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Social Justice Autobiography, Levester Loggins

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay

A World Of Difference: The Fundamental Opposition Between Transhumanist “Welfarism” And Disability Advocacy, Susan B. Levin

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

From the standpoint of disability advocacy, further exploration of the concept of well-being stands to be availing. The notion that “welfarism” about disability, which Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane debuted, qualifies as helpful is encouraged by their claim that welfarism shares important commitments with that advocacy. As becomes clear when they apply their welfarist frame to procreative decisions, endorsing welfarism would, in fact, sharply undermine it. Savulescu and Kahane's Principle of Procreative Beneficence—which reflects transhumanism, or advocacy of radical bioenhancement—morally requires parents to choose the child who will, in all probability, have “the best life.” Assuming the emergence of potent …

Lizzie Mccall

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Deacon James Brown, Jr. "Jack"

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Deacon James Brown, Jr. "Jack" on July 15, 2023 at Royal Temple Holiness Church

Ronnie Lamar Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Interview With Patrick Binsenga, Keasha Buchana, Chris Davey

Interviews

Transcript of interview and audio recording conducted with Patrick Binsenga. Per the "Methodology" section, the transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

This interview was recorded over Zoom and manually transcribed.

Review Of Dan C. Shahar’S Why It's Ok To Eat Meat And Per Bauhn’S Animal Suffering, Human Rights, And The Virtue Of Justice, Josh Milburn

Between the Species

It’s tricky to find decent defences of meat-eating of the kind practiced by most westerners. I was thus intrigued to pick up two short books defending meat-eating. Dan Shahar’s Why It’s Ok to Eat Meat (2022) is in Routledge’s series of short books called Why It's OK: The Ethics and Aesthetics of How We Live. Per Bauhn’s Animal Suffering, Human Rights, and the Virtue of Justice (2023) is from Palgrave Pivot, which publishes books falling somewhere between journal articles and monographs. Shahar’s book is worth reading: it’s well-written, raising interesting questions, and offering a coherent defence of meat. Bauhn’s book …

Reading Spiritual Classics Together: How To Facilitate A Sacred Roots Study Group, Hank Voss

Essays

No abstract provided.

Flourishing With Friends: How Spiritual Classics Can Help Us Finish Well In Ministry, Hank Voss

Essays

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Quid Multa?: What More? A Translation And Digital Annotation Of Selected Letters From Cicero To Atticus, Kelly Zach

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Modern Classicists are modernizing and digitizing the field of Classical Studies with great success. Philology, translation, and annotation are all aspects that have been evolved using techniques from the Digital Humanities. This project is a foray into the intersection between Classics and Digital Humanities combining traditional Classical work with a digital aspect. This digital aspect of annotation using a dependency grammar-based approach and intuitive software enhances the understanding and translation of selected letters from Cicero to Atticus.

Koppel, Mark, Sophia Maier Garcia

Bronx Jewish History Project

Mark Koppel was born in October 1942 at Bronx Hospital. He first lived on 245 East Gun Hill Road before moving to Chicago with his family while his father served in World War II. Following the war, Koppel’s family moved back to the Bronx and settled in an apartment on 167th Street and College Avenue. He remembers the enighborhood he grew up in being predominantly Jewish and the close friendships he made with the other kids in his neighborhood and the street games they would play together.

Koppel’s family was not religiously observant growing up. However, Koppel had a Bar …

Carolyn Lanier

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

From Counter-Strike To Counterterrorism: How The Cheater Reconfigures Our Understanding Of Asymmetric Warfare, Enya C. Silva

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Around the turn of the century, as the United States increased its military presence in the Middle East in what was widely known as the War on Terror, computer games were also rising in popularity. Military inspired narratives and settings are very common in video games, especially in the genre known as the first person shooter – characterized by a single player, first person point of view. Alexander Galloway provides a vocabulary for understanding the video game, and the first person shooter in particular, derived from the framework of game studies. Scholarship around video games usually either seeks to affirm …

The Changing Contours Of The Indian Public Sphere: Courtesans, Culture, And The British Invasion Of Oudh In Kenizé Mourad’S In The City Of Gold And Silver, Anurag Kumar, Isha Malhotra, Rishav Bali

Journal of International Women's Studies

The article explores the role of women in the Indian freedom struggle, particularly Begam Hazarat Mahal of Lucknow through Kenizé Mourad’s In the City of Gold and Silver (2010). The text explicitly and implicitly foregrounds the role of tawaifs (courtesans) in the culture and the literature of the public sphere prior to 1857 or the first Indian freedom struggle. Their participation in the freedom struggle was a response to the British attempt to reduce their role to strictly economic and sexual purposes. The article imbricates the issues of nationalism, gender, and sexuality by mining the invisible contributions of various groups …

Excavation Of Silenced Voices: (Re)Visiting Menka Shivdasani’S Frazil Through The Modern Feminist Discourse Of Indian Writing In English, Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra

Journal of International Women's Studies

The postmodernist phase of Indian English writing is characterized by the voices of many strong women expressing a feminist exploration of alternative discourses in women’s writing which are distinguished from the patriarchal framework of literary discourse. Along with Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Imtiaz Dharkar, and Eunice de Souza, Menka Shivdasani is an active voice in contemporary Indian English poetry. Shivdasani is a prolific poet who has written poetry on various social, cultural, religious, and personal issues. Her four poetry collections include Nirvana at Ten Rupees (1990), Stet (2001), Safe House (2015), and Frazil (2018). Through her poetry, she has endeavored …

Why Ismat Chughtai Faced Trial: An Intersectional Reading Of The Reception Of “Lihaaf” In Colonial India, Mrinalini Raj

Journal of International Women's Studies

In this paper, I study Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Lihaaf” (“The Quilt,” 1942) side by side with her essay “The Lihaaf Trial” (English translation, 2000). I also analyze their reception of these texts in regards to their treatment of sexuality, women, and morality in the colonial period. I engage the texts through the lens of intersectionality. Multiple aspects affected the reception of Chughtai’s “Lihaaf” because it explores the intersection of multiple axes of oppression like gender, colonialism, class, and sexuality. During the colonial period in India, the British colonizers directly influenced Indian morality through laws and emphasized British cultural superiority. …

Assertion Or Transgression: A Critical Study Of Surpankha As An Unwelcomed Girl Child In Kavita Kané’S Lanka’S Princess, Nancy Sharma, Smita Jha

Journal of International Women's Studies

Kavita Kané’s Lanka’s Princess is the retelling of Ramayana3 from the perspective of the often misrepresented and misunderstood character of Surpankha,4 the daughter of rishi (sage) Vishravas and rakshasi (monster) Kaiskesi. Kavita Kané uses myths as a pretext to defy the idea of an ideal femininity in her book. Kané’s representation humanizes the character of Surpankha (translation: woman with sharp fingernails) who was born as the beautiful princess Meenakshi, but her defiant demeanor caused her brother Ravan to give her the name of Surpankha. Kané’s work exhibits the inner thought process of an unwelcome girl child in the family who …

Mothers Born Or Produced?: An Analysis Of The Mother-Daughter Relationship In Well-Behaved Indian Women, Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar

Journal of International Women's Studies

The word motherhood has been used for centuries without thorough examination of what it encompasses. Literature exhibits the changing reality and needs of mothering irrespective of the outcome: imposed motherhood, and institutionalized mothers. Motherhood has been bifurcated in meaning as “the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children; and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential-- and all women--shall remain under male control” (Rich 13). A woman’s biological capacity to bear and nurture a child has been a significant factor in the existence of human life. Another facet of this is the …

Redrawing The Contours Of Nationalist Discourse Through The Voices Of Courtesans-Turned-Warriors, Neha Arora

Journal of International Women's Studies

The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of a “cult of pluralism” (Chakrabarty) in the writing of Indian history, thus challenging the standardized narrative of the nation. The hegemonic accounts of India’s struggle for independence, which have failed to acknowledge the involvement of many significant warriors, make the inextricable links between power, history, and representation quite apparent. One such exclusion is that of the tawaifs2 of Awadh.3 This hypocrisy combined with the facade of respectability has eclipsed the contribution of tawaifs, demoting them to singing and dancing girls merely. By looking at the role of Begum …

Traversing The Inner Courtyard To The Public Sphere: Exploring Lalithambika Antharjanam’S Short Stories As Narratives Of Protest In Early Twentieth Century Kerala, Revathy Hemachandran, Maya Vinai

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay analyzes women writing about their experience in the changing socio-cultural and political context of the early twentieth century and especially in the face of the global, national, and regional transformations that Kerala underwent. The essay argues that the short stories of Lalithambika Antharjanam subverted the popular representation of antharjanams in the early 20th century as impassive, oppressed, and vulnerable subjects and provided alternative ways to conceptualize an antharjanam as a feminist trailblazer with a strong voice of protest. Her writing exposes her first-hand experiences of gender discrimination practiced in families as related to her caste and family lineage. …

Draupadi’S Polyandry: A Study In Feminist Discourse Analysis, Saumya Sharma

Journal of International Women's Studies

Draupadi serves as a crucial link between warring characters in the Mahabharata (an ancient Indian Sanskrit epic), particularly through her polyandry. Born of fire, personifying purity, yet bound by a matrimonial covenant, she is caught in a complex marital relationship with five husbands that completely changes her life and also theirs. In consonance with the aims of gyno- criticism, literary depictions of women seek not only to reconstruct but also to critique patriarchal conventions. Drawing on the perspective of feminist critical discourse analysis (Lazar, 2005), with its tools of speech acts, presupposition, vocabulary, and modality, this paper seeks to examine …

Custodianship And Care: Women And Reading In Anita Desai’S Clear Light Of Day, Aruni Mahapatra

Journal of International Women's Studies

Several scholars have noted how the Indian state has been able to care for women only by placing them in custody of the family or the community, often overseen by male relatives. How do novels by Indian women writers intervene in this difficult social and legal problem? This paper answers this question by integrating feminist scholarship on the place of Indian women in postcolonial India with another scholarly tradition: the ethics of care. Conventionally, these two bodies of writing have not been in direct dialogue. This paper facilitates a conversation by close-reading Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, a novel …

Reinventing Marginalized Voices: A Study Of Volga’S The Liberation Of Sita And Yashodhara, Kumari Ruchi, Smita Jha

Journal of International Women's Studies

The corpus of Indian women’s literature has the power to define the borders of community, class, and gender. Challenging the existing patriarchal set-up, writers from all corners of the nation speak not only to subvert the patriarchy but also to claim their authority and bring subdued voices to the fore. In Volga’s gynocentric retellings of the ancient epic “Ramayana,” Volga’s The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara deconstruct the traditional epic by recentering female characters that were marginalized in the original. The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara tell the story of Buddha’s wife after his unexpected departure, and they exemplify an …

Introduction To The Special Issue: Celebrating Unheard Voices Of Charismatic Women In Indian Writing In English, Smita Jha, Bhushan Sharma, Aruni Mahapatra

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

A Linguistic Study Of Relative Clauses In George Bernard Shaw's "Arms And The Man", المدرّس المساعد يونس مهدي صالح

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The study tries to shed light on the relative clauses used in literary texts namely Shaw's 'Arms and the Man'. A relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies or describes an antecedent i.e. a preceding noun. Relative clauses are of great importance since they help in understanding sentences as well as providing a choice for writers to vary their texts. Relative clauses consist of three elements: head noun, modifying clause and relativizer. Literary authors shape the language of their texts to suit their purposes. The study postulates that relative clauses are common in the play and relative pronouns functioning …

Female Representation In Hard Times By Charles Dickens, د / نبراس احمد عبدالله

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The fight for women's emancipation has existed for centuries, dormant in the previous era. Still, the sprouting of radical activity in the women's movement gathered impetus and peaked in the late Victorian era. The feminist agitation of the era was a noticeable feature that shocked the Victorian conservative. The term was first used by French dramatist Alexander Dumas in 1872. From the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy to the present, the female tends to be defined by negative reference-weak, docile, virile, and sensual. The study of Victorian feminists is a source of interest to the extent of modern feminism. The …

دراسة فنیة لصورة «أنا» فی شعر اجود مجبل, الباحثة سلامه حاكم جاسم الصافي, الدكتور بهروز قربان زاده, الاستاذ مصطفى كمالجو

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

إنَّ صورة «أنا» من أهم الدراسات الصورلوجیة فی الأَدب الحدیث ونالت اهتمام النقاد کثیرا نظرا لما فیها من جمالیة فنیة إذ إن الشاعر کثیرا ما یحاول أن یبرز نفسه فی اسمی الصور ویجسدها فی أبهی الحلل الفنیة لذا اعتنی بها الشعراء من قدیم الزمان وکان الشاعر اجود مجبل العراقی من الشعراء الشباب فی العصر الحدیث ، الذي أجاد في رسم صورته الفنیة وبرزت صورة «أنا» فی شعره بدرجة عالیة من الجودة ورسم فیها سماته الشخصیة وسمات شعبه لذا نسعی فی هذه المقالة لدراسة صورة أنا فی شعره عبر المنهج الوصفی التحلیلی.

وخلص البحث إلی أن الشاعر اجود مجبل اعتنی فی …

نظراتٌ على البنيويَّةِ وعلاقتها بنقدِ المورُوثِ اللُّغويِّ, م. م. صلاح فرحان شتيوي العنزي, أ.م.د. عماد علوان حسين

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يَقُوم البحْث على تَقدِيم قِراءة لِلْفكْر اللُّغَويِّ اَلحدِيث عِنْد رُوَّاد المدْرسة اللَّنْديَّة اَلتِي أَسسَها العالم اللُّغَويُّ الإنْجليزيُّ فِيرْث، وَممَّن تتلْمذوا مُبَاشرَة على يد فِيرْث وَهُم: إِبْراهيم أنيس، وَتَمام حَسَّان، وعبْد الرَّحْمن أيُّوب، وَكَمال بشر، ومحْمود السِّعْران، فقد تَميَّز جِيل الرُّوَّاد بِأَنه كان مِن أَبنَاء مَدْرَسة لُغَويَّة وَاحِدة، هِي مَدْرَسة لَندَن، إِذ تُخصِّص مُعْظمهم فِي عِلْم اَللغَة أو أحد فُروعه فِي جَامِعة لَندَن، وبعْد عَودتِهم مِن بَعثتِهم تصدَّوْا لِلتَّدْريس والْبَحْث اللُّغَويِّ فِي الجامعات المصْريَّة. واخْتلفتْ اِتِّجاهاتهم فِي تَقدِيم عِلْم اَللغَة الباحث العرَبيُّ اِخْتلافًا واضحًا، وَيمكِن أن نُجْمِل هَذِه الاتِّجاهات فِي تيَّارَات ثَلاثَة وَاضِحة صاحبتْ تَقدِيم النَّظريَّة اللُّغويَّة الحديثة وَهِي: البنْيويَّة ونقْد …

إعادة هيكلة المصارف بالاندماج المصرفي, أ.د. خالص نافع أمين, الباحث: أسماء عبد الستار أحمد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

إنَّ القطاع المصرفي يعتبر من أكثر الأنشطة الاقتصادية التي تأثرت بمظاهر العولمة، والتي تشهدها الساحة المصرفية، لذلك كان لا بد من معالجة المعوقات التي تواجه المصاف، وبالأخص التعثر المالي وضعف الإدارة المصرفية، فقد يتضح للوصي في المصارف الخاصة في تقديره أنَّ الاندماج المصرفي حلاً لمعالجة التعثر الذي يعاني منه المصرف، فقد يجد الوصي أنَّهُ عن طريق الاندماج المصرفي سوف يتمكن من متابعة نشاطه، إضافةً إلى تقليل الجهد والمال، وهذا يبين لنا أهمية الاندماج المصرفي باعتباره وسيلة فعالة في إعادة هيكلة المصارف.

الكيمياء العاطفية وعلاقتها بالشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين, أ.م.د. أحمد عودة خلف داود

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

الكيمياء العاطفية وعلاقتها بالشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين

يستهدف البحث الحالي ما يأتي :

1- قياس الكيمياء العاطفية لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

2 - قياس دلالة الفروق في الكيمياء العاطفية على وفق متغير الجنس لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

3 – قياس الشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

4 - قياس دلالة الفروق في الشعور بالارتياح على وفق متغير الجنس لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

5 – قياس العلاقة بين الكيمياء العاطفية والشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

ولغرض تحقيق أهداف البحث الحالي قام الباحث : بناء مقياس الكيمياء العاطفية ومقياس الشعور بالارتياح وتألفا بصيغتهما النهائية بعد استكمال شروط الصدق والثبات وتمييز …