Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved is the first of a trilogy aimed at reconstructing African American history of more than 300 years. This essay explores Morrison's emphasis on love, focusing primarily on the...Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved is the first of a trilogy aimed at reconstructing African American history of more than 300 years. This essay explores Morrison's emphasis on love, focusing primarily on the personal relationships between Sethe, Beloved, Paul D and Denver. The various forms of love are vividly depicted in a thought-provoking way which weaving through the entire book.展开更多
Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as mother...Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as motherhood.This paper,in the light of Shklovsky's theory of defa miliarization,aims to exam the application of the techniques of defamiliarization in Beloved from the following two aspects:narrative point of view and language strategies.展开更多
Beloved,one of the most impressive works of Toni Morrison,is based on a real historical event.This paper aims to explore the theme"love"along the main line of"the absence of love"to"the awaken...Beloved,one of the most impressive works of Toni Morrison,is based on a real historical event.This paper aims to explore the theme"love"along the main line of"the absence of love"to"the awakening of love"through the analysis of the text and characters.The conclusion shows that the blacks can walk out of the haze of the past and embrace a hopeful future empowered by love.展开更多
Magneto-electro-elastic(MEE)materials are a specific class of advanced smart materials that simultaneouslymanifest the coupling behavior under electric,magnetic,and mechanical loads.This unique combination ofpropertie...Magneto-electro-elastic(MEE)materials are a specific class of advanced smart materials that simultaneouslymanifest the coupling behavior under electric,magnetic,and mechanical loads.This unique combination ofproperties allows MEE materials to respond to mechanical,electric,and magnetic stimuli,making them versatile forvarious applications.This paper investigates the static and time-harmonic field solutions induced by the surface loadin a three-dimensional(3D)multilayered transversally isotropic(TI)linear MEE layered solid.Green’s functionscorresponding to the applied uniform load(in both horizontal and vertical directions)are derived using the FourierBessel series(FBS)system of vector functions.By virtue of this FBS method,two sets of first-order ordinarydifferential equations(i.e.,N-type and LM-type)are obtained,with the expansion coefficients being Love numbers.It is noted that the LM-type system corresponds to the MEE-coupled P-,SV-,and Rayleigh waves,while the N-typecorresponds to the purely elastic SH-and Love waves.By applying the continuity conditions across interfaces,the solutions for each layer of the structure(from the bottom to the top)are derived using the dual-variable andposition(DVP)method.This method(i.e.,DVP)is unconditionally stable when propagating solutions throughdifferent layers.Numerical examples illustrate the impact of load types,layering,and frequency on the response ofthe structure,as well as the accuracy and convergence of the proposed approach.The numerical results are usefulin designing smart devices made of MEE solids,which are applicable to engineering fields like renewable energy.展开更多
Cellular thin-shell structures are widely applied in ultralightweight designs due to their high bearing capacity and strength-to-weight ratio.In this paper,a full-scale isogeometric topology optimization(ITO)method ba...Cellular thin-shell structures are widely applied in ultralightweight designs due to their high bearing capacity and strength-to-weight ratio.In this paper,a full-scale isogeometric topology optimization(ITO)method based on Kirchhoff-Love shells for designing cellular tshin-shell structures with excellent damage tolerance ability is proposed.This method utilizes high-order continuous nonuniform rational B-splines(NURBS)as basis functions for Kirchhoff-Love shell elements.The geometric and analysis models of thin shells are unified by isogeometric analysis(IGA)to avoid geometric approximation error and improve computational accuracy.The topological configurations of thin-shell structures are described by constructing the effective density field on the controlmesh.Local volume constraints are imposed in the proximity of each control point to obtain bone-like cellular structures.To facilitate numerical implementation,the p-norm function is used to aggregate local volume constraints into an equivalent global constraint.Several numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.After simulation and comparative analysis,the results indicate that the cellular thin-shell structures optimized by the proposed method exhibit great load-carrying behavior and high damage robustness.展开更多
The success of teachers in professional environments has a desirable influence on their mental condition.Simply said,teachers’professional success plays a crucial role in improving their mental health.Due to the inva...The success of teachers in professional environments has a desirable influence on their mental condition.Simply said,teachers’professional success plays a crucial role in improving their mental health.Due to the invaluable role of professional success in teachers’mental health,personal and professional variables helping teachers succeed in their profession need to be uncovered.While the role of teachers’personal qualities has been well researched,the function of professional variables has remained unknown.To address the existing gap,the current investigation measured the role of two professional variables,namely job satisfaction and loving pedagogy,in Chinese EFL teachers’professional success.To do this,three validated scales were provided to 1591 Chinese EFL teachers.Participants’answers to the questionnaires were analyzed using the Spearman correlation test and structural equation modeling.The data analysis demonstrated a strong,positive link between the variables.Moreover,loving pedagogy was found to be the positive,strong predictor of Chinese EFL teachers’job satisfaction and professional success.The findings of the current inquiry may help educational administrators enhance their instructors’professional success,which in turn promotes their mental and psychological conditions at work.展开更多
This paper scrutinizes the differences in the conceptualization of love between Korean and American women.Grounded in an analysis of literary figures,Brett and Kim Ji-young,the study unravels the intricate interplay o...This paper scrutinizes the differences in the conceptualization of love between Korean and American women.Grounded in an analysis of literary figures,Brett and Kim Ji-young,the study unravels the intricate interplay of cultural,historical,and societal forces shaping these perspectives.The contrasting landscapes of the United States,driven by ideals of freedom and individualism,and Korea,entrenched in Confucian values and collectivism,serve as crucibles for forming women’s roles,self-perception,and societal expectations.The examination extends to communication styles,illuminating the directness of American expression versus Korea’s reliance on formalism.Through this exploration,the paper illustrates the profound impact of cultural contexts on the intricate tapestry of love,offering a nuanced understanding of divergent viewpoints within a global context.展开更多
At my school,we made donations to children in the flooded areas last week.All the teachers and students volunteered,so did I.Besides books,I donated schoolbags,clothes,toys and so on.I am willing giving①away these th...At my school,we made donations to children in the flooded areas last week.All the teachers and students volunteered,so did I.Besides books,I donated schoolbags,clothes,toys and so on.I am willing giving①away these things,because I feel it's my duty to help those in trouble.展开更多
I had my most delicious meal with noodles in a small village along the Yellow River. It was on a March day a decade ago, when I had just moved to Shanxi Province. I was out in the field as a reporter, and was exhauste...I had my most delicious meal with noodles in a small village along the Yellow River. It was on a March day a decade ago, when I had just moved to Shanxi Province. I was out in the field as a reporter, and was exhausted and starving after traveling more than 50 kilometers on foot and by bus. A middle-aged man, whom I did not know, was standing in front of his dugout cave, the traditional dwelling of the Shanxi people." He called to me and invited me to have a meal in his home. Upon entering the cave, I was asked to sit on a kang, a brick bed, while the man’s wife busied herself with cooking my meal. In no time a huge bowl of youpomian, noodles with Chinese prickly ash oil, was on the table in front of me. My nostrils were immediately filled with the strong and delicious smell of chili and prickly ash.展开更多
大千世界,无奇不有。猪,也能作为宠物,与之朝夕相伴,竟获得乐趣无限,甚至使女主人的病情也大为好转。读者朋友,不知你信否? 笔者首在电视上亲见此景:在美国的一个社区的宠物聚会上,有人牵来一头小猪！见此镜头者无不摇头,有的称奇,有的...大千世界,无奇不有。猪,也能作为宠物,与之朝夕相伴,竟获得乐趣无限,甚至使女主人的病情也大为好转。读者朋友,不知你信否? 笔者首在电视上亲见此景:在美国的一个社区的宠物聚会上,有人牵来一头小猪！见此镜头者无不摇头,有的称奇,有的一笑,有的“口诛”。在国人的心目中,猪背沉重的“罪名”:“蠢”字成了猪的专用形容词——“蠢猪”;“猪狗不如”——一句不可轻易出口的骂人的话！然而,也许本文足以扭转你对猪的印象。 美国纽约的Johnstown的Bette患病休养在家。她得的病很怪:agoraphobia。词典对此词的解释是:【心】广场恐怖;旷野恐怖;恐旷症;陌生环境恐怖。而本文对此病的注解是:a fear of open spaces and crowds.此病的诱导因素是:apparentlytriggered by stress at work.而Bette的症状是:Even after she had quit her job,justgoing to the local mall could bring on an anxiety attack. 其病不可谓不重！一日,一友人送来一头宠物小猪:He heaved himself(指小猪)up on his hind legs, laid his head on her sboulder and kissed ber on the cheek withhis leathery snout. She looked at the pig and, for the first time in a long time, smiled. 国人学英语往往不注意其词序。展开更多
Alice Munro,a famous Canadian Canadian short-story writer.She gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.Munro’s works focus on women and adolescents.She also writes about the illness and love of the elderly.“The...Alice Munro,a famous Canadian Canadian short-story writer.She gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.Munro’s works focus on women and adolescents.She also writes about the illness and love of the elderly.“The Bear Came over the Mountain”is one of them.In this story,Munro adopts unreliable narration to depict love between Grant and Fiona.This paper aims to study the love writing and its unreliable narration in this story.Based on the text of love writing,this paper analyzes the specific strategies of unreliable narration.The author believes that the unreliable narration of the love text in the story can be divided into the unreliable narration of character type and information type.Through analysis of these two types of narration in the story,special meaning of unreliable narration to describe love can be found.Besides,Munro’s description also contains her own insight of love:the course of true love does not always run smooth.展开更多
T.S.Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.His early poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock reveals the disappointment,loss,confusion and lack of faith that prevailed in Western society after the Worl...T.S.Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.His early poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock reveals the disappointment,loss,confusion and lack of faith that prevailed in Western society after the World WarⅠ.In this paper,the text of Love Song will be assessed from the perspective of intertextuality through the connection of the fantasy world and the disconnection of the real world.展开更多
We all need love,and we also need to show love to others.The person I care about the most is my mom.Her name is Miss Zhao.She is 41 years old and has long hair.She’s tall and a little bit fat.She’s a kind and hard-w...We all need love,and we also need to show love to others.The person I care about the most is my mom.Her name is Miss Zhao.She is 41 years old and has long hair.She’s tall and a little bit fat.She’s a kind and hard-working person.She likes to dance and she’s really good at cooking tasty food.She comes from Anhui,and she can speak both Mandarin and Anhui dialect.展开更多
文摘Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved is the first of a trilogy aimed at reconstructing African American history of more than 300 years. This essay explores Morrison's emphasis on love, focusing primarily on the personal relationships between Sethe, Beloved, Paul D and Denver. The various forms of love are vividly depicted in a thought-provoking way which weaving through the entire book.
文摘Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as motherhood.This paper,in the light of Shklovsky's theory of defa miliarization,aims to exam the application of the techniques of defamiliarization in Beloved from the following two aspects:narrative point of view and language strategies.
文摘Beloved,one of the most impressive works of Toni Morrison,is based on a real historical event.This paper aims to explore the theme"love"along the main line of"the absence of love"to"the awakening of love"through the analysis of the text and characters.The conclusion shows that the blacks can walk out of the haze of the past and embrace a hopeful future empowered by love.
基金The National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan(Grant No.NSTC 111-2811-E-516 A49-534)provided financial support for this study。
文摘Magneto-electro-elastic(MEE)materials are a specific class of advanced smart materials that simultaneouslymanifest the coupling behavior under electric,magnetic,and mechanical loads.This unique combination ofproperties allows MEE materials to respond to mechanical,electric,and magnetic stimuli,making them versatile forvarious applications.This paper investigates the static and time-harmonic field solutions induced by the surface loadin a three-dimensional(3D)multilayered transversally isotropic(TI)linear MEE layered solid.Green’s functionscorresponding to the applied uniform load(in both horizontal and vertical directions)are derived using the FourierBessel series(FBS)system of vector functions.By virtue of this FBS method,two sets of first-order ordinarydifferential equations(i.e.,N-type and LM-type)are obtained,with the expansion coefficients being Love numbers.It is noted that the LM-type system corresponds to the MEE-coupled P-,SV-,and Rayleigh waves,while the N-typecorresponds to the purely elastic SH-and Love waves.By applying the continuity conditions across interfaces,the solutions for each layer of the structure(from the bottom to the top)are derived using the dual-variable andposition(DVP)method.This method(i.e.,DVP)is unconditionally stable when propagating solutions throughdifferent layers.Numerical examples illustrate the impact of load types,layering,and frequency on the response ofthe structure,as well as the accuracy and convergence of the proposed approach.The numerical results are usefulin designing smart devices made of MEE solids,which are applicable to engineering fields like renewable energy.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Number 2020YFB1708300)China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents(Grant Number BX20220124)+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant Number 2022M710055)the New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE,the Knowledge Innovation Program of Wuhan-Shuguang,the Young Top-Notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province and the Taihu Lake Innovation Fund for Future Technology(Grant Number HUST:2023-B-7).
文摘Cellular thin-shell structures are widely applied in ultralightweight designs due to their high bearing capacity and strength-to-weight ratio.In this paper,a full-scale isogeometric topology optimization(ITO)method based on Kirchhoff-Love shells for designing cellular tshin-shell structures with excellent damage tolerance ability is proposed.This method utilizes high-order continuous nonuniform rational B-splines(NURBS)as basis functions for Kirchhoff-Love shell elements.The geometric and analysis models of thin shells are unified by isogeometric analysis(IGA)to avoid geometric approximation error and improve computational accuracy.The topological configurations of thin-shell structures are described by constructing the effective density field on the controlmesh.Local volume constraints are imposed in the proximity of each control point to obtain bone-like cellular structures.To facilitate numerical implementation,the p-norm function is used to aggregate local volume constraints into an equivalent global constraint.Several numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.After simulation and comparative analysis,the results indicate that the cellular thin-shell structures optimized by the proposed method exhibit great load-carrying behavior and high damage robustness.
基金sponsored by the Research Project of Jiangsu Social Science Fund Project,entitled“Research on Irrational Expression of Crisis Discourse”(Grant No.21YYD001)Basic Foreign Language Education Research Project of Changshu Institute of Technology,entitled“A Study on the Regulation Mechanism of Professional Happiness of Foreign Language Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools from the Perspective of Positive Psychology”(Grant No.2022cslgwgy008).
文摘The success of teachers in professional environments has a desirable influence on their mental condition.Simply said,teachers’professional success plays a crucial role in improving their mental health.Due to the invaluable role of professional success in teachers’mental health,personal and professional variables helping teachers succeed in their profession need to be uncovered.While the role of teachers’personal qualities has been well researched,the function of professional variables has remained unknown.To address the existing gap,the current investigation measured the role of two professional variables,namely job satisfaction and loving pedagogy,in Chinese EFL teachers’professional success.To do this,three validated scales were provided to 1591 Chinese EFL teachers.Participants’answers to the questionnaires were analyzed using the Spearman correlation test and structural equation modeling.The data analysis demonstrated a strong,positive link between the variables.Moreover,loving pedagogy was found to be the positive,strong predictor of Chinese EFL teachers’job satisfaction and professional success.The findings of the current inquiry may help educational administrators enhance their instructors’professional success,which in turn promotes their mental and psychological conditions at work.
文摘This paper scrutinizes the differences in the conceptualization of love between Korean and American women.Grounded in an analysis of literary figures,Brett and Kim Ji-young,the study unravels the intricate interplay of cultural,historical,and societal forces shaping these perspectives.The contrasting landscapes of the United States,driven by ideals of freedom and individualism,and Korea,entrenched in Confucian values and collectivism,serve as crucibles for forming women’s roles,self-perception,and societal expectations.The examination extends to communication styles,illuminating the directness of American expression versus Korea’s reliance on formalism.Through this exploration,the paper illustrates the profound impact of cultural contexts on the intricate tapestry of love,offering a nuanced understanding of divergent viewpoints within a global context.
文摘At my school,we made donations to children in the flooded areas last week.All the teachers and students volunteered,so did I.Besides books,I donated schoolbags,clothes,toys and so on.I am willing giving①away these things,because I feel it's my duty to help those in trouble.
文摘I had my most delicious meal with noodles in a small village along the Yellow River. It was on a March day a decade ago, when I had just moved to Shanxi Province. I was out in the field as a reporter, and was exhausted and starving after traveling more than 50 kilometers on foot and by bus. A middle-aged man, whom I did not know, was standing in front of his dugout cave, the traditional dwelling of the Shanxi people." He called to me and invited me to have a meal in his home. Upon entering the cave, I was asked to sit on a kang, a brick bed, while the man’s wife busied herself with cooking my meal. In no time a huge bowl of youpomian, noodles with Chinese prickly ash oil, was on the table in front of me. My nostrils were immediately filled with the strong and delicious smell of chili and prickly ash.
文摘大千世界,无奇不有。猪,也能作为宠物,与之朝夕相伴,竟获得乐趣无限,甚至使女主人的病情也大为好转。读者朋友,不知你信否? 笔者首在电视上亲见此景:在美国的一个社区的宠物聚会上,有人牵来一头小猪！见此镜头者无不摇头,有的称奇,有的一笑,有的“口诛”。在国人的心目中,猪背沉重的“罪名”:“蠢”字成了猪的专用形容词——“蠢猪”;“猪狗不如”——一句不可轻易出口的骂人的话！然而,也许本文足以扭转你对猪的印象。 美国纽约的Johnstown的Bette患病休养在家。她得的病很怪:agoraphobia。词典对此词的解释是:【心】广场恐怖;旷野恐怖;恐旷症;陌生环境恐怖。而本文对此病的注解是:a fear of open spaces and crowds.此病的诱导因素是:apparentlytriggered by stress at work.而Bette的症状是:Even after she had quit her job,justgoing to the local mall could bring on an anxiety attack. 其病不可谓不重！一日,一友人送来一头宠物小猪:He heaved himself(指小猪)up on his hind legs, laid his head on her sboulder and kissed ber on the cheek withhis leathery snout. She looked at the pig and, for the first time in a long time, smiled. 国人学英语往往不注意其词序。
文摘Alice Munro,a famous Canadian Canadian short-story writer.She gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.Munro’s works focus on women and adolescents.She also writes about the illness and love of the elderly.“The Bear Came over the Mountain”is one of them.In this story,Munro adopts unreliable narration to depict love between Grant and Fiona.This paper aims to study the love writing and its unreliable narration in this story.Based on the text of love writing,this paper analyzes the specific strategies of unreliable narration.The author believes that the unreliable narration of the love text in the story can be divided into the unreliable narration of character type and information type.Through analysis of these two types of narration in the story,special meaning of unreliable narration to describe love can be found.Besides,Munro’s description also contains her own insight of love:the course of true love does not always run smooth.
文摘T.S.Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.His early poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock reveals the disappointment,loss,confusion and lack of faith that prevailed in Western society after the World WarⅠ.In this paper,the text of Love Song will be assessed from the perspective of intertextuality through the connection of the fantasy world and the disconnection of the real world.
文摘We all need love,and we also need to show love to others.The person I care about the most is my mom.Her name is Miss Zhao.She is 41 years old and has long hair.She’s tall and a little bit fat.She’s a kind and hard-working person.She likes to dance and she’s really good at cooking tasty food.She comes from Anhui,and she can speak both Mandarin and Anhui dialect.
