Endless Sacks: Soldiers’ Desire in Tamburlaine*

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Shepard
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Tamburlaine The Great

Christopher Marlowe's two-part Tamburlaine the Great (published 1590) captures all of the spirit and something of the scope of legendary violence the historical Tamerlane levied against his enemies. In the course of ten acts Tamburlaine's armies roll over several nations and cultures, leaving thousands of civilians enslaved or worse. Marlowe's graphic representation of the trail of blood and brutality is itself notorious.In the interest of founding his own legend as the hypermasculine “Generall of the world” (1:5.1.451), Tamburlaine practices virtual genocide against his enemies and ethnocide against their cities, religions, and ways of life. By no means does he work alone. The soldier-males who serve in his armies eagerly follow his lead.

Socio-Economic Empowerment Through Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oitshepile MmaB Modise ◽  
Rebecca Lekoko ◽  
Joyce Mmamaleka Thobega
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Rural Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Income ◽  
Ways Of Life

The chapter presents a case of a community development project known as Lentswe La Oodi Weavers in a rural village, Oodi, in the Kgatleng district of Botswana with a goal of socio-economic empowerment for women operating it and for the community. The project reinforces sentiments that technology work best for local communities if it is compatible with their ways of life. The women who started the project almost 30 years ago did not have any formal education and achieved their dignity in their own communities as women who are independent and have empowered themselves for better livelihoods and sustainable income, meager as it may be. They use their natural talent of weaving and boost their productivity through compatible ICTs such as spinning wheel, Bobbin wheel, and flat looms. Short training is done to strengthen these natural skills. Their products are bought internationally. Challenges include lack of skills for proper management. They live in the world of bookkeeping and book auditing and their project is susceptible to problems if it does not go through such procedures. Thus, these women skill-needs are mostly in areas of management, marketing, and selling their produce; all of these could be said to need formal training.

Vision, subalternity, and religious imaginary in southern Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 003776862096065
Author(s):  
Roberto Beneduce
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Religious Imaginary

Vision and divine voice, however defined, are at the heart of religious experience. The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity. After chronicling the difficulty, indeed outright impossibility, of circumscribing and defining these complex experiences, as well as the opacity of the dominant categories that have been adopted by sociology, anthropology, phenomenology, and psychiatry, this article explores three case histories from southern Italy. Each one reveals a particular knot where private (and traumatic) experience has incorporated historical horizons and collective anxieties. By adopting a historical and comparative perspective, the author investigates how visions, voices – and more generally the encounter with transcendence – enable subalterns to deal with suffering and marginality and, more importantly, to build a view of how the world is and works. Finally, the article suggests that these experiences allow a transformation of the nostalgia for agency into new ‘horizons of expectation’.

scholarly journals Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Study: Assessing Reading Habits of University Students in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
Nusrat Jahan ◽  
Md. Aliur Rahman ◽  
Mohammad Golam Mohiuddin ◽  
Ahmed Al Mansur ◽  
Ahsan Habib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
State Level ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life

The world has been shaken and normalcy has been  stifled due to Covid-19 pandemic leading the affected people to adapt to, adopt new ways of life and reconstitute habit inviting activities other than those previously practiced. Reading habits of university students have been affected adversely by the unprecedented pandemic. While the students, during this period being distanced from the regular academic environment, have opted for alternative engagements, the time for reading and number of books covered have dwindled remarkably. This article examined the changed dynamics of both academic and nonacademic reading habits of the students at public and private universities in Bangladesh. Data were collected from 700 students through a questionnaire using Google form. The results show that reading habits have been adversely affected during this pandemic as 44.6% students read books only 1-2 hours whereas 57.4% of them spend 5-6 hours using electronic devices for multiple purposes mostly other than reading. This study recommends developing a strategy by the concerned authority starting from the state level to institutions to attract the learners and facilitate learning online with a rich and reliable reservatory of study materials with easy accessibility.

scholarly journals Empirical Identity as Dimension of Development in Africa: With Special Reference to the Igbo Society of South-east of Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Chigozie Nnebedum
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Society ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Igbo People ◽  
The World ◽  
Empirical Point ◽  
Ways Of Life

Abstract Identity, as discussed in this paper, is seen as a phenomenon which is constantly changing under certain circumstances. From empirical point of view, the identity of man is influenced by the environment through experience and unconscious socialization; it is continually modified by the individual’s encounter with the world. The aim of this work is to analyse the intricacies involved in understanding the situation and mentality of the Igbos as far as identity is concerned and to determine how this hampers or helps in the development of the Igbo/African society. In this work ‘identity’ as a means of development with regard to the Igbo people of South-East Nigeria is treated. The work is methodically qualitative. It analyses literatures and different views on identity and tailors the discussion of development along the lines of hermeneutical approach to subjective experiences. The Igbos and Africans find themselves sometimes in the danger of a mixture of identity. This is the case with most of the Igbo people who are scattered all over the world and who are becoming more foreign in their trends and ways of life. Being unable to maintain a definite identity, one is lost in the politics of development. Those who still hang on to pure imitation of the western life are jeopardizing their autonomy and by extension, frustrating development of the African society. Rediscovering the Igbo/African Identity and putting it to the service of development in the African continent is the task of the Africans themselves.

Two Ways of Life

Aftershocks ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seva Gunitsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Ways Of Life

This chapter examines the early Cold War period, focusing on how the two triumphant superpowers oversaw institutional waves that embodied their competing visions for the world. The aftermath of the Second World War left in place two rising powers, creating two institutional waves and two visions of the modern state. This rivalry set the tone for the rest of the twentieth century until the collapse of the Soviet alternative in the early 1990s. Both countries used their military might to impose their regimes on others through coercion. Both countries used their economic and diplomatic influence to exert political pressure and encourage other states to adopt their institutions. Both also created and used international institutions to shape and direct their power, and to embed both themselves and their followers in a web of political and economic linkages.

Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus J. Arnold ◽  
Eve M. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life

January 22, 1940 Now we’ve really begun our watch in the East. We’ve never been so cut off from all bourgeois, western ways of life. It’s too bad we don’t have the inner freedom to fully experience the world around us. It really is like a dream vacation. The surrounding countryside is quieter than I’ve ever experienced it. There are unending vistas of snow. The silent forest serves as a backdrop to the scene; in the foreground is the manor with its large barns and stables. […]...

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan James
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Philosophizing, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. But this is also a matter of learning to live together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is the capacity to sustain harmonious ways of life. The essays gathered here defend this overall interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy and explore its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates. Part I focuses on Spinoza’s epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and enhances our ability to live cooperatively. Part II takes up Spinoza’s claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we need to live together in political communities, and considers how states can develop a cooperative ethos. Finally, living joyfully requires us to look beyond the state to our relationship with the rest of nature. Part III discusses some of the virtues this requires.

La Problématique

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-37
Author(s):  
Robert Klitgaard
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Endogenous Change ◽  
Ways Of Life

An immersion in academic anthropology provides its own culture shocks. Anthropologists have long studied and celebrated indigenous ways of life, diversity, and endogenous change. Yet when asked how to apply that knowledge to make the world better, the question itself becomes the problematic. Whose knowledge, whose idea of better, and who exactly is doing the applying? At the same time, many development practitioners and economists wave away culture as beyond their purview and, anyway, not scientific. If culture is important for many practical reasons and people have been studying culture for many years in many ways, why have the practical applications been so meager and difficult?

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