34 research outputs found
Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze\u27s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu\u27s The Candles
Full text linkPoor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency. Playwrights, like other social scientists, have continued to interrogate this ugly phenomenon, which make socioeconomic and political development a will-o’-the-wisp in the country. This paper attempts to examine Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s The Candles, especially as they deploy the vulture and the candle, respectively, as metaphors to elucidate the question of leadership failure in the unstable and politically explosive minefield that is Nigeria. The study adopts Clifford Geertz’s thick description approach to interpretation as its methodology. The researchers discovered that self-aggrandizement, incompetence, “fire- brigade approach,” poor institutions, lack of meritocracy, blackmail, and violence were the social realities that encumber the flowering of good governance in the country
Preservation and Strengthening of Igbo Language through Nigerian Video Films: Case Study of Zeb Ejiro’s Nneka the Pretty Serpent and Sunday Nnajiude’s Ode Eshi
Full text linkProduction of video films in Nigeria have risen fast to become a vital and dynamic medium of entertainment and education. Evident is its palpable capacity to enhance the preservation and strengthening of Nigeria’s advantages in her socio-cultural diversity. Hence, the view that the boom in Nigeria film industry, popularly referred to as Nollywood has provided a robust platform to encourage the propagation of Nigerian indigenous language appeal. In line with this thinking, this study illuminates on the factors capable of hindering or enhancing the strengthening as well as the preservation of Igbo language through Nigerian video films. To this end, this study adopts case reference analytical method, which involves interpretive and descriptive approach to selected case study. To situate this study within unambiguous theoretical perspective, this study adopts Albert Bandura’s ‘Social Learning Theory’. Hence, our hypothesis is that a properly structured and sustained conscious application of Nigerian video films as a medium of strengthening of the appeal in Nigerian indigenous languages such as Igbo would significantly enhance the preservation. Keywords: Igbo Language, Nigerian Video Films, Nollywood, Preservation, Strengthenin
Shades and Nuances of Socio-Political Anomy in Edge of the Brink: Interpretive Reading of Ifechi Jane Odoe’s Polysemy and Positivist Polemics
No full text<p>This paper evaluates the multiplex nature of the dramatized decadence and the nuances of salvation prescribed by Ifechi Jane Odoe as encapsulated in her positivist polemics in Edge of the Brink. Primarily this study’s discussion revolves around interpretive reading of her shades of representation to extrapolate on the attributions subsumed in her portrayal. To examine the subject matters, this study leans on the view that social realities are evolutionary and not permanently static, that the pace of evolutionary trends of social realities vary from one society to another, and that influential factors such as custom, religion, and human circumstances contribute in many ways in propelling a continual re-aggregation of social realities for individuals as well as communities. Hence, this paper discusses the metaphors as well as trajectories to the dramatized decadent polis and the contextualization of suitable re-birth as Odoe proposes in the focused play. To this end, this paper adopts Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s theory on ‘social construction of reality’ as its preferred theoretical framework. Lastly, the analysis of the focused text and relevant scholarly perspectives is based essentially on interpretive discuss analysis and attribution polemics.</p></jats:p
The Contexts and Typologies of Literary Source Materials in Cyprian Ekwensi’s Burning Grass: Focus on the Actual and Typical Realities
No full textThis paper examines the typologies as well as the contexts of literary source materials in Cyprian Ekwensi’s Burning Grass. Particularly, this paper’s focus will be on how various kinds of realities, otherwise the source materials, represented in Burning Grass, (like the aspects of nomadic Fulani culture, identity, and environment), can be classified either as ‘actual’ or ‘typical’ realities, specifically from the reader’s point of view. Therefore, this paper aims to elucidate on what informs this study’s categorization of literary source materials either as ‘actual’ or ‘typical’ realities. In a bid to attain a plausible explanation, this paper contextually analyzes material in the focused study Burning Grass, and applies the researcher’s field experience as a means of evaluation the primary data essentially from culture-specific perspectives. Key words: Actual, Nomadic Fulani, Realities, Source Materials, Typical, Typologie
Polemics of Nigerian Worldviews on Mystical Realism and Social Class Conflicts in Sam Ukala’s The Placenta of Death
Full text linkThis study examines the nuances of Sam Ukala’s2 contextualization of African social worldviews on mystical realism and the shades of social class conflicts in The Placenta of Death. The focal aim is to discus and come up with plausible appreciation of the perspectives projected in the play as regards to the contexts and application of mysticism in the dramatized inter-personal class conflicts. Consequently, the reasons for these conflicts, the social stratifications emanating from these conflicts, the contextualization of the sides to the social divide, the realities of the deep mutual mistrusts, and the shades of contempt and apprehension that are projected in the play are part of the study foci. Thus this study applies magical realism as the preferred theoretical frame in analyzing the perspectives, contexts and realities of mysticism, numinous influences and supernatural connotations as well as the sociological suppositions on the reality of the never-ending social class conflicts. To discuss these contexts and perspectives as perceived in The Placenta of Death, we adopt contextual interpretative approach in a bid to extrapolate and provide locale and culture specific attributions of occurrences, actions and inactions dramatized in the play
Mystical Dimensions of Prayer in Ahmed Yerima’s Idemili: Human Quest to Learn
Full text linkThis study is an analytical contextualization of the Igbo trado-cultural and Christian perspectives on the context of prayer as a mystical reality and experience. Thus, this study examines the inter-play of faith and testimonies in the validation of the efficacy of prayer, as well as the relationship between fate and prayer from the dominant Igbo socio-cultural worldviews. This study’s case-study is Ahmed Yerima’s Idemili. However other relevant African plays form part of the secondary analytical data. The authors apply content analysis in the discussion of the focal study Idemili. Thus, the interpretive argument of relevant suggestions, positions and perspectives of the characters form the basis of contextualization. Theoretically, this study discusses the mystical and efficacious essence of prayer as a faith and a culture defined experience. Therefore Geertz’s concept of interpretation of culture forms the pivot and frame of our analysis. Again this paper adopts Selmon’s elucidation on magical realism in its explanation of the phenomenon of prayer, particularly as regards to the efficacy and the social view as projected in Idemili. Thus, this paper illuminates on the centrality of prayer in life, its none-ordinariness, and the various trajectories to its essence as projected it Idemili. Keywords: African Drama, Culture, Faith, Fate, Igbo, Mystical, Prayer, Supernatura
Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s The Candles
No full textPoor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency. Playwrights, like other social scientists, have continued to interrogate this ugly phenomenon, which make socioeconomic and political development a will-o’-the-wisp in the country. This paper attempts to examine Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s TheCandles, especially as they deploy the vulture and the candle, respectively, as metaphors to elucidate the question of leadership failure in the unstable and politically explosive minefield that is Nigeria. The study adopts Clifford Geertz’s thick description approach to interpretation as its methodology. The researchers discovered that self-aggrandizement, incompetence, “firebrigade approach,” poor institutions, lack of meritocracy, blackmail, and violence were the social realities that encumber the flowering of good governance in the country
The government’s food stamp program is responsible, in part, for the obesity epidemic in the U.S.
No full textRelationship Between Childhood Obesity and Families Receiving SNAP Benefits and the Purchase of “Empty Calorie Non-Foods”Spring 2014Accompanied by video fil
Steel Work Design and Analysis of a Manual Lawn Mower
Full text linkAbstract: This work presented the design and construction of a manually powered lawn mower as well as the stress analysis of the blade. The solid model of the lawn mower design was done using Solid works software. The materials utilized for the construction were selected following standard material selection processes. The required cutting speed was achieved by proper gear arrangement which transferred the rational motion of the wheels to the blade, consequently increasing the speed by about 300%. The average cutting capacity of the lawn mower is 62.48 m2/hr. The stress analysis on the blade using the simulation tool of the solid works software gave a maximum von mises stress that is 252 times less than the yield strength of the blade material. Also, a maximum deformation of 0.00271mm obtained from the analysis is quite infinitesimal hence, the blade can withstand both stress and deformation resulting from the cutting operation.
Keywords: grass, lawn mower, blade, cutting speed, cutting capacity.
Title: Steel Work Design and Analysis of a Manual Lawn Mower
Author: Okolie Paul C, Sylvester Emeka Abonyi, Okolie Uchenna Onyebuchi, Chikelue Edward Ochiagha
International Journal of Novel Research in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
ISSN 2394-9678
Vol. 11, Issue 1, September 2023 - August 2024
Page No: 14-23
Novelty Journals
Website: www.noveltyjournals.com
Published Date: 22-September-2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8369633
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Caribbean Report 22-01-1991
No full textPolling day closes in Barbados with a few minor hitches such as discrepancies with the voting lists and persons turning up at the wrong polling stations. Leaders of the three leading political parties are all hopeful that their respective party will emerge with the majority of votes. Voters are reminded by Anglican Bishop Rexell Gomez to elect a government that would stand up for Christian principles while radio announcers remind voters about the rules to be followed on elections day. A senior spokesperson from the Electoral and Boundaries Commission claims that voting in Barbados went off very smoothly and efficiently. The Commonwealth General Secretary, Chief Emeka Anyaoku leaves London for talks in Washington with the IMF and World Bank. He hopes to discuss matters of mutual interest. High on the agenda would be the impact of the Gulf war on Commonwealth developing countries such as relief measures and aids and pursuing debt relief measures to assist the heavily indebted countries. A recently published report states that developing countries are losing out to Eastern Europe.1. Headlines (00:00 – 00:23)2. Polling day in Barbados closes with a few minor hitches (00:24-04:35)3. A spokesman from the Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Barbados states that the polls were conducted efficiency (04:36 - 05:19)4. The Commonwealth General Secretary, Chief Emeka Anyaoku leaves London for talks in Washington with the the IMF and World Bank (05:20- 08:29)5. Edward Mayo, author of a report just published entitled First World, Third World, states that developing countries are losing out to Eastern Europe (08:30 -15:00
