Masculinity in Question in TIME of Unemployment in Wendy Holden's the Full Monty

Men see masculinity as a form of identity as an individual as well as a group. This identity is usually attached to the jobs men have because of the traditional gender work division where men is put in a role as a breadwinner of their families. When they are out of work, they also lose their sense of identity, hence, their sense of worth as they think that they are on the brink of losing their masculinity. This is the condition that befalls the three male characters, Gaz, Dave and Gerald, in The Full Monty. They feel that they have lost their masculinity when they lose their works thus, they hold on to ways that they think can preserve their sense of worth

A wind tunnel investigation into the effects of roof curvature on the aerodynamic drag experienced by a light goods vehicle

Roof curvature is used to increase ground vehicle camber and enhance rear-body boat-tailing to reduce aerodynamic drag. Little aerodynamic data is published for light goods vehicles (LGVs) which account for a significant proportion of annual UK licensed vehicle miles. This paper details scale wind tunnel measurements at Re = 1.6 × 106 of a generic LGV utilising interchangeable roof panels to investigate the effects of curved roof profile on aerodynamic drag at simulated crosswinds between -6° and 16°. Optimum magnitudes of roof profile depth and axial location are suggested and the limited dataset indicates that increasing roof curvature is effective in reducing drag over a large yaw range, compared to a flat roof profile. This is primarily due to increased base pressure, possibly from enhanced mixing of longitudinal vortices shed from the rear-body upper side edges and increased turbulent mixing in the near-wake due to the increased effective boat-tail angle

Masquerade of Femininity and Masculinity in Japanese Comic Midori is a Tomboy and W-juliet

Masquerade is the use of mask and disguise by a person to hide a certain identity and make a new identity. The concept of masquerade that is the use of mask has been used in Japanese theatre such as Kabuki and Takarazuka; however those theatres also use the concept of gender bender. Nowadays, the two concepts are applied in Japanese comic that is popular in teenager. In this study, I would like to analyze the use of mask and gender bender by Makoto and Midori in Japanese comic W-Juliet and Midori is a Tomboy. I would like to reveal the strategy that is used by Makoto and Midori in wearing their mask and the meaning of the masks that they use. By this study, I will prove that femininity and masculinity are not related by sex and can be used as mask to create a new identity

The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s

Harlequin novels are so popular that Harlequin romance emerges as a genre. Unlike on the heroines, there are scarcely any studies or works on the heroes, thus, I want to focus my study on the heroes of Harlequin Romance. By analyzing using the Male Sex Role in the 1980s and themes of masculinity in the 2000s, I will prove that there are four types of ideal men in the 1980s Harlequin novels whose characteristics originated from the ideal men in the society at that time, the Hypermasculine men with extreme masculinity and avoidance of any feminine sides. I will also prove that there are three types of ideal men in the 2000s Harlequin novels whose characteristics are in accordance with the Ubersexual men\u27s, the ideal men in the society in 2000s having positive characteristics of traditional manliness with some “feminine“ characteristics. The reason behind these changes is because of the changes in the heroines and the characteristics of men in the society in time and these push for the changes in the heroes. As a publisher, Harlequin\u27s goal is the highest selling rate, thus, they adjust to the market\u27s demand

Proximate composition and fatty acid and cholesterol content of 22 species of northwest Atlantic finfish

The moisture, fat, ash, fatty acid profile, and cholesterol content are reported for cooked and raw fillets from 22 species of finfish found in the Northwest Atlantic. All but nine species had 1%or less fat. Ocean perch and a spring sampling of mackerel and wolffiSh had about 2% fat, followed by yellowfin tuna, whiting, silver hake, butterfish, and a summer -sampling of mackerel and wolffish with a range of 3-7% fat. Herring had a range of 5-12% fat representing a winter sampling on the low end and summer sampling on the high end of the range. Bluefin tuna (a summer sampling) contained the most fat with a high of 23% fat. Omega-3 fatty acids were present in excess of omega-6 fatty acids. The fattier fISh supplied the most omega-3 fatty acids per gram of tissue. The mean cholesterol content for all species was 57 ± 16 mg/l00 g raw tissue. Finfish from the Northwest Atlantic would appear to fit into the regime for a healthy heart, being low in fat and cholesterol and rich in omega-3 fatty acids.(PDF file contains 42 pages.

A General Local-to-Global Principle for Convexity of Momentum Maps

We extend the Local-to-Global-Principle used in the proof of convexity theorems for momentum maps to not necessarily closed maps whose target space carries a convexity structure which need not be based on a metric. Using a new factorization of the momentum map, convexity of its image is proved without local fiber connectedness, and for almost arbitrary spaces of definition. Geodesics are obtained by straightening rather than shortening of arcs, which allows a unified treatment and extension of previous convexity results.Comment: 19 pages LaTeX2e, Preprint 2009, see also: Convexity of Momentum Maps: A Topological Analysis, several parts of the content were presented at the Young Topologists Meeting 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 16-20, 2010, and at Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: A workshop celebrating the 60th birthday of Tudor Ratiu at CIRM, Luminy, France, July 12-16, 201

Adjoined koP in Korean Clausal Coordination: Implications for the Across-the-Board Analysis

This paper investigates the syntax of coordinate structures in Korean. The proposed analysis is consistent with the direction taken by most current theories of coordination, which hold to the assumption that phrase structure is fundamentally asymmetric. The resemblance of syntactic asymmetries found in so-called Across-the-Board (ATB) questions to those found in parasitic gap constructions provides an empirical justification for the adjunction analysis advanced here, where a conjunction phrase koP (constituting the first conjunct plus the conjunctive suffix -ko) is assumed to be adjoined to the final conjunct. On this analysis, conjoined wh-questions in Korean are not so across-the-board as traditionally assumed; rather, there is only one A-bar movement chain, namely that of a null operator into Spec,koP. The proposed analysis departs in significant ways from Munn\u27s (1993) adjunction analysis of English ATB sentences. Most significantly, the wh-phrase in Korean is analyzed to be base-generated in the left periphery and also to bind pro in the second conjunct. These differences are described as syntactic reflexes of more general typological differences between the two languages including word order and the (un)availability of pro. A particularly important consequence of the proposal is discussed, namely the reformulation of the Coordinate Structure Constraint as a kind of parallelism requirement on conjuncts, i.e., phrases of the same category/size (here, TPs)