scholarly journals “Her Dreary Easter Day”, an exceptional newspaper article

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Pierre Maechling
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Article

scholarly journals African traditional widowhood rites and their benefits and/or detrimental effects on widows in a context of African Christianity

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matsobane Manala
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Unconditional Love ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Critical Literature

Traditional Africans teach ubuntu principles of communality, mutual respect, caring and so forth, but they do not walk the talk with regard to the treatment of widows. In the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth, Christian communities preach unconditional love, especially for the poor, marginalised and vulnerable. Implementation is, however, grossly lacking in respect of the treatment of widows. There is thus an apparent deliberate uncaring, disrespectful, discriminatory, impolite and unjust treatment of widows in African communities in spite of the ubuntu values and Christian teaching that emphasise love and caring, especially towards the grieving and thus vulnerable widows. Widows seem to be neglected and even oppressed in our time. The aim of this research is to critically examine African traditional widowhood rites and practices with special reference to the comfort or pain to which they subject African widows. The research further aims to examine the behaviour of some African Christians belonging to three congregations of one mainline church to determine whether their treatment of widows resonates with Jesus’ teaching regarding the requisite care of widows. The issue of widowhood in Africa, in terms of the apparent plight of these bereaved and grieving women, needs to be urgently addressed for change in the 21st century. A critical literature study of relevant sources and a newspaper article will be used for this research. My personal experiences and continuing observation as an insider will also inform the research in useful ways.

scholarly journals Representation of Immigrants in British and American Newspapers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Gabriela Chefneux
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
North American ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Theoretical Part

AbstractOne of the major functions newspapers have is that of (re)presenting reality for their readers and thus explain events and promote specific values; newspapers are multimodal texts, which resort both to language and images to convey their message. The paper analyses a British and a North American newspaper article and has two aims. Firstly, to investigate the strategies used by journalists to represent immigrants in a positive way and, secondly, to draw a comparative analysis between the articles in terms of these strategies. The theoretical part defines the concept of racism and the ways in which it is nowadays expressed and lists some of the strategies that are frequently used to present immigrants (such as topic, referential strategies, intensifying, extensivization, victimization, personalization, voices heard, argumentation, etc.) with the use of pictures. The second part identifies strategies used in these two articles. The conclusions present a comparison between them in terms of similarities (values upheld, type of argumentation) and differences (intensification and nomination strategies, quotation patterns).

Description Process of City Space in Newspaper Article

1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (0) ◽  
pp. 397-402
Author(s):  
Kiyoe Takagi ◽  
Naoji Matsumoto ◽  
Tatsuya Saito ◽  
Fumiaki Seo
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Article ◽  
City Space

“Written by the Hand of Mormon”

2019 ◽  
pp. 456-504
Author(s):  
Larry E. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Print Shop

In June 1829, Joseph Smith and Martin Harris began contacting printers, including Thurlow Weed, who declined a contract, and Egbert B. Grandin, who eventually agreed to publish the Book of Mormon. Oliver Cowdery prepared a printer’s copy of the manuscript, and printing began in late August or early September. Employees of the print shop, including Pomeroy Tucker, Albert Chandler, and John H. Gilbert, later described the process in detail. During this same period, Cornelius Blatchly published an early newspaper article about the Book of Mormon, Abner Cole began illegally publishing extracts from the Book of Mormon, and a controversial revelation dealing with the Canadian copyright was dictated. In March 1830, the Wayne Sentinel announced the publication of the Book of Mormon.

Private Grief, Public Mourning

2021 ◽  
pp. 350-366
Author(s):  
Catriona Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Great Patriotic War

Sergei Mikaelyan’s Widows (1976) is a highly unusual war movie because of its focus on civilians and on “postmemory,” the retrospective experience of the aftermath of conflict. Two elderly women campaign against the removal of the remains of two soldiers whom they found in a nearby field during the Great Patriotic War, and the publicity then inspires many people bereaved during the conflict to claim the remains as “theirs.” The chapter traces the origins of the story in a 1970 newspaper article and its slow transition to the big screen, not helped by assessors in the studio and at Goskino who found the material “tasteless.” As the analysis shows, the film raised uncomfortable questions about the significance of war memory in a new and changed society; Widows was to remain an admired movie that never quite made it into the canon.

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