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Commencement Address 1988: Delivered on June 11, 1988 by David Broder, Pulitzer Prize Winning Political Columnist for The Washington Post and 320 Other Newspapers
No full text10 p.David S. Broder (1929- ) is a Pultzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit, and university professor. He earned an A.B. in 1947 and a A.M. in 1951, both in Political Science, from the University of Chicago. He is a professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and writes full time at The Washington Post
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Death Valley ::a novel /
No full text"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story in Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What this woman finds inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant. This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley"-
Review of \u3ci\u3eEarth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women\u3c/i\u3e By Patricia Janis Broder
No full textWith the first book devoted exclusively to women\u27s painting, Patricia Janis Broder addresses a deficiency in Native American art history. Women\u27s arts-painting, or any of their myriad art forms-became an area of serious inquiry after 1960 that has yet to be sufficiently served by scholars.
Broder\u27s introduction explains the importance of the role of women, their arts, styles, and subjects. Mentioned are individuals and schools that form the context and modes of contemporary women\u27s art. The author has selected artists\u27 paintings that she determined have cultural, historical, and aesthetic merit. There are ninety featured artists representing fifty-seven communities. Each artist\u27s biography offers useful background material, including information about her images, as well as illustrations of her work. Most biographies are clearly written, although a few lack dates and current data.
Several painters from the Northern and Southern Plains are featured in this seminal work. Historic Plains women painted stylized geometric patterns on hide containers and robes. This non-figurative traditional style was dropped by Plains women early in the twentieth century. Among the artists who helped establish the new trend was Anne Little Warrior, whose dance scene is created in the Plains pictographic style. Southern Plains artist Lois Smoky, who attended art classes under Oscar Jacobson and was one of the original Kiowa artists in the 1920s, is featured as a symbol of a new era in women\u27s painting. Sharron Ahtone Harjo paints today in a style reminiscent of the Kiowa Ledger artists.
One of the Northern Plains women included is Crow artist Connie Red Star. Her painting Crow Parfleche creates a sense of irony by recalling the geometric style of earlier women. Other Plains women include Roberta A. Whiteshield, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Rosebud Tahcawin De Cinq Mars, and Nadema Agard. Themes involve ceremonials, the spiritual world, and traditional and everyday life activities. Broder suggests that further scholarship is needed and that her book, which is neither an encyclopedia nor a directory, has some limitations. For example, work by Linda Haukaas and Jean LaMarr is not included. Broder compensates by a regional approach with artists from a broad geographical range. With color plates of excellent quality illustrating a wide variety of painting, this book helps fill the void of serious studies of Native women\u27s art history
Reversal of brain metabolic abnormalities following treatment of AIDS dementia complex with 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT, zidovudine): a PET-FDG study.
No full textBrain glucose metabolism was evaluated in four patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia complex using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans at the beginning of therapy with 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT, zidovudine), and later in the course of therapy. In two patients, baseline, large focal cortical abnormalities of glucose utilization were reversed during the course of therapy. In the other two patients, the initial PET study did not reveal pronounced focal alterations, while the post-treatment scans showed markedly increased cortical glucose metabolism. The improved cortical glucose utilization was accompanied in all patients by immunologic and neurologic improvement. PET-FDG studies can detect cortical metabolic abnormalities associated with AIDS dementia complex, and may be used to monitor the metabolic improvement in response to AZT treatment
Organisering af sommerhuslandet. Grundejerforeningernes funktion og betydning set fra Ertebølle i Vesthimmerland
No full textWomen, frozen yoghurt, and Frankencocks. A study of female desire in "Milk Fed" by Melissa Broder
No full textThis essay aims to examine the depiction of female desire in the novel "Milk Fed", published in 2021 by author Melissa Broder. Female desire as a literary motif has become more frequent in fiction over time, moreover it has been widely discussed and moralised. This essay is aspiring to survey the depiction of desire in a contemporary novel to further discuss the matter. The term desire will in this essay not be limited to sexual desire, but also include hunger and desire for affirmation – this to investigate the relationship between different kinds of desire in the main character in the novel. In this text desire will be examined using theoretical notions of human desire based on works of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and a feminist critical perspective of Lacan’s work mostly composed by Elizabeth Grosz. The analysis of the text will be divided into subcategories studying the main character’s sexual desire, hunger, and desire for affirmation, and further on also investigate the submerging of these desires. The essay also aims to look further into the consequences of desire and using the results of the analysis to discuss literary depictions of female desire and its political usage
„Eine Maulschlacht auf dem Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten.“ Günter Grass: „Was gesagt werden muss“
No full textThe article reconstructs the polemic against Grass „Was gesagt werden muß“. The author of “The Tin Drum” incited hatred against him again. His literary work to date has been depreciated (Henryk M. Broder, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Leon de Winter and others). Volker Neuhaus, an excellent expert on Grass’s work and the author of his newest biography „Günter Grass. Schriftsteller – Künstler – Zeitgenosse. Eine Biographie“ polemicises against those indecent insults in an honest and competent way.The article reconstructs the polemic against Grass „Was gesagt werden muß“. The author of “The Tin Drum” incited hatred against him again. His literary work to date has been depreciated (Henryk M. Broder, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Leon de Winter and others). Volker Neuhaus, an excellent expert on Grass’s work and the author of his newest biography „Günter Grass. Schriftsteller – Künstler – Zeitgenosse. Eine Biographie“ polemicises against those indecent insults in an honest and competent way.Artykuł rekonstruuje polemikę wokół Güntera Grassa „Was gesagt werden muß“. Autor „Blaszanego bębenka” wyzwolił ponownie ogromne pokłady nienawiści wobec swojej osoby. Równocześnie deprecjonowano jego dotychczasowy dorobek literacki (Henryk M. Broder, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Leon de Winter i inni). Z tymi niegodziwymi obelgami polemizuje w sposób rzetelny i kompetentny Volker Neuhaus, znakomity znawca twórczości Grassa oraz autor najnowszej biografii o nim „Günter Grass. Schriftsteller – Künstler – Zeitgenosse. Eine Biographie“
Performance of near-duplicate detection algorithms for Crawljax
No full textCrawljax is a crawler, which not only finds states via regular links, but also states that are hidden by JavaScript actions. However, this leads to a gigantic number of states with many duplicates. A near-duplicate detection algorithm can be a solution to limit the number of states found by Crawljax, while crawling the most essential, unique states. Through a literature survey it became apparent that Simhash and Broder are two state-of-the-art near-duplicate detection algorithms that are suitable for Crawljax. In this project, both algorithms are implemented into Crawljax. These algorithms have been tested extensively to determine the performance of the new duplicate detection algorithms on Crawljax in comparison with the current version of duplicate detection. The testing has been done using a separate calibration tool, which can distribute tasks over different machines to lower the amount of time needed for the tests. This calibration tool will return the number of mistakes of every near-duplicate detection algorithms for many different parameter values. This make it possible to compare the performance of the near-duplicate detection algorithms. The results of the calibration tool showed us that Crawlhash was faster, but Broder was slightly better. Additionally the so-called threshold-slider has been designed to simulate what would have happened with the state-flow-graph of a crawl if a higher threshold was used. This makes it possible to find a nice threshold for one specific web application.Computer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceDelft University of Technolog
Pixelated Faces in IRL (In Real Life) Places: Exploring How "Textese" in Melissa Broder's "So Sad Today" Builds Community Among Confessional Women Writers
No full text"So Sad Today" is a collection of personal and confessional essays by poet and essayist, Melissa Broder, that uses texting language to write about the intimate details of the author's life. In this paper, the author looks at Broder's work, and that of other confessional poets
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