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Ong on specific performance
No full textProfessor Denis Ong, author of the acclaimed works Trusts Law and Ong on Equity, addresses the complexities of Specific Performance in this book. In this erudite text, Professor Ong applies a forensic knowledge of the relevant case law, across Australian and international jurisdictions, resulting in a comprehensive analysis of Specific Performance.Key principles of law are identified and the key cases discussed in detail, often critically but always pinpointing the most relevant parts of judgments for readers
Ong on equity
No full textOng on Equity is a substantial and sophisticated work from Professor Denis Ong, author of the acclaimed commentary: Trusts Law in Australia, now in its third edition. Ong on Equity analyses in detail relevant cases from all the Australian and from international jurisdictions and thoroughly reviews all aspects of judicial decision making.Importantly, Professor Ong considers unanswered questions as they arise in judicial reasoning in an incisive and learned style and offers fresh insights and thoughtful scholarly analysis in respect of each of the topics comprehensively covered in this volume
Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
No full textThis thesis examines the juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and question gender identity. The introduction outlines commentaries on the story cycle and considers definitions of the form. It includes case studies of earlier twentieth-century cycles by American women: cycles such as Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps that have been passed over by critics of the form.
Chapter One presents Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples as a cycle paradigm, examining conventions such as the form's metafictional dimension and its preoccupation with communal identity. Chapter Two argues that Grace Paley's scattered Faith narratives set a standard for more dispersed versions of the form. Chapter Three considers how Joyce Carol Oates uses the sequential cycle to represent gender identity as a social construct. Chapters Four and Five examine the macrocosmic cycles of Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich and consider changes in their form and gender politics. The final 'composite' chapters explore postmodern versions of the form such as Susan Minot's Monkeys. The prose works of Sandra Cisneros stretch across the story cycle continuum, whilst Toni Morrison's Paradise is universally regarded as a novel. Readings of contemporary cycles by Melissa Bank, Elissa Schappell and Emily Carter demonstrate that American women are re-invigorating the form to facilitate the plural identity of the postmodern heroine
Motifs in Woodblock Prints and the Ritual of Ong Tao ： －With Emphasis on Ong Tao Woodblock Prints in Sinh Village－
No full textThis paper will focus on motifs in Ong Tao woodblock prints and identify their characteristics based on interviews with their producers and comparisons of these artworks. In each household of the Kinh ethnic group in Vietnam, the yearend ritual to send the Kitchen God called Ong Tao to heaven takes place on December 23. In the Hue region, this ritual means placing an Ong Tao statue that has been enshrined in an alter for the past year in a shrine or under a sacred tree to aid the god’s rise to heaven. It also involves burning Ong Tao woodblock prints produced in Sinh, one of the small villages in Thua Thien Hue province. All traditional woodblock prints from the village are produced for ritual ceremonies, and the Ong Tao prints are no exception. These pieces of art are exclusively used in the Hue region, and are not distributed anywhere else. There are two other types of Vietnamese folk woodblock prints depicting Ong Tao: Dong Ho woodcut paintings and French artist Henri Oger’s works from the early 1900s that capture daily life and the art of living in northern Vietnam. These prints are different from those from Sinh village in their printing techniques and motifs. The author conducted interviews with artists currently creating Ong Tao woodblock prints in the village, with the aims of identifying the characteristics of the artworks based on their motifs and exploring why the motifs in these woodblock prints are different from those depicted in Dong Ho woodcut paintings and works by Henri Oger. An analysis of the motifs should confirm that Ong Tao woodblock prints are produced for the ritual. Furthermore, the study will propose that the unique features of these prints from Sinh village can be attributed to the capital of the Nguyen Dynasty being located in the Hue region.Departmental Bulletin Paper2014年度奨励研究 成果論文論文departmental bulletin pape
La solidaritat avui : el cas d'una ONG pel desenvolupament
No full textL'autor analitza les interaccions personals i col·lectives del món de la solidaritat a Catalunya per mitjà de l'estudi del cas d'una organització no governamental (ONG) que té com a finalitat l'ajut a països del Tercer Món.The author analyzes personal and collective interactions in the world of solidarity in Catalonia through a case study of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) for aid to Third World countries
La solidaritat avui : el cas d'una ONG pel desenvolupament
No full textL'autor analitza les interaccions personals i col·lectives del món de la solidaritat a Catalunya per mitjà de l'estudi del cas d'una organització no governamental (ONG) que té com a finalitat l'ajut a països del Tercer Món.The author analyzes personal and collective interactions in the world of solidarity in Catalonia through a case study of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) for aid to Third World countries
Tourist attractions in Shanghai, China / Ong Sheau Fen
No full textThe Mandarin for Tourism Curriculum for MOOC students is currently under development, with "Travel to Shanghai" as one of the new topics. As part of this update, the author is preparing travel-related information about Shanghai for the students. Therefore, the author shares this travel information with colleagues in this e-Lingua issue as well to assist those interested in visiting Shanghai. Traveling typically involves visiting interesting tourist attractions, shopping, tasting delicious food, and experiencing the culture. For interesting tourist spots, the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Bund, and Nanjing Road are must-visit locations in Shanghai
Price Discovery in Real Estate Auctions: The Story of Unsuccessful Attempts
No full textLittle is known of the effects of the auction mechanism in relation to post-auction market sales. This empirical study of unsuccessful auctions shows that approximately half of these properties were eventually sold via private negotiations, at higher prices relative to last bids. The probability of a subsequent post-auction transaction is significantly higher for apartments and terrace houses and when auction turnout is high; and lower in the absence of any bid and in some years. In addition, downward revisions to the opening bid improve the probability of subsequent sale. Prices of subsequent re-auctioned and privately negotiated sales decline with time to sale, consistent with the search process explanation.
Education and income attraction: an online dating field experiment
No full textPrior studies have found a robust correlation in the education of dating and married couples. However, there is little evidence to suggest that such correlations are causal, that is, for the sake of relationship public goods such as the pleasures of the enlightened conversations that only a common high level of education might support. Being empirical studies, they cannot rule out couples matching on other characteristics like income, height or health, which are correlated with education, from driving results. We contribute to this literature by randomly assigning high and low education and income levels to 388 artificial male and female profiles on a large online dating website in China. We then counted thousands of 'visits' - clicks on abbreviated profiles, which included education and income information, from search engine results. We found that men's visits to female profiles were unaffected by the profile's assigned education level, while women's visits to male profiles increase with the profile's education. However, that increase was not increasing on the women's own level of education, though their visits to the higher income male profiles was increasing on their own education. Our findings suggest that the relationship public goods that stem from a common level of high education are not at the forefront of either men's or women's minds before their first dates, when one might expect such goods to play a critical role in the decision to develop the relationship [email protected]
Marxist reading of selected works of Bob Ong: (a study of the popular culture)
No full textThe popularly advocated has the tendency to feign the objective reality, and replace it with a subjective analysis of the actual conditions. The same assumption applies to popular literature-that the author tends to remake reality according to how perceives it and how he wants it to be perceived.
This study is basically a Marxist reading of the selected works of Bob Ong. Together, the study glances over popular culture from which the text is identified among the genre of the popular literature. In the pool of contemporary creative writer, Bob Ong stands reflective of the existing culture. This is readily perceived in the language and the formal elements that indicate the strong influence of the popular culture to the author.
Various theories and critiques are already made on popular culture. But for this study alone, the definition is trimmed down to a culture that is drawn from the inherent experiences of man (from below), but is manipulated by the upper class (from above). Emphasis is given to the latter, and to the contention that popular culture is commodified for capital acquisition of the dominant few.
In this study, the Marxist approach is holistic as it is used first, in defining the scope of popular culture (Dialectical materialism), and again, in the actual reading of the text (Economic determinism). The claims of this study are grounded also on the Marxist belief that there is a prevailing social stratification that propels the incessant struggle between classes.
On the premise that the author is a purveyor of the popular culture, he therefore promotes the prevalence of the existing status quo from which he benefits. Intersubjectivity explains that with the choice of language and details incorporated in his narratives, Ong carries a consciousness espoused by the petty-bourgeoisie. And Marx\u27s Economic Determinism fortifies this by stating that the social being (economic being) begets the individual\u27s consciousness (ideology).
The study proceeds with the three-phase textual interpretation of Terry Eagleton that uncloaks Ong\u27s works to reveal the kind of reality that is being presented by the text. It begins with having identified the petty-bourgeois of the author and of the text.
In identifying the contradictions within the text, the study recognizes the realism in Ong\u27s works. In the four selected books, the contradiction in the state of education, the Philippine politics and culture, and the conflict between the dominant and the dominated are presented to the readers.
However, these fragments of realism will not suffice as in this case that the text is subjected to the standards of a Marxist textual interpretation. The author is found guilty of the petty-bourgeois tendency that fails to see wider scope of societal oppression and contradiction. Ong remains confined in the moral world of his class whose concerns are limited to an urban and popular lifestyle, and discounts the genuine mass literature of the workers, peasants, and of other sectors that comprise the large number of the true masses.
With this, Ong also fails to provide a substantial resolution or any call to transform the social contradictions even to those that he has presented at the very least. And logically, failure to instigate change is an action to preserve the already existing order of the dominant versus the dominated classes
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