521 research outputs found
Appropriations of Irish drama by modern Korean nationalist theatre : a focus on the influence of Sean O’Casey in a colonial context
No full textMy thesis explores how a translated author on the periphery of the host culture’s
translated repertoire can be at once subversive and innovative on the colonial scene,
using as an example the case of Sean O’Casey in colonial Korea. It explores the
importation of Irish drama in modern Korean theatre during the colonial period and
examines the appropriations of O’Casey’s plays by a central Korean playwright, Yu
Chi-jin, in creating his own plays. Under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth
century, intellectuals perceived the supreme task for the Korean people to be the
recovery of national sovereignty and independence. The modern Korean theatre
movement which rose among Korean intellectuals and dramatists during the colonial
period was to play a major part in this task. The ultimate goal of this movement was
to establish a modern national theatre promoting Korean culture and educating the
people, thereby recovering national independence. As their modernised dramatic
polysystem was still "young", Korean intellectuals and dramatists who were
involved in the theatre movement had to borrow dramatic models from other
countries. One of the models they chose was Irish playwrights, especially those who
were involved in the Irish dramatic movement. They published or staged the works
of W.B. Yeats, Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett], Augusta
Gregory, J.M. Synge, St. J. Ervine, T.C. Murray and Sean O'Casey. Although
O'Casey was considered an important dramatist in the Irish dramatic movement, he
was a playwright on the periphery in the list of translated Irish dramatists in Korea
due to the colonisers’ censorship. However, he remained as a subversive and
innovative playwright on the colonial scene by virtue of being appropriated by Yu
Chi-jin who used O’Casey’s plays as models when creating his own works. In
discussing the subject matter of my thesis, I use Even Zohar’s polysystems theory as
a starting point in looking at ideological issues surrounding translation and extend
the discussion to offer a postcolonial perspective. While most translation in a
colonial context was considered as "an expression of the cultural power of the
colonisers," my thesis shifts the focus to translation as an expression of the cultural
power of the colonised. I explore how the colonised uses another colonised culture to
subvert the colonisers’ power
Holistic Prison Ministry: Author Q&A with Maura Poston Zagrans
No full textMaura Poston Zagrans is an American Catholic poet, author, and photographer. Her book “Camerado, I Give You My Hand,” published by Image in August 2013, tells the non-fiction story of Father David T. Link, a Notre Dame University dean and lawyer who became a priest at 71 after his wife died and now works as a Catholic chaplain to inmates at Indiana State Prison.
Sean Salai, interviewed Mrs. Zagrans about her writing and work
The Influence of Policy Implementation Service Standards, and Information Systems on User Satisfaction of the MELATI Application at Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan Republik Indonesia
No full textThe increase in the number of requests for IT services provided by the IT Bureau is not accompanied by an increase in user satisfaction of IT services, this is indicated by a decrease in the satisfaction index for IT services by several work units at the BPK. In order to increase user satisfaction with IT services, the Author is interested in conducting research on the Effect of Implementation of Service Standards and Information Systems Policies on User Satisfaction of the Melati Application at the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia. This study uses a quantitative method with primary data collection techniques by distributing questionnaires to 275 IT service users at the BPK Head Office. The collected data were processed using the Covariance Based - Structural Equation Model (CB-SEM) analysis technique using Smart-PLS software. The results of the study showed that user satisfaction of the MELATI application (Y) was influenced by the implementation of service standard policies (X1) and information systems (X2) by 67.5% and the remaining 32.5% was influenced by other variables not used in this study. The variable of IT service standard policy implementation (X1) has a large and significant effect on user satisfaction of MELATI application in BPK with a path coefficient value of 0.495, t-value of 8.378> t-table 1.96 and p-value of 0.000 <0.05. Information system (X2) has a large and significant effect on user satisfaction of MELATI application in BPK with a path coefficient value of 0.465 or 46.5%, t-value of 8.199> t-table 1.96, and p-value of 0.000 <0.05. Efforts that can be made by the BPK IT Bureau are to improve the implementation of service standard policies and information systems by increasing the quantity of resources, communication, evaluation and updating of IT service standard policies and SOPs and implementing a survey of IT service user satisfaction on the MELATI application
A Legal Analysis Of Nterests Legal Protection For The Rights Of Victims Of Aggregated Theft
No full textLegal protection is any form of effort to protect human dignity and honor and recognition of Human Rights (HAM) in the legal field. Legal protection as a victim of a crime, especially theft, even with aggravation, the victim has the right to receive legal protection, in providing this legal protection must be maximized, especially victims who are economically weak. In decision No. 1743 / Pid.B / 2023 / PN Lbp, the defendant committed a crime of aggravated theft by stealing an RX King motorbike belonging to the victim and a witness, in this case the victim suffered material and immaterial losses due to the loss of the motorbike, but the judge only focused on determining the sanctions and the final sentence that would be imposed on the defendant and rarely discussed the rights of victims who were victims of the crime of aggravated theft and returned their rights in the final decision. In this study, the researcher formulated the problems to be discussed, namely: What are the general provisions related to the crime of aggravated theft, How is the legal review of the form of legal protection for losses to victims of criminal acts and How is the author's legal analysis of the interests of legal protection for the rights of victims of losses due to the crime of aggravated theft in the study of decision No. 1743 / Pid.B / 2023 / PN Lbp. This study uses a normative study method which is descriptive analytical research that provides an overview of the object being studied with a research method that focuses on collecting and analyzing data to understand and explain certain systems, processes, or phenomena. As a result of the study, the author found that in protecting the rights of victims of criminal acts or those related to criminal acts, the law in Indonesia regulates very strictly which has been regulated in Law No. 13 of 2006 concerning the protection of victims and witnesses in Article 281 paragraph 4, victims should be able to file for legal restitution. Victims can also apply for their rights to be protected by LPSK (Witness and Victim Protection Agency)
The theatre of Sean O'Casey in the Context of Modernism (Sean O'Casey between Bertold Brecht and Samuel Beckett)
No full textA large number of critics who have tried to penetrate the complexity of Sean O'Casey's theatrical works have been fighting against a matter which seems to reject every easy outline and label. They seem to be shaped by a deep will to experiment which leads the author to embrace theatrical forms and techniques very different from each other. This is why almost all of his plays appear full of contradictory elements and tendencies, traumatic breaks and bold innovations. After his "explosion" at t..
Us against whom?: how we categorize outgroup members as threats
No full textThe current study was designed to test a reformulation of Allport's and Kramer's "vigilance hypothesis" by applying signal detection theory to social categorization. Specifically, the impact of prejudice and specific threat concerns (e.g. terrorism or illegal immigration) was investigated. Participants were asked to assume the role of either an airport security officer facing a potential terrorist attack or a border patrol officer facing possible illegal immigration. Forty photographs were presented and participants were asked to either detain or not detain the target presented. Ten of these targets were actual terrorists or illegal immigrants. Following this task, the same 40 photographs were presented and participants classified the targets as either "Arab" or "Not Arab" (in the airport security role), or "Hispanic" or "Not Hispanic" (in the border patrol security role). Measures of sensitivity and criterion were calculated and a signal detection analysis was conducted. Results did not confirm the reformulated vigilance hypothesis. Exploratory analyses revealed that political ideology would provide a better foundation for the reformulation of the vigilance hypothesis. Political conservatives set a lower criterion to categorize a target as a threat. Additionally context interacted with political ideology to impact sensitivity to threat. Specifically political conservatives displayed greater sensitivity to illegal immigrants while liberals displayed greater sensitivity to terrorists. Political conservatives also displayed greater sensitivity except when the cost of a false alarm exceeded the cost of a miss. Implications and future directions are discussed.M.S.Includes abstractIncludes bibliographical referencesby Sean T. Steven
The functional anatomy of hippocampal theta and gamma oscillations
No full textThis dissertation investigated how theta (4-10Hz) and gamma (40-100Hz) oscillations are coordinated across different hippocampal subnetworks during different behaviors. Using 96-site silicon probes to simultaneously record local field potentials (LFPs) and unit activity from dendritic and somatic layers of the dentate gyrus, CA3 and CA1 regions, I examined how local field potentials (LFPs) and unit activity changed the theta and gamma synchronization of hippocampal networks as a function of behavior. Specifically, I compared hippocampal activity of rats during performance of a hippocampus-dependent delayed spatial alternation task on a modified T-maze versus performance of non-mnemonic control tasks. I also compared hippocampal network activity during active waking behavior versus rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.The first study examined how theta oscillations throughout the hippocampal subnetworks change during behavioral task performance. Although theta oscillations were generally highly coherent throughout the system, I found that the power, coherence and phase of theta oscillations fluctuated in a layer-specific manner, suggesting the presence of multiple interdependent dipoles. I also found layer-specific changes in theta power and coherence during different portions of both alternation and control tasks, as well as a decreased phase lag between CA3 and CA1 theta oscillations on the center arm of the T-maze compared to other segments of the alternation and control tasks.The second study examined changes in hippocampal gamma oscillations during performance of the alternation and control tasks. This study found that on the center arm of the T-maze, the power and coherence of gamma oscillations at the CA3-CA1 interface increased compared to other segments in the alternation task or compared to control task segments.The third study examined changes in theta and gamma coordination of hippocampal networks during active waking versus REM sleep. I found increased dentate/CA3 theta and gamma synchrony, but decreased CA3-CA1 gamma coordination during REM sleep. I also detected phasic bursts of LFP power in the dentate molecular layer that divided REM sleep into phasic and tonic periods. Although tonic periods characterized the majority of REM sleep epochs (~95%), phasic periods exhibited transient increases in theta and gamma coordination among all of the hippocampal subregions.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-148)by Sean M. Montgomer
SPECIAL ISSUE | Crowd (Mis)Representation: Aerial Photography at Donald Trump's Inauguration and the 2017 Women's March
No full textAuthor: Riley Nisbet Wayne State University Download PDF version In a press conference given on the day following Donald Trump’s inauguration, the administration’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, circulated the lie that the crowd at his presidential inauguration was the largest ever.[1] This was an early instance of the administration’s use of “alternative facts,” an alarming concept endorsed by its spokespeople to counter claims that the administration was untruthful. Contrary to t..
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