Mêmes origines,un récit national différent——La conscience historique des francophones en Ontario et au Quebec

Pendant longtemps,les Canadiens francais,partout au pays,se sont définis comme une communauté de mémoire,d’histoire,de culture,voire meme de destin.Or,à partir des années 1960,d’importantes transformations socioéconomiques amènent les francophones à adopter davantage des identités provinciales.De nombreux sociologues et historiens en ont conclu à la disparition d’une mémoire commune à tous les Canadiens francais.Notre équipe de recherche a visité treize écoles de langue francaise dans les provinces du Québec et de l’Ontario en 2016 pour demander à plus de 600 étudiants de rédiger un texte sur l’histoire des francophones au pays afin de sonder leurs représentations du passé.Il ressort de cette étude que la plupart des étudiants partagent une vision commune de leur passé fondée sur l’attachement à leurs origines francaises,les luttes pour la survie du fait francais en Amérique,ainsi qu’un sens de fragilité et d’inachèvement à l’égard de l’avenir de leur culture.

Call of True Passion and Conscience——A visit to a women's prison

The Shanghai Women’s Prison was built in October 1996. Walking into the confinement, we felt that it is a special kingdom of women. The prison warden is a middle-aged woman, looking very agile and capable. Guards coming with her were all young girls, elegant and beautiful. If not for their police uni forms, they should have been taken as college students. As soon as we sat down, we were shown a film strip that recorded the moving scenes of women inmates and guards spending the 2001 Spring Festival together. One scene presented representatives of women’s federation of the Putuo District of Shanghai, who visited the

Business With a Conscience

WHEN WangXiaoyang looks back atthe success of the China-Africa Business Council, he feels justifiably proud. As the council＇s secretary general, he has watched as fledgling startups have gone on to blossom into companies providing much needed jobs and economic injections into Africa＇s business sector.

“良心设计”的伦理向度——从美国“Design w/Conscience”运动对贫困群体的设计关怀谈起

设计在贫困群体的生活中长期"缺席",但它作为一种社会力量有能力且应该参与到"反贫困"的征程中。美国"Design w/Conscience"运动为了使贫困群体,特别是贫困工匠成为有尊严的人,试图在探寻传统工艺的价值中实现道德关怀,并在设计实践过程中彰显责任意识,这为设计在伦理维度的理论与实践提供了新的视角和思路。

A Cosmological Neuroscientific Examination of Bertrand Russell’s Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

This work examined Bertrand Russell’s main arguments against the existence of God and his strongly negative opinion on the historic role of religions.These arguments were:(1)The idea that God is a First Cause is invalid because the cosmos doesn’t have to have a beginning;(2)If there were reasons for God to issue the observed natural laws and not others then God Himself was just an intermediary of older laws;(3)Considering all the defects of the world one cannot consider God as an omnipotent designer;(4)If God created both right and wrong then it is no longer a significant statement that God is good;And(5)most people believe in God just because they have been taught from early infancy to do it.The criticisms of cosmological neuroscience were as follows:(1)The particular cosmic wave that carries our Universe could have a beginning;(2)Although there were reasons for the natural laws which God issued,it cannot diminish the divine creativity of this act;(3)Although the world is indeed full of defects,they are as much parts of the cosmic order as its splendors,due to their common roots in the Law of Coexistence in Diversity;(4)Although right and wrong may ultimately be both in God’s blueprint,He is still benevolent due to the Law of Divine-Evil Asymmetry permitting wrong only under the dominance of right;And(5)although many believe in God only because they were taught to do so and hope it provides safety,this is an oversimplification unable to explain the genuine Faith of others.The devastating judgement of Russel that religions have been just“a source of untold misery to the human race”was also examined.This brief article could not detail all the positive social changes with which the religions of goodness(e.g.,Abrahamic religions)enriched history,such as introducing the respect for human life.But the paper did remind the reader of the God-inspired work of Lao Tzu,Rumi,Michelangelo,the Bach-interpreting Leonard Bernstein,Mother Teresa,Martin Luther King Jr.,George Harrison and others including the architects of the Borobudur temple and astronauts like Frank Borman who read from the Bible while flying around the Moon.The paper ended with the central thought of Bertrand Russell that“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”,to emphasize that if committed to their Conscience atheists like him can live as moral lives as the men and women of Faith—the difference is being nothing else than sensing or not the Soul that permeates the cosmos.

Corporate Conscience

China calls on its companies in Africa to contribute more to social welfare Recently,Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping,during a visitto

The Research of the Relationship Between Yangming’s Yixue and His Xinxue

Yangming’s Yixue had been developed several times in his life since originated in Longchang.Yangming’s Yixue and his Xinxue are both sides of the same corn.The Yangming’s Yixue can be roughly divided into two periods.There were the early and middle period of Yangming’s Yixue,which is intended to explain the principles of Yi Zhuan(《易传》)with the theory of Xinxue.The finish of Yangming’s Yixue was a second stage in Yangming’s later years.From the perspective of form and content,there are differences that cannot be ignored between Yangming’s early and middle period and his later years.In the first stage of Yangming’s study,the“Virtuousness”(贞)in Book of Changes is the principle and nature in university.In the later period,Yangming had not focused on interpreting the“Yi Zhuan”,but on the interpretation of ZhouYi’s(《周易》)principles to supplement the connotation of the propositions of Xinxue.This article intends to understand the relationship between Yangming’s Yixue and his Xinxue by dividing the different stages of Yangming’s Yixue firstly.Then by focusing on the influence of Yangming’s later years’Yixue on his Xinxue,we can observe the relation between his Yixue and Xinxue.

Design and Development of Impeller Synergic Systems of Electromagnetic Type to Levitation/Suspension Flight of Symmetrical Bodies

Using certain models of twistor surfaces for fields of force and the mathematical relationships that lie among fields, lines, surfaces and flows of energy, it has been designed and developed a flight electromagnetic type system based on the synergic study of their electromagnetic field geodesics to generate vehicle levitation, suspension and movement without being in contact with the surface. The idea of such work is to obtain a new flight and impulse patent of an electromagnetic vehicle by principles of super-conduction and some laws of the current like Eddy currents and principles which are very similar to mechanics of sidereal objects like galaxies or stars under models of twistor surfaces. This vehicle will be controlled by one microchip that will be programmed by conscience operators algebra of electromagnetic type that leads to the flow of Eddy currents, the iso-rotations and suspension of the special geometrical characteristics vehicle, generating also on the vehicle structure certain “magnetic conscience” that provokes all movements like succeeding to the sidereal objects in the universe.

Corruption in Organizations in a Materialistic Social Context:How to Make People Aware of Its Criminal Character Through a Feeling of Guilt

In a materialistic social context,resorting to corruption to achieve one’s self is a behavioral scheme by members of organizations.The strong positive valence accorded to this phenomenon makes it necessary to wonder about how to bring the corrupters to become aware of the criminal character of corruption?Based on a study carried out with 500 Cameroonian civil servants,it is a matter,after having detected the level of awareness of the criminal nature of corruption,of detecting the factors behind this state of affairs and developing a strategy aimed at triggering the guilt of staff in the face of acts of corruption.

The Pro-life Stance: Need for Self-Examination

The Sage of Athens was not only known for his learnedness, but most importantly his ability to self-evaluate, acrucial task in acknowledging his own limitation. That limitation helped him to approach all kinds of peopleregardless of their status in life. The Sage of Athens was said to be the wisest man to have lived simply by walkingup to people and talking with them, exchanging ideas, asking questions and having them explain their views. As aresult of this exercise, many felt challenged to follow the example of a life of virtue and courage. Wouldn’t havinga few Sages in our current political atmosphere do us much good?

Relation between Spirals in Pre-Hispanic Design with Mathematics Spirals

The spiral has been studied for the first time in the book “About the spirals”, by Archimedes （Greece, 287-212 BC）. In America, the design of spirals seems to have been used previous to Archimedes＇ time, although in the Northwest of Argentina the appearance of this figure in ceramics can be dated between the years 800 and 1,400 （AD）. The spiral is found in cave paintings, in pumpkin carvings and in pottery, particularly those painted inside of plates （pucos in Quechua language）.There can be seen simple linear spirals, double spirals and spirals filled with squares, spirals in two, facing each other symmetrically, as well as spirals joined to bodies of animals. The number of spires detected in the largest spiral is 12, a number of evidently sacred characteristics. When there are several spirals in an earthenware vessel, it can be seen that all of them spin to the same side whether it is clockwise or not. This could have been caused by the predominance of the use of either one hand or the other by the ancient artist. This paper is produced with computer methods used to design spirals in the computer, either Archimedes or the logarithmic ones. Finally, the book： “Man and his symbols” of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung （1875-1961） help to understand this congruencies. In this paper, Mathematics is complemented with the Archeology of art and Psychology.

The Absurdity in The Stranger

This article starts with the introduction of medium-length famous novel The Stranger by the eminent novelist and postwar intellectual Albert Camus.The analysis is conducted from three different perspectives:the absurdity of the essence of life,the absurdity of ethics and morals,and the absurdity of the trial,in order to explore the inner world of the protagonist Meursault.The novelette reflects the mental confusion and loneliness,indifference of people in the context of post-World War II.Paris was in a state of intellectual flux.The language of the novel is cold and concise,the“white writing”of Albert Camus;Roland Barthes called this style of language zero-degree writing.Meursault is a misfit on the edge of the society who keeps out of everything.The protagonist Meursault realized the absurdity and hypocrisy of society and the world.But he still sticks to his sincerity,appearing to be indifferent on the outside but gives his utmost respect to others without judgment on the inside.He calmly accepted everything that fate gives him,not afraid of being ostracize by society as a stranger,even if the threat of death cannot make him compromise.Camus said:“For me,therefore,Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage,but a poor and naked man enamored of a sun that leaves no shadows.Far from being bereft of all feeling,he is animated by a passion that is deep because it is stubborn,a passion for the absolute and for truth”.