Sympathy for Oswald Mosley: Politics of Reading and Historical Resemblance in the Moral Imagination of an English Literary Society

The mid-twentieth-century English novelist, Henry Williamson, wrote nature stories but also romantic and historical fiction, including a fifteen-volume saga that contains a largely favorable characterization of Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. This essay considers the challenge of such a fascist character through the prism of the literary imagination of Williamson readers, and more specifically through my longstanding ethnographic work with an English literary society constituted in the author’s name. I am centrally concerned with how literary society members deal with the positive depiction of the Mosley-based character through the stages of the reading process that they identify and describe. Do the immersive values commonly attached to their solitary reading culture, for instance, assist or further problematize that engagement? What role does their subsequent, shared practice of character evaluation play? As well as considering the treatment of characters as objects of sympathy, I explore the vital sympathies that for literary society members tie characters together with historical persons. Across the essay I dialogue with anthropological literature on exemplars, historical commentaries on the fascist cult of leadership, and finally with the philosophical claims that Nussbaum makes for the moral and political consequences of fiction reading.

Development of Scientific Learning System Based on Character Education (Honest, Discipline, Self-Confidence) in MTs-Al Maidah Deli Serdang Regency

A development must start from the human factor, namely education, organization and discipline. Therefore, aspects and problems of education are the most important elements that must be addressed immediately so that national development goals can be better achieved. One area that needs attention in the field of education development is the village of Kotasan located in Galang District, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra. The majority of the population is educated middle to lower causing most of the population is still living from the agricultural sector. Seeing the existing phenomena and if this condition is allowed to continue then it is feared that the welfare of the community will lead to worse conditions. So with this dedication the team will try to find solutions to educational problems that are more beneficial for the Kotasan village community. This service aims to: 1). Designing teacher working groups in applying scientific learning, 2). Designing the learning process using a scientific learning model based on Islamic character education, 3). Designing learning material that will be applied by teachers in scientific learning based on Islamic character education. The method used in this service is coaching techniques. Expected outputs from this dedication are ISSN journals, mass media and activity videos. In the process of character evaluation in every aspect, in general get a value, namely (1) Honesty as much as 90%, (2) Discipline as much as 80%, and (3) confidence as much as 85%. Then in the process of character evaluation in each aspect of points in particular there are 10 points get a value, namely: (1) honest in action 78%, (2) honest in words 80%, (3) admit mistakes 70%, (4) wake up on time morning 83%, (5) prayer 5 time 90%, (6) diligently praying 84%, (7) attending ceremonies and on time 63%, (8) gathering assignments on time 72%, (9) able to be a leader for example Imam prays 74%, and (10) 80% practice test.