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Sängers Glück
(2020)
The German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey, although not pretending to be a second Orpheus, nevertheless appears to be very familiar with classical myth.
This article analyses, as an example of the advertising of cosmetic products, a campaign launched by the US-American company “Johnson Soap” for their product, the facial soap “Palmolive”. Examining its ads of 1911 in which certain ancient exempla are employed, it becomes clear that the Palmyrene queen Zenobia and with her the semi-historical Semiramis and the more mythical Dido are aligned to the “1001 Nights” character Scheherazade. Since they are jointly labelled as “historically famous oriental queens” and because of the reference to Zenobia’s white skin, they fall into the fantasy of fair-skinned harem women and evoke thoughts of all the pleasures and comforts of the luxurious Orient. To the modern female customer of 1900 (well steeped in the knowledge of those ancient characters) Zenobia and the other exempla should serve as celebrities worth emulating. Above all they are deemed to be beautiful, and experts in cosmetics which would guarantee the effect of the product they are standing for. A finding that proves to be valid even in an advertising concept of today for the Syrian-German “Zhenobya-soap”.
Grand Theft Auto V
(2020)
Silent Hill 2
(2020)
Theocritus’ id. 4 has been considered by some scholars as an example of rural mime; the fact that the poem, a unique case in the Corpus Theocriteum, does not contain any pastoral song or contest contributes to the impression of ‘realism’. This lack could be an obstacle for the poetological approach to the bucolic genre in antiquity, which considers metapoetry as its main feature. Our reading of the idyll shows that this limitation is only apparent.
Hilfe für Erez Israel
(2020)
During the National Multiplication Training in Kenya in 2018, participants raised concerns about attrition, completion rates and quality of PhD programmes in Kenya’s public universities. This led the authors of this article to further examine the question of PhD completion rates. Available data underlined that PhD students across various disciplines in Kenya’s public universities take unnecessarily long to complete their studies due to a myriad of factors that are related to their supervisors, university guidelines for post-graduate studies, or the students themselves. This article examines inertia areas along the PhD training pathway at three public universities in Kenya and provides suggestions on structural and operational changes universities must make to shorten completion periods.
L’article contient l’édition critique d’un mémoire d’Alexander von Humboldt, intitulé: «Considérations sur l’atmosphère des tropiques, regardée comme objet de la pathologie chimique». Le texte a été écrit à Cuba, en 1801. Il fait partie d’un groupe de manuscrits, relatifs à la qualité de l’air dans les tropiques et aux maladies qui en découlent, portant un titre général: «C’est mon cahier de la Havanne intitulé sur la salubrité de l’air». Or A. v. Humboldt partageait alors les vues miasmatiques et il voyait, dans la qualité de l’air, l’origine des maladies que l’on dit aujourd’hui «infectieuses». L’accent y est posé sur la fièvre jaune qui occupait une place particulière dans l’horizon intellectuel et politique du début du XIXe siècle. Reste à ajouter que Humboldt se montre ici comme l’un des précurseurs de l’écologie moderne.
Papers, Please
(2020)
Die Geschichte lebt!
(2020)
In „Die Geschichte lebt!“ skizziert der Autor fünf wichtige Prämissen zur erfolgreichen Entwicklung didaktischer Spielformen. Auf Basis seiner eigenen Tätigkeit als Game Designer exemplifiziert er diese anhand eigener digitaler und analoger Spielformen und erklärt anschaulich das eigene Vorgehen bei der Entwicklung von Serious Games und Lernspielen.
In 1810, Moses Lackenbacher, together with two of his children, Israel and Heinrich, and Moses Löwenstein created the company “Moses Lackenbacher & Compagnie” with headquarters in Nagykanizsa and a branch in Vienna. The main profile of the company was army purveyance. The business activity resulted in a high spatial mobility which led to socio-cultural acculturation and conversions to Christianity within the kinship. This paper explores the connection between kinship and the operation of the company on the basis of the prominent yet little-researched Lackenbachers in the early 19th-century Habsburg Monarchy. Central questions are how the relatives organized a company during the Napoleonic wars, as well as the impact of operating a business; how familial bonds and kinship links were affected, and, in this context, how relatives together evolved into a multi-religious network of kinship.