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Lecture: Author Susan Orlean
No full textShaker Library and the Shaker Schools Foundation present Susan Orlean, SHHS grad and author of The Library Book, who will speak about her love of libraries and the impact of books on her life.
Susan Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights and graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1973, where she was editor in chief of the school’s yearbook, The Gristmill. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976. She has written for the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York
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Episode 39: The UNT Cares Campaign & University Advancement with Dr. David Wolf
No full textPodcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with Dr. David Wolf, Vice President for University Advancement at UNT. Susan and Dr. Wolf discuss the mission of the Division of University Advancement, and Dr. Wolf's background and journey into a career in higher education philanthropy
MJLST at 5 Years, the Consortium at 10
No full textWolf, Susan M.. (2010). MJLST at 5 Years, the Consortium at 10. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155753
Die Vollmacht im Erbgang des Vollmachtgebers - zu einer Schnittstelle zwischen Obligationen- und Erbrecht
No full textThe Role of Law in the Debate over Return of Research Results and Incidental Findings: The Challenge of Developing Law for Translational Science
No full textWolf, Susan M.. (2012). The Role of Law in the Debate over Return of Research Results and Incidental Findings: The Challenge of Developing Law for Translational Science. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155953
Le sens dans la vie revisité par Susan Wolf
No full textDans mon mémoire sur le sens dans la vie, j’analyse la thèse que défend Susan Wolf dans Meaning in life and why it matters et les conditions requises pour désigner des activités ou projets dignes de sens. Wolf propose qu’un nouveau type de raisons dites «raisons d’amour», qu’elle distingue des arguments déontologiques ou conséquentialistes, soit admis pour légitimer une action. Les gestes faits par amour possèdent une valeur intrinsèque et sont, selon elle, porteurs des deux dimensions indispensables d’une action signifiante : une attraction subjective pour un objet digne de valeur et donc objectivement valable : «Meaning arise when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness» (Wolf, 2010, 9 ; Wolf, 1997a, 305). Ainsi, certaines caractéristiques des engagements donateurs de sens indiquent une valeur qui ne peut être réduite à la perception subjective de l’agent. Wolf concilie les deux approches naturalistes (objectiviste et subjectiviste) en se donnant un ancrage dans la subjectivité, laquelle serait en interaction avec et en réaction à un objet indépendant de la personne. Elle respecte la capacité propre à chacun d’être interpelé ou non par certains objets dignes de valeur, et développe une doctrine non-substantielle où chacun juge pour lui-même si les actions qui façonnent sa vie lui procurent une réelle signifiance et sont en ce sens dignes d’être accomplis ou poursuivis. Pour chacune des dimensions des engagements signifiants, nous présenterons des critiques ou limites de sa théorie et proposerons des compléments ou recommandations.“What gives my life meaning?” This question reaches new perspectives with the work of the philosopher Susan Wolf. The purpose of my master’s thesis is to present the account of Susan Wolf’s in Meaning in Life and why it matters and to discuss the interest and the limits of the conditions that she exposes. Wolf distinguishes two dimensions of an action (or an engagement, interest or project) that gives meaning: the subjective and the objective. They are both required as conditions that an action must fulfill to possibly contributes to the meaningfulness of a person’s life: «Meaning arises when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness» (Wolf, 1997, 305; Wolf, 2010, 9). Thus, her account invites us to recognize new reasons in normative ethics to justify an action. These are “reasons of love”. According to Wolf, this type of reason bears its own legitimacy and cannot be reduced nor be subsumed under the concepts of happiness or morality, essentially because it has an intrinsic value. The implications of this theory open the way both to a better understanding of the human being and to a conception of the good life which is more inclusive in normative ethics. Wolf suggest that no one can tell another what should give meaning to their life, but each one must develop the reflexive capacity that permits the narrative and subjective endorsement of what makes his life better and meaningful as well. And that’s the role of philosophy
Citizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbot
No full textCitizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbott, is executive director of the Hospice of Maine in Portland, and takes exception with the judicial system and the media for implying that caring for the terminally ill is similar to a prison sentence
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: Climate Anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton
No full textFive current FIT students and recent graduates will join Daniel Benkendorf and climate anxiety scholar, Dr. Susan Clayton.In this session, Daniel Benkendorf (Psychology) will discuss the issue of climate anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton, a psychologist who is both an internationally-recognized scholar on this topic and who is also a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A panel of current FIT students and recent graduates will join Benkendorf and Clayton as they define and explore the features and peculiarities of climate anxiety and consider ways to ameliorate it.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
'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'
Susan Kean\u27s Blotter, 1795
No full textThis blotter, or temporary record book, was made by Susan after the death of John Kean, her husband. There are 16 bound pages and one loose page of a different size. It included purchases, payments, items sold, lists of things, and where they were stored.
Headings: The Estate of John Kean in Stock and other Adventures as Estimate by himself in April 1795; A List Furniture & Horses Sold by Mrs. Susan Kean in the House No. 80 Wallnut Street and Money received for them; A list of Articles disposed of by Mrs. Susan Kean which were in the House in Wallnut St. in May 1795; List of Papers in the Small Balck Grunk; Papers in the Chariott Box; In the Smallest blue chest; Payments for land Susan rented in Bedminster [not titled].
Morning clothes were purchased for her son Peter Kean, sister-in-law Jane Corvasier, and enslaved people Jacob and Celia. Many interesting small details.
The book covers May and June 1795, with a few entries in 1797.
Names included: Peter Kean, John Guests, Joseph Lindall [later spelled Lyndall], Mrs. Rhea, Mrs. Hymphries, the Sexton, Jane Corvaisier, Mr. Izard, Mrs. Primmer, Lewis William Otto, Mr. Zitchborn, Jason Le Ray, Jacob Smith, Samuel Brick, Cooper, Francis the Coachman, Dr. Kuhn, J.R. Bard, Mrs. Shorten, Mr. Brown, Mr. Read, Philip Livingston, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Risberg, Messers Dunlap and Claypoole [newspapers], Mr. Mead, Mr. Willing, Mr. William Constable, Mr. Tench Coxe, Mr. Walker, Mr. Rutherford, Robert Eoff, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Steer, Mr. Aussin(?), Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Backwell, Mrs, Chew, Mr. Stephens, John Morel, P. Schermerhorn, Charles Harper, Mrs. Stewart, John Wolf, Mrs. Shortn, Mrs. Jandennis, Mrs. Bradford, Mrs. Brish(?), Mrs. Brooks, Fr. Footman, Mr. Biddle, Schermerhorn, Edward Pole, Mrs. Powels, Mrs. King. Enslaved people: Jacob, Celia.
Places: Wallnut [Walnut] Street.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1790s/1278/thumbnail.jp
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