Man Stood Research Articles

Examining the Role of Christian Drama in Facilitating Social Transformation: A Study of Two Mount Zion Film Productions Movies

This paper investigates the impact of Christian drama on social transformation through an analysis of two prominent Mount Zion Film Productions (MZFP) movies: Last Man Standing and Legion. Anchored on the Cultivation Theory by George Gerbner, which suggests that long-term exposure to media content can shape individuals' perceptions of reality, influencing their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, the study explores how MZFP effectively utilizes storytelling to address contemporary issues and promote Christian values. Through a thematic analysis encompassing faith, redemption, forgiveness, spiritual warfare, and ethical dilemmas, the paper examines how these films engage audiences in thought-provoking reflections on Christian principles and societal challenges. Furthermore, it investigates how the films raise awareness, challenge stigmas, promote dialogue, advocate for change, and celebrate virtues while condemning vices. By comparing and contrasting the thematic elements and societal impact of Last Man Standing and Legion, this study offers insights into the potential of Christian drama to influence perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors within society. Ultimately, the findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of film as a medium for fostering social consciousness and spiritual renewal in contemporary culture.

TCTAP C-090 The Last Man Standing: Emergency High Risk PCI to LM-LCX

TCTAP C-090 The Last Man Standing: Emergency High Risk PCI to LM-LCX

That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

Kim Chae-gyu syndrome: South Korean politics and divergent filmic portrayals of the assassination of Park Chung Hee

AbstractThe assassination of the dictator Park Chung Hee by his intelligence chief Kim Chae-gyu was a momentous events in South Korean history, which garnered two feature-length filmic depictions released fifteen years apart in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The President's Last Bang, released in 2005, was an irreverent black comedy in which all those involved that fateful evening were villains in their own right. The Man Standing Next, from 2020, took a much different tack. Kim gained a righteousness and revolutionary motivation that had been absent in the portrayal in the earlier film, in which Kim's intentions remained open to interpretation. This article analyzes the changes in Kim's depiction in the context of shifting respective political contexts, particularly the impeachment of Park's daughter Park Geun-hye in 2016, and the shadow cast by the legacies of authoritarianism, the specter of which seemed to loom over Korea again during the younger Park's administration. Consequently, the outpouring of public fervor in the ensuing candlelight vigils reaffirmed societal support for democracy and consequently elevated Kim Chae-gyu, Park's bane, to the role of champion of Korean democracy when it seemed under threat once again.

Tis the Lord's Work

Tis the Lord's Work Stephen McQuiggan (bio) The harsh rapping roused Father Gorman from the limbo of the hearth, his joints grumbling as he rose stiffly to answer the door. He peered out through the window but saw only the swirl of snow dancing against the moon—a moon so big and bright he had taken it as a portent of ill omen the first moment he saw it, trudging through the small copse from the churchyard to his home. I'll go out hunting again, he thought distractedly (and of late his thoughts were distracted easily), whenever the storm abates. It was very late. There must have been a death in the village; no one would be abroad at such a time, and in such weather, otherwise. The door rapped and rattled once more. "Okay, okay," grumbled the priest, "spare the horses, I'm coming." He heaved open the warped oak, letting in a wind that chilled him like an exhalation of the grave. A man stood on his porch, his head uncovered and his ragged clothes soaked through, small drifts of snow on his shoulder as if he had been stationary for a long while, summoning up the courage to knock. Father Gorman squinted at him through the storm—a lost traveller perhaps, a pedlar in need of shelter, but not a local from the village. "Are you the Holy Man?" asked the stranger before the priest could so much as greet him. The quaint earnestness of the question made Father Gorman smile. "I am," he said, "now come in before one of us catches our death flapping our jaws." He smiled again as the man methodically wiped his boots on the mat before entering; there was enough snow on his back to flood the hallway, but he came in like a prissy spinster nonetheless. "Get yourself to the fire, my son, and I'll brew up a nice cup of tea… or perhaps you'd prefer a wee dram of something harder?" "Is alcohol not a sin, Father?" "It would be a sin to refuse it on a night such as this." The priest led the way into the small parlour, eyeing up his visitor for size. "I've [End Page 19] a few old clothes left from the charity drive," he said, "that might fit you in a pinch. I'll go fetch them while you change by the hearth." He stopped by the door. "What's your name, son?" The man, steam rising from his tattered shirt, looked back at him as if he were about to cry. "I'd tell you if I could, Father, I surely would." The priest studied him for signs of drunkenness; he was steady enough on his feet, but drink was a blight in these parts lately, especially now the crops had failed and the children missing. The stranger looked sober enough though, as he smiled ruefully. "They called me Slop the last place I stayed." "That's not a very dignified name." "The one who sent me here, he calls me Ephraim… I like that, it sounds proper." "The one who sent you?" asked the priest, but Slop was busy stripping, shaking the snow off like a drenched dog before the fire. "Well, we'll talk in a while. You get yourself sorted, and I'll be back with something to warm the cockles, eh?" Father Gorman bustled into the back room, fetching a shirt and some trousers from a mouldy old sack and wincing at the tang of acrid sweat that still clung to them. He paused in the hallway—he could see the damp tracks of his own slippers trailing back from the slush at the front door, but of his visitor's prints there was no sign. He shivered, chastising himself for being a Dolly Daydream, and hurried back to the cosy parlour. "Can I ask you something, Father," asked Slop on his return, "and will you answer me true?" The priest hid a smile; how often had he assuaged the guilt of the peasantry with a well tongued piece of scripture. It was touching. It was also a relief that some of the...

„Last Man Standing“: Zur Bedeutung der Kanzlerkandidaten für das Ergebnis der Bun- destagswahl 2021

The 2021 federal election was special in several respects with regard to the role of the can- didates for chancellor . For the first time, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen entered the competition with their own candidate, resulting in a three-way race for chancellorship . In addition, for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the previous incumbent did not stand for re-election . Based on polling data it becomes evident that in the wake of Annalena Baerbock’s and Armin Laschet’s misconduct and scandals during the election cam- paign, both their popularity ratings and the vote shares of their respective parties declined significantly . It was only as a result of these failures involving his two competitors that Olaf Scholz - as the “Last Man Standing” - became the Germans’ preferred chancellor . Our analyses also suggest that the CDU/CSU would have done significantly better with Markus Söder as candidate for chancellor and would probably have won the federal election . Regarding the first-time nomination of a chancellor candidate by Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, we find that a preference for Annalena Baerbock had a significant and substantial effect on the green vote .

The ‘Corkscrew’ Journey of an Adaptation: Cultural Mobility in Hammett, Kurosawa, Leone, and Hill

Abstract Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) has long been recognized as a quasi-adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest (1929), even if it relates much more closely to Hammett’s short story ‘Corkscrew’ (1925). Yojimbo was remade as the Italian Western Fistful of Dollars (1964) by Sergio Leone. The material finally ‘came home’ when Walter Hill adapted it as Last Man Standing (1996) that returns to the 1920s American desert town setting of the original story. This contribution seeks to examine the inflections of the individual incarnations that the material has undergone on its journey through various cultural contexts. The main argument is that the story of the outsider infiltrating a corrupt town and ‘cleansing’ it by playing off two gangs against each other has lent itself to commentary on transnational cultural exchange and mobility. ‘Corkscrew’ expresses anxiety over the integrity of cultural boundaries, Red Harvest expresses the inherent corruption of a ‘hermetic’ culture, Yojimbo uses the story to highlight the uneasy relation between tradition and Westernization in Japan while simultaneously drawing attention to Kurosawa’s status as ‘Western’ director and embraces a guarded cultural mobility, Fistful of Dollars empties the signs, icons, and narratives that make up the expressions of culture of any essentialist meanings and so stages cultural mobility as the shifting play of signifiers, endlessly transgressing acquired meanings and cultural boundaries, and Last Man Standing, finally, in reclaiming the Americanness of the story simultaneously forgoes any cultural specificity by reducing it to an excessive pastiche of prior elements.

The man standing on the globe

The forthcoming 134th birthday of Nikolai Vavilov has in spired the editors to publish the essay The Man Standing on the Globe written by Dr. Margarita Vishnyakova as the intro ductory article to the Spanish translation of Vavilov’s Five Continents ( Cinco continentes ). This book was published in 2015 by Libros del Jata S.L. , a small publishing company in Bilbao, Spain. Margarita Vishnyakova was directly involved in the process of publication. She was acquainted with Dr. Gustavo Renobales, a former professor of botany at the University of the Basque Country, who became the book’s editor and publisher. As soon as the publishing process was initiated, Gustavo sought Margarita’s aid. She helped to overcome formalities associated with copyright and assisted with translation and selection of illustrations, also contributing to the solution of some botanical and linguistic problems (Vishnyakova, 2017). It took two years to finalize the publication. This essay was published only in Spanish. The original Russian version is presented here.

‘분노의 5단계 모델’ 관점의 영화 〈남산€의 부장들〉 서사와 주인공의 거사 결행 기제

영화 〈남산€의 부장들〉은 다른 10.26 사건 소재의 콘텐츠와 달리 대립되는 인물 간의 치열한 심리 대결을 표방한 연극적 성격이 짙은‘분노 캐릭터’영화라는 점에 착안해 본 연구에서는 라코프와 코브시스(Lakoff & Kövecses) 등이 제시한‘분노의 5단계 모델’을 적용해 장면을 단위로 설정해 서사구조를 내용 분석하였다.BR 그 결과 이 영화는 심리학의 분노 5단계 이론을 잘 반영해 주인공의 분노 결행에 대한 인과성과 개연성을 한층 높인 것으로 나타났다. 특히 분노조절(25분)에 가장 긴 시간을 할애해 응징·보복의 동기를 정당화한 반면 통제력 상실(14분)에 가장 짧은 시간을 부여해 응징 행동의 긴박감을 극대화 하고자 한 것으로 분석되었다.BR 각 단계에서 분노를 유발하는 기폭제 역할은 무시, 모멸, 오만, 과시, 놀림, 조롱, 무단 개입, 수군거림, 비아냥, 말 가로채기 언행으로 각 단계마다 2~6회씩 배치되었다. 특히‘경호실장’역의 경우 조롱 발언이,‘박통’역의 경우 친구도 죽인 무도한 인간이란 극심한 모멸감을 야기하는 발언이 주인공으로 하여금 복수를 실행하도록 하는 결정적인‘분노 방아쇠’로 작용하였다.BR 결론적으로 이 영화는 서사구조가 분노이론을 정교하게 따랐다.‘정치극’이라서 서사의 전개에서 분노의 공적(公的) 사유를 많이 설정하는 것이 일반적인데도 분노유발목록(PI)과 24%나 일치할 정도로 관객들이 흔히 겪는 일상의 분노사례를 적잖이 반영한 것으로 확인되었다. 이상과 같이 제작진이 이 영화에 심리학의 분노이론을 정교하게 반영하고 분노의 공적·사적 동인(動因)을 균형 있게 안배한 것은 분위기가 무겁고 낯설기 마련인 정치영화에 대한 관객들의 이해도와 흡인력을 높이려는 소통강화 의도에서 비롯된 것이라 평가된다.

Dave Zirin, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing; Jesse Berrett, Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics; Rob Ruck, Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL.

Dave Zirin, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing; Jesse Berrett, Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics; Rob Ruck, Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL.

The Last Man Standing Technique for Proof-of-Location in IoT Infrastructures at Network Edge

This paper is divided in two parts. The first part is the story of a failure, where an attempt to generate verifiable Proof-of-Location from WiFi scan results has failed, even when scan results were compared with a small time shift within the same trace. In the second part, this paper proposes to conduct Proof-of-Location transactions in a peer-to-peer fashion. Each peer is assisted by the cloud side which plays the role of both the real-time mediator and public transaction ledger. This paper proposes the Last Man Standing (LMS) procedure which is both a means for ensuring a fair transaction and a natural way to close it. Each transaction results in a coin which can be either shared among transaction participants or owned individually by LMS. Analysis using real mobility traces from various types of urban locations shows that the proposal is valid and will ensure that all the locations within the city will gradually be claimed via the proposed type of transactions while providing independently verifiable proofs for each location. The distant goal of this paper is a next generation Location-Based Service (LBS) which takes the form of a location-based resource economy where each location is a coin compatible with traditional blockchain operations.

Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of American Comedy

Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of American Comedy

Bhasha India

Bhasha India Siddharth Chowdhury (bio) The drive from Vasant Kunj in south Delhi to Sidhrawali on NH8, where I have a small farmhouse, takes about ninety minutes on Friday evenings. The run is just over sixty kilometers. I usually start about 7:30, after the rush-hour traffic on the Jaipur highway towards Gurgaon, Manesar, Dharuhera, and Rewari has abated a bit and the Khirki Dhaula toll plaza before Manesar is reasonably chaos free. On the drive I invariably take my old 2005 model white Maruti Gypsy King hardtop, which is perfect for the broken-down country roads which I have to negotiate for the last leg of the journey, about three kilometers through villages and fields of glorious mustard, after I turn left on the highway before Old Rao Hotel in Kapriwas. I love the drive, at a steady sixty to seventy kilometers per hour, as the Haryana and Rajasthan Roadways buses whizz past me at ninety to hundred kilometers an hour towards Rewari, Narnaul, Bawal, Kotputli, Jaipur, and Jodhpur. One marvels at the skill and control of these veteran drivers: the sudden split-second stops, the heart-stopping swerves, the consummate wrong-side off-roading skills. My own driving style on the other hand could be best described as sedate and overcautious. I rarely if ever use the top gear. Even when the highway is relatively devoid of traffic like on Sunday mornings and up ahead is only a column of fifteen Harley Davidsons from a bikers' club in Delhi returning from Tijara in Alwar, one can easily do hundred twenty to hundred forty kilometers then but I don't. My wife accuses me of having aged prematurely, mostly in a lighthearted way, but I never contradict her. I know there is a grain of truth in her exasperation. There is also the matter of the pride of the artist. Her own driving skills, I regretfully admit, are far superior to mine. Even her parking skills are legendary. On Sunday mornings neighbors regularly borrow her to extricate a stricken Honda Brio or a Hyundai Accent cowering behind a visiting Toyota Fortuner. Also moving sedately alongside would be the long, forty-foot vehicle trailers and cranes and heavy-machinery vehicles going towards Bilaspur, Tapukara, and Taudu, where Amazon India has a huge state-of-the-art warehouse, and other industrial towns along the long Rajasthan–Haryana border. Along with them would be the Tata 407s and the heavier vehicles of the movers and packers, [End Page 17] relocating families to new gated colonies in Dharuhera, Bhiwadi, and Neemrana over the weekend. These are the new suburbs of Delhi. Just after the Khirki Dhaula toll plaza, after I exit the Gurgaon city limits, I usually stop at the Indian Oil service station just before the McDonald's drive-in to fill up on diesel. Fifteen liters of it cost me about 750 rupees and I am good for the weekend and the Monday-morning drive back to Delhi. For city driving I use my wife's black 2012 model Volkswagen Polo. The publishing firm where I work, Peacock India, is in Green Park, about five or six kilometers from my 3bhk ground-floor flat in d-4. In the mornings my wife usually drops me off on her way to Chanakyapuri. In the evenings I take the metro's yellow line back to Chhatarpur, and from there a shared Uber to Vasant Kunj. Last Friday too I made the scheduled stop at the service station. There I noticed a brand-new maroon Maruti Alto, with the pink paper ribbons still pasted on its smashed bonnet, parked near the empty pollution-check cubicle. Four or five men stood near the damaged car, from which I could gather engine oil, brake fluid, and coolant were now steadily leaking. It would have to be towed to the nearest workshop for extensive repairs. Of the men gathered around the car, four of them looked to be service-station attendants; and the fifth, dressed nicely in a blue quilted jacket and black formal trousers and looking visibly shocked, must be the owner of the car, I reckoned. In the car itself, I could see through...

Artist, John Paul Strain: The Last Man Standing

Artist, John Paul Strain: The Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing: Kansas's Failure to Recognize the Common Interest Doctrine

Last Man Standing: Kansas's Failure to Recognize the Common Interest Doctrine

“Master of Ceremonies”: The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War–Era Los Angeles

This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs’s little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temporal and spatial history of American racial construction. In April 1865, a group of pro-Confederate Angelenos was arrested for celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and transported to the local Union headquarters at Drum Barracks. One man stood out from the group. Identified in newspaper accounts as “Peter Biggs, a negro,” the free African American barber was, according to one memoir, placed in the charge of six Union cavalrymen and “made to foot it” some twenty miles south to Drum Barracks, with “an iron chain and ball attached to his ankle.” The ball and chain highlighted this former slave’s “uncertain position” in Civil War Los Angeles, and yet, Biggs appeared “unfazed” to passers-by. Having already proclaimed his “ardent attachment to the cause of Secession,” Biggs gave “three cheers for Jeff Davis” when meeting acquaintances along the road.1 How might historians understand the actions of this former slave and free black barber in Civil War Los Angeles?

Whither the Aborigine

Whither the Aborigine

The “Last Man Standing” Fallacy or Why It’s Not Nice to Play with Denominators

Workplace wellness research is notorious for what I refer to as The “Last Man Standing” fallacy. This approach typically only includes measurements on people who complete consecutive years of an assessment, screening, or other intervention, which is often a minority of the originally participating population (the bulk of the population being lost to dropout). By definition, of course, a self-selected highly persistent population is not reflective of the whole. Nothing in the health fields is more consistently evidence-based than the abject failure of weight loss interventions to achieve long-term success for any but a tiny minority of those who participate. This does not stop proponents authoring weight loss studies from claiming just the opposite. To make it look like long-term weight loss is actually happening, these researchers often base their claims on the relatively few “survivors” who stay to the end of the intervention after everyone else has dropped out. To demonstrate how they perpetrate the “Last Man Standing Fallacy,” I examine a recent weight loss drug study for problems with attrition.

The altered vestibular-evoked myogenic and whole-body postural responses in old men during standing

Age-related decrements within the sensorimotor system may lead to alterations and impairments in postural control, but a link to a vestibular mechanism is unclear. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether vestibular control of standing balance is altered with adult aging. Eight old (~77years) and eight young (~26years) men stood without aids on a commercially available force plate with their head turned to the right, arms relaxed at their sides and eyes closed while receiving stochastic vestibular stimuli (0–25Hz, root mean square amplitude=0.85mA). Surface electromyography signals were sampled from the left soleus, medial gastrocnemius and tibialis anterior. Whole-body balance, as measured by the anteroposterior forces and muscle responses, was quantified using frequency (coherence and gain functions) and time (cumulant density function) domain correlations with the vestibular stimuli. Old men exhibited a compressed frequency response of the vestibular reflex with a greater relative gain at lower frequencies for the plantar flexors and anteroposterior forces than young. In the time domain, the peak amplitude of the short latency response was 45–64% lower for the plantar flexors and anteroposterior forces (p≤0.05) in the old than young, but not for the tibialis anterior (p=0.21). The old men had a 190% and 31% larger medium latency response for only the tibialis anterior and anteroposterior forces, respectively, than young (p≤0.01). A strong correlation between the tibialis anterior and the force response was also detected (r=0.80, p<0.01). In conclusion, net vestibular-evoked muscle responses led to smaller short and larger medium latency peak amplitudes in anteroposterior forces for the old. The present results likely resulted from a compressed and lower operational frequency range of the vestibular reflexes and the activation of additional muscles (tibialis anterior) to maintain standing balance.

Autoavaliação de saúde, envolvimento social e fragilidade em idosos ambulatoriais

OBJETIVOS: Investigar relações entre autoavaliação global de saúde e de saúde referenciada a comparação social, fragilidade biológica e envolvimento social indicado por atividades avançadas de vida diária (AAVD) em idosos ambulatoriais. MÉTODOS: 150 idosos (60 anos de idade e mais) sem déficits auditivos, visuais e cognitivos e com satisfatória comunicação verbal foram avaliados em suas características demográficas, autopercepção de saúde, critérios que integram as medidas de fragilidade de Fried et al.,22 e cinco domínios de AAVD. RESULTADOS: A amostra com 96 mulheres (m=77,2 anos±6,7) e 54 homens (m=76 anos±8,5) foi estratificada em três grupos etários, com predominância de 70 a 79 anos. A maioria avaliou a própria saúde como de qualidade intermediária (50%) ou boa (31,8%). A categoria de AAVD mais frequente foi a social. Os homens se destacaram pelo desempenho significativamente maior de AAVD do domínio físico; 56% dos idosos foram classificados como frágeis; 41,2% como pré-frágeis, destacando-se as mulheres e aqueles com 70 anos e mais. Os frágeis apresentaram piores autoavaliações de saúde e de saúde comparada a de outros da mesma idade e pior desempenho de AAVD, com destaque para as mulheres e para aqueles com 80 anos e mais. CONCLUSÕES: A autoavaliação de saúde positiva e a manutenção do envolvimento social integram condições para amenizar o impacto da possível diminuição do desempenho de atividades complexas de vida diária em idosos frágeis ambulatoriais.