Silent Landscapes, Textured Memory : Keith Morris Washington's Lynching Paintings

Keith Morris Washington’s landscape paintings have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, and thus the present article aims to address that lack. Primarily, this article argues that in representing landscapes associated with lynchings, Washington’s paintings are a form of cultural memory that helps us apprehend the traumas of the southern past. Rather than presenting us with dead bodies of lynching victims, Washington paints the ‘texture’ of violence and memory in seemingly innocuous rural landscapes. Through his brushwork, framing and visual motifs, Washington reveals what I am calling the ‘after-burn’ of lynching: the way in which it circulates as a kind of haunting and memory that disturbs our gaze. While lynching scholarship has expanded in recent years, there is often a focus – as with other contemporary visual theories – on looking at lynching photographs; we are encouraged by a number of critics to apprehend death directly. This article suggests that Washington’s artwork provides us with another visual mode of apprehending lynching. In registering the texture of violence and memory, and through intimating the presence of corporeality, Washington enables a form of looking that does not re-victimize the victimized. Rather, his visual ethics allows us to both see and not see the deaths of (primarily) African Americans across the nation and region.Peer reviewe

Bodies that (Don't) Matter : Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett's The Help

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Chromospherically active stars in the ROTSE-1 database: paper 6. Variables 126 - 149

Another 24 new chromospherically active stars are presented, which were found in the ROTSE-1 database: GSC 02268-00394, GSC 01224-00894, GSC 00648-00579, GSC 02865-01987, GSC 01851-01202, GSC 00124-00551, GSC 00150-01109, GSC 01339-00572, GSC 02968-01511, GSC 03005-00885, GSC 01083-00698, GSC 03941-00354, GSC 04450-00134, GSC 05163-01764, GSC 01095-00848, GSC 04459-00659, USNO A2.0 1275-14029063, GSC 04247-00903, GSC 01656-01276, GSC 02197-01430, GSC 02227-01294, GSC 04480-00965, GSC 01159-00245, GSC 02237-01574. For one of these stars (GSC 00124-00551), further observations were made using a TeleView 509/5.0 telescope with a CCD camera SIGMA1603 and IR-cutting filter in Velden, Germany

Enhancing Nonlinear Ultrasonic Methods for Laboratory and Clinical Applications

This thesis addresses the underlying physics associated with nonlinear ultrasonic field propagation, measurements of the nonlinear properties of materials, and mechanisms contributing to the observed systematic variation of backscattered ultrasonic energy from the heart over the heart cycle. Studies were performed to address the reliability of the methods of measurement used for the quantitative characterization of nonlinear phenomena and to explore the utility of these methods. This thesis examines the measurement of nonlinear acoustic properties of materials using several methods, including the transmission of ultrasound through the material, as well as the backscattered signal from a region of interest within the material. A method of transmitting ultrasound into the diffractive far field with a negligible amount of distortion is described, along with the consequences of working with different frequencies: and subsequently different diffractive regimes). This thesis also describes studies designed to assess the nature of backscattered ultrasound from the heart obtained by using harmonic imaging, which utilizes nonlinear phenomena to improve the overall quality of clinical ultrasonic images. Several investigators have previously reported a systematic cyclic variation in the backscattered ultrasonic signal from the tissue of the heart. However, a discrepancy in the reported magnitude of this variation seems to be present in the literature. This discrepancy is examined in the context of the multiple methods used to characterize the variation. Furthermore, the characteristics of this systematic variation of backscatter are compared with the dynamics of the left ventricle described using a damped harmonic oscillator model as an approach for identifying the underlying causes of the observed variation

The Ko-Lee Key Exchange Protocol with Generalized Dihedral Groups

Given an arbitrary abelian group A, one may form the generalized dihedral group D(A). As D(A) is usually non-abelian, this makes it a possible candidate for use with certain non-commutative key exchange protocols. Specifically, we examine the security of using D(A) with the Ko-Lee key exchange protocol. An appropriate presentation for D(A) is developed alongside methods for computing within the group in the context of the Ko-Lee protocol. Lastly we show that for such groups Ko-Lee is susceptible to a polynomial time attack

Religion in Roman Statecraft

The focus of this study is an examination of the use of religion in Roman statecraft during the time of the Republic. Traditionally, scholars have viewed religion as a tool used by the aristocratic class to control the wills and actions of the general populace. This study examines five case studies which serve as counter-examples to this traditional notion and suggest that there existed in the aristocratic class a large number of individuals who genuinely subscribed to traditional Roman religious ideals. The methodology used to conduct this study focuses primarily on careful exegesis of primary source material. More modern scholarship is used as a helpful lens through which to critique the ancient sources; this helps particularly in presenting arguments for and against the assertions of this study. Support for the argument is found through analysis of the historicity of the case studies, the biases of the authors themselves, and deductive logic. The conclusion of the study is that the traditional “pragmatic” view of aristocratic approach to religion is flawed. While irreligious segments of the aristocratic class did exist, there is evidence for a far greater number of aristocratic individuals who still subscribed to the efficacy of religious rites and traditions

Past, Present, and Future in the Global Expansion of Capitalism: Learning From The Deep and Surface Times of Societal Evolution and the Conjunctures of History

The article deals with the following major themes. First, the theme of la longue durée structural history of the world, concentrating on what can be seen as the central process of the past 500 years – the violent expansion of capitalism as an economic, cultural, and geopolitical system and especially the six kinds of wars that have convulsed, and continue to convulse, the world during the system’s rise to global dominance, universality and eventual probable transcendence. Second, the theme of how the concepts of time, evolution, and structurism are able to provide the framework for analysis of long-run societal history and futurology. The article argues that understandings of the past, the present and the future must be united by a social science that is able to reveal the deep as well as surface time of human social structuring and the forms of structured sociality.The article deals with the following major themes. First, the theme of la longue durée structural history of the world, concentrating on what can be seen as the central process of the past 500 years – the violent expansion of capitalism as an economic, cultural, and geopolitical system and especially the six kinds of wars that have convulsed, and continue to convulse, the world during the system’s rise to global dominance, universality and eventual probable transcendence. Second, the theme of how the concepts of time, evolution, and structurism are able to provide the framework for analysis of long-run societal history and futurology. The article argues that understandings of the past, the present and the future must be united by a social science that is able to reveal the deep as well as surface time of human social structuring and the forms of structured sociality

Insights into the impact of clinical encounters gained from personal accounts of living with advanced cancer.

Aim To describe the impact of interactions with health care professionals revealed by people’s accounts of living and dying with cancer; to explore reasons for the observed effects; and thus, to consider the implications for practice. Background The importance of practitioner–patient interactions is enshrined within professional values. However, our understanding of how and why the consultation impacts on outcomes remains underdeveloped. Stories recounted by people living and dying with cancer offer important insights into illness experience, including the impact of contact with health services, framed within the context of the wider social setting in which people live their lives. From our recent study of distress in primary palliative care patients, we describe how people’s accounts revealed both therapeutic and noxious effects of such encounters, and discuss reasons for the observed effects. Method A qualitative study with a purposive sample of 19 primary palliative care patients: (8 men, 11 at high risk of depression). In-depth interviews were analysed using the iterative thematic analysis described by Lieblich. Findings Living with cancer can be an exhausting process. Maintaining continuity of everyday life was the norm, and dependent on a dynamic process of balancing threats and supports to people’s emotional well-being. Interactions with health care professionals were therapeutic when they provided emotional, or narrative, support. Threats arose when the patient’s perception of the professional’s account of their illness experience was at odds with the person’s own sense of their core self and what was important to them. Our findings highlight the need for a framework in which clinicians may legitimately utilize different illness models to deliver a personalized, patient-centred assessment of need and care. The work provides testable hypotheses supporting development of understanding of therapeutic impact of the consultation