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APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, March 26, 1973
No full textBenjamin E. Mays and others at an APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet. Written on verso: APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, Stouffer's Atlanta [?], 7 p.m. March 26, 1973, L to R: President Waights Henry, Lagrange College, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Mayor Sam Massell. Benjamin E. Mays attends APUCG High Education Banquet
The self-advocates of 's Heeren Loo Mid Netherlands:Stories by Benjamin, Frank, and Sam. Coping with the COVID-19 crisis
No full textOne at a time, our five faces appear on screen as we enter our video call. The self-advocates Benjamin van Ark, Frank Brakke, Sam France and coach Hessel Rienstra are ready, and start making jokes among themselves, it’s a good vibe. Several of them are very happy to be back at the office - at a safe distance from one another. ‘Listen, if I knock on the walls, you will hear it at Benjamin’s, do you hear it?’ The self-advocates of 's Heeren Loo Mid Netherlands are ready to share their corona-stories with you
On the Nabokovian Resonance of “The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey”
No full textIn this paper I examine the ramifications of doubling and repetition in Nabokov’s Lolita, with reference to Proustian notions of recollection, which are adumbrated in the novel at various occasions, such as Humbert’s claim to have written an academic paper titled “The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey.” I begin by tracing out the contours of what such an article might have been like and then I apply these points to a reading of Lolita.</jats:p
Questioning modern time with Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin
Get PDFFour texts from Arendt and Benjamin are the scene of our thinking. We enact the question of time as a refusal to abide by the modern conception of time, where the present is the only ground of the real. We argue for a notion of time, in which all that-has-been is considered a site of real experience.
Firstly we discuss Arendt's book On Revolution. Through issues such as history, the eventful and revolt we show the usefulness of the question of time to further our understanding. Secondly in Arendt's 'What is Freedom', freedom is discussed beyond the private individual, as a matter of plurality, of living together. The question of time shows freedom grounded beyond the individual's present, in the historical time of plurality.
With Benjamin's essay 'On some motifs in Baudelaire' we show poetry as a challenge to the symbolic environment of the commodity world. Poetry appears as a keeper of our relation to the time of memory and language that precedes us. In Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility', we distinguish art from technology through the question of time. Art's experience
involves an active relation with what-has-been, with past generations; it challenges the technological way of relating to the world that destroys the depth of human expenence.
Finally, Arendt and Benjamin are presented together, stressing their use of history and tradition to address the problems of modernity. Their effort to think the eventful is related to their negation of historical progression. From the question of time, their thinking teaches us a form of critique that denies the preconception of presence as being the totality of the real. Under their gaze presence is revealed as a changing surface under the sway of history, of time
The self-advocates of 's Heeren Loo Mid Netherlands: Stories by Benjamin, Frank, and Sam. Coping with the COVID-19 crisis
No full textOne at a time, our five faces appear on screen as we enter our video call. The self-advocates Benjamin van Ark, Frank Brakke, Sam France and coach Hessel Rienstra are ready, and start making jokes among themselves, it’s a good vibe. Several of them are very happy to be back at the office - at a safe distance from one another. ‘Listen, if I knock on the walls, you will hear it at Benjamin’s, do you hear it?’ The self-advocates of 's Heeren Loo Mid Netherlands are ready to share their corona-stories with you
Boy Gothic and Other Stories
Get PDF[i]Boy Gothic and Other Stories[/i], by James Benjamin Storey, is a collection of short stories related by theme. Most of the stories follow the life of Sam, our main character, as he confronts and explores the modern condition--poverty, race, politics, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Perhaps the most important conflict is Sam's Ptolemaic struggle to overcome his father, a large man whose influence restricts Sam to the role of "perpetual boy." The thesis is organized in a morning, noon, night cycle corresponding to Sam's age. The collection is patterned after Hemingway's [i]In Our Time[/i] in the inclusion of short-shorts between longer stories. Other major influences include Faulkner, Joyce, Ellison, and Anderson. As an example of its writer's current development, the thesis includes works created throughout its author's graduate studies. The result is a collection that reflects the major literary movements of the 20th century
Group portrait of the 25th electricians class at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, circa 1910
No full textPictured: Abe Axenfield, Hyman Bennett, Milton Bergman, Israel Brofsky, George Bush, David Estreich, Eugene Feilenbogen, Theodore Feinne, Walter Fischer, Louis Friedman, George M. Gantzman, Harry Gintzler, Morris Golobe, Jacob Greene, Isidor A. Gross, Louis Heyman, Fred Hansa, S. Ivry, Joseph A. Juskowitz, Harry Kanter, Sam Kleinberg, Abe Knight, Max Lasher, Elias Kresel, Leo Levy, Benjamin Meirowitz, Benjamin Metz, Morris Nydofsky, Emanuel Osband, David Rapp, Isaac Rosenbaum, Harry Rosenblatt, Aaron Roth, Lewis Rubin, Mathew Russell, Louis Scher, Harry Scherer, Henry Schmitman, Walter Schuck, Isidor Schwer, Sam Trokie, Michael Walker, Samuel Weinberg, Arnold Weinberger, Benjamin Weltman, Max Wirth.Not pictured: Saul Davis, Meyer Greenberg, Abraham Karscher, Jacob Malamert, Louis Zletopolsky.Digital imag
Names written in invisible ink: Walter Benjamin, friendship and historical generation
No full textThis thesis takes a diagram of Walter Benjamin’s Urbekanntschaften (‘primal acquaintances’)
as its starting point to explore questions of friendship and generation in relation to history, as manifested through Benjamin’s work and biography. The diagram, drawn hastily in
the corner of a notebook in 1932, includes 48 names connected by lines. I first transpose
this diagram into a number of counter-forms to interrogate its potential significance: into
the arborescent form of an ontogenetic/phylogenetic tree, a diagram of chemical bonds,
a city map and an astral chart. Each chapter then draws out a number of spatio-temporal
constellations detectable on the diagram: from Benjamin’s exile in Switzerland from 1917
to his time in Naples/Capri in 1923–24 and, lastly, to his time in Paris around 1927. With
each moment clusters of names and shared generational concerns emerge. With 1933 and
the fracturing of the generation by political and social crisis, the diagram is surpassed by
another document: an address book, used by Benjamin from 1933 until his death in 1940.
The address book is a record of scattering: the dispersal of people, relationships, things in
exile, as testament to repeated erasures. In order to ground the thesis in an account of
experience, I contextualise each moment on the stage of Benjamin’s generational
development. This is both collective (historical, phylogenetic) but also individual
(historical, ontogenetic), from an account of adolescence to maturation into the 1920s.
1933 brings an account of degeneration and the thesis falls back into childhood in the
conclusion: with an account of projected salvation. The purpose of this thesis is to
reconsider the work of Walter Benjamin within the context of his life, through his
associations and within the currents of larger historical conjunctures; to examine questions
of friendship and its relation to history and politics; to investigate the parallels of friendship and generation from the work of Benjamin alongside his contemporaries; to understand friendship’s relation to freedom and the redemption not just of life but the concept of friendship itself
Names written in invisible ink: Walter Benjamin, friendship and historical generation
No full textThis thesis takes a diagram of Walter Benjamin’s Urbekanntschaften (‘primal acquaintances’)
as its starting point to explore questions of friendship and generation in relation to history, as manifested through Benjamin’s work and biography. The diagram, drawn hastily in
the corner of a notebook in 1932, includes 48 names connected by lines. I first transpose
this diagram into a number of counter-forms to interrogate its potential significance: into
the arborescent form of an ontogenetic/phylogenetic tree, a diagram of chemical bonds,
a city map and an astral chart. Each chapter then draws out a number of spatio-temporal
constellations detectable on the diagram: from Benjamin’s exile in Switzerland from 1917
to his time in Naples/Capri in 1923–24 and, lastly, to his time in Paris around 1927. With
each moment clusters of names and shared generational concerns emerge. With 1933 and
the fracturing of the generation by political and social crisis, the diagram is surpassed by
another document: an address book, used by Benjamin from 1933 until his death in 1940.
The address book is a record of scattering: the dispersal of people, relationships, things in
exile, as testament to repeated erasures. In order to ground the thesis in an account of
experience, I contextualise each moment on the stage of Benjamin’s generational
development. This is both collective (historical, phylogenetic) but also individual
(historical, ontogenetic), from an account of adolescence to maturation into the 1920s.
1933 brings an account of degeneration and the thesis falls back into childhood in the
conclusion: with an account of projected salvation. The purpose of this thesis is to
reconsider the work of Walter Benjamin within the context of his life, through his
associations and within the currents of larger historical conjunctures; to examine questions
of friendship and its relation to history and politics; to investigate the parallels of friendship and generation from the work of Benjamin alongside his contemporaries; to understand friendship’s relation to freedom and the redemption not just of life but the concept of friendship itself
In senescence accelerated mouse (SAM) heart, the protective effect of postconditioning is associated with a decrease in oxidative stress
No full textSupplément vol.27, World Congress of Cardiology 2006International audienceThe senescent heart susceptibility to ischemia (I) triggers multiple processes especially oxidative stress but precise mechanisms remain unclear. New animal’s models such as "Senescence Accelerated Mouse" Prone 8 (SAM-P8) and their control (SAM-R1) can be useful for a better understanding of aging process. We studied heart adaptation of these mice to I/reperfusion (R) sequence and a putative cardioprotector effect of post-conditioning (PC). Isolated working mice (8 months) hearts were subjected to a global total ischemia (20 minutes at 38°C), followed by 40 minutes of reperfusion. 4 groups of hearts were constituted: 1) SAM-R1 (n=8), 2) SAM-P8 (n=9), brief ischemia applied during the onset of reperfusion 3 times I: 10 sec, R: 10 sec for PC groups, 3) SAM-R1 PC (n=7) and 4) SAM-P8 PC (n=8). Myocardial functions (left ventricular end systolic/diastolic pressures, contractility, relaxation, aortic flow, coronary flow and heart rate) were recorded throughout the protocol. Hearts were then frozen and superoxide anion (O•− 2 ) production has been evaluated on cryosections using a fluorescent probe Dihydroethidium (DHE). During pre-I period, cardiac functional parameters were comparable in all groups. SAM-P8 heart showed the worst reperfusion parameters compare to SAM-R1; for instance cardiac output (0.60±0.33 ml/min vs. 1.84±0.64 ml/min, p<0.05). PC induced a significant better functional recovery on both group (3.96±0.68 ml/min SAM-R1 PC vs. 3.20±0.78 ml/min SAM-P8 PC; p<0.05). Furthermore PC is associated with a significant reduction of superoxide production on heart slice has been observed (p<0.05). These results indicate that SAM-P8 mice, a murine model of aging, present a susceptibility to reversible I and are still sensitive to PC. This cardioprotection is associated with a decrease of free radicals production. These results demonstrate a role of the oxidative stress in the process of myocardial adaptation to I/R sequences
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