Story Structure Research Articles

The Impact of Loneliness on the Growth of Romantic Intimacy in Alice Munro’s Story "Queenie": A Sociological Study

This study examines Alice Munro's short story "Queenie", and how the female characters cope with grief and solitude. The study come across that the female protagonist of the short narrative felt lonely and unhappy throughout. The Study finds out that other works ascribed to the same author have common narrative elements. The story structures show how the protagonist's emotions of loneliness lead to her ultimate satisfaction. This Paper employs a structuralist technique, focusing on Tzvetan Todorov's Narratology theory. The story's analysis reveals a continuous narrative structure in which the protagonist's emotions of loneliness are turned into the realisation of her ambitions and objectives. The answers of the author found to her own queries on loneliness highlight how widespread the feeling is and how many different factors might contribute to it. The characters' sense of alienation is supposed to drive them to make good life changes. Although the characters' sentiments of solitude take many forms, the reader nonetheless feels its pain via the author's words. Subtly, via the phrases she inserts into the narrative, she demonstrates that being alone may lead to happiness, if the heroes do not give up and are not afraid to take action to alter their lives..

Minangkabau Women Characters In the Novel Sitti Nurbaya (Love Isn't Up To) Rusli's Angry Works

The goal of this study is to describe the Minangkabau ladies in Marah Rusli's novel Sitti Nurbaya (Unacceptable Love) as they are represented by the various Minangkabau culture members. One of the tribes in Indonesia that has a matrilineal kinship structure is the Minangkabau. Variety of persons is a subjective human evaluation that deviates from the Minangkabau philosophy's principles. There are four different kinds of people: humble, haughty, haughty, and people. Bundo kanduang refers to Minangkabau women as viewed via the matrilineal kinship structure. Bundo Kanduang possesses the virtues of patience, wisdom, caution, and compassion. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research design, a descriptive-analytical approach, and data-gathering strategies including taking notes in the library. The study makes use of ethnographic research Thus, the data analysis technique is to determine literary works that display many ethnographic aspects that reflect traditional life that has taken root in the hearts of its owners; examined the issues of thought, ideas, philosophy, and the premises of society which are reflected in literary works; paying attention to story structure; analysis of the variety of people and traditions that characterize society; an analysis of a woman called bundo kanduang to find out the four characteristics of her bundo kanduang; description of the results of the study and concluding the results of the research. The results of the study concluded that five out of the six Minangkabau women in the novel Sitti Nurbaya (Unacceptable Love), namely Sitti Nurbaya, Putri Rukiah, Sitti Maryam, Sitti Alimah, and Fatimah belong to the category of people, while Putri Rubiah is included in the category of people. Furthermore, of the six women who are called bundo kanduang are Putri Rukiah, Sitti Maryam, and Fatimah who has the characteristics of bundo kanduang are Sitti Maryam (wise, wise and patient) and Fatimah (wise and patient).

Learning from West African storytellers

Several research works propose non-textual alternatives to textual documentation and similar forms of representing information in software development. This is because of the problems that stem from writing these documents, which range from incomprehensible requirements to ambiguous user stories. The various proposals of researchers often contain some trace of oral or visual communication. In this paper, we study the implications of eliminating textual communication and substituting unnecessary writing by extracting the values of West African oral storytellers. Traditional West African communities did not make use of writing for thousands of years and yet their legends, customs, beliefs, and knowledge were effectively transmitted across several generations. How did they manage to accomplish this? What can we learn from their storytellers? How can these lessons be applied to software products? These are all questions that this paper attempts to answer. Perhaps if we fully understand how they operated, then we can target our written communication to the activities where it is needed instead of spreading writing across plenty of tasks as it is currently. To achieve this, we performed an analysis of the two domains: West African oral storytelling and software development and found similarities, then selected some key elements from oral storytelling and explained how they can have relevance in software development. The theme directly encompasses diversity and inclusion by bringing into software engineering a perspective of a region where its literacy research is scarcely being explored. The study found that traditional oral storytelling can provide insights into effective communication and audience engagement, and identified four ways in which software development can be compared to oral storytelling. The study also found that certain elements of storytelling, such as audience relationship, story structure, parables and proverbs, and community relaxation and support, can be applied to writing tasks in software development.

The effect of the ground motion frequency content on seismic performance and fragility curve of special concentric braced frames

Several articles have investigated the effect of various seismic parameters on the response of the structure. However, there has been limited discussion on the impact of seismic frequency content on the brace failure modes and the collapse mechanism of this system. This study investigated the effect of this parameter, considering three special concentric bracing frames of 2, 4, and 6 stories. For the frame dynamic analysis, the open system for earthquake engineering simulation software (OpenSees) is used. To evaluate the effect of frequency content, 60 earthquake records with high, medium and low frequency content are selected from the pacific earthquake engineering research center ground motion database, considering the peak ground acceleration divided by the peak ground velocity ratio. Incremental dynamic analysis is conducted to draw fragility curves and examine the response of structures.The results indicated that the collapse capacity of structures decreased as the frequency content was reduced. The percentage of reduction in collapse capacity under earthquakes with high to the low frequency content in 2, 4 and 6 story structures were 68, 67 and 71, respectively. In fact, reducing the frequency content increased the probability of occurrence of low cycle fatigue mode in the brace.

Study on the seismic performance of prestressed steel-concrete vierendeel truss transfer story frame

Prestressed steel-reinforced-concrete (PSRC) Vierendeel truss transfer structures significantly increase the span of the transfer story and enhance the seismic performance with prestressing and steel-concrete techniques. A “three lines of defense” seismic design method was adopted in this study to further investigate the seismic performance of this structural system using the finite element software OpenSees to analyze the dynamic response of the PSRC Vierendeel truss transfer story spatial frame structure under an earthquake in the Intensity Region 8 (PGA = 400 Gal). To design four distinct PSRC Vierendeel truss transfer story frame structures, the number of bottom frame spans and the placement of the transfer truss were altered. An elastoplastic time-history analysis under a three-way rare earthquake was conducted by combining the quantitative control indices of the “three lines of defense” design method. The study shows that the PSRC Vierendeel truss transfer story structures designed by the “three lines of defense” seismic design method meet the requirements of the quantitative control indexes, and the structural seismic performance was satisfied.

Home Triad: A New Exploration of Home for People Living With Dementia Based on Lefebvre's Spatial Triad.

This article examines a novel theoretical framework, which we term Home Triad, for research and practice involving people living with dementia (PLWD). Most of the existing home-related research on PLWD focuses on interior modifications, home care interventions and models, place attachment, and/or institutional homelike environments. However, limited studies have examined the meaning of home from PLWD's perspective, and even fewer have simultaneously considered the individual experience of PLWD, the external power (e.g., the role of design), and their interaction dynamics in the meaning-making process. We developed home triad based on Lefebvre's spatial triad. Inspired by Chaudhury's home story structure, we conducted a life story analysis of a person living with dementia, "Kai," under four contexts-childhood home, neighborhood and city, daily routine, and attachment-within home triad. Home triad abstracts "home" with a dialectically interconnected relationship of the conceived, perceived, and lived home. Through PLWD's everyday life, the essence of home is primarily shaped by the interaction between their lived and perceived homes. However, a person's experiences of and participation in home living activities are also planned and/or regulated by different groups of people (caregivers, designers, and policymakers), who play important roles in the conceived home. Critically examining how PLWD's lived and perceived home is constrained or enabled through the conceived home deserves greater future research efforts. A systematic examination of the essence of home for PLWD using home triad can facilitate subsequent research and practice that promote PLWD's health, well-being, and quality of life.

Learning-skill stories completion: A study on the development of 3–6-year-old children's narratives

The development of children's narrative language is an essential part of their language development, which has a unique value to children's future learning and growth. Many research studies focus on children's narrative ability, but few focus on the completion of Chinese children's stories. In this study, 191 Chinese children aged 3–6 years old in the Shanghai area were selected to collect a story corpus by using the international and general completion pictures of learning stories, supplemented with the method of corpus study to explore the characteristics of children's narrative language development in the learning-skill stories. The study found that the development of vocabulary, syntax, and other aspects of 3–6-year-old children showed an apparent upward trend. The variety of words, the types, and the frequency of nouns and adjectives increased with age. Regarding the perspective of syntactic analysis, the critical stage in the development of syntactic length was about 5 years old. The narrative situation of the learning-skill stories could help children to show a better narrative level. At the age of 3–6, the story structure of children's learning-skill stories gradually became complete and three-dimensional with age, and the richness of children's life experiences was an essential factor in promoting the integrity of the story structure. In the Chinese context, reactive sequences and abbreviated episodes were the main types of story structure in children's narration. The narratives of children's learning-skill stories were influenced by Chinese culture.

Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Written Products by Reading Performance and Developmental Levels

Introduction: Reading and writing are academic skills that should be given importance to the acquisition and development of students from the first step of their education life. It is stated in the literature that reading and writing contain similar processes, cognitive skills and contexts, and therefore reading skills have a positive relationship with writing skills. In this study, the cohesion and coherence of students' written products were examined depending on their reading performance and grade level. Method: The research was carried out with a comparative descriptive model, one of the quantitative research methods. In the study, the frequency of using cohesion items and the text coherence scores of 183 poor readers (fourth grade 50, sixth grade 71 and eighth grade 62) and 192 good readers (fourth grade 55, sixth grade 74 and eighth grade 63) in written products were examined by comparison. Informal Reading Inventory, a video prepared to remind the story structure and a silent movie were used to collect the data. In the analysis of the data, Mann Whitney U Tests were used for pairwise comparisons and Kruskal Wallis Tests were used for triple comparisons. Findings: Looking at the cohesion items, it is seen that poor readers in the fourth and eighth grades get lower scores than their peers who are good readers in reading skills. In addition, from the fourth to the eighth grade, it was observed that there was an improvement in the written products of the students with good reading skills in terms of cohesion items, while there was no significant improvement in the poor readers. Considering the coherence scores, it was seen that poor readers got lower scores than good readers at all grade levels, and students in both groups improved in terms of coherence scores in their written products from fourth to eighth grade. Discussion: It is seen that the problems of students with poor readers in using cohesion tools and their inability to create coherence texts may be due to the inadequacy of the students' language skills, that the students prefer to use short sentences in their writing exercises, they do not need to connect sentences, and the level of use of cohesion tools increases with the progress of their grade levels. It can be said that it is a research that has findings consistent with the findings of the studies in the literature.

Narrative abilities and grammaticality of Russian heritage children

Heritage language maintenance and development depend on the family language policy, language dominance, frequency of use, linguistic distance and similarities between the minority and the majority languages or (dia)lects of the society, as well as on the multi-directionality of cross-linguistic influence and accommodation. The present study investigates the narrative skills of Russian heritage children in Cyprus, with a focus on macro-structure (story structure, structural complexity and internal states terms) and grammaticality; that is, the extent to which utterances follow the grammatical rules of a language. The participants in the study were 40 Russian-Cypriot Greek (CG) simultaneous bilingual children; their ages ranged from 4;0 to 6;0 (mean 5;2 [years;months]), and they attended kindergartens and primary CG schools where the language of instruction was Greek. The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN; Gagarina et al., 2012; 2015) was used for the data collection. The participants’ language proficiency in Russian was measured using the Russian Proficiency Test for Multilingual Children (RPTMC), while background information was obtained via parental questionnaires and interviews. The narratives were recorded, transcribed and analysed in terms of macro-structure and grammaticality. The analysis of the data showed that heritage children had errors in aspect, case, gender, morphological agreement, subject and object pronoun non-target production, as well as in innovative forms of words (nouns and verbs). There was non-standard production in terms of words order, prepositions and conjunctions. Overall, it was found that grammaticality was affected by proficiency in the heritage language, but there was no correlation with macro-structure measures. Narrative production and comprehension, macro-structure, were affected by the mode of narration.

Effect of a Group-Based Narrative Language Training in Typically Developing Turkish-Dutch Children.

Due to the heterogeneity in language trajectories and differences in language exposure, a lot of bilingual children could use some extra support for the acquisition of the school language to reduce the risk of language problems and learning difficulties. Enhancing bilingual children's narrative abilities in the school language could be an efficient approach to advance the general school language abilities as well. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether a narrative intervention could improve both general and narrative school language abilities of typically developing bilingual (Turkish-Dutch) children. Nineteen Turkish-Dutch bilingual children (6-9.9 years) were enrolled in this single-arm early efficacy study. The intervention procedure was administered in the school language (Dutch) and based on a test-teach-retest principle with two baseline measurements. At baseline 1, the expressive, receptive, and narrative language abilities were determined. The second baseline measurement consisted of a second measurement of the narrative abilities. Subsequently, a weekly 1-h group-based intervention was implemented during 10 sessions. After the intervention phase, the expressive, receptive, and narrative language abilities were tested again. After the intervention, the children produced significantly more story structure elements compared to both baseline measurements. No significant differences were found for microstructure narrative measures. The participants had significantly higher scores on the expressive and receptive language measurements post-intervention. These findings suggest that the intervention could be an efficient approach to stimulate the second language development of bilingual children.

Reading and creating books: Bridging the distance from stories to e-stories

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a two-phase intervention programme meant to reinforce comprehension of the structural framework of stories among 92 preschool children (aged 4–6 years) over 4 months. During the first phase, the children were called upon to produce their own original stories following the Story Grammar pattern, while in the second phase, based on their previous training on the structural framework of stories, they were trained to produce digital stories using the web 2 tool StoryJumper. Both phases of the intervention programme included a combination of verbal and visual aids. The quantitative analysis of the data showed that the intervention programme significantly improved children’s ability to comprehend the structural elements of stories and to create organized, comprehensible stories. Following our expectations, the children’s new knowledge on the structure of stories was transferred to their digital creations. The implementation of the intervention programme helped substantive questions emerge about the formation of a multi-level strategy which would effectively support the transfer of knowledge and skills from a traditional to a digital environment through processes that are meaningful for children.

Representations of Children's Emotional Intelligence in the Structures of Stories Written by Children

Representations of Children's Emotional Intelligence in the Structures of Stories Written by Children

Motif Index of Prophetic Dream Narratives: Methods of Compilation

The article proposes methods for describing and classifying invariant structures of stories about prophetic dreams in the form of a motif index. The author raises the question of what elements of prophetic dream narratives can be defined as folkloric and introduces a classification system of prophetic dream narratives (according to their invariants). Revealing invariants (narrative structures) in the prophetic dream narratives allows the author to create a motif index, which lets us understand the traditional logic of dream interpretation: the rules of generating prophetic dream narratives and the ‘narrative grammar’ lying in the core of stories about prophetic dreams. The motif index covers stories about prophetic dreams recorded by ethnographers and folklorists in the Eastern Slavic regions from the early twentieth century to 2020.

Optimisme saat pandemi: strategi storytelling pada video promosi destinasi pariwisata super prioritas

As domestic tourist arrivals begin to grow amid the easing of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf) of the Republic of Indonesia is optimistic about the revival of the tourism sector in 2021. For this reason, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy produces promotional videos for Wonderful Indonesia storytelling style that prioritizes super priority tourist destinations. This study aims to evaluate the use of digital storytelling strategies in promotional video content for Lake Toba, Lombok, Labuan Bajo, and Borobudur. The exploratory sequential mixed methods design was used to obtain qualitative and quantitative data. Based on directed qualitative content analysis using the concept of storytelling heroes journey structure, the four video contents highlight the domination of hero characters in the story structure. However, the most complete content of heroic characters is found in the video for the destination of Borobudur, rather than Lake Toba, which has the highest production costs. Then, based on the results of experimental validation of the findings of previous qualitative data, it was found that the digital storytelling technique used was able to moderately influence the positive image of the four destinations. Digital storytelling for tourism promotion videos in the future needs to integrate the complete structure of heroic stories by involving a variety of supporting characters, both protagonists and antagonists, as well as incorporating elements of economy and pacing in the content

Analysis and Resemblance of Seismic Effect on High Rise Building with & without Shear Wall using STAAD Pro

In present age one of the most volatile natural disaster is earthquake, in which all procedure applied for earthquake resistant in multi storied structures any where shear walls are the most preferred process. In RC plates (shear wall) have properties of inelastic & stiffened member. It is a part of structure which is provided for resisting horizontal forces (like wind force, earthquake force, etc). It is very essential to determine capable, and ideal location of shear wall. In this paper we study of G+10 Storey building in Zone IV is conferred. In this article focuses on two different models with and without using shear walls in high rise building at different positions. This analysis is done by using STADD-pro Software by seismic analysis & wind effect.

From Freytag pyramid story structure to digital storytelling: Adventures of pre-service teachers as story writers and digital story tellers

From Freytag pyramid story structure to digital storytelling: Adventures of pre-service teachers as story writers and digital story tellers

Seismic Analysis of Lightweight and Normal Weight Concrete in G+20 High Rise Building: A Comparative Study

Reinforced concrete multi-story structures are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. It was discovered that the major cause of RC building collapse is irregularity in its plan size and lateral force resisting system. In this research, an analytical investigation is conducted to determine the reaction of various structures located in severe zone III. ETABS 20.0 was used to do the analysis on a G+20 story structure. In the current study, we are working on multiple models. There are six combinations with three distinct conditions. All of the models are examined, and the outcomes are decided. Keywords: - Response spectrum, seismic, lightweight concrete

Study on innovative residential buildings concept for economically weaker sections

Every day, more buildings are incorporating sustainable architectural principles, but it is crucial that these principles remain accessible to low-income families. The primary objective of this project is to design a sustainable residential building, specifically a single storey structure, to accommodate four individuals from the economically backward section of society. The proposed design emphasizes the use of environmentally friendly materials and strives to achieve high energy efficiency by considering the natural environment of the site and minimizing both operational and embodied energy. In order to enhance the indoor environment quality and minimize the negative impacts of cement and steel, this design prioritizes the surrounding natural environment. Additionally, a life cycle assessment was performed to determine the building’s design life. Key sustainable building parameters, such as daylighting and ventilation, have been incorporated into the design to reduce operational energy consumption. Furthermore, a cost analysis was conducted to compare the proposed design with conventional construction methods. The results indicated that the proposed design not only boasts a lower cost but also integrates the use of environmentally friendly materials, aligning with sustainable objectives.

Vibration Modeling and Simulation of Braced and Unbraced Steel Structure

Repeated dynamic loads on multiple stories structure may cause damage in the midst of natural disaster, such as earthquakes and landslides, hence it is necessary to observe how the response occurs. Therefore, this paper studies the performance of two-story steel frame without braces and with inverted V concentric braces. Both frames were given a static and a dynamic load in the form of a sinusoidal load for 2 seconds in the form of forced harmonic vibration. After the dynamic load is turned off, harmonic free vibration applies. Vibration is given to the weakest orthogonal axis on the frame with a frequency of 0,5 Hz; 1,03 Hz; 1.7 Hz. To reduce the deviation between stories that occur due to dynamic loads, bracing is provided as a stiffening element. The test variations are called models 1, 2 and 3 with model 1 unbraced frame and model 2 braced frame with the same load between floors, while model 3 unbraced frame model with weight 2nd floor is 3 times larger than 1st floor. It found that the braced frame has a minimum drift and its drift is enhanced with the increase of load capacity.

Analysis of RCC Building with Regular and Dumbbell Shaped Shear Wall in Different Types of Zones Using ETABS Software

Abstract: In structural engineering, a shear wall is a vertical element of a seismic force resisting system that is designed to resist in-plane lateral forces, typically wind and seismic loads. In many jurisdictions, the International Building Code and International Residential Code govern the design of shear walls. A shear wall resists loads parallel to the plane of the wall. Collectors also known as drag members; transfer the diaphragm shear to shear walls and other vertical elements of the seismic force resisting system. Shear walls are typically light-framed walls with shear panels, reinforced concrete walls, and reinforced masonry walls. The G+15 story structures situated in earthquake zones III, IV and V will be considered for study. All frames are designed under same gravity loading. Response spectrum method is used for seismic analysis. ETABS software is used and the results are compared. The results were obtained in the form of top story displacement, Story drift, Base shear and displacement