Multi-Faceted Traditional and Ritual Resources of Africa
Exploring Second Screening Behaviors of Participants in Blantyre, Malawi: Motivations and Gratification Implications
Factors of Negative Psychic State, Anxiety, and Depression of Waterlogged Farmers in Bangladesh: A Farming Disaster
Transforming Innovative Educational Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Categorizing and Defining the Dominance and Suppression into Positive and Negative Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Mind States
Importance of Universal Human Values in Education System: An Overview
Competing Gender Discourses: A Multi-modal Analysis of Gender Representations and Femininity in a Philippine Magazine
Self - Esteem and Body Image: A Correlational Study
Technology and Pottery Evolution: Pottery Practices in South Western Nigeria
Awareness of Human Rights, Legal Literacy, and Social Well being of Secondary School Students of Srinagar And Budgam Districts of Jammu and Kashmir
Episodic Medication Adherence among Adolescents with Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV): Roles of Parental Involvement and Peer Pressure in Receiving Treatments in Lagos, Nigeria
Competing Gender Discourses: A Multi-modal Analysis of Gender Representations and Femininity in a Philippine Magazine
Categorizing and Defining the Dominance and Suppression into Positive and Negative Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Mind States
Qualitative Case Study on HBCU Students' Perceptions of the Sources of Academic Self-Efficacy in Online Learning
Women in Panchayats: The History, the Perspective and the Background
This paper presents the technical processes, instruction and production techniques of pottery practices in the south west of Nigeria. It examined how indigenous technologies, norms and values in traditional pottery of south western Nigeria have evolved in giving continuity and socio-cultural experiences to the people, which they, in turn, can reproduce. The starting ground is that the dynamics in the manufacture of pottery itself would show the forms of contemporary technology, cultural, socio-economic, and knowledge relations in South West of Nigeria in particular. This paper has therefore directed us to try to report past technological knowledge inclinations, social and cultural history in South Western Nigeria and the impact of modern technology.
The following paper- a review of the literature is an adaption from the first thesis the author wrote at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY as an undergraduate in 1999. It is a preliminary assessment of how the character La Belle Isolde differs in the chapter Sir Tristram de Lyonesse of Sir Thomas Malory's (1993, 2015, 1998) Le Morted 'Arthur, and Tristan and Iseult of Gottfried Straßburg (1929). Malory's depiction of Isolde holds more negative imagery than that of Straßburg's. The latter author, however, depicts Isolde as a powerful woman, who often holds Tristan's life in her hands. However, in Straßburg's view, La Belle Isolde is the role of a strong woman who is neither subjugated nor docile. Straßburg's characterization is reflected further in Richard Wagner's romantic opera Tristan und Isolde. In this opera that debuted in Munich in 1865, Wagner keeps equal the pair of co-protagonists (Deathridge & Dahlhaus,1984; Jansen, 1998).On the contrary, Sir Malory viewed La Belle Isolde as the mere shadow of the chivalrous Tristan, albeit she had with background importance as a minor character. The following review of the literature will assess three examples of the conflicting treatments of La Belle Isolde: 1) her epithet, 2) a downplay of her medicinal knowledge, and 3) the effects of the love potion on the couple.
Recent studies in gender representation tackle issues that no longer deal with the under representation, invisibility, powerlessness, and silence of women in the media. Hence, it is aim of this study to analyze women's representation in a new light following the principles of feminism of difference. This study sought to prove that competing gender discourses and the notion of varying femininities are discursive practices that can be observed as strategies in representation in modern magazines. To prove this, multimodal analysis was used to analyze the verbal and non-verbal text of the magazine in question. Moreover, feminist critical analysis was applied to see how the use of diverse and competing discourses in the magazine are intertwined with the text producer's consumerist agenda. The analysis also shows how seemingly neutral or harmless discussions about feminine activities are actually embedded with biased ideologies about gender. A critical discourse analysis is deemed important in raising the awareness of readers regarding this manipulative process. It is through a critical look into language and discourse that one may find how unequal power relations do exist in social discourse.
The paper titled 'Comparative literature, a pole apart thought in English literature' is a monographic artistic presentation describing, raising an interrogation toward the literatures around the continents for better production in the field of literature. From the chronological approach, there have been number of identifications enough and more for the humane in thought and the respect for the other as the mode of comparative literature. It has been maintained by the author how different thinkers of the continents put the know how into the stream of conscious presentation making it comparative literature as tying together the cosmopolitan community, which has been put in to presentation for the future generation to have a thought before they have their start.
Universal human values (UHV) play a significant role in the whole life of a human being. These values in the education system are necessary to create effective students who will bring the nation to greater height. However, the present education system just focuses on acquiring large amounts of information, passing examinations and procuring many higher degrees for the job. Thus, the people after getting the job only focus on earning more money, while giving less importance to relationship and right understanding. This results in number of problems at individual levels (depression, anxiety, stress, suicides, etc.), family level (breaking up of joint families, divorce, dowry, deaths etc.) and society level (growing incidence of terrorism, violence, communism, racial and ethnic struggle, wars and sex crimes etc.). Hence, this paper advocates about the basis of human values and the issues that the students face before learning the value based education and the positive changes that happens after understanding of value based education. This leads to technically skilled and morally strong professionals and even helps in enhancing more opportunities in their life.
