“Home at Grasmere”: Ecological Holiness

PMLA ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Kroeber
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The One ◽  
Physical Fact

Wordsworth's “Home at Grasmere,” the one completed book of The Recluse, expresses a conception of home as a territorial sanctuary. The holiness of Grasmere Vale as a dwelling place consists in the possibility for ecological wholeness which it provides. The enclosure of the valley liberates the poet's psychic potency, because there he is encouraged to be receptive to multiple dimensions of experience. Through such openness he is consciously able to reintegrate his being into the enduring rhythms of natural existence, thereby articulating his unique individuality. “Home at Grasmere,” then, embodies Wordsworth's ideal of what poetry should be, namely, the realization through language of the intrinsic poeticalness of commonplace actuality. This true poetry, which is characterized by interplay between physical “fact” and mental “fancy,” liberates man from the prison of mere perception, revealing how individuals'—by fitting themselves to nature and fitting nature to themselves—can give unique expression to the unified, interdependent wholeness which is life, the expression being a fulfillment rather than a negation of fundamental inherent tendencies of natural process. In so celebrating such interaction of art and nature, Wordsworth raises questions about some current presuppositions of what constitutes basic interrelations among literature, civilization, and the physical environment.

IX.—The Intellectual Resemblance of Twins

1934 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 105-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Herrman ◽  
Lancelot Hogben
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Single Gene ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Genetic Constitution ◽  
Family Influences ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
The One

The characteristics of social behaviour in man are conditioned by previous experience. What is observed is the product on the one hand of a certain genetic constitution and on the other of an intricate, prolonged, and at present largely obscure, process of training and physical environment, including both the environment of the fœtus and family influences, social and physical. The experimental methods for detecting differences due to single gene substitutions cannot be applied directly. Indeed, we can see no immediate prospect of applying to social behaviour methods of genetic analysis such as have led to the mapping of the chromosomes in animals and in plants. With methods available at present, genetic inquiry can undertake to detect whether any gene differences are associated with observed differences, and whether such gene differences are recognisable throughout a comparatively wide or narrow range of social and physical environment.

SPACE, POWER AND HEALING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon ca. 1850–1940. CHRISTOPHER GRAY. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. xxii+275. $65 (ISBN 1-58046-048-8).

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
FLORENCE BERNAULT
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Land Disputes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Ideological Construction

THE Anglophone literature has conceptualized the history of the African ‘space’ through two major approaches. Fine-grained reconstructions of land disputes have helped to illuminate colonial changes in the political and economic control over residential and productive units, and to assess the local (im)possibilities for Africans of accumulating landed property and/or penetrating the new plantation and market economy. More recently, environmental studies have encouraged historians to uncover how fundamental alterations in the relationships between communities and their physical environment have been shaping ancient and recent struggles for identities and socio-political resources. Meanwhile, renewed attention to cognitive notions of space by anthropologists on the one hand, and literary critics on the other, has delineated deep structuring principles in the ideological construction of space among Africans and colonizers. Few historians have followed through, however, and historicized such imaginaries. Among those who have done so, and have traced people's conceptual, commemorative and moral visions of land, fewer still have ventured beyond the boundaries of specific locales and societies. By reconstructing a longue durée history of the disruptions in both the physical and cognitive spaces of the Gabonese rainforest, Chris Gray's book stands as a major attempt to bridge these gaps.

Vortex dynamics during N–S and S–N transitions of Y–Ba–Cu–O superconductors under the effect of temperature gradient and thermal cycling

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3090-3098 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kirschner ◽  
A. C. Bódi ◽  
R. Laiho ◽  
L. Lähderanta
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Variable Temperature ◽  
Ac Susceptibility ◽  
Vortex Motion ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Nonequilibrium Temperature ◽  
The One ◽  
Flux Expulsion

AC susceptibility of ac has been measured simultaneously in three different ranges of Y–Ba–Cu –O ceramic samples in the presence of a large and variable temperature gradient. The results obtained for normal-superconducting or superconducting-normal transitions under the effect of the one-dimensional nonequilibrium temperature distribution reveal the vortex motion to consist of not only conventional flux expulsion (or flux penetration), but flux exchange too, appearing between different ranges of samples and between samples and their close physical environment. The thermal cycles are shown to represent a supplementary heat treatment, increasing the homogeneity of the sample and decreasing the pinning, which accelerate the process of vortex motion.

scholarly journals Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: sustainability is an indispensable condition of Global Health Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura ◽  
Gabriela Marques di Giulio ◽  
Danielle Hanna Rached
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Global Health Security ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One

Abstract Among the possible developments of the Covid-19 pandemic at the international and national levels is the advancement of the Global Health Security (GHS) agenda. On the one hand, GHS might be able to give priority to health problems on the political agenda-setting, on the other, however, it might open up space for public security actors in decision-making processes to the detriment of the power of health authorities. This article critically analyzes the concept and the progress of the GHS agenda seeking to demonstrate that there can be no security in matters of public health when sustainability in its multiple dimensions is not taken into account. At the end, sustainability has a twofold responsibility: to maintain the consistency and permanence of emergency response actions, especially with investments in public health systems, with universal access, and to minimize the structural causes of pandemics linked to the environment.

Causative factor for premature ageing

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Praneta Usgaonkar
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Causative Factor ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Natural Ageing ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Era

Ageing is the change in biology of an organism as it ages after its maturity. Such changes range from those affecting its cells and their function to that of the whole organism. As ageing is the natural process of growing older yet there are many factors that play a role in whether we age gracefully or if we are the one out of people who age faster than our biological. Globally, the population is ageing rapidly But the major concern in the current era is the “premature ageing” and not the natural ageing or what we can call blissful ageing, which can be due to several causative factors such as smoking, drinking, sun, moisture, perpetual anger, diet, excess weight, stress, free radicals etc. The era that we live in is full of stress due to stressful tasks that line up our way. Chronic stress is one of the most important factor that accelerates aging by shortening DNA telomeres The modern era has taken great strides in providing materialistic comfort to human beings but along with comfort ailments have come along. Stress is one such by - product of modern day lifestyle. The stress that is left unchecked can contribute to many health problems such as hypertension, heart diseases, obesity and diabetes. Stress also affects our mind drastically. Chronic stress can lead to mood disorders.

Sanctities, Blasphemies and the (Jewish) Nation

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Chaim Noy
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One ◽  
Modes Of Interaction

In this article I rematerialize discourse that is articulated in the shape of commemorative visitor book entries, in a national-military commemoration site in Jerusalem, Israel. The materiality and communicative affordances of the commemorative visitor book, the physical environment in which it is situated and which grants it meaning, and the modes of interaction and inscription that it affords are examined. Located in a densely symbolic national commemoration site, the impressively looking book does not merely capture visitors' reflections. Instead, it serves as a device that allows participation in a collective-national rite. While seemingly designated as a visitor book, the discursive device functions performatively as a portal or interface between visitors, on the one side, and the nation and the dead and living soldieries, on the other side. Expectedly, the inscriptions that populate the book's pages are instances of iconic discourse (texts with graphic additions of sorts), that embody one of the heightened ideological and experiential moments of "civil religion" (Robert Bellah). They illustrate the resources used by nationalism in establishing sacred contexts and rituals. Also, they illustrate how different discourses of sanctity (and profanity), are juxtaposed on the same (Jewish) space. Specifically, while local Israeli sightseers present their appreciation for and participation in commemoration of the nation-state in terms of "civil religion," most of the international tourists, who are mostly north American Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews, perform their notions of sanctity and sacredness in messianic and primordial terms, which look through or beyond the nation state.

scholarly journals “LIKE YOU, I WANT TO FEEL EXCITEMENT AND HOPE ABOUT OUR CITY”: ‘CHRISTCHURCH THE CITY’ IN CAMPAIGN MATERIAL OF THE 2013 CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL ELECTION

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Carlton
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
City Space ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Post Disaster

The Christchurch City Council election of 2013 provides a compelling case study through which to consider the interaction between politics and city space. On the one hand, through the careful placement of campaign posters, politics encroached on the physical terrain of the city. On the other hand, candidates included in their campaign material multitudinous references to ‘Christchurch the city,’ demonstrating the extent to which the physical environment of the post-disaster city had become central to local politics.

Gardzienice: a Village, a Theatre, and a Cultural Crossroads

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (29) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Paul Allain
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

Appropriately, this feature on the Polish theatre group Gardzienice is something of a cultural mix, in which the impressions of an English visitor may be contrasted with the voice of a Polish admirer – and the beliefs of the group itself, expressed in the words of its director, Wlodzimierz Staniewski. In the winter of 1989–90, Paul Allain, a graduate student at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, visited the company at its ‘headquarters’ – which is also, in effect, the small and remote Polish village from which Gardzienice takes its name. This was at a time when the new. Solidarity-led government had yet to be fully felt. Here, Allain describes the training methods and disciplines of the company which, within the context of its physical environment, have come to constitute a lifestyle as much as an approach to theatre. Janusz Majcherek writes rather of the significance of Gardzienice in relation to the ancient and fundamental need for a homeland – a need which, in Staniewski's writings, is related to the company's own hopes and plans. All this material was in our hands well before the upsurge in nationalist feeling which has succeeded the political changes in eastern Europe: and it may be felt to reflect ironically upon alternative ways of ‘returning home’ – on the one hand through the actuality or threat of civil war and the struggle for an elusive slice of the ‘free market’, on the other in that quest for a lost history and inheritance, for healing connections with one's environment, which is reflected theatrically in the work of Gardzienice.

scholarly journals PENGARUH TERAPI BERMAIN TERHADAP PENURUNAN KECEMASAN PADA ANAK USIA PRA SEKOLAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Rina Delfina
Keyword(s):  
Play Therapy ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Anxiety Reduction ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Hospital Treatment ◽  
School Age ◽  
Quantitative Data Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Paired T Test

The hospital treatment experienced by a child can lead to a variety of experiences that are very traumatic and full of anxiety. Anxiety that can arise can be caused by many factors such as the physical environment of the hospital, among others, room care, tools, smells typical, white clothing health workers and the environment. The purpose of this study was to see the effect of play therapy on decreased anxiety of preschool children who were treated. The type of research is quasy experiments using the one group pretest-postest design. The sample of the study was pre-school age children who were treated in edelwiss RSUD Dr. M. Yunus Bengkulu. Data collection using observation sheets. Quantitative data analysis is univariate and Bivariate with Paired T-Test. The results showed that there was an effect of playing therapy on anxiety reduction in pre-school age children treated (ρ = 0.000). To the hospital to further improve playing therapy activities for children who are treated in an effort to reduce anxiety in children.

scholarly journals Innovation, Ruptures and Economic Cycles in Technology Platforms: Proposition of an analytical framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (98) ◽  
pp. 495-518
Author(s):  
Wilquer Silvano de Souza Ferreira ◽  
Gláucia Maria Vasconcellos Vale ◽  
Patrícia Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Consumption ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Theoretical Conception ◽  
The One ◽  
Productive Systems

Abstract The world has been going through many technological transformations, which affect not only the productive systems, but also the prevailing social and institutional spheres, creating a fragmented and hard to understand scenario. Different theories aim at evaluating some specific dimensions of the complex process in course at the micro- meso- and macrolevels; however, none seems to encompass the multiple dimensions of the phenomenon concomitantly. To address such research gap, we resort to adaptive theory, which, on the one hand, turns to theoretical constructs on disruptive innovation, creative destruction and economic cycles; on the other, resorts to data and information on the emergence and proliferation of platforms for collaborative consumption. Our paper brings a unified theoretical conception, allowing a more comprehensive and integrated analysis of more than one dimension of the transformation process currently in course.

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