14 research outputs found
La disperata speranza.Una lettura della Vita di Alfieri
No full textThe starting point of the paper is the special declination that Giacomo
Debenedetti, in Vocazione di Vittorio Alfieri, gave to the great author
from Asti and above all to his autobiographic work. Hope, seen as an
attitude and as purpose, can turn into the best method to analyze literature
and some authors in particular. In addition, Debenedetti’s work
can be compared to Plutarch’s Parallel Lives and Petrarca's Secretum,
and relates to a historiographic and sociological perspective that finds
in the theme of hope – seen also in a religious perspective – its point of
irradiation.
Moving between reality and tension to hagiography, between self-love
and promotion of personal intelligence, it will be outlined a fundamental
aspect of Alfieri’s work, based on the so-called «forte sentire» and
debtor to the concept of hope for the acquisition of a method as well a
way of knowledge
The Grasshopper and the Ants
No full textThe story fills out here and is quite different from other Disney versions: Little Pig's Picnic (1939) and Walt Disney's Story Land (1962). Here the new king of the ants, Andy, saves Hop, who does not have to go through a change of heart. Disney also adds Bubba the vulture.Walt Disne
The Grasshopper and the Ants
No full textSlight reworking, to accompany an audiocassette, of the Western booklet (1968) of the same name. So Hop here is again joined by Gabriel the cricket, Bubba the vulture, and Andy the savior ant. The plates are the same. The texts are moved around into first person quotations. The back cover and inside covers talk about the Listening Center and emphasize good listening behavior.Walt Disney Production
Portland After Dark. All Night Long
No full textThe author describes Portland venues where 1980\u27s music can be found (Geno\u27s Rock Club or Bubba\u27s Sulky Lounge on 1980s night) and video games of that time (Arcadia National Bar)
La fiaba della libertà: Salvezza e migrazione nell'esordio di Ornela Vorpsi
No full textThe article discusses the literary debut of Albanian author Ornela Vorpsi: Il paese dove non si muore mai, which retraces the years she lived in her home country – then under Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship – and analyzes some of most inhumane limitations on freedom, both public and private.Special attention is given to the female condition, oppressed under Hoxha’s regime and subjected to deep stigmatization, often perpetuated by women themselves.The article also explores the connection with the fairy tale genre through Italo Calvino’s interpretation. It clarifies the relationship between Vorpsi, the Italian author and the significance of the fairy tale contextualized within this representation of a journey of struggle and search for freedom.L’articolo tratta dell’esordio letterario dell’autrice albanese Ornela Vorpsi: Il paese che non muore mai, che ripercorre i suoi anni vissuti nel proprio paese di origine – all’epoca sotto la dittatura di Hoxha – e analizza alcuni delle limitazioni più disumane della libertà, pubblica almeno quanto privata.
Particolare attenzione è rivolta all’elemento femminile, oltremodo vessato dal regime di Hoxha e destinatario di una profonda stigmatizzazione reiterata dalle medesime donne.
Infine, è approfondito il legame col genere della fiaba, specie nella rilettura di Italo Calvino. Viene chiarita la connessione tra Vorspi e l’autore italiano, e contestualizzata l’importanza che la fiaba esercita in questa rappresentazione, non solo estetica, di un percorso di ricerca e lotta per la libertà.  
God's country a novel
No full textCurt Mader, a rancher whose homestead has been burned and his wife carried off by a bunch of cowboys, hires Bubba, a black tracker, to help him find her. The white is a coward, the black a reluctant hero. A parody of how the west was won by the author of Zulus
The Grasshopper and the Ants
No full textThis little booklet is identical, except for a few changes, with that published by Western for Disney in the same year. Western is mentioned only as printing the booklet. The other changes all have to do with the presence of the record in the book's new back flap. The back cover adds (c)1969 to the front cover's (c)1968. I now have three different versions of the booklet, including the reworded 1971/77 version done to accompany a tape, and three other presentations, all from the text of Margaret Wise Brown, of the same story. Those presentations, unlike these, do not feature Bubba the menacing vulture: Little Pig's Picnic (1939), Walt Disney's Story Land (1962), and The Grasshopper and the Ants (1993).Walt Disne
The Grasshopper and the Ants
No full textThis booklet-plus-record from Valencia Street in San Francisco is tantalizingly similar to one already in the collection, found at Old Bank Antiques in Hastings nineteen years ago. Let me catalogue the differences. The cover's LLP 331 has become just 331. The copyright year on the front cover has changed from Roman to Arabic numerals. The verso of the front-cover has changed background colors from blue to tan and has again changed the copyright numerals. The format of the back-cover's record flap has changed, and many members of the series have been added. The last is now not 338 but 382. For some reason, the numbers from 370 to 380 are not used. The back cover is identical except that, instead of Copyright©1969 Walt Disney Productions Printed in the U.S.A., all of which had already been communicated on the front cover, there is now only Disneyland Records, Glendale, California. The booklet itself is in good condition, although the last page's black-and-white design has received some smudgy coloring. This marks the fourth different version of the booklet, including a 1968 version found at Pageturners in 1991 and the reworded 1971/77 version done to accompany a tape, not to mention three other presentations, all from the text of Margaret Wise Brown, of the same story. Those presentations, unlike these, do not feature Bubba the menacing vulture: Little Pig's Picnic (1939), Walt Disney's Story Land (1962), and The Grasshopper and the Ants (1993).Walt Disne
Characterization techniques as supporting tools for the interpretation of biochar adsorption efficiency in water treatment: A critical review
No full textOver the past decade, biochar (BC) has received significant attention in many environmental applications, including water purification, since it is available as a low-cost by-product of the energetic valorisation of biomass. Biochar has many intrinsic characteristics, including its porous structure, which is similar to that of activated carbon (AC), which is the most widely used sorbent in water treatment. The physicochemical and performance characteristics of BCs are usually non-homogenously investigated, with several studies only evaluating limited parameters, depending on the individual perspective of the author. Within this review, we have taken an innovative approach to critically survey the methodologies that are generally used to characterize BCs and ACs to propose a comprehensive and ready-to-use database of protocols. Discussion about the parameters of chars that are usually correlated with adsorption performance in water purification is proposed, and we will also consider the physicochemical properties of pollutants (i.e., Kow). Uniquely, an adsorption efficiency index BC/AC is presented and discussed, which is accompanied by an economic perspective. According to our survey, non-homogeneous characterization approaches limit the understanding of the correlations between the pollutants to be removed and the physicochemical features of BCs. Moreover, the investigations of BC as an adsorption medium necessitate dedicated parallel studies to compare BC characteristics and performances with those of ACs
Überweiss: Moving fictional brands into the real world
No full textBrands are everywhere. Even in the fictional worlds we escape to for fantasy, comfort and entertainment. Real brands placed in fiction for marketing purposes is generally called product placement or brand placement. Recently, scholars have been wading into a related field called reverse product placement. That is essentially taking brands created in fiction and making them real for commercial purposes. A handful of well-known examples exist such as the Duff drinks from The Simpsons and Bubba Gump Shrimp from Forrest Gump.
Attention was only drawn to this matter around a decade ago, so much still remains unknown in the field of fictional branding. Alexander Reading and Rebecca Jenkins studied the experiences people had of products born through reverse product placement and found that people generally make three types of connections to them. Connections to the self and others, connections to another world and emotional connections.
The purpose of this study was to see if these connections could be validated and to see whether a clear target group exists for this kind of brands. The measurement was mostly designed by the author, but with the work of Reading and Jenkins, and Muzellec, Lynn and others taken into consideration. The two fictional brands used were Überweiss and Big Kahuna Burger and a total of 500 valid responses were gathered.
The results imply that based on the demographic variables of gender, age, education and income there is no clear target group for fictional brands, although they seem a little more suited for younger audiences. Although the connections of Reading and Jenkins could not be thoroughly validated, they were shown to correlate to purchase intention of the brands
