Prohibition

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
David Rose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Red Wine ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
Eating Animal ◽  
Illegal Action ◽  
The Way

How do you decide which laws are just, and which to break? How do you know when a democratic government has passed a law you are comfortable breaking? In this work of philosophical short fiction, the narrator admits he is an addict. He takes a taxi to a vacant part of town, and walks the rest of the way to his source. He knocks and enters the restaurant. Only one other patron, a woman. He orders the illegal dish to serve his addiction, a steak. With a glass of red wine he savors the illegal action of eating animal flesh. Just then the place is busted by the police. The narrator hides, but can see the police interrogating the woman and the doorman. In an effort to get information, the younger policeman begins beating the woman and accidentally kills her. The police decide to cover their tracks by throwing the woman in the back alley and making the doorman promise to never tell anyone what he saw. After the police leave, the terrified narrator slips out the back.

Film Censorship in Argentina: 1958-1976

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Film Censorship ◽  
The Way

In this article, I trace the emergence and impact of legislation that regulated film in Argentina from 1957-1976—a tumultuous period given that military governments continually interrupted democratic administrations. Contrary to what has been long held that censorship began during the revolución libertadora, I make the case that censorship legislation was first passed during the democratic government of Arturo Frondizi (term of office 1958-1962). This legislation prioritized the projection of a poster-image of the nation, the protection of Catholic values, and the promotion of shared national beliefs. This early legislation paved the way for the instauration of film censorship in 1968—as well as the regulations on censorship approved up until March 1976, when a new dictatorship took over—, but was met with antagonism from several different social actors at that time. Several resonant cases illustrate the dynamic censorship-freedom of expression that characterized the 1958-1976 period.

E-Government Concept

2015 ◽  
pp. 74-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delfina de Sá Soares ◽  
Luis Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Generic Model ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
System Building ◽  
Government Research ◽  
The Way

Over the last few years, many different definitions for the e-government term have appeared in the literature. This diversity of definitions created a conceptual multiplicity and divergence. While being understandable, taking into consideration the newness of the e-government field, this may be prejudicing the e-government research and development. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the clarification of the e-government concept, by providing a framework that hopefully will help to understand its boundaries and main constituents, as well as the way in which many of the different related terms found in the literature, can be further articulated. The framework put forward in this chapter is based on a generic model of a democratic government system. Building on that model, six main spaces, where Information Technologies (ITs) can be deployed, are identified and discussed. The use of IT in all those spaces contributes to the overall development of a country's e-government reality and maturity. By suggesting and arguing for a comprehensive, holistic and eclectic vision of e-government, this framework provides a basis for achieving more sustained e-government research and development efforts.

E-Government Concept

2013 ◽  
pp. 90-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delfina de Sá Soares ◽  
Luis Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Generic Model ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
System Building ◽  
Government Research ◽  
The Way

Over the last few years, many different definitions for the e-government term have appeared in the literature. This diversity of definitions created a conceptual multiplicity and divergence. While being understandable, taking into consideration the newness of the e-government field, this may be prejudicing the e-government research and development. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the clarification of the e-government concept, by providing a framework that hopefully will help to understand its boundaries and main constituents, as well as the way in which many of the different related terms found in the literature, can be further articulated. The framework put forward in this chapter is based on a generic model of a democratic government system. Building on that model, six main spaces, where Information Technologies (ITs) can be deployed, are identified and discussed. The use of IT in all those spaces contributes to the overall development of a country’s e-government reality and maturity. By suggesting and arguing for a comprehensive, holistic and eclectic vision of e-government, this framework provides a basis for achieving more sustained e-government research and development efforts.

Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.) Women in the Holocaust

2002 ◽  
pp. 506-508
Author(s):  
Sabine von Mering
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Face ◽  
Historical Detail ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses Women in the Holocaust. This book shows how men and women experienced the Holocaust differently owing to culturally defined gender roles, gender-related expectations, and differences in the way the Nazis treated them. The twenty-one original articles in this book present a wide spectrum of historical detail, personal narrative, short fiction, description of experiences, statistical evidence, and theoretical conclusions. They highlight women’s suffering and ingenuity, their mistakes, and their unfailing resilience in nurturing relationships, supporting others, and sacrificing everything for their children. They also tell the story of women’s professional versatility, courage, and even creativity in the face of a monstrous machinery of death.

scholarly journals Red Wine Aging by Different Micro-Oxygenation Systems and Oak Wood—Effects on Anthocyanins, Copigmentation and Color Evolution

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1250
Author(s):  
Rosario Sánchez-Gómez ◽  
Maria del Alamo-Sanza ◽  
Ana María Martínez-Gil ◽  
Ignacio Nevares
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Red Wine ◽  
Phenolic Composition ◽  
Oak Wood ◽  
Aging Period ◽  
Color Evolution ◽  
Steel Tanks ◽  
Wine Aging ◽  
The Way

The micro-oxygenation (MOX) of aged wine in contact with pieces of wood is a technique widely used for aging wines as an alternative to barrels. The available range of passive MOX systems is very wide and offers a behavior closer to that of barrels because it uses materials with a similar permeability to oxygen. The aim of this work has been to age the same red wine for 6 months using the main passive MOX systems and compare them with the classic MOX in stainless steel tanks and with barrels as a reference, in order to evaluate phenolic composition and establish its influence. The quantity and the way in which oxygen is incorporated into wine have been found to determine its evolution and final properties. Wine from barrels could be distinguished throughout the aging period since a better level of individualized anthocyanins was maintained, whereas stainless steel + MOX and PMDS (polydimethylsiloxane) wines presented more bluish hues.

scholarly journals ‘Minding’ the Style: Reading Conrad through Cognitive Poetics

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Alireza Parandeh ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
The Way

Cognitive Poetics works on the triangle of author-text-reader. A main focus is the reader of literature, as a co-producer of the text alongside the author, in an attempt to explain how his/her knowledge and experiences are applied in reaching an understanding of a particular text in a particular context. In this paper several examples of how contextual frames can operate in a narrative are discussed in three works of short fiction by Joseph Conrad. Analyzed in the particular context of Conradian narrative and prose style are such points as: how the readers begin a story, how they enter into the interior levels of it in order to feel and touch the events in the way its characters do, how they follow every episode of it and, in other words, how the readers ‘comprehend’ the narrative. It is argued that the application of insights from cognitive poetics to Conrad’s fiction is of particular relevance as Conrad is a writer who embodies and foregrounds this very act and process of ‘comprehending’ in his fiction.

scholarly journals Jean Rhys’s Tropographies: Unmappable Identity and the Tropical Landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and Selected Short Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gildersleeve
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Tropical Landscape ◽  
The Way

This essay seeks to trouble the traditional understanding of Jean Rhys’s ‘homelessness’ through a re-examination of the way in which the uncertain identities of her fiction are tied to their geographical settings. This works towards a reading of Rhys’s narratives as ‘literature of the tropics,’ describing not only the landscape within which and from which so many of them operate, but a literature of the unrecognised, the unmapped. In this essay I seek to complicate traditional readings of Rhys’s work that reassert her liminality and sense of unbelonging to propose that it is, paradoxically, the affinity of her work with the unassimilable tropics that produces this ‘outsider status.’

The Operation of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
George B. Galloway
Keyword(s):  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Congressional Committee ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
The Way

In this article I will attempt to review the operation of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 in terms of its own objectives. Criticisms of the limitations and shortcomings of the Act have been discussed elsewhere. In describing the reformed system and the way it works, it is no part of my intention to impute praise or blame to any of the actors in the drama. As a member of the staff of the Library of Congress, I view the legislative scene with as much nonaxiological detachment as an anthropologist would describe the customs and mores of primitive tribes on some tropical island. Whether or not the system is an authentic expression of democratic government, I am not at liberty to say.As conceived and formulated by its authors and as enacted by Congress, with some significant omissions, the Act (as I shall henceforth refer to the Legislative Reorganization Act, for the sake of brevity) had the following objectives:1. To streamline and simplify congressional committee structure.2. To eliminate the use of special or select committees.3. To clarify committee duties and reduce jurisdictional disputes.

scholarly journals Expresivitatea limbajului popular în romanul haiducesc „Iancu Jianu, zapciu de plasă” și „Iancu Jianu, căpitan de haiduci” de Nicolae D. Popescu

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Ileana Manuela Rat
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
National Language ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Popular Language ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Way

This paper analyzes the expressivity of popular language from the novels ”Iancu Jianu, Head of Administration” and ”Iancu Jianu, Captain of the Hajduks” by N.D. Popescu. The popular language is a language specific aspect, a language version and a main component of the oral version of the national language. In literary works, the popular language has a stylistic purpose. The aesthetic value of the text is the result of the process by which the expressiveness of the writer`s language is converted into an individual literary rule. The stylistic processes and brands encountered in popular language are national specific and they reflect the history, the way of thinking and the feelings of Romanian people. The popular language implies the release of constraints and limitations imposed by national language standard. I have chosen this study because it is an important matter that was not explored in Romanian hajduk novels and hajduk short fiction (novella, short-story, and tale).

scholarly journals Transgression and Empowerment in Sarah Hall’s Short Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Ana Raquel Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Identity Representation ◽  
The Way

Abstract This essay delivers an analysis of the innovative short fiction of contemporary British writer Sarah Hall. It gives particular consideration to the first two collections of short stories published by the author, The Beautiful Indifference (2011) and Madame Zero (2017), as well as looking into the possibilities offered by her latest collection, Sudden Traveler (2019). Hall focuses attention on such varied contemporary preoccupations as identity, gender, violence and death. My goal is to discuss the way that identities are subverted or transgressed in her short stories and how the topic of identity representation intersects with other themes becoming a fundamental and empowering factor in the narrative structure. Hall’s short story collections present an interesting case study, not only because they display the writer’s quest for a unity of subject-matter, but also because they evince the strength and vitality of the short story as a genre.

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