materials since the late 1960s included a devotion to the newspapers An Phoblacht/ Republican News. It was almost quixotically committed to producing AP/ RN and the paper became a far-reaching organ of political identity. During the Hunger Strikes of 1980/ 81 it was the authentic voice of those on the protests. Later, during the reforms of Peace Process era it articulated the changes in policy. However, Sinn Féin activists were keen to develop a mainstream vehicle for the newly dominant and optimistic strand of republicanism, one that might compete against the media outlets that had been overtly critical and hostile towards the party dating back to the beginning of the Troubles. The Belfast Media Group whose primary paper, the Andersonstown News, became associated with articulating Sinn Féin’s position throughout the 1990s and 2000s launched the republican daily newspaper Daily Ireland in 2005 in competition with the Irish News, the paper that has traditionally captured sales among the nationalist population of Northern Ireland. It was an experiment in assessing how far the shifts in the cultural and political tectonic plates of nationalism played into the media consumption habits of the people.

scholarly journals MONUMENTS, LANDSCAPE, AND MEMORY: THE EMERGENCE OF TOWER-TOMBS IN TADMOR-PALMYRA

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
LIDEWIJDE DE JONG
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The People ◽  
Memorial Landscape ◽  
Burial Customs ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Eastern Edge

Abstract Little is known about the emergence of the iconic tower-tombs in the first century bce in Tadmor-Palmyra, the oasis settlement on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire. Scholarship has concentrated on the grand towers erected in the first two centuries ce, yet it is the older and simpler group of towers that holds the key for understanding their appearance. They reveal breaks with existing burial customs and a need to carve out a new memorial landscape in the desert. This article offers a new perspective on the tower-tombs, building on theoretical approaches to monumentality, landscape, and memory. In settings that were simultaneously conspicuous and distant, the towers represent monumental proclamations aimed at the residents of Tadmor-Palmyra and the people of the desert. As tombs, they kept alive the memory of some members of the community, becoming focal points for the (re)production of lineage identity. Internal developments, sedentarization, or migration made such identities vulnerable, and new avenues for competitive innovations about the shared past were sought. The tower-tombs provide the first glimpses of a new Tadmor-Palmyra.

scholarly journals The Scopes of Word Semantics

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Alishova Ramila Bebir
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
General Information ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The People

<p>The article investigates the scopes of word semantics. Firstly, the author gives general information about the term concept. The author investigates the thoughts of linguists about the concepts in different languages. For instance, A.Abdullayev writes: “Concepts are inside representatives of the aspects, fragments of the environment in a human’s psychology. We can say they are inside us” (Abdullayev, 2011). N. Chomiski writes: “The concepts that are created in the human’s minds define the form and the meaning of a great number of sentences, and it means that our knowledge and opinions are endless” (Bickerton, 2010). The author underlines the fact that concepts belong to human conscious, and they purely have typically mind characters.Investigating the article we observe that the author stands on the meanings of the wordsespecially on the meanings of the words denoting life and death. Saying literally, a man can be considred to be a walking dictionary created by God. Each of the individuals has its own word stock in its mind. There exist a lot of words with various meanings, and the article deals with the meanings of the words denoting death and life. The author gives their translations both in the English language and in the Azerbaijani language, and it helps us to catch the similar and different meanings that they form inside the contexts. The author comes to the conclusion that the meanings that the people want to express and the meaning that the words express are different. The article gives the list of the meanings of the words suggested by J. Lyons.</p>

Life and death of the people of London: a historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Orford ◽  
Danny Dorling ◽  
Richard Mitchell ◽  
Mary Shaw ◽  
George Davey Smith
Keyword(s):  
Historical Gis ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The People

scholarly journals Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Titz ◽  
Terry Cannon ◽  
Fred Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The People ◽  
Inherent Ambiguity ◽  
Elusive Concept

In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the default terminology when referring to the local level or working ‘with the people’. The terms are applied extensively to highlight what is believed to be a people-centred, participatory, or grassroot-level approach. Today, despite, or because of, its inherent ambiguity, ‘community’ tends to be used almost inflationarily. This paper aims to analyse the way the concept of ‘community’ has come into fashion, and to critically reflect on the problems that come with it. We are raising significant doubts about the usefulness of ‘community’ in development- and disaster-related work. Our approach is to first consider how ‘community’ has become popular in research and with humanitarian agencies and other organisations based on what can be considered a ‘moral licence’ that supposedly guarantees that the actions being taken are genuinely people-centred and ethically justified. We then explore several theoretical approaches to ‘community’, highlight the vast scope of different (and contested) views on what ‘community’ entails, and explain how ‘community’ is framing practical attempts to mitigate vulnerability and inequity. We demonstrate how these attempts are usually futile, and sometimes harmful, due to the blurriness of ‘community’ concepts and their inherent failure to address the root causes of vulnerability. From two antagonistic positions, we finally advocate more meaningful ways to acknowledge vulnerable people’s views and needs appropriately.

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