The impersonation artist: A novel with critical afterword: Displacement and dissent in fiction and art.

This dissertation consists of a creative project, The Impersonation Artist: A Novel, and a critical afterword, “Displacement and Dissent in Fiction and Art.” On a narrative level, The Impersonation Artist engages the question of how, and if, participatory art can reveal and intervene in oppressive conditions. The novel employs a stylistic methodology in which the use of multiple narrators and narrative fragmentation formally gestures toward the complex dilemma of how artists might intervene in contemporary problems in the face of conflicting ideologies and ever increasing precarity. The novel follows three characters: an environmental activist; a young man veering towards white nationalist ideology; and Sarah, a white artist formerly based in Chicago, disgraced after mishaps related to Project Hijab, a performance in which she casts herself and participants as Muslim immigrants with the aim of revealing discrimination and creating empathy for ostensible others. Bringing together the fields of comparative humanities, art history, and narrative analysis, the critical afterword, “Displacement and Dissent in Fiction and Art,” examines art and fiction that inform novel. The first chapter charts the aestheticization of displaced subjects 21st century fiction and art, the second chapter investigates transnational and resistive participatory art practices in light of the history of relational aesthetics and contemporary precarity, and the third chapter investigates the use of multivocality and narrative fragmentation in novels to humanely convey conflicting worldviews. While each critical chapter is more or less autonomous, together, they trace the overarching trajectory of the research undertaken in support of the novel

Pumpkin Spice and Two Things Nice

Fall comes every year and I always just let it pass by. With these two cuties here, it’s their first fall, and when it’s a first, there is always time for something special. Spending time carving pumpkins with two babies’ watchful eyes staring my wife and I down, they have curiosity and innocence in their eyes. I couldn’t wait to take this picture to see the joy light up in their eyes as they sat in pumpkins. I couldn’t help but think to myself, there will never be another fall that these sweet babies will be this small again

Care and use of a pressure cooker (1944)

"Reprinted, August, 1944."A pressure cooker is a scientific piece of apparatus and the directions given for its use must be followed explicity if it is to be a safe piece of equipment for home use.Care and use of a pressure cooker. Check the cooker ; Protect the stove top ; Using a pressure cooker for cookin

PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF SYNTHETIC ANTIOXIDANTS AND ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF BACOPA MONNIERI AGAINST LEAD TOXICITY INDUCED METABOLIC DYSFUNCTIONS IN MICE BRAIN AND LIVER HOMOGENATES: AN IN VITRO APPROACH

Objective: The main objective of the present study was to investigate the ameliorative potential of synthetic antioxidants mixture comprising N-acetyl cysteine, ascorbic acid, tocopheryl acetate, and thiamine as micronutrient combinational therapy and ethanolic extract of Bacopa monnieri as herbal antioxidant therapy approach against lead toxicity-induced metabolic dysfunctions in vitro. Methods: Experimental study involved in vitro exposure of mice brain and liver homogenates to different doses (100 μM, 250 μM, and 500 μM) of lead acetate. The study also involved coadministration of high-dose lead acetate (500 μM) and specific dosage of synthetic antioxidants or ethanolic extract of B. monnieri separately to homogenate cultures. Alterations in metabolic parameters of protein levels and lipid peroxidation were analyzed for evaluating the protective effect of synthetic antioxidants and B. monnieri against lead intoxication. Results: Results revealed dose-dependent statistically significant (p<0.001) reduction in protein levels and elevation in lipid peroxidation in lead acetate exposed mice brain and liver homogenates as compared to their respective control groups. Coadministration of lead acetate and synthetic antioxidants mixture or B. monnieri in the brain and liver homogenates conferred protection and manifested maintenance of studied biochemical parameters nearest to control groups. Ameliorative efficacy of B. monnieri against lead-induced neurotoxicity and hepatotoxicity was found to be more pronounced than that of a mixture of synthetic antioxidants. Conclusion: Synthetic antioxidants mixture (N-acetyl cysteine, ascorbic acid, tocopheryl acetate, and thiamine) and B. monnieri exhibited remarkable therapeutic efficacy against lead toxicity-induced metabolic dysfunctions in mice brain and liver homogenates by virtue of their antioxidant, neuroprotective, and hepatoprotective abilities

Fruit for the family

"January, 1945

Soybeans in family meals

"November, 1943