American Humor in Literature and Politics

1985 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
William Hill ◽  
Dennis Lape
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Strobe Light ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Humor In Literature ◽  
American Humor

The lights dim. The students stir nervously, not sure of what to expect of the strobe light and the background music from "Thriller." The student course guide had recommended American Humor in Literature and Politics, but no one had been able to locate a living survivor to provide a personal testimony. Two middle-aged men of spacious girths enter the room and begin calling the roll. One looks like he might be a Democrat. The other one doesn't. As they alternate calling student names, crack terrible puns, and climb in and out of fright wigs and false noses, it begins to dawn on the class why no Ishmael has stepped forward to tell the story of American Humor.

scholarly journals ”Jag kunde bara slåss” Förklaringar och vändningar i tidigare kriminella kvinnors personliga berättelser

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wästerfors ◽  
Hanna Edgren ◽  
André Grigoriadis
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Personal Stories

”Fighting was the only thing I was good at”– Accounts and biographical turns in previously criminal women’s personal storiesToday’s narrative criminology offers a more nuanced approach to understanding crime than many previous approaches. In this article we draw on personal stories from four middle-aged women with criminal experiences to explore some analytic tracks in this area. First, we show how recognizable sad tales, employed by the women to account for previous crimes and drug use, are supplemented by incorporated aspects of happy tales, as well as reflexive markers of storytelling and ”accounts of accounts”. The women identify their formerly active neutralizations, and they account for why they used them. Second, we refine an analysis of biographical turning points by focusing details that complicate the points at issue. Life changes are narrated as more uncertain, oscillating, long lasting and educational than might be expected. ”Doing motherhood” and a Meadian story of taking the role of the other are conspicuous; the narrators try to depict their lives from their children’s point of view. Having a child and, eventually, caring for it is attributed a life changing significance.

Auditory Attention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Philip Beaman
Keyword(s):  
Background Noise ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Auditory Attention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Auditory Distraction ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
The One

The modern world is noisy. Streets are cacophonies of traffic noise; homes and workplaces are replete with bleeping timers, announcements, and alarms. Everywhere there is the sound of human speech—from the casual chatter of strangers and the unwanted intrusion from electronic devices through to the conversations with friends and loved ones one may actually wish to hear. Unlike vision, it is not possible simply to “close our ears” and shut out the auditory world and nor, in many cases, is it desirable. On the one hand, soft background music or environmental sounds, such as birdsong or the noise of waves against the beach, is often comfortingly pleasurable or reassuring. On the other, alarms are usually auditory for a reason. Nevertheless, people somehow have to identify, from among the babble that surrounds them, the sounds and speech of interest and importance and to follow the thread of a chosen speaker in a crowded auditory environment. Additionally, irrelevant or unwanted chatter or other background noise should not hinder concentration on matters of greater interest or importance—students should ideally be able to study effectively despite noisy classrooms or university halls while still being open to the possibility of important interruptions from elsewhere. The scientific study of auditory attention has been driven by such practical problems: how people somehow manage to select the most interesting or most relevant speaker from the competing auditory demands made by the speech of others or isolate the music of the band from the chatter of the nightclub. In parallel, the causes of auditory distraction—and how to try to avoid it where necessary—have also been subject to scrutiny. A complete theory of auditory attention must account for the mechanisms by which selective attention is achieved, the causes of auditory distraction, and the reasons why individuals might differ in their ability in both cases.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Black Woman ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Free Food ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Other ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Party Support ◽  
Black Panther

As readers finished the July 1, 1972, edition of the Black Panther Party’s newspaper, they found a full-length, mixed-media image of a middle-aged black woman on the back page. The woman, dressed in hair rollers, a collared shirt, an apron, and no shoes, stares directly at the viewer, one hand on her hip; the other supports a bag of groceries from the Panthers’ free food program. The woman also prominently displays her button in support of Panther leader Bobby Seale’s mayoral campaign. The caption above contextualizes the woman’s politics and party support: “Yes, I’m against the war in Vietnam, I’m for African Liberation, voter registration and the people’s survival!”...

scholarly journals Central Tokyo’s Low Response Rate to the 2015 Population Census and Its Related Factors

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402096308
Author(s):  
Tomoya Hanibuchi ◽  
Masakazu Yamauchi
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Data Reliability ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Nationwide Study

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of “unreported” cases in the Population Census of Japan caused by nonresponses to the survey. Subsequently, this has led to data reliability challenges. In light of this problem, the factors related to the low response rate of the 2015 Population Census in the central Tokyo area are examined in the present study. An online survey was conducted among individuals residing in the three Special Wards of Tokyo to inquire about their responses (submitted or not submitted) to the previous census. The statistical analyses demonstrated that particularly in central Tokyo, middle-aged (35–49 years) people and those who did not own a single-family residence were more likely to be nonrespondents, while most of the other characteristics were similar to the results reported in a previous nationwide study. However, further studies are required to fully understand the high rates of unreported cases in central Tokyo.

Studies of Body Image III: Body Feelings as Measured by the Semantic Differential

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Plutchik ◽  
Hope Conte ◽  
Marcella Bakur-Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Body Image ◽  
University Students ◽  
Geriatric Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Per Se

A semantic differential questionnaire was designed to assess the connotative meanings of the word “head” as an important aspect of body image. The questionnaire was completed by 203 individuals representing varied groups ranging from geriatric patients to university students. The “head” was described in terms of various words representing the evaluative, potency, and activity dimensions. Non-psychiatric patients in a Home and Hospital for the Aged, the oldest group, and university students described the “head” as good, happy, pleasurable, and active more frequently than did the other groups. Geriatric psychiatric patients and middle-aged schizophrenics scored consistently low an all three dimensions, suggesting that they perceived the “head” as bad, passive, and inactive. These results imply that increasing age per se is less disruptive to body image than is mental illness.

VIOLENCE IN COURT: LAW AND RHETORIC IN ATHENIAN AND ENGLISH ASSAULT CASES

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Griffith-Williams
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sexual Services

Street fights seem to have been as common in classical Athens as they are in modern cities. One incident, which probably took place a few years after 394 bc, involved two rivals for the attentions of a young Plataian, Theodotos, apparently a slave and a rent boy. There was a history of violent disagreement between the opponents, one of whom was a wealthy, middle-aged Athenian citizen whose name we do not know. The other, a (probably) younger man named Simon, claimed to have had a contract with Theodotos for sexual services, which was breached when the older man enticed him away. For the sake of a quiet life, the older man left Athens for a time, taking Theodotos with him, and did not come back until he thought Simon would have forgotten about the boy. But not long after their return there was another fight, accounts of which conflicted sharply. According to Simon, the older man went to his house threatening to kill him, and attacked him with some broken pottery, causing a serious head wound. The older man's story was that Simon and his friends got drunk over lunch, then lay in wait near the house where he and Theodotos were inside, and jumped on them as they came out. After a chase through the streets, the incident developed into a general mêlée in which everyone ended up with a broken head. The older man claimed that he had considered prosecuting Simon for assault, but had been too embarrassed and fearful of damaging his reputation. Four years later, though, Simon prosecuted him for trauma ek pronoias, which we may tentatively translate as ‘intentional wounding’.

scholarly journals Bimodal video laryngoscope assisted management of retropharyngeal abscess: a case report

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 758
Author(s):  
Manish Munjal ◽  
Archana Arora ◽  
Amanjot Kaur ◽  
Gopika Talwar ◽  
Rupinder Mirley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Therapeutic Intervention ◽  
Video Laryngoscope ◽  
The Other ◽  
Retropharyngeal Abscess ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Individual ◽  
Assisted Management ◽  
Airway Access

A retropharyngeal abscess is a suppurative collection of the deep spaces of the neck. Mostly at presentation they are massive and are a dilemma for the surgeon and the anesthetist alike, vying for space, one for therapeutic intervention and the other for airway access. Video laryngoscopic assisted evacuation of such a collection, adopting the nasopharyngeal and the transoral route was undertaken in a middle aged individual which is being reported.

scholarly journals The Painter and the Princess: Constructing Feminism/Decentring Orientalism between Copenhagen, Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-71
Author(s):  
Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
International Importance ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the encounters between a Polish-Danish painter and an Egyptian princess in the second part of the nineteenth century, at the junction of Orientalism, modernism and Islamic reformism. The painter Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann is known for her Orientalist paintings and autobiographical writings, while Princess Nazli Fadhel was a hostess of influential intellectual salons in Cairo and Tunis and, as such, a contributor to the world of art, literature and politics. Jerichau-Baumann and Nazli Fadhel were both creative and controversial personalities engaged in the cultural and political debates of their time. They were outspoken and well-travelled, which challenged conventional gender roles. Based on Scandinavian, English, French and Arabic sources concerning Jerichau-Baumann and Nazli Fadhel's lives, this article argues that the activities of these two women are testament to the increasing international importance of feminist discourses in the late nineteenth century. Their encounter is emblematic of the rapidly expanding connections across cultural, linguistic, and religious boundaries that characterized the nineteenth-century world. It thus questions the binary constructions – the idea of the West/Europe and the Other – underlying the paradigm of Orientalism.

scholarly journals Memory, evidence, and artifice: the overseas journal in New Zealand post-war architectural historiography

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Hard Evidence ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many

This paper is based upon the premise that US architectural journals have had a much greater significance on the development of post-war New Zealand Modernism than has thus far been admitted to be the case. This is a rather difficult position to defend, not just because of a lack of hard evidence, but because the established orthodoxy posits the English Architectural Review as the ‘bible' to this generation of architects. The privileging of the Architectural Review in recent historiography is easily traced to a 1994 interview, conducted by Philippa Hoeta, with five architects who belong to that post-war generation. As a "fact," this privileging can easily be taken at face value: there is evidence in the many libraries and collections that subscribed to the Review; and there is the personal testimony provided in the interview itself. It is fairly safe to say that the statement is valid. But somewhere along the process, which sees simple fact become historiographic truth, other truths are overlooked, skirted around, rejected, or forgotten - perhaps there was more than one gospel? In the Hoeta interview, the conversation was redirected after only a few seconds - the journal discussion was not returned to. This paper restarts that discussion, extends it, and probes deeper to find the role and significance of the other journals that sat next to the Review on local architects' shelves. New Zealand architectural historiography has shifted into its second-generational phase; where the canon is largely set and new histories are able to operate uncritically within its scope, its structure and main narratives have become entrenched, and the key truths are almost self-evident. This paper picks up on one such truth, examines the historiographic process from which it arose, and investigates what has been obscured by uncritical adherence to its complete veracity.

scholarly journals Cheilitis Glandularis: Two Case Reports of Asian-Japanese Men and Literature Review of Japanese Cases

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Yanagawa ◽  
Akira Yamaguchi ◽  
Hiroyuki Harada ◽  
Kenji Yamagata ◽  
Naomi Ishibashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Salivary Glands ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rare Disorder ◽  
Clinical Feature ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Caucasian Men

Cheilitis glandularis (CG) is a rare disorder characterized by swelling of the lip with hyperplasia of the labial salivary glands. CG is most frequently encountered in the lower lip, in middle-aged to older Caucasian men; however Asian cases were rarely reported. In this paper we present two cases of CG in Asian-Japanese men. One was a 23-year-old male with CG of the superficial suppurative type. The other was a 54-year-old male with deep suppurative type. We also reviewed the Japanese cases of CG in the literature and discussed about clinical feature of Japanese CG.

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