Dystopian and Utopian Parallels in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Introduction to The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Editions)

Utopian Aspirations and Dystopian Realities the Many Faces of E-planning in Nsw

The last 15 years have seen a rapid growth in the popularity of e-planning in Australia and internationally. In this paper I wish e-planning to be understood as a range of planning activities that are taking place online. Eplanning can refer variously to the systems used to submit and track development applications online, online planning certification tools, blogs and discussion forums hosted ...

Utopian Hopes or Dystopian Fears? Exploring the Motivational Underpinnings of Moralized Political Engagement.

People are more likely to become politically engaged (e.g., vote, engage in activism) when issues are associated with strong moral convictions. The goal of this research was to understand the underlying motivations that lead to this well-replicated effect. Specifically, to what extent is moralized political engagement motivated by proscriptive concerns (e.g., perceived harms, anticipated regret...

An Analysis of Social Systems in the Translation of The Great Gatsby

This article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. As stated by Tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. Thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

Spheres, Great Circles and Parallels *

Each domain has its graphical archetypes. In particular, spheres are unavoidable components of domains such as geography or astronomy. However, when perusing a number of publications, we noticed that spheres were often incorrectly drawn with respect to their features such as great circles and parallels. This article examines several simple METAPOST techniques that remedy these problems.