Tragic Times Research Articles

Embracing Complexity and the Need for Inclusive Belongings

ABSTRACT It is an acutely tragic time for many Jewish people who have for decades shared Eyal Rozmarin’s commitment to working for peace in Israel/Palestine. Rozmarin importantly emphasizes the many ties that bind people, often unconsciously, to collectivities, especially the ways in which nation states, or birthplaces, provide identity narratives that unite, or sometimes, discomfort, us. However, it is not so uncommon for people to have fractured belongings, as life experiences complicate our ties to past identifications and attachments. In this essay I discuss the historic complexity of Jewish ties to Israel, including my own. I note that Jewish criticisms of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians, which have always existed from well before the creation of the state of Israel, are continually dismissed by allowing only one narrative to be addressed, that of political Zionism. All other attempts to criticize Israel’s refusal to contemplate justice for native Palestinians is spuriously undermined as antisemitism. Yet today, more Jewish people are joining with others who are not only currently devastated by Israel’s genocidal aggression in Gaza, but also demanding equal rights and freedom for everyone now residing in Israel/Palestine.

Human behavior in philosophical and legal understanding: children's aspects during military actions

The article examines the origin of the concept of human behavior. It was found that human behavior became the subject of study in various fields of knowledge. The origins of the formation of the concept of human behavior go back to Antiquity, which can be traced in the works of famous philosophers and thinkers. In this period, the concept of justice and coexistence of members of society was considered. It was established that Christianity had a significant influence on human behavior, which became the starting point in the formation of human behavior, worldview and, as a result, the creation of formal rules that gradually spread to all spheres of human existence. Historical events that were important for changing paradigmatic ideas about human behavior can also be traced during the First and Second World Wars, because it was during these tragic times that the very value of a person and his life, health, honor and dignity acquired a different color, which also influenced behavior and its interpretation. Human behavior can be considered based on age, value, social, moral, somatic, economic, labor, political markers, etc. The formation of human behavior begins at an early age, and parents are primarily agents of the child's socialization and guides to an independent life and in the process of the child's initial learning of his own reaction to events and the differentiation of positive and negative behavior, which builds the basic framework for his further interaction with the surrounding world. All these components affect the further formation of certain standard patterns in a person, which he subconsciously uses as a reaction to the surrounding world. Considerable changes that took place in the post-war period and in the postmodern period are studied. Attention is focused on the change in human behavior in the present.
 The impact of the war on the behavior of children and youth, which underwent significant changes, was analyzed.

A Historical Survey of the Book of Ezekiel

The book of Ezekiel is replete with a lot of messages that make its story very interesting. In spite of the uniqueness of the book, past biblical scholarship only selected and studied certain themes. Much have therefore not been written on the historical analysis of the whole book. The thrust of this study is to make an historical survey of the whole book; historical method is also used in its analysis. The findings of the work reveal that the book was written for a specific people living in a particular tragic time in their history. The study concludes that there are still different aspects of the book that are yet to be explored.

Comedy against socialist realism in Georgian theater performances of the twentieth century

Since the establishment of the professional theater, about half of the repertoire of Georgian theaters has been comedies. The production of plays by Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi, brilliant representatives of Italian dramaturgy, was considered appropriate by any censor at every stage of Georgian theater history. With an observation of the Italian and Georgian peoples, many common features can be discovered. Southern temperament, emotions, expressive manners. Because of these similarities in characters, the Georgian audience loves Italian plays and especially Italian comedies. The period of Goldoni staging in Rustaveli theatre was a very tragic time in the history of Georgia. In 1936, when Dimitri Aleksidze staged “The Mistress of the Inn,” was the beginning of the period of Soviet repressions in all Soviet Union. The culmination of these tragic years was 1937: the sequences of violence, most of the Georgian intellectuals were executed. And it may seem strange, that Rustaveli Theater had been busy with comedy performing. However, in fact, it was a way of survival. The play becomes the hope of Georgian public, that normal life will return in Georgia and laugh, something very natural for humanity, will save their homeland.

"Common soldier" of literature. Review of the publication "Selected" by A.K. Goldebaev (Semenov)

The article reviews the publication: Goldebaev (Semenov) A.K. Selected / Compilation, preparation for publication, introductory article by M.A. Perepelkin, K.I. Morozovа (Samara, 2022). The book compilers have done a great research work on the study of the biography of the Samara writer A.K. Goldebaev and the publication of his three stories, which made up a kind of "autobiographical trilogy": "Bastards", "Mean Condition" and "In the Prairie" ("Summer Vacation"). The introductory article attempts not only to outline the external and internal mechanisms of influence on the formation of the writer's personality, but also to determine the place of Goldebaevs in the historical and literary process at the turn of the 19th20th centuries. Thus, preceding the publication of Goldebaev's works, the compilers are trying to understand why the writer's name was forgotten in the 20th century. A consequential description of the life of the undeservedly forgotten writer is combined with a subtle analysis of his poetics. All this is intended to arouse the reader's interest in the personality and work of the provincial writer, who could remain in memory not only as a contemporary and correspondent of A.P. Chekhov and M. Gorky or a friend of A.S. Neverov, but also as an artist-thinker who comprehended his tragic time through literary images.

Existential Philosophy and Poetry Imaginism about the Temporalization of Despair

Introduction. The tragic times of trials at the beginning of the 20th century motivated existentialist philosophers and imaginists poets to search for the temporal meaning of despair in people's lives. Philosophers comprehended the nature of despair, and came to the conclusion about its origin in person’s soul at the moment of subordination of human temporality to objective time as the cause of inevitable losses. Liberation from its power begins with the person’s turn to the value content of their own temporality. The word-image connects despair with the present moment of time as part of human temporality and outside of objective time. Revealing the features of the temporalization of despair in imaginists poetry, the author suggests that the word-image changes the existential attitude of a desperate person, giving value to their temporal existence.Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of the work is a hermeneutic approach to understanding the concept of ”despair”, a conceptual analysis of the term “word-image”, a method of component analysis of language units with temporal meaning and a comparative analysis of the interpretations of the temporalization of despair in existentialist philosophy and imaginist poetry.Results and discussion. The results of studying the problem of the temporalization of despair are the following conclusions. Firstly, despair may be a consequence of the involvement of a person who hopes, into objective time or part of the subjective time of a desperate person. Secondly, despair may lead a person not only to losses, but also to the search for values in the confrontation of objective and subjective times. Thirdly, the temporalization of despair is understood as a transition from a temporary experience to a timeless concept in philosophy and is expressed by the timelessness of this experience in poetry. Fourth, in philosophy the meaning of despair is revealed in the temporal sequence of losses, and the word-image puts a limit to losses in poetry, which returns a desperate person to values and contributes to the correction of their temporal existence.Conclusion. The scope of objective time expands in the technogenic epoch and subordinates a person's temporality to its rhythms, leading them to despair. Existentialists consider temporalization as a way to reveal the true meaning of despair, and imaginists use it so that a person experiences this feeling differently and builds their temporal existence in a different way.

Responding to the Tragedies of Our Time - The Human Right to Health and the Virtue of Creative Resolve

We live in tragic times. Millions are sheltering in place to avoid exacerbating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. How should we respond to such tragedies? This paper argues that the human right to health can help us do so because it inspires human rights advocates, claimants, and those with responsibility for fulfilling the right to try hard to satisfy its claims. That is, the right should, and often does, give rise to what I call the virtue of creative resolve. This resolve embodies a fundamental commitment to finding creative solutions to what appear to be tragic dilemmas. Contra critics, we should not reject the right even if it cannot tell us how to ration scarce health resources. Rather, the right gives us a response to apparent tragedy in motivating us to search for ways of fulfilling everyone’s basic health needs.

Emptiness in Tragic Times: some remarks on today´s Brazilian public policies

Resumo Este artigo tem uma estrutura híbrida sendo, ao mesmo tempo, ensaio acadêmico, manifesto e resumo de artigos publicados na grande mídia. Ele foi composto, principalmente, a partir de fontes jornalísticas, e tem como tema as atuais políticas públicas brasileiras. Para argumentar sobre a ausência dessas políticas públicas na atualidade, o artigo apresenta um resumo de situações que caracterizam o Governo Bolsonaro, e termina com breves apontamentos sobre as políticas públicas em Educação Matemática, particularmente aquelas relativas à Educação a Distância.

OTT Platforms Usage of During Covid-19 Lockdown

Abstract: Digital digitalization has changed the way we access and use our content. Information is available at the click of a button and is always in our hands. The proliferation of the Internet led to the collapse of the planet, figuratively speaking. Content based on entertainment mixed with information (infotainment), unlike the latest news, tends to attract the attention of better audiences. The rise of OTT platforms, this trend has seen a new. Content from around the world is available without wasting much time. It would not be wrong to say that OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video etc. provide catalytic momentum in globalization. These forums can be commended for bringing the world together and bringing them closer together and for promoting a better sense of cultural understanding among the masses. During the tragic times of the unprecedented global epidemic such as COVID-19, these highly sought-after video platforms saw a dramatic increase in their visuals. As a result of the closure and the official social reduction practices adopted by many countries affected by the epidemic, people have registered for higher attendance at these forums. It is because of these methods and statistics of increasing popularity and reliance on OTT foundations of entertainment, information and engagement among viewers that this research has done. This urban youth survey aims to assess the tendency to use content during closure, to understand your causes and impacts. Keywords: OTT, Video-on-demand, digitization, infotainment, content, COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown.

A Case Study of OTT Platforms Usage of During Covid-19 Lockdown

Abstract: Digital digitalization has changed the way we access and use our content. Information is available at the click of a button and is always in our hands. The proliferation of the Internet led to the collapse of the planet, figuratively speaking. Content based on entertainment mixed with information (infotainment), unlike the latest news, tends to attract the attention of better audiences. The rise of OTT platforms, this trend has seen a new. Content from around the world is available without wasting much time. It would not be wrong to say that OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video etc. provide catalytic momentum in globalization. These forums can be commended for bringing the world together and bringing them closer together and for promoting a better sense of cultural understanding among the masses. During the tragic times of the unprecedented global epidemic such as COVID-19, these highly sought-after video platforms saw a dramatic increase in their visuals. As a result of the closure and the official social reduction practices adopted by many countries affected by the epidemic, people have registered for higher attendance at these forums. It is because of these methods and statistics of increasing popularity and reliance on OTT foundations of entertainment, information and engagement among viewers that this research has done. This urban youth survey aims to assess the tendency to use content during closure, to understand your causes and impacts. Keywords: -OTT, Video-on-demand, digitization, infotainment, content, COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown

APOCALYPTIC MOTIVES OF THE GALITIC-VOLYN CHRONICLES

The article, based on the text of the Galician-Volyn Chronicle, identifies and analyzes the apocalyptic motifs characteristic of the late Middle Ages in Ukrainian literature. Among the numerous historical characters of the annals, there are those who associatively resonate with the image of the antichrist (devil, Satan), created in the New Testament "Revelation of John the Baptist" ("Apocalypse"). The motif of "God's punishment" permeates those episodes in the annals, which deal with the cruel deeds of individual historical figures (voivode Benedict, Hungarian king Béla). The pages of the Galician-Volyn Chronicle are filled with pictures of terrible murders, because it was primarily the place for military campaigns and battles, which were countless in the Galician and Volyn lands in the 13th century. The sons of the Galician prince Roman (Danilo and Vasylko) were noted for their particular cruelty, which did not prevent the chronicler from glorifying them, because they acted in accordance with the medieval code of chivalry. Therefore, the report that these brothers looted and devastated cities and villages is not interpreted as a manifestation of cruelty and ruthlessness. The years 1237-1242, when the Mongols and Tatars ravaged the Russian lands, are filled with pictures of terrible events. In the Galician-Volyn chronicles, fire appears more than once as a destructive force, as a sign of the apocalypse. The chronicler completes the description of the terrible fire in the Polish city on the bank of the Vistula Sudomira with numerous human victims with a ritual picture similar to a funeral procession. The completeness of the destruction as a sign of the apocalyptic catastrophe appears more than once on the pages of the annals, and the chronicler always points to this completeness. Some omen was depicted as a harbinger of trouble. In the "Tale of Bygone Years" there are many such signs recorded, less in the Kyiv Chronicle, and in the Halytsia-Volyn Chronicle – isolated mentions of them. The semantics of such phenomena is always the same: the signs foretold trouble. Apocalyptic pictures in the annals are a characteristic feature of the tragic time that was in the Ukrainian lands of the 13th century, which led to the demise of the state of Rus.

Heroic pastoral and its national-style reception IN THE CANTATA “YELLOW RIVER” BY XIAN XINGHAI

Heroic pastoral and its national-style reception IN THE CANTATA “YELLOW RIVER” BY XIAN XINGHAI

Travel after tragedy: A phenomenological study on what it takes for women to travel solo after tragedy

Tragedies are encountered and experienced by almost everyone. While many give in to the tragic times, there is a recent trend of women who choose to travel solo after encountering tragedies. Drawing on Horowitz’s stage model of reschematization, Tedeschi and Calhoun’s posttraumatic growth model, and Iso Ahola’s theory of travel motivation, this research explores what motivates women to travel after tragedy and how it helps them in coping with trauma. The phenomenological study based on interviews with twelve women travelers suggests four themes: family trust and support; fighting the fright; need for self-reflection, restoration, and growth; and financial independence. Implications and future research agenda are also discussed.

Saving the world from your couch: the heterogeneous medium-run benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution

In Spring 2020, COVID-19 led to an unprecedented halt in public and economic life across the globe. In an otherwise tragic time, this provides a unique natural experiment to investigate the environmental impact of such a (temporary) ‘de-globalization’. Here, we estimate the medium-run impact of a battery of COVID-19 related lockdown measures on air quality across 162 countries, going beyond the existing short-run estimates from a limited number of countries. In doing so, we leverage a new dataset categorizing lockdown measures and tracking their implementation and release, extending to 31 August 2020. We find that domestic and international lockdown measures overall led to a decline in PM2.5 pollution by 45% and 35%, respectively. This substantial impact persists in the medium-run, even as lockdowns are lifted, there is, however, substantial heterogeneity across different types of lockdown measures, different countries, and different sources of pollution. We show that some country trajectories are much more appealing (with fewer COVID-19 casualties, less economic downturn and bigger pollution reductions) than others. Our results have important policy implications and highlight the potential to ‘build back better’ a sustainable economy where pollution can be curbed in a less economically costly way than during the COVID-19 pandemic.

«В ДУШЕ СПЛОШНАЯ БОЛЬ – РАНА»: ПОВСЕДНЕВНАЯ ЖИЗНЬ Г. БУЗУЛУКА САМАРСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В 1921-1922 гг. ВВОСПОМИНАНИЯХ МЕСТНОЙ ЖИТЕЛЬНИЦЫ

The publication presents an extract from the memoirs of Elizaveta Zhemchuzhnikova, a teacher in the small town of Buzuluk in Samara province, dedicated to the famine of 1921-1922. The author vividly portrays the horrors and miseries of everyday life during that tragic time and shows some strategies that helped her and other locals to survive. The article is devoted to the little-studied issue of the peculiarities of Russian-Serbian economic ties. The author argues that the Russian-Austrian relations in the Balkan region were not only in the nature of political rivalry, but were associated with the general economic interests of Russia in the Danube region.

Expanding Possibilities: Flexibility and Solidarity with Under-resourced Immigrant Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The novel coronavirus has added new anxieties and forms of grieving to the myriad practical and emotional burdens already present in the lives of underserved and uninsured immigrant families and communities. In this article, we relate our experiences since the COVID‐19 crisis to the lessons we have learned over time as mental health professionals working with families in no‐cost, student‐managed community comprehensive health clinics in academic‐community partnerships. We compare and contrast the learnings of flexibility of time, space, procedures, or attendance we acquired in this clinical community setting during regular times, with the new challenges families and therapists face, and the adaptations needed to continue to work with our clients in culturally responsive and empowering ways during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We describe families, students, professionals, promotoras (community links), and IT support staff joining together in solidarity as the creative problem solvers of new possibilities when families do not have access to Wi‐Fi, smartphones, or computers, or suffer overcrowding and lack of privacy. We describe many anxieties related to economic insecurity or fear of facing death alone, but also how to visualize expanding possibilities in styles of parenting or types of emotional support among family members as elements of hope that may endure beyond these unprecedented tragic times of loss and uncertainty.

Creative Dialogues across Countries and Culture during COVID-19

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2020) 6(1):72–84 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2020/6/13 Creative Dialogues across Countries and Culture during COVID-19 创造性艺术探索：新冠疫情中的国际跨文化对话 Abstract This article reports on an online collaboration among creative arts therapists (CATs) from the West and East during the emerging worldwide health crisis related to coronavirus. Four women were from China and were in a restrictive quarantine as the crisis was emerging in that country. Three CATs were from Guam, a Pacific island territory of the United States. The other CAT was from New York City. This group met once across several time zones in a ZOOM room. The goal was to develop arts-based communication about their personal subjective experience of the health crisis. Most of the members of the group were new to each other, each other’s languages and culture, and to using the Internet as an avenue for spontaneous expressive communication. The overall purpose of the meeting was to reach out to each other during this unusual and tragic time to develop collaborative metaphor making as a way to understand each other’s experiences. The group used improvised dance, art, poetry, and fairy tale making. The resulting metaphors suggested a complex combination of the feelings related to both the destructiveness of the health crisis as well as the positive feeling of creative connections among those from different countries and cultures in this dramatic time. Keywords: Creative arts therapy, Dance therapy, Cross-cultural understanding, Response to the health crisis, Coronavirus, COVID-19, drama therapy 摘要 本文报道了疫情期间东西方创造性艺术治疗师们之间的在线合作。随着疫情所带来的危机在中国出现，四名中国的创造性艺术治疗师进入了居家隔离中。另外三名创造性艺术治疗师来自美属太平洋岛屿领土关岛。最后，一名创造性艺术治疗师来自纽约市。这次活动中，该团体通过ZOOM会议平台跨越多个时区见面，目的是发展关于他们对健康危机的个人主观经历的基于艺术的交流。团体的大多数成员彼此都是陌生的，对彼此的语言和文化也不熟悉。我们希望利用互联网作为自发的表达交流的渠道。会议总体的目的是在这个不寻常且悲惨的时刻联系彼此并共同创造一些意象，以此来理解彼此的经历。该小组使用即兴舞蹈、艺术、诗歌和神话故事的方法。通过这次交流所产生的多种意象表明，弥漫在这个戏剧性的时代的，是一种与健康危机的破坏性以及来自不同国家和文化的人们之间创造性联系的积极感觉相关的复杂感受。 关键字：创造性艺术治疗，舞蹈治疗，跨文化理解，对健康危机的反应，新冠病毒, COVID-19, 戏剧治疗

«Поклонимся великим тем годам» (песни о Великой Отечественной войне из репертуара Иосифа Кобзона на занятиях по русскому языку как иностранному)

освящается подвигу народа, одержавшему 75 лет назад Великую Победу над фашизмом В юбилейный год празднования в нашей стране Победы над фашистской Германией особую актуальность приобретает обращение к проблематике, напрямую или косвенно связанной с этой знаменательной датой. В условиях, когда все чаще предпринимаются попытки фальсификации историческойдействительности и искусственного замалчивания правды о роли нашей страны в победе над фашизмом, доносить историческую истину до современников, изучающих русский язык как иностранный, становится важной и благородной задачей. Широчайший пласт песенного русскоязычного наследия о Великой Отечественной войне, созданный выдающимися композиторами и поэтами России, создает благодатную почву для его использования на занятиях по русскому языку для иностранцев. Военные песни — значительная часть культурной сокровищницы нашей страны, позволяющая раскрыть всё ее богатство и особенности, а также расширить понимание и восприятие русскоязычной картины мира. Огромный потенциал, содержащийся в текстах песен, дает возможность расширить кругозор обучаемых, углубить их знания о стране изучаемого языка, повысить мотивацию в процессе овладения иностранным языком, а преподавателю, в свою очередь, проявить творческие способности и применить широкую палитру методических приемов при использовании данного материала на занятиях. The topicality of the paper is accounted for, first, by the coming 75thanniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany and, second, by the current attempts to distort or suppress information about the crucial role of our country in vanquishing Hitler’s army. The author maintains that the rich heritage of Russian songs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War can be used in teaching Russian to foreign students, integrating practical language instruction, a linguistic and cultural worldview and assessment of historical facts in their true dimension. For students, it is a challenge of explaining the value of every culture-bound detail (especially those serving as time-markers), and, for teachers, it is an opportunity to stimulate language study by an emotional appeal and broaden the scope of instruction techniques. The paper outlines a tentative methodology of using songs in a Russian-language classroom. For the material, we turn to the song “A Pre-War Waltz” composed by Felix Laube, with the lyrics of Pavel Aedonitsky. The poetic and musical effect is greatly enhanced by the artistry of the performer, Iosif Kobzon (1937-2018), whose talent of reaching out to every heart went hand-in-hand with his civic consciousness and a strong sense of responsibility.

THE VIETNAM SYNDROME IN FORREST GUMP MOVIE SCRIPT

Considered the most controversial war in the 20th century, the Vietnam War deeply divides the American society. Especially, it causes the Vietnam Syndrome which still is an obsession of American people until today. The research is carried out on a movie script of one of the most famous Hollywood films about the Vietnam War, Forrest Gump. The collected data are analyzed on the basis of Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA). The study aims to reveal the different aspects of the syndrome considered as a psychological trauma expressing in many factors such as the topic, the plot, the characters, the setting, the genre, the theme songs, and the language of the whole movie. Moreover, the movie script exposes a long period of problematic and tragic time in the history of the United States.

Equal among equals. Ukrainian women in historical and cultural context

Equal among equals. Ukrainian women in historical and cultural context