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Writing War, Wronging the Person: Representation of Human Insecurity in War Literature
Authors: Addei Cecilia , Osei Cynthia 
Published: November 2020

This paper presents a survey of literature written in response to wars throughout the world. The paper argues that plays, poems, memoirs and novels have been written to celebrate combatants as heroes; war literature has also been written to overcome the trauma of war while other literature has been written to underscore the effects of war and to speak out against wars. The paper also discusses the rationale for studying war literature and argues that as creative expression, literature allows us, through the imagined world of the author, to identify social trends and structures that shape the world, in particular, the factors that lead to and sustain conflict, as well as experiences of war and its long term individual and general effects. Also, literature's aesthetic quality and its capacity to engage its audience makes it easier to transmit war time experience, and hopefully the wisdom gained from that experience, from one generation to another.
Chinua Achebe’s Dynamic World in Things Fall Apart
Authors: Lin Yao Jung 
Published: November 2020

The society of Umuofia in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can be seen as a dynamic world based upon Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s theory of social heteroglossia. The opposing social worldviews reflected in these languages or speech, in Bakhtin’s words, can be referred to as two contrasting forces, the centripetal forces and the centrifugal forces. In Things Fall Apart, the centripetal forces are represented through the unified centralized rigid social ideologies while the centrifugal forces are revealed through the disunified decentralized flexible social ideologies in the speech of characters. The society of Umuofia is an active dynamic one within which the diverse social ideologies or forces interact and contest.
Exploring Reading & Writing Relationships in Grade Five
Authors: Olivier Christina Ethel , Simasiku Liswani 
Published: November 2020

The study investigated the relationship between reading and writing with Grade Five learners. The objective of the study was to investigate whether extensive reading and practice in writing enhance learners’ reading and writing skills. The sample for the study consisted of eighty Grade Five learners at a school in an informal settlement in Windhoek. The methods used were questionnaire and case study surveys, and a quasi-experiment. A questionnaire survey and a pre-test administered to both groups were followed by intervention. Qualitative data were gathered means of a case study, while quantitative data were gathered by means of the pre-rest post-test experiment. Analysis of the post-test results indicated that the sessions of pleasure reading and practice in writing improved reading and writing scores for the experimental group. Also, the survey data gained from the experimental group indicated an increase in enjoyment of, interest in, and a positive attitude towards reading.
On the effect of Language Proficiency on Learners’ Autonomy and Motivation
Authors: Zarei Abbas Ali , Zarei Nasrin 
Published: November 2020

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of Iranian EFL learners’ proficiency level on their motivation and autonomy. To this end, 141 English major participants, both male and female, at Imam Khomeini International University and Kar non-profit university in Qazvin, Iran were asked to fill in two questionnaires on motivation and learner autonomy. Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) and an autonomy questionnaire developed by Zhang and Li (2004) were used to assess these variables. Also, the participants’ proficiency level was checked using their scores on the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP). The collected data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis procedure, and the findings revealed that the students’ language proficiency did not influence their motivation and autonomy. In other words, language proficiency was not an influential factor in students’ motivation and autonomy. The results of the present study may be helpful for teachers, learners and syllabus designers. A clear understanding of the nature of the relationship between language proficiency and traits like motivation and autonomy can help those involved in language teaching and learning to make more informed decisions about the steps to take to improve the above-mentioned traits.
Tomorrow Words Today: A Spiritual Awakening
Authors: Brown Angela Khristin 
Published: November 2020

Schizophrenia is an enabling disease that is caused by ailing factors that controls the way people think and behave. Some of the factors that are disabling are factors of having the disease. The causes of the disease may make an individual unable to sustain a normal life. It is where they are not able to function daily due to circumstance that they encounter. One must understand the challenges we face. Empathy towards others is a moral power that is a concern. Having schizophrenia is a painful experience to having to heal from the regret, the hurt and the loss. This book is about how to understand mental illness and it includes the relationships and values on how to live a healthy life. Spirituality is a given.
Howard Brenton’s Transliteration of Macbeth
Authors: Velmani N 
Published: November 2020

Ever since the dawn of human civilization, incomparable Shakespeare shines with his incandescent luminosity through every word he wrote. The Bard of Avon is the most quoted writer in history. His plays have been translated into 50 languages. In the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations containing about 20,000 quotations, Shakespeare alone monopolises a staggering 60 pages (10 percent). The unique dramatist, with his insight into every aspect of human behaviour and emotion, packed his plays with nearly one million words, out of which 27, 870 are different words, the highest vocabulary in history. Many words and phrases – Shakespeare’s encyclopedic knowledge of science, history, mathematics, classical literature, sociology, psychology, law, politics, music-reveal the vastness of his vocabulary in relation to various discipline, habits and style of the different sections of the people.
The Romantic Quest for Identity: Re-reading the First Part of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Authors: Bruni Roccia Gioiella 
Published: November 2020

This paper proposes a re-reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetic masterpiece, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in an attempt to deepen the critical discussion about one of the major themes explored in the poem, that is the search for identity. In particular, this attempt will consist of a close reading of the first section of the ballad, inasmuch as it contains the fundamental pattern of the whole text. The conceptual framework underlying this analysis is based on Coleridge’s key principle of “the coincidence of opposites”, which the Author develops in his critical work Biographia Literaria. Indeed, the whole of Coleridge’s oeuvre is permeated by the idea of a dialectical tension between contrary forces, which struggle against each other so as to be joined, at last, in the dynamic unity of a superior harmony. In the light of this conception, the Romantic quest for identity takes the form of a struggle between two opposing forces: the impact of otherness with its confounding effects on the one side, and the irrepressible aspiration towards a unified self on the other. Such a conflicting dynamics appears to structure the entire ballad, starting from the incipit of the poem and involving all the characters – especially the two opposite figures of the ancient Mariner and the Wedding Guest.
Ode in Onia: Reading the Use of Myth and Twinhood in Diana Evans’ 26a
Authors: Kaze Douglas E. 
Published: November 2020

Postcolonial writers have over time engaged in the use of folklore preserved from their precolonial heritage in their works that try to understand the complexities of their postcolonial existence. Such writers have used ancient stories, songs, proverbs and other ideas from their vernacular cosmologies in intertextual conversation with their fiction. In this article, I discuss this kind of practice in the novel 26a by Nigerian-British novelist, Diana Evans. The novel explores personal experiences of twinhood which also raises questions about identity, transnationalism and migration. This paper’s focus is on the ways in which Evans fetches material from her Nigerian background – the myth about twinhood – and merges it with her fiction, allowing both to engage and transform each other. Through this she has not only created a work of magical realism, but finds an effective means to represent trauma, psychic and existential struggles along with what it means to exist between categories.
When I Raised My Eyes Again: Women’s Journey to gain Power In Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man
Authors: Wahla Mahin , Mamona Mamona 
Published: November 2020

The aim of the present study is to show the women’s journey to gain power in Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice-Candy Man. This will be done by showing their dual representation in the novel in the light of Feminist Theory. The study will first show how the women are victims of patriarchal oppression, subjugation, marginalization and sexual exploitation in the novel, and then it will be described that how they are not entirely victim. This will be done by showing their strength to come out of that situation of victimization to gain power and assert their independent identity.
Exploring Iranian EFL Learners’ Attitudes towards English Language Norms and Their Impacts on Ideal L2 Self, Criterion Measure, Cultural Interest, and Integrativenes
Authors: Lsskari Kalat Fatemeh , Ghanizadeh Afsaneh 
Published: November 2020

This study investigated the Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes toward English norms (standard vs. nativized). Moreover, the roles played by these attitudes in some motivational factors were examined. The study utilized a mixed-methods approach (QUAN→qual). To this end, four participants were interviewed for the QUAL part and 162 EFL learners were selected for QUAN phase from different private language institutes and universities in Mashhad and Nyshaboor, two cites in northeast of Iran. They were asked to complete a battery of two questionnaires: 1) Attitudes towards English language norms in the expanding circle questionnaire (Khatib & Rahimi, 2015) and 2) Dornyei’s L2 motivational self-system questionnaire. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that attitudes to English language norms positively and significantly predicted all the motivational components: Ideal L2 self (β= .32, t= 4.09), criterion measure (β= .29, t= 3.85), cultural interest (β= .33, t= 5.12), and integrativenes (β= .28, t= 3.33). The results of interviews were in line with those of quantitative phase. The conclusions and pedagogical implications of the investigation as well as limitations and suggestions for further research were discussed.
Developing Extensive Reading Materials for Secondary School to Foster Students’ Reading Habit
Authors: Auliya Prativi Khilyatul , Lestari Lies Amin , Suharsono Suharsono 
Published: November 2020

This study aims at developing extensive reading materials for Junior High School to foster students’ reading habit, as the first step of school literacy movement in Indonesia. This study utilizes Design and Development Research (DDR) by Richey and Klein (2007)[17] as the research method. Moreover, ADDIE model (Analysis, Design Develop, Implementation and Evaluation) is employed as instructional design model to develop the product. There are four data collection technique used; interview, questionnaire, test and observation. The product of this study is seven books as follows; The Five Pillars of Islam (Level A), Happy Halloween (Level A), Facts about Mosquitoes (Level C), The Legend of Surabaya (Level E), The Appointment in Samarra (Level G), The Return of Dracula (Level I), A True Friend (Level K). Those seven books are in the form of printed materials and within students’ independent reading level. They are supported with pictures, complemented with correlation level, preface, short-excerpt, glossary, commentary column, and books choice flowchart. Based on the theoretical and empirical validation, the seven books are suitable to be used as extensive reading materials in school literacy movement to foster students’ reading habit.
Identity and Hair Narrative in Adichie's Americanah
Authors: Dick Dr. Angela Ngozi 
Published: November 2020

Although the social construction of the human hair varies from culture to culture, the symbolic function of hair varies from person to person. In Adichie’s Americanah, the characters are primarily defined by their hair before the construction of their race, career and personality. The human hair becomes the premise for brotherhood and sisterhood in. Many episodes take place in the salon, thereafter a person’s hair is qualified as either good or bad. The theoretical framework for this paper is New Historicism which interrogates social life and power relations among people in the society. In this work we conclude that Adichie tells the story of human hair not for its sake but to portray the problem of immigrants, religious fanaticism, disruption of academic calendar and the frustration therein, loveless marriage, the environment and other human conditions. Finally, the hair shows that every person is a complete human being first and foremost
In Pursuit of Angels And Self Discovery - Paulo Coelho’s “The Valkyries” and “The Winner Stands Alone”
Authors: WARDA WAHAJ UNNISA 
Published: November 2020

Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Coelho uses the supernatural element in all of his stories, “The Valkyries” and “The Winner Stands Alone” are two stories, that employ the “The Valkyries” supernatural using the good powers in trying to let go of the evil. His other work “The Winner Stands Alone” is about a powerful obsessed character whose wife had left him for another man. At one end ‘The Valkyries’ is about seeking redemption, a search for the right to amend the wrong whereas at the other end ‘The Winner Stands Alone’ the supernatural seems to serve to justify the wrongs.
An OBS Array to Investigate Offshore Seismicity during the 2018 Kīlauea Eruption
Authors: Wei XiaoZhuo , Shen Yang , Caplan-Auerbach Jacqueline , Morgan Julia K. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractOn 3 May 2018, Kīlauea Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, entered a new eruptive phase because of a dike intrusion in the East Rift zone. One day later, an Mw 6.9 earthquake, which was likely trigged by the dike intrusion, occurred in the submarine south flank of Kīlauea Volcano. In mid-July, an ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) array consisting of 12 stations was deployed on the submarine south flank of Kīlauea Volcano to monitor the aftershocks and lava–water interaction near the ocean entry. Eleven OBSs were recovered in mid-September. Preliminary evaluation of the data reveals a large number of seismic and acoustic events, which provide a valuable dataset for understanding flank deformation and stability as well as lava–water interaction. Here, we introduce this dataset and document notable instrument malfunctions along with some initial seismic and acoustic observations.
Surgical site infections in emergency abdominal surgeries in a tertiary care hospital of North-East India
Authors: Gogoi Sufil , Ahmed Sajeed , Dutta Kalyan J. 
Published: November 2020

Background: Most of the emergency abdominal surgeries are either contaminated or dirty, they carry a higher rate of complications, aided by lack of optimization of the patient before surgery as opposed to elective surgeries. Complications related to surgical site encompasses a majority and may be aggravated by pre-existing co-morbid conditions. Seroma, hematoma, wound dehiscence, surgical site infection (SSI) are some of the major complications of surgical wounds. A prospective study was carried out in Department of General Surgery, Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH), Dibrugarh, Assam to find out the incidence of surgical site infection (SSI), clinical presentations and causative organisms including their antibiogram.Methods: Total 280 patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgeries in Department of General Surgery, AMCH from June 2017 to May 2018 were included in the study. Preoperative, intraoperative and post-operative details were collected, recorded and analysed. In case of SSI, wound swab was taken for culture and sensitivity and antibiotics tailored accordingly. Regular follow-up for at least 30 days post-operatively was maintained.Results: The incidence of SSI was 21.43%, with male: female ratio being 1.22:1. SSI was highest in the age group above 50 years; 33.33%, and with co-morbidities. SSI seen highest in class 4 wounds (55%). Commonest clinical features were erythema, tenderness, edema around the wound in superficial SSI and deep SSI. Organ space SSI was associated with fever, trachycardia and leucocytosis. The most common isolates were Staphylococcus aereus (55%), Escherichia coli (21.67%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (11.67%), Klebsiella species (3.3%). Conclusions: To reduce the incidence of SSI, strict adherence to antisepsis protocol specially during intraoperative and postoperative is of paramount importance in emergency surgeries.
La asesoría jurídica y sus potenciales contribuciones a la educación, capacitación e información cooperativas en Cuba
Authors: Rodríguez Musa Orestes , Hernández Aguilar Orisel 
Published: November 2020

El modelo socioeconómico cubano de las últimas seis décadas se ha caracterizado por un Estado fuerte, que en sus relaciones con las cooperativas ha sido absorbente. Esta dinámica también ha llegado a la educación, capacitación e información de estas formas asociativas, así como a su asesoría jurídica. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamentar algunas ideas sobre la incidencia de la asesoría jurídica en la educación, capacitación e información en las cooperativas cubanas. Con este propósito, se analiza el lugar que ocupa la dimensión educativa en el Modelo del Profesional del Derecho en Cuba. A continuación, se explica el marco legal en el que se desarrolla la labor educativa e informativa del asesor jurídico en las cooperativas. Sobre esta base, se argumentan un grupo de recomendaciones para perfeccionar esta actividad.
Recibido: 06 mayo 2020Aceptado: 25 septiembre 2020
La embargabilidad en el régimen económico de las cooperativas de viviendas de Euskadi
Authors: Gondra Elgezabal Gotzon , Núñez García Xabier 
Published: November 2020

Las cooperativas de viviendas tienen varias particularidades respecto al resto de clases de cooperativas, destacando entre ellas el régimen económico de las cantidades desembolsadas por los socios. Aportaciones que llevan aparejado un reflejo contable determinado, con afección directa sobre el Patrimonio Neto de la sociedad, que resulta además diferente al de otros tipos jurídicos societarios. Cuestiones que, irremediablemente, afectan al régimen de responsabilidad de la propia sociedad y de los socios que la conforman frente a las deudas con terceros acreedores. Así, regulando la Ley vasca el carácter embargable o no de aquéllas partidas que conforman el Patrimonio Neto, se estima interesante el estudio de la embargabilidad de las aportaciones desembolsadas por los socios, formen o no éstas parte del mismo.
Recibido: 19 mayo 2020Aceptado: 05 agosto 2020
Projeções, conexões e instrumentos do princípio cooperativo da educação, formação e informação no ordemanento português
Authors: Meira Deolinda 
Published: November 2020

O princípio da educação, formação e informação é um princípio estratégico nas cooperativas, apresentando-se como uma condição de aplicabilidade e eficácia de outros princípios, nomeadamente o princípio da gestão democrática pelos membros, o princípio da adesão voluntária e livre e o princípio do interesse pela comunidade. Trata-se de um princípio polivalente, abrangendo os vetores da educação, formação e informação, tendo como destinatários os membros, os representantes eleitos, os dirigentes, os trabalhadores da cooperativa e a comunidade. A educação e formação dirigidas à qualificação cívica, organizacional e profissional dos cooperadores, dos titulares dos órgãos de administração e fiscalização, e dos trabalhadores contribuirão para a melhor compreensão dos modelos de governação e fiscalização da cooperativa, potenciando a profissionalização da gestão e induzindo os cooperadores a participar ativamente na sua cooperativa, a deliberar corretamente nas assembleias, a eleger conscientemente os seus órgãos e a controlar a sua atuação. A informação cooperativa, ao direcionar-se ao público em geral, permite uma inserção dinâmica das cooperativas na comunidade, sensibilizando-a quanto à natureza e benefícios da cooperação, potenciando, deste modo, adesões conscientes. Em Portugal, este princípio projeta-se no estatuto jurídico dos cooperadores, mediante o reconhecimento de um direito de participar nas atividades de educação e formação cooperativas, com a consequente obrigação de as cooperativas organizarem tais atividades de educação, formação e informação, devendo para o efeito constituir obrigatoriamente uma reserva, a qual se apresenta com caráter absolutamente irrepartível, constituindo uma das maiores especificidades do regime jurídico das cooperativas portuguesas.
Recibido: 22 junio 2020Aceptado: 03 agosto 2020
Entrevista com o Professor Ronaldo Parente: O árduo caminho para publicações internacionais de alto impacto
Authors: Parente Ronaldo Couto , Avrichir Ilan 
Published: November 2020

No mês de setembro, a InternexT entrevistou um dos brasileiros com maior destaque mundial no cenário de Estudos sobre Negócios Internacionais. A entrevista foi feita para poder compartilhar as reflexões do entrevistado, sobre o caminho a ser trilhado para publicar em periódicos de alto impacto. A entrevista foi conduzida pelo editor da Internext, Ilan Avrichir e editada com a colaboração de Silvio Luís de Vasconcellos.O entrevistado é o professor Ronaldo Couto Parente, natural do Rio de Janeiro, engenheiro civil, formado na UNIFOR – Universidade de Fortaleza, tem Ph.D. em gestão estratégica em negócios internacionais pela Temple University, nos Estados Unidos e mestrado em finanças pela Universidade de Tampa. Além de editor e revisor em periódicos de impacto na área de negócios internacionais e estratégia, possui publicações em todos os cinco principais periódicos especializados e m sua linha, nos últimos dez anos. É professor titular da Florida International University, de Miami e professor colaborador na Fundação Getúlio Vargas, EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro.Publicar no JIBS é o sonho de qualquer pesquisador da área de negócios internacionais. O que você pode dizer para pesquisadores que queiram publicar no JIBS?Prof. Ronaldo Parente: Antes de mais nada, me permita fazer uma correção, que pode parecer um tanto arrogante, mas acredito que é importante no contexto da nossa entrevista. Esse meu artigo sobre catch-up e A Embrapa que recentemente foi publicado no JIBS, em maio de 2020, é o meu quinto artigo nesse periódico. Um sexto encontra-se em processo de revisão e deve ser sair em breve. Penso que esse adendo pode contribuir ainda mais em responder sua pergunta.
COVID-19: An African Perspective
Authors: Boima Vincent , Adu Dwomoa 
Published: November 2020

ABSTRACT
SARS-CoV-2 the causative agent of COVID-19 infection was first identified in China in December 2019 and subsequently in Africa in February 2020. We provide a narrative review of the preparations of Africa to counteract the pandemic, the spread of the pandemic in Africa and the consequences of this.