Constant Theme Research Articles

Youssef RakhaBarra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam's The Mummy

BOOKS IN REVIEW offers something to every kind of reader, be it an artist looking into Botero’s women or a revolutionary looking to read about Che Guevara. The book’s minuscule size and easy-reading small verses tempt readers to finish it in one go. The Alphabets of Latin America adds to the body of universal poetries by globetrotting diplomats and is a worthy read for exploring Latin America and its connection with India. Subhas Yadav University of Hyderabad Youssef Rakha Barra and Zaman Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 122 pages. MORE THAN A book-length commentary on an Egyptian cinematic masterpiece, Barra and Zaman, part of the Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema series, is a meditation on identity that wrestles with modernity , colonialism, and cultural ownership. The author takes the film, and himself, apart in two hundred short paragraphs. Youssef Rakha, a well-known writer in both English and Arabic in his native Egypt, views Egyptian film director Shadi Abdel Salam’s classic The Mummy (also known as The Night of Counting the Years) through the twin lenses of the Arab Spring uprisings and Egypt’s modern history. His own personal struggles also flavor his viewing. The film is not a crowd-pleaser, but it was a darling of the film festival circuit when it was first released, and its cultural influence still looms large. It tells the true story of the discovery of a royal mummy cache in 1881 and the ensuing crisis for the protagonist, a member of the tomb-robbing clan who realizes that they are “trading in their own flesh.” Some of those mummies were the very same ones that were paraded through the streets of Cairo this spring, before being welcomed into their new abode at the brand-new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The director wanted to make films to eradicate what he saw as a “cultural and historical amnesia” in generations of Egyptians about their glorious ancient past. Of course, that will take a real investment in education, something neither the colonists nor their successors ever really bothered with. Egyptology has long been the provenance of westerners, and its history is intertwined with colonialism. This is touched on in the film, but Rakha takes it much further, exposing all kinds of hidden stories. He then posits the provocative idea that Egyptians should accept colonialism as part of their national heritage, that nationalism couldn’t have existed without the very thing it set itself up against. We should not ignore being demeaned, he says, but we also shouldn’t make it our focus, that we are much more than that. Rakha suggests that identity is like mercury : try to grasp it and it will poison you. Barra can be translated as “overseas,” “abroad,” “elsewhere.” Zaman means “in the past” or “long ago.” This is a reference to Egypt’s nostalgia for better times in the past, and things done better elsewhere, but it also lends a fantastical tinge to the title, as though it were the beginning of a fairy tale: “Long ago and far away . . . ,” as though the utopias glimpsed through space and time are unattainable for today’s modern Egyptians, and they shouldn’t even try. The film’s director was adamant that they were attainable, if only we could connect—the past with the present, the foreign with the local, the countryside with the city, the literate with the illiterate, the rich with the poor, the educated with the uneducated. Rakha does not necessarily agree, asserting that Abdel Salam indulged in wishful thinking. Some in 2011 believed in the fairy tale, imagining a better future and a better version of Egypt. The powers that be imposed a very different and painful reality. Arthur Balfour once used Egyptology to justify British rule in Egypt by saying , “We know [the civilization of Egypt] more intimately [than the Egyptians themselves ].” Egypt rightfully rejected that intimacy (well before the #MeToo era). Both Rakha and Abdel Salam seem to agree that Egypt has been “repeatedly reconstituted” like Osiris himself, and this constant theme of the revival of identity and of what it means to be “modern” is reason enough for optimism. Jehanne Moharram Norman...

Thematic selection and progression patterns in L2 theses abstracts from humanities and science

This paper discusses the internal logico-relations of the theses abstracts from humanities and science, written in English as a second language (ESL). A research abstract is an academic text designed to attract and get the readers to read the research study which it summarises; thus, the coherence of ideas presented in it presumably affects the possible evaluations from the readers. Previous studies have examined the Theme/Rheme constructs as important cohesive elements at the level of discourse, with less attention to the sentential analysis of the thematic selection and the progression patterns in second language (L2) theses abstracts. Therefore, this paper aims at investigating and comparing the thematic markedness and its progression patterns as sources of the cohesive information in L2 humanities and science theses abstracts. In this paper, 60 PhD theses abstracts from the Premier University, Nigeria, are analysed. Quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis are applied. The abstracts from humanities and sciences (30 abstracts each) were purposefully selected and syntactically analysed, in terms of the Systemic Functional Linguistics’ model of textual metafunction. The findings show that the theme unmarkedness, as well as the constant theme progression pattern, prevail in the two disciplines, although they feature varying frequencies.

An Analysis of Thematic Development Pattern in Thesis Abstracts by Undergraduate English Education Students of Universitas Bengkulu Academic Year 2019

This research is aimed to find the types and the mostly applied of thematic development pattern, also to describe students writing an abstract. The research was designed as a descriptive qualitative. The data of this research was abstract by undergraduate English education students of Universitas Bengkulu academic year 2019 with totally 20 abstracts. The data was collected by using documentation on studetns’ thesis in 2019 meanwhile 2 undergraduate English education student was taken as interviewed. The data was analyzed by using identification, coding, tabulation, interpretation, and conclusion. This thematic progression model using the Paltridge 2006 models will be chosen as a theoretical analytical framework. The data was analyzed by using identification, coding, tabulation, interpretation, and conclusion. The results showed that Simple Linear Progression (SLP), Constant Theme Progression (CTP), and Split Rheme Progression (SRP) were found in thesis abstract. Furthermore, the constant theme progression (CTP) was the mostly applied. The order of occurrence was as follows: constant theme (69.4%), simple linear theme (25%), and split rheme (5.6%). It is also found that the researchers are not able to study existing standard patterns, they just write based on what the guidance from their lecturer. On the other hand, they writing an abstract without following other guidance such as a book which is contain how to write a good abstract. It is concluded that the researcher is not independent in abstract writing. Moreover, this is because lecturers will decide and acceptable their abstracts.

Thematic progression and its reproduction in translation from English to Russian

 This article is dedicated to studying thematic progression as a text-forming and discourse-forming phenomenon. The notion of thematic progression is analyzed in terms of the functional sentence perspective theory, theory of actual division of the sentence, and discourse linguistics. Thematic progression contributes to the cohesive development of discourse, distribution of given and new information that needs to follow certain patterns. That is why the article also dwells on the thematic progression patterns and peculiar characteristics of their themeatic-rhematic organization. Basic thematic progression patterns are: simple linear thematic progression, thematic progression with a continuous (constant) theme, thematic progression with derived themes and thematic progression with a split rheme. They are considered to be universal, peculiar to many languages. That is why thematic progression patterns of English discourse units translated into Russian language often remain the same. Their high informativity, grammatical complexity, as well as differences in grammatical systems of English and Russian languages, necessity to adapt these units to the norms and rules of the Russian language can cause changes in thematic progression patterns of the translated units. The abovementioned facts can also lead to compression / decompression of information, changes of the word order in Russian translations.

Addressing Racial Injustice in Long-Term Care

Addressing Racial Injustice in Long-Term Care

Isomorfismo mimético no cinema brasileiro: o modelo norte-americano de governança e a frustração da indústria nacional

A ideia da industrialização do cinema no Brasil passou a ser pauta constante a partir da década de 1920, tanto de críticos, quanto de realizadores. As discussões acerca do que deveria ser feito e o que seria o cinema brasileiro por excelência sempre encontravam o modelo norte-americano como referência. A tentativa de seguir tal modelo, no entanto, não abriu espaço para a adoção de outras lógicas e estruturas de governança que existiam, mas não eram valorizadas pelo meio. A partir das teorias institucionais e das diferentes estruturas de governança das organizações, propõem-se examinar as tentativas de industrialização do cinema brasileiro entre os anos 1920 e 1960, identificando as práticas de legitimação do cinema nacional frente a um pensamento artístico do que seria qualidade e, sobretudo, de um modelo de produção institucionalmente mimetizado do modelo hollywoodiano clássico.

Theme-Rheme configuration in recount texts produced by Indonesian EFL students

The topic of this study is the textual meaning in recount texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year 2018/2019. This study is conducted since there are still limited research that is conducted in Indonesia which analyses the problems of thematic development because most of Indonesian researchers are only analyses the thematic structure and thematic development pattern. This study aimed to figure out the thematic structure, thematic development pattern, and the problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts. The text analysis of qualitative method was employed to enhance the results. The result of the thematic structures showed that the unmarked topical Theme was frequently used than the marked one in terms of topical Theme, the conjunctions became the mostly used element in textual Theme, and the modal adjuncts became the frequently used constituent in interpersonal Theme. In the case of thematic development patterns, the Theme re-iteration (constant Theme pattern) became the mostly used pattern since the function is to keep the text focused. It has been found that there were three problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts: (1) the problem of the brand-new Theme, (2) the problem of double Rheme, and (3) the problem of empty Rheme. The results of this study indicate that the students belong to beginner (inexperienced) writer.

Thematization in Native and Nonnative Medical Discourse: A Systemic Functional Approach

Thematization serves to focus the readers’ attention to the focal aspects of a text in order to deliver its intended interpretation. The cohesion of texts relies on the structure of messages. Consequently, the way in which messages are constructed as the text unfolds contributes to its cohesion. Since the probability of making mistakes in writing is higher in nonnative texts as their writers are not using their mother tongue, a comparison between medical articles written by native and nonnative writers is drawn in the present study to shed light on the similarities and differences among them. Due to the scientific nature of medical texts, writers might face difficulties in the interconnectedness of ideas within the text. Therefore, the medical field texts are inspected to check their correspondence with texts in other fields. The Hallidayan systemic-functional approach (SFL) was utilized to conduct the analysis. The results show that there is a consistency in the distribution of Theme types and Thematic progression patterns among native and nonnative writers. In addition, the findings that relate to the dominance of the topical Theme and the constant Theme pattern in medical texts are in alignment with the results of studies in other fields such as academia.

THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN THE STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

AbstractThis study was aimed at investigating the types of theme and the pattern of thematic progression in students’ recount texts. The research was a descriptive qualitative research. It was conducted at SMP Maria Goretti Kabanjahe in North Sumatera. The subjects of the study were 35 students at ninth grade. The data were collected using documentation technique. The procedures of the analysis were: separating a text into clauses, identifying and classifying the types of theme of every clauses, and identifying and classifying the pattern of thematic progression of the texts. There were 310 clauses found in the students’ writing. The findings showed that there are four types of theme in the students’ recount texts, namely: Unmarked Simple Theme (177/57%), Marked Simple Theme (6/2%), Unmarked Multiple Theme (97/31.4%), and Marked Multiple Theme (30/9.6%). In addition, the patterns of thematic progression found were Constant Theme Pattern (47/88%) and Simple Linear Pattern (5/12%). Keyword: Theme and Rheme, Thematic Progression, Recount Text

Social, Historical and Psychological Realism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things depicts realistic picture of the current issues of the typical Indian society. Arundhati Roy has tried her best to cover almost all the details of social and historical setting so that the readers may be able to acquaint with the pattern of living, daily routine, rites, customs, rituals and habits. The book explores how the small things affect people's behaviour and their lives. During that time in India, class was a major issue and still is in many parts of India. Inferiority complex is clearly visible in the interactions between Untouchables and Touchables in Ayemenem. The novel also shows that The Untouchables were considered polluted beings. Betrayal is also a constant theme in this story. Love, ideals, and confidence are all forsaken, consciously and unconsciously, innocently and maliciously, and these deceptions affect all of the characters deeply.

Enfoques objetivo y subjetivo del concepto de información

La búsqueda de un concepto adecuado de información ha sido una constante en los estudios teóricos llevados a cabo en el seno de la Documentación. El análisis de las propuestas realizadas permite distinguir dos grandes grupos: las que ven la información como algo fisico, objetivo, y las que la consideran como algo cognitivo, subjetivo. Se analizan algunos de los ejemplos más representativos de ambas tendencias, aunque haciendo un especial hincapié en las propuestas del segundo grupo, por considerarlas más relevantes.

Building Skills and Resources for Genomics, Epigenetics, and Bioinformatics Research for Africa: Report of the Joint 11th Conference of the African Society of Human Genetics and 12th H3Africa Consortium, 2018.

.The 11th Congress of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG) was held from September 16, 2018 to September 21, 2018, in conjunction with the 12th Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium meeting in Kigali, Rwanda. The event was organized by the AfSHG in partnership with the Rwanda Society of Human Genetics and the University of Rwanda. A 2-day workshop on the application of next-generation sequencing technologies for analyzing monogenic disease in African populations was organized as part of the conference (September 22, 2018−September 23, 2018, Kigali, Rwanda). The theme of the conference was “Building skills and resources for genomics, epigenetics and bioinformatics research for Africa.” The conference served as a platform to bring together members from country-specific Societies of Human Genetics, including Rwanda, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Mali, Senegal, and South Africa, and included 435 delegates from 38 countries, including 29 African countries that attended the conference. A major topic of discussion was how to bridge the gap between the emerging knowledge on genomics and Omics in African populations. The importance of understanding the role of genetic variation in disease causation and susceptibility among Africans was a constant theme during the meeting, as was the need to develop research infrastructure and resources to enhance healthcare systems, so that they are not left behind in the genomic revolution. It was concluded that there is a need to inspire more African scientists to train and work as investigators, clinicians, and genetic counselors in the field of human genetics in Africa. Local investments, and South–South and South–North collaboration were identified as the key drivers for the successful implementation of research and development on the continent.

Thematic progression and its reproduction in translation from English to Russian

 This article is dedicated to studying thematic progression as a text-forming and discourse-forming phenomenon. The notion of thematic progression is analyzed in terms of the functional sentence perspective theory, theory of actual division of the sentence, and discourse linguistics. Thematic progression contributes to the cohesive development of discourse, distribution of given and new information that needs to follow certain patterns. That is why the article also dwells on the thematic progression patterns and peculiar characteristics of their themeatic-rhematic organization. Basic thematic progression patterns are: simple linear thematic progression, thematic progression with a continuous (constant) theme, thematic progression with derived themes and thematic progression with a split rheme. They are considered to be universal, peculiar to many languages. That is why thematic progression patterns of English discourse units translated into Russian language often remain the same. Their high informativity, grammatical complexity, as well as differences in grammatical systems of English and Russian languages, necessity to adapt these units to the norms and rules of the Russian language can cause changes in thematic progression patterns of the translated units. The abovementioned facts can also lead to compression / decompression of information, changes of the word order in Russian translations.

Thematic Progression in Students’ Discussion Essays of Undergraduate English Education Program at Universitas Negeri Padang

The aim of this study was to find out how students organize their ideas by seeing the flow of information in the themes and rhemes of clauses in discussion essays. The subject of the study was the sixth semester students of English Department at Universitas Negeri Padang. The total number of sample was 16 students from education program. The sample of the study was collected by using stratified random sampling. The data were collected through students’ writing test of discussion essay. They were asked to write discussion essay at least 4 paragraph in 90 minutes. The result of this study showed that students organized their ideas in three ways of thematic progression, including Simple Linear Progression (SLP), Constant Theme Progression (CTP), and Derived Theme Progression (DTP). However, CTP pattern was predominantly used by students in their essays. Furthermore, it was found that the students’ ability in writing discussion essay seen from thematic progression was still low that they failed to provide development of information and logical arguments in their writing. They tend to organize ideas in different topics in a paragraph that they put new information in the theme position.

Shaping the Corporate Perimeter in a Changing Media Industry

ABSTRACT A constant theme in strategic media management literature is the transformational impact that digital media technologies and deregulation have had on shaping media firms’ corporate strategies. Whilst the role of corporate strategy is to encapsulate a firm’s long-term direction and scope of activities, it will also give a strong indication of how the firm will compete and be positioned in an industry. However, the transformative effects of a highly technological media environment have changed our traditional view of how the media industry is defined, and so developing a strategic recipe for competing in an ill-defined industry becomes more challenging. This paper examines a single media firm’s corporate strategy and perimeter and considers this in the context of a changing media industry. The paper takes a practice-led approach by undertaking a longitudinal analysis of a firm’s acquisition and divestment activities in order to understand its corporate perimeter and by implication the industry or industries where it competes. We argue that by exploring a media firm’s corporate strategy and perimeter over time, scholars will not only be able to better understand the dynamics of media practice and strategy, but also gain an insight into the changing nature of the media industry. The paper concludes that the 'five forces framework' on industry structure, profitability and attractiveness remains a relevant form of strategic analysis that can help media management researchers to conceptualize and understand the evolution of media firm corporate perimeter and the industries in which they compete.

War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion by Thomas R. Flagel

Reviewed by: War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion by Thomas R. Flagel Albert Dorsey Jr. War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion. By Thomas R. Flagel. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 170. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-60635-371-4.) Historian Thomas R. Flagel’s archival research for War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion began with his preparation for a lecture he gave at the sesquicentennial commemoration at the hallowed Gettysburg National Military Park. His cogent argument is that when Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate, returned to the places of “war memory, they almost invariably interpreted the site in personal rather than sectional or national terms” (p. xi). His work here is a departure from conventional scholarship, which argues that the Grand Reunion, the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, was motivated by national reconciliation of northern and southern sectionalism. Flagel places front and center the experiences of four veterans (Heman Allen of Vermont; William Fickas, a Union artillery gunner; Virginian Moses Waldron, a survivor of Pickett’s Charge; and North Carolinian H. H. Hodges, who joined the Confederate army after his regiment fought at Gettysburg) to demonstrate how the vast majority of participants came back to deal with their own physical and emotional trauma. There were over 55,000 official attendees at the reunion; thousands more came unofficially. Flagel smartly demonstrates that there were two reunions—one for the politicians and their nationalistic agendas and one for the veterans. Dignitaries made grandiose speeches praising martyrdom, death, sacrifice, and salvation for country. Gettysburg, Flagel suggests, was America’s Golgotha. The furtive juxtaposition of Christ’s sacrifice for the salvation of humankind against the gore and death of men, northern and southern alike, for the greater good and global domination of the American nation-state was a constant theme throughout the weeklong commemoration. While the average lifespan for a white man in the early twentieth century was just over fifty years, the average age of the Civil War veterans in attendance was seventy-two. The author shows that most veterans at the reunion were more concerned not with the burden of reconciliation but with living long enough to persevere through the ceremony. Aged and mostly feeble, many of those men had sustained battlefield injuries, including missing limbs. Many suffered emotional damage. Planning the historic event took years, and debate was sometimes contentious. Should former Confederates be allowed wear their uniforms or bear [End Page 199] the Confederate flag? Should the federal government pay their fare to and from the event? For the chosen few, state and local governments and veteran’s organizations, especially the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans, granted train fare and small stipends, respectively. There were few African American veterans at the Grand Reunion. Many former Confederates wore their uniforms and proudly flew their battle flags. Comparatively, few Yankees wore theirs. Many contemporary military officers and politicians were slated to attend, including former president William Howard Taft and President Woodrow Wilson, who gave a short and uninspiring speech on July 3 but then immediately left. The politicians and high-ranking military officers had ulterior motivations. Under the Great Tent, they gave impassioned speeches about sacrifice because they were concerned with nation-state building, writes the author. As they did, most of the veterans were traversing the old battleground, reliving their summer of 1863 experiences; “it was more a litany of small search parties” (p. 50). They looked for grave markers and surviving comrades; they were happy when they found them, disappointed when they did not. They asked questions of each other and told stories; sometimes they wept silently and other times uncontrollably. “One survivor was seen weeping next to a [grave] marker, saying to passersby, ‘he’s under there,’” writes Flagel (p. 48). The media, military, and moguls conflated the butchering of men, who were staunchly opposed to each other, with hallowed nationalism. Flagel’s important monograph provides a nuanced existential examination of what fifty years after the battle meant to the veterans in attendance: survival. Albert Dorsey Jr. University of California, Riverside Copyright © 2020 The Southern Historical Association

Influential Factors on Technology-Based Learning in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (SME): A Case-Analysis from 305 Studies

With new technology tools available for educators and students, effectively using these tools to improve teaching and learning has become a constant theme for research and practice in the field of education. In this study, case-analysis was conducted on 305 published studies (from 140 peerreviewed regional, national and international journals) that explored the effect of using technology on student learning in science, mathematics, and engineering (SME) at K-12 and university levels. Seven factors were summarized (Content Design, Technology Design, Integration Design, Interactive Learning, Motivation, New Trends in Content, and New Trends in Technology) and used to generate a logistic predictive model. The model suggests that five of the seven factors significantly predicting the probability of a technology-based SME learning experience to be successful. A technology integration model was tested with the case analysis. Static and dynamic instructional design models and new trends in e-learning are also discussed.

Synthesis, Transformation, and Utilization of Monodispersed Colloidal Spheres.

Colloidal particles with a spherical shape and diameters in the range of 0.01-1 μm have been a subject of extensive research, with applications in areas such as photonics, electronics, catalysis, drug delivery, and medicine. For most of these applications, it is of critical importance to achieve monodispersity for the size while expanding the diversity in terms of structure and composition. The uniformity in size allows one to establish rigorous correlations between this parameter and the physicochemical properties of the colloidal particles while ensuring experimental repeatability and measurement accuracy. On the other hand, the diversity in structure and composition offers additional handles for tailoring the properties. By switching from the conventional plain, solid structure to a core-shell, hollow, porous, or Janus structure, it offers immediate advantages and creates new opportunities, especially in the context of self-assembly, encapsulation, and controlled release. As for composition, monodispersed colloidal spheres were traditionally limited to amorphous materials such as polystyrene and silica. For metals and semiconducting materials, which are more valuable to applications in photonics, electronics, and catalysis, they tend to crystallize and thus grow anisotropically into nonspherical shapes, especially when their sizes pass 0.1 μm. Taken together, it is no wonder why chemical synthesis of monodispersed colloidal spheres has been a constant theme of research in areas such as colloidal science, materials chemistry, materials science, and soft matter. In this Account, we summarize our efforts over the past two decades in developing solution-phase methods for the facile synthesis of colloidal spheres that are uniform in size, together with a broad range of compositions (including metals and semiconductors) and structures (e.g., solid, core-shell, hollow, porous, and Janus, among others). We start with the synthesis of monodispersed colloidal spheres made of semiconductors, metals with low melting points, and precious metals. Through chemical reactions, these colloidal spheres can be transformed into core-shell or hollow structures with new compositions and properties. Next, we discuss the synthesis of colloidal spheres with a Janus structure while taking a pseudospherical shape. Specifically, metal-polymer hybrid particles composed of one metal nanoparticle partially embedded in the surface of a polymer sphere can be produced through precipitation polymerization in the presence of metal seed. With these Janus particles serving as templates, other types of Janus structures such as hollow spheres with a single hole in the surface can be obtained via site-selected deposition. Alternatively, such hollow spheres can be fabricated through a physical transformation process that involves swelling of polymer spheres, followed by freeze-drying. All these synthesis and transformation processes are solution-based, offering flexibility and potential for large-scale production. At the end, we highlight some of the applications enabled by these colloidal spheres, including fabrication of photonic devices, encapsulation, and controlled release for nanomedicine.

Thematic Progression in Online Algerian Newspaper Articles: Insights to Producing Coherent Texts

This paper presents an analysis of the preferred thematic progression patterns used in a sample of online English versions of Algerian news articles written by Algerian journalists and appearing originally in Arabic. The purpose is to detect the recurrent patterns in this media genre. Departing from the more clause-centered models for the analysis of thematic development, the present study uses a categorization of thematic progression patterns derived from McCabe’s (1999) and Daneš’s (1974) models as a framework for the analysis. The corpus of the study comprises 30 online English articles that appeared in two Algerian newspapers Echorouk and Ennahar. The analysis proceeded by a T-unit segmentation of the collected articles in terms of themes and rhemes. Subsequently, determining intersentential connections as to the reiteration, alteration, or splitting of these two central constituents followed. Ultimately, patterns of sequencing were defined in the entirety of texts in the corpus. The results point toward a more frequent use of Simple Linear Progression and Constant Theme Progression. Derived Theme and Split Theme patterns are rarely used, while Split Rheme Progression does not feature in the data. Significant rates of ruptured themes are also recorded. The paper concludes by deriving useful insights as to finding ways of upgrading the writing of more coherent newspaper articles based on careful consideration of thematic progression.

Theoretical considerations on the formation of cognitive skills in students of sports classes

If the psychology and neurophysiology sciences clearly define the cognitive domain, they characterize it in all its aspects, providing the logistic support and the operational intervention framework necessary for the improvement of many domains, while the problem of the cognitive domain is not equally evolved, leaving room for interpretations. The failure to solve these problems, in terms of requirements that meet the demands of all applicants, is not due to the lack of specialists’ concern, but to its objective and real difficulty created, on the one hand, by the cognitive genetic characteristics and the complex personality of the subject, and, on the other hand, the values and attitudes that are desired to be attained in relation to the objectives of the school cycle and the sports profile of the high school. Although the theories and the experimental studies project the contour of the subject on the cognitive field from different angles, they raise hypotheses, problems, they provide explanations and solutions, their implications on the learning efficiency and maximization of the psychic capacities of the individual remains a constant theme which is open to research, both from the anatomical- physiological point of view, as well as (or especially!) from the psycho-pedagogical and theoretical-practical points of view.