Pitfalls Of Life Research Articles

‘Sexuality exists on a continuum’: Broad City’s queer take on female friendship

Comedy Central’s Broad City (2014–19) features a pair of Jewish single women navigating the pleasures and pitfalls of life in New York. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s characters find inspiration and sustenance in each other, rather than their secondary and often fleeting relationships with men. Their bond exceeds heterosexual friendship, as Ilana repeatedly declares her devotion and sexual attraction to Abbi. While Abbi casually rebuffs her advances, the libidinal Ilana pursues flings with both men and women, perceiving sexual orientation as a continuum. Co-creator Ilana Glazer has declined to label her character bisexual, claiming that Broad City was inspired by the adage that ‘everyone under 30 is gay’. By equating sexual fluidity with Millennial culture, Glazer seems to diminish the series’ political significance. However, I argue the series makes key interventions in queer representation by foregrounding the bonds between women, resisting heterosexual imperatives, and introducing queer sexual practices. My article considers the series’ importance to both LGBTQIA+ and straight viewers, combining close textual readings with attention to critical and audience responses. Additionally, I draw from recent scholarship on Broad City to examine how the series’ queer humour emphasizes white Jewish identity and relies upon cultural appropriation.

The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Life as a New Consultant – an Anecdotal Review Part 2

Part two of this paper provides the author's personal insight into the first 18 months of a consultant post. Being the new consultant in town is not without considerable challenges. The aim of the second part of the paper is to provide the reader with the reality of integrating into existing units and setting a new one up from scratch. Hints and tips from other newly qualified consultants are also provided. It is hoped that this will enable future consultants to avoid the pitfalls and enjoy the pleasures of an immensely rewarding job. CPD/Clinical Relevance: To provide first-hand, real world knowledge of life as a new consultant orthodontist in the 21st century NHS.

The pleasures and pitfalls of life as a new consultant – an Anecdotal review part 1

This first of a two-part article aims to provide a road map to the budding clinician wishing to take on the role of a Consultant Orthodontist. Part 1 suggests what to consider when taking up a new post and how to create an ideal unit. Part 2 will provide the author's personal insight into the first 18 months of a consultant post. Hints and tips from other newly qualified consultants are also provided, to enable future consultants to avoid the pitfalls and enjoy the pleasures of an immensely rewarding job. CPD/Clinical Relevance: To provide first-hand, real world knowledge of life as a new consultant orthodontist in the 21st century NHS.

Siagona europaea Dejean and Poecilus (Metapedius) pantanellii A. Fiori (Coleoptera: Carabidae): two clay-soil dwelling species with different uses of the space

Siagona europaea and Poecilus pantanellii are two carabid beetles strictly bound to clay soils typical of the Italian Apennines. The first exhibits a very flat body whereas the other has more “normal” proportions, suggesting a very different use of space. We tested the use of space of both species using three sets of live pitfall traps put in place at different depths in the clay soil of a Mediterranean Hedysarum pasture. Poecilus pantanellii is a very early spring breeder and more than 90% of its individuals show epigean locomotory activity. Siagona europaea’s activity begins later, when the clay fissures become larger and deeper, and in the months of June and July about 80% of its population lives in the subterranean soil crevices. Morphometric measurements support these space use strategies: P. pantanellii has a wider antenna/eye angle and shorter antennae, indicating a possible visual component in prey recognition, as well as a thicker body and robust trochanters linked to “wedge pushing”; whereas S. europaea has longer antennae and a smaller antenna/eye angle suitable for olfactory-tactile prey recognition, and also has an extremely flat body and small trochanters. In the summer individuals climb up and down in the crevice system of clays searching for their specialised prey (worker ants exploring the space around their ant nests).

Semantics of the Painted Image in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Tod des Tizian

Form theories in Hofmannstahl’s aesthetic program aim at a reciprocal empowerment of life and art. Titian’s last painting in Tod des Tizian (1892) has to express a concept of unity and totality of all living things. Most disciples are not able to understand this, as they can’t get free of the model of existence of the aesthete, who rejects life, perceiving it as abandoned to chaos and disorder, but is incapable of replacing it with any other form because he exalts art as an object of mere idolatry, as a pure and simple instrument of defence from the pitfalls of life.

WOMEN IN Y.B. MANGUNWIJAYA'S BURUNGBURUNG RANTAU: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

According Kundera, a novel is not convention but is a writer's investigation of experience in the pitfalls of life. A novel can be used to discuss the issues of women and gender. One novel that explores the issue of women is Burung-burung Rantau by YB Mangunwijaya. There are three social processes in the formation of women's realities, namely: construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Burungburung Rantau successfully portrays the practice of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of the reality of women. Yuniati reflects the female construction of a mature woman, while Anggraini and Marineti undergo the process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Anggraini is hesitant in making decisions, while Marineti tends to be confident in her choices. The practice of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of speech acts can be seen in the dialogues of the characters in the novel. They are also evident in the choice of words, figure of speech, and sentence structures used in the frame of discourse, power, inequality, and gender perspectives.

The effi cacy of baited and live capture pitfall traps in collecting large-bodied forest carabids.

Pitfall trapping is commonly used to sample epigaeic invertebrates throughout the world. However, this technique can be ineffective for capturing some species, whilst capturing high numbers of nontarget invertebrates. This study aims to improve the effi cacy of pitfall trapping for sampling Mecodema spp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae), but also examines the potential of live pitfall traps to reduce the by-catch of other invertebrates. Four types of pitfall traps were used in two separate sampling regimes: baited kill trap versus nonbaited kill trap, and chambered live trap versus non-chambered live trap, in regenerating kauri/broadleaf mixed forest (Waitakere Ranges, Auckland, New Zealand). Results show all four types of traps sampled different components of the invertebrate community. Baited kill traps caught extremely high numbers of some groups, particularly Diptera and Coleoptera, whereas non-baited kill traps caught far fewer individuals of these groups. Both types of live capture traps caught few individuals. Three genera of large-bodied Carabidae (Ctenognathus, Holcaspis and Mecodema) were caught in similarly low numbers in both baited and non-baited traps indicating that baiting with squid is ineffective as an attractant to increase catch rates of the genus Mecodema. Although baiting did not increase carabid catches it appears that live traps worked as well as kill traps, but live traps caught fewer invertebrates and therefore signifi cantly reduce the bycatch. A negative aspect of live pitfall trapping is the potential of captured invertebrates to prey upon each other. However, no predation was observed within the traps during this study.

The pleasures and pitfalls of life as a PA

The pleasures and pitfalls of life as a PA

The Eye of the Beholder

MANY YEARS AGO, IN THE REMNANTS of our oral tradition of storytelling, children were regaled with entertaining stories that contained tacit messages. Messages embedded in stories and the manner of their telling made it more likely that they would be woven into a child's developing awareness that the meaning of things was deeper than what appeared on the surface. Such stories inoculated children against some of the social and interpersonal pitfalls of life or enabled them to understand what otherwise might be missed. One such childhood story was The Emperor's New Clothes. As I recall its telling, the story (in this very abbreviated version) was of an emperor who was to make a public appearance to show off his new clothes to the common folk of the land he ruled. But, two scoundrels had convinced him that for a handsome amount of money they could weave cloth so fine and wondrous that it would seem invisible and the clothing made from it would, in fact, be invisible but only to those who were too stupid and i...