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Usability and acceptability of a website that provides tailored advice on falls prevention activities for older people
No full textThis article presents the usability and acceptability of a website that provides older people with tailored advice to help motivate them to undertake physical activities that prevent falls. Views on the website from interviews with 16 older people and 26 sheltered housing wardens were analysed thematically. The website was well received with only one usability difficulty with the action plan calendar. The older people selected balance training activities out of interest or enjoyment, and appeared to carefully add them into their current routine. The wardens were motivated to promote the website to their residents, particularly those who owned a computer, had balance problems, or were physically active. However, the participants noted that currently a minority of older people use the Internet. Also, some older people underestimated how much activity was enough to improve balance, and others perceived themselves as too old for the activities
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
President\u27s Council of Black Education Correspondence 1970
No full textCorrespondence between President of USF, Albert R. Jonsen, Herold L. Perry, Samuel L. Kountz, Terry A. Francois, and Burl A. Toler regarding the creation of the President\u27s Council of Black Education
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Author Samuel Delaney talks about his participation in the 38th annual Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at Michigan State University
No full textAuthor Samuel Delaney talks about his participation in the 38th annual Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Delaney comments on the work done by the students, and the impact which the workshop might have on their careers. He also talks about his own writing career, teaching, who influenced him, and why he portrays mundane and often vulgar acts in his books. Delaney is interviewed by Capital Area District Library librarian Jessica Trotter
Écriture de soi et traduction dans les oeuvres « jumelles » de Samuel Beckett et Wilfred R. Bion
No full textÉcriture de soi et traduction dans les oeuvres « jumelles » de Samuel Beckett et Wilfred R. Bion — Cet article envisage la problématique de la traduction à partir du champ psychanalytique. Wilfred R. Bion fut pour une brève période l'analyste de Samuel Beckett. L'auteur souhaite démontrer que les écrits de Samuel Beckett et Wilfred R. Bion peuvent être lus comme des oeuvres jumelles qui tentent à leur manière de traduire l'infigurable source du « secret » de la cure. L'auteur aborde l'étude du concept d'après coup en psychanalyse, la mise enjeu du mythe de Babel dans l'oeuvre théorique de Bion, la traduction de la langue-mère dans l'oeuvre de Beckett. Les oeuvres de Bion et Beckett tenteraient ainsi l'impossible traduction du trauma dans la langue maternelle.Writing the Seifand Translation in the "Twin" Works of Samuel Beckett and Wilfred R. Bion — This article takes the psychoanalytic field as its point of departure in its discussion of the problematics of translation. For a brief period, Wilfred R. Bion was Samuel Beckett's analyst. The author endeavors to show that the writings of Beckett and Bion can be read as "twin" works that attempt, in their way, to translate the elusive source of the cure's "secret." The author examines the concept of après coup (deferred action) in psychoanalysis, the role of the Babel myth in Bion's theoretical writings, and the translation of the mother tongue in Beckett's writings. Both Bion and Beckett's writings would thus attempt the impossible translation, that of translating trauma into the mother tongue
Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, Interviewed by Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, August 21, 2012
No full textVideo interviews with a complementing monograph providing reflections of former presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities discussing leadership, mission, challenges, successes, and issues of race and education. Interviewer: Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, President, South Carolina State University 1992-1995, President, Knoxville College 1997-2005. Interviewee: Dr. Samuel Dubois Cook, President Dillard University 1974-1997
Presidents Council of Black Education Correspondence 1970
No full textCorrespondence, dated between January 15, 1970, and February 15, 1970, between Albert R. Jonsen, USF president; Herold L. Perry, Attorny-at-Law; Dr. Samuel L. Kountz; UC Medical Center; Terry A. Francois, Board of Supervisors; and Burl A. Toler, USF alum and football star, and principal, Ben Franklin Middle School, on the creation of President's Council of Black Education
Samuel Victor Perry. 16 July 1918 — 17 December 2009
No full textSamuel Victor Perry (1918–2009) was a biochemist who was born in the Isle of Wight, moved shortly thereafter to King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and then spent the greater part of his youth in Southport, Lancashire. His undergraduate education and early research at Liverpool University were followed by army service for the duration of World War II. After his capture in North Africa he spent much of the war as a prisoner of war, during which time his several escapes became the stuff of legends. In 1946 he began research towards his PhD degree at Cambridge University on the protein chemistry of muscle, a central theme in which he was actively engaged for more than 60 years. These were his halcyon days—member of a leading research group in muscle, alongside distinguished achievements as an English rugby international. After a Cambridge University lectureship he was appointed Head of Biochemistry in Birmingham University in 1959—a post he occupied with distinction until retirement, elevating his department to one of international stature. Among his many contributions to the protein biochemistry of muscle contraction and its regulation were the discovery of skeletal muscle myosin phosphorylation, whose significance is still a field of active research, and the recognition that the presence of the cardiac protein troponin I in the bloodstream could be used as a diagnostic marker of myocardial infarction. Perry was an inveterate gardener, especially happy in his beloved Felin Werndew, a beautiful retreat in Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire. In August 1948 he married Maureen Shaw. She and their son and two daughters survive him.</jats:p
Carmichael, Jr., Halbert R., June 4, 2019 [Interview]
No full textHalbert R. Carmichael, Jr. was interviewed on June 4, 2019, by Devin McKinney about his youth and his education at Gettysburg College.Hyman, James; Glover, Buddy; Cooper, Jr., Donald L.; Lee, Michael; King, Jr., Martin Luther; Malcolm X; Cato, Oliver W.; Beatty, Murel; Clark, Perry; Ciolini, Salvatore; Jones, W. Ramsey; Hanson, C. Arnold; Jones, Lorenzo; Mudd, Samuel A.; Smoke, Kenneth L.; Shand, John D.; Pittman, Thane S.Carl Arnold Hanson Year
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