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Opening Prayer and Introductions
No full textWords of welcome from Susan Ferguson, director of the University of Dayton Center for Catholic Education
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Host Range Expansion of an Endemic Insect Herbivore is Associated With High Nitrogen and Low Fibre Content in Exotic Pasture Plants
No full textRed Cardinal, White Snow
No full textIn Red Cardinal, White Snow, Susan Ayres tells us in the first poem that childhood is not a meadow, and she will document the spirit shatter of mental illness and family trauma. But these stunning poems do so for the sake of talking back to ruin, showing us the beauty of love under pressure, how illumination coexists with heartache, and disorder strengthens kindness. These poems are a master class in the art of becoming human. ~Betsy Sholl
The poems in Red Cardinal, White Snow by Susan Ayres allow readers to touch “the broken membrane between sanity and terror.” That membrane has all the voltage and punch of a live wire, but the powerful, heart-heavy, and earthy, images ground us, keep us safe as we are reminded how shockingly fragile living and loving well can be. ~Tomás Q. Morín
In Red Cardinal, White Snow, the poet’s work has been to mold the mud of experience into a vase of words. And she has succeeded by calling on all the shaping devices of poetic form. From the brilliant title and perfectly chosen Octavio Paz epigraph, to the striking metaphors, and memorable diction (“susurrated stories”), Ayres’ poems transform howls of anguish into art. What an accomplishment. ~Bonnie Lyons, author of So Fa
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896
No full textResponse letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Subjective Versus Objective: An Exploratory Analysis of Latino Primary Care Patients With Self-Perceived Depression Who Do Not Fulfill Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire Criteria for Depression
No full textObjective: Identification and treatment of depression may be difficult for primary care providers when there is a mismatch between the patient’s subjective experiences of illness and objective criteria. Cultural differences in presentation of symptoms among Latino immigrants may hinder access to care for treatment of depression. This article seeks to describe the self-perceptions and symptoms of Latino primary care patients who identify themselves as depressed but do not meet screening criteria for depression.
Method: A convenience sample of Latino immigrants (N = 177) in Corona, Queens, New York, was obtained from a primary care practice from August 2008 to December 2008. The sample was divided into 3 groups according to whether participants met Patient Health Questionnaire diagnostic criteria for depression and whether or not participants had a self-perceived mental health problem and self-identified their problem as “depression” from a checklist of cultural idioms of distress. Psychosocial, demographic, and treatment variables were compared between the 3 groups.
Results: Participants’ descriptions of symptoms had a predominantly somatic component. The most common complaints were ánimo bajo (low energy) and decaimiento (weakness). Participants with “subjective” depression had mean scores of somatic symptoms and depression severity that were significantly lower than the participants with “objective” depression and significantly higher than the group with no depression (P < .0001).
Conclusions: Latino immigrants who perceive that they need help with depression, but do not meet screening criteria for depression, still have significant distress and impairment. To avoid having these patients “fall through the cracks,” it is important to take into account culturally accepted expressions of distress and the meaning of illness for the individual.Peer reviewe
How to assess higher-order thinking skills: in your classroom
No full textEducators know it is important to get students to engage in higher-order thinking. But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K-12 classroom teachers asses it across the discipline? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhaart answers these questions and more in this straightforward, practical guide to assessment that can help teachers determine if children are actually displaying the kind of complex thinking the current content standards emphasize
The ins of the striatum: Utilizing chemogenetics to define the contribution of cortical and thalamic afferents during addiction behaviors
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08Addiction is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder accompanied by high rates of recidivism that lacks effect treatment, part of which may be due to an incomplete understanding of the brain circuits mediating addiction. Cortico-basal ganglia circuitry is a complex, interconnected network regulating addiction. Aberrant glutamatergic signaling in NAc is particularly important for the development and persistent of addiction, and NAc neurons receive glutamatergic innervation from many structures, with prefrontal cortex (PFC) and midline and intralaminar thalamic nuclei (MTN) inputs predominating. Recently we developed a viral mediated gene transfer approach combined with chemogenetics that allows us to selectively activate Gi/o-signaling cascades to reduce neuronal activity in specifically prefrontal cortex (PFC) or MTN NAc afferents during addiction-related behaviors. Thus, the overall goal of this dissertation was to utilize these novel techniques to more clearly define the role of PFC or MTN neurons projecting to the NAc in the regulation of psychomotor sensitization, drug-self administration, and drug-seeking behaviors in rats. We found that reducing neuronal activity of PFC neurons projecting to NAc attenuated the development of amphetamine sensitization. However, attenuating activity of these neurons during sensitization enhanced conditioned responses during a subsequent challenge session. Furthermore, our corticostriatal manipulation did not alter drug-taking during self-administration, but led to slower rates of extinction and enhanced responding following a priming injection of cocaine. We normalized responding following inhibition of corticostriatal afferents immediately prior to the drug-primed reinstatement test. These results demonstrate that corticostriatal afferents modulate responsiveness to psychostimulant drugs and drug-associated stimuli. Considerably less is known about the relative contribution of MTN to relapse behaviors compared to other sources of NAc glutamate, despite sending dense projections to NAc. First, I demonstrate that reducing activity of MTN attenuates both cue-induced and drug-primed reinstatement of cocaine-seeking, which establishes a role of MTN in relapse behaviors. Then I show that dampening activity of specifically anterior MTN neurons projecting to NAc (MTN-NAc) abolished drug-prime reinstatement, but enhanced cue-induced reinstatement. We found no effect of the same manipulation in posterior MTN-NAc during either reinstatement behavior. These results demonstrate MTN mediate relapse behavior, and MTN-NAc may be particularly important for regulating responses to drug-associated stimuli
Walk Like the Bird Flies
No full textThese poems transport us from Texas desert landscapes to New England mountains to Adriatic tavernas, festivals, and landmarks, and at the same time they offer vivid confrontations with the elements of the natural world—mud, fire, water, forests, the wind that possibly “[carries] messages from beyond”—treating both foreign cities and nature’s manifestations as phenomena to observe and honor through the eyes of an estranged but receptive traveler. Susan Ayres fuses images from inner and outer landscapes, raising questions that can’t be answered and perspectives that can’t be contained but nevertheless offer sparks of revelation in poem after poem.
–Leslie Ullman, (The You That All Along Has Housed You and Library of Small Happiness)
“Listen to me as one listens to the rain,” Susan Ayres begins this incredible journey, because only when she listens to the rain can her imagination wander and guide us through a history and geography that is at once personal and cosmic in its reach. Indeed, she ends with a long poem that itself carries us from “from silkworms to / Skies.” But what is even more exciting, and so skillfully done, is the kind counterpointing that moves us from a medieval bridge in Slovenia to the American west to a contemporary beach to Led Zeppelin, a combination that requires great skill and vision. And skill and vision are what we have here, giving us a new sense and appreciation of our world, for Ayres has given us poetry’s version of Galileo’s Starry Messenger.
–Richard Jackson, Author of The World as Framed: New and Select Poem
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