A Study of Survival Predicaments in Graham Swift’s Waterland from the Perspective of Spatial Theory

In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritual collapse of the people.This paper attempts to explore the dilemma of human existence by starting from Henry’s spatial theory and dividing it into physical space,social space and mental space.

On Predicaments and way out of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching in University

在高校开设思想政治理论课始于上世纪50年代，半个多世纪以来，思想政治理论课虽然在培养大学生树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观、道德观等方面发挥了重要作用，但是由于受各种因素的影响思想政治理论课实际效果并不理想，与人们的期望值相距甚远。究其原因，既有社会的也有学校的，既有教师的也有学生自身的。认真分析这些原因，探寻其对策，对提高政治理论课的教学质量和实际效果具有重要的意义。

Roots of and Solution to Women’s Predicament in Hotel du Lac

Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dignity as independent human beings by refusing not only marriage of convenience,but the patriarchal values,thus fulfilling their self-seeking and selfdefinition.Beauvoir’s method after slight modifications is found to be the ultimate solution:the young girl and the young boy should be raised with the same ideology of male-female equality and friendship;then things like“male superiority”will disappear and“femininity”will really become part of human nature.

Europe's Strategic Predicament and China-European Relations under the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has both posed challenges and brought about opportunities for Sino-European relations.While the ongoing fight against the pandemic has highlighted the importance of cooperation for both China and the EU,the two major economies are faced with the uncertainties in the recovery of industrial chain and supply chain.Meanwhile,the post-pandemic scenario will further cast new impacts on the China-European relations.

Predicament and Countermeasure Analysis of Intellectual Property Management for Strategic Emerging Industry

Intellectual property is the core support and important driving force for the sound development of strategic emerging industry. This paper makes an analysis on the current predicament of intellectual property management for strategic emerging industry from the four stages of the process,including creation and development management,business management,revenue management and disposal management on intellectual property,and finally explores the solutions and gives some countermeasures.

The Predicaments and Countermeasures of the Chinese Commercial Bibliographic Databases

In China, the vast majority of the bibliographic databases is commercial, such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure （CNKI）, Wanfang Database, Longyuan Journal Net, CQVIP Company, however, there are also non-profit open access （OA） databases, such as journal database jointly established by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences （CASS） and National Social Science Fund. The commercial bibliographic databases have to face many difficulties： intellectual property disputes, the benefit distribution between the hardcopy periodical and the commercial bibliographic database, the lack of quality assessment about the commercial bibliographic databases, the need of improving digital technology as well as the lack of a unified database regulation, which restricts the development of commercial bibliographic databases. This paper puts forward the countermeasures from the perspective of how to enhance the governmental management; how to protect the intellectual property fight; how to improve the technical standard of the commercial bibliographic databases; how to build interest distribution between the hardcopy periodical and the commercial bibliographic database; how to improve the quality of commercial bibliographic databases; and how to improve the industrial chain of the commercial bibliographic databases.

Survival Predicament and Recommendations for Second Generation Farmers in Northwest China

The second generation farmers in northwest of China have difficulties in employment after receiving general higher education,and vocational and technical education is not perfect on the whole. Besides,it is easy for them to become to marginal people in cities. However,returning home and business startup also face many obstacles. Selling land for money brings great hidden trouble for survival. It is recommended that the government should carry out reform from the aspects of quality of work,investment assistance,popularization of law education,rural policy,and people's livelihood. Through increasing the investment,policy support,and education leading measures,the government will make great efforts to improve the quality of life,to help ordinary second generation farmers get out of the survival predicament.

The Trump Administration＇s Anti-terrorism Policy

Since taking office, the Trump administration's anti-terrorism policy has become increasingly clear. Its anti-terrorism measures and its internal and external anti-terrorism policies have introduced new features that are distinct from those of the Obama administration. These include linking terrorism to Islam, violating traditional political correctness in order to enhance homeland security, sending large-scale troops to the Middle East, and delegating more authority to the US Defense Department and the Armed Forces. Trump's anti-terrorism policies have made obvious progress both at home and abroad. Along with the adjustment of its national security strategy, the status of the anti-terrorism policy in Trump's national security strategy and national defense strategy will decline.However, for the foreseeable future, anti-terrorism will remain an important issue for the Trump Administration, and in some circumstances,the investment for it may increase.

Turkey in Re-Orientation:Ambition and Predicament

In recent years,Turkey has turned from merging with the West to"returning to the Middle East"and become an ambitious but indispensible force in regional affairs.On the one hand,the extent of Turkey’s involvement in the regional affairs in the Middle East has never been seen before:supporting Islamic forces such as the"Muslim Brotherhood",which has made Turkey fall in enmity with the Sisi

Alienation and Existential Predicaments of Clones:Interpreting Never Let Me Go in the Context of Posthumanism

The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of“donating”their vital organs to human three or four times before death.By depicting miserable fate of clones,the novel conveys deep concerns on the consequences of abusing technology in modern society.Ever since the burgeoning development of life science and artificial intelligence in the 1990s,the trend of posthumanism/transhumanism has emerged.Posthumanism promotes approaches to enhancing human body condition and organism,and extending human lifespan to augment human capacity and well-being by the advancement of technology.In literary field,contemplation on the relationship between human beings and technology has become a major concern of posthumanism.Putting Never Let Me Go in the context of posthumanism,this essay probes into the significant themes of the novel from three aspects:(1)clones’torments in the existential predicaments imposed by human;(2)human’s violation to the principles of bioethics causing the existential predicaments of alienated clones;(3)appealing to human to ruminate on the relationship between scientific technology and ethics.

Japan's State Strategy vs. Anti-Terrorism

The September 11 event upset Japan’s diplomatic agenda and ushered in a strategic restructuring with the focus on anti-terrorism and the top priority given to ties with Washington. Its new diplomacy against terror stresses three aspects: policy towards Washington for ensuring strategic center

The Status Quo and Predicament of the University Law Students Taking Part in Legal Practice

The university law students use their own legal knowledge to engage in legal practice and realize self-growth in solving legal problems, to achieve those effect, they will face its own, parties, system and other obstacles. According to the author＇ s experience and lessons in social investigation, this paper expounds the difficulties in solving the legal problems, and analyzes the deep reasons why the students cannot solve the legal problems.

Mistress of the House——An Interpretation of Emma and Her Predicament in Jane Austen's Novel Emma

Published in 1815, Emma is considered to be Jane Austen's best and most representative novel. It tells the story of how the heroine acquires the knowledge of herself as well as the world, and finally steps to maturity. Attracting readers with its humor and vivacity, the novel, at the same time, repeatedly betrays a sense of frustration and incompleteness. Looking into Emma's role in the family, her moral judgment, and her relationships with male characters in the novel, we will be able to touch the root of her power, yearning and predicament. My paper attempts to explore into the above three aspects in order to discover the inherent ironies of the novel and Austen's profound reflections on the position of women.

Theoretical analysis of the use of modem human resource on employment predicament of college students

The problem is what plagued our society since the last decade as far as human resource allocation concerned. HR theory explains the phenomenon of Graduates Employment Dilemma and found a way to solve this problem, from theory and solution perspective. Maslow＇ s hierarchy of needs has some effect on students＇ employment. University Students should accelerate the transformation of the concept of employment, to accelerate the pace of structural adjustment, the implementation of the industrialization of education; Guide and encourage students to find a job by using two-factor theory; Make sure college students can stay in a dominant position in the intellectual property of human resource, in order to avoid structural unemployment, so as to make the most use of the students as valuable and effective human resources.

Symbolic Presentation of the Human Predicament in Hardy's Three Major Novels

托马斯·哈代是一位伟大的、深受人们喜爱的小说家。他之所以伟大并受人们喜爱是因为他的作品不仅思想深刻 ,更重要的是其表现方式别具一格。哈代以其独特的方式揭示了人类在宇宙中的尴尬处境。本文旨在阐明哈代怎样通过一系列意象揭示人类困境这一主题并体现他的艺术观。

Desire for, and Reality and Predicament of Right to Peace

To make peace an aspect of human rights is an idea that appeared within nearly half a century. Studies on this issue have not been enough, and those in China have just gotten started. In order to better safeguard and realize people’s right to peace, it is of great inspiration and significance to explore the general context of mankind’s pursuit of peace, trace back the development process of peace as a human right, observe the obstacles to the institutionalization of the right to peace, and analyze why these obstacles came into being.

Women’s Living Predicament as“the Other”in Wolf Hall

As the first book of“Tudor series”written by British famous historical novelist Hilary Mantel,Wolf Hall depicted the process of the blacksmith’s son Cromwell becoming a powerful minister.Meanwhile,with her distinctive writing style,Mantel also skillfully presented women’s living predicament as“the other”and created various typical female images.This paper will focus on those images and analyze their living predicaments under male-dominated society.

The Complicated Security Dilemma and Armament Trends in the Middle East: The Order and Change Predicaments

The security dilemma is a common problem faced with the states in the ongoing anarchic international system.It does matter in the Middle East like the other ones and also has its impact on the arms races in the region too.Meanwhile there are some characters named as the order and change predicaments such as the colonial background,weak infrastructure of state construction,and the identity politics embedded in the region that do convert the current complex security dilemma into a complicated one.Not only does it have effect on the regional order,the arm race and disarmament,and also offense/defense paradox,but also does it get on the violent bandwagon in the region.Synergies of the both dilemmas did lead the region into the domestic environment change alongside of regional disorder too.Non-neutral involving the trans-regional powers into the(in)security situation in the region not only did not mitigate the situation but also volatile it too.In conclusion the paper does strive to introduce three phrased manners for transition of the complicated security dilemma.

ONGOING PREDICAMENTS OF CAPITALISM AND FUTURE TREND OF WORLD ORDER

According to the viewpoint of historical materialism,the economic base determines the superstructure.In the long process of its development,capitalism has not only shaped political and economic institutions within countries but also profoundly impacted the development and transition of the world order.However,since the international financial crisis