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Endless Agony and Death in Diaspora: A Study of Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky And Water
Get PDFNakba ‘Catastrophe’ draws a significant milestone in the history of the Palestinian literature, mainly in its issues, trajectories and concerns. It remains the inner traumatic moment of the Palestinian collective memory since 1948 until present. What happened during and after Nakba is thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from Palestine and dispersed in different countries over the world. Such disastrous event created endless agony for Palestinians and forced them to live in several exiles. In exiles, they become homeless seek shelters and livelihood and wait to die as refugees. Their hope to return to their homeland becomes a sort of dream in their writings. This paper aims to examine The Blue Between Sky and Water, a novel by Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian American novelist whose works focus on the Palestinian tragedy after Nakba. The significance of the present study springs from its focus on the Palestinian diasporic writings and examines a masterpiece narrative that has not been received enough attention from critics and researchers. Through the analysis of the novel, the study attempts to expose the Palestinians’ traumatic experiences and miseries; their resistance, struggle and hopes. It highlights the remarkable efforts made by the Palestinian writers to resist through literature, the Israeli occupation and encounter their Israeli narratives. It moreover, reveals the war crimes committed by Israelis in the occupied territories. The study is based on a descriptive analytical method and it has been guided by a number of historical studies which deal with the Palestinian issue and diaspora.
International Chinese Language Teaching in the Post-Pandemic Era: Searching for More Possibilities, Enhancing International Cooperation
Get PDFThe sudden outbreak of the world-wide pandemic has greatly influenced the way that foreign language classes are organized and presented in different countries all over the world, including that of the international Chinese language classes, namely, those for teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages. Except for frustrations and difficulties, new challenges in the post-pandemic era also bring us more opportunities for innovation and development. When it comes to international Chinese language teaching, more possibilities for further progress could be searched from the perspectives of teaching materials, teaching processes and teachers’ professional development based on further enhancement of win-win cooperations between China and the countries where Chinese language is taught
Determinants of Dividend Payout By Property Companies Listed on The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange: The Case of Zimre Property Investments Limited
Get PDFThe purpose of the study was to establish the determinants of dividend payout for listed property companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). The study adopted the pragmatist philosophy that permitted the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. For data collection, questionnaires and in-depth interviews are to be used with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and thematic analysis to be used for data analysis respectively. The findings revealed that the variables considered in this study namely profitability, prior dividend, and market value had a positive relationship with dividend payout. Only growth opportunities were inversely related to the dividend pay-out. Industry classification had positive effect to the dividend pay-out on ZSE listed property companies as the sectors was characterized by existing growth opportunities. Similarly, dividend payout would positively influence the share market price.The study therefore concluded that there was existence of positive correlation between share price, company classification and dividend pay-out. Industrial classification had an impact on dividend pay-out. Managers of property firms were recommended to aim at having high growth opportunities high Current Earnings (CE), high return on equity and investing in risk business. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could facilitate the creation of stock market (Secondary market) where investors could easily sell or buy shares of companies to curtail the loss of investors in the property market. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development should create relevant policy that allowed the participation of the government in the property sector
Evaluation of Student Interpreters Using Voice Recognition and Automatic Grammar Correction
Get PDFThe evaluation and assessment of student interpreters have long been an issue for interpreting programs. The balance between student practice throughput, the time and human cost of assessment, and the quality of feedback is notoriously difficult to achieve. Here we demonstrate a way to rapidly assess student Chinese-to-English interpreting performance using automatic speech recognition and grammar correction software. The assessment results are compared with human graders against a set of criteria for grammar, fidelity, register, and enunciation. The results show that the semiautomatic assessment process is less time-consuming, and can give adequate feedback for enunciation, grammar, and register. Student volunteers were able to maintain engagement over a three-month period with minimal intervention from the instructor, however, interest began to drop over the long term
The Challenges of Public e-Procurement Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa in Relation to Public Service Delivery
Get PDFThis paper identified and analysed the challenges facing public e-procurement practices in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to service delivery. It engaged a cross-sectional research design. It used cross-country data. This is an attempt to provide comparable data on challenges of public procurement practices from sub-Saharan Africa in relation to service delivery. Thus, the design encouraged the verifiability of situations in countries and ensures comparability. Data used are based on the hypothetical case studies provided in the literature provided on sub-Saharan African countries. The paper identified obsolete administrative cultures which have underscored bureaucracies as a traditional problem. However, there continue to be insufficiently skilled professionals and inadequate strategic treatment of procurement transactions. Arguably, the challenges facing sub-Saharan African countries in the area of public e-procurement in relation to service delivery are multidimensional with deep corrupt neurosis
The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Parental Divorce: A Qualitative Study
Get PDFThis research was aimed at examining the long-term effects of childhood parental divorce on children’s mental health. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with 7 Chinese adults aged between 22 and 24 who had experienced childhood parental divorce. The results showed that the adults who participated in the study had suffered psychological stimulation caused by the divorces of their parents in childhood, which led to a range of psychological problems, including depression, anxiety, loss of appetite, insomnia and self-harm. In addition, the study found that both the conflicts that occurred before and after the parents’ divorce and the parenting patterns affected the child’s mental health. Moreover, further researches could be promoted to investigate how the cooling-off period of divorce affected Chinese children’s mental health.
Death Metaphors in Chinese TV Series: Four Case Studies
Get PDFDeath has been a taboo subject in Chinese culture. Studying how Chinese people conceptualize death is an important way to better understanding Chinese culture. The current paper adopts the multimodal metaphor theory as the theoretical foundation and explores the death metaphors in some Chinese TV series. The present study finds five death metaphors, and they are DEATH IS DOWN, DEATH IS SETTING, DEATH IS GOING OUT, DEATH IS BIRTH and DEATH IS DARKNESS. The source domains are presented in the mode of pictorial signs and color while the target domain is presented by the mode of pictorial signs alone, or the mode of spoken signs alone, or sometimes by the two simultaneously
How to Construct the Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem of Universities
Get PDFResearching entrepreneurship education from the perspective of ecology and constructing an entrepreneurial education ecosystem in colleges are conducive to promoting the healthy, stable and sustainable development of entrepreneurship education. This article reviews the related theories of the entrepreneurial education ecosystem, analyzes the constituent elements of the entrepreneurial education ecosystem, and attempts to construct an entrepreneurial education ecosystem based on the combination of the social environment and the school micro-environment using ecological theories and methods. Running Paths and Methods of Various Elements of University Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem .
Study on the Translation and Communication Content Model of Chinese Literature Going Global From the Perspective of Communication Studies
Get PDFChinese culture “going global” is a very important national strategy, and as an important element of Chinese culture, Chinese literature has made a lot of efforts， but has failed to achieve good effect. How to effectively “going global” has seen increasing attention in scholars. From the perspective of Communication Studies, this study aims to clarify the components of the translation and communication content, explore the factors affecting the translator’s choice of it and propose a translation and communication content mode that the works selected by the translator need to meet the requirements of the ideology, poetics and translation sponsors of the target language, and satisfy the audience’s reading preference for optimistic and strong readable stories. And the work itself should have universal value, Chinese characteristics and translatability; The translation strategy chosen by the translator should also adopt “creative rebellious” methods such as abridge and rewriting, as well as the translation strategy of domestication, so as to provide reference for improving the translation and communication effect of Chinese literature “going global”, for expanding China’s soft power, and for promoting Sino-foreign cultural exchanges.
Urban Housing Affordability in Zimbabwe: The Case of Homelink Housing Mortgage Scheme
Get PDFThe purpose of the study was to understand the factors that affect the affordability of urban housing with regards to the Homelink Housing mortgage scheme in Bindura, Zimbabwe. The study utilized qualitative methodology while a case study research design of Homelink was used. Data was collected using key informant interviews, surveys, and secondary data. A total of 30 participants were purposively selected to participate in the study. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study showed that there were five key factors that affected the affordability of urban housing in Zimbabwe. These are loan repayment, interest on the loan, inflation rate, loss of regular employment, and cost of construction. The conclusions of the study are that the affordability of housing in Zimbabwe is influenced by factors related to the socio-economic characteristics of households and loan characteristics