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FIT Talks: Jamel Shabazz Interview
No full textApril Calahan, Curator of Manuscripts at the Special Collections and College Archives unit of the Fashion Institute of Technology library, interviews street style fashion photographer Jamel Shabazz. Mr. Shabazz talks of his life growing up in New York City as a child of divorce. He recalls how he started learning photography in Germany while serving in the armed forces. He began documenting his world in 1980 when he began taking photographs of young people who reminded him of his own life growing up, and found his camera facilitated his ability to engage with and mentor young people. He talks about the importance of mentorship, the trust that he honed between him and his subjects. He discusses how discounted clothing was often purchased from stores around Delancey and Orchard streets in the 1970s as well as other hubs where urban fashion originated from. He compares the photographic work he's done in the studio to his preference to shooting on the street. Calahan and Shabazz review the specific processes behind a number of Shabazz's favorite photographs. He finally discusses his respect for FIT, and his reasons for donating a collection of photographs to FIT's archive, and how important he believes photography is for documenting history. Alex Joseph, editor of Hue Magazine, joins in as interviewer to ask Mr. Shabazz about his personal clothing collection, which consists of pieces he designed himself or has kept over several decades, and which he uses in his fashion shoots. Finally, Mr. Shabazz recalls how fashion has changed over time.Jamel Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of fifteen, he picked up his first camera and started to document his peers. Inspired by photographers Leonard Freed, James Van Der Zee, and Gordon Parks, he was marveled with their documentation of the African American community. In 1980 as a concerned photographer with a clear vision he embarked on a mission to extensively document various aspects of life in New York City, from youth culture to a wide range of social conditions. Due to its spontaneity and uniqueness, the streets and subway system became backdrops for many of his photographs.Shabazz says his goal is to contribute to the preservation of world history and culture. In the past 10 years he has had over two dozen solo exhibitions; “Men of Honor”, “A Time Before Crack”, “Pieces of a Man”, “Represent”, When Two Worlds Meet”, “Back in the Days,” and “Seconds of my Life,” which have been shown from Argentina to The Netherlands, England, Italy, Germany, France, Japan and throughout the United States.An even longer list of group showings include Art Basel; Miami, the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, the Contact Photo Festival, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Duke University, and the Adidas Photo Festival in Ethiopia.Over the years Jamel has volunteered, working with a wide range organizations centered on inspiring young people in the field of photography and social responsibility. In addition, he has been a teaching artist with the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation; the Bronx Museum’s Teen Council youth program, The International Center of Photography, Friends of the Island Academy; and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Expanding the Walls Project.Adding to his community service he has lectured at the Fashion Institute of Technology, The International Center for Photography, The Brooklyn Historic Foundation, Haverford College and Parsons New School of Design.Shabazz is the author of 5 monographs and has contributed to numerous others. He is presently working on a new book, titled “The Book of Life”
A Lucky Man
No full textJamel Brinkley is the 2018 Sister Mariella Gable Award-winning author of A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Books). His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Epiphany, and LitMag. A graduate of the Iowa Writers\u27 Workshop, he was also the 2016,17 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers\u27 Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers\u27 Conference. Beginning this fall, he will be a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. (credit: Jamel Brinkley website
Exploring Stylistic Choices in Jamel Brinkley’s Short Story “Witness”
No full textSignificance of the stylistic studies in fictional works - prose or poetry, is profound, as it offers linguists opportunities to study and explore the expressiveness of language and linguistic elements that reveal author’s intentions, uncovering how language is used to convey meaning and evoke emotions. By exploring stylistic choices, linguists can gain a deeper understanding of author’s intents. Therefore, stylistic analysis of fictional language is always engaging and interesting, as demonstrated in Jamel Brinkley’s short story “Witness”. The main goal of the article is to analyze Brinkley’s stylistic choices, determine the expressiveness and emotiveness within the story and ascertain how the author makes his writing style distinctive
Artificial intelligence and the green economy: Towards an excellent and innovative solution to ensure sustainable animal feeding (concrete application on a farm in Beja, Tunisia)
No full textThe integration of artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate the green economy in terms
of reducing costs and wasting natural resources. Our research examined and verified this effect. Food waste is one of the main problems facing dairy farmers and livestock producers. There are two reasons for this problem: cows do not have the exact nutritional needs due to variations in quantity and quality from one cow to another, and due to the gestation cycle. The project used the Scrum methodology, an innovative AI tool, to address a need expressed by livestock producers in the region, where an automated breeding unit made it possible to dose the appropriate quantity and type of feed for each cow. The work is carried out in an innovation laboratory, with dynamic specifications expressed by the product owner, the farmer. Our application has shown that AI can be considered a sustainable and excellent solution in the animal feed supply process
Joanna Jamel: Transphobic hate crime
No full textThe enactment of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, has given fresh impetus to concerns about the impediments the transgender community continues to face in fully enjoying and exercising its constitutional rights, despite the Supreme Court’s decision in National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) vs. Union of India,Footnote1 which gave legal recognition to non-binary gender identities. The legal developments in India have not taken place in isolation; since the turn of the 21st century, the right to gender self-identification has become a contested issue across many jurisdictions.Footnote2 However, legal advances have not necessarily translated into social acceptance for the transgender community. Dr Joanna Jamel’s book, Transphobic Hate Crime, promises to be a primer that moves beyond the legal and focuses on the socio-historical status of non-binary people (p. xi). The book opens with a vital claim, that of being the first text dedicated ‘solely’ to the study of transphobic hate crime,with particular reference to the Anglo-American and European context (pp. xi–xv). To make her analysis comprehensive, the author examines the responses of not just lawmakers and law-enforcers to transphobic hate crimes but also the factors that give rise to the exclusion of, and violence against, gender non-conforming people. Despite the forthright admission of her limited frame of reference, the author attempts to address carping criticism of the ‘whiteness’ of research on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sexual characteristics (SOGIESC) (p. xi). To this end, she endeavours to deconstruct the fallacious belief of the homogeneity of the transgender community, emphasising the advantages of adopting an intersectional approach to scholarship on the various axes of identity (p. xv). In this review, I assess if the book manages to accomplish its ambitious goal of providing a ‘holistic perspective’ on the rights of trans individuals (p. xi)
Saint Paul, the Ismāʻīlīs, and the end of the world : new visions of the religious law
No full textHasan Salah, a 13th-century exponent of the Isma'ili qiyamat doctrine, and Saint Paul the Apostle, the author of much of the New Testament, believed that during their lifetimes, a Messiah had come. The arrival of the Messiah triggered the end time; in this new time of sacredness, both authors believed that it was impossible---and even counterproductive---to gain salvation by following the traditional religious law. This thesis juxtaposes both authors' conceptions of the religious law, highlighting how each author reinterprets scripture to argue that the law simply cannot bring salvation in this new time. It then discusses how, in place of the law, both authors advocate a new, more individual soteriology structured around the Messianic figure. This thesis then discusses the seven shared structural features of both eschatologically based theologies, strengthening the corpus of evidence suggesting that Isma'ili thinkers often incorporate specifically Christian elements into their theology
Asymptotic study of Leray Solution of 3D-NSE With Exponential Damping
No full textWe study the uniqueness, the continuity in and the large time decay for
the Leray solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the
nonlinear exponential damping term , ()
studied by the second author in \cite{J1}.Comment: 14 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:2201.0829
Nigerian Christians vs. Nigerian Muslims: Secularism, Violence, and The Rhetoric of Blame
No full textIn this thesis I will be discussing in detail the conflict between the Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. I started my research originally in London conducting\ud
interviews and talking to many Nigerian Christians and Nigerian Muslims about the\ud
conflict between these two religious groups. While there I got a great perspective on how these Nigerians felt about the conflict first hand, but I was still left with many questions.\ud
The majority of the Nigerians I interviewed were Christian, but I wanted to know which religious group was truly responsible for the violence? What were the underlying issues revolved around the conflict? What could be done to solve the conflict? While reading and researching, I came across a series Studies in Christian-Muslims\ud
Relations by a Christian author Jan H. Boer. Boer had spent over thirty\ud
years studying in Nigeria about Christians and Muslims, and considered himself an\ud
expert on colonialism. In this nine volume series, Boer answered some of these same questions I had about which religious group was to blame and what the\ud
underlying issues around the violence in Nigeria were. Boer's goal was to end the violence in Nigeria by establishing parameters for each religious group to follow so there could be peaceful coexistence, he believed the only way for his goal to be achieved was for the Christians to become more\ud
holistic, and the Muslims to have an open mind toward pluralism.\ud
In my thesis, I will be doing an in depth analysis of Boer's argument and his rhetorical structures of blame. He starts out with a claim about the negativity of\ud
secularism, which is a major point to this argument. Boer believes that secularism is the underlying issue of the conflict because it derails Christian biblical thought, and\ud
goes against the Muslim Sharia Law. Boer showcases many rhetorical structures of blame, but they are related to his belief that Muslims are the essential religious group to blame for the violence in Nigeria. Some of these rhetorical structures of blame Boer discusses include the\ud
Sharia Law, the Muslim dominant nature, and the teaching of justified Muslim violence. In the end, Boer leaves some unanswered questions on the table, especially\ud
about the positive and negative intentions of secularism, but overall, these rhetorical structures of blame exist and have been focused around the Muslims. Boer's series goes from identifying who is responsible for the conflict, to what the\ud
issues are behind the violence, and finally what can be done to stop it and bring peace for the future. I also offer my own advice about what can be done for the\ud
Christians and Muslims to live together peacefully in Nigeria
Vibrational control: Application to a laser-illuminated reaction and extension to nonlinear functional differential equations
No full textVibrational Control method is an open-loop control technique which utilizes zero mean parametric excitations to modify the behavior of dynamical systems in a desired manner. It may be used where conventional methods such as feedback or feedforward techniques fail due to restricted sensing and/or actuation. There are two major goals in this thesis. The first goal is to implement vibrational control technique in a physical system to verify its potential applicability as an alternative to feedback. The second goal is to extend vibrational control theory to a more general class of systems, namely nonlinear systems with finite time delays. To achieve the first goal, the laser illuminated thermochemical reaction, S\sb2O\sb6F\sb2 2 SO\sb3F\cdot, was chosen. Numerical simulation and experimental work were carried out for the case of a rectangular wave oscillating incident laser power. It was shown experimentally that such parametric vibrations can indeed induce asymptotically stable operating regimes with averages located at initially unstable steady states as predicted by vibrational control theory. Hence, vibrational control is demonstrated to be a feasible stabilizing strategy for laser induced reactions that needs no on-line measurements and complex actuators. For the second goal, three problems of control of nonlinear systems with time delays were addressed: (i) an existence and a synthesis of parametric vibrations for their stabilization, (ii) the transient behavior analysis of the vibrationally controlled nonlinear systems with time lags, and (iii) the robustness analysis of this class of systems with respect to the vibration parameters. Stabilizability conditions for two vibration types are formulated and procedures for the synthesis of the corresponding stabilizing vibrations are proposed. The method for the transient behavior analysis of vibrationally controlled systems on a finite time interval is developed as well. Several examples are given to support the theory presented. The robustness analysis of the type of vibrations considered has shown that linear multiplicative vibrations do result in totally robustly stable equilibrium point, whereas vector additive vibrations result only in robust stabilizability within a known margin of the order O().Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:43:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Taʾwīl of an Apocalyptic Transcript I: The Book of Unveiling
No full textThis chapter examines the apocalyptic symbolism of one of the first works of taʾwīl attributed to the Fatimids, the Kitāb al-kashf, or Book of Unveiling. After a brief introduction to the apocalyptic elements of the Quran, the chapter shows how the author of the Kitāb al-kashf interpreted the text to argue that the Quran’s descriptions of the end of time in actuality referred to the coming of the awaited eschatological figure, the mahdi. The chapter argues that the Kitāb al-kashf’s taʾwīl of the Quran’s eschatological and apocalyptic imagery created a new transcript whose soteriological structure was centred around belief in and support for the mahdi and his cause.</p
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