Kind Of Life Research Articles

“Black (W)holes” and the Propagation of New Possibilities

The starting point of this essay is the author’s acknowledgment that Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” has been a throughline for her scholarly and personal development. That relationship to Hammonds’s text and its author shifts, and the changing nature of these connections marks important milestones in Bailey’s academic and adult life. The essay waxes poetic about the substance of Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes” as its meanings exceed its arguments: its very writing serves as a possibility model both in terms of the kind of scholarship Bailey imagined she could write and the kind of life she could live as one keen to bridge Black feminism and medicine. “Black (W)holes” is one of the first academic writings where Bailey saw herself reflected, both in the content presented and in the identities held by Hammonds. Black alphabet children of Spelman College, straddling the line between medical science and feminism, Hammonds and Bailey have much in common. Hammonds’s essay inspired Bailey to want to get to know the now legendary alumna, and this essay recounts how she embarked on a campaign to do so.

What are we capable of doing and what kind of lives can we lead?

What are we capable of doing and what kind of lives can we lead?

Philosophie, Theorie, Leben

Abstract Contemplative and explanatory theories are distinguished. The corpus of European philosophy includes many sorts of texts. Only a few have explanatory value. Some are contemplative. But there are also therapeutic and sceptical texts. It was an old ideal of philosophy to lead a theoretical life. What could that mean? What does “life” mean in this context? We cannot choose forms of life, because all choices and preferences come up in life. Nevertheless a theoretical life is possible. What kind of life is it – one spent in contemplation, in explanation, or a sceptical one?

“This kind of life has no meaning”

“This kind of life has no meaning”

민요에 나타난 ‘존엄성’에 대한 인식체계

Respecting someone requires treating them with “dignity.” In other words, you should avoid treating them in a way that demeans, insults, or expresses contempt. This study investigated how people recognize and respond to dignity through folk songs: people enjoy folk songs based on the idea that dignity is lost when human rights are violated. Also, when communication with family members failed, they felt left out and did not receive favors; instead, when criticized and ridiculed, they felt a failure of dignity. Protecting dignity was so important to them that they showed how they would rather die through the poetic speakers of folk songs. They protested that their dignity was undermined by calling them folk songs and tried to resolve the issue by making it public.
 Next, we investigated their perceptions and attitudes toward the deceased. In folk songs, human dignity also applies to the dead, highlighting why the person died and why those were the cause must apologize. In particular, funeral songs include, “Who is the deceased?What kind of life did they live? Why did they die? What do they mean to those who remember them? What kind of words do we want to leave behind for them, and what do we want to say to them as they leave the world?”
 People who enjoyed folk songs also recognized the dignity of animals based on feelings of compassion. Meanwhile, the word “dignity” has always been associated with the word “human being,” and dignity has been recognized as “the essential value of human beings.” However, recently, dignity has been extended to non-human entities, expanding its meaning. Respect for others based on compassion attracts attention, as it is a value we need to live together in the future.
 Defending dignity is possible by realizing one’s rights and respecting the rights of others. It is emphasized that recognizing dignity based on mutual respect regardless of race, religion, gender, social status, region, or age, abandoning the instrumental perspective of non-human beings such as animals, plants, and artificial intelligence, and cooperating to respect them is needed.

한 중등교사의 IB MYP 교사로서 삶에 대한 내러티브

This study seeks to understand what life a secondary school teacher experiences as a teacher in an IB school introduced to public education. Since Daegu City and Jeju Island introduced IB education into public education in 2019, IB education has been spreading nationwide. In this situation, it is of great significance to understand what experiences general public education teachers who teach based on the national curriculum have while operating the IB MYP curriculum and what kind of life they create as teachers. To achieve this research objective, a middle school teacher who had worked at an IB school in Daegu City for 5 years was selected as a research participant and an in-depth interview method was used. As a result of the study, first, the research participants experienced conflict between grade-based education and inquiry-based education at IB schools. Second, research participants experienced that the IB unitplan was a powerful tool that improved teacher expertise and led to inquiry-oriented classes. Third, the research participant came to recognize the possibility that she could maintain her life as a subject expert even as she grew older. Based on the above, it was discussed that a unitplan that supports the application of the national curriculum to school sites must be developed, that support for IB unit design for teachers is necessary, and that an appropriate response to the entrance exam culture is necessary to enhance IB education.

가족관계 단절 문제에 대한 부모되찾기 설화의 문학치료적 역할

This study focuses on ‘the Problem of Family Relationship Breakdown’ of Jangmadang Generation North Korean refugees. I designed what kind of psychotherapeutic effect Korean Folktale could have. Because the Jangmadang Generation chose to defect from North Korea to overcome social and personal limitations, they are experiencing more complex conflicts regarding their relationship with their North Korean family. Therefore, I proposed a literary therapy plan to them to think about ‘how do I understand my parents’ life, and what kind of life do I want to live now?’ In this literature therapy, stories of Recovering Parents can be applied. These works contain the epic structure of ‘support after growth’ and special Motifs that enable emotional connection with parents. North Korean refugees can imagine ways to relieve the pain of broken family relationships through emotional connection without giving up the advantages gained through parental pushing away. Further more, this study presented a case of literary therapy using the folktales 〈Live in My Fortune〉 and 〈The Prayer of Past Life Parents〉. North Korean refugees deeply understood the two folktales and reinterpreted the meaning of the works by connecting them to their own lives. In this case, it was confirmed that the two folktales played a role in representing their lives and imagining a positive future.

Status of Women in the Songs of Sangam Feminist Poets

It is known through the Sangam literature that people divided their lives into internal and external during the Sangam period. It is necessary to know the status of women in this kind of life. It can be explained that women did not cross the sea in earlier times. At the same time, it is also worth noting that the women poets of the Sangam period were able to speak and appeal to the king with right. In this way, this review aims to describe the status of women during the Sangam period.

A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Quality and Mass Balance of the Bhairab River, Khulna

Abstract: Water is a vital component for all organisms on Earth. Water is essential for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. Water is vital for life, much like oxygen, since no kind of life can survive without it. Water often includes several physical, chemical, and biological contaminants. Surface water sources mostly consist of rivers, lakes, ponds, glaciers, and precipitation. The sources are becoming degraded due to contemporary urbanization, escalating population, domestic trash, and industry. The Bhairab River is not far from the sick worry. The water quality of the area is rapidly deteriorating due to the significant influx of contaminants it gets. This research focuses on evaluating the water quality and mass balance of the Bhairab River. In order to achieve the current objective of the research, a stretch of 22.9 kilometers from Jailkhana Ferighat to Shuvorada Kheya Ghat, Fultola, was split into 10 sample sites. The water samples were collected monthly from each monitoring site during the year of 2021 for laboratory analysis. A total of nine water quality indicators, including Fecal Coliform, Temperature, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), pH, Turbidity, Total Solids (TS), Phosphate, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Nitrate, and Chloride, were analyzed using standardized methods. The water quality evaluation was conducted by calculating the WQI using the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF) technique. The mass balance has been determined by means of analysis. The current study is being undertaken using both primary and secondary data sources. The investigation reveals that the primary parameters exhibit varying degrees of correlation with each other. In December, the temperature reached a minimum of 16.8 °C, while in May, it peaked at 37.5°C. The pH reached its peak at 8.80 in August, while it had its lowest point at 7.94 in January. The pH variation is minimal and similar throughout the board. The measured turbidity level was 564 NTU, which is the average value. The maximum total solids (TS) concentration recorded was 3346 mg/L, while the minimum concentration was 2460 mg/L. The phosphate content reached its peak at 8.12 mg/L in S5, while it was at its lowest at 4.26 mg/L in S4. The maximum nitrate concentration measured was 26.4 mg/L, while the minimum concentration was 12.80 mg/L. The maximum biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) recorded was 1.80 mg/L at location S6, whereas the minimum BOD was 0.60 mg/L at location S3. The concentration of BOD was consistently low during each month. The highest fecal coliform (FC) concentration observed in November was 1024 N/100ml, while the lowest concentration was 572 N/100ml. The drinking water quality standard for fecal coliform (FC) in Bangladesh is zero per 100 milliliters. The greatest, average, and lowest values surpass the allowable limit set by BDS. The water quality index determined for the year 2021 for Ten Stations has an average value of 43, indicating a similar level of water quality throughout the stations. According to the range of NSF water quality index, the Bhairab River has a poor quality rating. Therefore, this water is not safe for drinking without undergoing treatment. The Bhairab River has a Mass Balance value of 362349.09 gallons per day

Stuck in Hospital: how can we make integrated care a reality for people with a learning disability and / or autism who experience long stays in assessment & treatment settings?

Introduction: Integrating care so that people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people can receive support at home rather than in institutional assessment and treatment units is a priority in the UK and many other countries. Despite the recognition of its importance, progress on timely and coordinated discharge has been slow. Surprisingly little previous research has engaged directly with people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people, their families or front-line care staff to understand the issues from their perspectives. This project has sought to address this gap.
 Community of Interest: Professionals, policy makers, researchers, people with a learning disability and / or autism, and family carers connected with this area of integrated care policy and practice.
 Engagement: We worked with a Reference Group of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people and their families to co-design our approach, sense check findings and support dissemination. Reference Group members were reimbursed for any expenses, paid for their time, and received appropriate support and training for the tasks in which they are involved. The project was also designed and delivered in collaboration with a self-advocacy group.
 Overview: We initially conducted a formal review of the research and grey literature, identifying rates of delayed discharge for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people in long-stay hospital settings, the methods used to identify such rates and the solutions proposed. 
 Next, we worked with three long-stay hospital sites from across the UK in order to conduct: 
 In-depth work with ten people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people per site, and with a family member, to understand their journey through services over time, their experience of long-stay hospital provision, how care was co-ordinated to meet their aspirations, the kinds of lives they would like to be living, and the barriers that are preventing them from leaving hospital
 Focus groups with front-line staff and interviews with a commissioners for each of the 30 people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people.
 The perspectives of social workers supporting our 30 participants, as well as of advocates and social care providers working with people leaving long-stay hospital settings
 Results: The data from the study is currently being analysed with the final report due by the end of December 2022.
 
 Insights: From our analysis to date, we have identified the following recommendations for policy & practice: see the person behind the labels; don’t make people jump through more hoops than is really needed; help hospital staff know what’s available in the community; give people the chance to try life outside; help people with the trauma they’ve experienced; and. don’t let people fall through the cracks between services.
 Next steps: Alongside completing the report, the research team have a practice guide in publication, a film highlighting main implications, and an accessible practice guide. The team are planning a follow up study with our lived experience reference group which will explore people’s quality of life post-discharge in relation to different approaches to facilitating more co-ordinated and person-centred care.

Social Alienation and Loneliness in Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

The concept of alienation is used to characterize a person’s lack of interest in and/or incapacity to make a meaningful connection with others, even with themselves, with the physical world, and with institutions including social, political, and religious ones. This notion, which also represents the era Katherine Mansfield lived in and the kind of life she led, can be applied to examine her short stories “Miss Brill” and “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”, published in The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) collection. In the narratives, Miss Brill and the Pinner Sisters behave in a way that reflects their social alienation in society, however, Mansfield uniquely addresses the issue. In “Miss Brill”, first published in 1920, the old lady becomes vulnerable due to her desire to interact with others in the Jardins Publiques every Sunday, which eventually causes her to realize how estranged she is from the people around her. As opposed to Miss Brill, Mansfield portrays the Pinner sisters as being socially isolated because of their self-induced oppression. The demands of their father have so thoroughly dominated Constantia and Josephine’s lives that they have never had an opportunity to form their own unique identities. The death of their father could be a chance for the daughters to awaken, allowing them to break free from the colonel’s authority and discover that a life outside is possible. But still, the internalized oppression of the women keeps them from staying connected with others and being free. This article discusses how Mansfield handles the issue of social alienation and loneliness by using spinsters with different lifestyles and how solitude negatively affects their daily routine.

The Work of Man

This publication is the first translation into Russian of an article by Giorgio Agamben, originally published as “The Work of Man: A Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics” in the first issue of Forme di vita in 2004. This text builds upon and expands upon the main ideas presented in “The Potency of Thought.” The work raises the question of human capacity, which is always accompanied by inherent incapacity, in connection with the problem of defining human nature in terms of activity and inactivity. The clarification of these concepts aims to reopen the inquiry into the essence and nature of man in relation to the experience of political life. Agamben begins by asking how we can understand the experience of man’s essential inactivity if man inherently possesses a vocation. By linking the experience of human life to the experience of pure potency, Agamben hypothesizes that man’s essence is not confined to any identity or cause, thus requiring a reevaluation of notions within the Western tradition of thought rooted in the constitutive relation of man to his action (activity). By suggesting an alternative interpretation of the concepts of Aristotelian philosophy, dynamis/ energeia and zoē tis (“a certain kind of life”) and raising the question of a form-of-life that is not encompassed by the biopolitical apparatus, Agamben turns to Dante and his work Monarchy. Through Dante’s experiences, Agamben demonstrates that human thought, by its very structure, is open to the possibility of its own absence and inactivity. Consequently, this raises a question that further research aims to address: Is it possible today to conceive of a politics that corresponds to the absence of work of man without succumbing to the biopolitical imperative of assuming it?

Das Leben

Abstract Life and “good” are interchangeable, I think. Life is good, goodness life. Michael Thompson has recovered the understanding of life as goodness for contemporary philosophy. However, he errs in thinking that our life, human life, is a certain kind of life. And so he errs in conceiving the idea of the good by which we live as that of a certain kind of life. The idea of the good by which we live is not an idea, but the idea. This shows that our life is not a life, but the life. This essay develops a series of forms through which “good” is thought: external purpose, organism, external process, generic process. It transpires that they are all incapable of thinking the good which is thought and known in practical thought. This is life beyond the generic process, no natural life, but the life of the spirit.

Lesbian Solo Motherhood: Emma Brockes’s An Excellent Choice

The 1978 delivery of the world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, created what anthropologist Sarah Franklin termed a ‘bridge to new kinds of life’ – and, indeed, IVF and other forms of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have facilitated a wide range of family formations, such as lesbians choosing to have children with the help of sperm donors. Much could be expected, then, of one particular memoir – Emma Brockes’s An Excellent Choice (2018) – which details Brockes, an English lesbian journalist living in the USA, becoming a solo mother by choice via sperm donation and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). However, my paper combines close reading with queer and feminist criticism in order to suggest that Brockes’s attitudes regarding motherhood reveal a disengagement with queer politics in favour of an espousal of homonormativity – which is defined as a privatised, depoliticised gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption that does not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions, but upholds and sustains them (Weiss, 2018). Such a positioning is a highly privileged stance that potentially ‘blots from view’ (Weiss, 2018: 111) the much more numerous and socially vulnerable members of the North American LGBT+ community.

Child Rearing Styles of Queer Parents in Relation to Child Adjustments

This study focused on determining the child rearing styles of queer parents about child adjustment. The case study was used to determine the unique experiences of the subject participants. Eight queer parents and eight children of queer parents participated in the study. Further, the researcher used unstructured interviews in collecting the research data. The results revealed that most of the queer parents belonged within the age range of more than 40, gay men and lesbian women, unmarried and living with no partner, Roman Catholic, Ilokano and Tagalog, college graduate, self-employed with a monthly family income of 20,001 – 30,000, and with one child. Moreover, most of the male and female child participants were under 17, first-born child with one sibling belonged to household members of three, nephews of queer parents and lived with their non-biological parents for more than 14 years. There is an emerging theme derived from the experiences of queer parents, such as their experiences in various aspects of parenthood. The queer parents’ child rearing styles were lax parenting style and disciplinarian style. Two emerging themes derived from the participants' experiences, such as their lived experiences consisting of three sub-themes: being raised by non-biological parents, being bullied and having conflict with parents. Similarly, two sub-themes were derived from the theme description of the present life, such as comfortable life and crossing to life challenges. The child adjustment that emerged was psychosocial. The emerging well-being of the child participants was life contentment. The emerging sub-themes under the description of parents’ way of rearing a child were composed of imposition of discipline, provision of basic needs and inculcation of the value of education. The child participants were appreciative and satisfied with the kind of life they had. Since most of the parents were single, the government through the local government units may properly disseminate the Solo Parent Act as to benefits and privileges under the law through series of orientation and assist the queer parents to have their Solo Parents card. Non-government organization, civic organization and the church may conduct series of guidance and counselling, psychological intervention and spiritual nurturing programs and activities to enhance the quality of life among child of the queer parents.

Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the structural deficiencies of residential care homes. In this context, living arrangements based on the independent living paradigm emerged as more resilient care infrastructures in terms of preserving life. But what kind of lives have they preserved, and who has decided what forms those lives took? Drawing on an ethnographic study of two care infrastructures for people with physical and intellectual disabilities living independently in Barcelona, the present study illustrates how the pandemic tensioned and unleashed escapes within these two services, revealing them as postinstitutions working under logics of bureaucratization and hospitalization. This in-depth study allows us to delve deeper into the constraints that these postinstitutionalization models present, at the time that explores the possibilities these projects present for continuing to work toward the promotion of self-organization and full participation of people with disabilities in the becoming of their life projects.

Imagining Justice for Sentient Lives

Abstract: In Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human , Maren Tova Linett posits literary fiction as uniquely valuable terrain for bioethical inquiry. By depicting phenomena like animality, disability, and aging in richly imagined worlds, she argues, literary narratives can promote more nuanced engagement with bioethical questions than do the sparse and decontextualized thought experiments commonly employed in philosophical bioethics. Linett reads several novels written across the long twentieth century as literary-philosophical laboratories for testing bioethical claims about the value of different kinds of lives, demonstrating the importance of literary ways of knowing for bioethics. In doing so, she also makes a compelling case for allying animal studies and disability studies, fields that have historically found themselves at odds but that together have much to say about how we can achieve justice for sentient lives of all kinds.

Imagining Justice for Sentient Lives

Abstract: In Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human , Maren Tova Linett posits literary fiction as uniquely valuable terrain for bioethical inquiry. By depicting phenomena like animality, disability, and aging in richly imagined worlds, she argues, literary narratives can promote more nuanced engagement with bioethical questions than do the sparse and decontextualized thought experiments commonly employed in philosophical bioethics. Linett reads several novels written across the long twentieth century as literary-philosophical laboratories for testing bioethical claims about the value of different kinds of lives, demonstrating the importance of literary ways of knowing for bioethics. In doing so, she also makes a compelling case for allying animal studies and disability studies, fields that have historically found themselves at odds but that together have much to say about how we can achieve justice for sentient lives of all kinds.

A critical review of the impact of Christ's life and teachings on ethics and organizational effectiveness for sustainable performance

This paper presents a critical review of the impact of Christ's life and message on ethics and organizational effectiveness for sustainable performance. It explores the ways in which Christ's Life and teachings can influence ethical decision-making, behaviour, and effectiveness in an organization, and how they can contribute to sustainable performance. The paper examines the relationship between Christ's message and organizational effectiveness, considering the implications for leadership, culture, and values within organizations. Ultimately, this review highlights the importance of incorporating the nature and kind of life, ethical principles, and values inspired by Christ's Life and teachings into organizational practices, in order to promote sustainable performance and societal well-being.

Metal oxide nanomaterials for photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics

Due to their ability to produce charge carriers when stimulated with the necessary amount of energy, metal oxides have significant technological significance in electronics and environmental cleanup. Most metal oxides can be used as photocatalysts thanks to the promising configuration of their electronic structure, light absorption capabilities, and charge transport features. The definition of metal oxides as photocatalysts, structural properties, requirements for the photocatalysts, classification of photocatalysts, and the mechanism of the photocatalytic process is covered in this article. Water pollution originating from various factors such as metal ions, textile dyes, pharmaceutical wastes, and another household, and industrial activities is posing a great threat to various kinds of life on this planet. Polluted water is treated through various methodologies like electrochemical, chemical precipitation, adsorption, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, flotation, coagulation-flocculation, etc. Nanotechnology is playing a great role in developing new and advanced methods with greater efficiency for water purification. Metal oxides are such a class of nanomaterials, that a vast amount of research is carried out in exploring their properties and applying them for pollutant removal from contaminated water. Antibiotics are one category of pollutants whose concentration in various water resources is increasing at an alarming rate. Removal of antibiotics from the water has been an area of focus among various researchers worldwide and a lot of work has been done in this field. Different nanomaterials including metal oxides have been investigated for the removal of antibiotics. Therefore, this article in specific reviews the research work done on the removal of antibiotics from the water using various metal oxides such as zinc oxide, silver oxide, titanium oxide, and iron oxide. In the nanoscale, zinc oxide has shown remarkable properties which make it a potential photocatalyst for degradation antibiotics. Titanium oxide nanomaterials are one kind of important and promising photocatalyst because of their oxidizing power.