#jstor help me?

[defied-that-too]

Reading the Illiad for the first time, and I don't have any organize thoughts on this, but there's something about perceptions of time and youth. Like, all the references to how heroes of the past were stronger/the past was a better time to live in, and then all the older heroes lamenting the passage of time and loss of strength because of it, and THEN how epics like the Illiad are revered because of how they've survived the passage of time and (in some circles) the past was a better time because "men were real men" and point to ancient Greece/Rome as an example.

This is something I would have highlighted as a potential paper topic and researched on jstor for if I was still in college. Like I said, no solid thoughts, just like a vibe. A hunch.

(If someone knows a paper like this, please let me know so I can read it)

#the illiad #classics #epics #jstor help me? #i mean man sometimes I really miss being in academia

[allthepresidentsmen1976]

after HOURS of organisation, i present to you, my google drive library

#i will continue to make masterposts for more clarity and becuz they give me immense satisfaction #but if you’d just like to have a look around !!! that’s it !!! #all good 2 rb :^) #and as always: i’m happy 2 use my jstor access and love of hunting for pdfs 2 help anyone #so if u (mutual or not) would like something specific or a masterpost on smth specific i’ll do my best to help out just lmk !!! #resources #articles

[ecoamerica]

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[thiefbird]

We are once more reading JSTOR for fanfiction purposes: I gotta know how long a medical degree took at Trinity in the 1790s For Reasons

#this trans stephen maturin AU has grown Backstory bc i cannot just Write it has to Make Sense #ive gotten attached to mona. a character without a last name and who is referenced like. twice #i have 6 pages of backstory notes #and much more in my brain. but i cant write them down until i know how long getting his MD took #aubreyad #aubreyad fanfic #aubrey maturin #aubrey maturin fanfic #jack aubrey #stephen maturin #its really helpful that he went to trinity tho. bc i went to trinity. i know Places. #i dated an enviromental biologist there too. which is funny. my mother commented on their similarity tbh. bc Z is also v autistic #but i know The Places. ive been in the Old Bits where he would have had classes(they dripped water on my head while i was Learning) #and i know how the city Feels. like. the roads. #fuck i miss dublin. i should go to bed befoelre The Crying starts #or find an article thatll let me read it #need to remember to beg my mothers JSTOR access this weekend

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I have been trying for days to find a topic for the "paper" I need to turn in for this Philosophy of History course on Friday, and I got nothing.

I so intensely dislike this subject you cannot imagine.

#This is the main reason I didn't take it the first time around #because they told me back then it wasn't required #and I had no interest in it #unlike most other branches of philosophy #it's constituted mostly by Prussian Philosophers #writing theories about history where of course Prussia is the pinnacle of humankind #theories that have the randomness of Tumblr shitposts without any of the fun #You open JSTOR and won't be able to find more than a couple dozen papers on the subject itself #and how could you #It's a discipline that has like 2-3 possible questions tops #is history linear or cyclical or something else #Does History have a purpose (so is there a providence) or not? #And that's pretty much it #By the point you are asking the question about the subjectivity of historical narratives you are talking about hermeneutics #and therefore philosophy of language and the mind #My frustration is not helped by the fact that the professor herself has taught very little #most of the classes have been presentations by freshmen classmates whose interpretations are understandably very basic and tentative #so the fact that she's asking for this without specific guidances is adding insult to injury #but wait there's more! #she intends the papers to be read collectively and peer discussed and evaluated #grrrr #Anyways if you need me I'll be on the pit of despair

[sylvies-kablooie]

so deep in the metaphorical trenches of life that the gangrene is rotting my feet away. and brother, the lieutenant is approaching rapidly with a saw in hand.

#i actually invite a tumblr nerd to explain to me how this is factually inaccurate #you see i was just trying to cook up some imagery to describe how my life is going poorly at the moment #but ended up actually wanting to know how that stuff went down #google was not helpful and given that my life currently sucks i can't dig up an academic article on jstor #on ww1 amputation procedures there just aren't enough hours in a day #so either let this imagery dance in your head or tell me i'm wrong with ur sources cited #i welcome both #history posting #juni rambles

[bolyde]

doing food research at 12 am for vietnamese-greek fusion food

#gale.... #google? also absolutely shit as a search engine. ik its been said before but SEO is like not a thing anymore and it's making me SOOO upset #getting around it with boolean operators but GOD it only does so much and it isn't enough to help me find anything #since if you put in any SEA country google basically auto generates search results w/ “asian” as a suitable stand in EVEN WITH boolean term #so i am LITERALLY using jstor now to see if i can find anything #to be deleted

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[ddelline]

things I've researched and somewhat learned of through writing cv/sm aka time loop!fic

the concept and counting of international atomic time

planck time

sliding mode control

newcomb's paradox

the alcubierre metric/drive

closed timelike curves

the equation/formula for conditional probability

quantum suicide/quantum immortality and the many-worlds interpretation

#ddelline's over the top!fic research blog #work: fic #fic: cv/sm #help #lbr for a sec #I failed math twice in college #and nearly failed physics #yr telling me gege akutami is going to teach me more about these subjects #not even #yr telling me writing deprived Fanfiction of gege akutami's characters #is going 2 teach me more about physics and math #than public eduation in scandinavia ever could #truly amazing #there's a bunch of wikipedia link-ins bc I can't link the 3+ jstor dissertations I've plowed thru for each entry #lmao OTL

[steelycunt]

ridi are these asks queued? if not, go back to your essay now

#yeah alright. you got me. #literally jstor tab open next to the tumblr tab sorry Christopher Jencks Does Inequality Matter 2002 :-( #i cannot help it that the bloggers want to talk to me!! they’re throwing rocks at my window!! #telegram #anon

[shcherbatskya]

get in loser im going to fucking kill coins

#SOBBING wiki might be lying like theres onyy one record of this and its loveked bthind a jstor paywall and i cant read it . why is coinage #so so shittily recorded please someone help me #samael speaks

[astroterf-ed]

[resigned to reality but still in disbelief] girl there is no way I'm paying tuition only to teach myself.

#in like 1.5 of my classes I stg the teachers don't actually teach anything related to the work they're grading #and I'm only taking 4(now three cause my seminar was a half semester) classes #my bug class actually teaches #my museum class(seminar) actually taught #my writing class.... she lectures but it's totally unrelated to our writing and imo it's very surface level and she doesn't reach a lot of #conclusions about the text as a whole #like I see more in-depth and satisfying analysis in our weekly discussion posts #I feel bad saying that too because like she clearly does want us to do well and her analysis IS interesting #it just doesn't help with the assignments she gives us #my archaeology teacher teaches but then expects us to fill in a lot of gaps in his lectures ourselves including stuff that you would need a #JSTOR subscription for lol + when someone in class asked for sources we could refer to he said 'you can probably google it'[you couldn't] #and a different time he said 'look at the slides' which didn't contain enough info to match what he requested #and like I feel in those classes I'm just succeeding because of past stockpiled knowledge/ knowledge I would have acquired anyway and it's #driving me insane because like aren't you people supposed to be helping me lol + I WANT TO BE BETTER THAN I CAN MAKE MYSELF ALONE #I WANT TO BE AFFECTED BY OTHERS #but at the same time there's no [experimental] control so it's like maybe the lectures are having effects that i'm just not registering??? #april.txt #april.lore #this is the exact same fucking experience as high school except the teachers are less accessible and I'm paying for it #also in high school the lack of teachers' ability to help me was cause like... they'd try to explain things to me but I straight up didn't #understand so it was more effective to go online #not cause they didn't care/ weren't teaching their own curriculum #plus high school stuff is more google-able so it wasn't as much of a problem

[jstor]

This is what you're doing to me rn JSTOR. I thought we were friends 😭

Academics love a good review, apparently!

Have you tried using a "NOT" Boolean operator? It may help to filter out the word "review" in your search. More on Boolean operators here.

#jstor #ask

[astriiformes]

Was downloading a chapter of a book for an essay I'm writing on the medical perception of "good air" in the Early Modern period in Europe entitled "The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population" so that I can work on writing the actual paper during our flight tomorrow which like, so good so far, right.

Except when you download a chapter from JSTOR, it titles itself something like "author last name-MostImportantWords" for identification purposes.

Which is helpful! But in this particular case it did result in me downloading a file entitled "Donato-afterlifeNonNatural" which fucking took me out in one go.

#jstor has apparently also been reading too much dungeon meshi #anyways. i'm still recovering. keep me in your thoughts

[odi-et-amo85]

Omg, not Tumblr recommending me @jstor … The ghost of academia past is haunting me! 🫣

#thel’s thoughts #jstor #lmao i didn’t even know jstor had tumblr 😂 #thank you jstor for helping me countless essays and papers 🙏

[renthony]

How would one go about making an intersex character

That's a big question, and I want to emphasize that I'm only one person, and I can only speak for my own personal experiences. There is no one-size-fits-all guide to this sort of thing.

My advice is therefore the same as it would be for writing any character whose identity you don't share:

Understand that you might fuck it up, but don't let it stop you from trying. No group is a monolith, and what resonates with one member of a group might be considered shitty representation by another member of that group. You're never going to make everyone happy, so instead of trying to make the "perfect representation," try to approach things with the mindset that nothing will ever be perfect. The goal is to have a wide variety of respectful representation, not create the Perfect Rep.

Engage with media created by people who share the identity you want to represent. You can't write a respectful piece of representation if you don't know how anyone in that group is representing themself.

Research activism connected to the identity you want to represent. What are the offensive stereotypes you should avoid? What kinds of sociopolitical issues affect this group of people? Are there any organizations dedicated to activism and support for this group, and have those organizations made any resources for allies?

Work with a sensitivity consultant, and preferably more than one if you can. Many people do this as a paid service, but there are plenty of people who are willing to arrange some kind of trade if financial hardship is an issue. If you absolutely cannot manage to get a consultant for whatever reason, doing your own research becomes even more important.

Since you asked about intersex representation specifically, let me help you get started with some relevant links:

InterAct's Intersex FAQ

InterAct's collection of informative brochures & guides

Intersex Human Rights Australia: Celebrating Intersex Firsts on TV

JSTOR: Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture, by Viola Amato

Human Rights Campaign: Understanding the Intersex Community

GLAAD Media Reference Guide: Intersex People

#original post #intersex #media representation

[rongzhi]

I fell into the Shen Yun/Fa Lun Gong trap and am so mad at myself for that. Scale me on stupidity and warn your followers, they gotta hear it.

I would not call victims of cults stupid so therefore be free of the scale!! Reasonable and intelligent people are still susceptible to falling into cults, falling for scams, MLMs, etc. If you do not know much about anything related to Falun Gong's beliefs or the stories they tell (cough make up coughcough) through Shen Yun, then it is easy to get reeled in.

It doesn't help that a lot of the English language info that pops up when you Google Falun Gong/Shen Yun is positive, to the point that even the Falun Gong Wikipedia page paints them as a mostly innocuous spiritual group persecuted by the Evil CCP. They really like to play up this angle, by the way, and sadly for many people in the west, they hear the part where they're forbidden by the CPC and think that automatically means Falun Gong is good and everything they say must be true.

Anyway.

Here are some pieces for others to look at if you're interested and haven't seen them yet:

Video sources

if you're an audio/visual person.

Personally I think the papers/articles are more informative and less annoying (The second video is a video essay whose creators I can only describe as "probably spend a lot of time on liberal Twitter" and "clearly learned everything they know about China from Reddit")

^2020 release date (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlMQyM8p74) ↳ Includes interviews of both Falun Gong and former Falun Gong figures. If you're like me, the condescending Englishman POV will make you roll your eyes at least once.

^2021 release date (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlMQyM8p74) ↳ sort of gives an overview about Falun Gong from an outsider POV, but the narrator uncritically repeats some of the persecution claims made by Falun Gong (esp. the organ harvesting claims, which are most likely not true imo), and by Amnesty International...via Falun Gong advocates. I honestly wouldn't bother to link this video as a source except it seems like one of the bigger ones that show up in a Youtube search, and they do touch on a lot of sources. Their research just seems really shallow and their commentary on the issue is rudimentary to the point of being unnecessary tbh.

Papers/Articles

ExposingTheFalunGong.org (via wayback machine), a website created by the child of former members ↳ This site includes more description of actual belief, which might better inform you on why they are/can be harmful

Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun (The New Yorker, 2019)

The Obscure Newspaper Fueling the Far-Right in Europe (The New Republic, 2019) ↳ This is mostly about The Epoch Times, which is a Falun Gong funded newspaper and mouthpiece.

A Burning Faith in the Master: Interpreting the 1.23 Incident (paper hosted by JSTOR, 2018) (Google Drive link if you're out of JSTOR articles this month) ↳ The 1/23 Incident was an incident where multiple Falun Gong practitioners interpreted words by Li Hongzhi (FLG's founder) to mean they should self-immolate at Tiananmen Square

#text #answered ask #falun gong #religion #long post

[magical-girl-04]

The tabs of a gal on a mission, shout out to @jstor for being awesome and helping me survive uni lol

#rav speaks #just finished my last assignment for the year :))