My Reconstructed Life

Memories tell us that we are bound by a golden chain with those who preceded us and those who come after us. We gain strength from memories. I remember in 1944 traveling for two days in a freight car with padlocked doors and windows covered with barbed wire. No one in the car knew our destination. Now and then we glimpsed a name of a city where the train was shunted to sidings waiting for a clear track. Now and then voices of prayers could be heard. About sunset on the third day, my mother opened a package containing bread and some smoked meat. As she handed the sausage to my younger sister and brother and me, I heard her sigh. She was handing her children food forbidden by the kosher laws that were a foundation of our Jewish identity. “Mother, why are you crying?” She turned her teary-eyed face to me. “Oy, my children, I cry for you. I am scared for you. I have lived, and I have had a good life, but you haven’t started to have a life yet. You haven’t had time to experience the joys of life. Oh dear and merciful God help them...” That night the train stopped, and our journey ended. In the darkness of the early morning, I could hardly see anything. The air, however, was filled with a peculiar and unfamiliar odor, and through the barbed-wire windows I saw four huge flames. “Austeigen!” Soldiers opened the doors of the cars and commanded us to march in front of the devil incarnate, Dr. Mengele. I took a last look at the women’s line. “Good-bye, Mother, my sister, God be with you!” I shouted into the wind. Jews are instructed to remember life in Egypt. Of course I, as an individual, was not a part of the people who suffered in Egypt or from the Syrians or from the Crusaders or from the Inquisition. And yet, as a member of my people, I remember these and other sufferings, reinforced in me by my experiences in the Holocaust. So I remember, and so I can also tell you to remember. We should remember the Holocaust as we remember Egypt. We should remember because we, relying on our own efforts and not on God, must improve the world. We do this by constantly improving our moral understanding. This is why we remember. Eugen Schoenfeld was born in 1925 in the Carpathian town of Munkacs in what is now Ukraine. He was raised and educated in the deeply rooted traditions of the Jewish faith amid a large and active Jewish community. However, Hitler’s “Final Solution” would irrevocably change his close-knit family. Having survived the ghetto and internment in Germany’s infamous camps, the young man immigrated to the United States to begin to rebuild his life and complete his education with a Ph.D. in Sociology from Southern Illinois University. After a long and successful academic career culminating in the Chairmanship of the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University, where he developed the department’s Ph.D. program, Dr. Schoenfeld now resides in Atlanta with his wife Jean.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ksupresslegacy/1014/thumbnail.jp

The Echo: October 26, 1984

Welcome Visitors!! LRC Offers Help to Students – Taylor Welcomes Campus Visitors Today – Heritage Chapel Honors Freeses – Discipleship Coordinators – A Vital Link in Residence Hall Life – ‘What Does This Have To Do With Me?’ – Dining Commons Menu – Hoosier Dome Activities – More Than Just A Football Game – ‘Prodigal’ in Concert November 3 – Letters to the Editor – In Response to the Variety Show – In Response to ‘Our Mother in Heaven?’ – ‘Don’t Cross Me’ – Taylor Family Chapel Offers New Insights – Archives Quiz – ‘Good Ideas or Good Intentions?’ – If You Take The Time – ‘The Music Man’ – Fine Arts – An Experience for Everyone – Tutoring Program – Beneficial to Students and Tutors Alike – National Political Debate at Marian College – U.S. Marine Band Receives Tremendous Acceptance – Int’l Studies Week Centers on Soviet Union – Yearbook Photos Taken – Run for the Prize – Planting Optimism Sprouts Success – Taylor Slides Past Southwest Baptist – Intercristo Matches Christians with Ministries – Trojan Football – Ready for ‘The Dome’ – Tonight! – Andrus Blackwood & Company Concerthttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-1984-1985/1004/thumbnail.jp

A World Drowning in Guns

I come to New York to talk about a familiar subject: gun control. But let me warn you: this may be a different kind of gun control lecture than you have heard before. It will not be about gun control in the streets of Manhattan or Columbine, or the Brady Bill, or gun registration, or even the Second Amendment, at least not until the lecture\u27s end. What I want to talk about is gun control in such cities as Freetown, Sierra Leone; Pristina, Kosovo; Medellin, Colombia; Kabul, Afghanistan; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Mogadishu, Somalia-all places that consumed my attention during my tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Project Exploration: 10-year Retrospective Program Evaluation

Assesses the impact of a program giving low-income students of color hands-on science experience on science capacity, youth development, and engagement in communities of practice. Examines practices that support science learning by underrepresented youth

Theories of identity and the analysis of face

This paper explores the insights that theories of identity can offer for the conceptualisation and analysis of face. It argues that linguists will benefit from taking a multidisciplinary approach, and that by drawing on theory and research in other disciplines, especially in social psychology, they will gain a clearer and deeper understanding of face. The paper starts by examining selected theories of identity, focusing in particular on Simon's (2004) self-respect model of identity and Brewer and Gardner's (1996) theory of levels of identity. Key features from these theories are then applied to the conceptualisation and analysis of face. With the help of authentic examples, the paper demonstrates how inclusion of these multiple perspectives can offer a richer and more comprehensive understanding of face and the frameworks needed for analysing it

Evaluation of the School Administration Manager Project

Examines the results to date of a Wallace-supported project to help principals delegate some administrative and managerial tasks to school administration managers and spend more time interacting with teachers, students and others on instructional matters

Tracking Onslow: a community in transition. edition 2, early 2013

In February the second group of ECU students involved in the Tracking Onslow Project spent a week in town, talking to people and gathering stories, footage and photos for this magazine and for the next update of www.TrackingOnslow.net. Our journalism is independent. It is not controlled by the companies operating in town or by federal, state or local governments. Our aim is to tell your stories and create a record of the impact of the new resources projects on Onslow. We hope this process is not only helpful to you, by keeping you informed about what is happening and how other people in the community feel about it, but that it will also help the rest of Australia understand the impacts of major projects on the communities that accommodate them. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to share with us your thoughts, inspirations, ideas and concerns. Our first visit was in July 2012 when journalism students Claire Ottaviano, Aine Ryan and Jasmine Amis came to Onslow with me and we interviewed, recorded and photographed as much of the town as we could. In early 2013 Claire came back again and we were joined by Jon Hopper, Kaitlin Shawcross, Kirstyn McMullan and Karma Barndon. Most of us will be back again in July 2013 with a few more new students to make edition 3 and to update the website again. Our aim is to visit every six months for three to five years so that we can track the shifts in community dynamics over these tumultuous times. We look forward to seeing you in July, and in the meantime we hope you enjoy this snapshot of the town