Representative Characters Research Articles

Research on External Manifestation of Character Existentialism in Chinese Animation in the New Media Era - Taking The Outcast, Killer Seven and Incarnation as Examples

Existentialism, after over a century of development, has evolved from a philosophical idea into a way of life. In recent years, a group known as "refined egoists" has emerged in both reality and animated works. The appearance of these extreme existentialists who ignore social responsibility reveals that in this era of transition between old and new ideologies, existentialist thought has awakened in people's value systems. This article intends to analyze the external manifestations of character’s existentialism in animation works to summarize the reflections of objective phenomena in reality and to discuss the contradictions and problems that the current young generation are facing between themselves and society. This article uses qualitative research methods to analyze representative characters from three animated series, The Outcast, Killer Seven, and Incarnation, and uses a thematic analysis method that combines existentialism theory to summarize the external manifestations of characters in terms of their internal conflicts, conflicts between individuals, and conflicts between individuals and society. These manifestations include the denial of determinism, affirmation of subjectivity under relative justice, identification with minority groups, denial of authority, and autonomous choice of values. Young generation people are confronted with unprecedentedly great uncertainty and insecurity brought about by the freedom of choice, as well as the social reality of the gradual awakening of existentialist consciousness in contemporary society.

Fã cínico: falando a verdade descaradamente

Abstract The aim of the current study is to assess how fans structure their fannish based on discussions about the insertion of political agendas in media products, which is a recurring behavior observed in the entertainment industry in recent times. Based on the analysis of Star Wars fan’s interactions about the recent introduction of characters representing political identities in the saga, the study addressed the Foucauldian concept of subjectivation through the manifestation of truths, by adopting his archaeogenealogical method. Two moral agencies resulted from this analysis, namely: the innovation evaluated by Star Wars fans concerning the insertion of new representative characters in the saga and the adequacy such changes need to meet, although remaining in compliance with the established form of the saga canon. Both agencies reflect the concern with maintaining the franchise’s status quo rather than with the political agenda. The current study has evaluated the courage to tell the truth as a cynical practice committed to perpetuate its own subjectivity by ruling other truths.

The Impact of Feminism and the Outlook for Its Development: A Case Study of the Film Titanic

In the framework of a love story, the film Titanic portrays the behaviour and psychology of multiple characters with distinct personalities, shaping many unique female and male images. While telling the story, it expresses profound feminist ideas, illustrates the conflict between two genders, and leads people to think deeply about gender relations. In this paper, the author analyzes some representative characters in the film and examines the impact of feminism on literature, film, economy, and politics, emphasizing the importance and potential of women in various fields. It is found that feminism encourages women to start and participate in a business, and it promotes the success of women in the fields of technology and business. Finally, this paper discusses the development and challenges of feminism in contemporary society. Feminism not only provides important support for the cause of gender equality but also inspires more people to pay attention to gender equality issues and strive to build a more just and inclusive society. The influence of feminism will continue to drive social development and change.

A Video Game for Entrepreneurship Learning in Ecuador: Development Study.

Games have been a part of human life since ancient times and are taught to children and adults who want to simultaneously have fun and learn. Nevertheless, in the third decade of this century, technology invites us to consider using video games to learn topics such as entrepreneurship. However, developing a serious game (SG) is difficult because everyone who forms part of the game development team requires adequate learning resources to acquire the necessary information and improve their game development skills. This work aimed to detail the experience gained in developing ATIC (Aprende, Trabaja, Innova, Conquista [learn, work, innovate, conquer]), an SG proposed for teaching and learning entrepreneurship. To develop a videogame, first, we established a game development team formed by professors, professionals, and students who have different roles in this project. Scrum was adopted as a project management method. To create concept art for the video game, designers collected ideas from various games, known as "getting references." In contrast, narratology considers the life of a recent university graduate immersed in real life, considering locations, characteristics, and representative characters from an essential city of Ecuador. In a Unity 3D video game in ATIC, the life of a university student who graduates and ventures into a world full of opportunities, barriers, and risks, where the player needs to make decisions, is simulated. The art of this video game, including sounds and music, is based on the landscape and characteristics of and characters from Cuenca, Ecuador. The game aims to teach entrepreneurs the mechanisms and processes to form their businesses. Thus, we developed the following elements of an SG: (1) world, (2) objects, (3) agents, and (4) events. The narrative, mechanics, and art of video games are relevant. However, project management tools such as leaderboards and appointments are crucial to influencing individuals' decision to continue to play, or not play, an SG. Developing a serious video game is not an easy task. It was essential to consider many factors, such as the video game audience, needs of learning, context, similarities with the real world, narrative, game mechanics, game art, and game sounds. However, overall, the primary purpose of a serious video game is to transmit knowledge in a fun way and to give adequate and timely feedback to the gamer. Finally, nothing is possible if the members of game development team are not satisfied with the project and not clear about their roles.

Characterization of leaf morphology of three species of Eremanthus (Vernonieae, Asteraceae): Untangling similar species

The genus Eremanthus (Asteraceae) covers mostly arboreal species, popularly known as “candeia”. Three of these species, E. erythropappus, E. incanus and E. glomerulatus, are endemic to and extensively distributed in Brazil. “Candeias” are of commercial interest due to the good quality of their wood and, mainly, to their essential oils, used for various therapeutic purposes. These species of “candeia” have similar vegetative characteristics, mainly to E. erythropappus and E. incanus, making them difficult to differentiate in the field. This study aimed to characterize the anatomy and external morphology of these “candeia” species to facilitate identification. Qualitative and comparative analysis of the anatomy, histochemistry and ultrastructure of the leaf surface and the external morphology of the leaves were performed. The greatest differentiation between the three species was possible through the external morphological characteristics. The most representative characters were used to elaborate a dichotomous key.

MODELING OF TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS USING 3D SOFTWARE THAT IDENTIFIES AND ENHANCES THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF RIOBAMBA

The new generations are losing the historical and cultural significance of the different characters that participate during the Christmas festivities in the city of Riobamba; the introduction of foreign characters through movies, series, animations, or other media has caused the loss of identity, history, and traditions in the city. The purpose of this research work is to present, rescue, and preserve the cultural manifestations of the town of Riobamba, relying on three characters identified for performing dances and dances of the local culture during the parade of the child King of Kings. The ethnographic or qualitative research methodology was applied, using observation as a data collection technique. Using the Autodesk Maya software for 3D modeling, it was possible to obtain high-quality images of the representative characters. The character modeling process followed the phases of the XP software development methodology. The survey was used to validate the results. It is possible to validate the three characters before a sample of 287 students of the Software. Graphic Design careers, identifying that the Identification and Similarity variables present values between 51.6% and 96.9%, equivalent to satisfactory and very satisfactory; the lowest point has the Chromatic variable. of the Curiquingue character with 43.9% that guarantees a redesign of the character for future works. The enhancement of the cultural heritage of Riobamba is achieved in public surveys since some students state that they do not know the modeled characters but are willing to use souvenirs to make more people aware of the culture and heritage of Riobamba.

The spectacle of feminism and machismo in two Peruvian cumbia singers: Marisol and Tony Rosado.

The objective of this research is to analyze and interpret the entertainment section of the most important media in Peru, concentrated on two private companies: Grupo La República and Grupo El Comercio, with great journalistic dominance of national information. The entertainment section is as old as the foundation of the newspapers themselves. The method of analysis with qualitative documents has allowed us to reach the conclusion that the fight for gender equality promoted by the government is a spectacle for the national press. The entertainment section of the Peruvian press has exposed the private lives of representative characters such as the singers Marisol, "La Faraona de la Cumbia" and Tony Rosado, "El Ruiseñor de la Cumbia", from there the differences in feminism tolerated in Marisol and machismo censored in Rosado are popularized. It is concluded that the exposure of the struggle for gender equality is entertainment news where machismo and feminism are underhandedly justified with the parameter established with these public figures, that is, Peruvian cumbia singer-songwriters, and that offers evidence of the tolerance to the feminine voice that incites machismo, justifies the mistreatment of men and makes the male complaint a synonym of cowardice.

Recent Advances in Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of Heteroatom (B/S/P)-Containing Chromophores

Recent Advances in Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of Heteroatom (B/S/P)-Containing Chromophores

Editorial: Emerging roles and mechanisms of stromal cells in carcinomas at the molecular level

For an extended period, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has not been focused on in the field of 20 cancer biology before Stephen Paget's "seed and soil" hypothesis [1]. The representative characters of 21 cells involved in TME are high plasticity and continuous phenotypic and functional change. For 22 example, the desmoplastic reaction in pancreatic cancer is a critical histological observation, tightly 23 associated with significantly increasing the interstitial fluid pressure within the tumor niche.

Nivicolous myxomycetes from the Navarran and French Pyrenees

Twenty-six collections of myxomycetes are reported from localities in northern Spain and southern France, representing nine species: Diderma alpinum, D. europaeum, D. fallax, D. meyerae, Lamproderma ovoideum, L. sauteri, Lepidoderma peyerimhoffii, Meriderma echinulatum, and Physarum vernum. The LM and SEM micrographs included illustrate the most representative characters of each species.

<em>The Silmarillion</em> by J.R.R. Tolkien and <em>Shahnameh</em> by Firdausi: A Sadraic Interpretation of Free Will and Determinism

Fate, doom, and free will have always proved to be controversial terms among philosophers. The chief problem is whether a deterministic power prescribes the destiny of creatures or they possess pure free will in shaping their destinies. Mulla Sadra, a 17th century Iranian philosopher, believes in a blending of determinism and free will which he develops in the terms of Qaza and Qadar respectively. He introduces a model of fate through which determinism and free will equally participate. Using the human soul as a model, Mulla Sadra points out that people meet their fate through several factors, one of which is free will. However, he concludes that free will and deterministic factors altogether stand within the circle of an omnipotent being. This paper presents a comparative study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and Abul-Qasem Firdausi’s Shahnameh. Both Indo-European mythologies are engaged with the clash of determinism and free will in the fabric of their plots. The authors of this paper argue that each mythology demonstrates a distinct system of free will/determinism dichotomy based on the yardstick of Mulla Sadra’s theorem. To achieve this goal, the representative characters in both works are analyzed in the context of factors and actions the characters are involved with. The determinative factors, which define actions as free or deterministic, help bring a comparison between the systems of fate in the two works.

Masks and emotional distance: a visual study of human relationships in the Covid-19 pandemic

This study addresses the social impact of the pandemic in terms of its effects on communication and emotion in spaces of everyday domestic activity. The aim is to visually and formally portray the personal, professional and citizen reality in the daily use of face masks. The analysis includes the adoption, advocacy or resistance to them, through various representative characters of different, referential social sectors. The effect of masks on communication and emotional relationships is explored through photo portraits and qualitative interviews developed in a small community in Southern Spain. This work seeks to better understand the communicative, personal and social consequences of such preventive measures.

Vortices penetrating two-flavor quark-hadron continuity

Alice and Boojums are both representative characters created by Lewis Carroll. We show that they possibly meet in cores of rotating neutron stars. Recent studies of quark-hadron continuity suggest that neutron superfluid matter can connect smoothly to two-flavor symmetric quark matter at high densities. We study how this can be maintained in the presence of the vortices. In the neutron matter, quantized superfluid vortices arise. In the two-flavor dense quark matter, vortices carrying color magnetic fluxes together with fractionally quantized superfluid circulations appear as the most stable configuration, and we call these as the non-Abelian Alice strings. We show that three integer neutron superfluid vortices and three non-Abelian Alice strings of different color magnetic fluxes with total color flux canceled out are joined at a junction called a Boojum.

Using Digital Technologies to Uncover the Geographic Dimension of Tolstoy’s War and Peace

In a work the size of War and Peace, with its mass of detail, digital mapping can assist in productively visualizing space and movement. This article looks at the geographical movements of three representative characters: Pierre Bezukhov, Helene Bezukhova, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Of these characters, two have fictional geographic journeys constructed by Tolstoy, whereas Napoleon has an historically authenticated journey, used as a point of comparison to reveal how Tolstoy manipulates space in War and Peace. The geographical trajectories of these three characters, though only a small slice of a complicated, broad network of movements, illustrate how space and travel away from centers of meaning and power reflect and assist character development.

Analysis of the Female Characters in On the Road

On the Road is the masterpiece of Kerouac who is one of the most important writers of “Beat Generation” in America in the mid-20th century. It is acclaimed to be the Bible of “Beat Generation”. The novel narrates the stories of how Dean and his friends——some representative characters of the Beats travelled across continental U.S. several times and searched for new lifestyles and new faith on the road. In this novel, male characters are the main characters and the descriptions of all the female characters account for just one sixth of the whole book. Although the portrayal of the female characters is not profound like that of the male characters, the different personalities Kerouac endued the female characters are also the highlights of the novel. As a novel with strong nature of autobiography, Kerouac put his attitude and emotion into his portrayal. So it also can be a reflection of Kerouac’s female concepts. This paper aims at analyzing the female characters in On the Road by studying the types of the female characters in the novel and summarizing Kerouac’s female concepts reflected from the novel.

Critical revision of some myxomycetes in the Argentinian herbaria BAFC and LIL – 5

Sixty-two collections conserved in the herbaria BAFC and LIL are revised herein. Of the 31 different myxomycete species represented, seven are new records for Argentina. These are Arcyria affinis, Badhamia gigantospora, Cribraria purpurea, Fuligo intermedia, Physarum carneum, Physarum javanicum, and Physarum penetrale. The LM and SEM micrographs included illustrate the most representative characters of each species.

Iconic Character of Bestiary Images in the Novels of F. Werfel and E. Canetti

The anthropomorphic depiction of animals bearing allegorical meanings is the well-represented and actively demanded bestiary of world literature. It reflects the mythological thinking of writers and is an integral part of the worldview basis on which literary works are based. Bestiary images in the artistic text acquire the status of universal representative symbols. This study discusses bestiary images in novelistic works of Austrian writers, Franz Werfel (1890-1945) and Elias Canetti (1905-1994). Using the semiotic approach, the researchers define a range of images and meanings that are related to these two writers as representatives of the era of historical upheavals and individual authorial purposes that reflect the basis of the worldview of each of them. A bestiary image in a literary text can function as an iconic sign, which, on the one hand, reflects the material object in its materiality, and on the other hand, contributes to the emerging of "new", constructed by analogy, aesthetic reality. The similarity to the referent, in this case, is included in the overall system of ontological values. An iconic sign, after Ch.S. Pierce, refers to a simple sign based on the similarity to a thing and participating in the creation of symptoms of a higher order – symbols. Bestiary images in a literary text acquire the status of universal representative characters. The functioning of animal images in the text, their nomination, combinatorics, communication with the elements, time periods, and behavioural patterns are the way of the study of the philosophical foundations of the author's world picture. Canetti’s bestiary is represented by metaphorical images of a monkey, a cat, a pig, and a tortoise, which are used as a tool for analysing various psychic and psychological states of the characters of the novel "Blinding" (Die Blendung, 1931-1932). Multiple forms of anthropopathy and zoomorphism are based on the writer's attitude towards the initial "equality" of man and animal. The study of zoopoetics (the term of J. Lacan) of Werfel’s novel "Barbara, or Piety" (Barbara oder die Frömigkeit, 1929) helps to reveal the axiological foundation upon which the writer constructs his novels. The functioning of images of animals, a horse, for example, is related to the semantics of sacrifice that is rethought and acquiring new meanings in a new historical context. Composite images connecting different characteristics and associated with various natural elements are important. It is apparent that the study of the works by Werfel and Canetti, given the iconic nature of bestiary images, seems relevant to detect common patterns of development of European literature and culture of the first third of the 20th Century.

"A World Against Itself": The Dynamics of Good Nature and Virtue in Henry Fielding's Plays

In the eighteenth-century England, the aesthetic vision of most contemporary writers of the time was closely related to the social, political and religious system of belief. Augustan writers, satirists particularly, sought to reclaim for literature the morally privileged status, they thought, it supposedly held in the context of the Latitudinarian system of thought; the very rationale behind the ethic of good nature that distinguishes major writings of the time, namely the dramatic, journalistic and fictional works of the major eighteenth century novelist and satirist Henry Fielding. His major dramatic works not only display the influence of the Latitudinarian philosophy but mainly Shaftesbury’s moral theory of innate goodness, which Fielding revokes, offering then a representation of a more universal moral frame which rather reflects and criticizes the society of the author’s time. The providential pattern that Fielding creates in his plays valorizes indeed the principle of good-nature and the triumph of virtue against all apparent social evils. Most significantly, it has positioned Henry Fielding himself in a “comedic” tradition in which characters are not ultimately responsible for themselves. In the present paper, and with reference to Earl of Shaftesbury’s assumptions about the ideal good-natured man, I intend to evince that Fielding uses the value of good-nature and virtue not as pure moral abstractions, but rather as nodal points around which he organizes, and through which he presents a broad cultural and historical vision. With reference to his major regular comedies, and a through a close study of his most representative characters, I will attempt to evince that this underlying moral vision is more than an abstract rumination of the relative power of good and evil. When we view and consider such concepts as virtue, good-nature and ill-nature in the immediate contexts of his plays, we conceive a picture of a broad cultural landscape in which ethical values become nodal points of meaning, in which Fielding represents both the most basic, traditional values and the most sordid everyday events and attitudes of his society.

Research on the recognition technology of human relationship in face image based on deep learning

Face images contain rich and complex information, and similar genes are directly expressed as facial resemblance. In this paper, based on the theoretical background of biology and aiming at the wider application of artificial intelligence in the field of face image analysis, deep learning based recognition of the kinship of people in face images is studied in depth.Kinship recognition is a new and challenging research. In order to recognize the kinship between characters from face images, this paper defines a new correlation feature to represent the correlation between two characters. Based on the idea of multi-layer self-encoder to input and reconstruct the target, and combined with the powerful feature extraction ability of deep convolutional neural network, this paper designs a new deep convolutional self-coding neural network, and the correlation feature is the activation value of the deep hidden layer of this deep neural network. The deep convolutional self-coding neural network USES back propagation algorithm in a supervised way. With the deepening of the network hierarchy, the identity features of representative characters are extracted from face images step by step, and the identity features of a pair of characters are fused into the associated features that represent the relationship between them. Based on deep learning, the associated features extracted from face images can effectively identify a given character relationship.

Tony Kushner’s Homebody/ Kabul: A time of connection?

ABSTRACT This study is of threefold. First, it investigates the way Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul was received when it first premiered a few months after the events of September 11. The timing is particularly important because considerable emphasis is often placed on the relevance of the play to the historical and political context as an important reason for the play’s success. Second, the study explores the way representative male and female Afghan characters are portrayed in the play, especially in comparison to their British counterparts. The discussion in this part shows how reviewers and critics considered the issue of characterization in Homebody/Kabul as another important measure for the play’s degree of success. Thirdly, the paper explores whether Homebody/Kabul did in fact succeed in offering an alternative perspective of the Afghan people and their culture that challenges the hegemonic, static, and considerably Orientalist discourse in the Western mainstream media.