Beautiful Form Research Articles

Profiling high school students’ multimodal posting in a digital literacy SPOC and examining teachers’ and students’ perceptions

ABSTRACT Given the changing nature of literacy, it is critical to investigate how learners communicate using the multimodal affordances of digital platforms. Guided by metafunctions of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study developed a multimodal analytical framework to quantify multimodal composing with indicators of functional meaning to evaluate students’ multimodal literacy practices from an overall perspective. Based on a high school digital literacy SPOC (Small Private Online Course), this study adopted a mixed-method approach to profile students’ multimodal posting and examine teachers’ and students’ perceptions. The empirical findings included that: (1) Five profiles were identified based on students’ ideational, interpersonal, and textual meaning differences: academic posters, sensational posters, visual posters, all-round posters, and perfunctory posters. Academic posters viewed multimodal posting as a presentation of research findings; sensational posters viewed multimodal posting as a connection with classmates; visual posters valued the formal beauty of multimodal posts; all-round posters remixed the ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions of multimodal posting; perfunctory posters viewed multimodal posting as a have-to-do task. (2) Teachers underestimated multimodal posting’s interpersonal meaning that students valued. The SFL-based multimodal analytical framework and empirical findings provide implications for explicitly evaluating and guiding students’ multimodal composition in digital environments.

PENGEMBANGAN PROGRAM DESA WISATA BERBASIS JEJARING BISNIS DI DESA TAMANSARI KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

A tourism village is an integrated tourism concept in an area that combines local tourism potential in the form of art-culture products and natural beauty, accommodation, and other supporting facilities. Tourist villages have great potential, especially for the tourist segment who is interested in exploring the rich arts and culture of the foreign community. This study analyzes the development of a business network-based tourism village program in Tamansari Village, Banyuwangi Regency, namely by cooperating with the private sector to improve the community's economy through the concept of a tourist village. Using corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds from private companies, several tourist sites in Tamansari village were developed, starting from the milk village (Dusun Ampel Gading), the mining village, to the flower village (Dusun Jambu). Qualitative descriptive method is carried out with data collection techniques used are observation, interviews with village heads and Pokdarwis, as well as literature study. The results showed that the development of a business network-based tourism village program in Tamansari Village had a significant impact on boosting the residents' economy, and could be used as additional village income through APBDes. The village government in supporting the development of tourist villages collaborates with Pokdarwis (Tourism Awareness Groups), which have an important role and contribution to explore new potential in tourism development. thorough.
 
 Keywords: Development; Tourism Village Program;, and Business Network

Talking Trash: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and the Timescape of Disaster

Sorting through shattered detritus in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Esch Batiste—the protagonist of Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones (2011)—pockets “a piece of glass [ … ] another that is red and a pink brick stone” (254). Tucking the salvaged objects close to her body, Esch imagines telling her brother Skeetah “the story of what we found here”: “This was a liquor bottle, I will say. And this, this was a window. This, a building” (254). For Esch, such fragments contain a discursive potential signifying both the former totality of the thing lost—the window, the building, the home, the life, the family—and the event that destroyed it. The “pink brick stone” cannot replace or reinstate the building but it can retain the memory of what was lost through its continued material presence—bringing that past, and its losses, to bear upon the present. Esch plans to “tie the glass and stone with string, hang the shards above [her] bed, so that they will flash in the dark and tell the story of Katrina, the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered,” turning the foraged matter into a monument whose very ruination formulates a new, archival form of beauty (255). Esch’s salvage recognizes the illegible object as an actant1 facilitating the continued narration of Katrina’s story, while simultaneously crafting something new (a mobile, of sorts) from the disaster’s detritus. In doing so, Esch refuses to see the disastrous space as one of only waste and decay, and therefore death and impoverishment for its inhabitants. Salvaging objects by which to live, Esch and her family also salvage alternative forms of care and kinship to resist the conflation of their lives with the ongoing spatiotemporal conditions of disaster. In Salvage the Bones, the matter of Katrina, as well as the matter of centuries of oppression and impoverishment, is refashioned to create new kinds of livable spaces for human and non-human alike.

“Cultivate Beauty with Beauty, Share beauty with Others” — towards Chinese Utopian Thought “Great Harmony”

Just like the “Utopia” in the West, China also has its own ideal form of the world, which is the idea of “Great Harmony”.Great Harmony is an ancient Chinese thought, which refers to the ideal world that mankind can finally reach, and represents mankind’s beautiful vision for the future society. Nowadays,with the increasing cultural exchanges, the question of “how to deal with the cultural relations among various ethnic groups in China and even the world to promote cultural diversity and cultural prosperity?” is becoming more and more urgent. A short, powerful sentence in dealing with cultural relations of Mr. Fei Xiaotong , “Every form of beauty has its uniqueness;precious is to appreciate other forms of beauty with openness;if beauty represents itself with diversity and integrity,the world will be blessed with harmony and unity” answered this question, and once again enriched the connotation of China’s “Great Harmony” thought by focusing on Beauty, create beauty, respect different beauties, and ultimately promote the realization of the “Great World of Harmony”.On the road to promote the realization of the “world unity” of culture, we must not only cultivate the beauty of China with the vision of beauty and the cultural foundation of beauty, but also respect the cultural diversity, handle the relationship between different civilizations, and promote the common prosperity of culture.

Novel Cultivar of Xanthoceras sorbifolium Bunge ‘Yan Liu’

Bunge, a member of the Sapindaceae family, is a deciduous shrub or tree that is primarily distributed in north China. Xanthoceras sorbifolium is considered to be an ideal oil-rich seed tree species that has significant ecological, economic, and medicinal value (Ao, 2012; Liu et al., 2017). It can grow well in cold, barren environments, and even in saline-alkali land. It is also a valuable ornamental landscaping plant because of its beautiful form and luxuriant, colorful flowers. It has a long blooming period and flowers later than apricot (Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.) and peach

Postmodern Tourism Attraction in Tawangmangu SubDistrict, Indonesia: Potential and Development Strategy

This research aims to describe postmodern tourism attractions, in the form of potential and suggestions for development strategies that can be done in the tourist area of Tawangmangu Sub-District. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The case study in this study is a postmodern tourism object in Tawangmangu Sub-District, Karanganyar, Indonesia. Qualitative analysis to illustrate the attractions of postmodernism and SWOT analysis to determine usable development strategies. The results show that the potential of postmodernism tourism attractions in Tawangamangu Sub-District is a combination of natural potential in the form of atmosphere, temperature, and beauty of the location on the West Slope of Mount Lawu; and potential attractions made by developers, some of them: Sakura Hills, The Lawu Park, Sekipan Hill, New Balekambang, Kampung Halloween, and Rumah Atsiri Indonesia. Development suggestions can be done by optimizing strengths and potentials by minimizing weaknesses and threats. The situation in the postmodernism era brings diversity, one of which is diversity in the construction of tourism attractions. Postmodern tourism object has a variety of shapes and designs, accommodating patterns from inside and outside Indonesian culture. To face the development of postmodern tourism development, the active role of the community is needed to anticipate the inclusion of culture from outside that is not following Indonesian culture, and not to weaken the culture of the local community itself.

The Silima-Lima Waterfall’s Potential as Halal Tourism: A SWOT Analysis

<p><em>This study aims to determine the strengths of the halal tourism potential of Silima-lima Waterfall, to find out the weaknesses of the halal tourism potential of Silima-lima Waterfall, to find out the opportunities possessed by the halal tourism potential of Silima-lima Waterfall, to find out the threat that is owned by the halal tourism potential of Silima-lima Waterfall. This research is descriptive qualitative research, the analytical method used is the SWOT analysis technique. Data collection techniques used are observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation, the validity of the data used is member check. Based on the results of the study, it is known that Silima-lima Waterfall tourism has some strengths in the form of uniqueness and beauty of the waterfall, the weakness of Silima-lima Waterfall is that many facilities in the jogging track area are damaged, especially the guardrail, of course, this will endanger tourists. The Silima-lima Waterfall has the opportunity to become a pioneer as a halal tourist destination in the South of Tapanuli Regency. Unfortunately, Silima-lima Waterfall also has a threat in the form of a lack of public understanding about halal tourism, lack of readiness of human resources to support the realization of halal tourist destinations.</em><em></em></p><p><strong> </strong></p>

Not Much More to It Than That

Not Much More to It Than That Timothy Donnelly (bio) One thing hides another. Thing A can't hide without Thing B to hide behind, or in, or under. And when it hides it must be hidingfrom a third. Everything is hiding in some regard, if only you can find it. Take your time. If things were easy, wouldn't that defeat the purpose? The purpose is to make things hard, lasting, and beautiful to see. Sunset is gorgeous, but it doesn't last. That the sunsinks under the horizon is the cause, that it hides there is the cost of all that beauty. If this presents a moral quandary, remember we are merely its onlookers. An onlooker is a form of Thing C against which the efforts of Thing A are failing, in spite of itselfor on purpose. To fail on purpose is a form of beauty that leaves the onlooker reassured—we see what's happening right in front of us, albeit after a pause. The bird sickens, the roof collapses, the sun declines, failing to remain overhead. Even our words as we crossone last time, here in this ill-suited cabin—what with the banging and rapidly decreasing oxygen level—are hiding and failing to hide, which proves a comfort in our hour of need. Plus it's beautiful to see things fall to pieces as they intend to, or even as they must,so long as you've prepared yourself—eyes open, gloves off; one hand placed firmly in the other, the other placed firmly in a third, and so forth. [End Page 90] Timothy Donnelly Timothy Donnelly's fourth book of poems, "Chariot," will be published by Wave Books in spring 2023. Copyright © 2022 University of Nebraska Press

Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy

Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy

Suffering with Style

Suffering with Style

The Construction of Shen Cong-wen’s Temple of Humanity: A Case Study of Xiao Xiao

Xiao Xiao is the first short story written by Shen Cong-wen at the peak of his career as a writer. It is a mature expression of the “beautiful, healthy and natural form of life that is not contrary to human nature” that he strives for. Shen attempts to express his praise for free life through the image of Xiao Xiao, a free and happy child bride. While showing this child bride who dares to break through the stereotypes and old customs in realizing her individual life desires. It reflects Shen’s profound thoughts on the attitude of the city and countryside and the human nature behind.

The Reproduction of Visual Pictures in Poetry Translation

It is generally recognized that poetry is the most difficult genre of literature to translate because linguistic competence alone does not guarantee an overall transference of all poetic factors. The soul of poetry is its aesthetic sense which can be conveyed in the light of picture reproduction to achieve aesthetic harmony and evoke similar emotional response in target readers. To achieve this goal, a descriptive analysis of translated poems from two perspectives, namely, reproduction of formal beauty and inner beauty, reproduction of static and motional pictures, are discussed in this paper.

Kantian Aesthetics: Free Beauty in Fine Arts

A rose is beautiful. The Mona Lisa is beautiful. What is the difference between these two objects in being beautiful? In Critique of Judgment, Kant famously answers this question with a demarcation between two kinds of beauty: free beauty (pulchritudo vaga) and adherent beauty (pulchritudo adhaerens). Natural objects, e.g., a rose, fall into the realm of free beauty while works of fine arts, e.g., the Mona Lisa, adherent beauty. Objects of free beauty do not presuppose conceptual understanding while that of adherent beauty do. We do not regard some objective rules, if any, for the beauty of a rose while some rules seem necessary for properly judging fine arts. However, Kant’s free–adherent beauty distinction is much more nuanced than what he makes explicit in Critique. The theoretical distinction is not as clear-cut as it appears, and this paper shows that a work of fine art as an object of adherent beauty is no more than a special form of free beauty. While taste - the faculty necessary for aesthetic judgments - may be restricted by, be a parergon to, or interact with our conceptual understanding, it necessarily remains free and uncontaminated. Genius - the naturally endowed ability to create fine arts - makes the corporeal existence of a work of fine art possible but is necessarily guided by taste. Furthermore, taste can be conditioned by our understanding but it necessarily guides and makes our understanding possible, i.e., any concepts presupposed for fine arts are aesthetic in origin. This paper concludes that the possibility of free beauty entailed by taste, therefore, is necessarily compatible with the adherent beauty of fine arts.

A New Form of Beauty: Irish Postpunk and the Liberalization of Ireland, 1977–1991

A New Form of Beauty: Irish Postpunk and the Liberalization of Ireland, 1977–1991 Kenneth L. Shonk (bio) the dark space festival was held on February 16–17, 1979, at the Project Arts Centre in the Temple Bar section of central Dublin.1 The multimedia event featured film, artwork, a striptease act, and live performances from a number of musical groups that eschewed tropes of rock and punk in favor of a new sound and aesthetic.2 The festival was to be headlined by John Lydon’s post–Sex Pistols group PiL (Public Image Limited) and English avant-garde troupe Throbbing Gristle. For reasons unknown the featured acts never made it to Ireland for the event. Nonetheless, Irish bands were able to fill in for the missing headliners, and those that did perform included the Virgin Prunes, the Modern Heirs, Berlin, the Atrix, Phantom Orchestra, Rocky de Valera and the Gravediggers, U2, and the New Versions.3 Noted British DJ John Peel was in attendance, and his presence—according to Irish Times journalist Joe Breen—may have “prompted the energetic performances [of the bands] and it is reasonable to assume he was [End Page 81] accordingly impressed.”4 Days before the event, festival organizer and center director Jim Sheridan said, “We think of it as a lovely hippy concept. . . . We think it’s gonna be total bleedin’ anarchy.”5 The event also included food. Tickets for the festival were £6—later reduced to £4 after the headliners dropped out— and could be purchased at various sites in Dublin, including upscale Grafton Street retailer Brown Thomas. Film, art, and food aside, the significance of this festival lay in the coalescing of groups central to a burgeoning Irish postpunk scene, where bands played a style of music that was a “particular kind of art rock” performed by “bohemian non-conformists” who wrote songs that “grappled with classic existentialist quandaries: the struggle and agony of having a ‘self’; love versus isolation; the absurdity of existence; the human capacity for perversity and spite; the perennial ‘suicide, why the hell not?’”6 More than a collection of transgressive and loud “new wave,” the Dark Space Festival was a moment of anarchic liberalization of Ireland—an early marker of a willingness by some in Ireland to shrug off the nation’s “culture of containment.” The Dark Space Festival marked a key watershed in not only the history of Irish popular music but also in Ireland’s social and cultural liberalization. That a youthful musical avant-garde was on display for a mere £4 speaks to an emergent and accessible space for a new musical aesthetic. The moment was not finite, however, as some of the bands that played the Dark Space Festival were featured in A Sense of Ireland, a government-sponsored showcase of Irishness where the cutting edge was situated alongside traditional arts. In short order, this localized music scene was elevated to a position where transgressive youth were part of the outward-facing Irish visage, marking a structural acceptance and promotion of countercultural alterity. The existence of an Irish variant of postpunk parallel to “scenes” in England and the United States presents an opportunity to examine a cultural moment when Irish musicians offered an explicit and thoughtful reaction to contemporary Ireland. The aesthetic of these bands—such as those featured at the Dark Space Festival and in A Sense of Ireland—conveyed a visual and aural transgression that was intent on identifying and rejecting the conservative elements [End Page 82] of Ireland’s culture of containment, in turn marking a particular moment in our growing understanding of Ireland’s transformation from “one of the most conservative places in Europe” to its “more socially liberal” status.7 The Dark Space Festival—and Irish postpunk writ large—shares some lineage with other Irish cultural watersheds, for it existed because of intrinsic and extrinsic forces rooted in Ireland’s history. Societal and demographic shifts in the 1960s and 1970s helped foster and define the Irish postpunk moment, and its form and function were undoubtedly Irish but not beholden to traditional Gaelic cultural tropes: there were little to no flourishes of Celtic themes or instrumentation, nor were there...

Research on the Plane Spatial Form of Economic Housing Based on Space Syntax Theory: Macau EDF. de Alameda da Tranquilidade as an Example

Since the reform and opening up, the city has steadily promoted the renovation of old maternity houses, towns and villages in response to the call of the state, thus promoting urban renewal, realizing urban economic development, industrial upgrading and people's livelihood improvement. The living density of economic housing is high, and the quality needs to be further optimized. However, the current urban renewal needs to improve the living quality of housing to serve the people. Therefore, when planning, constructing and renovating the interior space of public housing and meeting people's basic living conditions, people's intuitive feeling of the environment should be put first, rather than excessive attention to formal beauty—taking the EDF. de Alameda da Tranquilidade in Macau, as an example, based on the theory of space syntax, this paper conducts a convex space analysis and research on the interior space form of the first building of EDF. de Alameda da Tranqui-lidade, including the global integration degree, local integration degree (R=3,6), connectivity, intelligibility, control and Mean Depth, analyze the areas with higher integration, connection value and control value and lower areas, and make suggestions for future plane optimization, related The recommendations also apply to the second and third buildings of Yongning Plaza Building, providing better reference value and reference for relevant government departments.

Gender Differences in Body Appreciation and Its Associations With Psychiatric Symptoms Among Chinese College Students: A Nationwide Survey.

BackgroundBody appreciation (BA hereafter), which reflects approval, acceptance, and respect for one's body while also rejecting media-promoted appearance ideals as the only form of human beauty, is an important aspect of positive body image. Much of the BA literature has been conducted on samples from Western nations but less is known about BA or its correlates in Asian cultural contexts wherein concerns with body image are also common. Toward addressing this gap, we examined gender differences in BA and its associations with common psychiatric symptoms (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and suicidality) within a national college student sample from China.MethodThis cross-sectional, nationwide study was conducted between December 27, 2020, and January 18, 2021, based on snowball sampling. Aside from measures of demographics and background factors, Chinese versions of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7), and a standard item on suicidal ideation and planning were administered to assess BA, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and suicidality, respectively.ResultsIn total, 2,058 college students (665 men, 1,393 women) in China were assessed. An analysis of covariance revealed that the men had a significantly higher average BA level than did women [F(1,2058) = 13.244, P < 0.001, Cohen's d = 0.193]. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed BA was negatively associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidality within the entire sample (depressive symptoms, β = −0.129, P < 0.001; anxiety symptoms, β = −0.101, P < 0.001; suicidality, OR = 0.788 P = 0.020) and among women (depressive symptoms, β = −0.172, P < 0.001; anxiety symptoms, β = −0.131, P < 0.001; suicidality, OR = 0.639 P = 0.001) but not men.ConclusionChinese college women reported lower BA than their male peers did. Furthermore, among women but not men, elevations in BA corresponded with protective mental health experiences including lower levels of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and suicidality. Findings underscore the potential utility of including BA in mental health assessments of Chinese college students, especially women. Findings also provide foundations for continued research on interventions to increase BA among at-risk young women in China.

On the (Possible) Moral Meaning of the Beautiful in Kant

With his Critique of Judgment, Kant aimed to establish a connection between the Understanding, concerning the sensibly cognizable, and Reason, concerning the domain of the intelligible, completing, thus, his critical system of Reason. However, to establish this bridge over the “incalculable gulf fixed between the domain of the concept of nature […] and the domain of the concept of freedom, as the supersensible” is not as easy as it may seem: since each of these faculties has its own ground, it is not legitimate for us to establish a direct link between the sensible and the intelligible. Thus, even when Kant claims “beauty as a symbol of morality” one cannot link Ethics and Aesthetics if not at a transcendental level, merely by an analogy between their forms of reflection. It is only by analogy that we can hope to find moral significance in (the beautiful forms of) nature – but that does nothing to reduce the importance of this significance for the Kantian system (especially with regard to the fulfilment of the dispositions of a rational being in the sensible world). This paper dwells on the Kantian doctrine of symbolization of morality and the (possible) moral meaning of the beautiful on nature.

Design Mode of Stage Performing Arts Based on 3D Modeling and Moving Edge Computing Technology

In recent years, the virtual stage background has become increasingly popular in the stage design of large-scale art evenings as well as in dance performances. It deftly blends the form of dance beauty with the content of dance performance, creating an atmosphere that not only sets the scene but also expands the stage space and enhances the artistic expression of dance. This paper focuses on the design of stage performance art using 3D modeling and MEC (mobile edge computing) technology. The data fusion method of multi-Kinect joints is researched and realized using 3DMAX to complete the modeling and virtual design of a 3D virtual stage scene. The performance scheme is created by analyzing music features with a computer, designing lighting actions, and matching music and lighting actions. Finally, it shows how DDLS (distributed deep learning shunting) configuration affects convergence performance as well as how model setting affects the diversion scheme.

Sapana Tourism Development Strategy Bonto Salama Village, Sinjai Barat District Sapana Tourism Development Strategy Bonto Salama Village, Sinjai Barat Dist

In this study, this study aims to determine the trend of the development of greeting tourism and the cultivation of tilapia and carp. The methods used are survey and interview methods. The results showed that the development of sapana tourism in the last two years and in the future is increasing, while the cultivation of tilapia and gouramy has developed and has natural potential in the form of natural beauty surrounded by mountains and has adequate facilities and infrastructure such as a lesehan casebo or restaurant and restaurant. worship place. accessibility of both private and public transportation and local government support. Meanwhile, future linkages from the development of greeting tourism include the addition of tourist attractions such as tilapia cultural tourism or bathing places. Furthermore, the development chain of greeting tourism in the future is an increase in the number of tourist visits along with the development of superior or culinary products so that they can attract tourists to visit. The development of greeting tourism in the future will also open up new job opportunities to meet the needs of tourists while in Bonto Salama village. From the development of greeting tourism, it will also increase people's income from the tourism business that is run and increase regional income from levies imposed on tourists.

Representações da beleza feminina: C&amp;A Brasil e Portugal (Primavera/Verão 2018)

Abstract: This objective of this study is to compare and analyze how forms of female beauty were approached in the Spring / Summer 2018 campaigns on the Facebook pages of the clothing retailer C&amp;A, in Brazil and Portugal. The key question is to understand how the company approached female beauty for the female audience, which included women and people who identify themselves as female, in both countries. The method of analysis is exploratory, qualitative, and quantitative, and applied content analysis to images used in the selected campaigns, and categorized elements to help compare them. The results of the study show that the company subtly sought to represent a diversity of different forms of female beauty although it has not yet presented a more evident inclusion of this representativeness.