Loki'nin Müjdesi ve Loki Fesatlığın Kalbinde'de Loki mitinin revize edilmesi

Mitlerin yeniden yazımı Rönesans döneminden beri var olmaktadır ve günümüzde de hala popüler bir uygulamadır. Özellikle postmodernist anlamda yeniden yazım ötekiye, önemsenmeyene ve marjinalleştirilmişe söz hakkı tanımayı amaçlar. Bu yüzden tapılmayan tanrı ve Ragnarok diye bilinen kıyameti getiren, tanrıların arasındaki düşman olarak anılan Loki, çağdaş edebiyatta kahraman olma şansını bulur. Hilekar tanrı olarakta bilinen Loki, hilekar adındaki evrensel bir figürün özelliklerini de bünyesinde bulundurur; dümen çevirir, kandırır, yalan söyler ve kaosu getirir, ancak, sadece kendi bencil ihtiyaçlarını düşünen ilkel bir karakter olmaktan uzaklaşarak, insan özellikleri kazanır. Loki kendi duygu ve düşüncelerini derinden ifade eder ve ikili karşıtlığa ve katı kategorizeleştirmeye karşı gelen bir toplumun kahramanı olur.Rewriting myths existed since Renaissance and it is still a popular practice today. Especially in a postmodernist sense, rewriting aims to give voice to the other, to the slighted, marginalised characters. Therefore Loki as the god who is not worshipped and as the villain among the gods who brings apocalypse known as Ragnarok, finds the opportunity to be a hero in the contemporary literature. Also known as the trickster god, Loki possesses the qualities of a universal figure that is the trickster; he plays tricks, he deceives and lies, he brings chaos, however, he gains more human characteristics and moves away from being a primitive character whose only goal is to satisfy his selfish needs. Loki has his own thoughts and feelings expressed in depth and he becomes the hero in a society where binary oppositions and strict categorisation is rejected

Echo: The Fantasy Issue, Spring 2016

Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Articles include: Prairie home companions: Naper Settlement makes local history come to life; I really do!: dispelling the myths about arranged marriages; Afro-Futurists: defiantly black in a whitewashed world; Invisible wounds: PTSD overshadows antoher casualty of war: moral injury. 118 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/echo/1036/thumbnail.jp

Bone, union and Osteoarthritis

In the first part of this thesis, we elaborated on surgical treatments for knee and ankle osteoarthritis (OA). In the knee, we investigated with a randomized controlled trial (RCT) whether open wedge high tibia osteotomies (HTO) and closed wedge HTO can accurately correct varus malformation (chapter 2). Our results showed that both techniques can be used to achieve accurate corrections. In the ankle, we assessed whether talocrural arthrodesis induces OA development in adjacent joints, or if OA is already pre-existing (chapter 3). This was done by performing a retrospective cohort study. The study showed that OA progresses after talocrural arthrodesis, especially in patients without pre-existing OA. However, the clinical impact of the progression seems to be limited.The second part of this thesis is about objective bone union assessment. With a systematic review in animal studies, we searched for CT parameters that can reliably represent bone union after a surgery, fracture or arthrodesis (chapter 4). From this study, CT-assessed torsional rigidity and callus density seem the most promising parameters to represent actual bone union. A second systematic review was performed in clinical studies, to investigate which methods are currently used to assess bone union after foot or ankle arthrodesis (chapter 5). Based on the results of this review we would advise to calculate percentage fusion and apply a 30% fusion threshold to distinguish fused from non-fused joints.The third part of this thesis is about extracorporeal shock wave therapy, to stimulate bone union after fracture or arthrodesis. We performed a systematic review to present the currently available literature on the effectiveness of ESWT as a treatment for delayed-union and nonunion fractures (chapter 6). Based on this study it seems that ESWT is as effective as surgical treatment for treatment of delayed-unions and nonunions. Lastly, a RCT was performed to investigate whether ESWT can reduce the number of delayed-unions after talocrural arthrodesis (chapter 7). Our results did not show a significant effect between number of delayed-unions in patients treated with ESWT versus patients without ESWT. Therefore, this study could not prove that ESWT is an effective treatment to decrease the number of delayed unions after talocrural arthrodesis.<br/

Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management texts. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development. Contents include: * Orientation * Primal Management - Western including America * Rational Management - Northern including Scandinavia * Developmental Management - Eastern including Japan * Metaphysical Management - Southern including South Africa * Developing yourself as a manager Each section examines core management theory and literature, cultural orientation and related prominent theories. The numerous case studies use appropriate examples from a wide range of international organisations. The uniquely wide-ranging perspective make this a valuable text for all those interested in general management, international business, organisational behaviour and corporate strategy

A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels

Bibliography: p. 260-284.The focus of this dissertation is the thesis that if Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Why Are We So Blest? (1972), Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and The Healers (1978) - are closely analysed, they will emerge as a single creative mythology devoted to the fictional disfigurement of Black Africa from primeval times to the present. An analysis of Afiican writings reveals that a body of contemporary African literature has and is still undergoing a distinctive metamorphosis. This change, which amounts to a significant departure from the early fifties, derives its creative impulse from demonic anger and cynical iconoclasm and is triggered by the mind-shattering disillusion that followed independence. The proclivity towards tyranny and the exploitation of the ruled in modern Africa is traced by radical African creative writers to an ancient source : the legendary and god-like rulers of pre-colonial Africa. Ouologuem's Bound to Violence, Wole Soyinka's play, A Dance of the Forests, and Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and The Healers hypothesize that past political violations begot the present wreckage of the African populace. The legendary warrior heroes of the past, whose glory and splendour were once exalted in African writing, are now ruthlessly disentombed and paraded as miscreants and despots, who brutalized and sold their people into slavery. Although Armah glorifies "The Way" in Two Thousand Seasons and "the metaphysics of African healing" in The Healers, the dominant preoccupation of two novel histories is to divest the ancient godlike kings of their false glory

African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms

An analysis and evaluation of free-will within Buddhist and christian traditions

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.A notion of free-will is as indispensable a concept to the philosophical principles of the Buddhist tradition as it is to the tenets of Christianity. The primary undertaking of this thesis has been to test this hypothesis through an analysis and evaluation of the notion of free-will as it pertains to the belief systems of both traditions. Critical evaluation has permitted me to establish how central and vital the issue of free-will is in both theory and practice. I have reflected upon this centrality and what it has revealed about the status of human free-will within the context of each tradition's understanding of reality. The methodology has been through the principle of analogy of proportion. The approach has also been Wittgensteinian in emphasis, mindful of the need to appraise words used within the context of religious language in their native environment. Although concerned to present the emic meaning of the tradition, this has not precluded speculative enquiry by extending the analogous correlation. From the evidence of my research it is apparent that only a partial endorsement of the original hypothesis can be sustained as a genuine statement. Within the Christian theistic tradition, a notion of free-will qualifies as an indispensable function within its philosophical framework. Given a priori significance, theological doctrines and dogma have been articulated and constructed to sustain metaphysical speculation and presumptions. The reality of free-will is maintained as an ontological imperative. The Buddhist tradition does not seek to preserve a view in which God exists as the primal being of the created order. Regarded as an intrinsic part of human nature nevertheless, a notion of free-will certainly functions as an indispensable concept to support their doctrinal principles of the experiential world. Within a Buddhist frame of reference all concepts at an ultimate level of truth have to be recognised as conditioned, relative and empty. This is the crucial and significant distinction that separates Christian theological ontology and Buddhist philosophical thought