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2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Lucy Dyah Hendrawati

There is a phenomenon among the Javanese ethnic population, in which many wedding ceremonies are held whenever the Javanese calendar points to particular months such as Besar, Rejeb, and Ruwah, because marrying in those months is believed to bring good fortune. This study aimed to analyze the influence of wedding date determination through pitungan and feeling safe on birth variations of first-born and the number of children the wife gives birth to. The research was conducted in Blitar City, Blitar Regency, and Surabaya City with 193 married couples. Linear Regression and Chi-square were the statistical tests used in this research. Chi-square and Linear Regression tests proved that pitungan affects the birth variations of first-born (p = 0.004; p = 0.004) and the number of children a couple has (p = 0.007; p = 0.002). Both Chi-square and Linear Regression proved that feeling safe (roso slamet) does not have any significant effect on birth variations of first-born (p = 0.162; p = 0.767) and the number of children in household (p = 0.863; p = 0.680). The conclusion is that there is an important relationship between pitungan and birth variation in which the more pitungan is done, the sooner first-born is given birth to and the more children a married couple has.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Jesusa C. Francisco

The enduring quality of "The Cask of Amontillado" makes it a timeless classic in which researchers from different generations offer a variety of subjective interpretations. This study aims to look closer to the story of "The Cask of Amontillado" to reveal other underlying themes. The themes were identified using content/textual analysis and a humanistic literary approach in interpreting meanings. The themes discovered involve excessive self-esteem, a penchant for prestige, lusting for another's good fortune (envy), and love deprivation. These themes, in a way, express the psychological needs of humans reflected in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Left unsatisfied, these basic human needs (self-esteem, prestige, and love) led to the characters' downfall because their thoughts and actions were inconsistent with ethical conduct. Findings of the study may add to the existing interpretations of the story, which primarily discuss and look into the various facets of its overarching theme of revenge along with Montressor’s mental condition.


2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mary K. Gaillard

Despite some gender-related bumps in the road, the author had the good fortune that her career spanned the evolution of the Standard Model from its inception in the late 1960s and early 1970s to its final confirmation with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Her major contributions to these developments and other facets of her career are described.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Celerina Dewi Hartati

Amulet paper in Chinese culture is known as hu / fu 符paper.  It can serve as a means of healing. This amulet paper can mean healing because it is changed from something ordinary or profane to sacred through a ceremony performed by a spirit medium (tangsin). When God enters the body of the spirit medium through trance, the spirit medium performs a ritual such as slash the tongue. With the spirit medium's blood, he wrote this amulet paper. The paper then has a sacred function as medicine. This research is an ethnographic study with a case study at Hok Lay Kiong Bekasi temple during the Capgomeh ceremony and the God's birthday ceremony. The hu paper has so far been better known as a means of obtaining good fortune and luck. Through this paper, we can see Hian Thian Siang Tee’s amulet paper at Hok Lay Kiong Temple as a medium healing in Chinese society and see the changing function from something profane to sacred thing.


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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Schleif

Very few labs have had the good fortune to have been able to focus for more than 50 years on a relatively narrow research topic and to be in a field in which both basic knowledge and the research technology and methods have progressed as rapidly as they have in molecular biology. My research group, first at Brandeis University and then at Johns Hopkins University, has had this opportunity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Faano Waruwu

The method of knowing God through the natural surroundings to children is an important activity in regrowing children's faith and trust in God. In general, the faith life of the people of Sakatetang Hamlet, both Catholics and Protestants, is very sad because they almost forget God and fully believe in the traditions passed down by their ancestors. The rituals and worship of idols were still held tight. Religion is only a symbol of belief but in everyday life it still fully adheres to tradition. Thus the method of knowing God through the natural surroundings to children in Sakatetang Hamlet aims, among other things: to regenerate children's love for God and all of His creation, to make them aware that worshiping idols and performing rituals is an abomination to God, and realize that the source of everything in the world comes from God. One of the reasons why the region does not know and believe in God is due to the rise of foreign understandings about God and traditions. They believe that performing the rituals will gain salvation. As a result, they are enslaved by traditions and rituals that are considered to promise protection and good fortune. With this method of knowing Allah, it can awaken, awaken and return children's faith to the right path, namely only believing in God, the Source of life.


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