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“And By Drawing, She Will Find It Again,”: Identity & Memory in Contemporary Third- and Fourth-Generation Holocaust Graphic Memoir
Get PDFIn contemporary Jewish graphic memoir, the representations of Shoah memory depart from the clear path set forward by Art Spiegelman’s foundational work, MAUS. Tracing depictions of Jewish identity generationally, we see a continued anxiety about the representation of history and, moving into the fourth-generation of survivors, we see a further fragmentation of memory and a resulting fragmentation of personal identity. The stark differences between the third generation and the fourth generation reveal the difference between the archivist tendencies of the third generation and a fourth generation that is coming of age almost a century removed from the events of the Shoah. When examining the graphic memoirs of two modern Jewish women seeking understanding of themselves and their places in the community, Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch and Liana Finck’s Passing for Human, it is apparent that the preoccupations present in all Holocaust memoir— namely the conceit of the “presence of an absence,” complex narrative structure, and an anxiety over one’s duty to remember—will continue into the fourth generation but in a slightly more abstracted way. Ultimately, for the purposes of this thesis, I argue that Liana Finck’s graphic memoir, Passing for Human, depicts a tension intrinsic to fourth-generation Holocaust survivors, the first generation tasked with guarding Holocaust memory with no survivor touchstones to the events of the Shoah. Finck’s fantastic, abstracted, and self-referential memoir departs from the concrete path set forth in the third-generation graphic memoir Flying Couch, and the second- generation Maus, ultimately pointing to the ways that the relationship between Holocaust memory and Jewish identity will further evolve into the fourth-generation
La Isla Subjetiva: (Obra Dominicana)
No full textLa isla subjetiva reúne una muestra representativa de la labor crítica realizada por Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco entre los años 2000 y 2020: reseñas y entrevistas —sobre todo—, pero también prólogos, notas, semblanzas y estudios. Estos textos pretenden resaltar el papel de la crítica literaria en la formación del gusto estético, el debate intelectual y la educación ética. El título, La isla subjetiva, proviene de los versos iniciales de «Trópico íntimo», poema de Franklin Mieses Burgos.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1161/thumbnail.jp
The Moderating Effect of Resilience on the Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Quality of Physical and Mental Health among Adult Sexual and Gender Minorities
No full textSexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience a greater burden of poor mental health compared to heterosexual individuals. One factor that helps to explain this disparity is trauma experienced during childhood. SGM are more likely to report traumatic experiences during childhood contributing to this disparity. Previous research has shown that resilience moderates the relationship between childhood trauma and adults mental health outcomes. As part of the Strengthening Colors of Pride project, data on 463 SGM adults living in San Antonio were collected using surveys. A diverse recruitment strategy was used in conjunction with a community advisory board. The brief resilience scale (BRS) was used to assess intrapersonal level resilience to determine if there was an effect on the relationship between ACEs and quality of mental and physical health. Differences were noted for some items across low, normal, and high levels of resilience. Both ACEs and BRS significantly predicted quality of mental and physical health. We also noted a significant interaction between ACEs and BRS with regard to quality of mental health. Findings suggest there is a relationship between intrapersonal level resilience, ACEs, and quality of mental health
[Review of the Book \u3cem\u3eFaith and Resistance in the Age of Trump\u3c/em\u3e, by M. A. De La Torre, Ed.]
Get PDFState of Our Community: San Antonio LGBTQ+ 2020 Survey
Get PDFIn 2017, researchers, advocates, & community members formed the Strengthening Colors of Pride team & set out to understand the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, & other gender & sexual minority (LGBTQ+) people in the San Antonio Metro Area. Project leaders, with the help of a research team & community advisory board members, developed the largest survey of LGBTQ+ identified individuals ever conducted in South Texas. The survey provides important insight about the demographics of LGBTQ+ people in the area & their experiences with housing & homelessness, healthcare, employment, familial rejection & support, financial stability, resiliency, & much more
Does Children\u27s Visual Attention to Specific Objects Affect Their Verb Learning?
No full textTo learn a verb, children must attend to objects and relations, often within a dynamic scene. Several studies show that comparing varied events linked to a verb helps children learn verbs, but there is also controversy in this area. This study asks whether children benefit from seeing variation across events as they learn a new verb, and uses an eye tracker to test whether children adjust their visual attention to specific objects to better understand how they may be comparing events to each other. Children saw events in which the tool varied, the affected object varied, or there was no variation (control). No prior verb study has tested children’s visual attention to specific objects under different variability conditions. We found 2½- and 3½-year-olds could extend verbs, and they were more successful with age. Analyses of the looking patterns in the learning phase show that children’s attention to specific objects in events varied by condition, and that reduced looking to the tool was linked to less success at test. Eye tracking can provide a more detailed view of what children attend to while learning a new verb, which should help us better understand how children are learning from variation across examples
Final Project Report: Wine Suitcase
Get PDFThe Wine Suitcase Project was proposed by Dr. Becker to address the problem of a lack of safe and secure transportation of wine during worldwide travel. Currently, there are some solutions, like wine bottle diapers (a special bag to put a wine bottle in and catch the liquid if the bottle breaks) and an expensive wine suitcase, but a protective, insulated and cost-effective wine travel suitcase would be of great help to the wine community. This past year, our team has worked to design and produce said suitcase.
The major objectives of this design are that the suitcase has to keep the bottles below the critical temperature of 70°F and safe from breaking during travel and baggage handling. Specifically, the suitcase should be able to pass the International Safe Transit Association’s (ISTA) Test Procedure 2A for Packaged-Products 150 pounds or less and keep the wine below a temperature of 70 °F for up to 36 hours [1]. The bottles should be placed in the bag at a maximum of 65 °F initially. In order for the user to know if his/her wine has been above the 70 °F mark, the design should also include a notification system or temperature tracker. Finally, the suitcase should hold up to 12 bottles of 750 mL wine and come in at a total cost of less than $350 to be competitive against current suitcase designs. The suitcase also needs to be able to hold at least one case of wine (12 bottles) of various sizes.
According to these objectives and requirements, a wine suitcase was designed and fabricated using a hard-shell suitcase, foam, insulation and a temperature sensor. Specifically, the hard-shell suitcase and the foam padding satisfied the safety requirement for the bottles and for the temperature stability requirement, the insulation was added as a layer between the foam and suitcase shell. Additionally, in order to communicate to the user what the temperature of the wine is inside the suitcase, the team added a handheld sensor device with Bluetooth capabilities.
After fabrication, 7 tests were performed to evaluate the success of the design against the requirements: bottle physical protection test, bottle quantity test, bottle thermal protection test, weight of suitcase test, size of suitcase test, ThermoplusTM temperature sensor test and a heat transfer simulation test. The team was unable to perform the thermal protection test due to the displacement from San Antonio from COVID-19. Each of the other 6 tests were performed and resulted in a success and satisfied their appropriate requirement. The heat transfer simulation test was added after the displacement from COVID-19 to offset the inability to perform the thermal test in person. The thermal simulation test was run to focus on the most critical 15-minute time-frame of the travel journey where the suitcase may be held in direct sunlight. At all other times, the suitcase will be in the cargo hold or inside the air-conditioned airport. While the simulation is not the same as an in-person test, we can still use it as a good measure of the thermal protection capabilities of our design and were satisfied with the passing results. Overall, once the temperature sensor has been installed, we assert that the Wine Suitcase that was fabricated before displacement will be a fully functioning device that can safely transport wine due to the successes of our testing
Adam Smith and the Origins of Political Economy
No full textThe method of analysis Adam Smith uses is relatively similar to the method economics generally uses today, especially the subfield of experimental economics. The method of analysis that Smith uses is coherent and consistent throughout his whole work. He searches for constant variables and then sees what variables are changed by exogenous changes. In particular, Smith looks for the constancy in human nature, and analyzes how historical and material circumstances change the incentives that the constant human nature faces. This method, applied to human conduct in all its aspects, makes it easy for many economists today to see some continuity between Smith\u27s political economy and today\u27s economic science
Invariant Synapse Density and Neuronal Connectivity Scaling in Primate Neocortical Evolution
No full textSynapses are involved in the communication of information from one neuron to another. However, a systematic analysis of synapse density in the neocortex from a diversity of species is lacking, limiting what can be understood about the evolution of this fundamental aspect of brain structure. To address this, we quantified synapse density in supragranular layers II-III and infragranular layers V-VI from primary visual cortex and inferior temporal cortex in a sample of 25 species of primates, including humans. We found that synapse densities were relatively constant across these levels of the cortical visual processing hierarchy and did not significantly differ with brain mass, varying by only 1.9-fold across species. We also found that neuron densities decreased in relation to brain enlargement. Consequently, these data show that the number of synapses per neuron significantly rises as a function of brain expansion in these neocortical areas of primates. Humans displayed the highest number of synapses per neuron, but these values were generally within expectations based on brain size. The metabolic and biophysical constraints that regulate uniformity of synapse density, therefore, likely underlie a key principle of neuronal connectivity scaling in primate neocortical evolution