73 research outputs found
Reading Australia Essay: "Romulus, My Father" by Raimond Gaita
No full textThis is an introductory essay about the memoir "Romulus, My Father" by Raimond Gaita. The essay was published as part of the Copyright Agency's "Reading Australia" initiative.\ud
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"In a critical moment of reflection and pause, Romulus, My Father offers the reader a key to its interpretation. The author – philosopher Raimond Gaita – tells us that ‘Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are clinging in recollection to things they once saw’. This reference to the Greek philosopher’s work Phaedrus occurs when the boy Raimond is about eight years old. He seems already to understand much about his father, in particular his father’s goodness, which he finds expressed in his workmanship, his honesty, and his commitment to friends. And yet, as Plato forewarns us, a search for the ultimate wisdom of such things must come later – several decades on, when Gaita is faced with the task of writing his father’s eulogy. It is then that a sense of his father’s character is joined to his own search for wisdom, a combination of biography and reflection that marks the memoir form at its best, and shapes the ultimate impact of Romulus, My Father...."--publisher websit
Protecting University Students From Bullying And Harassment: A Review Of The Initiatives At Canadian Universities
No full textStudents’ bullying and harassment have been shown to be a problem and more schools around the world are starting to address them. Although much of the attention and research has focused on middle-school students, addressing bullying and harassment in universities is important and makes the object of the present research. We provide an overview of how student versus student bullying and harassment are reported, monitored, and dealt with at Canadian educational institutions. Specifically, we identify schools where there is information and policies regarding students’ persecution; we describe how colleges help and what advice they offer; we discuss frameworks used to tackle it; as well, we present other initiatives aiming to prevent it. We also attempt to evaluate measures by linking them with incidence figures. This review may guide future initiatives to tackle intimidation with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of university environment
Laptop Use During Class: A Review Of Canadian Universities
No full textLaptop use in class is a characteristic of universities that is changing rapidly. Although much of the attention and research regarding this issue has focused on the debate of whether to impose mandatory laptop programs, the reality of wireless campuses allows students to use their laptops in class for class related and non-class related activities. Therefore, a new debate has arisen concerning whether students should be allowed to use their laptops in class at all. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of Canadian universities in terms of their conditions, requirements, and policies regarding laptop use in class
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Atypical Lives: Systems of Meaning in Plutarch's Theseus-Romulus
No full textThis dissertation takes Plutarch’s paired biographies of Theseus and Romulus as a path to understanding a number of roles that the author assumes: as a biographer, an antiquarian, a Greek author under Roman rule. As the preface to the Theseus-Romulus makes clear, Plutarch himself sees these mythological figures as qualitatively different from his other biographical subjects, with the consequence that this particular pair of Lives serves as a limit case by which it is possible to elucidate the boundaries of Plutarch’s authorial identity. They present, moreover, a set of opportunities for him to demonstrate his ability to curate and present familiar material (the founding of Rome, Theseus in the labyrinth) in demonstration of his broad learning. To this end, I regard the Theseus-Romulus as a fundamentally integral text, both of whose parts should be read alongside one another and the rest of Plutarch’s corpus rather than as mere outgrowths of the traditions about the early history of Athens and Rome, respectively. Accordingly, I proceed in each of my four chapters to attend closely to a particular thematic cluster that appears in both Lives, thereby bringing to light the complex figural play by which Plutarch enlivens familiar material and demonstrates his virtuosity as author.In chapter 1, I take the preface to the Lives as my starting point, placing particular emphasis on the cartographic metaphor by which Plutarch figures the writing of biography about these mythological figures as a journey outward into unknown territories. In accounting for the surprising and counterintuitive aspects of this metaphor, I argue that Plutarch is engaging with competing models of the world, correlated with generic distinctions, and resolving them by the rhetorical strategy of syneciosis, the alignment of opposites. He is, moreover, inviting the reader to attend closely to the spatiotemporal dynamics of the Theseus and Romulus narratives, which one can understand as a set of movements along various axes and which unfold both alongside and against the metanarrative journey upon which Plutarch imagines himself as embarking in the preface to these Lives.In chapter 2, I build upon this spatial framework in order to explore the role of opsis (sight, vision) in Plutarch’s approach to history and biography. Proceeding from Plutarch’s intention, as he expresses it in the preface, to make the mythological material “take on the look of history,” I argue that opsis serves as a thematic preoccupation for Plutarch in the Theseus-Romulus, both on the level of his biographical project and within the narratives of these Lives. In surveying incidents of sight in both parts, I note that way in which opsis can grant discursive authority to the one who sees something happen (most paradigmatically, a messenger such as Proculus at the end of Romulus) but can also overwhelm or “captivate” viewers and deprive them of agency. Indeed, it is this twofold potential of opsis that informs Plutarch’s nuanced model of how biography, myth, and history might “look.” For chapter 3, I turn to mimetic and imitative ideas in the Theseus-Romulus and underscore how Plutarch employs the recursive and iterative capacities of mimēsis to build large networks that serve to connect reader, author, and both biographical subjects in various ways. Since it is a term that can take a wide range of people and objects as “input” and “output,” it appears in a particularly diverse set of circumstances in these Lives, and with a range of ethical evaluations that do not always align with the idea of ethical exemplarity implicit in Plutarch’s project in the Parallel Lives. At the same time, engagement with mimetic behavior is a key respect by which Plutarch differentiates his two biographical subjects in the Theseus-Romulus: the former is heavily bound up in imitation, especially in his relationship to Heracles and his institution of the crane dance on Delos, while Plutarch emphasizes the latter’s special status as founder of the new city of Rome by describing him as fundamentally non-imitative. In the final chapter, I turn to the motif of lēthē (forgetting) in the Theseus-Romulus, taking as my starting point Theseus 22, where Theseus neglects to change the sail on his ship to indicate his survival and Aegeus kills himself in the mistaken belief that his son is dead. I contend that Plutarch’s version of the story, which explains Theseus’ lapse as the result of his joy, relies on the pseudo-etymological link between joy (chara) and (choros) that Plato lays out in Laws II (645a). Broadening my focus, I look to the rest of the Theseus-Romulus and argue that Plutarch constructs a model of lēthē as a necessary element in cultural survival rather than a solely negative or destructive process. To reinforce this model, I suggest the familiar Ship of Theseus paradox at Theseus 23 as well as the trough in which Romulus and Remus survive at Romulus 7-8 as emblems of preservation in the face of change. More broadly, I contend that the survival, in Plutarch’s own day, of Greek identity in the face of Roman domination is bound up with the capacity of lēthē to accommodate cultural transformation without annihilation
Romulus der Große by Friedrich Dürrenmatt: a light comedy?
No full textEn el presente artículo, la comedia Romulus der Große. Eine historische Komödie in vier Akten (1980) escrita originariamente en 1948/49 por Friedrich Dürrenmatt bajo el recuerdo cercano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero reelaborada a lo largo de toda su vida en diferentes versiones, es analizada con la intención de comprender en qué sentido afirma su autor que se trata de una comedia pesada o difícil, porque aparentemente es ligera o fácil, es decir qué entiende el escritor por comedia, según sus propias reflexiones al respecto y cómo construye el humor en esta obra.In this article the comedy Romulus der Große. Eine historische Komödie in vier Akten (1980), originally written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in 1948/49 under the close memory of World War II, but reworked throughout his life in different versions, is analyzed with the intention of understanding in what sense does the author say that it is a heavy or difficult comedy, because apparently it is light or easy, that is to say what the writer understands by comedy, according to his own reflections on this and how he builds humor in this work
“Act on Climate Change”: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory
No full text Our planet's climate is changing (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2010), and current scientific evidence proves that global climate change is induced by humans (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007). Many scientists agree that climate change is one of the greatest threats faced by our planet. The climate change literature demonstrates that fear appeals can be used to encourage behavioral changes that will mitigate climate change (Nisbet, 2009; Patchen, 2006; Pike, Doppelt, & Herr, 2010). This article proposes Protection Motivation Theory (PMT; Rogers, 1983) as a suitable model to guide communication campaigns in the area of climate change. It also analyzes the extent to which a series of communication campaigns that are designed to persuade individuals to adopt behaviors that prevent climate change conform to PMT. Recommendations to improve the campaigns are presented. </jats:p
Romulus et Remus : réexamen du miroir de l’Antiquarium Communal
No full textLe miroir de l’Antiquarium Communal représentant une louve allaitant deux jumeaux a donné lieu à un vaste débat, nourri de polémique, en rapport avec son importance capitale pour la compréhension du récit des origines de Rome. L’A. procède à un réexamen de cette pièce en rappelant qu’il est essentiel de considérer la destinataire potentielle d’un tel miroir. Passant de la simple description à l’interprétation, confrontant les thèses en présence, il propose alors certaines solutions de détail ou d’ensemble. La composition de l’artisan se situe au point de convergence d’une trame rituelle (Lupercalia et Quirinalia) et d’une trame mythologique (Romulus et Rémus, Faustulus et Acca Larentia, Faunus et Latinus), particularité qui permet d’affirmer que la représentation, tout en étant unique, obéit aussi à une norme suivie par tous les miroirs étrusques du ive siècle a.C. mettant en question les origines ou les fondements religieux des cités. Il ne faudrait pas en déduire cependant que les identités des personnages, une fois reconnu le jeu conceptuel de la composition sont simples. Les rites et la mythologie sont conçus en fonction de la destinataire et de sa gens d’appartenance. Aussi bien l’analyse intrinsèque du miroir que l’examen des traditions littéraires et des monuments (ainsi le relief Hartwig représentant le temple de Quirinus) se situant dans sa postérité fournissent un certain nombre d’indices probants conduisant à la gens Fabia et le miroir de l’Antiquarium Communal pourrait être à cette gens ce que la ciste Ficoroni est aux Magolnii de Préneste.The mirror from the Antiquarium Communale, representing a she-wolf breast-feeing two twins has given rise to a huge debate, fed by a polemic relating to its major importance for the understanding of the story of the origins of Rome. The author proposes to reexamine this item, remembering that it is essential to consider the potential beneficiaries of such a mirror. Moving from a simple description to the interpretation, comparing the arguments at play, the subject is analysed in detail and as a whole. The work of the craftsman is placed at the point of convergence of a ritualistic context (Lupercalia and Quirinalia) and a mythological one (Romulus and Remus, Faustulus and Acca Larentia, Faunus and Latinus), a particularity that allows us to confirm that the representation, whilst being unique, also adheres to a standard followed by all the Etruscan mirrors of the 4t century BC, putting into question the origins of the religious foundations of the cities. We should not deduce, however, that the identities of the characters, once the conceptual plan of the composition is understood, are simple. The rites and the mythology are conceived for the beneficiary and their gens. The intrinsic analysis of the mirror as well as an examination of the literary traditions and monuments (hence the relief of Hartwig representing the temple of Quirinus) set in posterity, add a number of convincing indications leading to the gens Fabia, and the mirror of the Antiquarium Communale could be from this gens, just as the cistus Ficoroni is to the Magolnii of Praeneste
Library Perspectives, Issue 07, September 1993
No full textThis issue includes items about dramatist Romulus Linney \u2753 and his works, author Nien Cheng, an interview with Associate Professor Jane Armitage, and much more.https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/perspectives/1053/thumbnail.jp
Brittle Water--Title Page
No full textFifteen poems. Bembo and Romulus types, Fabriano Ingres paper, Canson Mi Tientes covers, Moriki endsheets. Intaglio frontispiece and relief cover image. Printed by Bonnie O'Connell, hand-set with the assistance of Alison Wilson.UNL SPEC copy 1-- ""No. 122 in an edition of two hundred thirty-five copies ;copy 2 No.160???both copies signed author and illustrato
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