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The Neurology of Implicit Self-Esteem: The Relationship between Self-Reported Behavioral Inhibition System and Behavioral Activation System and Implicit Self-Esteem
Authors: Lou Weijia
Published: April 2023

In our study, we measure the correlation between self-reported behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral activation system (BAS) and implicit self-esteem. Based on reviews of previous studies, we formed two hypotheses. Firstly, people with higher self-reported BAS have higher implicit self-esteem than those who have lower BAS. Secondly, people with higher self-reported BIS have lower implicit self-esteem compared to people who show lower BIS. In addition to just examining the link, we intended to explain implicit self-esteem with biological factors. If our hypothesis can be proved, further research can devote to this area of exploring how a biological approach views implicit self-esteem. We form our study in a passive design, in which participants have to complete two measures: the Name Letter test for implicit self-esteem and the BIS/BAS Scale for self-reported BIS and BAS (Carver&White, 1994, Nuttin, 1985). The data will be analyzed using Pearson Correlation and be visualized into two scatter plots, each showing the result for one hypothesis. We predicted that there will be a positive correlation between self-reported BAS and implicit self-esteem, and a negative correlation between self-reported BIS and implicit self-esteem.
Disparities in the Medal of Honor Why African American Soldiers Awards were Delayed, and Japanese American Awards were Immediate
Authors: Chik Nicholas
Published: April 2023

The 442nd Infantry Regiment Combat Team, composed mostly of Japanese American soldiers, is the most decorated division in U.S. military history. As a minority combat team motivated by accusations of disloyalty following Pearl Harbor, they sought to demonstrate their patriotism through excellence in battle. President Harry Truman formally recognized the valuable contribution of the 442nd Infantry Team to the Allied victory and assigned a medal of honor to one of the Japanese American soldiers, Private First-Class Sadao S. Munemori, immediately after the war. African American soldiers similarly demonstrated great loyalty and skill in the 332nd Fighter Group, called the Tuskegee Airmen, and the 761st Tank Battalion, also known as the Black Panthers. However, although both units fought with distinction, the granting of medals of honor for African American World War II service was delayed until 1997. Based on memoirs, interviews, and an Army Report Investigation conducted by the Department of Defense, this paper analyzes the reasons for the decades-long discrepancy in the timeline for the acquisition of medals of honor between Japanese American and African American soldiers. The differing experiences and interpretations of discrimination and segregation, both during and after the war, account for the immense positive attention paid to Japanese American efforts compared to the total lack of national honor assigned to African American soldiers. Through their service, Japanese Americans resoundingly exposed the errors of the federal governments decision to intern families of Japanese descent and helped promote a narrative of wrongdoing that the federal government has since acknowledged. In contrast, African American victories, no less impressive than those of Japanese American and white soldiers, were overshadowed by the racial discourse of Jim Crow-era politics. Specifically, African American soldiers continued to face systemic discrimination at home and in the armed forces despite their military accomplishments. It delayed the formal acknowledgement of the significance of African American service.
Mental Health under the COVID-19 Pandemic Remote Work Condition: A Study of the Effects of Work-Family Conflicts on Emotional Exhaustion
Authors: Yang Fan
Published: April 2023

With the emergence of coronavirus at the beginning of 2020 and its lasting impact still on, many people have experienced or are still experiencing remote work to some degree. Many employees have to go through changes in their workplace from organization to home. Under the situation of a worldwide pandemic that causes a lot of changes and stress, employees mental health is an important issue to study. This paper explores this area and builds a model of work-family conflicts (WFC) and emotional exhaustion in linear regression with two other variables, self-efficacy and perceived organizational support (POS) based on the Resource Drain Theory. This model is based on the data collected using a questionnaire containing some variable scales and distributed on the Wenjuanxing platform in China. The sample of this study is 210 employees who have experienced working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. SPSS software was utilized to analyze the data. The present study finds the impact of WFC on Emotional exhaustion in employees with self-efficacy being a moderator and POS being a partial mediator. In both directions of WFC (both WIF and FIW), people whose self-efficacy is at a higher level tend to experience a higher influence of WFC on emotional exhaustion than people with low self-efficacy.
Motivations of Live-streaming Oriented Vtubers Viewer Engagement on Youtube
Authors: Wang Zuka
Published: April 2023

Niche preference communities on social media are gradually increasing with related research, but there are few studies related to the motivation of viewers of Live-streaming oriented Vtuber. In this study, five motivational factors were set up using time spent as a measure of platform use, and valid data were collected through an interview and survey study of members of Generation Z who watched Vtuber live streams on the Youtube platform. The results obtained from the survey were compared and analyzed, and the main motivation that helps explain Vtuber's live streaming participation was found: Social anxiety. Compared to usual live stream viewers, Vtuber watchers are more prone to social phobia in real life and show a stronger dependence on the host. In addition, the appearance of Vtuber is one of the main motivations to attract viewers. These results provide the main motivations of Vtuber's viewers and lay the foundation for future research.
Study Evaluating the Availability of Virtual Reality Applications for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Authors: Wang Jie , Yang Ziyue
Published: April 2023

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses characterized by abnormal eating behaviors and attitudes. The prevalence of eating disorders among high-income young women in Asia has increased dramatically since the late 20th century. Results of treatments such as medication, clinical therapy, psychotherapy, etc. are often unsatisfactory. Virtual reality has been used in eating disorders, both by changing the size of the body image and by creating a virtual environment. The purpose of this study was to design a Virtual reality application for the treatment of eating disorders and to explore its usability and feasibility. A virtual reality-based application was designed to help treat eating disorders. This application can solve the comparison and low self-esteem problems that arise in other treatments by choosing individual therapy or group therapy after selecting a virtual avatar. Participants are then recruited to experience through questionnaires, thus obtaining user feedback. A total of 9 female participants were recruited, including 2 AN and 3 BN, and 4 BED personnel. Seven participants preferred individual therapy and 2 participants preferred group therapy. According to the data analysis, BN and BED patients were more likely to have group therapy and twice-weekly therapy frequency. Patients with AN tend to prefer individual therapy and more frequently weekly therapy. Participants felt that VR therapy was more private and felt more secure. According to participant feedback, apps need to pay more attention to protecting patient privacy and how treatment data is collected. Participants found the application available. Future research should aim to assess similarities and differences in the availability of group therapy as well as individual therapy. To investigate which specific eating disorder behaviors are effective in group therapy as well as individual therapy.
Application and Design of Virtual Reality-Based Interactive Film System in Presentation of Architectural Design
Authors: Zeng Junhao , Jia Ziyue
Published: April 2023

Architects are unsatisfied with current ways of presenting their works in the schematic design phase to clients because the effects of the design presentation obtained nowadays are relatively weak and not self-explanatory. Based on this fact, we proposed a design solution using the concept of an innovative VR interactive film. This kind of VR film provides the clients with highly immersive and interactive VR experiences through virtual simulations in multiple human senses. In this essay, we explained the problem current architects encountered in the phase of architectural design presentation, evaluated the current state of VR in the field of film and architecture, and completed a system design designed with various technical details. Some of the technologies in this solution already exist, while others remain at the conceptual stage. It is possible to create an actual sample of such VR interactive films by prototyping all hardware.
Using Socialist Ideas to Help the World Health Organization Deal with International Relations and Develop New Policies to Improve the Health Care System
Authors: Huang Heng
Published: April 2023

This paper is a detailed analysis of how socialist thinking can help International Health Organizations. WHO's health system is of great importance to people all over the world, and it holds a key position in the deal with international relations. But judging from the examples of the effects of various transnational epidemics discussed in this article, the current WHO health system is inadequate for this vital responsibility and fails to handle international relations well. This paper will give a detailed explanation of why WHO needs to apply socialist thought and argue the excellence of socialist thought in helping WHO better deal with international relations and international health issues. The deficiencies of WHO's health system are directly reflected in its policies. This paper will demonstrate how reforming WHO's policies with socialist ideology will improve international relations and better deal with international health issues.
Further Study of Feminist Translation Theories
Authors: Song Jiarui
Published: April 2023

With development of feminist translation theories, numerous previous research in various fields have been studied by many scholars. In this paper, the author is going to sort out the development of feminist translation and its basic concept, theory, as well as some problems, then discusses and tries to figure out how to solve them combined with different theories such as androgyny and censorship. This paper will illustrate the achievements that previous researchers found and propose new perspectives in the light of existing theories. In addition, there are some case analysis about main topics to fill the gaps and demonstrate views of feminist translation theories.
Analyze Supernatural Factors Actual Value in Macbeth and The Injustice to Dou E from Brecht's Drama Theory
Authors: Luo Yi
Published: April 2023

In the respective drama history of Chinese and British, Guan Hanqing's The Injustice to Dou E and Shakespeare's Macbeth are both significant tragedies. The Injustice to Dou E implies Guan Hanqing's pursuit of fairness, and Macbeth reflects Shakespeare's study of ambition. At the end of the two plays, justice has been upheld finally. This result comes from the process of exposing the darkness: for example, in The Injustice to Dou E, Dou E's three-year drought and other predictions, and the dialogue between her ghost and her father; in Macbeth, the witches' prophecies that Macbeth was the future king and no one could beat him, and the ghost's reappearances of Banco. They are important supernatural factors that face the character's heart directly, expose social reality, and trigger readers' thinking. Using Brecht's famous Epic Drama theory in the 20th century to analyze them, people can more clearly find out the actual value of the supernatural factors and give rationality of social reality and human nature to phenomena that cannot be explained by natural laws.
Faith and An Alternative Telos Beyond Christianity -Research Analysis of Sren Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling
Authors: Yao Zecheng
Published: April 2023

Being a godly man in a time of exploration and expansion of human intellect, Sren Kierkegaard put his knowledge in various fields to use by applying them to the critical reflection of the Christian community. He devoted himself to renew Christian faith, dedicated to the search for a modern application of Christianity. Such an approach is of great significance in his work Fear and Trembling, in which he elaborated on Binding of Issac, a biblical story about Abraham and his son, and discussed his take on the structure of existence, on top of which is faith. Written in terms of the Bible, the justification of Kierkegaards argument is heavily dependent on religion. There could be a way to interprete Christianity and the role of faith in a more cntemporary fashion, same as how Kierkegaard attempted to make it relevant to the world he lived in.
An Investigation to John Dunns Locke Interpretation and Its Influence to Contemporary Society
Authors: Xu Liangxuan
Published: April 2023

This paper intends to discuss John Dunn and Macphersons investigations to John Locke and provide an evaluation of whether or not John Dunn and Macphersons investigations misjudged Lockes original texts. The paper will first focus on John Dunns argument of Lockes work being outdated due to Lockes historical background and the reason behind Lockes writings, especially behind the Second Treatise of Government. Then the paper will focus on Macpherson, who argued against John Dunn but as well denied the importance of Lockes work in todays society. By investigating on these two scholars, this paper intends to argue against both two authors and argue that Lockes works could still provide precious insights to todays society and is not as what these two authors argued, outdated and historical. Due to the limits of the length of this paper, I shall only focus in this paper on the section of Property in Lockes Second Treatise.
Commoda Romani Populi and the Practice of Late Roman Politics
Authors: Zhang Fucheng
Published: April 2023

Commoda Romani Populi(public interest) played a prominent role in the political practice in Republican Rome. This preliminary study aims to provide an overview of the role of Commoda Romani Populi in Roman political culture and its political performance. The latest scholarships have shown that the Roman people played a far more critical role in politics than previous scholars thought. Thus it is necessary to reinterpret the role of the Roman people in politics. This essay adopts the theories of Almond and Verba to claim that the majority of Roman people in Rome was not simply politically passive at all time. When political elites have severe lapses in promoting the public interest, their level of political engagement can be dramatically be motivated that finally forces political elites to consider public opinion and hold their behaviours responsible. Moreover, this essay also offers a brief examination of how Commoda Romani Populi was perceived, reinterpreted and manipulated when there was a strong disagreement between political elites and Roman people during the late Roman Republic. Finally, this study argues that the Commoda Romani Populi has a real cultural and practical influence on public affairs instead of being an empty slogan.
Reforms Made by the Gracchus Brothers and Marius
Authors: Xin Siyu(Anthony)
Published: April 2023

The revolutions in ancient Rome focusing on Gracchus brothers and Marius, mainly about solving the militia problem - military shortage. The Gracchus brothers pointed out the problems of the suppression of the middle class and forcing them to join the army. Even though they did not provide the best solution. The conservatives Senate refused to acknowledge these problems and used violence to kill these reformers. As in Mariuss time, he provided a better solution to the problem by recruiting the lower-class Roman citizens and granting their lands after the serve. The leaders of ancient Rome knew the problems of the empire and the right solution to solve them. But they refused to acknowledge them and insisted there were no problems at all because using these solutions would decrease their power of controlling everything and profit generated. The Roman senators only dealt with the problem when it grows bigger and becomes inevitable instead of solving it early enough when the problem is not severe.The goal of this paper is to compare the refusal of acknowledgment of the problems of the leaders in ancient Rome to the refusal of acknowledgment of the current problems(such as climate change) of the leaders nowadays.
Indecent Female Images in Wong Kar-wais Films
Authors: Lyu Jinfeng
Published: April 2023

Wong Kar-wai's movie text has its own unique female image, feminism and male position, which are intertwined. It seems to have different flavor and unresolved contradictions. The indecent women's films are reborn and subverted. The important carrier of Wong Kar-wai's movie narrative link-love, and discusses the status and identity of women in love, and summarizes the fate of women's love. In Wong Kar-wais films, women are the contradictory body that longs to break through the shackles and to obtain ideological liberation, economic liberation and personality liberation. The thesis mainly combines two films: "2046" and "the hand". Based on the feminist theory, this paper analyzes the indecent images of women in Wong Kar-wais films. This paper expounds the theme expression and construction method of Wong Kar-wais female narration, and relates the indecent female image with the drifting social groups, so as to form a cultural review of the indecent images of women in the movies.
Science in Transnational Settings: Knowledge Exchange in Expeditions in 1920s Republican China
Authors: Cai Yinuo
Published: April 2023

The 1920s to the 1930s in Republican China witnessed rising academic interest in exploring Chinas frontier regions, both from abroad and within the nation. This paper examines the nature of foreign exploration in China at that time and the resulting exchange of knowledge that shaped sciences development worldwide. The exchange was facilitated through an elite network of international specialists in Beijing, while Chinese academics and local residents became increasingly indispensable to foreign investigatorsthanks to their local knowledge and control over the sites. Together, they not only contributed to the establishment of indigenous scientific institutions but advanced the geology, archaeology, and paleoanthropology fields internationally. However, the nominally objective work of Western scholars often masked hegemonic inclinations, both explicit and implicit, which tended to vary according to the country sponsoring each investigator. By the late 1920s, rising Chinese objections to foreign exploration caused conflicts between imperialist motivations and nationalistic powers. Thus, it would be equally a reductionist reading of history to simply assume Republican Chinas intelligentsia were the victims of imperialist aggression or to draw a rosy picture of transnational collaboration. This paper suggests that early twentieth-century Republican China offers a rich example of the intersection of scientific internationalism, imperialism, and nationalism.
Historical Consciousness under the Postmodern Context
Authors: Liu Senjia
Published: April 2023

Human historical consciousness has undergone fundamental changes after multi-dimensional interactions with postmodern context. After analysing the conditions for the formation of such postmodern historical consciousness and its impact on human beings, obviously, postmodernism engendered great impact on historical ontology, historical epistemology and historical methodology which resulted in postmodern-contextualization of historical consciousness.
People Around the Edge of The City The Impact of Governmental Public Policies on Street Artisans
Authors: Luo Chongren
Published: April 2023

In China, there is a group of artisans hidden in the corners of the city, with business replaced by mass manufacturing. They moved to big cities from rural areas with the surge of modernization and urbanization. With lower-income and dwindling customers, they have become marginalized in society, thus being susceptible to changes in governmental policies. This paper explores and analyzes the effect of household registration policy, displacement and resettlement policy, and social security policy on the living and working conditions of the marginalized group living conditions, business, and self-recognition through interviewing seven artisans, including bicycle-repairers, instrument-makers, and paper-cutting artists.
On the Artistic Characteristics of Meng Jinghui's The Murder of Hanging Garden
Authors: Jia Yizhen
Published: April 2023

"The Murder of Hanging Garden" is Meng Jinghui's first rock musical. The play connects three absurd and tender stories through a shocking and absurd "murder". In this paper, "The Murder of Hanging Garden" as the main research object, from the avant-garde drama characteristics, artistic expression, dance structure and the use of rock music, to explore the artistic characteristics of "The Murder of Hanging Garden".
Relationship Between Bilingual Verbal Working Memory and Language Dominance
Authors: Sun Shengzi
Published: April 2023

The purpose of the study is to explore how language dominance impacts bilingual individuals verbal working memory. The study recruited 36 participants who are bilingual in both English and Chinese Mandarin age between 18 to 25 years old. In 90-minute experimental sessions, participants verbal working memory capacities both English and Chinese were measured by Following Instruction. And their language proficiencies in both English and Chinese were measured by Elicited Imitation Test. The result shows that Chinese dominant bilingual participants verbal working memory capacity were significantly impacted by their language dominance, but English bilingual participants verbal working memory capacity were not significantly impacted by their language dominance. Future research should consider to study whether Following Instructions is a reliable measure for bilingual populations verbal working memory.
Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, and Psychopathy
Authors: He Chenxuan , Liu Luyue , Yu Ruofei , Zhu Xiyuan
Published: April 2023

Along with the booming of psychopathic research, cross-cultural generalisability on psychopathy arose. Considering the number of potential justifications for cultural differences, however, the generalisable conclusions remained a puzzle. Little attention had been paid to psychopathy with regard to the impact of cultural differences and similarities. In this paper, we provide an overview of how cultures have influenced psychopathic individuals and present an introduction to cultural psychology and psychopathy. We display and analyze the current situation in the field and come up with guidance for future studies.
Personality and Film Genre Preferences: An Analysis Based on the Big Five Model
Authors: Yang Jiexi
Published: April 2023

Studies have investigated the factors that affect entertainment preferences, including what we listen to, watch, and read. Only a few studies focused on the film genres and current findings are still insufficient. To explore the relationship between personality and film genre preferences, this study uses the self-reported questionnaire to collect data and test the correlations between the two variables. The personality traits are analyzed based on the Big Five Model, which consisted of Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experiences. The results indicate 1) there are positive correlations between the Big Five personality traits and film genre preferences, 2) the incorporation of Conscientiousness and Openness to Experiences could predict the film genre preferences, 3) the gender differences should be considered in the analysis of personality and film genre preferences as well.
The Development and Evolution of Scholar-bureaucrat Politics in the Northern Song Dynasty
Authors: Liu Yuxin
Published: April 2023

The literati and officialdom in the Northern Song Dynasty developed a political consciousness and demands that had not existed among their predecessors. They established political identities and cultivated a strong sense of political subjectivity. This paper mainly examines how the literati and officialdom politics developed and evolved in the Northern Song Dynasty. Using the research method of literature reviews, the paper focuses on the following questions: how the emperors of the early Northern Song Dynasty designed and constructed governing structures, how these structures affected the literati and bureaucratic system, and how literati and officialdom politics developed based on their acceptance and rejection of these ideas. The Northern Song literati showed their unique cultural profile as they ruled together with the emperor and, as a result, created a peculiar literati bureaucratic politics. The Northern Song literati bureaucrats evolved and strengthened their subjectivity both through the political status they acquired and through their political participation.
Schopenhauer in Jack Londons The Sea-Wolf: A Comparative Analysis
Authors: Hu Bowen
Published: April 2023

As a notable work of American nautical fiction, The Sea-Wolf is a defining work of the novelist Jack London in his early career, paving the way for his future adventurous novels, including The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, and White Fang. This comparative study aims to inquire on Schopenhauerian philosophys affinities with Londons The Sea-Wolf by examining the antagonist, Wolf Larsens materialistic philosophy, and investigating Larsen as a Schopenhauerian genius and his controversial characterization as a Nietzschean bermensch.
Feminine Writing in Toni Morrisons Sula
Authors: Bao Qinaerduolai
Published: April 2023

Toni Morrisons Sula vividly depicts the struggles of black women against patriarchy in a black community in Ohio from 1919 to 1965. The three female characters Sula, Hannah and Eva are studied through the lens of feminism in this paper. In fact, writing about their sexual experiences proves to show the essence of feminine writing. It can be explained by Hlne Cixous theory in which she argues that women must write about women on the basis of their bodily experiences and speak for themselves. As a result, the explicit expressions of female desires, vivid narrations of female sexuality as well as the careful descriptions of female body based on the three characters experiences ultimately contribute to reveal female voice from womans perspective, liberate womens body and therefore break the phallocentric discourse. The paper then serves to combine the theory and practice and at the same time helps enrich the understanding of feminine writing.
The Incapability of Time and History in Slaughterhouse-Five
Authors: Zheng Fengyuan
Published: April 2023

Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction that depicts the depicts the main character Billy Pilgrims time travelling after experiencing the bombing of Dresden. This paper interprets the relationship between Billy Pilgrim and Kilgore Trout based on Fredric Jamesons theory of mode of pastiche and nostalgia to analyse the incapability of time and history reflected from Billy Pilgrim. From the strategy of presenting this relationship, a wildly shared postmodern character can be suggested, which is the incapability of time and history in the contemporary society. Furthermore, this paper discusses Kurt Vonneguts dilemmatic stance towards the postmodern symptom and the contemporary society by explaining the writers condition in postmodern time. The paper aims to concretize the connection between Slaughterhouse-Five and the contemporary representation in general.
The Analysis of the Social Origin for the death of subject in Allen Ginsbergs Howl through the Cultural turn of Fredric Jameson
Authors: Zhang Yiyin
Published: April 2023

The post-modernist creations after World War Two were always argumentative. The beats generation such like Allen Ginsberg who sparked ideas but lost in the chaotic social order at the same time during this post-war period, which trigger the exploration of the subjectivity in their works. Based on the claim in Jamesons theory the cultural turn, Allen Ginsberg and his generation was in a situation of death of subject which only call for the common social utopia but ignore the individualistic sense. Under this framework, this essay discusses the origins of the death of subject in Allen Ginsbergs Howl by examining the impact of technology and industrial revolution as well as the chaotic social order of consumer society after WWII. It is clear that death of subject existed in the Howl due to multiple factors of pressures of society, but his work is still remarkable literary creation with strong personal style especially in terms of emotional expression.
To Fight a Great War with Little-narrative
Authors: Ye Beini
Published: April 2023

Slaughterhouse Five is a well-known postmodern anti-war novel, and when it comes to postmodern literature, it is inseparable from Lyotard's meta-narrative theory. However, there are few articles nowadays that link the two to study the narrative technique to deepen the meaning of anti-war. This paper analyzes the narrative art of Slaughterhouse Five from the perspective of Lyotard's meta-narrative theory in The Postmodern Condition - A Report on Knowledge. It aims to better analyze the significance of Slaughterhouse Five's narrative art in the context of the anti-war theme. The article summarized the narrative techniques by analyzing the content of selected passages of the novel and analyzed them in the context of meta-narrative theory. Thus, it will discover that the little narrative and unique postmodern narrative features it employs deepen its anti-war theme. This finding will fill the gap between the two connections, not only deepening the anti-war theme of Slaughterhouse Five, but also better presenting Lyotard's meta-narrative theory in a more visual form.
Analysis of the Death in Ariel from the Perspective of Pastiche
Authors: Zhu Yunlin
Published: April 2023

As the posthumous work of Sylvia Plath, the American confessional poetess, Ariel plays an important role in the study of Plath's poetry creation, and death, as the most common theme in Plath's poetry, has been criticized and studied by many scholars. Yet people focus more on what caused Plath to write about the subject. Few studies have explored how Plath wrote about death. Based on Jameson's theory of pastiche, this paper discusses Plath's use of pastiche, the contribution pastiche made to the description of the theme of death and Plath's view of death. Pastiche breaks the limits of time, space and ideology in a retro way enabling Plath to construct "facts" from her vague memories and allowed her to express more freely her views on death, namely art, self-defense and redemption. Hope this paper could enrich people's understanding of pastiche theory and of the role pastiche plays in the postmodern theories.
A Challenge to Monolithic Elitism: Eclecticism in Rock Music
Authors: Cheng Zerui , Ju Yangyang , Li Heran
Published: April 2023

This project aims to explore how eclecticism reflected in rock music as a sign of postmodern culture, explain the cultural background and expression intention of it by musical analysis, then apply the relative theory of Jonathan Kramer in his Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening. As a characteristic of musical postmodernism, eclecticism changed the original features of rock music and led it to a fresh style which broke through its own performance category, to show new connotations and values. By elucidating how rock musicians use eclecticism to deny the authoritative value represented by traditional classical music, it can be seen that in a specific historical context, an anti authority voice sounded outside the traditional historical line of music, which has changed the single line historical narrative. Through the acceptance of music style that were considered noble in the past, rock music became a powerful force to challenge the value made by monolithic elitism, and successfully created an environment in which multiple voices can exist.
Interpretation of the Feminism in the Work Sula
Authors: Ou Yuting
Published: April 2023

Toni Morrison focuses on the spiritual world of black women in her masterpiece Sula, portraying Sula, Nell and other black women who suffer from subject identity crisis, reflecting on the problem of female subject consciousness and revealing that women's subject consciousness can be re-established through their own efforts. This paper is intended to explore the characteristics of different female characters in the novel and their own stories from the postmodern feminism perspective argued by Hlne Cixous, taking into account the character traits and life experiences of the main female characters in the novel. Taking Sula, Nell and Eva as examples, the analysis of their stories reveals that all these black women have a strong sense of resistance. The awakening of their own subjective consciousness continues throughout their lives, and this is also consistent with the postmodern feminism argued by Hlne Cixous.
Cindy Shermans Construction of Female Identity a Practice more than Depthless Pastiche
Authors: Zhang Huiyang
Published: April 2023

Cindy Sherman, a female post-modern artists, experiments with multiple identities in her artworks to disclose issues related to gender power structures, such as male gaze, voyeurism, and flawed aesthetic pursuits forced by males, and to promote positive female images, scraping off stereotypes of women being emotional, brainless, and dependent. Though she alludes to twentieth-century Holleywood B movies, fashion posters, and fairy tales, the humor and sarcasm used in her work and the groundbreaking feminism ideas altogether leads Cindy Shermans portrait photographs beyond a superfacial use of pastiche, a technique of blank mimicry that Fredric Jameson believes most postmodernists employ. Cindy Sherman achieves a complication in her topics through choices of props and settings, wearing makeups, and employing gestures.
American Consumer Culture as Reflected in Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Green Coca-Cola Bottle
Authors: Su Diyin
Published: April 2023

Andy Warhol was in an extremely prosperous post-World War II United States when Pop Art was flourishing in America, when art was becoming civilianized and began to focus on the daily lives of the public. Andy Warhol was keenly aware of the effects that consumer society brought to the mass culture and he brought the commodities and elements used by the masses into Pop Art, such asGreen Coca-Cola BottleandMarilyn Monroewhich concentrated and distinctly embodied the cultural characteristics of the consumerist. This paper applied The Consumer Society written by Jean Baudrillard to argue the consumer culture reflected in two of Andy Warhol's classic paintings, namely Green Coca-Cola Bottle and Marilyn Monroe. The former reflected the state of consumption-controlled production in America, while the latter reflected the emergence of the consumer protagonist as the new concern of popular culture, the rise of mass media and the frenzied pursuit of consumer symbols. Lastly the inspiration he brought to us that is to provide an in-depth and well-reasoned understanding for the consumer culture reflected in Warhol's paintings and the implications for modern consumer society and contemporary art.
Disinterested and Critical: A Comparative Study of the Social Implications of Miu Fenglin and Matthew Arnolds Literary Thinking
Authors: Bai Shenhao
Published: April 2023

According to previous scholarship, Chinas Xueheng literary school in the early 20th century is an antagonist to the then prevalent New Culture Movement as the former is claimed to insist on a conservation of traditional thoughts. Matthew Arnolds thinking is a major source of one representative figure of the Xueheng school, Miu Fenglin. A comparative analysis of the literary thinking of Matthew Arnold and Miu Fenglin suggests that both thinkers have actually shed light on how literature should be relevant to its time and transcend it with a pursuit of truth. With references to the thinkers respective social backgrounds, the paper contends that their literary thoughts offer critical perspectives into the societies. By bringing in the cases of Miu Fenglin and Matthew Arnold, the paper also intends to further the discussion of the role of literature in the society.
Which Theory Can Explain World Politics Better? Comparison Between Realism and Liberalism
Authors: Li Zhuoran , Tan Lei
Published: April 2023

The realists and liberalists understand the world from different perspectives and tend to explain the whole world in a divergent way. Here comes the eternal question of the academic circle. Who can explain the world better, realists or liberalists? This question is significant because it helps us to comprehend how world politics function and the current political dilemmas better. We argue that realism can explain history better than liberalism. Constant competitions were always presented through the frequent conflicts between countries. It is an irreversible and most unpreventable nature of the world. Through studying the theories, we are able to examine the world more systematically and logically. The classifications of the subject rationale the complicated and distinct historical events. Moreover, following the steps and various ideas of former scholars allows us to develop our own understanding of the world and determine our perspective.
Note-taking Traits and Interpreting Efficiency in Consecutive Interpreting
Authors: Zhou Xing
Published: April 2023

This article is going to explore the correlation between the efficiency of note-taking and interpreting ability by comparing different traits of consecutive interpreting notes. The author conducted a small-scaled empirical research by asking two professional students from interpreting major and two untrained students from other majors as samples, with a view to testing their interpreting ability. By comparing the note-taking numbers, forms, and language sources, the correlation between note-taking efficiency and note trait of interpreting can be illustrated by statistics. The result shows that the trained group wrote more words than the untrained group; they also used more abbreviations, symbols, numbers, Chinese, and logical connection words than the other two untrained students. However, they write down less complete words. Due to the significant difference between the results of the two groups, the efficiency of note-taking, a skill that can be improved by practicing, is closely related to note-taking. However, it is not a cause-and-effect relationship.
Comparison of Simple Past Tense between Standard Swahili and English
Authors: Ye Chenzhang
Published: April 2023

The paper analyzes the difference of simple past tense between Standard Swahili and English. Including time definition; sentence structures and word change; and environments when simple past tenses are used. Evidences and materials are collected from different sources, mainly focusing on published books and Swahili peoples usage. This essay compares two languages which provides a vertical view of the languages, improving Swahili grammar study.
Analysis of the Current Situation of Virtual Currency Based on Statistical Data and Prospects for Its Future Model
Authors: Zhu Chenrui
Published: April 2023

Bitcoin is known to the world from its birth to the present, and it only took 13 years. In the past 13 years, countless virtual currencies have flourished. In the rapid development of virtual currencies, many problems have been revealed. This article will mainly discuss (1) energy consumption, (2) miner consolidation, (3) encryption security and finally (4) miner income volatility through different types of virtual currency data. And use Android virtual currency as a case to look forward to virtual currency The direction of development. Readers can learn more about the main challenges faced by virtual currencies through this article, and explore the future development model of virtual currencies.
Support Vector Machine for Credit System: The Effect of Parameter Optimization and Training Sample
Authors: Lei Ling , Liu Xing
Published: April 2023

The credit assessment system is an essential part of modern financial institutions, and most of them have adopted different models to perform the task according to their specific needs. Support Vector Machine has been widespread and proved an efficient classifier, especially for relatively small datasets in recent years. When using SVM, data processing, choosing an appropriate kernel function, and tuning parameters can largely affect its performance. The most popular kernel function of SVM is the Radial basis function (RBF), and its main parameters are the regularization parameter, C, and the kernel coefficient, . Our study based on the South German credit dataset demonstrates that parameter optimization and an appropriate ratio of the size of the training dataset to the size of the testing dataset could significantly improve the performance of SVM.
Some Fundamental Results from Complex Analysis
Authors: Pan Xuhan
Published: April 2023

This paper is going to introduce the most basic theory of analytic functions of one complex variable. It begins at the discussion of meaning of complex number and the historical development from the formula of cubic equation to the square root of negative number. In the middle section, which is divided in to four small parts. First part states the expression of complex number z, algebraic properties, and the relationship of each single complex number with whole complex plane. Second part concerns about several elementary functions of complex number. Next part relates to the derivative of complex number, such as the partial derivative and Cauchy-Riemann Equation to verdict that whether a function is analytic in the domain. Last part is the integral of complex functions, which concludes some important theorems with the proof, and examples. After the section of introduction of complex number, it comes to the final section which is talking about an identity involving complex number and the prove of it.
Elegant Theory of Complex Analysis
Authors: Chen Yisun
Published: April 2023

A complex number is an element in a number system containing both real numbers and the imaginary unit , satisfying ^2 = 1. Since their discovery, complex numbers have been a powerful means of mathematical calculation. Complex analysis is a part of mathematical analysis that investigates complex numbers and their analyticity, holomorphicity, etc. Many renowned mathematical giants once had their own research in complex analysis, such as Cauchy, Gauss, Euler, etc. On the grounds that it deals with functions of complex numbers, complex analysis is a helpful area in the whole mathematics field. There are plenty of applications of complex analysis in both the mathematical field and the physics field. In this paper, the history of complex numbers and complex analysis is presented. Also, some contents of complex variables are shown, including the basic properties of complex numbers, the derivative and integral of functions of complex numbers, and several critical theorems in the area of complex analysis.
Complex Analysis and its Several Applications
Authors: Zhang Junhan , Zhang Mingyu
Published: April 2023

Complex analysis is important for science because it extends analytical methods from real variables to complex variables and complex numbers. Also, complex number has two independent components, one variable will not change when the other is changing, that are particularly useful when two variables must be dealt with simultaneously. In this essay, we are going to talk about the history chronologically such as who first introduced the idea of complex number, who first discovered the rule of complex number, and why complex analysis is important. Also, the essay includes some basics about the complex variable and complex analysis. For example, the definition of complex number, Cauchy-Riemann Equations, and Cauchy Goursat theorem can help us to get further known of the complex analysis and solve some basic analytic problems.
A Fascinating Expedition of Complex Analysis
Authors: Fan Minghan , Zhang Zitong
Published: April 2023

The invention of complex numbers was essential in the rapid development of mathematics. Although most people consider complex numbers to be nonsensical notations, they are critical in technical disciplines. Human beings entered a wonderful realm when mathematicians began to investigate complex numbers. Our universe is amazing, full of beautiful discoveries, and even miraculous, according to complex analysis. We begin by giving a brief review of complex analysis' history, including when and how it originated. The root of a quadratic equation was used to find complex numbers. We look at some of the ways complex numbers are used in engineering domains like acoustic wave propagation. A thorough examination of certain key theorems of complex analysis is also included.
Comparative Study of RSA Encryption and Quantum Encryption
Authors: Sun Chenbo
Published: April 2023

Encryption is an important factor during online communication. It is useful to protect users privacy and prevent eavesdroppers listening. RSA encryption and quantum encryption are two mainstream encryption methods applied nowadays. This paper focuses on the evaluation and comparison between these two encryptions. It adopts the basic theory of RSA encryption and quantum encryption and provides an analysis of the benefits and shortcomings of these encryptions. It can be concluded that RSA (a type of mathematical encryption) is more popular than quantum encryption (a kind of physical encryption), but is less secure.
Bionic Soft Robot Review
Authors: Gao Xuyang
Published: April 2023

Traditional robots are mainly rigid structures. They are complex in structure but limited in flexibility, and have poor security and adaptability. At that time, many bio-inspired robots were created to overcome the traditional robotic challenges. Creatures gave us the inspiration to use a soft body to complete task, and then soft robotics were invented. This paper evaluated the future difficulties faced by this area, and listed the deficiencies that still need to be improved for soft robots that should be overcome in future projects as well. First of all, the first difficulty is that most soft robots rely on software drivers to complete tasks, and because of this, the driving functions of soft robots cannot be perfectly performed, and the action tasks are not diverse. Secondly, if the action moving is over flexible, it will be hard to control. The precision for missions cannot be satisfied. Thirdly, the choice of drivers type becomes another problem. For example, the memory alloy drive has the advantages of large driving force, controllable stiffness, good elasticity, etc., but it also has disadvantages such as easy aging and slow response speed. Although the pneumatic drive has a fast response rate, there is a risk that the fluid may leak, and the environment cannot be guaranteed to be airtight. Obviously, there is no ideal solution to work out actuation difficulties.