Humble Family Research Articles

Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578–1650. By John Maddicott

Maddicott ends this excellent biography of John Prideaux with some reasons why the subject has not been tackled before. But Maddicott also concludes, and indeed he makes evident throughout the work, that a biography of Prideaux was needed: Prideaux made a very substantial contribution to the intellectual life of his college (Exeter) through his 30 years as rector, and to the University of Oxford in the 27 years he acted as Regius Professor of Divinity and during the five terms he served as vice-chancellor. Maddicott’s account of Prideaux’s career shows that he was an able college administrator, increasing student numbers as well as raising funds and implementing large-scale building projects. He was a committed tutor, and he continued to oversee the education of undergraduates (particularly the nobly born) even when he held senior positions. He exerted an influence, often now invisible to us, on a number of the English clergy and ruling class. Through his act lectures and orations (delivered from 1616 until the 1630s and later printed), Prideaux was in a position to pronounce on what he saw as the orthodox divinity of the English church to one of the most important audiences for such a subject. He welcomed scholars from across Protestant Europe to Exeter College, and he gained an international reputation for learning. (The most complete printed edition of his works was published in 1672 in Zurich [p. 387].) Maddicott’s is a thorough and clear-eyed account of Prideaux, who was a commendable person in ordinary ways too, even if he was not without faults: from a humble family, he was lucky to find patronage that sent him to Oxford, but once there his hard work, tenacity, and ambition won him the fellowship on which his later career rested. Although as regius professor he could be an intemperate debating-opponent, this was mostly evident in the years when the ascendancy of Laud made Prideaux feel embattled.

Documente privind activitatea cultural-ştiinţifică a profesorului Ilie Constantinescu, colaborator al revistei „Arhivele Olteniei”

Born in a humble family of peasants from Diosti village, Country Romanaţi (today Country Dolj), Ilie Constantinescu, romanian language and history professor at Ioniţă Asan High School from Caracal, between years 1906 and 1938 , was one of the biggest collector of ethnographical and archaeological material, historical documents and coins of our country. He also activated in scientifical field, being contributor of Arhivele Olteniei review at the beginnings of this publication, during the years 1923-1924, writting papers about the history of his birthplace Dioşti and about the cultural movement in Caracal from year 1923. In this paper, we will present several documents from years 1908-1933, stored in the documentary collection of Ioniţă Asan Lyceum from National Archives – Country Service Olt, which reflect the constant preoccupation of professor Ilie Constantinescu with gathering up important archeological and historical materials: old church icons and clothes, coins from roman perioade, a roman sarcophagus-covering from stone. Also, we are presenting documents concerning the foundation and the activity of the cultural and scientific society of Ioniţă Asan High School’s students called “Olteanul Voinic”, society founded in year 1913, due to professor Ilie Constantinescu’s labours.

寒微한 士族의 노년기 생활상에 대한 일고찰

In this study, later lives of ‘poor and humble scholars’, their emotions and their responses to reality are examined with the example of Mumyeongja Yun Ki. Yun Ki suffered from diseases including malaria due to senescence during his later life and to make matters worse, he had to endure severe pain from hearing impairment. The bridle of senescence and being from a poor and humble family was a stumbling block for him from the beginning of becoming a public official. He could not get the Cheong'yo-jik(淸要職) post and he was pained by the hard working as a lowest public official. Consequently, he was discontented. The poverty that molested his ancestors was not alleviated even after he became a public official. He expressed his emotions such as frustration, regret, resentment, grievance, self-deprecation, and moan about his later life in his poems in a straightforward way. He preserved his identity as he led a life filled with grumbles in an unjust world. Until the end of his life, he was destitute, which was also the result of his integrity and honesty. Yun Ki had the sense of identity that he was from the scholar family and strived to overcome the reality of being a poor and humble scholar. His integrity worked as an obstacle for his social relations. He had his principle and beliefs, which were not compatible with the world. However, he did not change his values and identity to gain worldly benefits. He was sensitive to calamity of slander, he continuously took precaution against his desire to speak out and its consequence of calamity of slander since his 50s. Furthermore, he declared to keep silence on matters after the long and careful consideration. It was the great decision to reveal his self-esteem and to preserve his family. The desire to reveal his identity was satisfied by his critical writing. His critical writing became the alternative to keeping silence, through which he faced the bitter reality and planned for the future. Yun Ki, expressed anguish, conflicts in his inner world, remorse, guilty conscience, anger and rebuke a lot but he assessed his life in a positive way. That is because he had self-respect that he did not meet the world halfway but preserved his integrity and identity.

Cuba at the Table: Waiting for Change Again

Cuba at the Table Waiting for Change Again by Norge Espinosa Mendoza YOU HAVE TO WALK TOWARD THE Callejón del Chorro, alongside the Cathedral of San Cristóbal in Old Havana, to get to Doña Eutimia. The private restaurant or paladar—one of the most well known in the capital, and one of the few that has managed to make its way onto the most in-demand tourist sites—awaits its guests next door to the Taller Experimental de Gráfica. It’s small, and yet the clientele is aware of the privilege it confers. It’s recommended, of course, to book in advance, because there’s always someone waiting to take the first available chair, if there is one, at one of its few tables. Doña Eutimia represents more than twenty-three years of work, prestige, and, of course, authentic comida criolla (Cuban cuisine). The secret of their success: black beans, ropa vieja (shredded beef in tomato sauce), the favorite of my friend and translator George Henson, as well as other traditional dishes. Decorated with screens, lamps, and works by national artists, this cozy restaurant is more than what’s on the menu; it’s the experience that has managed to preserve its charm. Named for a señora who once cooked for the painters and artists who worked in the adjacent engraving workshop, the reallife Eutimia won the affection and praise of creators of all types, and today her memory lives on in the restaurant that bears her name. On one occasion, I took a rather haughty and formal academic friend to a lunch, together with a group of American professors, and it amused me to see that such a professorial man waited as the others served themselves the thick black beans, only to repeat the Cuban custom, so typical of humble families, of cleaning the serving bowl with scraps of bread, to enjoy the delicacy to the fullest. Good food has that power: it frees us from certain atavisms and airs to return us to the mere pleasure of unabashed pleasure. To keep a paladar open—especially one celebrated for its famous menu and with ingredients in high demand—is a true feat in today’s Cuba. The unavailability of supplies, the internal failures of the national economy and its mechanisms, the weight of the US embargo imposed on the island, and the reduction of points of entry for seasonings and other products—for reasons that Covid19 has only aggravated—have compounded and belie the boom image that trade, small businesses, and cuentapropistas (entrepreneurs ) enjoyed not long ago. During the brief bridge of exchange that the Obama administration built between 2014 and 2016, hopes multiplied. Then, everything changed dramatically . And the negative impact has even reached the table of such famous restaurants (and away from the pockets of “ordinary” Cubans) as La Guarida, where essential ingredients for their select and exclusive menu have vanished. Beginning January 1, the Cuban government launched the Tarea Ordenamiento (restructuring of the country’s economy), which includes the withdrawal of the CUC— the convertible peso that tourists exchanged for dollars—and a revaluation of the Cuban peso. It’s a delicate context, amid numerous shortages, of a dissatisfaction that manifests in long lines, a meteoric rise in prices, the end of subsidies, and the changes that Cubans are demanding on social media from the government beyond mere sloganeering, despite the consequences that such actions exact. In 2021 the island’s resistance and hope will be put to the test once again. Hopefully , in a not-so-distant future, we’ll be able to talk about all of this, sitting at a table at Doña Eutimia, waiting for the black beans to arrive. Because one doesn’t live by faith alone. Poet, playwright, and cultural critic Norge Espinosa Mendoza (b. 1971, Santa Clara) is widely considered one of Cuba’s most important LGBTQ activists. His plays have premiered in Cuba, Puerto Rico, France, and the United States. George Henson’s translations include Elena Poniatowska’s The Heart of the Artichoke, Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory, and, most recently, Alberto Chimal’s novella The Most Fragile Objects. He teaches...

Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Paul B. Moyer

Reviewed by: Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Paul B. Moyer Molly J. Farrell New England, witchcraft, occult crime, witch trials, witch panic, Hartford witch hunt, gender and witchcraft, devil paul b. moyer. Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Pp. xvi + 276. What if we attempted to understand the nature and contexts of witchcraft accusations in colonial New England outside of Salem? Paul B. Moyer's Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World places what the book defines more broadly as "occult crime" in a transatlantic context and focuses exclusively on the period before 1670. Stopping twenty-two years prior to the infamously exceptional witchcraft crisis in Essex county, Detestable and Wicked Arts looks across to England, and occasionally Bermuda, rather than forward to Salem for comparison and context. As a result, the book offers a detailed accounting of the first half century of reported incidents of witchcraft across colonial New England, proceeding methodically to present an overview of who the witches and their accusers were, of what precisely they were accused, and how the law [End Page 252] handled these reports. The book's frequent deployment of statistics—often putting demographic details about the accused in New England next to their contemporaries in England—is particularly helpful in making the book a resource for anyone interested in witchcraft in this distinctive time and place. Most of the time, as the book freely admits, the charts show that New England was not, in fact, all that distinctive but expressed many of the same fears and beliefs in many of the same ways as metropolitan communities. Occasionally, this transatlantic framework yields insights about, for example, the sources on which the New England Puritans were relying to understand and prosecute witchcraft. The book explains "the paucity of testimony concerning witch flight," for example, by the "more conservative stance" of the Protestant sources on the subject that New Englanders "imbibed" relative to continental sources. Similarly noteworthy, Moyer shows that husband and wife pairs were far more likely to be accused together in New England than anywhere else around the Atlantic and that, curiously, the "relative lack of children" of these married pairs of accused "[stands] out." Also, in this pre-Salem period, when compared with England and other colonies "New Englanders did not generally suspect the young as witches . . . or imagine the existence of witch families." Throughout, the book's discussions are accompanied by seventeenth-and eighteenth-century woodcut illustrations taken from English and continental sources on witchcraft, vivifying the ways that these figures and their malefic acts may have manifested in popular conceptions at the time. By compiling a comprehensive array of sources, data, and images from across these five decades, Detestable and Wicked Arts offers, like Moyer's previous books, a broad and multilayered portrait of the beliefs and practices of everyday settler colonists, shifting focus almost entirely away from colonial leaders, judges, printers, ministers, or other policymakers. Readers of a wide array of backgrounds who want to know who a New England witch was likely to be in the eyes of their peers or what they might be accused of—infesting their neighbor's cheese with maggots more often than flying by night to a large Satanic meeting, for example—will be provoked, intrigued, and entertained thanks to the book's uncomplicated prose and hospitable structure. The final two chapters are the strongest, and likely the most useful to those interested in witch-hunting across a wide array of time periods and locations. The book's sixth chapter, "Very Awful and Amazing," focuses in depth on how the Hartford witch hunt of 1662–1663, the largest in New England prior to Salem, spun out from the sudden sickening and death of a child from a humble family to ensnare many victims across the community, [End Page 253] ultimately resulting in fourteen accusations and four executions. The transatlantic focus is particularly helpful here in placing this hunt in the context of others in East Anglia and Bermuda and pointing out the...

Walter White/Heisenberg: construção da personagem em Breaking Bad.

The present work seeks to analyze the construction of Walter White / Heisenberg in Breaking Bad (2008-2013) created by Vince Gilligan. The premise is that the character presented in the first episode transforms radically and in a unique way, losing its original characteristics.Unlike other contemporary series, in which a character evolves, matures or adds new attributes to his composition, it can be said that Walter White, an honest and humble family father and chemistry’s teacher, becomes a Heisenberg, a producer of methamphetamine and international trafficker. His values and goals are being changed so significantly that the codename used by him to difficult for the police his recognition, ends up naming a kind of new character.This transformation is one of the main narrative arcs of the series, which confers a rare feature to Breaking Bad. The majority of audiovisual works end up creating protagonists with great emotional complexity, but with fixed and immutable constructive characteristics. This option allows turning points, false leads and other strategies, precisely by rescuing the character’s original attributes.The elements to be analyzed are:• The presentation of the character in the first episodes - its role in attribution to fixation of original attributes;• Physical attributes and their evolution;• Emotional attributes, personality and values and their evolution;• Actions that determine the character’s construction.Still, other series will be cited to demonstrate the difference between Walter White / Heisenberg and other protagonists.

The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation

The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation

The Short & Curly Guide to Life, by Matt Beard and Kyla Slaven

I am the full-time father of two very curious boys aged 7 and 8 for whom I do the daily school run commute and drop off, before I do my other job of teaching high school philosophy. It is a constant challenge to keep my car companions occupied every day, so I’m indebted to the ‘ABC Short and Curly’ podcast. My boys are big fans of the show, and our daily car journeys have been enlivened with often heated discussions about who we would save in a fire, or should we rob the rich to help the poor? Such questions have transformed my humble family car into a mobile ‘Philosophy in Schools’(P4C) classroom for our morning commute. The podcast provides the stimulus, while I facilitate the discussion as I navigate rush-hour traffic—it is a great way to prepare me for my school day. As a result, I was excited to receive a copy of the accompanying series book The Short and Curly guide to life. The book is written by the Short and Curly’s resident Philosopher and Ethicist Dr Matt Beard and Kyla Slaven. The book approaches ethical issues in the style of a collection of ‘field research reports’ that are completed by characters from the ‘Brains Trust’ who take on the role of research agents. Twelve ethical issues are investigated at length, with a chapter being allocated to each—examples being lying, happiness, fairness, promises, friendship, bravery and integrity.

A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology

Peter R. Schmidt has had a multidimensional career whose five decades of engagement with the archaeology of Africa has left enduring legacies. In this conversation, the reader is invited into the world of Peter Schmidt, from his humble family background to his formative years as a young adult finding his way to Africa and archaeology. His path to the field of African archaeology was unconventional, but it led to his groundbreaking research into iron technology that set a new standard for the ethnoarchaeology of social and technological life. Likewise, his unalloyed commitment to marrying oral traditions with archaeology has expanded intellectual horizons in African archaeology. He has also been a staunch advocate for postcolonial perspectives, decolonization of archaeological practice, and community engagements that privilege local knowledge and African ontologies. His capacity-building efforts in the USA and Africa, especially at Brown University, University of Florida, University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Asmara, and Makerere University, speak to his vision to improve the human condition. This conversation explores what can be learned from Schmidt’s experience and labor as an Africa-centered scholar, archaeologist, and institution builder.

History of Aristocratic Families in Tang China, Part 1: The Struggle to Adapt

In Tang China, aristocratic families went to great lengths in order to preserve prestige and prosperity in spite of challenges and restrictions imposed upon them. This article attempts to study the ways in which this privileged class incessantly responded to the dynasty's political and social changes, demonstrated through two outstanding endeavors: adjusting traditional burial practices and conceding to assuming roles in the bureaucracy. By comparison, this article also studies ways in which humble families acted in these two aspects. The prevailing pattern of migration, namely, the “center-orientedness” (qianxi zhongyanghua 遷徙中央化), was not unique to aristocratic families; humble families were also eager to catch up with the trend. This article argues that while gradually losing physical connection and sentimental affinity for one's native place, a substantial number of aristocratic families originating in North China had actually lived in the South before ultimately serving in the bureaucracy; this historical inclination manifested itself in a deviation between families' burial locations and living areas. The choice of burial sites not only embodied the popularity of a “center-oriented” migration pattern, but also strengthened the trend of relinquishing one's sentimental attachment to the native place. This article also discusses the interactions between aristocratic families and upstarts; aristocratic families' differing approaches signified how they assessed their own situations, and in what ways connections with upstarts could aid in perpetuating their societal privilege and prestige.

How Humble Families Produce “Successful Descendants”—Class Advancement from the Perspective of Cultural Capital

When disadvantaged families seek to achieve upward social mobility, their most important breakthrough point is for their children to receive an education, and cultural capital is the most likely driving factor influencing educational attainment. In China, although the privileged classes have an advantage in terms of cultural capital, exhibiting a phenomenon of cultural reproduction, premium cultural capital does not display clear class divisions or exclusiveness, and students from disadvantaged families can compensate for their family’s lack of cultural capital through important figures or other avenues. More importantly, the circumstances of disadvantage engender cultural capital characterized by disadvantage, greatly promoting the academic success of students from disadvantaged families. For “successful descendants” to emerge from humble families, impoverished families must not only actively compensate for their family’s lack of cultural capital, but must also strive to produce the cultural capital particular to disadvantaged families; at the same time, the state and society must also provide multifaceted support.

Sex, Desire and Subjectivity in Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes

‘Desire’ is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. The same thought is expressed by emotions such as ‘craving.’ When a person desires something or someone, his sense of longing is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person. He wants to take actions to obtain his or her goal. ‘Subjectivity’ on the other hand is a philosophical concept related to consciousness, personhood, reality and truth. It applies to an individual who possesses conscious experiences, such as perspective, feelings, beliefs and desires. This study is aimed to present sex, desire, and subjectivity of the protagonist Maria in Paulo Coelho’s novel Eleven Minutes. Maria is born in a humble family in a small village of Brazil and dreams of an adventurous life but ends up as a prostitute. It is only after meeting with Ralf Hart, a painter that she understands the meaning of love, beauty, sex and life. She falls in love with him and realizes that he is the person who sees her inner light and wants not her body but her company.

Tales of Yusuf Tadrus by Adel Esmat

Books in Review Adel Esmat Tales of Yusuf Tadrus Trans. Mandy McClure. Cairo. American University in Cairo Press. 2018. 216 pages. It’s no accident that the epigraph to this novel is from Nikos Kazantzakis’s Report to Greco: “I said to the almond tree, ‘Speak to me of God.’” Kazantzakis’s book is a spiritual autobiography, which is short on facts but focuses on ideas, referring to the spiritual teachings of Christ and Buddha, Lenin and Odysseus. Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is a bildungsroman, although the artistnarrator , Yusuf Tadrus, reveals the secrets of his entire life, not just as a young man. Like Stephen Dedalus in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Tadrus resembles Odysseus on a journey of profound self-discovery. However , Adel Esmat uses Christian mythology, not Greek allusions, to tell Yusuf Tadrus’s story, a Coptic man from a humble family, living in the provincial town of Tanta as a child in the 1960s. Yusuf is a bit of a vagabond and a rogue, and we have the feeling that everything he tells us might not be strictly true. He exaggerates to give the tale flavor. Esmat draws on the Egyptian tradition of oral storytelling . Rather than plot, the driving force of his novel is Yusuf’s voice, which makes the narrative compelling: “Listen, the human being is a web of threads. I often reflect on my life. I arrived bound to a boy drowned in the Nile years before my birth; to a father who felt inferior to those who read and write, took pride in himself, and locked up his feelings in his heart; to a mother who wanted to dedicate herself to the Lord. All of these unseen threads came together to form your brother Yusuf Tadrus.” Each chapter is a thematic vignette, which begins with his brush with death at seven years old. Mandy McClure has rendered the strength of this novel into fluid, idiomatic English, as if someone were telling a story in a café. Yusuf’s strange dream, poetic yet immediate, draws the reader in. From an early age, Yusuf has an attraction to light, color, and a passion for art. Much of the novel revolves around universal questions: What is the authentic life? Who am I? While he dreams of studying art in Paris, Yusuf settles for an art school in Alexandria, which awakens his thirst for learning. Reyna Grande A Dream Called Home New York. Atria Books. 2018. 336 pages. REYNA GRANDE shares her experiences as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who, at age nine, accompanied by young siblings and a coyote, succeeded on her third attempt to cross the border near Tijuana. Her life story is a fascinating one, not only because of her willingness to be absolutely frank about her feelings and perceptions but for the impact the immigration experience has had on generations of families and the family structure. When Grande was barely a year old, her father crossed the border to “El Otro Lado” (The other side) to find a way to earn money to send back to his family in desperately impoverished Iguala, Guerrero . Later, when Grande was five, her mother also left to join her husband in California. Feeling abandoned in Iguala, Reyna was left in the care of relatives who were often cruel. When she was nine, her father was able to send money for the passage to “El Otro Lado.” A Dream Called Home is a chronicle of public milestones and private sorrows. Grande’s overall experience of immigration is an overwhelmingly positive one, where sheer force of will and hard work have enabled her to achieve the watershed moments of high-school graduation, college graduation, a job as a schoolteacher, the purchase of a house, motherhood, and marriage. But there is pain. A closer look reveals the toll the immigrant experience takes. Long separations, uncertainty, feelings of extreme insecurity and of being considered a permanent outsider result in deep-seated anxiety, shame, and a clouded sense of identity. Hard work and achievable goals help Grande overcome them, but she reveals the life-long scars that the family fragmentations created. None of her family members are unscathed. The...

Dad, where do strategies come from?

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The humble small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME) has always been the bridesmaid to the bride of big business where management research has been concerned. While many academics will fall over themselves to try to get into a large organization and perform some research, there are few who knock on the door of the humble family business round the corner. Lack of scale, and often lack of prestige when subsequent research is published, means there continues to be a dearth of SME intelligence. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam-"A Man Beyond Science".

Dear Sir, The extraordinary charismatic personality of Dr. Kalam has sensitized every individual in our nation. His reach to the people was beyond the bar of caste, color and creed. An ordinary man, who came from a humble family of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India, reached to the highest national rank by being the 11th President in Indian Republic. He has been a very sincere worker of his field and was a continuous source of inspiration for all generation of people. Among the awards which he deservingly earned in his lifetime, few of them include Padambhushan (1981), Padma Vibushan (1990), Bharat Ratna (1997) King Charles Medal-II (2007) and many more. However, the greatest award was the respect he commanded among common man and specially youth for whom he is an unyielding source of inspiration. His speeches and his perspective towards “Science and its Utilization for People” are a worth beyond words. He graduated from Madras Institute of Technology in aerospace engineering and later remained associated with Defense Research and Development Organization for nearly 40 years. He started his career with a project of developing a small helicopter for Indian army. Dr Kalam developed India’s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-3) which successfully placed the satellite, Rohini in the near orbit of earth in July 1980 and made India an exclusive member of Space Club. Subsequently, he played important role in development of missiles like Agni and Prithvi which made India a self sufficient in its Defense Power. He was called as “Missile Man” for his contribution in missiles development. Dr Kalam has played a pivotal role as Chief scientific Advisor to Prime Minister between July 1992 to December 1999, it was during this time that “Pokhran-II” the nuclear test was conducted. His hard work in this field made India a Nuclear Power. Dr Kalam had significant contributions to medical science which are less discussed in Indian media and literature. He advocated, the role of biotechnology in medical science research, emphasized the use of science and technology for the benefit of common man. India’s first indigenous low cost cardiac stent was developed by him in collaboration with Dr. Somaraju Bhupathiraju known as Kalam-Raju stent during 1994 – 1996. It reduced the cost of stents by 1/4th compared to prevailing market rate. Approximately 2000 Kalam-Raju cardiac stent has been fitted to many needy patients and showed the path of affordable health care [1]. Although, the medical field has progressed to drug eluting stents, this invention was a landmark in its time. In 2012, they developed a tablet computer for purpose of rural health care service, which was named the ‘Kalam-Raju tablet’. One of his great achievement was the development of light weight calipers for polio affected children by using carbon-carbon and carbon-polymer materials (glass-filled polypropylene which are used in missiles) during 1995 – 1996, thus reducing weight of the caliper to 1/10th of the original weight. Over 50,000 children were benefitted with these calipers which reduced their pain significantly, while walking. Throughout his life, he took up the mission to ignite and inspire young minds towards national spirit by meeting school students across the country. He has also written many thought provoking and inspirational books such as “ Wings of Fire”, “ Ignited Minds” and “ India 2020”, which has become house hold names with youth of India. During the last decade, Dr. Kalam has addressed over five million youth below the age of 17 and inspired them to become an active participant of India Vision 2020. He had addressed several Children Science Congresses across the country. Though, everyone who is born has to leave for the heavenly abode, but Dr. Kalam has left the legacy of his scientific achievements, thoughts and teachings as a source of inspiration for generation to come in future India and the world. Today, we really are gratefull to the almighty for giving us the opportunity to live in an era when we could share the sunlight with such a great personality. May his soul rest in peace.

The New “Lost Generation”

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Discussion of Chinese youth in the popular media is often obscured by such unhelpful labels as post-1980 (balinghou ...) and post-1990 (jiulinghou ...) that tend to focus on collective, generational characteristics. As the first generation of single children, they are seen as self-centred emperors lacking the talent for communication and horizontal interaction. Growing up in the reform era of economic prosperity and material abundance, they are portrayed as obsessed with appearance and consumption. Their fixation with high-technology products in particular have won them names such as Apple fans (guofen ...) and the thumb tribe (muzhi zu ...). With little memory of the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations, they are seen as being less concerned about politics and more carefree. Unused to hardship, they are characterised as having the unique inability to eat bitterness (chiku ...), succumbing easily to criticism and pressure. They are called strawberries (caomei ...) - polished and attractive in outward appearance but highly vulnerable and easily wounded. Boys, in particular, are criticised for becoming increasingly effeminate (nanxing de nuxinghua ...). (1)Several recent reports in the Chinese press have focused on the current situation of young people, revealing a much more complex reality. Four years after Lian Si forged the term ant tribe, the catchword today is diaosi, which refers to a class of losers, analysed at length by New Weekly in 2012. The discontent experienced by the young people self-identifying as diaosi, who feel excluded from the benefits of China's growth, can be linked to several recent incidents related to the phenomenon of second- generation rich placing themselves above the law. The first April 2013 issue of South Review similarly ran a cover story on the creeping calcification of social strata (jieceng jianghua ...; jieceng guhua ...) in contemporary China. The editors deplore the emergence of a winner-takesall (yingjia tongchi ...) society dominated by special interest conglomerates (teshu liyi jituan ...) that operate above the law according to privilege-consciousness (tequan yishi ...), and warn of the worrying reproduction of social strata (jieceng zaishengchan ...), which deprives young people of the perspective of upward mobility.This essay, taking recent reports on the post-80s and post-90s as a starting point, will attempt to deconstruct these labels in order to shed light on some of the more poignant social dividers and barriers confronting different groups within the generation. It begins with an analysis of the diaosi phenomenon and underlying social realities. It then examines the root causes of popular frustration by looking at the unlevel field of Chinese education to reveal a system that almost systematically reproduces disparity across generations. The next sections focus respectively on university graduates, many of which make up China's growing ant tribe, and new-generation rural migrant workers, whose labour rights and rights to urban citizenship remain highly circumscribed. I point to the ways by which Chinese youth, who call themselves the new lost generation, seek to redefine their role as citizens on their own terms. (2)The losers and a society increasingly based on statusAn increasingly pervasive sense that talent and effort cannot change one's fate has produced collective expressions of self-mockery and selfdeprecatory humour (ziwo tiaokan ...). Diaosi (...), a coarse word for loser, has become a popular cultural phenomenon and a symbol of self-identification for many young male Chinese. (3) In 2011 it was searched for 41 million times on Google and mentioned over 2 million times on Weibo. (4) Popularised through Internet blogs and chatrooms, diaosi refers to those who come from humble family background and are lacking in good looks. According to the ten requirements for a diaosi listed by the Southern Metropolis Weekly, one must, among other criteria, always have less than 1,000 yuan in one's pocket, have no connection to wealth in social circles, go on long-distance vacation only once every three to five years, and have no more than three girlfriends before marriage in order to qualify as a diaosi. …

Cristianos nuevos de origen ibérico en el Reino de Nápoles en el siglo XVII

In 1541, in the Kingdom of Naples, the Jews were expelled or converted to Christianity resulting in an important community of New Christians that flourished and remained until the mid-17 th . During a process of social assimilation and consequently dissolution, a significant number of the members of the community was subject to the Roman Inquisition. The faith trials reveal how complex the community composition was, linked mainly to two outstanding families: the Vaaz, of Portuguese origin, and the Vargas, natives of the Kingdom of Aragon. These families had acquired feudal properties, nobility titles and preeminent positions in magistracy, attributes which placed them among those who held effective power. But the community included more humble families and individuals as well. Internal conflicts led to a break in solidarity and inquisitors took advantage of lack of protection by judging and imposing severe sentences reserved for the Crypto-Jews.

Oleg Georgievich Gazenko

Oleg Georgievich Gazenko

The Extreme Connection Between Bodies and Houses

The Extreme Connection Between Bodies and Houses

Sarduy avec Lacan: The Portrayal of French Psychoanalysis in Cobra and La simulación

campy women; the other, severe French intellectual famous for his extraordinarily complex psychoanalytic writings. Sarduy was born to humble family in the provincial town of Camaguey; Lacan, to an elegant couple of haute bourgeois Parisians. One was known for drinking cocktails at the Cafe de Flore, on Saint Germain des Pres; the other for teaching seminars on castration, transference, and the phallus at the university. One published novels with titles like Pajaros de L· play a; the other, academic articles devoted to The gaze as objet petit a and The function of the Ί.' Could these two writers have anything in common? Despite their extremely different styles, Sarduy and Lacan crossed paths several times during the height of Structuralism, and they influenced each other's work. As I will argue in this essay, Sarduy developed serious dialogue with Lacan and his psychoanalytic concepts in his novels and essays. Although most scholarship on Severo Sarduy mentions the fact that he was an avid reader of Jacques Lacan (see, for example, the texts by Montero, Gonzalez Echevarria, and Marquez) , no one has provided detailed account of how the Cuban novelist read and transformed the work of the French analyst. In this essay I propose to undertake such project by focusing on two works, novel and an essay: Cobra (1971) and La simulacion (1981). After identifying the key allusions to Lacan and Lacanian concepts in these two works, I will argue that Sarduy was one of the most original readers of the French analyst, because his work proposes radical, new model for interpreting many of the analyst's theoretical formulations. Severo Sarduy arrived in Paris in 1960 after receiving scholarship from the newly formed Cuban government to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. Shortly after his arrival, he met the man who would be his lover for the rest of his life: Francois Wahl, an editor at the French publishing house Editions du Seuil, who introduced Sarduy to the stars of Parisian intellectual life in the 1960s, including Roland Barthes, Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, and other members of