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Toxic Gaslighting: On the Ins and Outs of Pollution
Authors: Grandia Liza 
Published: November 2020

Outdoor images predominate in cultural conceptions of “air pollution,” whilst indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. Recent nonprofit research revealed that “green label” carpet contains up to 44 hazardous substances. How and why do school administrators not know this? When people speak colloquially about “toxic” schools, they typically refer to social environments whose power dynamics are manipulated by difficult people (bullies, narcissists, gaslighters, etc.). In this article, I borrow the cultural concept of gaslighting to query how and why the literal off-gassing of banal objects like carpet have escaped scientific inquiry. In dialogue with recent innovative air studies in California that blur the boundaries of in/outdoor pollution, this auto-ethnographic paper chronicles a carpet controversy at “Beacon” Elementary, a bilingual school in the Central Valley. Even as outdoor smoke from California wildfires in 2017 pushed PM2.5 levels past red into unprecedented magenta alerts, children were sickened inside school classrooms after new carpets were laid in 2017. By “outing” internal school board communication through repeated public records requests, Beacon mothers discovered how a chemical risk manager on the board manipulated confusion about patterns of pollution to dismiss the mothers’ citizen science of the chemical abuse of their children. When pollution occurs out-of-sight (in locked classrooms) or affects groups rarely studied in exposure (minors), institutions can easily deploy gaslighting techniques of doubt, denial, and disavowal of the chemical abuse of children. Given the slow (Nixon 2011), delayed, incremental, and “gaslighted” nature of modern chemical violence, even those harmed by chronic pollution may misrecognize the symptoms; those that do recognize the symptoms may be perceived or portrayed as delusional in stories worthy of Hollywood noir.
Análisis del ejercicio de la potestad administrativa de recuperación de oficio de los caminos públicos municipales
Authors: Villalba Lava Mercenario 
Published: November 2020

Acercamiento a una fijación conceptual de los bienes de dominio o de servicio público, en cuanto propiedades de las diferentes Administraciones Públicas, y su marco normativo. En el régimen local, descripción de las disposiciones legales que amparan los bienes de dominio público y capacidad de las entidades municipales y provinciales para su señalamiento, inscripción, defensa, recuperación y desahucio, así como los medios compulsorios admitidos por la vía administrativa y judicial. Se describe la doctrina jurisprudencial y los criterios utilizados por la jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa respecto de los caminos públicos locales, de su catalogación y de su naturaleza; de igual modo, se indican los criterios sobre la legalidad de los actos de las entidades locales, tanto procedimentales como de fondo, en la fijación de los bienes como servicio público. Recoge, asimismo, las sentencias más destacadas sobre esta materia pronunciadas en estas dos últimas décadas.
Doi: https://doi.org/10.17398/2695-7728.35.621
The Relationship between Metacognitive Reading Strategy Awareness and Reading Comprehension among freshman EFL Students, Ethiopia
Authors: Wudneh Asalefew Mekuria 
Published: November 2020

The study was an attempt to investigate the level of awareness on Metacognitive reading strategies among first year Ethiopian EFL students. It also tried to figure out the possible relationship between Metacognitive reading strategies use and reading comprehension achievement. Ninety-four EFL learners participated in the study. Metacognitive reading strategy inventory and reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics to determine the mean value of strategies employed by the learners. Moreover, Pearson correlation coefficient was used to discover the association between reading strategy use and reading comprehension achievement. According to the findings Ethiopian EFL learners ,were almost near to the lower limit (M=2.55,Sd.=0.34)line of medium level reading strategy users. Furthermore, the use of metacognitive reading strategy had weak correlation (r=0.21,p=0.039) with reading comprehension achievement. The possible cause of this could be lack of awareness on how to regulate and monitor reading comprehension.
Social Isolation as a Cause of Incest in Latin American Fiction
Authors: ABDERRAZAG Sara , KAZI-TANI Dr. Lynda 
Published: November 2020

In his One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts the Buendia family, whose members seem to have a great difficulty marrying and developing sexual relationships with characters outside this family. Marquez portrays these characters as such in order to represent incest and connect it with the social behavior of individuals. The present paper, then, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolation is one of the key causes to social aberration.
Observation and Reflection of English Intensive Reading Classroom from the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Authors: Zhe Guo 
Published: November 2020

The application of Multimodal Discourse Analysis to language teaching classroom adapts to the requirements put forward by the multimodality environment in modern social life, since various multimodal teaching strategies are employed to enhance students' language skills. However, problems exist in the efficient collocation between various modes. Classroom observation is employed to collect the data, and the framework proposed by Zhang Delu (2016) is followed to conduct the Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Intensive Reading class of the juniors of English majors in North China Electric Power University. Finally, the problems from the aspects of cultural context, contextual context, interactive context, modal and media are identified, and the suggestions to improve language teaching practice are raised accordingly in terms of teachers' employment of modality and the teaching design.
Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Guarneri Cristina 
Published: November 2020

Writing is one of the most important courses to take within higher education in the twenty-first century, especially when aligning education that will meet individual career goals. According to the Nation's Report Card on Writing, in 2011 alone, only about a quarter of young people can write proficiently. There is a need to institute change to developing and increasing the amount and quality of writing students are expected to produce. There is a need for greater collaboration for student learning by using innovative pedagogies that maintain the complexity and importance of pioneering work while showing that it is, in some cases, negotiable with traditional classroom practices. There are three specific examples: teaching point of view with multicultural studies, incorporating language awareness/critical theory into the composting process, and considering prescriptive suggestions in the workshop. Discussions of large-scale structural change should and will continue, but this article—which reviews how some theorists situate and enact innovation, include narratives of student resistance, and discuss practices that reframe more traditional activities—invites instructors to reflect on recent scholarship and consider larger educational goals for their classrooms.
The Effects of Formula Instruction on Knowledge and Use of the Target Formulas
Authors: Manan Nor Ashikin Ab , Pandian Ambigapathy 
Published: November 2020

This study was conducted to explore the benefits of formula instruction in an academic writing class. Its main objective is to determine whether the students’ knowledge of the target formulas can be enhanced through direct instruction of the target academic formulas (DIAF) chosen from the academic formula list (AFL).In this study, twenty five formulas were selected from the Academic Formula List (Simpson-Valch & Ellis, 2010) as target formulas and were directly taught to a group of students attending an academic writing class. After five weeks of instruction, their knowledge of the target formulas was tested using an objective test and an academic essay writing test. This paper discusses the result of the study by addressing four research questions: (1) What are the effects of formula instruction on the students’ knowledge of the target formulas? (2) What are the effects of formula instruction on the students’ academic writing performance? (3) What are the effects of formula instruction on the use of the formulas in the academic essay? (4) What is the effect of target academic formula use on the scores of the academic essay writing test?
African Literature and Orality: A Reading of Ngugi wa Thiango’s Wizard of the Crow (2007)
Authors: Bala Mustapha Ruma 
Published: November 2020

This paper explores the relationship between orality and written literature in Africa. The paper interrogates the transformation of oral narrative into written texts and vice-versa. The paper specifically focuses on how Ngugi appropriates oral-narrative techniques commonly employed in African traditional societies in shaping the narration of events in this monumental novel. In this regard, the paper focuses on how the oral tradition in Africa influences the plot structure of Wizard of the Crow. The paper also looks at how Ngugi uses multiple narrators some of whom are observers as well as participants in unfolding the drama in the novel. These narrators, some of whom are categorically defined and the not well-defined, recount and render events happening in the novel orally in the presence of a live audience and in the process also embellish the story as they deem fit thereby rendering different versions of the same event The paper concludes with the observation that in spite of its being presented in the written medium of the novel, Wizard of the Crow indeed has generic resemblance to an extended oral narrative.
A Focus On Caricature In Chukwuemeka IKE’s Our Children Are Coming
Authors: Yakubu Mohammed Attai , Ikerionwu Leonard 
Published: November 2020

The study commenced with conceptual clarification in order to properly define the focus and state the purpose of the study which is to study caricature in Ike’s Our Children Are Coming and point out its communicative function. The researcher carried out a review of some critical works on Ike’s novels to establish a lacuna that this study intended to fill. The researcher observed that caricature as an aspect of Ike’s style had not been investigated. In the novel, Our Children Are Coming caricature is a device employed by Ike to ridicule characters, titles, and commissions of inquiry in Nigeria in order to bring about a positive change. A number of passages were extracted from the novel and analysed. Some of the findings of the study are: caricature enhances an understanding and interpretation of the novel; it has both entertainment and communicative functions; it is a way of expressing the author’s disgust for some people,their idea, and the institution they represent.
Code-Switching as a Strategy in Conducting Public Affairs: A Case Study of Rural Namibians
Authors: Aukongo Iina-Marie , Smit Talita C 
Published: November 2020

Outapi is a rural town in the northern part of Namibia. Its residents are exposed to a variety of languages. Speakers whose English proficiency is limited, but who are able to communicate in Oshiwambo, use Oshiwambo to communicate. The problem arises when communication is in English, as the majority are English second or third language speakers and thus unable to express themselves very well. This study sought to understand the role of code switching between English and Oshiwambo by Outapi residents and public officials when conducting public affairs in the bank, the clinic and the post office. A qualitative research approach based on a case study research design was applied to determine the pertinence of code switching in the multilingual community. Findings from observations and interviews revealed that code switching facilitated communication in Outapi for speakers to attain their communication goals. Although the study indicated how code switching enriches Oshiwambo in terms of vocabulary, it also indicates a contribution to the language death of local languages.
Satire in Swift’s Own Words: Considerations on Glossopoesis in Gulliver’s Travels
Authors: Noletto Israel Alves Correa , Lopes Sebastião Alves Teixeira , Costa Margareth Torres de Alencar 
Published: November 2020

Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels has always been subject of extensive research. However, some points are deserving of more discussion. The present essay aims to exploit those points, namely the languages invented by the author, tracing their possible origins and explaining their glosses as accurately as achievable, by researching the most relevant references available like Ehrenpreis (1948), Asimov (1980), Clark (1972) and Pons (1972), and investigating the relevant matters in his writing, hence providing a more specific study on Swift’s memorable glossopoeias, which, in turn, will also corroborate to a wider understanding of the writer’s satiric view, otherwise hidden in the author’s neologisms. While this paper does not claim to have deciphered every and any ‘artificial’ word Swift coined, it has certainly contributed an enhanced comprehension of the glossopoeias found in the texts.
Developing Group Investigation Based Student Worksheets
Authors: Zulyadaini Zulyadaini , Yamin Martinis 
Published: November 2020

The purposes of this research are to describe the development of Group Investigation Based Student Worksheets on Similarity and Congruence for the 9th Grade Students, as well as to find out the quality of Student Worksheets developed based on the aspects of validity and practicality. It is a Research and Development (R&D), with the findings as follows; (1) the validation conducted by the material experts obtained the percentage of feasibility of 82%, (2) the validation conducted by the design experts obtained the percentage of feasibility of 77,9%, (3) the validation conducted by the media experts obtained the percentage of feasibility is 94,29%, (4) the students’ responses on the individual test obtained the percentage of feasibility of 95,03%, which is categorized very feasible, (5) the students’ responses on the small-group test obtained the percentage of feasibility of 79,2%, which is categorized very feasible, (6) the students’ responses on the large-group test obtained the percentage of feasibility of 79,2%. Based on the data analysis obtained from the assessment on the Student Worksheets conducted by some experts (material, design, and media) and based on the data of students’ response obtained from the product testing, it can be concluded that the developed Student Worksheets meet the validity and practicality criteria.
(Re)Imagining Uganda Postcolony in Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles
Authors: Barasa Remmy Shiundu 
Published: November 2020

Colonialism and its legacy continue to inspire a lot of debate among literary critics and theorists. Moses Isegawa’s novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, weaves interconnecting personal narratives which help illuminate the larger national stories of the postcolony nation-state, Uganda. The novel, through gendered narrativization, tells stories that represent Uganda’s socio-economic, cultural and political postcolonial state. Through close reading and critical analysis, this paper focuses on (re)construction of the postcolony by relying on the memory of the gendered subjectivities in the story. The chapter directs us to narratological, post-colonial and feminist literary critiques in which the narrative demonstrates its repudiations of stereotypes and reconfigurations of gender identities as part of an agent undertaking to recover the distinctive tradition of both the African man and woman.
Contesting Captive Spaces: A Reading of Emma Donoghue’s Room
Authors: Das Ankita , Singh Rajni 
Published: November 2020

Experiencing space in its entire manifold is extremely indispensable to human existence. Our everyday life, social and personal relations and idea of the self are somehow defined by space. However, owing to its ambiguous nature space might not always add a smooth dimension to one’s life. Analysing the mesh of complexity and anxietylying underneath the common understanding of space, an attempt is made in this paper to study Emma Donoghue’s Room.Through an examination of its central characters, Ma and Jack, the essay seeks to highlight the trauma borne out of changing spaces.
Advertisements and Depiction of the Woman Image: A Critique on Feminism
Authors: Jarandikar Shubhangi 
Published: November 2020

By promulgating the principle of equal status for the women, the movement of feminism has questioned, criticized, and protested against the conventional images of woman. By re-defining the existence of woman it compelled both men and women of the society to comprehend the identity of the woman from a different, hitherto neglected perspective. However, with the rampant socio-cultural changes due to the globalization, feminism has been trapped in new trauma. In this post-capital, post-post-modern world, all the revolutionary ideas are swiped away. Amidst this, several rejected values are re-nurturing their roots. This revival has made many revolutionary movements and thoughts dead. By watching the media that is the complete product of globalization and especially the advertisements that are the effective means of communication and manifesting tools of the contemporary culture one is sure to ask whether like all other disciplines there is the death of feminism.
The present research paper intends to probe into the philosophy of feminism and its present status in the light of some select advertisements. Many times the audio-visual texts of ads may not use an overt manifestation of women, however, the pretext to the text and the cross referential world it creates through the text do communicate the new stereotypes of women image.
Image Re-presentation in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
Authors: Chang Chi-Min 
Published: November 2020

While technological advancement and artistic creations have amazingly diversified the (re-)presentation of images, infinite image proliferation becomes an irresistible trend. To resist the subsuming power of the image-laden society, the renewed perceptions and interpretations of the image presentation are explored both in artistic presentation and in literary writing. Point Omega is a convergence of such an attempt. The paper explores how the time-featured image in Point Omega activates new idea, sensuous responses, and self-perception. Point Omega represents Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho which is an adaptation of Hitchcock’s Psycho. By reframing the running speed to two frames a second, Gordon drastically challenges the familiar recognition and interpretation. Writing about Gordon’s work, DeLillo stresses the emergence of various perceptions, imaginations, and association in the video-watching process. No longer resting on the cultural critique on the media society as what has been done in his earlier works, DeLillo marks time as the prominent variable for the emergence of the new and the unknown.

Moreover, DeLillo’s image representation highlights the physical condition which is both an essential feature of Gordon’s video installation and the hinge for DeLillo’s distinct writing. For one thing, the emergence of the new and the unthought lies in the interweaving between the spectator’s awareness and imagination of the physicality and his responses to the reframed image. For another, the physicality of the time-reframed image resonates with the desert underscored in the main story. In the story, DeLillo contends about the relation between the time-featured space and the transient self. The desert mirroring the time-featured image renders the distinctive conditions for different self-perception. Hence, the image representation in Point Omega proffers the condition for the unexpected and unthought, reconfigures the selfhood, and, significantly, enacts the alternative writing which trespasses from the filmic to the fictional, from the visual to the verbal.
Continuity of Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring by Japan Meteorological Agency under Critical Conditions
Authors: Kamaya Noriko , Hoshiba Mitsuyuki , Katsumata Akio , Doi Keiji 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is a governmental organization that has responsibilities for mitigation of natural disasters. JMA issues warnings and information about natural disasters, in addition to daily weather forecasts. When an earthquake occurs, JMA analyzes seismic data to issue an earthquake early warning and to warn of possible tsunamis when a tsunami is expected to strike coastal areas of Japan. During tsunami warning in effect, JMA monitors tsunami meters and updates the warning. JMA also provides several types of macroseismic information. To fulfill these responsibilities, JMA collects data from 4400 seismic intensity meters, 1800 seismometers, 400 tsunami meters, and 39 strainmeters. Monitoring must be continued even under difficult situations such as times following great earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather conditions, and pandemics. JMA has dual operations centers located in Tokyo and Osaka. When one loses functionality due to a disaster or infection, the other continues 24/7 operations including warnings and issuing other information. Disastrous situations often cause power and communication failures and insufficient numbers of technical specialists. Following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, JMA enhanced power and communication capabilities by adding large capacity batteries at each station and satellite communication links. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, JMA has taken several measures to prevent technical specialists’ infection to continue the full range of functions for issuing of warnings and conveying needed information.