A Final Appearance

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-177
Author(s):  
Jacqueline de Romilly
Keyword(s):  
Critical Moment ◽  
Athenian History

This chapter highlights Alcibiades' final appearance in Athenian history. It happened on the eve of the battle that would mark the final and definitive defeat of Athens—the defeat at Aegospotami. It took place near Alcibiades' fortress, at the entry of the straits that bordered the Chersonese. Alcibiades suddenly appeared in the Athenian camp, confident in his experience and what he had been observing. He offered himself as an adviser at the most critical moment, a moment of high drama, and proved once more his incomparable abilities. Unfortunately, Athens was set on its path, to its peril; they would pay dearly for their attitude. Lysander fell upon the Athenian forces, which, as he knew, were imprudently dispersed. Lysander soon took Athens, burned the fleet, and destroyed the Long Walls that had guaranteed Athens safety and independence. The chapter then looks at Alcibiades' death, which, unlike his life, was obscure and miserable.

Dramatic Irony as an Intervention Strategy in Two Dholuo Films: Kalausi and The Cleansing

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Odhiambo ◽  
Loreen Maseno
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Burial Rituals

Kalausi and The Cleansing are two films set in Kenya whose storylines touch on death and rituals among the Luo community of Kenya. Both films are in the language of Dholuo and place sharp focus on widowhood and its prevailing dilemmas and anxieties within Luo culture. It is these dilemmas and anxieties that reveal the injustices that culture metes out to women. While Kalausi engages its viewers up until the burial ceremony, The Cleansing starts after the actual burial and focuses on post-burial rituals. Thus, the two films in a way complement each other in the presentation of the injustices and intrigues that a woman faces during and after the demise of a spouse. Dramatic irony as the trope of ambiguity in the two films builds up tension, suspense and comic relief. Consequently, we examine how dramatic irony participates as a socio-cultural device of intervention in the two films. Reading the two films from this perspective, dramatic irony as a signifying trope becomes paramount in unravelling the multiplicities of interpretations evident in the critical moment of death within the Luo community. It is an extremely intricate signifying device as it plays on the contrast between reality and appearance.

scholarly journals A Moral from Athenian History

1898 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Bernard Bosanquet
Keyword(s):  
Athenian History

The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482199671
Author(s):  
Jeanna Sybert
Keyword(s):  
Core Values ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Platform Governance ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
Insight Into

On December 3, 2018, Tumblr announced that it would ban sexually explicit content from the platform, drawing immediate backlash from users. The ensuing discord on the site is conceptualized here as contested platform governance, or a conflict between users and ownership, in which not only are a platform’s policies and features challenged, but also its core values, identity, and/or purposes are put into question. By examining 238 Tumblr posts, this analysis identifies the unique ways users combatted the ban and (re)inscribed community values, while also contesting the owners’ legitimacy to govern the platform. Holding implications for the site’s long-term survival, such conflicts capture a critical moment in which the boundaries of power between users and ownership are challenged and, possibly, transformed. By examining Tumblr’s Not Safe For Work (NSFW) ban through the lens of platform governance, this study offers insight into how power and its limits are negotiated online.

Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Scenes

Passion’s Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of soul and mind from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of the passions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries out of and in some ways against a received “science of the soul,” and it argues that this history was shaped by rhetoric, which contained the most extensively particularized discourse on the passions, offering principles for moving and affecting the passions of others in concrete social scenes. This rhetoric of the passions centered on narrative as the instrument of a non-theoretical knowledge of the passions in their particularity, predicated on an account of passion as an intimate relation between an empassioned mind and an empassioning world: rhetoric offers a kind of externalist psychology, formalized in the relation of passion to action and underwriting an account of narrative as a means of both moving passion and knowing it. This book describes the psychology of the passions before the discipline of psychology, tracing the influence of rhetoric on theories of the passions from Francis Bacon to Adam Smith and using that history to read literary works by Shakespeare, Milton, Haywood, Richardson, and others. Narrative offers a means of knowing and moving the passions by tracing them to the events and objects that generate them; the history of narrative practices is thus a key part of the history of the psychology of the passions at a critical moment in its development.

Augustine's Use of Scripture

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Mervin Monroe Deems
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
European History ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Western European

Augustine lived at a critical moment in western European history. On the last day of the year 406, many Vandals, Alani, Suevi crossed the Rhine and, having defeated the Franks, settled for a time in Gaul and finally reached the Pyrenees. Four years later Rome itself fell to Alaric and his Visigoths. In addition to these outward catastrophes, the church's inner life suffered from the assaults of heretic and schismatic. Arianism persisted in Gaul, Montanism and Manichaeism were rife in North Africa. Puritanic Donatism laid claim to being genuine Christianity, a claim which the doughty Bishop of Hippo could not countenance.

‘Genuine Invariants’: The Origins of Regional Modernity in Twentieth-Century Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 299-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Tippey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Colonial Empire

During the decades that followed the loss in 1898 of Spain's last colony, Spanish architecture languished in a turbulent search for identity. In this search, some architects argued for a return to the historic architecture of the Spanish colonial empire, while others followed the progressive ideas of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Finally, in the mid-1940s, Spain's architects began to progress towards a successful reconciliation of these two seemingly opposed camps. A critical moment occurred in 1947 with the publication of Fernando Chueca Goitia's watershed textInvariantes Castizos de la Arquitectura Española (Genuine Invariants of Spanish Architecture).In this text, which Chueca conceived as a pocket reference for Spain's Modern architects, he described Spain as a unique place where the diverse architecture of Christian Europe and Islamic North Africa coalesced into a new — and essentially Spanish — whole. In it, he called on Spain's architects to move beyond superficial considerations of both history and modernity, and to arrive at a genuine, self-critical identity for Spanish architecture.

scholarly journals Lateral distortional buckling of cellular composite-beams

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. PIASSI ◽  
J. V. DIAS ◽  
A. F. G. CALENZANI ◽  
F. C. C. MENANDRO
Keyword(s):  
Flexural Rigidity ◽  
Lateral Displacement ◽  
Limit State ◽  
Composite Beams ◽  
Bottom Flange ◽  
Distortional Buckling ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Negative Moment ◽  
Resistant Moment ◽  
Negative Bending

Abstract In the region of negative bending moments of continuous and semi-continuous steel and concrete composite beams, the inferior portion of the steel section is subjected to compression while the top flange is restricted by the slab, which may cause a global instability limit state know as lateral distortional buckling (LDB) characterized by a lateral displacement and rotation of the bottom flange with a distortion of the section’s web when it doesn’t have enough flexural rigidity. The ABNT NBR 8800:2008 provides an approximate procedure for the verification of this limit state, in which the resistant moment to LDB is obtained from the elastic critical moment in the negative moment region. One of the essential parameters for the evaluation of the critical moment is the composite beam’s rotational rigidity. This procedure is restricted only to to steel and concrete composite beams with sections that have plane webs. In this paper, an equation for the calculation of the rotational rigidity of cellular sections was developed in order to determine the LDB elastic critical moment. The formulation was verified by numerical analyses performed in ANSYS and its efficiency was confirmed. Finally, the procedure described in ABNT NBR 8800:2008 for the calculation of the critical LDB moment was expanded to composite beams with cellular sections in a numerical example with the appropriate modifications in geometric properties and rotational rigidity.

scholarly journals A Quantitative Study on the Void Defects Evolving into Damage in Wind Turbine Blade Based on Internal Energy Storage

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Zhou ◽  
Fangai Yu ◽  
He Li ◽  
Wen Xin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Internal Energy ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
Irreversible Processes ◽  
Infrared Thermal Imaging ◽  
Manufacturing Defects ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Void Defects

As manufacturing defects, voids in wind turbine blades may cause damage under fatigue loads. In this paper, the internal energy storage is used as an indicator to identify the critical moment when a defect evolves into damage. The heat transfer equation of composites material containing void defects is derived based upon the theory of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. In order to obtain the numerical calculation model of the internal energy storage of the evolving process, the thermal conductivity along the transverse direction is homogenized as the temperature date along this direction is acquired by a thermal camera. Specimens with different void fractions are tested with infrared thermal imaging under fatigue load, during which the stress, strain and temperature data are acquired to establish the curve of internal energy storage against the fatigue cycle. This relationship curve can be used to identify the critical moment when void defects evolve into damage. The feasibility of this method is proven by microscopic observation.

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