...Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk HEIKE HÄRTING N HIS REVIEW of Anil’s Ghost, Todd Hoffmann describes Michael Ondaatje’s novel as a “mystery of identity” (449). Similarly, Aritha van Herk identifies “fear, unpredictability, secrecy, [and] loss” (44) as the central features of the novel and its female protagonist. Anil’s Ghost, van Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated...
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...In chapters 3-11, James W. Sire goes on about our daily personal struggles of discovering our own worldviews and faith. He dives quite profoundly into philosophy and logic as he discusses the main presuppositions and nature of worldviews. He also evaluates and compares and contrasts the main belief systems that exist in our culture today, while illustrating from art and music. Sire provides a number of quotes from literature and philosophy from major philosophers around the world to support his writings. He talks about how every worldview addresses, in some way, the basic questions of ontology, cosmology, anthropology, thanatology, epistemology, ethics, history, and praxis. Reading further along, we get to see the views and answers of Christian...
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...of selection and culling * Expensive * Used most often by Universities for experimental work and Seedstock producers that provide animals for crossbreeding herds * Mating related animals * Linebreeding and Closebreeding refer to how closely related the animals are * Requires a careful program of selection and culling * Expensive * Used most often by Universities for experimental work and Seedstock producers that provide animals for crossbreeding herds Inbreeding * Most intensive * Animals are very closely related and can be traced back to more than 1 common ancestor * Examples: * Sire to daughter * Son to dam * Brother to sister * Most intensive * Animals are very closely related and can be traced back to more than 1 common ancestor * Examples: * Sire to daughter * Son to dam * Brother to sister Closebreeding Example: 1st...
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...By increasing the level of CO2 decreases the size of the development of sea urchin. [(470-490)/490] x 100= 4.08 %( magnitude in percent) and it is moving in opposite direction in sires. [(400-499)/499] x 100 = 19.84 %( magnitude in percent) and it is moving in opposite direction dam identity. The percentage of magnitudes in mussel sires and dam are less than the percentage magnitude in sea urchin sires and dam identity. 10 [(500-498)/ 498] x 100 = 0.402% is the variation range for low CO2 treatment in sea urchin sires. The variation range in sea urchin sires is less than the variation range for mussel sires. 11 Yes. 12 For low CO2, the heritability value of mussel is less than heritability for sea urchin. Additionally, for high CO2, the heritability for sea urchin is greater than the heritability value of mussel. 13 For mussel, the mean before the selection is the same as the optimum while the mean after the selection is greater than the optimum. For sea urchin, the means before and after selection are greater than the optimum. 14 Mussel 15 Predation...
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...of selection and culling * Expensive * Used most often by Universities for experimental work and Seedstock producers that provide animals for crossbreeding herds * Mating related animals * Linebreeding and Closebreeding refer to how closely related the animals are * Requires a careful program of selection and culling * Expensive * Used most often by Universities for experimental work and Seedstock producers that provide animals for crossbreeding herds Inbreeding * Most intensive * Animals are very closely related and can be traced back to more than 1 common ancestor * Examples: * Sire to daughter * Son to dam * Brother to sister * Most intensive * Animals are very closely related and can be traced back to more than 1 common ancestor * Examples: * Sire to daughter * Son to dam * Brother to sister Closebreeding Example: 1st...
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...industrial traits she posses which are highly heritable to the next generation. By breeding this heifer to a sire which excels in CEM, rib eye area, and heifer pregnancy will provide a next generation calf will have a greater chance genetically for the deficient traits of this heifer. Some disadvantages of this heifer’s genetics are the low rib eye area When I was selecting a sire for this heifer I took into account SAV Final Answer‘s EPD information and family lineage to ensure that there is no chance of accidental inbreeding with the intended heifer and potential sire. SAV Final Answer excels in many economically important traits along with reproductive efficiency. He has excellent production traits such as +12 CED, -1.0 BW, +61 WW, and +14 Docility; along with production traits he also excels in maternal, carcass, and $value traits for example the maternal calving ease is +13 above industry average and a heifer pregnancy rate. Due to the inheritance factor there is chance that future offspring will inherit some of the traits. I have chosen Select Sires GAR Ingenuity 7AN341 as the sire due to the high rib eye area 10, high CW 10, and high marbling score 9. Along with the production traits Ingenuity has he also provides great maternal traits which I would use in attempt to balance out the lesser reproductive traits of the Angus heifer. The choice of this sire was made with the future in mind. By choosing G A R Ingenuity 7AN341 the goal is to have a very high performing...
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...It could be concluded that his superior running abilities, like Man o’ War, came only from his genetics. Secretariat had amazing speed, attributing from his sire, but also astonishing endurance, which can be traced back to his dam’s sire. An autopsy was done before Secretariat’s burial by Dr. Thomas Swerczek, a professor of veterinary sciences at the University of Kentucky at the time. After the autopsy, Dr. Swerczek stated “Certainly, after performing autopsies on several thousand thoroughbred horses, including mares and stallions, no other horse came close to Secretariat’s heart size… I considered the heart weight officially as 21 pounds. The heart was in perfect shape, not diseased in any way, but just considerably larger than any other horses I autopsied” (Swerczek). An average Thoroughbred’s heart is about 9 pounds. Due to his large heart size, Secretariat was able to pump more blood through his body and move considerably faster than his racing counterparts. Simply put, his genetics were why he was so successful on the track. However, with a different outlook, another conclusion can be...
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...armour MacCloy is a man of strong passions and deep emotions. He has a powerful love of (un)life, and a desire to experience all the night has to offer him. He resents his embrace as a Nosferatu over the more glamourous and accepted of Kindred-kind, and he desires the strength and prestige to forcefully carve himself a place of power at their games of intrigue and politics Who Embraced you and why? Did the Embrace change you and if so, how? MacCloy was embraced by a Nosferatu Gethsemani member of the Lancea Sanctum. His Sire siezed on the opportuinity to bring a true Stigmatic into the unlife, gaining all the prestige that offered him. He spent almost a decade researching whether or not MacCloy's wounds were true Stigmatism before the human left to study Dentistry in New York. Infuriated by allowing his future-Childe to slip through his fingers, MacCloy's Sire waited and brooded for his return. The dentist was only back in the city for a year before his Sire embraced him....
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...progeny of which I intend to sell at Tattersall sales FINISH THIS SECTION Task 1 (750) The carefully selected mares for the mating programme are ‘Falcon in Flight’ (Falcon) and ‘Palomita’, both mares sold at the December Tattersalls mare sales. Falcon was lot 43 and sold for £3,000, she was consigned by Darley and property of Rabbah Bloodstock Limited and before sales she was covered by Arabian Gleam and believed in foal. She has won 1 race of her total 4, it is however her breeding lines that are desirable and the reasoning for her selection. Progeny of Shamardal and Marine City means she is genetically more desirable than other mares, with Carnegie as her Dam Sire who won 7 of his 13 races and placed in 2 others. Shamardal is a very successful stallion currently 8th in the table of leading flat race sires (in accordance to wins) on the Racing Post website, he also possesses a 2.23 average earnings index (AEI) score. Falcon is inbred 4x5 by Northern Dancer, 4x5 by Riverman and 5x5 by Petingo, inbreeding increases the chance of a desired trait being expressed therefore the racing performance success of these stallions will be inherited by Falcon. If she does not race as hoped she still possessed the desired genetics to be crossed with another equally genetically strong stallion. On the purchase of Falcon it must be noted that she is already in foal by Arabian Gleam, winner of 4 Group 2 races beating 12 Group winners and said to be a ‘solid performer’ by his trainer (Hedgeholm...
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...Hawkins 1 Bethany Hawkins Shaver World Lit. 15 May 2014 Oedipus the King: Blind to His Own Fate In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus the King there are contradictory situations relating to the ability to see things literally compared to having vision symbolically: The oracle is blind, but can see Oedipus’ fate, Oedipus cannot see his own fate and thinks that he has avoided it at all costs,and Jocasta deceives herself into thinking that the prophecy is not true. This motif repeats again and again in this story and becomes one of its central themes. When Oedipus begins his life, his parents are told by an oracle that he will ultimately kill his father and marry his mother. In an effort to avert this fate, his father, Laius, orders that the child be killed but when his mother, Jocasta, brings him to a mountaintop and leaves him to die, he is rescued by a shepherd. Both parents have actual vision, but they are unenlightened because they believe that they can thwart the will of the Gods and change fate through their actions; in reality, in Greek legends again and again mortals are unable to alter the course of their fates once they are decided upon by the Gods. Laius and Jocasta are blind to the inevitability of the oracle’s prediction, an example of having the ability to see yet lacking the vision to accept the course of their futures. JOCASTA My lords, ye look amazed to see your queen With wreaths and gifts of incense in her hands. Hawkins 2 I had a mind to visit the high shrines...
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...These fast horses gained recognition as horse racing became popular in England. In 1791, James Weatherby analyzed the bloodlines of Thoroughbreds and wrote “An Introduction to A General Stud Book,” in 1808 establishing a registry that still exists today. According to the Smithsonian Handbook of Horses, all Thoroughbreds today can be traced to three bloodlines created by the foundation sires (153). Byerly Turk arrived in England in 1689, and most people feel he was a descendant from an Akhal-Teke and not an Arabian. His great-grandson, Tartar, sired Herod, a top horse who sired one of the three bloodlines. He is one of the most important sires in history.. Godolphin Arabian was from Morocco. He mated to Roxana and produced Cade, who was sire of the Matchem line. Though Godolphin did not produce many foals, he had major influence on the breed. Darley Arab was brought to England in 1704 from the Syrian horse market and foaled over 1700. He was bred primarily to a mare named Betty Leedes. One of their progeny, Flying Childers, became the first outstanding racehorse. Flying Childers brother, Bartlett’s Childers, was unable to race due to health reasons but sired Squirt. Squirt then sired Marske who produced one of the greatest Thoroughbred bloodlines, Eclipse. (Hendricks 173-4). Ninety percent of Thoroughbreds...
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...SHEEP RECORDS FOR 1r4 Agricultural Experiment Station Oregon State College Corvallis Station Circular 182 December, 1949 FOREWORD Lamb and wool sales grossed the Oregon farmer approximately $12,000,000 in 1948. The trend is to smaller flocks on more farms. Sheep numbers in the nation are at an all time low, but on January 1, 1949 Oregon showed 738,000 sheep on hand or a 5,000 head increase over a year ago. It remains now for the sheep to become more efficient as a means of marketing our grassa chief resource. Keeping records can help the stockman spot those animals that are making him money and those losing him money. This publication tells of a simple record system that can be used in any flock. A workable set of records will net the grower more dollars each year and help him build his flock into a more profitable enterprise. Dean and Director Sheep Records for Greater Profits By W. G. CADMTJS Research Assistant, Animal Husbandry MEET effectively the growing competition from other TO livestock and to maintain a favorable economic positionclasses of in the face of falling prices, the sheep producer must select and maintain breeding animals which will return a satisfactory profit. Animals which do no more than pay their way must be eliminated from the flock. Far too often the sheep breeder tends to single out a few outstanding ewes or rams and rate his flock on the basis of these few individuals. He overlooks those ewes and rams which...
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...they were subjected to Satan who persuaded them to lose their and our perfect status. Sire (2015) tells of Sixia Lu who spoke of the workability of communism. Lu tells us communism could only work if there were perfect human beings. Well. As Lu and many have the ability or capability of being perfect. Ecclesiastes 7:20 tells us “Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins” (NIV, 2011). So what they were taught was a false dream. When Jesus spoke in His sermon on the mount He said “You are the salt of the earth” but that salt could lose its flavor. Jesus wants us to do good works in the world (flavor). When Jesus said “You are the light of the world” He wanted Christians to shine their light so men may see the good works they do for God and glorify God our Father (Matthew 5:14-16, NIV, 2011). Perfection has nothing to do with good works (flavor) or shining our light. To be a Christian means our first culture is not of this world but of Christ. The human race should have a life based upon Christian culture. Humans should be seen by the light they shine and flavor they show in the race of Christianity which is our culture. Shine your light and show your flavor and glorify God. References Grand Canyon University HTH 655 Lecture 3 Notes. (2015, March 9). Retrieved 2016, from Grand Canyon.com. Rahner, K. (1965). Culture. Concilium Volume 6 Number 1, 23-32. Sire, J. (2015). Naming the Elephat: Worldview as a Concept. Downers Grove: InterVarsity. ...
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...Shah-nama. “My mother told me I should recognize my father”(5). This is where Rustam figures out he might have a connection to Suhrab. The reader can also predict that the truth will come out and Suhrab will provide proof that he is Rustam’s seed. This also emphasizes how tragic the kill of one’s child can be. As you can see foreshadowing is important in a story especially when emphasizing the tragedy. Portraying the mood to a reader is very important. When the reader picks up the mood, especially through foreshadowing it can make a reader more interested and likely to continue reading. Firdawsi did an exceptional job at using foreshadowing to portray the mood in the Shah-nama. Suhrab states, “Undo my breastplate, view my body bare, see how sires treat sons”(6)....
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...NATURALISM _______________________________________________ Research Essay _______________________________________________ In partial fulfilment of the requirements in Introduction to Philosophy and Worldviews at Cornerstone Institute _______________________________________________ by Leeandri Smith 32156 28 April 2013 Contents Describing Naturalism according to Naugle, Stone and Danto 1 Introduction 2 History of Naturalism 2 Ancient Greeks 2 The Enlightenment 3 Modern World on Naturalism 3 Naturalism in the 20th Century 4 The start of Naturalism 4 The Basic philosophical questions 5 Effects on society due to the naturalistic worldview 8 Dangers of naturalism to society 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11 Describing Naturalism according to Naugle, Stone and Danto. “Naturalism is an impression determined by the subjugation of the intellectual facts to the mechanical order of things” (Naugle 2002:96) “This is a set of beliefs and attitudes that focus on this world on the negative side it involves the assertion that there seems to be no ontologically distinct and superior realm (such as God, soul or heaven) to ground, explain, or give meaning to this world. On the positive side it affirms that extension should be focused on the events and processes of this world to provide what degree of explanation and meaning...
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