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Fictional Geography: Space and Place in Four Novels by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Joseph Conrad, and Ahmed Ali
No full textIn this dissertation, I examine four novels by Austen, Brontë, Conrad, and Ali to demonstrate
how each author employs distinctive representations of space and place to portray their
characters’ problematic relationships with gender and race, class, exile, displacement, nostalgia,
and exploitation. By utilizing concepts of space and place as defined by twentieth-century critical
geographical theories and concepts, including cultural, political, existential, and humanistic
geography, we can see how these authors’ purposeful uses of space and place go beyond those of
traditional literary settings. In complex ways, their narratives deploy space and place as key live
figures that shape and determine social norms, cultural clashes, power dynamics, and the
political and economic landscapes inhabited by individuals and societies.
The four novels examined here span over one hundred years of British and Anglophone literature
and history. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen acts
as a cultural geographer to observe and represent how her characters’ lives and personalities are
shaped by their interaction with ballroom spaces. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë uses
geography to reveal how the spatial dynamics of a location, atmosphere, landscape, and
wilderness influence the development and destinies of her characters. Her inclusion of the
“other” from a different geographical place is not intended to function as a mere outside cultural
threat (as critics have typically claimed), but rather as a strategy to demonstrate the complex
stakes and ambiguous repercussions of adaptation and survival. Later, in Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad’s descriptions of Congo geography reveal moral and ethical ambiguities
regarding Europeans’ curse-like presence and placelessness in the wilderness of the Congo. At
the beginning of the twentieth-century in Twilight in Delhi, rather than depicting the decline of a
nation (as many literary scholars have claimed), Ahmed Ali employs geography to narrate a
story about the re-birth of a nation whose rich cultural legacy retains the ability to reclaim its lost
sense of place.
Reading these works through the lens of geography enables literary scholars to identify how
authors’ use of space and place charts not only the physical situations of their characters but
explicates how characters’ places are inextricably linked to their emotional and mental
development and decline. This approach allows us to engage with the texts’ spatiality by
imagining and mapping the literary world that authors create culturally and historically, or
metaphorically and symbolically, which provides a deeper understanding of how a specific place
functions at a specific period of time.
My interdisciplinary approach is informed by the work of humanistic and cultural geographers,
philosophers, and literary critics such as Edward Relph, Yi-Fu Tuan, Doreen Massey, Henry
Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Edward Said. I focus my analysis on the
intersection of narratology and the spatial turn through close reading of texts and accounts of
authors’ life experiences in the context of recent space and place theories. By considering the
interconnected productivities of space, place, and narrative in these four test cases, I reconfigure
their interpretations within larger frameworks of physical, political, cultural and economic
geographies. Thus, the interplay between literature and geography in this project results in fresh
insights into individual literary works that illuminate their proto-modern dimensions to suggest
unexpected continuities within twentieth- and twenty-first-century global concerns of human
understanding and co-existence
For Whom the Bell Tolls in Ernest Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u3c/em\u3e
No full textComments briefly on the significance of the novel’s characterization, title, universal themes of war, violence, and death, and Spanish Civil War setting
Governance, Financial Development, and Investment: The Role of Globalization
Get PDFPrivate investment is known for its role in the socio-economic and technological improvement of a developing country. At the same time, the developing economies are characterized by a low rate of investment, poor quality of governance, and bad financial market situation. The study investigates the impact of governance, financial development, and globalization on investment in the developing economies. Data—covering a panel of 60 developing economies for the time period2002 to 2016—was estimated through the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique. The governance, financial development, and inflation had a positive impact whereas the exchange rate had a negative impact on investment. The overall index of globalization, as well as its social and economic dimensions, also had a positive impact on investment. For the low-income developing economies, the overall index of globalization and each of its three dimensions had a positive impact on investment. While, for the high-income developing economies, the overall index of globalization had positive, but its political dimension had a negative but significant impact on investment. In the case of developing economies, private investment is an outcome of improvement in the situation regarding governance, financial markets, and socioeconomic & political ties with the rest of the world
The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce
Get PDFFunding Information: MRDP is full professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a public funded university, and has projects co-funded by “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001”, “Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico”and “Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro”. Funding Information: PF acknowledges Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia for funds to GHTM UID/04413/2020. Funding Information: MM is employed by the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).Research for health and development (R4HD) acknowledges that many of the determinants of health lie outside the boundaries of the health system. The size and quality of the health and care workforce (HCWF) are key drivers towards the future trajectory of many of these factors. We consider researchers for health and development an abiding, pervasive but neglected constituent part of this HCWF. This workforce straddles many professional groups and sectors. The diversity of occupations, lack of standardization in occupational cadres, the complexity and gendered aspects of the labour market, and the variable demographic, epidemiological, socio-economic and health systems’ contexts in the global south and the global north, led to a kaleidoscopic perception of the health research workforce that have kept it hidden from public opinion. This led to neglect by science as well as health policymakers and created an orphan sub-set of the HCWF. Understanding the health researchers’ labour market will help to identify means to develop, retain and utilize the health research workforce, addressing size, composition, role, skills transferability, careers and social impact through building, enabling or sustaining its research functions, capacity, employment opportunities and career tracks, among other issues. This thematic series of the Human Resources for Health Journal, calls for papers that go beyond narrow conceptual approaches and professional understandings of health care workers and the health research workforce, and requests that contributors examine important workforce issues through the broad lens of R4HD within a sustainable development goals framework.publishersversionpublishe
Computerized tomography based evaluation of level I and II axillary lymph nodes by high conventional tangential fields in carcinoma breast
Get PDFBackground: Axillary radiation and surgery have provided equivalent local control in early breast cancer patients. It is believed that tangential field (TF) radiation that was used to treat the breast coincidently delivered radiation treatment to the lower axilla and eradicated the disease. In the era of CT-based three dimensional- (3D) radiotherapy planning, however concerns have been raised about the adequacy of coverage of the axillary levels in the tangential fields. In this study, author evaluated the coverage of the axillary nodal levels I and II using high conventional tangential fields in patients with or without axillary dissection.Methods: A prospective study was conducted which included 18 cases for a period of one year, radiation therapy was planned to the chest wall or whole breast by using the high conventional tangential field using 2D radiation portals. Central lung distance (CLD) and the distance of superior border was measured form the head of the humerus and were recorded. CECT chest was done in the same position alike during conventional simulation. All the images were shifted to the treatment planning system. The Contouring of Axillary lymph nodes level I and II was done on Oncentra contouring software.Results: The coverage of the axillary nodes was not related to central lung distance (CLD). However, some with CLD of 1cm had more coverage of the level I nodes than with CLD of 2 cm and the maximum CLD in the field was 2.5 cm. Of the 18 patients in the study, 13 patients had <2 cm distance from the humeral head and all the axillary level II LN covered in the field. Whereas 5 patients having distance >2 cm did not have adequate coverage of level II axillary LN’s.Conclusions: The distance of the cranial border of the tangent portal from the head of the humerus shows a relationship with coverage of level II nodes cranially. As the distance decreases the coverage of level II nodes cranially keeps increasing. In majority of the patients a distance of 2 cm or less than 2 cm ensured good coverage of level II nodes cranially. Similarly, no correlation was found between volumetric coverage of the axillary nodes with central lung distance
Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy of bacterial colonies isolated from ras malai samples from different markets of Lahore, Pakistan
No full textThe importance of Metacognitive Strategies to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners: A Self-directed Learning Approach
No full textThis article “The importance of Metacognitive Strategies to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners: A Self-directed Learning Approach” deals with an in-depth study and implementation of Metacognitive strategies. This study investigates as to what extent the teaching of metacognition is feasible in the classroom and how students could get the maximum from applying metacognitive strategies and styles. This research aims at emphasizing the use of metacognitive strategies as a useful resource to enhance reading comprehension of students. The purpose of the literature review in this study is to more elaborate this topic to get the profound insights into the actual framework of metacognition so that implementations could be made as much as possible. Furthermore, to explore literature review is an authentic source to know as how much research has been conducted so far. It will be identified also that what is missing that needs to be addressed. The themes that would be explored in the review of literature are as following: Theoretical Framework, Motivation and Performance, Metacognitive strategies, Metacognitive instruction; and Empirical evidence of teaching metacognition
Metacognition, a tool to develop skills in the classroom
No full textTeniendo en cuenta la prioridad para identificar la incidencia que tienen los procesos metacognitivos en el aprendizaje, y la manera como inciden en el fortalecimiento habilidades en la infancia, para lograr el desarrollo de las competencias básicas de lenguaje y matemáticas de los niños y las niñas en el aula, se realiza esta revisión de literatura relacionada con la conceptualización sobre la metacognición y el desarrollo de competencias, tomando como referentes los conceptos de dichos constructos, los cuales han sido abordados desde diferentes investigaciones realizadas en los últimos 10 años. En razón a ello, se logró identificar que docentes de aula y demás actores educativos deben contar con suficientes conocimientos sobre el funcionamiento del cerebro, siendo esta la base de la teoría del aprendizaje denominada Neuroeducación, y, de este modo, los y las docentes de aula tendrán la capacidad de basar sus planeaciones pedagógicas y objetivos de aprendizaje en estas funciones. Es así como la metacognición se consolida como una herramienta pedagógica que promueve, en estudiantes de preescolar y básica primaria, los procesos de pensamiento que facilitan y automatizan operaciones cognitivas, ejecutivas, motoras y afectivas, siendo estas esenciales para lograr aprendizajes significativos; por tanto, y en concordancia con lo anterior, se desarrolla un compilado de estrategias metacognitivas de acceso libre mediante la herramienta digital GENIALLY, lo cual busca aportar a docentes de aula, el material de apoyo para el diseño de estrategias didácticas dirigidas al desarrollo dehabilidades metacognitivas.RESUMEN 5
INTRODUCCIÓN 7
Pregunta de investigación 8
Objetivos específicos 8
REVISIÓN DE LITERATURA 9
Metacognición 9
Concepto y su evolución 9
Bases neuroanatómicas 10
Tipos de metacognición 12
Concepto de Estrategias metacognitivas 13
Infancia y su relación con la metacognición 14
Competencias básicas de aprendizaje en el aula. 14
Competencias básicas en Lenguaje y Matemáticas. 15
Neuroeducación y metacognición 17
Estrategias pedagógicas 18
Estrategias metacognitivas 20
METODOLOGÍA 22
DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA METODOLOGÍA 22
DISCUSIÓN Y CONCLUSIONES 24
ANEXO 1 26
REFERENCIAS 27Taking into account the priority to identify the impact that metacognitive processes have on learning, and the way in which they affect the strengthening of skills in childhood, to achieve the development of the basic language and mathematics skills of boys and girls. In the classroom, this review of literature related to the conceptualization of metacognition and the development of competencies is carried out, taking as references the concepts of said constructs, which have been addressed from different research carried out in the last 10 years. For this reason, it was possible to identify that classroom teachers and other educational actors must have sufficient knowledge about the functioning of the brain, this being the basis of the learning theory called Neuroeducation, and, in this way, classroom teachers classroom will have the ability to base their pedagogical planning and learning objectives on these functions. This is how metacognition is consolidated as a pedagogical tool that promotes, in preschool and primary school students, the thinking processes that facilitate and automate cognitive, executive, motor and affective operations, these being essential to achieve significant learning; Therefore, and in accordance with the above, a compilation of free access metacognitive strategies is developed through the digital tool GENIALLY, which seeks to provide classroom teachers with support material for the design of didactic strategies aimed at the development of skills. metacognitive
