Journey In Search Research Articles

Exploring the job search journey: unemployed graduates in Vleifontein, Makhado Municipality

The study explored the experiences of unemployed graduates at Vleifontein Village Elim in Makhado Local Municipality in Limpopo Province, South Africa. To achieve the mandate of the study, the researcher adopted a unique qualitative research approach, which gathered in-depth data from the participants. This approach, distinct in its focus on understanding the experiences of unemployed graduates, aided in the elevated understanding of the research problem. The study adopted an exploratory qualitative research design to gather or collect data from the participants, and the researcher used semi-structured interviews consisting of open-ended questions administered face-to-face to observe gestures, emotions, feelings, or even how they react to the questions. Furthermore, purposive sampling was used to select the sample that formed part of the interviews. Additionally, the study adopted the Conflict theory by Karl Marx to integrate with the study. Therefore, the findings of the study deduced that most of the participants understood the meaning of unemployment as their current socio-economic state, both from a financial and psychological perspective. Moreover, on the issue of the challenges, the findings deduced that they are not experienced and skilled enough for the jobs they are applying for. In that light, the study emphasizes the need for increased employment opportunities to minimize the negative impacts faced by unemployed graduates, which includes specialized training of graduates to render services that would make it easier for the graduates to find employment.

<최고운전> 독서교육 방법 연구

This study is to propose the oriented value and activity method of reading education of <ChoiGoWoonCheon> based on the class goal of 'reading and writing' specified in the <2022 Revised Korean Language Curriculum> announced by the Ministry of Education. Choi Chiwon in <ChoiGoWoonCheon> overcomes a national crisis with not the forces but the power of culture. Therefore reading education should be to discover the oriented values of cultural heroes. The method of expression activities was designed to include the ‘visioning the narratives’ as reading of the text in detail, ‘virtual casting’ to integrally recognize the character of the main character, 'tracking the journey of search' to organize the exploration structure of the main character, and 'media production' as a creative expression activity.

The Sense of an Ending: Culture, Capital, and the Fate of (Late) Modern Europe in Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate (1999)

As the imaginary deadline or vanishing point of the turn of millennium was drawing ever closer, its associated anxieties and apocalyptic woes offered a fertile breeding ground for suspense, horror, and the fantastic to experience a resurgence in Western cinemas. Roman Polanski’s fifteenth feature film The Ninth Gate, released in 1999, can be read among the various auteur-helmed evidences of such a trend, but also as a self-conscious exercise in the kind of trans-European filmmaking being promoted at the time within the continent, one in which Polanski himself had, willingly or not, already been cutting his teeth for almost two decades after his spiteful return from the US and Hollywood in the late 1970s. On the back of a border-crossing journey in search for three demonic books, this essay will argue, The Ninth Gate manages to discursively interlace both facets. The result, by way of an intermedial concern with the world of literature, a generic involvement with the supernatural, and a meticulous mobilization of cinematic space, location shooting and architecture, is a cynical, self-deprecating reflection on the precarious state of Europe at the time, caught between the memories of glorious but long-fading splendor and a crippling uncertainty about its future and place in an increasingly globalized world.

From Students to Colleagues: The Becoming of US International Student Affairs Professionals

This qualitative study explored international student affairs professionals’ (SA Pros) job search journey in the United States. By employing self-efficacy as a theoretical framework, nine SA Pros who were born and raised in foreign countries and pursued student affairs graduate degrees in the United States revealed five themes in their job search: past involvement as inspirations, challenges during the job search, resources from international colleagues and friends, and seeing international identity as an asset.

The Anima Archetype in Eugene Ionesco's Hunger and Thirst

The aim of this research is to examine Eugene Ionesco's Hunger and Thirst (1966), employing Carl Jung's (1875–1961) Theory of Archetypes. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of the Anima (the repressed femininity) archetype throughout the play as the protagonist, Jean, sets off on a journey in search for fulfillment. In the play's three episodes, the anima can be observed, in its positive and negative forms, in every woman, real or imaginary, in Jean's life. In the first episode, it is present, in positive form, in his wife and daughter. It is present in its negative form too: in his maternal aunt and in a woman he sees aflame in a vision in the chimney. Both are associated with feelings of guilt, fear of old age and death, but with his aunt there is an additional element, that of repulsive sexual desires. In the second episode, it is present in its positive form in a woman whom he awaits, but never comes. In the third one, it is present, once more, in his wife and daughter with whom he fails to reunite, failing thus to reunite with his inner anima and ends trapped in an eternal vicious circle of servitude.

The stranded cinderella and the wandering rascal. Two narratives of female housing exclusion

This article examines the life stories of two young Polish women who have faced severe marginalization and homelessness. The main aim of this article is to investigate how the notions of (in)visibility and (im)mobility are shaping participants' everyday lives and life stories they tell. Using concepts drawn from social sciences, as well as cultural and literary studies, this article attempts to reconstruct the narrative frameworks of their life stories. Marzena's story is a non-linear collection of adventures reminiscent of a picaresque novel, but with fractured agency, which leaves her powerless and restlessly moving around the city. Angelika, on the other hand, is trapped in a two-room dilapidated house with no running water, located in a rural part of Poland. Her narrative resembles a telenovela with melodramatic plot twists, romance and hard-to-believe revelations about the narrator's true self; further, it is a purposeful journey in search for happiness and fortune. Surprisingly, Marzena's mobility makes it unlikely for her to overcome homelessness, while the stranded Angelika finds the resilience necessary to improve her life. The proposed analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of women's experiences of homelessness and demonstrates the need to regard housing exclusion also as a biographical process.

The job search journey of Portuguese Millennials: a qualitative exploratory study

Purpose This study aims to research the job search journey of Portuguese Millennials. A job search journey is defined as the contact points between organisations and candidates throughout the job search process and the flow of this journey. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 13 individuals. Findings This paper shows that the contact points established by individuals during the first stage of their job search influence the subsequent contact points chosen to gather information about the organisation and also the journey undertaken up until the decision is made to apply for the job. Originality/value This research intends to contribute to the existing literature in two ways: it proposes a new concept which is designated the job search journey, and it maps out the job search journey of Portuguese Millennials.

Search Engine Consumer Journeys: Exploring and Segmenting Click-Through Behaviors

The consumer online search journey is viewed as one of the key determinants toward consumer purchase decisions. Using a unique disaggregated query-level data set collected from a leading Chinese search engine, we employ a latent-class, two-stage logistic regression model and identify the existence of three distinct consumer segments in the hospitality industry. Each group represents a unique stage of the consumer experience along a typical search journey, leading to a set of click-through behaviors. The consumer search and click-through insights garnered from this study provide hotel marketers with deeper understandings and actionable guidelines to the development of their search advertising campaign and (re)targeting strategies. The segmentation model and the empirical insights also demonstrate the possibility that a segment-specific ad assortment approach could improve advertising efficiency, enrich consumer’s search experience, and eventually create a win-win situation that benefit all entities involved in the hospitality-related, search advertising domain.

No Data? No Problem! A Search-Based Recommendation System With Cold Starts

Recommendation systems are essential ingredients in producing matches between products and buyers. Despite their ubiquity, they face two important challenges. First, they are data-intensive, a feature that precludes sophisticated recommendations by some types of sellers, including those selling durable goods. Second, they often focus on estimating fixed evaluations of products by consumers while ignoring state-dependent behaviors identified in the Marketing literature. We propose a recommendation system based on consumer browsing behaviors, which bypasses the “cold start” problem described above, and takes into account the fact that consumers act as “moving targets,” behaving differently depending on the recommendations suggested to them along their search journey. First, we recover the consumers' search policy function via machine learning methods. Second, we include that policy into the recommendation system's dynamic problem via a Bellman equation framework. When compared with the seller's own recommendations, our system produces a profit increase of 33%. Our counterfactual analyses indicate that browsing history along with past recommendations feature strong complementary effects in value creation. Moreover, managing customer churn effectively is a big part of value creation, whereas recommending alternatives in a forward-looking way produces moderate effects.

Феномен «путешествия в поисках знания» в османской культуре

Abstract In the 16th and 17th centuries Ottoman Turks conquered most countries of the Middle East and North Africa and reached Vienna. As а result, the power of Istanbul was established in the heterogeneous spaces of the Mediterranean. The seized territories in Europe became part of Dar al-Islam, increasing the area of direct spread of the Arab-Muslim spiritual tradition. In this context, the journey in search for knowledge (rihla) acquired special significance it contributed to the intensification of cultural and intellectual life of the Ottoman society and establishment of its ideological unity. The author examines the materials from the treatises of Medina theologian Muhammad Kibrit, Istanbul explorer Evliya Celebi and Damascus Sufi Abd al-Ghani al-Nablusi, who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, to explore the main pilgrimage routes and cultural centers of the region. The goal of this article is to analyze the content of civilizational exchange and to identify basic characteristics of new Ottoman cultural experience.

I Wish, I Wonder, and Everything I Like: Living Stories of Piano Teaching and Learning With Young Children

The purpose of my inquiry is to learn more about how young children learn to play the piano through examining my own teaching practice. By using autoethnography as a creative nonfictional form of storytelling, I illustrate my learning journey in search for joyful and meaningful ways of exploring music and piano playing with young beginner students. In writing stories about my learning experiences as a piano teacher, I discuss the importance, value, and need for piano teachers’ autoethnographies.

Places and non-places in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

This article aims at analyzing the role of flashbacks experienced by Nazneen, who is the protagonist of the novel Brick Lane (2003), by Monica Ali. By considering the concepts of spaces, places and non-places proposed by anthropologist Marc Augé in Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1994), which is mentioned by phi-losopher Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity (2000), the present article will demon-strate how Nazneen tries to reconstruct/rewrite her spatial and temporal displacement through her memory. However, what could be seen as an escape is, in essence, a journey in search for meaning, for belonging.

TRANSITION IN TONI MORRISON’S “CONSOLATA” FROM PARADISE (1997)

In her novel Paradise (1997), Toni Morrison portrays one of her main characters, Consolata or “disconsolate”, through a constant journey in search for her African American identity as a complete woman. This journey engulfs Consolata in an eternal fluctuation between hope and hopelessness, which results from being caught up in the so-called liminal/diaspora space in hybridity (Bhabha, 1994; Brah, 1996).The present paper deals with location of culture and gender identity in the marginal, unhomely spaces between dominant social formations by analysing chapter 7 “Consolata”. Consolata may be seen as an illustrative example of the black female community struggling to overcome the hurdles of being victimised as hybrid diasporic women in a patriarchal archaic western [black] culture.

The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC: Emphasis on ATLAS

The journey in search for the Higgs boson with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started more than two decades ago. But the first discussions motivating the LHC project dream date back even further into the 1980s. This article will recall some of these early historical considerations, mention some of the LHC machine milestones and achievements, focus as an example of a technological challenge on the unique ATLAS superconducting magnet system, and then give an account of the physics results so far, leading to, and featuring particularly, the Higgs boson results, and sketching finally prospects for the future. With its emphasis on the ATLAS experiment it is complementary to the preceding article by Tejinder S. Virdee which focused on the CMS experiment.

The Voyage of Discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC

The journey in search for the Higgs boson started in earnest with the discovery of the W and Z bosons. The LHC accelerator, the ATLAS and CMS experiments were conceived in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it took two decades to turn the concepts to reality. Novel and innovative technologies needed to be developed and turned into superbly functioning engines for providing proton‐proton collisions in the case of the LHC and physics results in the case of the experiments. The most significant discovery so far to emerge from the LHC project is that of a heavy scalar boson, announced on 4th July 2012. The data collected so far point strongly to its properties as those expected for the Higgs boson associated with the Brout‐Englert‐Higgs mechanism.

Educating a nation towards self-reliance: Tanzania’s journey in search for an education that is meaningful to its people

Since independence in 1961, Tanzania’s political ideology (known as Ujamaa-familyhood) has gone hand in hand with the country’s education philosophy. The most important feature of this combination is that people should be educated to fit in Tanzania’s environment and culture. Education should emancipate man from mental slavery inherited from colonialism and help this very person to be master and conqueror of own environment. This is education for self-reliance introduced in 1967 during the Arusha declaration. It sounds ideal: But, where are we standing now? Has Tanzania’s education succeeded in its mission to transform Tanzanians into both African socialists as well as being able to develop from own resources?

Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Autobiographical Life and Journey of Search for Identity

Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Autobiographical Life and Journey of Search for Identity

A Bayesian model that predicts the impact of Web searching on decision making

AbstractThis study aimed to develop a model for predicting the impact of information access using Web searches, on human decision making. Models were constructed using a database of search behaviors and decisions of 75 clinicians, who answered questions about eight scenarios within 80 minutes in a controlled setting at a university computer laboratory. Bayesian models were developed with and without bias factors to account for anchoring, primacy, recency, exposure, and reinforcement decision biases. Prior probabilities were estimated from the population prior, from a personal prior calculated from presearch answers and confidence ratings provided by the participants, from an overall measure of willingness to switch belief before and after searching, and from a willingness to switch belief calculated in each individual scenario. The optimal Bayes model predicted user answers in 73.3% (95% CI: 68.71 to 77.35%) of cases, and incorporated participants' willingness to switch belief before and after searching for each scenario, as well as the decision biases they encounter during the search journey. In most cases, it is possible to predict the impact of a sequence of documents retrieved by a Web search engine on a decision task without reference to the content or structure of the documents, but relying solely on a simple Bayesian model of belief revision.