Set Of Stories Research Articles

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East, by Jonathan Parry

The title of Jonathan Parry’s Promised Lands does not give much away. The book is about British geopolitics and political strategy, mainly in relation to the lands around the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, between 1798 and 1854. In essence, it is a study of how and why Britain secured certain routes to India. Parry reconstructs a phenomenally complex set of stories about local negotiations, diplomatic assertions, political and religious visions, and careerist machinations, which explain how Britain established its influence in the region he calls the ‘Ottoman Middle East’. The driving confidence with which the book is written belies the backbreaking labour involved in uncovering these interlocking dynamics, and the artistry involved in relating them to one another. It is an immense scholarly achievement, and must obviously become a standard work in the historiography of the nineteenth-century Middle East. The book is diffident, however, about spelling out any possible broader implications for our understanding of nineteenth-century political and imperial history. These deserve reflection.

Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh’s Train To Pakistan documents the horrors of the partition of India and Pakistan in the year 1947 by presenting a story set in a fictional village, Mano Majra which is an ecological synecdoche as the village stands for the two nations, India and Pakistan. The nation building narrative of Singh, as well as Gandhi - "the future of India lies in villages", though highly ecological as its focus is only on maintaining the "self-sufficiency" of every village, is paradoxical as it is concerned only with the microcosm of the villages and not with the macrocosm of the nation. The spiritual connection that Mano Majrans have with their land and river, which is the basis of their identity, cannot be limited by narratives of nation building revolving around political boundaries. The post-partition anxiety of the two countries, at the level of the microcosm, is the trauma of the loss of their ecological home. Khushwant Singh's novel provides a powerful insight into the deep roots of this eco-aesthetic identity and the anxiety of its loss resulting in the cultural divide that continues to exist between India and Pakistan. This essay makes the argument that Khushwant Singh highlights the anti-ecological nature of nation building narratives in his novel, Train to Pakistan.

Feminism in the Short Story “Eveline” by James Joyce

The message is conveyed by the author (writer) which is conveyed either explicitly or implicitly “Eveline” is a short story written by James Joyce. This short story was published in 1904 with a story setting around the same year and decade. The short story “Eveline” is then considered to have feminist values. Feminism is an awareness of gender injustice that befalls women, both in the family and society. The research uses a descriptive form of research. The data source in this research is the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce. Published in 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. The data used in this study are all short story quotations in the form of words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs in the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce that illustrate feminism. Eveline is portrayed as a girl who generally does housework (stereotypical of women’s duties as house caretakers). Eveline’s consideration of her choice to stay with the grueling routine with her family and abusive father, or to run away with her boyfriend. This short story also illustrates how her father's abusive treatment was initially only shown to the boy. The story then closes with Eveline's choice to stay and not go with her boyfriend. This choice is made with uncertainty and doubt. However, Eveline realizes that her presence in the family is not just that of a girl who does ordinary housework, but is a carrier who maintains the integrity of her family. A literary work exists alongside the social values that exist in society. The short story “Eveline” written by James Joyce in 1904 is a work that raises the female point of view in the story. Eveline’s point of view as a woman used in the short story succeeds in emphasizing many feminist values, as well as emphasizing the role of women who have often been marginalized by society.

Gestural Embodiment of Intensifiers in Iconic, Metaphoric, and Beat Gestures.

This study aimed to examine the gestural embodiment of intensifiers in iconic and metaphoric gestures when these words are used with literal and metaphoric statements. We asked a group of Persian native speakers to listen to and then retell a set of Persian stories. In these stories, a number of intensifiers were used with literal and metaphoric sentences. The results showed that when an intensifier was used with a literal sentence, there was a higher probability of using an iconic or beat gesture than when there was no intensifier in the sentence. Also, when an intensifier was used with a metaphoric sentence, there was a higher probability of using a metaphoric or beat gesture than when the sentence contained no intensifier. These results suggested that an intensifier in a literal or metaphoric sentence can strengthen the mental simulation and the embodiment of objects, ideas, or situations. When an intensifier is used with a literal or metaphoric sentence, the strength of activation in the premotor areas may be amplified and spread to motor areas. In contrast, when no such intensifier is used in a literal or metaphoric sentence, there is a higher probability of simulation in premotor areas without spreading to the primary motor areas. The production of an internal force and expressing emphasis are two other possibilities that may explain the higher use of gestures with intensifiers.

Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the ways in which stones have anchored stories and people in central Vanuatu. Three different sets of stones, and stories about those stones, cast light from different angles on the history of the distinctive chiefly title system of this region. The first set revolves around the fulcrum of Wotanimanu, a pillar of stone that rises from the sea between Efate and the Shepherd Islands. This is the figure of a chief who arrived on Efate by sea, accompanied by his “stones” or people. Senior chiefly titles of this region, which draw on lengthy histories of migration, ground their narrative and genealogical claims in the proof of a second set of stones, including grave markers, magic stones, and arrangements of stones in series that stand for successive holders of each title. The third set of stones and stories was initiated by the first resident Presbyterian missionary in the Shepherd Islands, Oscar Michelsen, who acknowledged the importance attached locally to history by setting up a series of stelae to commemorate the conversion of individual chiefs. The paper concludes with thoughts on the agency and mobility of stone in the Shepherd Islands, and the ways in which stones give substance to chiefly power.

Natural Genera, Scientific Classifications, Life, Fireworks and COVID

A difficulty exists in separating the real aspects from the point of view of the researchers. A taxonomic classification is proposed in five kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protista and monera. Humans are the only species capable of manipulating the biosphere on a large scale. Behind the light, colour, sound and smoke from fireworks there is a chemical reaction and a table of chemical elements. The history of pesticides presents a set of little-known stories of environmental pollution. What communication and action to take against the climate emergency? Sustainable development is carried out in the food industry: energy consumption, water consumption, wastewater management, waste management, containers and packaging, and food waste. The 20th century advances in molecular biology–genomics are informed: what they are and what they represent for today's medicine. Drug repurposing is reviewed for coronavirus treatment and computational study based on molecular topology. Chemistry and pharmacy might be sustainable. Processing might also be sustainable.

MAGICAL REALISM IN THE MYTH OF PULUNG GANTUNG IN GUNUNGKIDUL

Myth is a folk prose story that tells a story set in the past, contains an interpretation of the universe and the existence of creatures in it, and is considered to have happened by the owner of the story or its adherents. Myths can refer to traditional stories. According to Lugli (2014), myth is a “traditional story that is thought of by a specific community to be of a fundamental importance…”. As time goes by, myths are still present alongside contemporary literary works called magical realism literary works. Pulung Gantung in Gunungkidul is one of the mythical stories in the Gunungkidul area which is a literary work of magical realism. This study uses Wendy B. Faris' magical realism theory which consists of five elements, namely the irreducible element, the phenomenal world, merging realism, unsettling doubts and disruption of time, space and identity to determine the characteristics of magical realism in the story of the myth of Pulung Gantung in Gunungkidul. Those five elements were found after the interview with the relatives of the victim. The descriptive qualitative method was used to determine this study.

Monstrous Wounds: Crime, Environmental Catastrophe and Domestic Abuse in Jane Harper’s The Dry

ABSTRACTWithin the long history of Australian crime fiction, Jane Harper’s The Dry marks a significant moment in the emergence of what has been characterised as “outback” or “rural” noir. With its focus on the small regional community of Kiewarra, Harper’s narrative addresses a number of issues that impact rural communities, including climate change, domestic abuse and gambling. Weaving together a story set in the past and a story set in the present, Harper offers a compelling portrait of the moral and social impact of these issues on rural communities in ways that challenge simplistic assumptions about the limitations of genre fiction to engender empathy. While some have argued that only literary fiction can evoke the kind of empathy that enhances our experiences of the world, this article suggests this is not the case and that The Dry is a powerful and moving portrayal speaking to the effects of environmental catastrophe and domestic abuse within a genre that may appeal to a broad and receptive audience.

The Hospitality of Ghosts: Remembering Epidemics in Modern Bengal, c. 1880–1980

Memory studies have long demonstrated the need to critically assess the way societies remember significant, and particularly traumatic, events. The overwhelming focus of these studies has been on conquests, political riots, wars and holocausts. Very little account has been taken of the way epidemics are remembered. Yet, epidemics produce similar social disruptions and anxieties about the future as the varied episodes of political violence. Societies need to grapple with loss of life, grief, insecurity and their own reproduction through the stabilization of mnemonic frames. One of the most potent forms of social memory is engendered in ghost lore. In this article, I track one set of such ghost stories circulating in Bengal in the wake of the ravages of cholera and malaria in the late nineteenth century. By tracking the reframing of these stories, I show how the meanings and values conveyed through them changed over nearly a century. I argue that since the very basis and structure of the social collective invoked and reflected in these stories changed in the period, it is better to think of the collectives as multiple spectral communities sharing the same historical trauma rather than a single, unchanging society. Finally, I urge historians to rethink when epidemics end by paying greater attention to their long mnemonic and social afterlives that continue to unfold long after the cessation of the biological events.

Solidity Meets Surprise: Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Learning from Episodic Prediction Errors.

How susceptible a memory is to later modification might depend on how stable the episode has been encoded. This stability was proposed to increase when retrieving information more (vs. less) often and in a spaced (vs. massed) practice. Using fMRI, we examined the effects of these different pre-fMRI retrieval protocols on the subsequent propensity to learn from episodic prediction errors. After encoding a set of different action stories, participants came back for two pre-fMRI retrieval sessions in which they encountered original episodes either 2 or 8 times in either a spaced or a massed retrieval protocol. One week later, we cued episodic retrieval during the fMRI session by using original or modified videos of encoded action stories. Recurrent experience of modified episodes was associated with increasing activity in the episodic memory network including hippocampal and cortical areas, when leading to false memories in a post-fMRI memory test. While this observation clearly demonstrated learning from episodic prediction errors, we found no evidence for a modulatory effect of the different retrieval protocols. As expected, the benefit of retrieving an episode more often was reflected in better memory for originally encoded episodes. In addition, frontal activity increased for episodic prediction errors when episodes had been less frequently retrieved pre-fMRI. A history of spaced versus massed retrieval was associated with increased activation throughout the episodic memory network, with no significant effect on behavioral performance. Our findings show that episodic prediction errors led to false memories. The history of different retrieval protocols was reflected in memory performance and brain responses to episodic prediction errors, but did not interact with the brain's episodic learning response.

Generating multiple conceptual models from behavior-driven development scenarios

Researchers have proposed that generating conceptual models automatically from user stories might be useful for agile software development. It is, however, unclear from the state-of-the-art what a consistent and complementary set of models to generate is, how these models can be generated such that relationships and dependencies in a set of related user stories are unveiled, and why these models are useful in agile software development projects. In this paper, we address these questions through a Design Science research study. First, we define four stylized versions of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams (i.e., use case diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, state machine diagram) that will be the target of the model generation. Although these stylized UML diagrams have a reduced abstract syntax, they offer different perspectives on the software system in focus with potential usefulness for requirements and software engineering. Second, we develop an automated model generation approach based on different design artifacts including a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool that implements our approach. Key to our solution is the use of the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) scenario template to document user stories. Using an example set of BDD scenarios as source of the model generation, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach via the NLP tool that implements our approach. Third, we conduct an empirical study with experts in agile software development involving the researcher-guided interactive use of our tool to explore the use of the generated models. This study shows the perceived usefulness of the models that our tool can generate and identifies different uses and benefits of the models for requirements analysis, system design, software implementation, and testing in projects that employ agile methods.

How the Welsh caught the Yellow Plague

The ‘Yellow Plague’ (pestis flava, buidechair, ball felen, etc.) is a term used by Irish and Welsh authors working in the tenth century and later to describe several epidemics of the sixth and seventh centuries. This paper examines one particular set of stories about this illness found in Welsh sources written between 1100 and 1223, in which the Yellow Plague is responsible for a mass migration from Wales to Brittany. This legend, I argue, was likely created at Llancarfan in the late eleventh century from various older sources, including annals and saints’ Lives from Ireland and Brittany; I also provide an account of how this legend may have been transmitted to other Welsh centers, and suggest connections to other contem- porary works of pseudo-history, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum.

Evil and Complicated Queers through History

Evil and Complicated Queers through History

Black Women's Relational Competencies and Ethical Leadership in the Workplace

Three qualitative case vignettes illustrate Black women leaders' application of relational competencies to assert culturally informed ethical values in organizational life. Theoretical frameworks of Patricia Hill Collins' (1994) theory of motherwork and Wilfred Bion's (1991) psycho-dynamics theory of group development guide the analysis of Black women's relational competencies. Methodologically, the data derive from the authors' use of phenomenological review of over three decades of corporate and non-profit consultancies. This methodology entailed uncensored story generation relative to the topic and culling of the story set guided by a rubric to screen for story features that exemplify group and relational competencies and ethical leadership. Findings identified recurring relational leadership themes of 1) Creating Safe Space for Breaking Silences, 2) Interrupting the Unsaid in Organizational Life and 3) Framing Organizational Dynamics within His/herstories of Injustice. Implications of these case findings for Black women's ethical leadership at the level of group relational competencies for 21st century organizations are shared.

Cuckoo

A 1949 short story set in a bomb-damaged city in post-war Germany. Frau Beigel’s uncle comes from the country to the city to sell a cuckoo-clock.

DEDENG CERITA RAKYAT LANGKAT KAJIAN ANTROPOLOGIS

This study aims to describe the theme, setting, character, and cultural values. The object of research is a folk tale from the North Sumatra Province Language Center published in 2020. Data collection uses repeated reading and recording techniques. The data analysis technique is descriptive qualitative. The approach used is a literary anthropological approach. Research findings (1) The theme of Dedeng's story is "Forbidden Love". Because these lovers are siblings. (2) The setting of Dedeng's story has a place setting, time setting, and atmosphere setting. The setting in Dedeng's story is the island, the hut, the flower garden, the beach, the sea. The time setting in Dedeng's story is during the day. And the setting of the atmosphere in Dedeng's story is sad and touching. (3) The characters from Dedeng's story are Dedeng, Putri Bulan, Datuk Father of Putri Bulan, Mak Surgeon, Panglima Datuk Pulau Kampai, and Guards. (4) The cultural values of Dedeng's story are, his father is a descendant of Datuk and replaces his grandfather's position, sings poetry and rhymes, nobles cannot marry ordinary people, sings poetry of broken hearts, Kampai Island people who join in singing poetry as Dedeng. (5) The educational value of Dedeng's story is to work diligently and be devoted to parent.

STRATEGI PENCERITAAN FILM-FILM BERPRESTASI KARYA MAHASISWA FILM UMN YANG DIPRODUKSI DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced filmmakers to set special production strategies so that their production can run safely. For this reason, the first thing that can be done is to design the right story for the COVID-19 pandemic situation at the development stage. This study tries to explore the storytelling strategies taken by screenwriters in telling their stories in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The films selected for this analysis were films from Moving Image Production (MIP) students at the UMN Film Study Program which were produced with awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic and managed to participate in both national and international curated exhibition and gain some acknowledgment. The method of this research is qualitative and was done by conducting content analysis on existing narrative documents (synopsis, characterization, and scenarios) as well as literature review on related topics, themes and theories related to storytelling, specifically focusing on the analysis of characters and story settings.

PENULIS PEREMPUAN DAN LOKALITAS DALAM RUBRIK CERPEN JAWA POS TAHUN 2021

This paper is based on short stories by women writers in Jawa Pos in 2021. The problem discussed is the element of locality in the short story. Five short stories became the object of analysis to find the locality setting and locality elements in the short story. The descriptive analysis method is used to find locality in the setting and narrative of the short story. Data from each short story is described to obtain an overview of the short story's background and locality elements. The results of the analysis show that the real place setting is a reflection of the locality identity in the short story. The real place setting in the short story becomes the opening gate for the locality theme, thus establishing a link between the structure and the short story theme. The locality presented by the 5 short stories refers to the forms of tradition, myth, and historical elements. Tradition, myth, and historical elements are tied to the setting of places and events in the short story. This analysis shows that an important real setting is built in a short story that has a locality narrative.

‘With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye’: girlhood in crisis in Persepolis

ABSTRACT Marjane Satrapi's 2003 graphic memoir Persepolis is a coming-of-age story set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. 19 years after its publication, at a time when we are witnessing increased cultural displacement across the globe, Persepolis's representation of an adolescence lived across and between cultures feels as insightful and provocative as ever. Satrapi explores Marjane's childhood development as she grows into adolescence and experiments with identities. In Persepolis, Marjane's coming-of-age does not result in her becoming comfortable or fixed in a particular identity (or identities) but represents Marjane's acceptance of her liminal and marginal status in the various cultures she occupies. Marjane is shown to be engaged in an ongoing journey through identity formations that does not end when the memoir does. In this essay, we consider the chapter titled ‘The Cigarette' from Persepolis to explore how Satrapi develops a narrative style and an aesthetic for representing a liminal adolescent experience. Through her use of an episodic structure; simple, graphic repetition; and dialogic and multivocal encounters between the child and adult self and the protagonist and her mother, Satrapi shows the complex negotiations with ‘the self’ that characterise her coming-of-age.

Freedom dreaming with Black Canadian mothers

A burgeoning body of literature explores the educational experiences of Black Canadian students. Such literature reveals Black students as disproportionately impacted by academic underachievement, discipline policies, and special education placement. Black Canadian mothers have long dreamt of and advocated for humanizing learning spaces for their children. This paper explores how a group of Black Canadian mothers partnered with one another to reimagine learning opportunities for their children. This article presents insights obtained from eight in-depth interviews with Black Canadian mothers living in Toronto. In these interviews, participants shared stories that center the following questions: (1). How do Black mothers reconceptualize their motherwork to include freedom dreams? (2). How do Black mothers partner with one another to produce a vision for their children’s education? Grounded in an arts-informed narrative methodology, this study compiled findings gained from interviews into the creative non-fiction storySet it Off.Set it Offcaptures personal narratives, shared by study participants, highlighting the central role of freedom dreams and resistance as Black Canadian mothers organize for their children’s education.