SATIRE IN MODERN HINDI POETRY [1930-1960]

HINDI

Politische Satire im Unterricht am Beispiel der Simpsons

Kann es gelingen, anhand der Simpsons Satire im Politikunterricht zu vermitteln? Auf den ersten Blick scheinen die Simpsons eine bloße Zeichentrickserie zu sein, doch bei genauerem Hinsehen wird deutlich, dass die Serie einen Fundus an Satire und Parodie enthält, der im Unterricht behandelt werden kann. Die Simpsons sind politisch - nicht nur wegen einzelner Gastauftritte ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Präsidenten sondern auch wegen ihrer Vielzahl an satirischen Äußerungen und Anspielungen gegen die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft und deren Politik. Aufgabe dieser Arbeit soll es sein, zu untersuchen, inwieweit sich die Simpsons als Unterrichtsgegenstand eignen. Dabei soll ein erster Blick auf den Beliebtheitsgrad der Serie fallen. Es werden Gründe gesucht, warum die Serie bei Jugendlichen so erfolgreich ist und inwieweit sie sowohl junge Menschen als auch Erwachsene beeinflusst. Im Weiteren wird zum umfassenden Verständnis ein Überblick über die Serie und eine Vorstellung der Hauptcharaktere gegeben. In diesem Zusammenhang scheint auch der Bezug der Charaktere zur Gesellschaft einen wichtigen Stellenwert einzunehmen. Nachfolgend sollen politische Themen aufgezeigt werden, um zu untersuchen, ob eine Behandlung der Themen im Unterricht möglich ist. Dabei spielt auch die Satire eine wichtige Rolle. Unter Punkt 2.5 wird Satire in den Fokus gestellt. Dabei geht es neben Definitionen auch um die Frage, ob die Serie mit ihrer beinhaltenden Satire als Medium die politische Bildung beeinflusst. In einem letzten großen Schritt geht es um die Umsetzung der politisch, satirischen Themen in den Simpsons. Es soll praktisch gezeigt werden, dass es möglich ist, die Serie im Unterricht zu verwenden. Hierbei spielen sowohl Lernziele und Kompetenzen der SchülerInnen eine Rolle als auch methodische Überlegungen und Entscheidungen. Für die Behandlung der Satire in den Simpsons werden zwei Unterrichtsstunden entwickelt, wovon eine im Unterricht durchgeführt und beurteilt wurde.

Personnel Practices in Japanese Government

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The Japanese Business System: Key Features and Prospects for Change

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Japanese Scientific And Technology Information in the United States - Public Policy and Private Initiatives

In January 1983 a group of US government, industry and university information specialists gathered at MIT to take stock of efforts to monitor, acquire, assess, and disseminate Japanese scientific and technical information (JSTI). It was agreed that these efforts were uncoordinated and poorly conceived, and that a clearer understanding of Japanese technical information systems and a clearer sense of its importance to end users was necessary. That meeting led to formal technology assessments, Congressinal hearings, and legislation; it also helped stimulate several private initiatives in JSTI provision. Four years later there exist better coordinated and better conceived JSTI programs in both the public and private sectors, but there remains much room for improvement. This paper will recount their development and assess future directions.

Suppliers' Associations in the Japanese Automobile Industry

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Coherent forecasting of multiple-decrement life tables: a test using Japanese cause of death data

Planners in public and private institutions would like coherent forecasts of the components of age-specic mortality, such as causes of death. This has been di cult to achieve because the relative values of the forecast components often fail to behave in a way that is coherent with historical experience. In addition, when the group forecasts are combined the result is often incompatible with an all-groups forecast. It has been shown that cause-specic mortality forecasts are pessimistic when compared with all-cause forecasts (Wilmoth, 1995). This paper abandons the conventional approach of using log mortality rates and forecasts the density of deaths in the life table. Since these values obey a unit sum constraint for both conventional single-decrement life tables (only one absorbing state) and multiple-decrement tables (more than one absorbing state), they are intrinsically relative rather than absolute values across decrements as well as ages. Using the methods of Compositional Data Analysis pioneered by Aitchison (1986), death densities are transformed into the real space so that the full range of multivariate statistics can be applied, then back-transformed to positive values so that the unit sum constraint is honoured. The structure of the best-known, single-decrement mortality-rate forecasting model, devised by Lee and Carter (1992), is expressed in compositional form and the results from the two models are compared. The compositional model is extended to a multiple-decrement form and used to forecast mortality by cause of death for Japan

Case study: acquisition of Japanese in aural language by the four year old child whose hearing loss was detected when he was visiting in U. S. with his family

Access to thesis is restricted. Contact Archives and Rare Books. This paper reports the results of language training for a newly diagnosed hearing impaired Japanese child using methods from the CID parent-infant program.

The effects of gravity on the development of otolith organs in the Japanese quail

This paper examines the detailed embryologic development of the otolith organs, part of the vestibular system responsible for balance, in Japanese quail. The data from this study will provide baseline data for comparison with experiments conducted by NASA during space flight.