Humans and humanity at a crossroads, reading Huxley’s brave new world in light of harari’s homo deus

We don't know where humanity is going. It's challenging to keep up with the rapid advancements in science and technology. In real life, both true and fictional 'truths' play important roles. Huxley's utopian/dystopian novel Brave New World (BNW) depicts a possible future for humanity through his description of a society organized and controlled through the use of science. A contemporary history book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (HD), also discusses the potential of humanity facing extinction in the future. This discussion employs HD to shed light on BNW, using Marxist and New Historicist arguments. Its goals are to analyze the irony in the works, the threat to invention and creativity, oligarchy and hedonism, the name allusions in the works, and the future prospect of engeneered homo sapiens as eternal working classes. The research discovered that both books are based on humanism, but humans are not treated as they should, that the lower castes in BNW cannot become innovative and creative because they are engineered, that the small oligarchy (the Alphas) maintains its power by providing pleasures for the lower castes so as to forget that they are being controlled.

Few-Shot Relation Extraction on Ancient Chinese Documents

Traditional humanity scholars’ inefficient method of utilizing numerous unstructured data has hampered studies on ancient Chinese writings for several years. In this work, we aim to develop a relation extractor for ancient Chinese documents to automatically extract the relations by using unstructured data. To achieve this goal, we proposed a tiny ancient Chinese document relation classification (TinyACD-RC) dataset annotated by historians and contains 32 types of general relations in ShihChi (a famous Chinese history book). We also explored several methods and proposed a novel model that works well on sufficient and insufficient data scenarios, the proposed sentence encoder can simultaneously capture local and global features for a certain period. The paired attention network enhances and extracts relations between support and query instances. Experimental results show that our model achieved promising performance with scarce corpus. We also examined our model on the FewRel dataset and found that outperformed the state-of-the-art no pretraining-based models by 2.27%.

Humans and humanity at a crossroads, reading Huxley’s brave new world in light of harari’s homo deus

We don't know where humanity is going. It's challenging to keep up with the rapid advancements in science and technology. In real life, both true and fictional 'truths' play important roles. Huxley's utopian/dystopian novel Brave New World (BNW) depicts a possible future for humanity through his description of a society organized and controlled through the use of science. A contemporary history book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (HD), also discusses the potential of humanity facing extinction in the future. This discussion employs HD to shed light on BNW, using Marxist and New Historicist arguments. Its goals are to analyze the irony in the works, the threat to invention and creativity, oligarchy and hedonism, the name allusions in the works, and the future prospect of engeneered homo sapiens as eternal working classes. The research discovered that both books are based on humanism, but humans are not treated as they should, that the lower castes in BNW cannot become innovative and creative because they are engineered, that the small oligarchy (the Alphas) maintains its power by providing pleasures for the lower castes so as to forget that they are being controlled.

Indonesian History Educational Card Game Gamification of the Process of Learning to Increase Interest in History among Children.

To spark interest and curiosity in children to make them research more about the subject. The writers also aims to re-tell history in a more visual manner which is more attractive to children as oppose to currently used text heavy history book and to make history more interesting by using an interactive teaching method by using gamification.

The sidewalk is a history book: Reflections on linking historical consciousness to uses of history

The ongoing discussion about what constitutes historical consciousness is intensifying within the growing international community of history-education researchers. What started as an exploration of how life outside schools affects our historical thinking has become a key concept for structuring formal education. This shift has largely been positive; however, there are reasons for caution. If practical adaption means outlining, classifying, and measuring levels of achieved awareness, it also presents a risk of losing the initial reason for considering the wider influence on our perceptions and orientations. My reflection in this article concerns this paradox and how it can affect a complementary concept, use of history. Using examples from everyday historical representations in public life, namely song lyrics, the BLM, and Sweden’s approach to Covid 19, I demonstrate why history education requires a broad understanding of historical consciousness and a readiness to work with public uses of history.

Translating Early Modern China

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in China. In Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, Latin, and more, these texts helped to make the Chinese language what it was at different points in its history. Translating Early Modern China explores what the form of an academic history book might look like by playing with fictioning as part of the historian’s craft. The book’s many stories—of glossaries and official Ming translation bureaus, of bilingual Ming Chinese–Mongolian language primers, of the first Latin grammar of Manchu, of a Qing Manchu conversation manual, of a collection of Manchu poems by a Qing translator—serve as case studies that open out into questions of language and translation in China’s past, of the use of fiction as a historian’s tool, and of the ways that translation creates language.

Bước đầu nghiên cứu bộ sách An Nam sơ học sử lược安南初學史略

The history book “An Nam so hoc su luoc” was edited by French scholars in the period when the colonial government reformed the education system in Vietnam with the purpose to split Vietnam from Chinese influences, and for a long term to make Vietnam to become a dependent country of France. This was the first time, the history subject was introduced into curriculum of general education for Vietnamese learners, and this was totally different from traditional examination for thousand years ago. In addition, with the Western modern design and edition, Vietnamese historical books had significant changes in terms of contents that was foundation for later book design. Apart from negative contents which serve exploiting and dominating of colonial government, the book "An Nam so hoc su luoc" as well as other Vietnamese historical books at that time were valuable document for scientific research.

Issues of judicial recourse term in cases of dismissal

Issues of judicial recourse term and its differentiation in cases of dismissal are examined. The respective issues concern the term duration; the term calculation; the term differentiated legal regulation. It is reveled that the current one-month term does not meet the interests of employees, contradicts the requirements of substantiation, reasonableness and fairness. Such term also contradicts the human right to a fair trial and does not correspond to the essence, focus and values of labor law. It is proposed to establish a unified one-year judicial recourse term in labor cases (while maintaining the indefinite term for filing claims for payment of wages). It is substantiated that in order to effectively appeal to court, the plaintiff needs both a dismissal order and an employment history book. It is proposed to provide calculation of the term of appeal to the court in cases of dismissal from the date of delivery of both a copy of a dismissal order and an employment history book. The differentiation of judicial recourse term in cases of dismissal from public service was also revealed. The Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine refers to the day when the person learned or should have learned about the violation of his or her rights, freedoms or interests. Such differentiation is unreasonable and worsens the legal status of employees whose dismissal cases are subject to consideration in the order of administrative proceedings. The Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine is proposed to be amended by a provision that calculates the respective term from the day when the person received both a copy dismissal order and an employment history book. It is revealed that civil and administrative proceedings assume different legal consequences of missing the judicial recourse term in cases of dismissal. The asymmetrical procedural regimes for implementation of similar labor rights and interests seem unjustified, since it is not due to the objective prerequisites for labor relations legal regulation differentiation. Unification is proposed in this matter. It should be based on the approach that is now embodied in administrative proceedings.