scholarly journals Crossing Canadian Cultural Borders: A study of the Aboriginal/White Stereotypical Relations in George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Maram M. Samman
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
The Family ◽  
Aboriginal History ◽  
The City ◽  
Personal Version

This paper traces the intercultural journey of a young Aboriginal girl into the hegemonic white society. Rita Joe crossed the imaginary border that separates her reserve from the other Canadian society living in the urban developed city. Through this play, George Ryga aims at achieving liberation and social equality for the Aboriginals who are considered a colonized minority in their land. The research illustrates how Ryga represented his personal version of the colonial Aboriginal history to provide an empowering body narrative that supports their identity in the present and resists the erosion of their culture and tradition. The play makes very strong statements to preserve the family, history and local heritage against this forced assimilation. It tells the truth as its playwright saw it. The play is about the trail of Rita Joe after she moved from her reserve in pursuit of the illusion of the city where she thought she would find freedom and social equality. In fact the audience and the readers are all on trial. Ryga is pointing fingers at everyone who is responsible for the plights of the Aboriginals as it is clear in the play. He questions the Whites’ stereotypical stand against the Aboriginals. The play is a direct criticism of the political, social and cultural systems in Canada. The paper reveals Aboriginals' acts of opposition to racism, assimilation and colonization as represented in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. 

scholarly journals Małe dzieci w chrześcijańskiej epigrafice miasta Rzymu i w nauczaniu Jana Chryzostoma

Vox Patrum ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
Bożena Stawoska-Jundziłł
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
High Status ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Person Following ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
The City ◽  
Full Maturity

The paper presents the results of studies of epitaphs for children up to almost eight years of age from the city of Rome (3rd-4th c. – B. Stawoska-Jundziłł, Vixit cum parentibus. Children aged under seven in Christian families from Rome of 3rd-4th c., Bydgoszcz 2008) in comparison with the views of John Chrysostom on the upbringing of small children. The content of over 2000 children from Rome demonstrates a high status of even the youngest offspring in the Christian families from this city. The founders cared for their religious „endowment”, bestowed their love on them and tried to remember them as members of the family even if they had died after a few days or months. It was unquestionably believed that small children are immediately saved, go to God and commune with the saints. Thanks to this the family could hope for their support and prayers. Whereas, John Chrysostom only casually mentions small children and, what is more, ambivalently: on one hand presenting them on the basis of thorough observations of their behavior and looking after them and on the other hand as mindless creatures, a harbinger of va­luable person following the Stoics e.g. Seneca. As far as the most important for me question of the death of small children is concerned he takes a stand similar to that of the Romans. The children are really without sins (they did not commit them consciously) so God shall accept them only through the hardships of illness and death. Now they are asleep (unlike in the studied epitaphs) but they will rise from the dead and join their parents. Thus, the despair after their death is pointless; God decided the best for them. The difference lies in the fact that the founders of epitaphs more decidedly see the perfection of posthumous existence of even the smallest children who there reach their full maturity whereas John does not seem to be interested in this issue since he directs his teaching mostly to maturing and mature Christians in the earthly life and not in the beyond.

scholarly journals Analysis of Factors Causing Appearance of Food Hypersensitivity in Toddlers

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
O. I. Matsyura ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Bronchial Asthma ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Food Hypersensitivity ◽  
Pathogenetic Mechanisms ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City

Food hypersensitivity is a reaction to the food consumed, regardless of the pathogenetic mechanisms that cause the symptoms. It is an actual and controversial problem in pediatric practice. Nowadays there is an active search for the causes of disease progression, a large role is given to the study of genetic and external factors (food, environmental, social). This disease arises many questions due to the similarity of the clinical representation in different kinds of food hypersensitivity and in different pathogenetic mechanisms, which are involved. The purpose of the study is to perform the analysis of factors, which cause appearance of food hypersensitivity in toddlers. Materials and methods. A study of the number of children with food intolerance was conducted using a specially compiled questionnaire. Thus, 4,500 questionnaires were distributed in pre-school and medical establishments to question parents. Results and discussion. Analysis of 3,214 questionnaires was conducted, which enabled to obtain information from parents on anamnesis and living conditions of toddlers. Values of 56 factors were analyzed, calculating correlation coefficients with a formation of food hypersensitivity for each of them. Statistical analysis allowed distinguishing 15 signs among these factors, which significantly correlated with the formation of food hypersensitivity in young children. The investigation enabled not only to detect factors that affect formation of food hypersensitivity in young children, but also to suggest a mathematical model of individual calculation of risk factors for this pathology. Data of conducted mathematical analysis can be used for elaboration of a complex of prophylaxis measures on development of food hypersensitivity in toddlers. Conclusion. The formation of hypersensitivity to cow's milk in children is provoked by the presence of contact reactions in the child, adverse reactions after medication, positive family history (bronchial asthma in relatives, skin diseases in parents (father and / or mother)), smoking in the family, living in the city; at the same time, preventive factors are living in an apartment, in a new building, in a dry apartment. The formation of food hypersensitivity in young children is generally provoked by a positive family history (bronchial asthma, hay fever, urticaria, diseases of the stomach and duodenum in relatives, skin diseases in parents), smoking in the family; frequent consumption of food in a mass catering points; living in the city plays a preventive role

scholarly journals SUNG POEMS AND POETIC SONGS: HELLENISTIC DEFINITIONS OF POETRY, MUSIC AND THE SPACES IN BETWEEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 597-615
Author(s):  
Spencer A. Klavan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
English Speaker ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Cosmic Order ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Simply by formulating a question about the nature of ancient Greek poetry or music, any modern English speaker is already risking anachronism. In recent years especially, scholars have reminded one another that the words ‘music’ and ‘poetry’ denote concepts with no easy counterpart in Greek. μουσική in its broadest sense evokes not only innumerable kinds of structured movement and sound but also the political, psychological and cosmic order of which song, verse and dance are supposed to be perceptible manifestations. Likewise, ποίησις and the ποιητικὴ τέχνη can encompass all kinds of ‘making’, from the assembly of a table to the construction of a rhetorical argument. Of course, there were specifically artistic usages of these terms—according to Plato, ‘musical and metrical production’ was the default meaning of ποίησις in everyday speech. But even in discussions which restrict themselves to the sphere of human art, we find nothing like the neat compartmentalization of harmonized rhythmic melody on the one hand, and stylized verbal composition on the other, which is often casually implied or expressly formulated in modern comparisons of ‘music’ with ‘poetry’. For many ancient theorists the City Dionysia, a dithyrambic festival and a recitation of Homer all featured different versions of one and the same form of composition, a μουσική or ποιητική to which λόγοι, γράμματα and συλλαβαί were just as essential as ἁρμονία, φθόγγοι, ῥυθμός and χρόνοι.

Severe prekallikrein deficiency due to a compound heterozygosis in the KLKB1-gene

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (02) ◽  
pp. 187-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kochhan ◽  
P. Heuchel ◽  
J. Jenderny ◽  
B. Maak
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Reference Range ◽  
The Other ◽  
Paternal Allele ◽  
Thrombin Time ◽  
Base Exchange ◽  
Coagulation Study ◽  
The Family ◽  
Prolonged Aptt ◽  
History Of

SummaryA 14 year old boy was referred to us for a detailed coagulation study because a previously performed aPTT has been found prolonged. The boy had no history of bleeding symptoms and also the family history was negative for bleeding or thrombotic events. The aPTT in the patient was 96 s (reference range: 24–36 s), prothrombin time and thrombin time were both normal.As the cause for the prolonged aPTT we identified a severe prekallikrein deficiency (prekallikrein activity < 1%). The prekallikrein deficiency results from two mutations in the KLKB 1-gene: first, an insertion of 1 bp in codon 149 in exon 5 and, second, a base exchange Cys 548 (TGC) > Tyr (TAC) in exon 14. The boy inherited the first mutation from his father and the second from his mother. The mutation in the paternal allele was not described before the completion of our study. There are two brothers of the propositus, one with normal prekallikrein activity and no mutations in the KLKB1-gene, the other showed the same constellation as the propositus.

Labouring for Kashmir’s azadi: Ongoing violence and resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Sarbani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

While much has been said about the historicity of the Kashmir conflict or about how individuals and communities have resisted occupation and demanded the right to self-determination, much less has been said about nature of everyday life under these conditions. This article offers a glimpse of life in the working-class neighbourhood of Maisuma, located in the central area of the city of Srinagar, and its engagement with the political movement for azadi (freedom). I argue that the predicament of ‘double interminability’ characterises life in Maisuma—the interminable violence by the state on the one hand and simultaneously the constant call of labouring for azadi by the movement on the other, since the terms of peace are unacceptable.

A Moratória Em Processo

PMLA ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviano Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Family ◽  
Objective Interpretation ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The division of the stage into halves, one representing family conflicts in 1929 and the other representing the same family in 1932, is a device in the dramatic use of space which explains the originality of A Moratória, as shown by an Aristotelian analysis of its structure. The archetype which inspires the structure of this play is “the ant and the grasshopper,” whose division implies different dramatic climates within the play. On the one hand, we have the tragedy of negligence (level of the parents and their son), and on the other hand, the apprenticeship of consciousness (level of the daughter). The simultaneous use of the divided stage reflects the period of transition lived by the family and the Brazilian society in the early thirties: there is the shift from the country to the city; the shift from patriarchal to matriarchal tendencies; and the transfer of power from the great families to the emerging middle class. If the play fails in part, it is because the author cannot give an objective interpretation of reality. He is too compassionate.

Rytuały w przestrzeni politycznej na przykładzie Ustki

2019 ◽  
Vol XV ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Maciej Rogulski
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Local Dimension ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Rituals are of great importance in politics at every level. Rituals bind society and strengthen their identity. Besides rituals strengthen attach-ment to culture, land and state power. On the other hand state power increases legitimacy by performing respected rituals. There are many interesting ways to classify rituals in the literature on the subject. For the purpose of showing rituals in the political space of the city of Ustka, it seems appropriate to distinguish above all the rituals of a national char-acter and those of a local dimension. In the case concept of the ritual, however, there are no final divisions, and the boundaries that divide them are certainly not impassable.

Aristophanes and the events of 411

1977 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan H. Sommerstein
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The dates of performance of Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae are still not generally agreed. The most widely accepted opinion is perhaps that of Wilamowitz, that Lysistrata was produced at the Lenaia and Thesmophoriazusae at the City Dionysia in the same year, 411 B.C. But both Schmid and Gelzer, in their authoritative works on Aristophanes, have given reasons for reversing these assignments and putting Th. first; Russo holds that both plays were produced on the same occasion; and Rhodes has recently revived the view—which goes back to Dobree and beyond—that Th. is to be dated to 410, during the régime of the Five Thousand.The one unequivocal and undisputed datum we have comes from Hypothesis I to Lys., which tells us that that play was produced in the archonship of Kallias (412/1). Further information can be elicited from a variety of sources:(1) statements by scholiasts giving the date, relative to one of the plays, of an event whose date is independently known;(2) references (or, less safely, failures to refer) in the plays themselves to datable events;(3) references to the season of the year at which the performance took place;(4) considerations of the type of play more likely to have been produced at one or the other festival;(5) references in one play to the other;(6) the political, military and diplomatic conditions, movements, prospects and attitudes reflected in the plays, considered with reference to contemporary events.

scholarly journals Mengungkap Perilaku Inovatif 3 Etnis Wanita Pedagang Di Surabaya

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Siwi Agustina
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City

Innovative behavior is one of the requirements to survive in the field that are hard, competitive, challenging, high-risk and speculative as world trade. Similarly, the existence of a trading business carried on women can not be separated from the innovative behavior, whereas on the other hand women are also faced with the primary responsibility of the family. That directs human behavior to act not apart of the culture surrounding the actors. Based on this, presumably interesting to study about differences in innovative behavior of women traders Javanese, Madurese and Chinese in Surabaya. Sources of data obtained by distributing questionnaires and conducting interviews in 394 women traders convection type in one of the wholesale center in the city of Surabaya, which was selected as the study respondents. This study is a quantitative research method research design ANOVA (F-test). The findings of this research are innovative behavioral differences merchant woman of Javanese, Madurese and Chinese.  

The political potential of multi-accentuality in the exhibition title ‘gastarbajteri’

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-457
Author(s):  
Martina Böse ◽  
Brigitta Busch
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Two Agents ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Title Word ◽  
The City

This article explores the multi-accentuality of the sign ‘gastarbajteri’, used as title word in an exhibition on labour migration that took place in Vienna, Austria, in 2004. Based on an ethnographic study of the exhibition, it addresses a variety of readings of this word, both at the level of production and reception. The analysis of texts shows, firstly, the divergent rationales of the two agents who cooperated as exhibition producers, the minority NGO who wished to signal self-empowerment of migrants on the hand and the city museum who aimed at selling the exhibition to a mainstream audience on the other hand. Secondly, it juxtaposes them with the plurality of readings by its recipients, which range from the recognition of an appeal to migrants via the mis-reading as ‘guestworker’ and its upvaluation through to an insider-perspective based on the knowledge of the word’s connotations in the former Yugoslavia.

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