Principal Characters Research Articles

Translation and the Rediscovery of Rhetoric, by Michelle Bolduc, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies

Michelle Bolduc’s Translation and the Rediscovery of Rhetoric is, as a work of scholarship, quite formidable. Its 443 pages include 1,324 footnotes and 71 pages of bibliography. Its historical focus is brilliant and complex, with chapters on medieval translatio, Cicero’s translation and replanting of Greek rhetoric, Brunetto Latini’s translation of Cicero, Jean Paulhan’s reinvention of rhetoric following Latini, and the New Rhetoric Project’s own taking up of this tradition in the twentieth century.From one perspective, the book can be read somewhat straightforwardly as a carefully selected history of rhetoric, and anyone who reads the book from this perspective would gain some serious knowledge of the rhetorical tradition. A clear narrative guides the reader along even as the story is a story of retrieval, moving forward by reaching back. The subnarratives within this larger telling are full of lively episodes that are historically revealing and biographically rich. At times the book reads almost like a series of intellectual mini-novels—with standout characters.However, the overriding concern here is not the characters or the stories—as interesting as those may be—but the illuminating of the historical process of translation in a very large sense—in the sense of the medieval topos of translatio, a sense that is dynamic and propelling and history forming and in fact explains how traditions generate. The principal characters in this story are all engaged in the translation of rhetorical texts, the transfer of meaning from one language to another—as well as, often, a transfer from one culture to another of rhetoric as a pedagogy and a sociopolitical practice. Opening up these civilizational channels through translation is part of the dynamic of translatio, and the outcome is, in part, to generate civilizational practices that address contemporary challenges by placing them in the light of a translation of historical rhetorical texts. So, for example, when Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca write The New Rhetoric as a culmination of that postwar intellectual arc that included Perelman’s work with the UN, they are engaged in a translatio whose purpose is to defeat violence through the recovery of rhetoric as a form of effective reasoning in conditions of uncertainty.Bolduc is quite careful to avoid any notion of a continuous rational development of the translatio of rhetoric over time, but she insists that breaks and failures can themselves (later) be seen to have contributed to this translatio in serendipitous ways. Her serious and extensive treatment of Brunetto Latini and Jean Paulhan is instructive here. And yet this is not only a work of careful historical scholarship. One of the book’s first examples of translatio is Alan of Lille’s mind-boggling account of the incarnation as mystical translatio, the Word translated into flesh, and the book’s afterword virtually concludes with a discussion of The New Rhetoric’s modern notions of communion and freedom. This is also a work of vision—and of multilingual hope.

On q-series for principal characters of standard [formula omitted]-modules

We present sum-sides for principal characters of all standard (i.e., integrable and highest-weight) irreducible modules for the affine Lie algebra A2(2). We use modifications of five known Bailey pairs; three of these are sufficient to obtain all the necessary principal characters. We then use the technique of Bailey lattice appropriately extended to include “out-of-bounds” values of one of the parameters, namely, i. We demonstrate how the sum-sides break into six families depending on the level of the modules modulo 6, confirming a conjecture of McLaughlin–Sills.

(2021) Volume 2, Issue 4 Cultural Implications of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC Authors: Dr. Unsa Jamshed Amar Jahangir Anbrin Khawaja Abstract: This study is an attempt to highlight the cultural implication of CPEC on Pak-China relations, how it will align two nations culturally, and what steps were taken by the governments of two states to bring the people closer.

(2021) Volume 2, Issue 4 Cultural Implications of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC Authors: Dr. Unsa Jamshed Amar Jahangir Anbrin Khawaja Abstract: This study is an attempt to highlight the cultural implication of CPEC on Pak-China relations, how it will align two nations culturally, and what steps were taken by the governments of two states to bring the people closer.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COLLISION AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTED DISCURSIVE PRACTICES: GENDER TRANSFORMATION IN THE NORMAL PEOPLE

The article linchpin is the psychological collision of the principal character against the discursive practices of society and aspects of the transformation of her identity in Normal People (2018) as recounted by Judith Butler’s in her concept of gender performativity. It highlights how discursive practices affect the psyche of people and the fact that gender identity is not permanent or constant, but rather fluid. It also reveals how inequality is enforced upon the lives of different characters and how badly they are being victimized by oppression and violence, as a result, they have developed/created their own different gender identity in society. Rooney attempts to show the effects of the discursive and constructed practices on the female characters, particularly, Marianne. Gender-based segregation has been observed in this novel as a result of these discursive practices. The paper shows that there are incidents in Normal People that depict how patriarchal society's constructed practices and regulatory standards on the female body create gender performances. Rooney exponentiates the issue of a woman's place in a patriarchal society through her female protagonists, and the novel examines gender performativity as well as the influence patriarchal culture has on female characters. This research aims to not only establish how gender performativity influences a character's identity but also to show how gender identity is unstable and a matter of construction. However, according to Judith Butler, ideology is imposed on us by social convention or culture. It appears that changes in gender identity can be influenced by many aspects as the social, and economic environment that causes it to occur a change.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COLLISION AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTED DISCURSIVE PRACTICES: GENDER TRANSFORMATION IN THE NORMAL PEOPLE

The article linchpin is the psychological collision of the principal character against the discursive practices of society and aspects of the transformation of her identity in Normal People (2018) as recounted by Judith Butler’s in her concept of gender performativity. It highlights how discursive practices affect the psyche of people and the fact that gender identity is not permanent or constant, but rather fluid. It also reveals how inequality is enforced upon the lives of different characters and how badly they are being victimized by oppression and violence, as a result, they have developed/created their own different gender identity in society. Rooney attempts to show the effects of the discursive and constructed practices on the female characters, particularly, Marianne. Gender-based segregation has been observed in this novel as a result of these discursive practices. The paper shows that there are incidents in Normal People that depict how patriarchal society's constructed practices and regulatory standards on the female body create gender performances. Rooney exponentiates the issue of a woman's place in a patriarchal society through her female protagonists, and the novel examines gender performativity as well as the influence patriarchal culture has on female characters. This research aims to not only establish how gender performativity influences a character's identity but also to show how gender identity is unstable and a matter of construction. However, according to Judith Butler, ideology is imposed on us by social convention or culture. It appears that changes in gender identity can be influenced by many aspects as the social, and economic environment that causes it to occur a change.

A conjecture of Cameron and Kiyota on sharp characters with prescribed values

Let χ be a virtual (generalized) character of a finite group G and be the image of χ on The pair is said to be sharp of type L or L-sharp if If the principal character of G is not an irreducible constituent of χ, the pair is called normalized. In this paper, we first provide some counterexamples to a conjecture that was proposed by Cameron and Kiyota in 1988. This conjecture states that if is L-sharp and then the inner product is uniquely determined by L. We then prove that this conjecture is true in the case that is normalized, χ is a character of G, and L contains at least an irrational value.

Chebyshev polynomials and inequalities for Kleinian groups

The principal character of a representation of the free group of rank two into [Formula: see text] is a triple of complex numbers that determines an irreducible representation uniquely up to conjugacy. It is a central problem in the geometry of discrete groups and low dimensional topology to determine when such a triple represents a discrete group which is not virtually abelian, that is, a Kleinian group. A classical necessary condition is Jørgensen’s inequality. Here, we use certain shifted Chebyshev polynomials and trace identities to determine new families of such inequalities, some of which are best possible. The use of these polynomials also shows how we can identify the principal character of some important subgroups from that of the group itself.

«РОМАНТИЧЕСКИЙ» АБСУРД: «ВТОРЖЕНИЕ» АРТЮРА АДАМОВА И «ЧАТТЕРТОН» АЛЬФРЕДА ДЕ ВИНЬИ

The article contains an intertextual analysis of the play “The Invasion” (1949) by Arthur Adamov, one of the classical examples of the drama of the absurd. In his dramaturgical experience of 1949, Arthur Adamov demonstrates the acceptance of the XIX century French literature romantic tradition and significant refraction of this tradition in the coordinate system of the poetics of the absurd. Being open about his main source — the play “Chatterton” (1834) by Alfred de Vigny — Adamov intentionally strengthens and sharpens the theme of the tragic forlornness of a great artist who lost faith in himself in the face of a crisis of faith in the world mind. Adamov’s principal character is a filiation of the image of the romantic poetmessiah. The principal character of de Vigny and the principal character of Adamov have in common a vocation associated with the sacred power of the Word (the Poet and the Keeper of the Message), and fervor in following this high vocation; opposition to the world of ordinary people; loyalty to the individual life code. In the context of the mid-twentieth century philosophical views system, based on the idea of the absurd, Adamov revises the rules by which the artistic world is constructed, and transforms some romantic motives and characteristics. Love and creativity no longer perform a saving function; escape becomes the movement of an individual into the space of the inner prison. The fate of Adamov’s principal character cannot be shared by anyone else. The principal character is devoid of a demiurgical quality; he is doomed to plumb the depths of the concept of comprehensive futility and observe the loss of meanings at all levels of human existence. The analysis of the figurative system of “The Invasion” proves the romantic genesis of the absurdism of the twentieth century, confirming the theoretical concept of romanticism as a stable paradigm of artistic consciousness, which has retained its relevance in the modern era.

Take What You Can Carry: A Novel by Gian Sardar

Reviewed by: Take What You Can Carry: A Novel by Gian Sardar Alan Ali Saeed (bio) Gian Sardar. Take What You Can Carry: A Novel. Lake Union Publishing. Take What You Can Carry is the second novel by Gian Sardar, a young Kurdish American writer, and is a cross-cultural love story that explores historical events. Olivia is an American and Delan is a migrant from Iraqi Kurdistan who is working as a Hollywood actor. They meet and fall in love in California in the late 1970s. An invitation to a family wedding in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1979 leads to an unforgettable visit, during which Olivia is plunged into the horror of the Ba’athist Iraqi regime’s war with the Kurds. The novel is seen through Olivia’s rather naïve, if genuine, viewpoint, and the level of shock felt depends on the reader’s awareness of what happened in Iraqi Kurdistan during the campaign of Arabisation. However, such is the level of careful detail provided by Sardar that the frightening world that Olivia encounters is compelling and visceral, even if the reader knows already what she should have expected. Although the dynamics of the plot are straightforward, there are many refreshing and unusual aspects to both the characters and the way the story and situations unfold. Olivia is an aspiring photojournalist, struggling against explicit sexism to get the break to show her skills in the man’s world of 1970s California. Her bosses are patronising. They like her but consider her to be, at best, secretarial material, lacking the sangfroid requisite for success. Sardar thus revises the common stereotype of narcissistic, ego-centred photojournalists working in troubled countries that is found in such books as Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica. Sardar also challenges the conventional stereotypes of Muslim men in American fiction, as Delan is portrayed as more liberal, caring, and progressive than many of the American men in Olivia’s workplace. This is not to say that feminist values are uncontested in Iraqi Kurdish society. Alesa Lightbourne’s The Kurdish Bike, for example, shows a very different—rural and patriarchal—Kurdistan. For Kurds, progressive, secular liberals like Delan are part of a complex Kurdish political lineage, and Delan’s sympathy for feminism is not evidence of Westernisation but rather related to long traditions of Kurdish feminism. It is invigorating to see a portrayal of a cross-cultural marriage that did not turn into the typical, well-worn story of culture clash in which a repressive [End Page 154] Muslim husband tries to stifle and inhibit his independent American wife. This is a love story in which both the principal characters are engaged in a process of self-discovery and transformation. While the relationship is not without its problems, these are very sensitively handled and deftly portrayed, shown to stem from the extreme pressures caused by the alarming situation in Iraqi Kurdistan. Olivia discovers that Delan’s reticence about his homeland when he is in the US hides not only the difficulty of explaining it to someone he feels cannot understand but also his “survivor guilt” at having escaped to California while his family and friends have not. The narrative successfully evokes an atmosphere of distrust and danger in Kurdistan. A powerful moment comes when Delan and his friend play good Samaritan and help a drunk Arab man they see in the street return home. To their horror, they discover he is a member of the security forces. Any wrong mannerism seen or Kurdish accent to their Arabic heard could have all of them, including Olivia, facing death or worse. Another example of careful detail is found in the rich, lyrical descriptions of the otherwise austere Kurdish countryside and the ever-present mountains as well as the kindness and generosity that determine Kurdish social relations. Sardar’s lyricism feels like part of the Kurdish literary tradition and culture, in which poetry is held in extremely high regard. The novel relies on the contrast between two worlds to delineate a binary opposition between the US and Iraqi Kurdistan, even as it challenges and de-constructs the logic of that opposition. California appears evanescent compared to the reality of Kurdistan. A...

“Georeferencing” and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s narrative strategy (on the material of “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”)

The article approaches the narrative strategy employed by a famous American horror-writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his only novel “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (1927) and introduces new terms – “georeferencing” and “georeference.” By the latter we mean a toponymical allusion, i. e. an implicit reference to the precedential text incorporated in a toponym (e. g. the author mentions Transylvania to make a georeference to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”). Lovecraft employs georeferencing and other forms of literary allusions to medieval legends, as well as to famous gothic novels written by his predecessors Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustav Meyrink, Bram Stoker, etc. to create a meaningful context for his own novel. His goal is to create a common hypertextual universe, which can and will be productively navigated by a prepared reader. This strategy makes it possible for the reader to uncover hidden logics behind the fragmentary discourse and even foresee the outcome of the central battle between the principal characters. Lovecraft’s sophisticated intention and expert plot-structuring allows us to view “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” as a daring Modernist writing of the period, as well as to reassess Lovecraft’s reputation and cultural impact on the US literature of his time.

Patriarchy and Virginity Myth in the Mahābhārata

Scriptures are often used to make patriarchal control sacrosanct over women’s bodies. A stereotypical monogamous woman is generally idealised by patriarchy; Polyandrous Draupadī in the Mahābhārata, however, stands sharply in contrast and the epic struggles to legitimise it by different myths to soothe the moral discomfort. Principal women characters of the epic like Draupadī, Kuntī and Satyavatī having more than one man in their life suggest that during the early stages of development of the epic, the values that governed man–women relations were not as rigid as they became later. During the growth of the epic, the lives of these women characters were transformed according to patriarchal perception, which expects that a woman should be a virgin when a man marries her. As a way out, the epic repeatedly restores the virginity of these women characters. As men are considered as owners/protectors of womens’ bodies/sexuality, the restoration seems to have restored the sense of honour and also redeemed the transgressions of men who ‘soiled’ them. Obsession with virginity also indicates the attitude of the commodification of the woman’s body. These women characters are portrayed as passive, whose lives and bodies are manipulated according to men’s perception.

RAGAM TINJAUAN ASPEK PENGEMBANGAN PROFESIONAL KEPEMIMPINAN PENDIDIKAN

AbstractThe reality in the field is that there are still many principals who do not carry out their duties and functions as educational leaders because in the process of appointment there is no transfer, the low mentality of the principal is marked by a lack of motivation and enthusiasm and lack of discipline in carrying out tasks and often arrives late and many factors Another obstacle to improving the quality of education implies low work productivity of school principals which also has implications for quality (inputs, processes, and outputs), this is inversely proportional to example. Therefore, to find out how to improve the quality of the principal's competence, more in-depth research is needed regarding the Professional Development of Educational Leadership. From this phenomenon, several research problems were formulated to find answers to the nature of the professional development of educational leadership at SMKN 1 Buahdua, how is the basis of religion, philosophy, psychology, and sociology for the development of professional leadership in education at SMKN 1 Buahdua. The methodology used in writing this paper is descriptive qualitative method with Library Research and field research approaches. Field research was carried out using interviews with the leadership and other parties related to visits to several locations in the school environment. The results of the study, the Religious Foundations of Professional Development of Educational Leadership at SMKN 1 Buahdua lead to Q.S Ali-Imron: 159 about deliberation and monotheism of the principal and noble character; wise and prudent; democratic; honest; sportsmanship; sincere in carrying out their duties with indicators always praying for their students. In terms of self-potential, Q.S Al-Isro: 70 emphasizes increasing self-potential at SMKN 1 Buahdua, especially the principal. The foundation of the Philosophy of Professional Development of Educational Leadership at SMKN 1 Buahdua leads to a Progressivism Philosophy which is always the principal continuously updates himself with various self-development efforts by continuing to hone experience so that the role of the principal at SMKN 1 Buahdua increases. The foundation of Psychology of Professional Development of Educational Leadership at SMKN 1 Buahdua leads to Developmental Psychology where the Principal as the leader of Education there continues to develop himself with various efforts, such as attending seminars. The Sociological Foundation of Professional Development of Educational Leadership at SMKN 1 Buahdua leads to an intergalactic understanding because indeed to develop professional education leaders, the principal always makes efforts to improve professionalism in leading schools by participating in various types of training in various seminar activities.Keywords: Professional Development; Educational Leadership; Religion; Philosophy; Psychology; Sociology.

Genetic diversity of the Algerian peanut population analyzed using morphological markers and seed storage proteins

Background. The peanut is one of the most important oil crops suitable for cultivation in the tropical areas of the world. Despite its agronomic importance, few studies have been carried out to assess the morphogenetic diversity of Arachis hypogaea L., especially in East African countries. The major interest of this morphologic study lies in the potential of this species to provide useful genes for the improvement of cultivated peanuts. To date, no study has been performed in Algeria to characterize local peanut varieties.Materials and methods. Thirty peanut accessions were collected from four principal areas of peanut production in Algeria. Genetic characterization using 15 agronomic characters and 25 morphological descriptors showed a high level of diversity among accessions. Principal Component Analysis and the Hierarchical Ascendant Classification were made to clarify the genetic relationship between peanut accessions.Results and discussion. Results showed that leaflet size (length and width), seed shape and size, oil content, and branching pattern were the principal characters to discriminate the screened A. hypogaea accessions. In addition to that, the weights of 10 pods and 100 seeds were the most variable traits and presented a CV of 42.53% and 40.12%, respectively. On the other hand, total storage proteins extracted were separated using SDS-PAGE and revealed thirty bands that were used to generate a matrix and make a cluster analysis using the UPGMA method, exhibiting different storage proteins compositions. Moreover , the phenotypic diversity observed agrees with the storage protein profile diversity, while the accessions grouped in similar clusters belong to the two subspecies of A. hypogaea. The results of the current study show that morphological traits and seed storage proteins can be useful for exploring the diversity among A. hypogaea accessions.

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A Solid Fluids Lexicon

In our discussions around the theme of solid fluids, we often resort to everyday words, many of them of ancient derivation and rich in association. We have decided to make a list of some of the words that come up most often – barring those that already figure as the principal characters of individual contributions – and to distribute among ourselves the task of writing a sort of mini-biography for each. The resulting lexicon with 19 entries, ranging from ‘cloud’ and ‘concrete’ to ‘wave’ and ‘wood’, serves as a conclusion to the collection as a whole.

The First Ptilodactyla Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Ptilodactylidae) Described from Eocene Baltic Amber.

Simple SummaryRecent advances in computational and tomographic methods have enabled detailed descriptions of fossil specimens embedded in amber. In this study, we used X-ray microcomputed tomography to reconstruct the morphology of a specimen of the beetle family Ptilodactylidae from Eocene Baltic amber. The studied specimen represents a new species of the large and wide-spread genus Ptilodactyla Illiger, 1807. It is the first described fossil species of the genus and also of the subfamily Ptilodactylinae. Our discovery sheds further light on the paleodiversity and evolution of the family as well as on the faunal composition of the European Eocene amber forests.The beetle family Ptilodactylidae contains more than 500 extant species; however, its fossil record is scarce and remains understudied. In this study, we describe a new species of Ptilodactylidae, Ptilodactyla eocenica Kundrata, Bukejs and Blank, sp. nov., based on a relatively well-preserved specimen from Baltic amber. We use X-ray microcomputed tomography to reconstruct its morphology since some of the principal diagnostic characters have been obscured by opaque bubbles. It is the third ptilodactylid species described from Baltic amber, and the first one belonging to the subfamily Ptilodactylinae. Additionally, we summarize the classification, diversity, and distribution of both extinct and extant Ptilodactylidae.

The Effect of Strengthening Character Education on Tolerance Increasing and Development of Pancasila Students in Border Area: Case of West Kalimantan Province

This paper aims to explain the relationship between the variables of Principal Leadership (PL), Extracurricular in Schools (ES), Parents’ Participation (PP), Community Leaders (CL), and Border Area Development (BAD) on Strengthening Character Education (SCE). and Strengthening Character Education (SCE) on Improving Tolerance (IT) and Pancasila Student Profiles (PSP). This paper is a case study in the state border area in West Kalimantan Province which is carried out in 6 (six) Senior High Schools. The main data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires with a sample size of 180 grade 11 students at the school who were obtained randomly (random sampling). Analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the help of the LISREL 8.70 program. The results showed PL, ES, PP, CL, and BAD on SCE, while SCE had a positive effect on IT and PSP. On the other hand, efforts to strengthening character education need to pay attention to the strength of indicators that contribute to each of these influence variables, including: the vision of the principal's character education, the availability of teaching staff / experts to support character education, provision of educational facilities character, socialization to increase awareness and tolerant behavior by involving non-formal leaders, attention to development that leads to increased understanding of differences in beliefs and ethnicities, and indicators of the availability of character education teachers in competent schools. Emphasis on these indicators will increase student tolerance and foster the profile of Pancasila students. Received: 9 April 2021 / Accepted: 19 August 2021 / Published: 5 September 2021

Becoming Québécois: Édouard and the Duchesse de Langeais between Old Worlds and New in the work of Michel Tremblay

Our identity is formed in large part by the way we see others and the way others, in their turn, see us. This is true both of Québec and of Édouard, one of the principal characters of the fictionalised Montréal universe of Michel Tremblay. A representative of the pre-1970s socio-economic inequality of French-Canadians, Édouard is further marginalised by his homosexuality. In his transvestite persona as the Duchesse de Langeais, a revised version of a Balzacian heroine, he undertakes a mocking critique of the injustices of his society from the ‘external’ point of view of this supposed French aristocrat before seizing the opportunity of an actual visit to France, hoping to find there a freer and more equitable society. But the Old World turns out to be unwelcoming and antiquated, making Édouard more aware of the hitherto unperceived advantages of his life in Montréal. Returning home, his only option is to resume his role as a provocative duchess, preparing the ground for the advent in 1976 of a modern Québec, a francophone society of the New World, internationally recognised for its openness of mind and its cultural dynamism.

Variations in morphological and epidermal features of shade and sun leaves of two species: Quercus bambusifolia and Q. myrsinifolia.

Microclimatic differences between the periphery and the interior of tree crowns result in a variety of adaptive leaf macromorphological and anatomical features. Our research was designed to reveal criteria for sun/shade leaf identification in two species of evergreen oaks, applicable to both modern and fossil leaves. We compared our results with those in other species similarly studied. For both Quercus bambusifolia and Q. myrsinifolia (section Cyclobalanopsis), leaves from single mature trees with well-developed crowns were collected in the South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China. We focus on leaf characters often preserved in fossil material. SVGm software was used for macromorphological measurement. Quantitative analyses were performed and box plots generated using R software with IDE Rstudio. Leaf cuticles were prepared using traditional botanical techniques. Principal characters for distinguishing shade and sun leaves in the studied oaks were identified as leaf lamina length to width ratio (L/W), and the degree of development of venation networks. For Q. myrsinifolia, shade and sun leaves differ in tooth morphology and the ratio of toothed lamina length to overall lamina length. The main epidermal characters are ordinary cell size and anticlinal wall outlines. For both species, plasticity within shade leaves exceeds that of sun leaves. Morphological responses to sun and shade in the examined oaks are similar to those in other plant genera, pointing to useful generalizations for recognizing common foliar polymorphisms that must be taken into account when determining the taxonomic position of both modern and fossil plants.