Expression Of Thoughts Research Articles

Representaciones sociales de sobrevivientes del conflicto armado sobre las medidas de reparación normativas en Colombia: el caso Barrancabermeja

Building peace is a challenge for a country like Colombia that has remained hopeless to achieve it for more than half a century. This requires the participation of all Colombians, especially those victims of serious violations, whose fundamental rights were affected as a consequence of the armed conflict. In order to intervene in this process, the State created the Law 1448 in 2011 to compensate the damages and restore territories. After six years it is important to know the perception and experience of the families affected by displacement and enforced disappearance about the individual and collective reparation contemplated in its articles. To achieve this objective a hermeneutical research took place between 2016 and 2018 with 60 participants from different organizations, associations and collectives from Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Interactive techniques were used -descriptive, historical-narrative, analytical and expressive- and allowed the expression of thoughts, feelings, experiences and appreciations about the Law 1448/2011. In this way the participants illustrated the social representation around the elements of the integral reparation that is supposed to be fulfilled by the Colombian State. The results show that the participants continue under the condition of victims and that they want dignity rather than an economic compensation. They demand the truth and answers to their emotional losses and a State that guarantee non-repetition of violations to the fundamental rights. Furthermore, the results indicate that the regulatory framework must be modified according to the needs demanded by the survivors in terms of rehabilitation and the effective enjoyment of human rights at the individual, collective, material, symbolic and moral level. Only in this way it facilitates the end of the internal armed conflict and the achievement of a stable and lasting peace.

Something to Talk About: Signal Processing in Speech and Audiology Research: Promising Investigations Explore New Opportunities in Human Communication [Special Reports

Speech, the expression of thoughts and feelings by articulating sounds, is an ability so taken for granted that few people bother to think about how complex and nuanced the process actually is. Yet, as more devices gain the ability to listen to and interpret what speakers are saying, speech and audiology technologies are attracting the interest of a growing number of academic researchers. Signal processing is now playing a critical role in making speech detection and recognition more accurate, flexible, and reliable for use in a wide range of research and everyday applications. Singing mice Vocalization plays a critical role in social communication across many species. Male mice, for example, generate ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in the presence of females. Both male and female mice “sing” during friendly social encounters.

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father and Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father and Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

Islamic Education Values in Tinasuka’s Customary on Wawonii Tribe of Konawe Islands

This study aims to know and understand the values of Islamic religious education in Tinasuka custom of Wawonii community in Konawe Islands District. This research uses qualitative descriptive research. Data was obtained in the form of opinions, views or another expression of thoughts through interviews, then analyzed by compiling data. To determine the validity of data obtained, this study used triangulation of sources and data. The results show that: “Tinasuka in Wawonii Tribe of Konawe Islands Regency has a close relationship with the values of Islamic education”. Tinasuka comes from wawonii language. It means dowry which way of fulfilment and its kind is different from another area, the dowry type is coconut tree, and the fulfilment depends on social strata of the woman. Historically, according to the Wawonii community, the philosophy of Tinasuka customary originated from the meaning of wawonii island and the facts about the source of the wawonii tribe’s life dominated by coconut trees compared to other types of agriculture. So the value of Islamic education in Tinasuka custom is to prioritize tolerance and humanism in the fulfilment of dowries, are required to work hard especially in planting coconut trees, and cooperation. After the end of the dominant system, the Tinasuka custom continues to grow and undergo some adjustments coupled with the reduced land to grow coconut trees, so that the Tinasuka in the form of coconut trees can be converted in money.

TINDAK KOMUNIKASI PEMBELAJARAN DI SEKOLAH DASAR

Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu mendeskripsikan bentuk tindak komunikasi pembelajaran di kelas dan pemaknaan siswa terhadap tindak komunikasi pembelajaran terhadap tindak komunikasi verbal, non-verbal, interpersonal, kelompok, dan publik. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan rancangan studi fenomenologi. Hasil penelitian yaitu ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan siswa terhadap komunikasi verbal yaitu mudah memahami materi dan berani bertanya. Ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan siswa terhadap komunikasi non verbal yaitu merasa takut saat guru berbicara dengan intonasi tinggi, namun siswa merasa senang dan merasa disayangi dengan sentuhan guru. Ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan siswa terhadap komunikasi interpersonal yaitu perasaan senang saat guru menanyakan kabar, keadaan diri, kesehatan, perayaan ulang tahun, dan perhatian saat mengalami bullying. Ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan siswa terhadap komunikasi kelompok yaitu perasaan senang ketika belajar kelompok, perasaan leluasa berdiskusi dan menanyakan tugas secara pribadi kepada guru dan disiplin saat pengelompokan siswa yang suka ramai di kelas untuk dinasehati guru. Ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan siswa terhadap komunikasi publik yaitu mudah memahami materi pelajaran dan perasaan senang ketika disisipkan humor dalam metode ceramah.

Honoring the Voice of Clementine Hunter: A Guide for Comprehensible and Relevant Lessons

BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN VOL. 81, NO. 1 | 23 81 No.1 HONORING THE VOICE OF CLEMENTINE HUNTER: A GUIDE FOR COMPREHENSIBLE AND RELEVANT LESSONS By David Campos When I first heard that this BHB issue was focused on counternarrative, I thought of honoring Clementine Hunter. It has been thirty years since her death (January 1, 1988), but her voice—to me, at least—lives on in her more than five thousand pieces of art scattered throughout the world. As I contemplated how to present Hunter to students, I thought about two aspects. First was the core of counternarrative, that notion of voice, otherwise known as the expression of thoughts, feelings, or point of view, and more importantly, how giving voice is allowing a person to express their ideas when they may not otherwise have such opportunities. Essentially, honoring a person’s voice is acknowledging that a person’s ideas and contributions matter because they offer different ways of thinking and knowing, which contributes to unique perspectives on life issues. Clementine Hunter painted her experiences from her memory (some would describe her as a storyteller by way of her art). Of course, historians can help us understand what life may have been like for the grandchildren of people who were enslaved on plantations, but Hunter’s voice (her paintings of life on a plantation as she lived it) offers an authentic perspective on what it was like to live and work in the post-slavery, pre–Civil Rights era. The second aspect I thought about was the idea of making lessons comprehensible and relevant to strengthen student engagement. In this article, my expectation is that readers will learn how they can honor Clementine Hunter (that is, present her voice to students) through a lesson that is comprehensible and relevant. In her book The Power of One: How You Can Help or Harm African American Students, author Gail L. Thompson underscores that African American students are eager for classroom teachers who make the curriculum comprehensible and interesting.1 She and many others espouse that when teachers pique students’ interest and engage them in meaningful lessons that are challenging, students are more likely to invest their attention in the matter at hand and learn. Alternatively, boredom sets in when lessons are comprised of lackluster lectures that require silence and restraint, which can engender disinterest and lead to minimal participation and uncooperative behaviors. In the latter case, hardly any learning occurs. “You are merely teaching to the walls!” Thompson adds, when teachers do not make an effort to design lessons that captivate students’ interests.2 To model how to make lessons comprehensible, let’s use Clementine Hunter as a topic, not only to attract and lure students, but to honor her voice through the medium of her artwork. Hunter was a modest artist who worked most of her life as a manual laborer on a Louisiana plantation before earning fame for painting. To a large degree, her work has served as a documentary on the life and times of plantation servants during the post-slavery, pre–Civil Rights era. Using the materials found in Exhibits 1, 2, and 3—which can be easily reproduced— students can read about Hunter’s contributions to history as teachers use critical thinking questions to guide them to make connections between her life and theirs. More importantly, with the theme of counternarrative in mind, teachers can underscore how giving voice to Clementine Hunter (i.e., exploring her paintings) is a different way of thinking about plantation life in the mid-twentieth century. Making Lessons Comprehensible One important quality of a lesson is that it has to be comprehensible. This means that the lesson and materials have to be clear and easily understood by the students. A comprehensible lesson can be achieved by using techniques that move beyond a lecture comprised of PowerPoint slides. Of course, some time should be devoted to direct teaching where teachers present vital information and define terms, demonstrate skills, explain concepts, use examples and non-examples, and so forth, but the lesson should not be entirely a teacher monologue. Instead, the teacher should create interest and arouse student curiosity by first telling a relevant story...

The Russian Language at the Turn of the Century: Semantic Capability and Development Prospects

The article considers the current state of the Russian language. Information technologies in the twenty first century present diverse forms of linguistic knowledge and modalities of knowledge quantisation in a linguistic sign. The Russian language develops from a standard, direct expression of thoughts to a nonstandard, psychologically complex, associative deep statement of thoughts. In the early nineteenth century, during the democratisation of the Russian language, a national genius, Alexander Pushkin, emerged. Thanks to him, the unique informational, cultural, and artistic evolution of the language took place. Nowadays, while democratisation and globalisation, processes which resemble the language evolution 200 years ago, are occurring. These processes suggest some patterns: overcoming stylistic disparity, changes in linguistic sign boundaries and semantic extension.

Metaphors in Vytautas Kavolis’s Sociology

This article deals with the question of what place do metaphors hold in Vytautas Kavolis’s sociology. By following Lithuanian researcher Algimantas Valantiejus, who first inquired into the question, it is asked whether Kavolis’s sociology is poetical entirely, or do the poetical means of expression play a limited role in it. It is argued that the last case is involved. Poetical images do not overly control the sociologist’s expression of thoughts and his construction and use of means of cognition in any of his field of research. It is stated that the only way to overcome the non-poetical features of Kavolis’s language and to declare his sociology poetical in nature is to presuppose that all scientific concepts are but developed metaphors and that they never lose relationships with their metaphoric origins. An acceptance of such a presupposition opens the possibility to look for poetical images behind any abstract concepts. It is stated that Valantiejus uses this possibility in poetizing the overall sociology of Kavolis. According to him, all non-poetic features of its language, as well as poetic ones, have their origins in the metaphor of painting. It is argued that Valantiejus’s choice of the fundamental metaphor of Kavolis’s sociology hasshortcomings. The image of painting cannot explain the whole scope of Kavolis’s sociological research and the variety of its theoretical presuppositions adequately. It is stated that these shortcomings can beeasily eliminated by expanding Valantiejus’s conception of painting and by including three additional poetical images into the list of the fundamental metaphors of Kavolis’s sociology – mechanism, drama and organism.

The Linguistic Behaviours of the Pupils of the Elementary Education and the Social Factors that Condition Them: Surveys of the Linguistic Behaviours of the Pupils of Elementary Education

Abstract The purpose of this study is to discover the way of speaking of pupils of elementary education, their linguistic behaviour, their speech, writing and speaking. The study aims to find the slinguistic factors that affect the pupils′ way of speaking, but also to find the other factors such as social factors which affect or limit the student’s speech. The participants in the study are the pupils of elementary school, particularly the pupils of fourth and fifth grades, to study their speech, the factors that affect it and if they speak according to the standard language. The study is conducted with the pupils of the fourth grade of “Dino Ismaili” school, because there is where we both work. We also conducted a conversation with the pupils to see their way of speaking and expression of thoughts. We also filled in some questionnaires in three schools of the city of Fier. The methods that we used are a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, we used surveys and questionnires. The data of the study revealed that the factors that affect the speech are: age, gender, ethnic group, social background, family and two social factors such as social economic group and the parent’s level of education. Other factors are book reading, TV and other children programs, conversation with peers and parents etc.

PENGARUH TERPAAN IKLAN PARTAI PERINDO DAN BERITA SEPUTAR PARTAI PERINDO DI TELEVISI TERHADAP PERSEPSI PEMILIH PEMULA MENGENAI PARTAI PERINDO

ABSTRACTIndonesia is a democratic and multiparty system or system that allows more than two political parties. It is guaranteed in Law No. 2 of 2008 on political parties where it is stated that freedom of association, assembly and expression of thoughts and opinions is a human right recognized and guaranteed by the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. With multiparty system and guarantees of the law, many emerging new political parties in Indonesia. One of them is Partai Persatuan Indonesia or abbreviated as Perindo. The party declared in 2015 is a party formed by Hary Tanoesoedibjo. As a new political party, Perindo Party must have support from the community. Some of the things that are done is to show the party ads and news about the party on television. According to data from the KPU, the largest number of voter-age voters is that the information in advertisements and news about Perindo Party on television is designed in such a way as to appeal to beginner voters. This study aims to determine how much influence the exposure of Perindo Party advertising and exposure of news about the Perindo Party on television to the perception of beginner voters regarding the Perindo Party. Theories used are the Advertising Exposure Theory, Informastion Exposure Theory, and the Uses and Gratification Theory. The population used is Diponegoro University FISIP students who have never participated in the election. While the sample taken is 60 people with purposive sampling method. Based on the analysis of regression analysis on Perx for Perindo Party Ads on Television (X1), Exposure of News Perindo Party on Television (X2), and Perception of Beginner Voters Regarding Perindo Party (Y), the result of regression coefficient value is 71,3% significance of Sig value. = 0.000 which means> significant criterion (0,05), Thus model of regression equation influence of variable X to variable Y is very high and significance between variables based on research data is very significant. Then it shows that there is a strong influence between Perpaan Iklan Perindo Party on Television (X1) and Terpaan Berita Seputar Perindo Party in Television (X2) to Perception of Beginner Voters Regarding Perindo Party (Y). The higher the exposure of Perindo Party advertisement on television and the exposure of Perindo Party news on television, the higher the perception of the beginner voters regarding Perindo Party. It is suggested that the advertising and information designs in the Perindo Party report be improved so that the results are better than now.Keywords: Ad Inclusion, Information, Perception, Beginner Voters, Perindo Party

Written accounts of living with epilepsy: A thematic analysis.

This study examines the subjective experience of living with epilepsy by thematically analyzing participants' written accounts of their condition. Writing is seen as an individual act allowing for private exploration, reflection and expression of thoughts and feelings. Participants (n=20) were recruited from a United Kingdom hospital and from membership-led organizations for individuals living with seizures. Participants were asked to produce four pieces of writing: 1) about their thoughts and feelings about their condition; 2) a letter to their condition; 3) a letter to their younger self; and 4) about a personal value. All writings were analyzed thematically using a theory- and data-driven approach. Five main-themes and 22 sub-themes emerged from the data. Theme 1: 'seizure onset' demonstrated that the development of seizures and subsequent diagnosis was an important event that could change an individuals' identity. Theme 2: 'seizure symptoms' revealed participants externalized their seizures as an intrusive agent with a constant presence in their lives. Theme 3: 'treatment and outcome' reflected medication as an essential means to controlling seizures with subsequent side effects being perceived as a compromise. Theme 4: 'living with epilepsy' explored the consequences of the condition including restrictions and stigma. Theme 5: 'displays of coping' demonstrated that, for the most part, participants were keen to present themselves as living well with epilepsy. The results add to the growing research applying qualitative methodologies to investigate the phenomenology of epilepsy. Qualitative research can improve our understanding and awareness of the condition, as well as inform clinical practice.

The “Vigilante Spirit”: Surveillance and Racial Violence in 1980s New York

This article details the "vigilante spirit", a term used by New York Governor Maria Cuomo to describe the seizure and execuation of state power by Bernhard Goetz in his attack on four black teenagers in December of 1984. It argues that the vigilante spirit is an expression of thoughts, feelings, and practices that produce threats and then assemble the tools it deems necessary to combat them. It further argues that the vigilante spirit, expressed by Goetz in his attack, was also encoded in various cultural texts produced in the 1980s and uses Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns as an example. By reading these two case studies together, it seeks to explain the cultural politics that underpinned racial violence in the 1980s.

A Short Report on Megaliths and Petroglyphs on Natural Rock Surfaces from Farkawn and Khankawn Villages, Champhai District, Mizoram, India

Megalithic tradition which is a worldwide phenomenon has been practiced by the Mizo society in the North-eastern part of India till recently. Expressions of thoughts and memories were incised on the megaliths. It is a significant feature through which the early history of the Mizo society can be reconstructed. This article tries to highlight the various megaliths found in the villages of Farkawn and Khankawn, their associated folklores and features. It also attempts to draw attention to the fact that besides building megaliths in memory of deceased people it was also a medium for expressing individual human experiences and emotions of the Mizo society.

Copyright and Copyright Protection

One of the legal intellectual property disciplines are copyrights which concerns artistic and literary works. Copyright is: bundle of exclusive legal rights that has to do with protection of literary and artistic works. It is granted to authors and artists to protect expressive works against unauthorized reproduction or distribution by third parties. Copyright protect “works”, expression of thoughts and ideas. Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works must be original, it means not to be a copy. Copyright covers two other types of right: economic rights, the right of the owner to benefit financial reward from use of his work by others and moral rights which always have to do with original holder no matter if economic rights are transferred or not. Economic rights can be transferred. Bern Convention for the Protection of the Literary and Artistic Works is international key agreement and the oldest multilateral agreement in the field of copyright. Copyright subsists automatically on the creation of a work, no application needed, nor do any formalities apply. Nature of copyright is territorial and the minimum term of protection is life of the author plus 50 years after his/her death. In European Union and in certain number of countries, terms of protections of are extended to life of the author plus 70 years after his/her death.

Copyright and Copyright Protection

One of the legal intellectual property disciplines are copyrights which concerns artistic and literary works. Copyright is: bundle of exclusive legal rights that has to do with protection of literary and artistic works. It is granted to authors and artists to protect expressive works against unauthorized reproduction or distribution by third parties. Copyright protect “works”, expression of thoughts and ideas. Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works must be original, it means not to be a copy. Copyright covers two other types of right: economic rights, the right of the owner to benefit financial reward from use of his work by others and moral rights which always have to do with original holder no matter if economic rights are transferred or not. Economic rights can be transferred. Bern Convention for the Protection of the Literary and Artistic Works is international key agreement and the oldest multilateral agreement in the field of copyright. Copyright subsists automatically on the creation of a work, no application needed, nor do any formalities apply. Nature of copyright is territorial and the minimum term of protection is life of the author plus 50 years after his/her death. In European Union and in certain number of countries, terms of protections of are extended to life of the author plus 70 years after his/her death.

Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Problems: A Move towards Solution

Writing connotes the declaration or expression of thoughts, feelings, plans and wishes in a composed form that demands skills and expertise as opposed to knowledge. Skillful writing calls for diligent work, perusing or reading, composing through reaching inferences from perusing materials and long period of practice. This study seeks to investigate the problems and identify the practical needs of writing skill in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context with special focus on Iranian citizens studying in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). In Iran, learning English language appears cumbersome for learners because it is handled as a foreign language. Hence, the leaners are confronted with plethora of problems in writing the language because it is not utilized in real life conversation or situation. In order to achieve its objectives, the study administered questionnaires to the respondents to elicit information on the difficulties confronting them while learning English as Foreign Language and their pragmatic needs.

Discursive psychology as a methodology to explore how multiculturalism affects use of learning technologies

Networked learning remains a new field and many methodological, theoretical and other perspectives are used to learn more about it. Moreover, there is encouragement for the field's interdisciplinary researchers to take alternative methodological approaches. This paper provides valuable insights into a methodological approach which is little used in networked learning research. It reports an exploratory study to establish the value of a discursive psychology lens to understand uses of technology by international learners, and specifically how the language students’ use conveys their practices. The study was prompted when I questioned how multiculturalism might affect an institution’s virtual presence and whether students from alternative cultures had varying online learning needs. Discursive psychology was selected as the methodological approach as it has the potential to show how the social world is enacted in a more insightful and sophisticated way than happens when qualitative data are accepted at face value. The study involved secondary analysis of an ESRC-funded dataset and this paper illustrates analysis of talk by four undergraduate learners from Africa and Asia. The paper shows how participants constructed their identities and gave meaning to their talk. It also exemplifies the dynamics of talk and the work undertaken via the expression of thoughts, and how these supplement the descriptive meaning of words. Aspects of what is emotional about participants' talk are highlighted, including their sense of struggle. A gap is found between students’ uses of technology for learning purposes and what would be required in a networked learning environment. There is also evidence of threshold moments within learners' positioning. It is clear that educational experiences could be enhanced by educators recognising that students' needs vary, evolving over time. An argument to place the learner at the centre and to design from learners' perspectives to be better able to lead them forward from where they are regarding use of technologies to where learning can take place is made. Given this paper's focus on talk from international students it is particularly relevant that those in global online learning contexts appreciate the extent of meaning suggested by this paper's findings. A lack of such awareness carries with it a risk of not sufficiently appreciating what learners are thinking and this gap will leave educators ill-prepared to provide optimal learner-centric support structures.

SYNONIMY: LANGUAGE REDUNDANCY, ENTROPY, GROWTH OF INFORMATION

The article is devoted to research of synonimy as one of the phenomenon which promotes to development of language system. Results of the research showed that synonyms are speech accessory firstly, and then become language accessory. It proves that speech entropy are preceded language entropy. The phenomenon of synonimy realizes the principle of language redundancy. It leads to entropy growth. This process temporarily disorganizes language system, and, as a result, it optimizes process of language transition from one condition to another. The new condition of language should be regarded as more successful and more satisfying requirements of each separate native speaker and society. In this regard synonyms promote to growth of information. They make native speakers’ speech more informative and promote more exact expression of thoughts. The synonimy as option of language optimization doesn’t assume aspiration of language to perfection, but to satisfaction of need of people for communication. As a result of overcoming of dissipative structures the language system is replenished with new information. Therefore, the increase of entropy increases informational content of language system.

3D Kanji: A new paradigm of 3D objects to exploit additional dimensions of human sense for enhancing expression

This paper presents “3D Kanji”, a new paradigm of 3D objects to enhance human expression by combining the heritage of existing characters and symbols with expressions in 3D space and objects. Expression of thoughts and ideas through 3D objects is a growing area of interest in the emerging era of 3D printing. For an average person, the difficulty lies in modeling and sculpting their ideas into tangible form. 3D Kanji is a new family of 3D objects that can be created and used as people type text today. In this paper, multidisciplinary approaches of applying 3D Kanji objects in various fields and applications are presented. A method to generate such objects is also defined and described. As a further step of development of expression, a method to express emotions using 3D Kanji is presented. An exploratory study to evaluate the feasibility of expressing emotions is presented and results are discussed.

PROBLEMS OF MODERN RUSSIAN TERMINOLOGY

The paper analyzes the state of modern Russian terminology. The rules of terms creation are declared. The scale of meanings and names of different people are compared. The historical and contemporary reasons for excessive borrowing of foreign words are analyzed. Examples of English-Russian abracadabra are brought. We consider the difference in the expression of thoughts in Russian and English languages. The problem of understanding the text is discussed. It indicates a greater role to the national language in the understanding of texts. Examples of the analysis of the concepts related to the themes of the magazine are considered. To improve the state of the national terminology are proposed to develop science-based terminology standards and software, evaluating scientific papers on the subject of redundancy of foreign words.