Authors:Zahra Rahimnouri Pages: 9 - 35 Abstract: This paper studies the unusual character of Ben, who seems not to be adequately understood and is exaggeratedly foregrounded as somebody except a normal human being. To reach a more comprehensive picture of Ben, we examine different characters' mental functioning, narrative lines, points of view, and voices, especially Ben's, the story's protagonist, through the lens of narratology and focalization. Furthermore, Ben's clauses are analyzed more in detail through the technique of free indirect thought (FIT) to learn more about Ben's mental functioning, his consciousness, and the interactions between him and the world around him. Finally, we discuss that different narrations show that Ben has a simple, child-like, animal-like, and deviant mind style or is too passive to alter his situation, but the analysis of his narration shows something different, and it seems that he is not understood adequately by other characters. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.390 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Ghazal Mansoor Al- Sakkaf Pages: 36 - 51 Abstract: The female quest for self-identity has become one of the most important topics that attract the attention of many literary writers after the development of the Feminist Movement. Women strongly fight to become an integral part of society with separate self-identity. This battle, however, is full of obstacles and sacrifices. So, this article is an attempt to highlight some of those obstacles and the role of women in overcoming them to reach their wholeness and identity in modern English fiction. To fulfill this purpose, two female characters from two different novels are selected as a sample. They are Mrs. Morel, the protagonist of Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence, and Anna Wulf, the protagonist of The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing. A close reading of some actions by the female characters is conducted to analyze their behavior from a feminist perspective. At the end of the analysis, it is shown that both female characters show a good example of strong women who could utilize their disappointments and change them as a means to success. Mrs. Morel proves her strength in taking her husband's place at home when she notices his failure as a father to embrace her children and plan their future and Anna Wulf proves her strength in changing her five failed love relationships into a motive for living a better life in ways she feels them proper not which men or society dictate. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.407 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Nermina Cordalija, Nejla Kalajdzisalihovic Pages: 74 - 97 Abstract: The paper discusses studies on language in typical cognitive aging and dementia conducted on English language processing. For the most part, the studies on language in aging and dementia presented in the paper have been done with speakers of English. We describe language comprehension and production of two groups— typically aging individuals and individuals with dementia. We provide between- group comparisons with regard to language comprehension and production and point out different levels of impairment affecting comprehension and production. Moreover, taking the findings of the studies into account, which observe language impairments as secondary to motoric, although they may constitute early markers of an undiagnosed condition (Kemper et al. 1995), it is tentatively proposed that content and function words need to be given special attention in analysing language comprehension and language production, respectively. At the same time, cognitive reserve through language learning and in the case of bilingual and multilingual speakers is proposed as a strategy to delay the onset of dementia (De Bot & Maconi, 2005). Finally, we discuss elderspeak and its impact on the quality of life of typically aging individuals and individuals with dementia. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.413 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Bello Bolanle Muhinat Pages: 98 - 117 Abstract: The study investigated the understanding of the pull factors of drug use among upper basic school students: a pathway to human capital development. The study adopted a qualitative form survey design. The population for the study were a public upper basic school in the Junior secondary schools in the Ilorin metropolis. The target population were the upper basic seven, eighth and nine (J.S.S I, II, and III) students that use drugs. A sample size of 9 secondary schools was purposively sampled. Twenty-one basic school students' drug users were sampled through snowballing simple technique. The study applied a qualitative method using an open-ended interview approach developed by the researcher. The thematic data analysis technique was used to analyze the interview data retrieved from the participants. qualitative computer data analysis software (NVIVO 10) was used to analyze the data. Results revealed Alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, inhalants, methadone, tramadol, codeine, morphine, cannabis or marijuana, opiates, heroin ‘EJA’, JEDI’, and cocaine among others. Parental easy access, peer influence, and experimental curiosity were some of the pull factors, while increased enlightenment, parental role, and limited access to the drug are some of the measures drug users need to quit drugs. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.400 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Dorcas Sola DARAMOLA, Gabriel Ayodeji Obimuyiwa Pages: 118 - 139 Abstract: Education is the vital instrument for a nation's efficiency, prosperity, and development to increase its inhabitants' capabilities; hence, the quality of the product and pedagogical competence of the teacher as the specialized agent primarily accountable for the construction of knowledge is highly important. The purpose of this study was to look into the impact of Manual-Based Concept Mapping (MBCM) and Computer-Based Concept Mapping (CBCM) Innovative Strategies on the academic performance of pre-service teachers in Kwara State Colleges of Education. The study used a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest approach. The factorial design of 2 X 2 was used. The research population comprised year one Economics pre-service teachers all from three colleges of education in Kwara State. In the three educational colleges, intact classes were employed. Students in the first two colleges (experimental groups) were educated using manual and computer-based concept mapping innovative methodologies, respectively, while students in the third college (control group) were taught using the traditional approach (lecture method). The three groups were subjected to pre-testing and post-testing. Economics Performance Test (EPT) components from the classes offered were derived from past questions from the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and utilised for data gathering. To address the research question, data acquired for the study were analysed using mean and standard deviation, while hypotheses were examined using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at the 0.05 alpha level. The findings showed a significant effect of Computer-Based Concept Mapping (CBCM) Innovative Strategy on the academic performance of pre-service teachers in Economics at Kwara State Colleges of Education, but no significant effect of the treatments on the academic performance of both male and female pre-service teachers in Economics. There was also no significant interaction effect of Manual-Based Concept Mapping, Computer-Based Concept Mapping innovative methodologies, as well as gender on the academic performance of pre-service teachers in Economics at Kwara State Colleges of Education. Predicated on the study's findings, it was suggested that lecturers at Kwara state colleges of education employ the CBCM innovative teaching methodology for their instruction delivery. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.403 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Vitor de Passos Pages: 140 - 169 Abstract: The causes behind an uncoordinated approach to curricular transitions and standardisation between two modern languages departments are critically analysed using the Tavistock approach. By drawing on data provided by focus groups, evidence is provided for the existence of basic-assumption behaviour and how it stifles cooperation and effective curricular transitions across two divisions. Affective containment strategies and other recommendations, as well as possibilities for further enquiry, are put forward. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.404 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Mirza Ljubovic Pages: 170 - 192 Abstract: At a time of progressive development of public international law, the internal self- determination of peoples has no alternative, but external self-determination is justified in a situation where, as a result of oppression, dispossession, and collective discrimination, a certain people have full rights to freely determine its political, social, economic, and cultural setting. In the case of Kosovo, the right to “remedial secession” based on the right to external self-determination has been achieved. According to many legal scholars, the related right is an exception and could be realized outside the colonial context, in limited circumstances that resemble the colonial paradigm. Modern customary public international law provides a legal basis for the introduction of the concept of the right to “remedial secession” and forms an argument that is supported by the “Great Powers” and is consistent with international institutional practice provided that the people’s fundamental human rights are threatened. This article aims to explain through the case of Kosovo that the external form of self-determination, which includes secession, is possible only exceptionally in the case of grave violations of human rights and freedoms, war crimes, repression, and systematic oppression, and that the internal self-determination of the peoples is a more acceptable form of realizing this collective human right, which should be realized through broad constitutional and legal reforms in every multi- ethnic state (a certain degree of autonomy or decentralization). PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.412 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Mahmut Kaya Pages: 193 - 221 Abstract: This study examines the potential impact of religious organisations and networks on refugee integration processes. It focuses on the experiences of Muslim Syrian refugees in Turkey to address the questions of how pre-war religious networks and institutions evolve during forced migration and what types of functions they carry out in the refugees’ integration in Turkey. The study adopts the integration theory of Alastair Ager and Alison Strang (2008) as an analytical framework. Drawing from ethnographic research -combining in-depth interviews with document analysis-the study proposes three findings. First, Syrian religious communities seek to institutionalise and maintain their networks during their international migration process. Second, religious institutions and networks serve as a sanctuary for refugees. By participating in religious organisations and networks, refugees have accumulated their socio-cultural capital and gained advantages in accessing aid and public services. The feeling of belonging provides them partial psychological comfort and coping opportunity against the trauma of war and migration and a means for attributing meaning to the hardships they experience. Third, while religious education is the primary function of these institutions and networks, they also serve as social bridges and linkage points between the host community and refugees. Finally, the study provides some findings of the limitations of networks, including the risk of emergence of parallel lives, social closure, and marginalisation. The findings contribute to the growing scholarship on refugee integration in the immediate host countries as well as migration and religion nexus. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.411 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Lamila Simisic Pasic, Meliha Teparic Pages: 222 - 238 Abstract: In this review of the exhibition of the student’s research projects in the master’s class Digital Design Studio of Architectural Program within the International University of Sarajevo, mentor and curators Lamila Simisic Pasic and Meliha Teparic are giving an analysis of the settings, aims, and purpose of the show. The exhibition is about an attempt to follow the novelties that the 21st century is bringing into the creation process, such as the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) within creative fields. Students started with discovering, analyzing, and classifying the results of visual impacts from their travel from home to school. The synthesis came out from a mixture of artificial and real. Then, they merged their physical experiences transformed into visual imagery and digital outputs discovered through the lens of AI into one coherent and intuitive experience. Finally, students used machine learning as a direct collaborator for expanding their imaginations, particularly the diffusion model, which visualizes images out of the text, better known as text-to-image or, its extension, text-to-animation! Using these techniques, students reconstructed their voyages into more visionary landscapes, trying to emphasize, bold, and enlarge dilemmas and concerns of nowadays and refract a multisensory experience to tell the story. The exhibition was held in the Art Gallery of the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the end of 2022. PubDate: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v15i2.414 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023)
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