Environmental dystopias: Margaret Atwood and the monstrous child

ABSTRACT

The future of childhood is often described in terms of utopian thinking. Here, the turn is towards dystopia as a fertile source of wild imaginings about the future. The dystopian literary fictions featured here act as a message and are projections of an uneasy future requiring a reader to see the present differently. Such projections make reading dangerous as they create an alternative world often disorderly and dismissive of contexts that are familiar and safe. In these scenarios, the child is often a key figure. In the work by Atwood (Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam), the world is an environmental nightmare. The focus is on MaddAddam, in which the child is an object of desire and both monstrous and redemptive. A reading of MaddAddam as a posthuman text is undertaken and it is argued that Atwood's dystopia creates a discourse of monstrosity (both weird and beautiful) that contaminates thoughts about the child/children/childhood and the future.     

中美师范生对于理想教师标准的评价及比较

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高职学生工匠精神现状调查及培育途径——以广州城市职业学院商务英语专业为例

工匠精神的培育是实现高职教育现代化的必然选择。针对学生对工匠精神的认知状况、其了解工匠精神的主要途径、工匠精神的影响以及学生自身工匠素质等方面对广州城市职业学院商务英语专业学生的工匠精神现状进行调查,提出切实可行的工匠精神培育途径。     

中国科协科技期刊网站运营状况的问卷调查

2009年中国科协所属954种期刊网站运营状况问卷调查结果显示:期刊网站建设的主要目的是为读者和作者提供服务,树立期刊品牌形象,实现编辑办公的网络化和在线发布网刊;期刊网站建设和维护的资金来源以编辑部自筹为主(占76.1%),网站的运营方式和运营状况以免费浏览(占85.3%)和无收入(占79.3%)为主.作者对期刊网站经营模式提出了建议.     

语音版健康问卷APP研发及应用

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艺术类高职院校用户信息需求调查与分析

为了了解艺术类高职院校用户的信息需求状况,更好地提升学院图书馆的服务水平和层次,我们以本院师生为例,对他们的文献信息需求进行了问卷调查,并进行了分析,提出了满足师生文献信息需求的对策。     

读者调查信息管理与处理机制的建立

为了解读者需求,进一步提高期刊质量,建立了《人民军医》杂志读者调查信息管理与处理机制。通过设置和刊登读者调查问卷有效收集信息,建立读者信息管理数据库,并根据各类信息的处理时限要求和重要程度采取3类7级的分期分级处理程序。实践证明,此机制对提升编辑人员的危机意识、规范工作流程及提高期刊影响力有一定作用。     

开放式访谈设计中民族志决策树模型的应用及改进

将民族志决策树模型及扎根理论融合应用到开放式访谈设计的问题条目获取、问卷的模型构建及问卷模型的合理性检验三方面。在阐述民族志决策树模型相关理论的基础上,分析该模型和扎根理论融合应用的可行性及必要性,并将二者应用到开放式访谈设计中,提出开放式访谈问卷的模型设计架构,并以社交网站用户流失访谈为例给予说明。结果显示,设计的开放式问卷条目顺序合理、内容表述完善,其设计架构对开放式访谈问卷的设计具有指导意义。     

Effects of a contrast training programme on jumping,sprinting and agility performance of prepubertal basketball players

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 10 week contrast training (CT) programme (isometric + plyometric) on jumping, sprinting abilities and agility performance in prepubertal basketball players. Fifty-eight children from a basketball academy (age: 8.72 ± 0.97 years; body mass index: 17.22 ± 2.48 kg/m²) successfully completed the study. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental groups (EG, n = 30) and control groups (CG, n = 28). The CT programme was included in the experimental group’s training sessions – twice a week – as part of their usual weekly training regime. This programme included 3 exercises: 1 isometric and 2 plyometric. Jumping, sprinting and agility performance were assessed before and after the training programme. Significant differences were found in posttest between EG and CG in sprint and T-test: EG showed better results than CG. Furthermore, there were significant differences in posttest-pretest between EG and CG in squat jump, countermovement jump, drop jump, sprint and T-test with the EG showing better results than CG. The CT programme led to increases in vertical jump, sprint and agility levels, so that the authors suggest that prepubertal children exhibit high muscular strength trainability.