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The Setting and Being in the Novel, During the Arab Spring the Lebanese Novel “Hay Al American”, an Example
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
37-47
Received:
5 December 2020
Accepted:
4 January 2021
Published:
2 July 2021
Abstract: The setting creates meaning in a novel when the novelist turns it into a tool to express certain positions on the world. “Hay Al American” (Americans Neighborhood) novel by Lebanese novelist “Jabbour Al Douaihy” is quintessentially a place centered novel; made clear by the actions and characteristics of this place, setting a ripe ground for terrorism and radicalism… Among these characteristics: Applying poverty to a place that was closely related to violence and the flourishing of fundamentalist movements, which were searching for these places where they can find fertile grounds for choosing followers and for the consolidation of extremism in their minds. As well as the frustration that dominated the place due to war, explosions, deaths, the spread of pollution and the disappearance of green spaces … Which made the setting unable to cater to the aspirations of its residents who either chose to abandon it or continue to live in it in despair. The state and parents’ negligence also contributed in fostering radicalism, as parents were often absent from the reality of their children and what they were facing, which made it easier for religious leaders to swoop down on the youth after having distorted religion and exploited it to achieve their own agendas. The state was also absent from the setting, confining its role in suppression, surveillance, and arrest, far from embracing, protection, initiative, planning and reform… This setting made the self-flounder in total loss, separating it from its reality and true authenticity. However, in a split of time, it was able to embrace its being and find its authenticity even for a brief moment…
Abstract: The setting creates meaning in a novel when the novelist turns it into a tool to express certain positions on the world. “Hay Al American” (Americans Neighborhood) novel by Lebanese novelist “Jabbour Al Douaihy” is quintessentially a place centered novel; made clear by the actions and characteristics of this place, setting a ripe ground for terrori...
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Techno-Science in the Training of Technologists in SENA-Colombia
Luis Francisco Ochoa-Rojas
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
48-60
Received:
12 August 2021
Accepted:
25 August 2021
Published:
31 August 2021
Abstract: This is a reflective article on the problem of integration in teaching-learning of scientific-technological knowledge within the training of apprentices at the Technologist level in Colombia, specifically in the National Learning Service (SENA). The text examines the link between contemporary applied research (techno-science that is developed internationally and nationally, within the concept of "industrial, academic and defense complex"), with economic and social development plans, at the levels: international, regional and local. Which derives for the case of Colombia in its National Development Plan in which it contemplates within the educational sector, the training of Technologists in the National System of Tertiary Education (SNET), in particular in the SENA (technical professional training), entity public that is primarily responsible for the design and implementation of technology training programs. Type of education that is alternate to that carried out by universities, but that also conforms, in this type of program, to the accreditation conditions required by the Ministry of National Education (MEN) for all tertiary education institutions. The above, to present the problem of the need for techno-scientific education in the training given at SENA and the use of the methodology of applied research projects, to complement the technical and technological training of the apprentices. Aspects that justify technological research projects from the perspective of Applied Research, Experimental Development, and Innovation, linked to academic training programs. In this context, the project-based learning methodology (training and applied research) is derived for the training of technologist apprentices. Projects in which the logical-epistemological and methodological structure of the basic scientific, technological and technical knowledge used, require an unobjectionable orientation and clarity, to favor their successful execution. For this, the theories and concepts of technoscience are necessary for useful reasons in the training of new workers.
Abstract: This is a reflective article on the problem of integration in teaching-learning of scientific-technological knowledge within the training of apprentices at the Technologist level in Colombia, specifically in the National Learning Service (SENA). The text examines the link between contemporary applied research (techno-science that is developed inter...
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Poland-US Defense Relations: The Pursuit of Great Power Politics in Central Europe
Isti Marta Sukma,
Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
61-69
Received:
25 July 2021
Accepted:
10 August 2021
Published:
28 October 2021
Abstract: Poland and the US share a rather complex relations throughout the international modern history; forasmuch as the end of the Great War, the Warsaw Pact, the Cold War to today’s bilateral relations. Along with the democratic reforms that emerged in Poland in 1989, the relations between two states have gradually become more than just a close-packed ally in securing each other’s geopolitical interests from external threats, specifically in Central Europe. This research is aimed to understand the rationale of the strategic alliance, the modern defense strategic relations between the two will be further examined in this article by employing the realism theory of International Relations; including the conceptual analysis within security dilemma and US-Poland defense collaboration in boosting their dominance, presence, and threats deterrence in the anarchic international system. The research indicates that geopolitical factors, namely the importance of the regional agenda of Central Europe plays a key-role in determining the defense relations among Poland and the US. The political silhouette of the “Iron Curtain” and US outlook on the region have helped the framework of the defense relations; mainly Poland’s role in NATO, the enhancement of the joint-military deterrence, bilateral political ties as well as defense strategic adjustment between the two nations.
Abstract: Poland and the US share a rather complex relations throughout the international modern history; forasmuch as the end of the Great War, the Warsaw Pact, the Cold War to today’s bilateral relations. Along with the democratic reforms that emerged in Poland in 1989, the relations between two states have gradually become more than just a close-packed al...
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Challenges Versus Prospects of Political Decentralization on the Practice of Local Participation: The Case of Sodo Town Administration, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
70-81
Received:
20 November 2021
Accepted:
11 December 2021
Published:
24 December 2021
Abstract: The title of this study is the challenges versus prospects of political decentralization on the practice of local participation: the case of Sodo town administration, Wolaita zone, Ethiopia. Its objective is to identify the challenges and prospect of political decentralization on local participation. This study employed both primary and secondary data. In primary data questionnaires and interview were used to collect data and various literatures on political decentralization as well as local participation would be reviewed as secondary data were used. Sample respondent were taken as sample 18 from 45 public workers. Quantitative techniques of the data were analyzed using in percents and table while qualitative techniques of the data were analyzed in word and sentence the collected data from respondents; the major finding of the research assured challenges of political decentralization on local participation increases self-interest, lack of equal distribution, corruption, maladministration. Whereas, the negative impact of political decentralization was creating secession between the villages; disagreement among the employs; lack of the quality of work or unable to work similar function. Political decentralization is important for the improvement and the development of local participation because it give for the community to elect their own representative and to solve the local problem in short time. Political decentralization played greet role to give freedom for local community to participation on their own local political economic and social issue without any discrimination and the official and the people work together to solve their local problem.
Abstract: The title of this study is the challenges versus prospects of political decentralization on the practice of local participation: the case of Sodo town administration, Wolaita zone, Ethiopia. Its objective is to identify the challenges and prospect of political decentralization on local participation. This study employed both primary and secondary d...
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