Dan Pagis'in Şiirinde Bir İletişim Aracı Olarak Sessizlik

Dan Pagis (1930-1986), the Romanian born Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor, is best known for his short, concentrated and multilayered Holocaust poem “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car”. This unfinished poem which carries a universal message with Biblical allusions to Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel invites its readers to complete Eve’s hanging and unarticulated message and to transmit it to others. Silence is Pagis’ way of communicating the unspeakable, the ineffable. This is a highly expressive silence that speaks louder and deeper than words do. This paper analyzes Pagis’ poem in the context of Adorno’s statement that “there can be no poetry after Auschwitz”.Romanya doğumlu İsrailli şair ve bir Holokost sağ kalanı Dan Pagis’in  (1930-1986) en iyi bilinen eseri kısa, yoğun ve çok katmanlı bir Holokost şiiri olan “Mühürlü Bir Tren Vagonunda Kurşun Kalemle Yazılmıştır” şiiridir. Kutsal Kitaba, Havva ile Adem’e, Kabil ile Habil’e gönderme yapan ve evrensel bir mesaj taşıyan bu tamamlanmamış şiir, okuyucularını Havva’nın asılı kalan, ifade edilmemiş mesajını tamamlamaya ve bu mesajı başkalarına iletmeye davet eder. Sessizlik, Pagis’in söylenemez ve tarif edilemez olanı ifade etme yoludur. Bu sessizlik, sözden daha yüksek sesle konuşan, daha derin ve oldukça etkileyici bir sessizliktir. Bu yazı Adorno’nun “Auschwitz’den sonra artık şiir yazılamaz” ifadesi bağlamında Pagis’in şiirini incelemektedir

Silence as A Means of Communication in The Poetry of Dan Pagis

Dan Pagis (1930-1986), the Romanian born Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor, is best known for his short, concentrated and multilayered Holocaust poem “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car”. This unfinished poem which carries a universal message with Biblical allusions to Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel invites its readers to complete Eve’s hanging and unarticulated message and to transmit it to others. Silence is Pagis’ way of communicating the unspeakable, the ineffable. This is a highly expressive silence that speaks louder and deeper than words do. This paper analyzes Pagis’ poem in the context of Adorno’s statement that “there can be no poetry after Auschwitz”.</p

Dogeaters: The relationships between Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and food

This honors thesis focuses on how food represents the complexities surrounding Filipino and Filipino-American identities in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. Dogeaters satirically responds to the effects of a difficult and long history of Spanish and American colonialism. It also depicts the hypocrisies and abusive powers in the lives of postcolonial Filipino characters. Finally, Hagedorn's fictional characters lead to greater understanding of the current status of Filipinos and Filipino Americans and how they function transnationally through the continuation of food traditions. Throughout the thesis, I reflect on my own life as a Filipino American woman living in the United States searching to balance my Filipino ethnicity with my American national identity, in part through my relationship with cooking and food

3D Printing of Human Microbiome Constituents to Understand Spatial Relationships & Shape Parameters in Bacteriology

Effective laboratory and classroom demonstration of microbiome size and shape, diversity, and ecological relationships is hampered by a lack of high-resolution, easy-to-use, readily accessible physical or digital models for use in teaching. Three-dimensional (3D) representations are, overall, more effective in communicating visuospatial information, allowing for a better understanding of concepts not directly observable with the unaided eye. Published morphology descriptions and microscopy images were used as the basis for designing 3D digital models, scaled at 20,000×, using computer-aided design software (CAD) and generating printed models of bacteria on mass-market 3D printers. Sixteen models are presented, including rod-shaped, spiral, flask-like, vibroid, and filamentous bacteria as well as different arrangements of cocci. Identical model scaling enables direct comparison as well as design of a wide range of educational plans

APETALA2 antagonizes the transcriptional activity of AGAMOUS in regulating floral stem cells in Arabidopsis thaliana.

APETALA2 (AP2) is best known for its function in the outer two floral whorls, where it specifies the identities of sepals and petals by restricting the expression of AGAMOUS (AG) to the inner two whorls in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we describe a role of AP2 in promoting the maintenance of floral stem cell fate, not by repressing AG transcription, but by antagonizing AG activity in the center of the flower. We performed a genetic screen with ag-10 plants, which exhibit a weak floral determinacy defect, and isolated a mutant with a strong floral determinacy defect. This mutant was found to harbor another mutation in AG and was named ag-11. We performed a genetic screen in the ag-11 background to isolate mutations that suppress the floral determinacy defect. Two suppressor mutants were found to harbor mutations in AP2. While AG is known to shut down the expression of the stem cell maintenance gene WUSCHEL (WUS) to terminate floral stem cell fate, AP2 promotes the expression of WUS. AP2 does not repress the transcription of AG in the inner two whorls, but instead counteracts AG activity

Stress and Personality Type of Women Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

Workplace stress has become a great concern, and this does not exclude the entrepreneurial stress, especially among women. This paper on entrepreneurial stress and personality type of women entrepreneurs in the Philippines used the descriptive method of research to identify the personality type and assess the level of entrepreneurial stress in terms of work environment, inner-self and interpersonal relationship of the 265 women entrepreneurs in selected cities in the Philippines.&nbsp; A personal data sheet was used to assess the entrepreneur’s profile. While the validated instrument conceived by Meyer Friedman was used to identify the personality type of women entrepreneurs. In order to determine the level of stress of women entrepreneurs, a validated researcher-made instrument conceived by Newstrom, and Davis was utilized through the assessment of their work environment, inner - self and interpersonal relationship. The individual differences among women entrepreneurs may cause to respond to the sources of stress and in effect, may be constructive or destructive in the entrepreneurial undertakings and personal consequences.&nbsp; Its effects depend on the type of personality of a woman entrepreneur categorized as Type A or Type B. Based on the theories gathered from the review of the several related literature and studies, the IPO (Input-Process-Output) model was used as guide in this study. The input variables include the profiles of the women diplomats in terms of age, civil status, highest educational attainment, number of employees under supervision, number of years as entrepreneurs, average number of actual hours spent at work/business, number of business enterprise implementing flexible time, and number of women entrepreneurs in sports or recreation. Other input variables are levels of stress of women entrepreneurs in the aspects of work environment, inner-self and interpersonal relationship. The processes involved in this study were data gathering, analysis and interpretation. The input variables and the processes concerned in the conceptual framework contributed to the output or proposed policy recommendations on coping mechanisms strategy. Some suggestions for future research and implications are also discussed and presented in this paper. Awareness of such stressors and relating these to personality types of individuals will enable enterprises to take steps to reduce the likelihood of experiencing the negative effects of stress. &nbsp

Adakitic Paracale Granodiorite in southeastern Luzon, Philippines: A peek at a Proto-Philippine Sea Plate-related magmatic arc

This paper describes the geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic setting of a silicic pluton, the Paracale Granodiorite (PG), intruded into an ophiolitic suite in southeastern Luzon island, Philippines. Whole rock chemistry suggests that the PG samples are calc-alkaline and are characterized by light rare earth element (LREE)-enrichment and relatively weak heavy rare earth element (HREE)-depletion. They also show depletion in Nb, Ta, Zr and Ti and positive anomalies in K, Pb and Sr when normalized with the Primordial Mantle and normal-mid-ocean ridge basalt (N-MORB). The PG biotite mineral chemistry shows an affinity to calc-alkaline trends based on the FeOtot versus Al2O3, whereas in the MgO-Al2O3 plot, they exhibit transitional calc-alkaline to peraluminous characteristics. These information, along with a temperature \u3e600 °C based on biotite chemistry, and hydrous setting for the generation of the PG suggest generation in a subduction-related setting. When plotted in the Y versus Sr/Y and YbN versus (La/Yb)N, the PG samples exhibit adakitic signature. Partial melting, fluid addition and sediment participation are discerned from the geochemistry. Melting, assimilation, storage and homogenization (MASH) with limited fractionation are the dominant mechanisms of formation. The PG could represent a Late Cretaceous to Paleogene magmatic arc generated during the subduction of the proto-Philippine Sea Plate

Paleomagnetic Results from Luzon and the Central Philippines

Samples were collected from 86 paleomagnetic sites from the islands of Luzon, Marinduque, Mindoro, Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao in the Philippine Arc. The sampling sites range in age from Pleistocene to Jurassic. Characteristic directions of magnetization of the samples were determined by the use of vector plots. Curie temperature determinations, thin section studies, and hysteresis studies showed that remanence of these samples is carried by fine-grained (pseudo-single domain) magnetite. Positive fold tests from Miocene data from Panay, Jurassic data from Mindoro, and Cretaceous data from Cebu suggest that the magnetization of these regions was acquired prior to folding. Rotations reported below are measured with respect to the axial goecentric dipole field. The Plio-Pleistocene data set shows no resolvable rotation for the 22 sites. This data set suggests that the various terranes that make up the Philippine Arc have behaved as a single unit during the past 5 m.y. or that deformation has been below the limits of resolution. The inclination data from the Plio-Pleistocene sites have anomalously shallow inclination and are consistent with other Plio-Pleistocene data from Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Marianas. These data support earlier suggestions for a late Neogene offset dipole effect. The late Miocene sites fall into two separate groups. Ten sites from western Luzon show evidence for around 20° of clockwise rotation. In contrast to this, late Miocene samples from the Bicol region, Negros, Marinduque, and Mindanao are not rotated. The cause of the postlate Miocene clockwise rotation of Luzon is unknown, but a Pliocene collision of the North Luzon Arc with Taiwan is suggested. Early Neogene results also separate into two different populations. The population from Marinduque shows evidence for a large counterclockwise rotation. The second early Neogene population comes from Panay, Cebu, and Mindanao and clearly shows evidence for a clockwise rotation. The validity of this rotation is further supported by a fold test and a reversal test. These early Neogene data sets are consistent with a middle to late Miocene collision of the Palawan Continental Terrane and the Central Philippine Arc. Data from six dikes of possible Oligocene age from the Zambales Ophiolite are highly discordant from the present field, being rotated approximately 60° clockwise. The directions from these dikes are similar to a direction reported earlier from late Oligocene sediments also from the Zambales region. These two data sets support the interpretation that the Eocene direction from Zambales is recording a large clockwise rotation of the region. Data from the Mesozoic sites are from two regions. Data from the Cretaceous Pandan formation of Cebu are discordant with data from the Upper Jurassic from Mindoro. The presence of a fold test from each region and a reversal test from Mindoro supports the interpretation that each of these data sets is reliable. The VGP of Mindoro is displaced southward from the Late Jurassic VGP of South China, suggesting a post-Jurassic southward migration of Mindoro