Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

The Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen thrilling fine arts, has the very high readability and artistic quality. The author in the works of subject choice and characterization and artistic methods three aspects does not provide craftsmanship, has the immortality of aesthetic value and artistic value. The paper discusses the main content including: love, money and marriage of disputes between mining the inherent contradictions in the works and character features and the unique role they played in the entire novel.     

The Art of Irony in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a vivid reflection of Britain's middle and upper class morality, values and attitudes of love and marriage in the early 19th century, the novel revolves around the Bennets, describes the four different marriages, on the surface, this is a love story, in fact, through the use of irony, Austen criticizes the notion of marriage which is blind pursuit of money and status. The clever use of irony is one of the artistic features of this book. Through analysis of the irony art in the story, we can see the author's marriage view.     

Old and New Spaces

Abstract

Traditionally, the Mexican domestic interior has been characterized by a propensity to accumulative decoration and solemnity in the public areas of the house. The present study of residents of a central area of Mexico City shows that this situation has changed as forms of urban lifestyles, environmental attitudes and house ownership have developed that affect the use and decoration of the house. Here, I will focus on those changes that affect the public rooms of the house (living room, dining room, kitchen) with the aim of describing new forms of domesticity in the lifestyles, consumption practices, leisure and home life that no longer respond to the model of the traditional bourgeois home, but to life patterns in which the symbolic experience of home suits a particular spatial and economic reality.     

The Old is New Again

Community agriculture and conservation initiatives have become increasingly important components of sustainable community development strategies, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This study examines a community conservation program whose goal was to foster revitalization through the establishment of floral and vegetable gardens primarily in distressed areas. Respondents indicated that the program contributed to revitalizing neighborhoods, as well as their beliefs and behavior regarding conservation issues, sense of community, and volunteerism. Motivation for involvement in the program was high. The most important reasons for involvement were to beautify and give back to the community and to support conservation of green space. The more volunteers were engaged in the program, the greater their motivation, conservation ethic, and volunteerism in other community activities. This study illustrates the importance of community gardening and conservation efforts in improving and beautifying distressed communities, promoting sustainable community development, and increasing civic engagement and conservation practices. Implications for practice are also discussed.     

伟大的诗人民族的骄傲--从《仿古兰经》看普希金的伊斯兰情结

2002年6月6日,是普希金诞生203周年纪念日,适逢上海合作组织成员国圣彼得堡峰会开幕前夕,中国国家主席江泽民来到普希金的母校皇村中学访问,他不仅对普希金的作品给予高度评价,并在他的铜像前用俄语吟诵了一首普希金的诗,而且还为普希金纪念馆题词:"伟大的诗人,民族的骄傲".     

Spaces of Pride: A Visual Ethnography of Gay Pride Parades in Italy and the United Kingdom

Gay pride parades represent an active site of production of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), intersexual and queer identities, featuring a spatial and social articulation of political and human rights claims. While the multiplication of these events in different countries suggests the existence of a coherent and cohesive community which shares the same collective identity beyond national borders, different patterns in the organisation, part-taking and social and political connotations given to these events can be observed in different contexts. By means of a comparative visual ethnography of Italian and British Gay Pride Parades, this article investigates how the creation, mobilisation and challenge of quasi-normative LGBT identities occur within the spatial context of gay pride marches. It is argued, in particular, that while gay pride parades are sites in which the socio-political status quo can be successfully challenged, participants are also faced with the possibility of falling prey to dynamics of identity commodification and homonationalism which may ultimately deprive their claims of their subversive potential.     

Prejudice as Lifeform*

Sociological research on racial prejudice has generated consistent and reliable empirical findings on the social determinants of prejudice, but comprehensive theoretical explanations of the social forces that promote prejudice tend to be controversial. Two such theoretical perspectives are examined and then compared for their ability to explain prejudice; namely Durkheim's theory of cognition and the neoevolutionist approach to sociocultural modernization and ontogenetic maturation. An attempt also is made to merge the interactionist and evolutionist arguments for the purpose of developing a comprehensive explanation of prejudice.     

The Pride of Tu Women

The Tu ethnic group, with a population of 191,624, live mainly in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County of Qinghai Province. The Tu people, who subsist on agriculture, believe in Lamaism. Tu women are quite fond of their traditional dress with the rainbow-colored sleeves. The black stands for the earth; green, the seedlings; yellow, the mature wheat; blue, the waters and red, the Sun.