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Asu’S Best-Kept Secret: Half-Million Plant And Animal Specimens, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Researchers Discover Fossil Of Beaver-Like Animal In China, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly D. Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

On Sovereignty And Overhumanity Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy 11:2, Christa Davis Acampora

Publications and Research

There is nearly unanimous agreement, among those who bother to pay attention to Nietzsche's anomalous claim about the "sovereign individual" in the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morals that the "sovereign" is Nietzsche's ideal, and many more still take sovereignty as the signature feature of the overman Nietzsche heralds in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra and other writings. I describe the reception among Nietzsche scholars as "nearly unanimous" because there has been at least one cry of dissent: that issued by Lawrence Harab. Curiously, his brief but incisive comments about the problematic nature of several readings along these lines …

Perspectives On Reproduction And Life History In Baboons, Larissa Swedell, Steven R. Leigh

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Quoting The Bible: The Use Of Religious References In Judicial Decision-Making, Sanja Zgonjanin

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cardiovascular Risk Behavior Among Sedentary Female Smokers And Smoking Cessation Outcomes, Tellervo Korhonen, Taru Kinnunen, Zandra Quiles, Robert F. Leeman, Donna Medaglia Terwal, Arthur J. Garvey

Publications and Research

Background We examined female sedentary smokers' additional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk behaviors and their associations to smoking cessation. Methods This study was part of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of exercise and nicotine gum in smoking cessation. Included in the analyses were 148 participants. Dietary habits and alcohol consumption were measured as additional CVD risk behaviors. High-fat diet and heavy alcohol use were considered those risk behaviors. Nicotine dependence, length of the longest quit attempt, depressive symptoms, self-efficacy, and education were examined as other baseline variables. Abstinence from tobacco was recorded through 12 months. Results Diet was related …

“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett

Publications and Research

Seeking to dislodge the prism that a singular political practice—represented as the story from savage to slave—informed the slave trade, this essay points to a distinct genealogy shaping the earliest encounters between Europeans and Africans.

A Poetics - Of And For - Ruthann Robson, James R. Elkins

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Dykier, The Butcher, The Better: The State's Use Of Homophobia And Sexism To Execute Women In The United States, Joey L. Mogul

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Path To Story(S) Table, Kate Nace Day

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

"Theory Saved My Life", Kris Franklin

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ruthann Robson: An Annotated Bibliography 1979-2005, Sanja Zgonjanin

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lost And Found: The Imagined Geographies Of American Studies, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

In the days after September 11th, 2001, and continuing until now, the national guard and other military personnel fanned out around New York City. Automatic rifles slung over their camouflaged shoulders, they "guarded" New York City's transportation stations, vital corners and thoroughfares, marquee buildings, and each and every bridge and tunnel entrance. Their comportment was usually cordial and rarely vigilant. Exuding the antithesis of an urban sensibility, they complemented the beefy boredom of the police who usually stood nearby, with an almost surreal sense of incredulity; not just "Why am I here?" but a sort of bafflement that anyone would …

Review Of Boudu Saved From Drowning, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Review of Jean Renoir's 1932 film.

The Ticker, July 25, 2005

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Tgf-Β Maintains Dormancy Of Prostatic Stem Cells In The Proximal Region Of Ducts, Sarah N. Salm, Patricia E. Burger, Sandra Coetzee, Ken Goto, David Moscatelli, E. Lynette Wilson

Publications and Research

We have previously shown that prostatic stem cells are located in the proximal region of mouse prostatic ducts. Here, we show that this region responds differently to transforming growth factor (TGF)-β than the distal ductal region and that under physiological conditions androgens and TGF-β are crucial overall regulators of prostatic tissue homeostasis. This conclusion is supported by the observations showing that high levels of TGF-β signaling are present in the quiescent proximal region of ducts in an androgen-replete animal and that cells in this region overexpress Bcl-2, which protects them from apoptosis. Moreover, androgen ablation reverses the proximal-distal TGF-β signaling …

Charting An Ethics Of Desire In "The Wings Of The Dove”, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

James’s characters are nothing if not willful—and ultimately alone—in their quests. Like figures from ancient Greek drama, they demand everything and give up nothing, enacting Jacques Lacan’s ethical claim that “the only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one’s desire.”[i] In doing so, they seem to call into question, or at least complicate, the Kantian categorical imperative and the ideal of disinterested action, offering a radical ethical alternative. James’s characters enact, I will argue, an ethic of desire.

[i]Lacan, Seminar VII, 319.

Creole Carnival: Unwrapping The Pleasures And Paradoxes Of The Gift Of Creolization, Kevin Frank

Publications and Research

In this essay Kevin Frank goes against the current in questioning the social and intellectual embrace of the poetics of creolization, in terms of its the efficacy in subverting biases that underpinned colonial subordination and exploitation.

Two Kinds Of Utility: England’S ‘Supremacy’ And The Quest For Completion In David Dabydeen’S The Intended, Kevin Frank

Publications and Research

This essay concerns the Caribbean writer’s crucial confrontation with colonial literary models. In it, Kevin Frank argues that the central protagonist of David Dabydeen’s The Intended, the unnamed narrator, resembles the author in that he is torn between cultures (English, East Indian, and West Indian), and torn between two kinds of utility: one base, mechanical, and calculating, and the other, romantic. The latter predicament, Frank demonstrates, is a natural consequence of the convergence of romantic and utilitarian ideology underpinning British colonialism. Moreover, Dabydeen’s ambivalence about his allegiances and literary heritage is similar to that of one of his literary …

Advocate, May 2005, Vol. [16], No. [6], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Features / Community News

City College Reinstates CCNY Four, But Charges Still Pending. James Hoff (p. 1)

Frances Degen Horowitz to Step Down as GC President (p. 1)

April PSC Contract Update. Mariya Gluzman (p. 1)

Editorial: Farewell Letter from the Editor. James Trimarco (p. 2)

“Resistance Unarmed: Colombian Communities Building Alternatives to War” Photo Exhibit (March 17-April 17, 2005). Debora Upegui (p. 3)

AELLA Statement in Support of Student Strike at University of Puerto Rico (p. 3)

Analysis: The Cult of Institutions. Tony Monchinski (p. 4)

Brazilian Agrarian Reform Under Lula – MST to March. Hannah …

Habitar El Límite: Una Aproximación A La Ética De Eugenio Trías [Reseña Del Libro], Adriana Renero

Publications and Research

Reseña del libro: Trías, Eugenio, Ética y condición humana, Barcelona, Ediciones Península, 2000, 154 pp.

Advocate, March 2005, Vol. [16], No. [5], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Community News

The Case for Restructuring Information Resources. Annalies Kamran (p. 1)

When a Tsunami Raises Coffee Prices: What Do Students Think About the Dining Options at the Graduate Center? Antonia Levy and Dan Skinner (p. 1)

A New $12 Fee for Wellness Center is a Good Deal for CUNY (p. 2)

Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Certificate Draft. Masha Rumer (p. 3)

A Day in the Life of a GC Adjunct. Anonymous (p. 5)

Features

Fear and Loathing in Amsterdam. Anonymous (p. 8)

Prose Poem: Flying South. Tony Monchinski (p. 10)

National Public Radio’s Terry Gross: On …

Bronx Community College Of The City University Of New York Gatewat To Sucess 2005/2006 Catalog, Cuny Bronx Community College

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for Bronx Community College for 2005-06.

Glowing In The Dark: How America’S First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Confluence Of Law And Antebellum Black Literature: Lawyerly Discourse As A Rhetoric Of Empowerment, Andrea Mcardle

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Race And The American Originary Moment: The Boston Massacre Narratives And The Idea Of Citizenship, Andrea Mcardle

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Am I An Albanian American, Katherine Gregory

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Degrassi.Ca: Building A Fan Community Online, Mark Aaron Polger

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, And Philosophy In The Fiction Of Philip K. Dick, Aaron Barlow

Publications and Research

"Certain themes appear with surprising consistency in Dick’s fiction. They crop up in the early short stories, called by some critics, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Dick’s “apprentice” fiction. They appear in the novels of Dick’s most productive period, the 1960s. And they are a part of the last novels, the VALIS trilogy and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer—written when Dick was, according to Eric Rabkin and others, insane. These themes fall into three inter-related categories: metaphysics, religion, and politics. The first concerns perception and the world, and the individual’s interaction with both. The second, the moralities of creator/creation relationships. The …

Dangerous Memories: Lynching And The U.S. Literary Imagination, Anne P. Rice

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The terrorization of African Americans through lynching was a national cultural trauma producing a struggle over the meaning of suffering, victimization and moral responsibility. The lesson you were meant to learn from white supremacy and terror powerfully affected how you remembered lynching. My dissertation asks who remembered (and did not remember) what about lynching and how these habits of memory influenced literary and visual representations. I consider the impact of race, gender, class, and sexuality on how lynching was textualized and performed, avoided and blocked. While much recent scholarship has concentrated on the visual technologies of lynching, lynching was also …