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Interview with Roland Abraham
No full textInterview with Roland Abraham, who is a former director of the Minnesota Extension Service. He is the author of Helping People Help Themselves: Agricultural Extension in Minnesota, 1879 to 1979. Abraham talks about how he got to the university and about the Minnesota Extension Service.Abraham, Roland H.; Pflaum, Ann M.. (1999). Interview with Roland Abraham. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/47871
Roland Hayes, circa 1960
No full textRoland Hayes (1887-1977).Tenor, classical concert singer. Enrolled at Fisk University in 1905 and became a Fisk Jubilee Singer. Performed at many great concert venues in America and in Europe. First African-American singer to achieve international recognition
A importância moral da dor e do sofrimento animal na ética de Peter Singer
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2012.O objetivo desta dissertação é defender a importância moral da consideração da dor e do sofrimento de animais não-humanos. Isso se dá através do principio da igual consideração de interesses desenvolvido por Peter Singer. A senciência possibilita os animais a terem interesses, no mínimo, o interesse evitar a dor e o sofrimento. É por essa razão que devem ser incluídos nas decisões morais. São reconstruídas e analisadas as objeções de Peter Harrison, Carl Cohen, R.G. Frey e Lawrence C. Becker direcionadas ao princípio de Singer, e que criticam os pressupostos básicos, quais sejam, a capacidade de sentirem dor/sofrimento e de terem interesses, sobre os quais se fundamenta a inclusão dos animais nas considerações morais. Cada uma dessas objeções é analisada e criticada de modo a demonstrar suas limitações e inconsistências, juntamente com as implicações morais geradas para seres humanos. Na análise dessas críticas, reforça-se a importância e a consideração moral que deve ser conferida à dor e ao sofrimento dos animais. Após essa discussão teórica, é analisado um caso de âmbito prático: a pesquisa científica sobre o câncer humano através do modelo animal. Verifica-se, a partir do princípio de Singer, a imoralidade de tal procedimento realizado em animais sencientes devido à violação de seus interesses. Com isso, a dissertação enfatiza a exigência ética de abolir o uso de animais nessa prática em razão da incapacidade preditiva dos animais, mas principalmente devido à dor e ao sofrimento causado neles e também aos seres humanos, que ficam sujeitos aos erros, prejuízos e sofrimentos originados pelo intenso uso animal nas pesquisas. Nessa conclusão, se constata que a insistência no uso de animais nos experimentos compromete o cientista a preferir usar seres humanos, uma vez que isso gera mais benefícios e resultados mais seguros. A recusa moral ao uso de humanos em pesquisas implica, por outro lado, na recusa moral do uso de animais, ou seja, sua abolição.Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to defend the moral importance of considering pain and suffering of nonhuman animals. This is achieved through The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests developed by Peter Singer. The sentience enables nonhuman animals to have interests, at least the interest of avoiding pain and suffering. That is why it should be included in moral decisions. The objections of Peter Harrison, Carl Cohen, RG Frey and Lawrence C. Becker directed to the principle of Singer are reconstructed and analyzed, as they are criticizing the basic assumptions, i.e., the ability to feel pain/suffering and have interests, upon which is based the inclusion of animals in moral considerations. Each of these objections is analyzed and criticized in order to demonstrate their limitations and inconsistencies, simultaneously with its moral implications for humans. In the analysis of these criticisms, it reinforces the moral importance and considerations that should be given to pain and suffering of animals. After this theoretical discussion, a case study of practical scope is analyzed: animal testing for scientific research on human cancer. It is verified from the Singer's principle that such procedures performed on sentient animals are a violation of their interests and, therefore, immoral. Thus, the dissertation emphasizes the ethical demand to abolish the use of nonhuman animals in this practice due to their predictive inability, but mainly due to the pain and suffering caused to them and also to humans, who are subject to errors, injuries and suffering originated by the intense use of nonhuman animals on research. The conclusion verifies that the insistence on the use of nonhuman animals in experiments moves the scientist to prefer using humans in experiments since it generates greater benefit and more reliable results. The moral refusal to using humans in research implies the moral rejection of the use of animals in experiments and consequently, its abolition
Naturphänomen, Vorzeichen, Gottesstrafe? Deutung und Aufarbeitung von Katastrophen zwischen klassischem Altertum und Spätantike
No full textMit den Begriffen „Bedrohung“ und „Ordnung“ sowie dem Modell der Bedrohungskommunikation können Prozesse historischen Wandels kategoriengeleitet analysiert werden, ohne dass dabei das Handeln und Leben der Menschen in den Hintergrund tritt. Hierzu sind in diesem Band Materialien für den Geschichtsunterricht aus allen Epochen gesammelt. Bekannte Themen werden durch neue Quellen unter innovativen Blickwinkeln betrachtet (Investiturstreit, Kalter Krieg), bisher unübliche oder unbekannte Themen für den schulischen Kontext nutzbar gemacht (Erdbeben in der Antike, armer Adel).
Der Band eignet sich besonders für kompetenzorientierten Unterricht und zur Förderung der Eigenaktivität der Schülerinnen und Schüler. Die Quellen sind jeweils mit einer fachwissenschaftlichen Einleitung und einem geschichtsdidaktischen Kommentar versehen, der konkrete Unterrichtsvorschläge sowohl für kurze Sequenzen als auch für längerfristig angelegte Projektarbeiten bereithält
The death of William Golding: authorship and creativity in darkness visible and the paper men
No full textIn the seventies and eighties William Golding was deeply responsive to the critical, anti-authorial ethos that followed the publication of Roland Barthes's "La mort de I'auteur" (1968). In Darkness Visible (1979) and The Paper Men (1984) he investigates means by which to reaffirm authorial presence. Working through paradox, he performs the authorial death in these novels, and establishes language’s inadequacy as a means of conveying absolute meaning, authorial "vision," truth or revelation. Having done so he nonetheless gestures towards the divine, towards the possibility of a vatic communication. In this manner the novels work upon principles of contradiction and collapse. What remains is a discourse of hope, promise, desire, without means of substantiating such optimism. Thus Golding might be said to have practiced a form of negative theology, and to have anticipated in this respect some recent trends in literary theory
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Nonconforming Dirichlet boundary conditions in implicit material point method by means of penalty augmentation
No full textIn many geomechanics applications, material boundaries are subjected to large displacements and deformation. Under these circumstances, the application of boundary conditions using particle methods, such as the material point method (MPM), becomes a challenging task since material boundaries do not coincide with the background mesh. This paper presents a formulation of penalty augmentation to impose nonhomogeneous, nonconforming Dirichlet boundary conditions in implicit MPM. The penalty augmentation is implemented utilizing boundary particles, which can move either according to or independently from the material deformation. Furthermore, releasing contact boundary condition, as well as the capability to accommodate slip boundaries, is introduced in the current work. The accuracy of the proposed method is assessed in both 2D and 3D cases, by convergence analysis reaching the analytical solution and by comparing the results of nonconforming and classical grid-conforming simulations
A staggered Material Point Method and Finite Element Method ocoupling scheme using Gauss Seidel communication pattern
No full textThe goal of the present work is the simulation mass movement hazards, involving fast and large soil deformation, interacting with exible protection structures. For the simulation of those large deformation phenomena, involving complex history dependent material laws, the Material Point Method (MPM) is a powerful method, as the particles move trough a fixed background mesh. This allows to overcome the classical limitation of the Finite Element Method (FEM) related to mesh distortion in large strain problems. Therefore, a staggered or partitioned coupling scheme is proposed, combining the advantages of FEM and MPM by solving both models separately using their respective established environment, whereas the communication between the two fields is achieved by mapping boundary conditions on the shared interface. In this work a Gauss-Seidel communication pattern is considered, leading to the necessity of imposing Dirichlet Boundary Conditions on one interface (in this study: FEM) and Neumann Boundary Conditions on the corresponding counterpart (in this study: MPM). For validation purposes, a structural example with analytical solution is chosen
Roland Barthes's resurrection of the author and redemption of biography
No full textThe most misunderstood essay in literary theory must be Roland Barthes's 'The Death of the Author' (originally 'La mort de l'auteur', 1968). Repeatedly critics and commentators have taken this satiric jeu d'esprit literally, and have credulously assumed that it is advocating the very position that it is condemning
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Roland Barthes's resurrection of the author and redemption of biography
No full textThe most misunderstood essay in literary theory must be Roland Barthes's 'The Death of the Author' (originally 'La mort de l'auteur', 1968). Repeatedly critics and commentators have taken this satiric jeu d'esprit literally, and have credulously assumed that it is advocating the very position that it is condemning
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