Person to Person in New Zealand

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Kylie Nomi describes her observations during her study abroad program at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand

KINERJA PEGAWAI PT POS INDONESIA (PERSERO) REGIONAL VI SEMARANG

This research was implemented in PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) Regional VI Semarang. The background or basis of this research are Employee performance is an activity that is very important because it can be used as a measure of success in achieving the organization's vision and mission of the organization. To determine the performance of employees in the PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) Regional VI Semarang The author using the descriptive methods and qualitative data. The authors use interview technic and observation to create this research. The issue in this research is how the performance of employees in the PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) Regional VI Semarang and factors that may affect of the performance of the employee. The purpose of this study was to determine the employee's performance and the factors that influence the performance of employees in the PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) Regional VI Semarang. The results showed that the performance of employees in the in terms of quality, quantity, job execution, and commitment were optimal in achieving each target job. But in terms of need for discipline to be improved further. The factors that affect the performance of employees in PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) Regional VI Semarang is discipline, work environment, motivation, and compensation

Fragments of Encounters

FRAGMENTS OF ENCOUNTERS is an experimental interactive performance project operating within a 'practice as research' (PaR) paradigm-defined as a continually emergent and open-ended process. The participation and interaction of the audience and the feedback received from lecturers and fellow students were central to the development of this research and are integrated in my work. Description of this feedback and its impact will be visible throughout this paper. I will be engaging with my research through the lens of two performances, fragments of encounters 1 & 2, which act as embodiments to my research. The work(s) is a narrative about lives relieved through memory and whose re-narration gives rise to a new present time-that of the narrative, which is the performance. The subject of my research is fragment(ation) seen through the prism of memory, however, not as a main subject but close to Henri Bergson's shining points, round which other subjects 'form a vague nebulosity' (2002:171). The making of this project began in the street; from my interaction with people of different ages and from different socio-political and cultural realities. These encounters make up a personal audio archive of oral interviews recorded, which serves as the source material for my project. The recorded material are life-fragments-memories of the people interviewed and fragments of my own. Overlapping with Herman Parret's (1988) vision, for whom 'life' is a narrative and the narration time is an 'invented' time, the archive I present in my practice is a 'construct', and the re-fragmentation of the fragments of memories in the work opens a field of possibilities of interpretation. Some of these possible reinterpretations are actualised at each re-narration. This in turn opens new interpretations, possibilities or actualisations. By fragmentation and re-narration a mosaic of fragments-memories originate, which are in effect re-narratives... ad infinitum. In the same time, the possibilities that remained unactualised, not narrated, but which are virtual real, amplify the state of tension and uncertainty provoked by fragmentation, which in the end can lead to chaos

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Fitness in the Elderly

In this study, the relationships between past and present activity levels and cardiovascular fitness in the elderly were examined. The relationships between primary cardiac risk factors and cardiovascular fitness and between primary cardiac risk factors and present activity level were investigated as well. [This is an excerpt from the abstract. For the complete abstract, please see the document.

Poetics in the Ethnographic

ARTIST’S BIO: Nomi Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. She has recently published articles in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her poetry appears in The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, Tin House, and widely elsewhere. Nomi Stone has won a Pushcart Prize and was a Fulbright scholar in creative writing in Tunisia. She has recently served as a judge for the Society of Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Competition. Her first poetry collection, entitled Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly Books), was published in 2008, and her forthcoming collection, Kill Class, will be published in 2019 by Tupelo Press. &nbsp

Position and Power. A Book Review of \u3cem\u3eReclaiming Democratic Education: Student and Teacher Activism and the Future of Education Policy\u3c/em\u3e

In his book, Reclaiming Democratic Education: Student and Teacher Activism and the Future of Education Policy, Thomas (2022) provides an overview of historical connectedness between student and teacher activism. He proposes that while the Nation At Risk paradigm has effectively positioned students and teachers as passive objects and recipients, respectively, of education policy, recent activism by both groups demonstrates a rejection of the paradigm. Although I am not entirely convinced that wholesale rejection of such a pervasive paradigm is at play, I appreciate Thomas\u27 (2022) reminder that the struggle to reclaim democratic education is certainly worth fighting for

Theses on Secularism

Notwithstanding the notorious difficulty of defining religion and the consequent effort on the part of jurists and academics to avoid embracing any particular definition, one model of religion has dominated modern discourse: religion as conscience. Because of the dominance of this model, alternative views - which either subordinate the conscience to other supposedly more fundamental features of religion or dispense with the psychological apparatus of conscience altogether - have been largely submerged in modern political and legal discourse. Yet they will not remain suppressed. As a number of the conference papers have attest, alternatives and challenges to the dominant model have been surfacing with increasing regularity and insistence, particularly in the last decade, in part because the logic of the model seems to have exhausted or deconstructed itself, or driven itself into a corner, but also because theoretical rivals to the conception of religion as conscience have always existed, have never disappeared, and have never stopped pressing their claims

Liberals and Libertines: The Marriage Question in the Liberal Political Imagination

Liberalism and marriage are not easily separated from anti-libertine and libertine ideas. This article frames the meaning of marriage question by comparing Tolstoy’s anti-libertine novella, The Kreutzer Sonata with Roth?s libertine novella, The Dying Animal. Both novellas impale marriage and liberalism to reveal the strains of ambivalence toward freedom of love, sex, and personal attachments. In Tolstoy’s novella, Pozdnyshev reviles marriage because it is nothing more than licensed prostitution. In Roth’s novella, Kepesh despises marriage because it dampens sex and subjects the individual to constraints. The author offers two readings of these novellas, one that emphasizes the boundaries between liberal, libertine, and anti-libertine thought, and another that collapses the boundaries to reveal an overlap in their stances on liberty, love, sex, and marriage. In the first reading, these two seemingly opposite novellas are compared to their similarities because both contain the same story of what sex leads to-sexual dependency, possessiveness, jealousy, and death. In the second reading, the collapse of libertinism and anti-libertinism produces an ambivalence regarding the relationship of liberty to love and desire. The author concludes that the current debate on marriage expresses this ambivalence because it requires a theory that explains acceptable limits on sex and the institution that should place those limits