Common Story Research Articles

ІСТОРІОГРАФІЧНИЙ ДИСКУРС ПРО РОЛЬ АРХЕТИПІВ У СТАБІЛІЗАЦІЇ КОНФЛІКТНОГО РОЗВИТКУ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ УКРАЇНЦІВ В ІМПЕРСЬКУ ДОБУ

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern Ukrainian researches about place and role of archetypes of Ukrainian mentality in genesis of national and cultural revival and development of the Ukrainian identity in the second half of the 19th century. Archetypes are studied as the source structure of collective unconscious national ideas, which are presented as common ideas, feelings, and stories, characters that determine social, cultural and religious traditions of ethnos. It has been found out, that within the framework of modern Ukrainian studies, integration of archetypical methodology with a research of social, cultural and spiritual aspects of development of Ukrainian society is rather slight but it considerably contrasts with the exceptional cognitive value of analysis on the domestic historical processes and events in terms of archetypes and mentality. It is shown that modern historians and social scientists identify the structural archetype components of Ukrainian mentality as factors and basis of national movement and Ukrainian revival. Modern historian G. Kasyanov determines a time frame for these events: the end of the 18th – 90s of the 20th century. At the same time, scientists pay attention to the fact that state, political and ideological conditions when Ukrainian lands were under Romanov and Habsburg Empires also influenced a structure of Ukrainian archetype. This fact caused some changes in Ukrainian identity, appearance of so called Little-Russians identity and syndrome of double loyalty (Y. Kalakura and others). Scientists consider that Ukrainian national peculiarities (agriculture, individualism, tolerance, democracy, love of freedom, peaceful nature, instability and inconsistency, lack of collective will and national solidarity) influenced the dynamics and character of state creative processes in different ways. These national peculiarities were driving force of changes and, at the same time, had destructive influence on state creative processes in imperial age. Historians believe that such fundamental principles of Ukrainian identity as archetype of motherland (agro-based production, social and historical, spiritual and cultural aspects) were formed exactly in the 19th century. In that period, such triad of Ukrainian mentality as House-Field-Temple, archetype of collegiality of ethnos and others has also emerged. The author comes to the conclusion that research of archetypes of Ukrainian mentality enables to find out the ideological source of those spiritual, national and social and cultural values and senses which became the basis for national and cultural revival in imperial age. Moreover, archetypical verification of modern public policy for the purpose its correlation to national, spiritual and cultural identity of the Ukrainians is of great importance for the progress and efficiency of modern state creative processes.

All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey

Reviewed by: All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey Alaine Martaus Lackey, Lindsay All the Impossible Things. Roaring Brook, 2019 [384p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-250-20286-4 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-250-20285-7 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-7 After years in foster care, eleven-year-old Ruby “Red” Byrd is counting the days until her mother gets out of prison and puts their family back together. She just has to endure one more foster family, on a farm-turned-petting zoo full of rescued animals. Once there, though, Red unexpectedly makes friends, first with injured giant tortoise Tuck, then with ten-year-old neighbor Marvin. Soon she’s helping care for the animals, bonding with her foster parents, and catching glimpses of a stable life she’s never known. When her addict mother blows back into her life and tragedy strikes her foster family, though, the pieces of Red’s newfound peace are scattered to the wind, and she must find the strength to choose between the family she’s found and the family she thought she wanted. Lackey deftly draws readers into Red’s tumultuous emotional journey; with its strong narrative voice, interspersed with letters and journal entries in Red’s own words, the text resonates with a mixture of hope and hurt, strength and vulnerability. Meanwhile, Red’s connection with the wind, which whips up warm breezes or violent storms to match her emotional state, adds a touch of magical realism without becoming the focus of the story. The addition of Marvin’s loving Hawaiian family also provides a nod to diversity without being heavy-handed, as Red learns about food, language, and cultural traditions different from her own. Likely to please fans of Sloan’s Counting by 7s (BCCB, 9/13), this poignant tale is a worthy take on the common story of a broken girl finding love and belonging where she least expects it. Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Litter Inhibitory Effects on Soil Microbial Biomass, Activity, and Catabolic Diversity in Two Paired Stands of Robinia pseudoacacia L. and Pinus nigra Arn.

Research Highlights: Plant cover drives the activity of the microbial decomposer community and affects carbon (C) sequestration in the soil. Despite the relationship between microbial activity and C sequestration in the soil, potential inhibition of soil microbial activity by plant cover has received little attention to date. Background and Objectives: Differences in soil microbial activity between two paired stands on soil at a very early stage of formation and a common story until afforestation, can be traced back to the plant cover. We hypothesized that in a black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) stand the high-quality leaf litter of the tree, and that of the blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L.) understory had an inhibitory effect on soil microbial community resulting in lower mineralization of soil organic matter compared to the paired black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) stand. Materials and Methods: We estimated potential mineralization rates (MR), microbial (MB), and active fungal biomass (AFB) of newly-shed litter, forest floor, and mineral soil. We tested the effects of litters’ water extracts on soil MR, MB, AFB and its catabolic response profile (CRP). Results: Newly-shed litter of black locust had higher MR than that of blackberry and black pine; MR, MB, and AFB were higher in forest floor and in mineral soil under black pine than under black locust. Water extracts of black locust and blackberry litter had a negative effect on the amount, activity of microorganisms, and CRP. Conclusions: The results demonstrate the potential for black locust and blackberry litter to have a marked inhibitory effect on decomposer microorganisms that, in turn, reduce organic matter mineralization with possible consequences at the ecosystem level, by increasing C sequestration in mineral soil.

Exploring Fragmented Worlds: Hemingway and Hopper

In Edward Hopper’s disquietingly familiar realist paintings, isolated individuals experience the urban drama of everyday life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Paintings such as Sunday, Automat, Drug Store, Chop Suey, Nighthawks, and Summer Evening are populated by enigmatic and anonymous figures inhabiting equally anonymous locations. Despite Hopper’s preference for the visual medium to express the fragmented times of modernity, his paintings provide analogies to Hemingway’s unsentimental short stories of the 1920s. Underlying both Hopper’s paintings and Hemingway’s stories, however, is a common story of human disjointedness that is their artistic response to a modern fragmented society and culture. Hemingway’s short stories “Cat in the Rain,”“The Killers,”and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” among many others, depict an equally alienating landscape of isolation and loneliness, reflecting the uncertainties of the historical times. Finally, my article will examine the disrupted narrative subtexts in a series of visual works by Hopper and short stories by Hemingway. I argue that their broken narratives create an unvoiced paradox: there is an openness to interpretation, despite the structural and formal disruptions present in these two artistic media.

Seismic impact between adjacent torsionally coupled buildings

The problem of seismic impact between torsionally coupled multi story moment frame buildings is investigated in this paper. Five pairs of adjacent structures spaced at various separation distances are considered. The buildings are 4–10 stories in height. Although a common plan being symmetric with regard to lateral stiffness is considered, a mass eccentricity variable from zero to 30% of the plan dimension is assumed. By three-dimensional modeling of the nonlinear torsional buildings having common story elevations, the seismic pounding happen anywhere along the adjacent buildings edges. Effect of impact and torsional eccentricity are studied by comparison of nonlinear dynamic responses of buildings at different clear distances under 11 consistent earthquakes. The responses include pounding forces at stories, story drifts, story shears and plastic hinge rotations. It is shown that how pounding incidents increase for larger eccentricities and how pounding occurs even at the clear distances prescribed by seismic design codes. The combined effect of torsional eccentricity and pounding results in amplifying the nonlinear response of structure especially for the peripheral frames.

Introduction: Case Studies—Finance, Education, and Law

Introduction:Case Studies—Finance, Education, and Law William Deringer (bio) when does a con become a con? the papers in this section interrogate this often frustrating question by examining three institutional fields—finance, education, and law—in which matters of trust (and distrust) are particularly salient. The "con" in this question can be taken in at least two ways: as a description of a person (a con artist) or an enterprise (the confidence game). So too can the "when": it is both developmental—when in time does a scheme (or schemer) go from being legitimate, if perhaps a bit tricky or shady, to being an outright con (or con artist), and how does that occur?—and taxonomic—when conceptually does a specific venture cross the line from legitimacy to illegitimacy, legality to illegality? Diana Henriques's revelatory account of Bernie Madoff and his unprecedented Ponzi scheme offers a rich case for thinking through when a con becomes a con in a developmental sense. The question of when and why Madoff went from being a legitimately successful financier to the perpetrator of one of Wall Street's most horrific financial frauds remains the biggest mystery in the entire affair. "While we know a good bit now about how Madoff conducted his fraud," Henriques writes, "we unfortunately know less about why he did so" (750, this issue). As Henriques observes, there are effectively two standard narratives given to explain how con artists emerge. In the first story, the confidence man rolls in from out of town, unknown to the locals, [End Page 739] peddling a carefully wrought fraud, always already a fully fledged deceiver. This is the iconic image of a con artist as a "charismatic bon vivant" (755) that we might associate with the snake-oil salesmen of the nineteenth century or with Charles Ponzi himself, the Italian- born financial trickster who arrived in Boston in 1920 and gave his name to the scheme Madoff would perfect decades later. In this story, the con begins the minute the fraudster arrives in town, and there is nothing incremental or accidental about it. The question of how that individual came to be the deceptive person he or she is becomes essentially moot, because the con artist erases his or her own biographical past and fabricates an entirely new one. The second common story of how a con becomes a con is the story that such artists often tell about themselves, a "slippery slope" story of creeping transgression of the sort exemplified by Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley or Breaking Bad's Walter White. This is the story Madoff told Henriques, that "he 'got in a bind' and took some dubious 'temporary' steps to cope, then couldn't get out of the sinkhole opening underneath him" (750). In the first of these stories, the process by which the con becomes the con is sudden, timeless, volitional; in the second, it is gradual, historical, accidental. Henriques reveals that neither of these two standard accounts explains how Madoff became "Madoff." He never rolled in from out of town with a well-formed plan to defraud, but rather exacted his confidence scheme upon communities who had long known and trusted him. Rather than emerging from the proverbial shadows, Madoff worked in the open, generating credibility by doing business with highly visible Wall Street firms and surviving numerous SEC investigations. The confidence that his investors and counterparties placed in him was derived not from a flurry of fast talk and big promises but from a long record of fair dealing and soft-spoken success. (Part of the crooked brilliance of Madoff's scheme was that his funds promised strong and consistent financial returns, but never ones that were so high as to be implausible). But neither was his Ponzi scheme the product of a steady accumulation of minor manipulations and the gradual [End Page 740] erosions of moral scruples. As Henriques astutely points out, Madoff had exhibited a ruthless willingness to deceive since at least 1962, when he surreptitiously borrowed money to cover investors' losses when the market hit a momentary "air pocket." Madoff may not have always planned to execute the particular kind of Ponzi scheme he...

A COMMON CASE: A ‘DIALOGUE’ BETWEEN GONCHAROV AND SCRIBE

The article suggests that I. Goncharov’s A Common Story [Obyknovennaya istoriya] is founded on the principles typical of E. Scribe’s works. The hypothesis opens up a new way for interpretation of Goncharov’s novel. The comparative analysis is only logical due to the allusions found in A Common Story: both the title and the main character’s name remind the reader of the Russian adaptation of Scribe’s comedy A Common Case [Simple Histoire].Goncharov’s novel ends in an unexpected (at least, at first sight) development: in the Epilogue, the characters (the uncle and nephew Aduev) experience a complete personality change, with the sensitive youth becoming a cynic, and the calculating businessman of an uncle suddenly giving up his career for his ailing wife. On close examination, it is clear that the final transformation had been carefully prepared by the author – much like in Scribe’s comedies. An observant reader may notice that Goncharov’s characters are not who they seem: neither to people around them, nor to themselves. Their words contradicting their actions and intentions, the two heroes are finally unmasked in the Epilogue. The paper proceeds to state that Goncharov employs the comedic device of quiproquo to solve the philosophical problem of ‘know thyself’, and that his hiding of the clues to the novel’s true meaning is an example of narrative irony.

Narrative analysis of written accounts about living with epileptic or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

PurposeThis study is based on a narrative analysis of individuals’ written accounts of living with epilepsy (n = 29) or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (n = 20, PNES). Narrative analysis looks at both the content and structure of the personal account. We used a form of narrative analysis that allowed us to identify common story lines, otherwise known as narrative typologies, potentially characteristic of these patient groups. Different narrative typologies were described and compared between writers with the two conditions. MethodsAs part of a therapeutic writing intervention for individuals living with a seizure disorder, participants were asked to write for at least 20 min about their very deepest thoughts and feelings about their condition. ResultsFive narrative typologies emerged:1. ‘Losses from Illness’ – stories were dominated by events individuals could no longer do, authors appeared more disabled reporting greater frequency of seizures and lower health-related quality of life.2.‘Feeling Lost’ – participants appeared to be in search of something and expressed uncertainty.3.‘Tackling Adversity’ – individuals strove to not let their condition stop them from living their life.4.‘Overcoming Challenges’ – stories reflected that the condition must be battled and fought with.5.‘A Normal Life’ – individuals had demonstrated that they are managing to live with their condition. ConclusionsWhile the ‘Tackling Adversity’ typology was preferentially used by writers with epilepsy, the ‘Feeling Lost’ typology was chosen more commonly by those with PNES. People with epilepsy narrate their disorder differently from those with PNES, suggesting that they have different life and illness experiences.

„Maður er bara sinn eigin skapari“: Staðbundin starfstengd sjálfsmynd íslenskra ungmenna í hnattvæddum heimi

Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að kanna upplifun íslenskra ungmenna af mótun eigin náms- og starfsferils í hnattvæddum heimi í því skyni að öðlast innsýn í starfstengda sjálfsmynd þeirra. Frásagnarnálgun McAdams (2015) var beitt þegar tekin voru viðtöl við sex 22 ára ungmenni. Niðurstöður sýna að marg- og síbreytileiki vinnumarkaðar, minna starfsöryggi og hverfult efnahagsástand veldur þátttakendum óvissu og óöryggi sem flækir starfsferilsþróun þeirra. Heimssýn þeirra er hnattræn en staðbundin menning er þó ríkjandi í starfstengdri sjálfssögu þeirra. Sagan byggist á hefðbundnum gildum fjölskyldu og nærsamfélags sem birtast í frásögnum af eigin vinnusemi, stundvísi, samskiptahæfni og mikilvægi tengslanets. Niðurstöðunum er ætlað að auka skilning á starfstengdri sjálfsmynd ungs fólks og áskorunum við mótun náms- og starfsferils í hnattvæddum heimi.

The Ballad of Hicks Carmichael: Law, Music, and Popular Justice in Urban Appalachia

This article examines a rare folk ballad to revisit an 1888 Tennessee trial that newspapers referred to as the fastest in the country in which the death penalty was involved. If we look at this event using court records and newspapers, it tells a regrettably common story of a court under pressure from the populace skirting the protections of law. However, if we consider the trial as a performative endeavor, we can rightly consider other performative events, like folk songs, not as reflective of official events but as equivalents that help provide insight into the larger motives behind the court’s actions.

The Theocentric Perspective of Laudato Si’: A Critical Discussion

In this article, I focus on Pope Francis’s “green” encyclical, Laudato Si’. After outlining some of its characteristics, I single out the pope’s engagement with anthropocentrism for critical discussion. The pope criticizes anthropocentrism (the view that human beings alone have intrinsic value), seeing it as a root cause of ecological destruction. Instead, he proposes what I would call a theocentric conception of nature. I criticize this view. First, I suggest that the pope is insufficiently critical in adopting a theocentric approach to the common creation story. Secondly, I argue from both a biblical-theological and a philosophical perspective against the pope’s resistance to the anthropocentrism of Genesis 1:26. Thirdly, I argue that because the pope opts for non-anthropocentrism, the encyclical falls short of offering a constructive way forward in relation to functioning in a technocratic society. Through these comments, I seek to strengthen the powerful and important message of this encyclical.

Technological revolutions and the Three Great Slumps: A medium-run analysis

The Great Recession, the Great Depression, and the Japanese Slump of the 1990s were all preceded by periods of major technological innovation, which happened about 10 years before the start of the decline in economic activity. We estimate a model with noisy news. We find that beliefs about long-run income adjust to permanent shifts in productivity with an important delay. The estimation tells a common and simple story for the observed dynamics of productivity and consumption on a 20 to 25 year window. Our analysis highlights the advantages of a look at this data from the point of view of the medium run.

The hidden signs of transplant rejection

On TV medical dramas, a common suspenseful story line follows a person in need of an organ transplant waiting to find a donor. A happy ending ensues when the organ arrives, packed in ice and ready for surgical insertion. To be sure, organ transplants save lives. More than 33,000 organs were transplanted in the U.S. in 2016, the most recent year for which data are available, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. In the real world, though, after a transplant, a recipient’s immune system fights against the organ, recognizing it as foreign. As many as 15% of people receiving kidney transplants, for instance, experience acute rejection, meaning that the immune system sends in its troops and causes inflammation within the first year. For those patients, the story line isn’t tied up neatly. Rejection episodes like these are usually treatable and reversible. So “rejection” doesn’t necessarily mean the transplanted

The Ballad of Hicks Carmichael: Law, Music, and Popular Justice in Urban Appalachia

This article examines a rare folk ballad to revisit an 1888 Tennessee trial that newspapers referred to as the fastest in the country in which the death penalty was involved. If we look at this event using court records and newspapers, it tells a regrettably common story of a court under pressure from the populace skirting the protections of law. However, if we consider the trial as a performative endeavor, we can rightly consider other performative events, like folk songs, not as reflective of official events but as equivalents that help provide insight into the larger motives behind the court’s actions.

Narratives of participation among individuals with physical disabilities: A life-course analysis of athletes' experiences and development in parasport

ObjectivesEfforts to promote full participation in parasport are vital not only for the potential physical and psychosocial benefits, but also as a means of enacting social justice. Until recently, there has been little empirical consideration of the experiential aspects that make participation satisfying or meaningful throughout the life-course. The purpose of this study was to explore the meanings that athletes with physical disabilities attribute to their participation in parasport over time. MethodTwo-part life history interviews were conducted with 21 current or former athletes with a physical disability. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and subjected to a dialogical narrative analysis, which enabled an in-depth examination of the common stories told by athletes and the effects of these stories on their past, present, and future participation. ResultsFive distinct narrative types were identified, representing differential developmental trajectories and meanings of participation in parasport. Athletes drew on existing narratives of disability (i.e., restitution, quest) and sport involvement (i.e., performance, discovery, relational) to frame these narrative types. The core of each narrative type was formed by the specific meaning or value associated with parasport participation (e.g., sense of purpose, social acceptance). ConclusionThe resulting narratives offer a unique understanding of the developmental pathways of parasport athletes and what it means for these athletes to participate. The narratives are useful for informing strategies and programmes that optimize participation and enhance participation rates.

Embodied Austerity: Narratives of Early Austerity from a Homelessness and Resettlement Service

ABSTRACTThe impact of austerity and welfare reform on staff in the caring services is an emerging story yet to be fully told. This paper presents three narratives of early austerity drawn from 14 in-depth interviews with staff of a small homelessness and resettlement service in England from 2011 to 2014. Experiences are represented through narratives of ‘emerging realities’, ‘deletion’ and ‘changing relations’. The workers’ stories revealed that the extent of welfare reforms and funding cuts not only impacted on the provision of services, but also on personal and professional values held by homelessness and resettlement service staff. Ethics of care, as embodied ethical practice in emotional, identity and interactive work, formed the basis for relationships between staff and homeless people or those at risk of homelessness. The rapidly changed funding and policy context for homelessness and resettlement services destabilised workers’ self-concept as providers of relational care. A notion of ‘embodied austerity’ emerged from staff reflections on everyday experiences of austerity over time and contributes, perhaps, to a common story of workers’ experiences during a period of social welfare in hard times.

Exchanging narratives-A qualitative study of peer support among surgical lung cancer patients.

The aim of this study was to examine how hospitalised, surgical lung cancer patients experience talking to a former patient, and how the former patient experiences the role as supportive. During hospitalisation, patients often create a community in which they can engage with fellow patients. The exchange of experiences with others in a similar situation might increase opportunities for support and complement nursing care, but there is a need for more evidence and understanding on the topic. The methodological framework is based on the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur's text interpretation theory. Qualitative interviews were conducted with nine patients, including a peer informant, using a narrative structure. The analysis was conducted on three levels: (i) naïve reading, (ii) structural analysis and (iii) critical interpretation . Four themes were developed from the analysis of the interviews: Exchanging emotional thoughts is easier with a peer; Talking to a peer reduces loneliness; Being ambiguous about a relationship with fellow patients; and Being the main person in the conversation with a peer. Sharing stories about having similar symptoms and undergoing similar journeys predominated, and the key feature of the contact between patients was the commonality of their stories. Telling one's story to a former patient, and thereby creating a joint, common story, is the essence of this study. The support received in this process can be empowering because knowledge of the illness experience is shared and increased. This can help create new coping strategies. The contact with a former patient offered a way to confirm one's thoughts and to find a way out of the illness perspective, by seeing how the former patient had recovered. The nursing field faces challenges in the relational aspect of caring because of ever greater efficient and shortened hospital stays; therefore, the peer support concept is becoming increasingly relevant. Patient peers offer each other their own perspectives, and it is important to raise awareness of the value of this and incorporate it into patient stays in hospital.

Tongue-tie and breastfeeding: Identifying problems in the diagnostic and treatment journey

Background Tongue-tie is a common condition that often adversely affects breastfeeding. There is research that suggests that frenulotomy can improve breastfeeding but there is also evidence of lack of professional knowledge on tongue-tie. Methods This was a qualitative interview study with GPs, midwives, health visitors and nine mothers to explore facilitators and barriers to receiving a diagnosis of and treatment for tongue-tie. Findings Mothers told a common story of having to push for support, experiencing diagnostic and treatment delays and suffering ongoing distress, which threatened their ability to establish breastfeeding. Mothers also described feeling vulnerable in the neonatal period, and witnessing a variation in professional knowledge about tongue-tie. Conclusions Variable professional knowledge, conflicting advice, and a delayed diagnosis can lead to a difficult patient pathway. Assessment for tongue-tie should be considered when approaching infants with feeding difficulties. Frenulotomy should also be considered and services made available where findings suggest the cause is structural and breastfeeding support has not helped.

The nurse-patient relationship as a story of health enhancement in community care: A meta-ethnography.

To explore and improve our understanding of how nurse-patient relationships can enhance patients' health by synthesizing knowledge from published qualitative studies from both patients' and nurses' perspectives in community care. While primary research showing the health benefits of the nurse-patient relationship has been reported, this knowledge has not previously been synthesized. Meta-ethnography. A comprehensive search of five relevant databases, without year limitation, was completed. Inclusion criteria were: peer-reviewed studies exploring patient and/or nurse perspectives in community care settings, using a qualitative approach and published in English in any country. Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnographic approach. Ten primary studies published between 1997 - 2014 met the research objective and inclusion criteria and were appraised as high quality using CASP. Included studies reported similar findings and reciprocal translational analysis was possible. Six core themes were identified: entering the patient's world; trusting and telling; identifying different needs and uncovering change; patients becoming masters of their own health; patients experiencing health in illness; and nurses going the distance. The core themes were synthesized into a metaphor of "the nurse-patient relationship as a story of health enhancement", which illustrates the meaning of the "common story" they create together. The findings help us better understand how the nurse-patient relationship may enhance the patient's health, not only with regard to illness, physical condition and treatment but also physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. The nurse-patient relationship also has the potential to strengthen the patient's own resources towards maintaining health.

Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection by Edward Dallam Melillo

<i>Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection</i> by Edward Dallam Melillo