Cold Reception Research Articles

EU FAST TRACK MEMBERSHIP: CAN IT HELP UKRAINE RESOLVE ITS REAL PROBLEMS?

In 1991, during its inception process, Ukraine faced Russia's territorial claims and a cold reception from the Western world towards its leadership. After evaluating its internal and external interests, Ukraine chose to sign a friendship and cooperation agreement with Russia, compromising its rights as a sovereign state. This decision kept the complex issues of cross-border irredentism and multiple identities in check. However, during the democratic transition, external actors got involved in Ukraine's domestic politics, resulting in the removal of President Yanukovych's government. This critical juncture set the trajectory for unleashing Ukraine's state-ness issues. External involvement and political mismanagement aggravated Ukraine's problems and transformed its political issues into state-legitimacy issues, making its claim of a single entity void. Without state legitimacy, Ukraine cannot join the EU or consolidate as a democracy. Even if it enters the EU, it cannot safeguard its state sovereignty or achieve a profitable deal. This post-positivist research uses process tracing within a case study to highlight Ukraine's real problems and whether EU membership can help resolve them. The best solution for Ukraine is to focus on its domestic issues and negotiate with the other actor for a peaceful solution. Bibliography Entry Siddiqi, Houma. 2023. "EU Fast Track Membership: Can It Help Ukraine Resolve Its Real Problems?" Margalla Papers 27 (1): 13-27.

Asylum Seekers in Small Villages: Spatial Proximity and Integration in Italian and French Villages

What happens when asylum seekers from African or Middle Eastern countries are resettled by authorities in small European villages? When they arrive, are they welcomed, or on the contrary, rejected by villagers? Generally speaking, overseas migrants usually wish to be resettled in large European cities. As for European villagers, they tend to form communities closed on themselves, so one might expect a rather cold reception. However, fieldwork in Italian and French villages where asylum-seeking migrants were resettled shows that this is not necessarily the case. Having observed resettlement experiences in the Italian region of Molise and the French region of Alsace, we discovered that, wherever migrants are hosted within the confines of a village, villagers get frequent opportunities to meet them, learn to communicate with them, and spontaneously offer help, especially to children, women, and whole families. The lack of a common language does not prevent day-to-day iwnteractions or development of interpersonal relations. Children go to school and are keen to learn the host society’s language; adult migrants receiving help want to reciprocate by working for free, thus allowing them to quickly learn European ways and skills. If most asylum seekers eventually leave for larger cities, the months spent in a village prove to be a useful step preparing them for further resettlement.

W kleszczach transnarodowości. 1983

Netflix, which is the worldwide American streaming platform available globally, produces numerous serious not only in the United State but outside the country as well. Those specific projects have wide audience all around the world, and, what needs to be emphasized, are particularly appealing to the users in each region respectively. However, the 1983, first Polish series by Netflix Original, has met quite cold reception especially in the country of its production. In this paper author states that this kind of the series’ perception stems from its transnational formula which in this case results in disappointing effects in several dimensions: preproduction, implementation, and further publicity.

REVIEWING THE KENYAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM THROUGH A DE-COLONIZATION EFFORT

Physical education is an educational process that uses physical activity as a means to help individuals acquire skills, fitness, knowledge, and attitudes that contribute to their optimal development and well-being. The history of PE in Africa dates back to pre-colonial times. In the pre-colonial period, traditional African physical activities and recreation were characterized by being local and community-based. The recreational and physical activities reflected the lifestyle of the said community paying attention to the specific needs of that particular community. People engaged in traditional games and sports activities such as wrestling, racing exercises, stick fights, hunting with the use of spears and arrows, board games, bullfights, dances, and rustling among others. These activities were mainly driven by the need for survival and prestige. At the advent of colonization, the Europeans introduced western and European education systems in Africa and most of their colonies. Western-oriented physical education was also introduced and this opened the door to European games and competitive and team sports. This was propagated at the expense of local and traditional African physical activities which were perceived as barbaric. Consequently, physical education as a subject attracted a cold reception right from the onset. However, even though viewed negatively, the same aspects of physical education aspects introduced by the colonialists have persisted in post-colonial Africa. Very little has changed in terms of the content as well as the approach to teaching. This has seen the subject relegated to the periphery in favor of what is considered academic subjects. In addition to its being viewed as being too much western-oriented, physical education has also been criticized for having been introduced to achieve other non-educational objectives such as military training, training of lower-rank civil servants, the transmission of middle-class values of conformity and also for deferred gratification, and social control. Consequently, to date despite numerous studies linking physical education participation and cognitive development, it has been difficult to show that link in Africa. The emphasis on competitive team sports that were introduced by the colonialists has also seen the subject being viewed as of no value beyond the school, especially for those with no interest in sports. This paper argues that for physical education to play its rightful role within the education sector, there is a need to decolonize the teaching of the same. Teachers need to contextualize the games and sports so as to make them more relevant to the participants. They also need to emphasize how the skills learned and knowledge gained can be useful beyond school life and this will make the subject more meaningful for the participants.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0261/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Art as therapy

Art as therapy

Cold from Gold: Chinese Miners Face New Realities in Ghana

China has maintained strong relationships with many African countries, and Ghana is one such country. While the two countries have normally enjoyed good friendly relations, concerns over the involvement of Chinese citizens in small-scale mining in Ghana threaten the cordial relationship between the two countries. There is evidence of a cultural evolution and a gradual shift from a culture of enthusiastic reception of local people to the Chinese in the area of mining to one of cold reception to Chinese interests in mining communities. There is also evidence that this cold reception to Chinese miners is stimulated by non-state actors led by the media and inspires in Ghana a new paradigm of more rational engagement with China at the political level, although challenges still remain.

Research on Public Rental Housing PPP Project Launching Dilemmas with Dynamic Evolutionary Game

The public housing PPP projects have encountered a cold reception from the government, which constrained solving the urban housing problem. This paper builds a dynamic game model under incomplete contract conditions, analyzes the key factors affecting the signing of PPP contracts by dynamic evolutionary game analysis, and verifies these factors by simulation. The results show that fiscal spending smoothing, risk transfer, and government performance can promote government to adopt cooperation strategy. Expected project benefits and government performance incentives can promote private capital to adopt cooperation strategy. Changes in transaction cost have a significant impact on the decision of cooperation strategy.

Double Cold Reception Endangering Cultural Security: The Lack of Chinese Culture in Foreign-related Discipline Education

The weakening or even lack of Chinese culture has become a practical problem in foreign-related discipline education, including college foreign languages and teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and the Chinese cultural security is worrying. Since foreign-related discipline education directly or indirectly affects China's cultural security, soft power, or even its comprehensive national strength, we should strengthen the education of Chinese culture in the teaching practice of foreign languages and Chinese as a foreign language. That is to say, two things should be done pertinently. One is to highlight the differences between Chinese and Western cultures in college foreign language education, while teaching Western cultures to students, we should focus on sticking to the position of Chinese culture; the other is to highlight the charm of Chinese culture to foreign students in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and consciously carry out the influence and dissemination of Chinese culture.

Overseas Communication of English Translation of <i>The Book of Rites</i> from the Perspective of Translation-communication Model

Chinese culture has gone through many stages of overseas communication before the contemporary call for its going-out. <i>The Book of Rites</i>, as an indispensable part of Chinese culture, has also experienced ups and downs in the circulation. A comprehensive diachronic collation of the communication history of <i>The Book of Rites</i> is helpful for acquiring effective lessons and inspirations from the ups or efficient communication, on which there has not enough systematic research. Therefore, this thesis wants to initiate the specialized research of <i>The Book of Rites</i> on its communication by answering the following questions from the translation-communication angle: What is the historical process of English translation of <i>The Book of Rites</i>? What were communication realities of English versions of <i>The Book of Rites</i> in different historical periods? The answers are: the overseas communication of English versions of <i>The Book of Rites</i> has gone through 3 stages from initial introduction stage from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20^th century, to the gold development of brief translation in the 20^th century, and to the cold reception of reprinting of excerption and retranslation in the 21^st century. The change from the efficient communication to cold reception urges us to reverse the trend, which has got some resolution possibilities from Lasswell’s communication model that the overseas translators and sinologists should join hands with Chinese native scholars to trans-feel the original idea for overseas readers, and take overseas platforms to achieve the maximum conductance or equivalence to realize efficient communication.

Rejection, Reception, and Rejection Again: Women in Oregon's World War II Shipyards

In this Reflection Essay, Diane Simmons describes the research she conducted for her book, The Courtship of Eva Eldridge, a biographical narrative of a young woman during World War II. Eldridge worked at a cafeteria in the Kaiser Swan Island shipyard beginning in 1944. During her research, Simmons looked at runs of Kaiser's company newsletter, The Bo's'n's Whistle, to give her insight into Eldrige's experience. Through that research, Simmons found that women first faced a cold reception, but by 1944 when Eldridge arrived, the company's efforts to make the environment more appealing to women was evident. After being integrated into the workforce, many women then propaganda urging them back into the domestic sphere.

‘Look, My Lord, It Comes’: Ghostly Silences in the Boswell/Johnson Archive

IN the account of his and Johnson’s tour of Scotland, Boswell records the following exchange: Having taken the liberty, this evening, to remark to Dr. Johnson, that he very often sat quite silent for a long time, even when in company with only a single friend, which I myself had sometimes sadly experienced, he smiled and said, ‘It is true, sir. Tom Tyers, (for so he familiarly called our ingenious friend, who, since his death, has paid a biographical tribute to his memory,) Tom Tyers described me the best. He once said to me, “Sir, you are like a ghost: you never speak till you are spoken to”’.1 The modesty which made him so slow to advance, and so, easy to be repulsed, was certainly no suspicion of deficient merit, or unconsciousness of his own value: he appears to have known, in its whole extent, the dignity of his character, and to have set a very high value on his own powers and performances. He probably did not offer his conversation, because he expected it to be solicited; and he retired from a cold reception, not submissive but indignant, with such reverence of his own greatness as made him unwilling to expose it to neglect or violation.2

Treatment of a Fellow Doctor in a Public Sector Hospital: Ethnographic Study of Collegial Professionalism

Ethics and collegiality in medical profession requires a doctor to treat fellow professional as brother and sister. Ethnography was employed to study the status of collegiality in public sector hospital, where an ailing doc-tor sought clinical care from a physician. The former, on account of the latter’s cold reception and behaviour, reacted with his blood pressure shooting-up. The communication gap led the ailing doctor, who com-plied by coming to the laboratory, was perturbed, making him firstly unfit and later decided not to undergo the prescribed test. While Pakistan Medical and Dental Council have the responsibility to oversee, the under-graduate medical education and training should also lay greater emphasis on ethics in medical practice and healthy collegiality in the medical profession.

Unearthly Things by Michelle Gagnon

Reviewed by: Unearthly Things by Michelle Gagnon Karen Coats Gagnon, Michelle Unearthly Things. Soho Teen, 2017 [288p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-61695-696-7 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-61695-697-4 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 7-10 When Janie's parents are killed in a helicopter crash, she is forced to leave Hawaii to live in California with the Rochesters, whom she's never met but who hold the key to her parents' past. Janie's bewildered by the cold reception she receives from Mrs. Rochester as well as their Filipino maid, Alma; why would her parents grant guardianship to people who obviously don't want anything to do with her? In fact, the only one who seems happy to see her is Nicholas, a strange six-year-old who insists that his dead sister talks to him and makes him do things, like periodically mess up Janie's room and desecrate her beloved childhood doll. Things get weirder as Janie meets Daniel, a classmate who has his own demons, and John, the only Rochester who is willing to tell her any of the family's secrets. He divulges too little too late, however, and Janie finds herself in grave danger, not knowing where to turn. The pacing here is terrific, but the details are somewhat clumsily handled, particularly when the need to hew close to Jane Eyre interferes with contemporary plausibility. The characters' emotional sails tack erratically according to the winds of the plot twists rather than through credibly developed psychologies; ironically, the most consistently believable character is the child ghost who tries to warn Janie off and then performs some rather unghostlike tricks to save her. Readers who are willing to forgive some procedural and emotional implausibility for an adrenaline buzz will enjoy this, though, as a thrilling climax allows all the loose ends and just deserts to snick into place in the end. Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Offensive Beneficence

ABSTRACT:Simple acts of kindness that are performed sincerely and with evident good will can also, paradoxically, be perceived as deeply insulting by the people we succeed in benefiting. When we are moved to help someone out of genuine concern for her, when we have no intention to humiliate or embarrass her and when we succeed at benefiting her, how can our generosity be disparaging or demeaning to her? Yet, when the tables are turned, we sometimes find ourselves brusquely refusing assistance from others or accepting it only grudgingly while trying to show that we do not need their charity. People with disabilities often find ourselves in situations of this sort, where we bristle at others who rush to open doors for us, for instance, while our kindhearted benefactors are surprised and hurt by the cold reception they receive for their efforts. My aim is to explain some of the ways in which well-intentioned and effective beneficence can be offensive, with special emphasis on cases in which someone provides assistance to a disabled person.

Complicated Legacies of Justice

After the Second World War, a process of what we now call transitional justice was initiated in The Netherlands to deal with crimes committed during the German occupation. ‘Extraordinary justice’ (bijzondere rechtspleging) as it was called, had criminal, administrative and disciplinary courts and tribunals with special jurisdiction over collaboration, treason and their consequences. It was based on the assumption that the good could be clearly separated from the bad, and aimed at ridding the country of all who had made the ‘wrong choice’. This right–wrong dichotomy persisted for many decades and is even present in public discourse in The Netherlands today. Concomitantly, it has been very difficult to publicly debate sensitive issues such as the permanent shunning of collaborators, the virtual destruction of Dutch Jewry, the cold reception of the few Jewish survivors and the bystander-role of the Dutch population during the deportations. This contribution asks how, in the socio-political context of the time, extraordinary justice coloured perceptions of events, allowing some to flourish and creating a great silence and social division around others. How did those perceptions change, and with them, the nature of public debate? With the benefit of hindsight, the legacy of extraordinary justice may help us understand more about the significance — and limits — of criminal law in processes of transition.

The evolution of behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy

The historical background of the development of behaviour therapy is described. It was based on the prevailing behaviourist psychology and constituted a fundamentally different approach to the causes and treatment of psychological disorders. It had a cold reception and the idea of treating the behaviour of neurotic and other patients was regarded as absurd. The opposition of the medical profession and psychoanalysts is explained. Parallel but different forms of behaviour therapy developed in the US and UK. The infusion of cognitive concepts and procedures generated a merger of behaviour therapy and cognitive therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). The strengths and limitations of the early and current approaches are evaluated.

Warm World, Cold Reception: Climate Change, National Security and Forced Migration

Warm World, Cold Reception: Climate Change, National Security and Forced Migration

The Representation of a Character and a Space in the Opium Narratives with a Gyeongseong Setting

The opium narratives with a Gyeongseong setting in 1930s represent an opium addict as a patient. The stigma of an opium addict represents their lives uniformly and resultingly. Let’s have a look at all sides of an opium addict, they were an intellectual, a rich person’s child, an employee, a gisaeng, a libertine, and so on. Once they were branded as opium addicts, their social existence were disappeared. They were converged as not individual beings but beings without a difference.BR They were perceived as time-limited beings and parasitic beings. They were regarded as dangerous characters and potential criminals. After they lost a living foundation, they wandered hospital and ended up homeless people. Significant numbers of opium addicts were not received care, and they did not dare to return to society by a rehabilitation. Finally, they got a cold reception and met miserable death.BR In 1930s, opium addicts in colony city Gyeongseong were marginal people who were expelled from the home, the family, and the society. They showed clearly the historical condition of colony city Gyeongseong. Opium addicts were the gloomy portraits of colony Gyeongseong in 1930s. The tragedy of colony city Gyeongseong which lost a historic view and were robbed a living foundation, were apparent in the life of opium addicts.BR Opium addicts were poisoned in opium dens and injection houses, and they were treated in public clinics and private clinics. But most opium addicts were not treated properly, and were in a state of total neglect. They rushed in Sajik park in Gyeongseong. An altar to the State deities was a holy ground of Joseon Dynasty, but by being developed under the cloak of modern city park, was desecrated a national identity. Sajik park showed clearly a coloniality of Gyeongseong. After all, the opium narratives with Gyeongseong Setting in 1930s offer of beginning which represent coloniality by a character and a space.

Unacknowledged and unwanted? ‘Environmental refugees’ in search of legal status

Environmental displacement is a global phenomenon affecting millions of people. Due to climate change and the corresponding sea-level rise, it is estimated that about eight million of indigenous people of Pacific Islands will be forced to settle elsewhere by 2050. This is one of many examples confirming the need to ascertain the legal status of environmental refugee in international law. The term ‘environmental refugee’ is controversially discussed and internationally not recognised. First, this article discusses the reasons for reluctance of international organisations to accept this term. Second, noting the cold reception of this term at the regional and state levels, a discussion on whether fears associated with this term are based on solid arguments becomes pertinent. Third, this article outlines the possibility of granting refugee status under international law, especially under human rights and environmental law. Fourth, academic discourses will be examined as they play a crucial role in the conceptual development of ‘environmental refugee’ and, to some academics, the existing refugee definition already encompasses ‘environmental refugees’. Taking into account the developments of the environmental and human rights regime, this article concludes that time is ripe for international law to provide refugee status to environmentally displaced people.

The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis

253 Plot forced the court into even greater strictness about access and security. The king showed his colors during this period through ceremony, for example by the warm or cold reception of addresses. This period also saw a planned withdrawal from unruly central London: the Oxford Parliament, renovations at Windsor, and the erection of the English Versailles at Winchester. The book relies on a wide range of primary sources, including guidebooks, household ordinances, establishments and accounts, diaries and letters, and palace art and architecture. The result provides a useful counterpoint to Brian Weiser’s account of access at the court of Charles II. Still, one might ask for more. Although Ms. Keay asserts in the Introduction that gesture symbolized human relationships, there is relatively little semiotic interpretation of the various ceremonies she describes. Nor does she address court entertainments, the royal patronage of the theater, or the king’s frequent alfresco appearances in St. James’s Park. Given the success of the Restoration and Coronation entries, one wonders why a monarch so concerned with image and fine-tuning his relations with his subjects did not go on more progresses or processions through London. While Ms. Keay quotes eyewitness accounts, there is too little on the audience’s pushback: how did Charles II’s subjects attempt to manipulate him through ceremony or their responses to it? Finally, there is only a brief discussion of the king’s loose morality and its effect on his image. The Charles II that emerges from this book is always certain, always in control, and always concerned with what his subjects would think. But that does not quite square with the monarch who chose indiscreet drinking companions or inflicted his mistress on his consort as a lady in waiting. Still, Ms. Keay has given us a magnificent book on Charles II’s ceremonial life. Robert Bucholz Loyola University, Chicago LEO HOLLIS. The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men who Made Modern London. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008. Pp. x ⫹ 390. £20. These days you have to look hard to find the tallest freestanding stone column in the world. The Monument, which once soared high above London’s skyline, is now rather hidden from view among the much taller skyscrapers of the modern city. Christopher Wren, who designed it, first planned for the column to be surmounted by a phoenix, an apt symbol with which to commemorate the devastating fire that destroyed much of the City in September 1666. However, concerned that the wings of the bird might act dangerously as a sail, such was the column’s exposure, he opted finally for a flaming urn, a solution that may have been suggested to him by Robert Hooke, with whom Wren worked closely on the project. In the last few years, the Monument has itself been revitalized, undergoing significant restoration , and it has a new ‘virtual’ prominence . From its top a camera takes panoramic images of the city, which are available, constantly updated, in real time on the Internet [http://www. themonument.info/views/]. It is the work of the video artist Chris MeighAndrews . We can imagine that Wren and Hooke, great technological innovators both, would have approved, for the Monument was designed by them to have a double purpose: to be a place 254 of experiment (its primary scientific purpose was to act as a zenith telescope ) as well as a memorial. Wren and Hooke were both significant figures in London’s rebuilding. Hooke, with apparently unflagging energy , worked as one of the City’s Surveyors , designing a number of buildings in addition, and Wren led a large number of projects, not least the rebuilding of the City’s churches. His most important building was of course St Paul’s, which became perhaps the more prominent symbol of the City’s renaissance after the Fire. Like the Monument, the Cathedral no longer dominates the cityscape as it did, although for the past 80 years a handful of long views of it have been protected in recognition of the building’s historical importance in the urban landscape and its wider national significance. In 1709, the poet James Wright recorded in Phoenix Paulina a rebuilt cathedral and...