On a passing frontier; sketches from the Northwest,

In the name of friendship.--Was Chet Smalley honest?--The medicine keg.--The throw-away dance.--Jake Hoover's pig.--A gun trade.--The whiskey peddler.--The post-office at Wolftail.--Jew Jake's Monte.--At the bar.--Pap's pinto.--The bullet's proof.--The Indian's god.--Bravery.--What followed a sermon.--Cranks.--The flying Dutchman.

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Objective and behavioural assessment of the emergence from post-traumatic amnesia (PTA)

Primary objective: To determine the profile of resolution of typical PTA behaviours and describe new learning and improvements in self-care during PTA. Research design: Prospective longitudinal study monitoring PTA status, functional learning and behaviours on a daily basis. Methods and procedures: Participants were 69 inpatients with traumatic brain injury who were in PTA. PTA was assessed using the Westmead or Oxford PTA assessments. Functional learning capability was assessed using a routine set of daily tasks and behaviour was assessed using an observational checklist. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics. Main outcomes and results: Challenging behaviours that are typically associated with PTA, such as agitation, aggression and wandering resolved in the early stages of PTA and incidence rates of these behaviours were less than 20%. Independence in self-care and bowel and bladder continence emerged later during resolution of PTA. New learning in functional situations was demonstrated by patients in PTA. Conclusions: It is feasible to begin active rehabilitation focused on functional skills-based learning with patients in the later stages of PTA. Formal assessment of typically observed behaviours during PTA may complement memory-based PTA assessments in determining emergence from PTA.

LIBERTAÇÃO NAS TRILHAS DA JUSTIÇA: Estudo histórico e hermenêutico de Isaías 42,1-4

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo propor um estudo do cântico do escravo de Javé em Isaías 42,1- 4. Javé apresenta uma nova liderança, com um novo jeito de pensar e de agir para reconstruir um mundo novo baseado no direito e na solidariedade. É uma tarefa desafiadora para mim e ao mesmo tempo uma alegria em poder compartilhar com os meus amigos o conteúdo de um texto do Antigo Testamento. Afinal, o cântico do escravo de Javé é uma fonte inesgotável de sabedoria. Saciou o povo judaíta exilado a de dois mil e quinhentos anos atrás e continua jorrando água viva até em nossos dias matando a sede de todos aqueles e aquelas que lutam pela justiça. Os versos escolhidos são frutos de uma experiência de vida concreta dos exilados desacreditados por todos no cativeiro da Babilônia. No fundo é uma crítica aos falsos deuses criados pelos poderosos para justificar um sistema de opressão. A criatividade do profeta está em retomar os eventos históricos que marcaram a vida do povo exilado e atualizá-los dentro de um novo contexto histórico. Isto demonstra sua agilidade no conhecimento. Cada palavra é pensada dentro de um contexto maior envolvendo a vida e a história. O profeta é um sábio poeta, que fala de Deus como ninguém falou antes. Utiliza símbolos, imagens e metáforas que apontam para um mundo novo que ainda não existe, onde reinará o direito, a justiça e a paz. Essa mudança acontecerá a partir da missão que a liderança eleita desempenhará junto do povo oprimido e injustiçado. O líder será como o fermento na massa para a nova sociedade, baseada na igualdade e na partilha. O espírito de Javé estará agindo sobre ele para que ele não desanime da missão e que ela possa alcançar o seu objetivo. Essa nova liderança eleita por Javé agirá discretamente em silêncio entre os pobres e enfraquecidos. A missão beneficiará primeiramente às nações. Aqueles e aquelas que vivem em terras estrangeiras como migrantes. Depois contemplará de modo especial os pobres que estão correndo risco de vida, cana rachada e pavio vacilante e por fim a missão atingirá todos os povos da terra. Essa perspectiva traduz a vontade de Deus que é a salvação de toda a humanidade.(AU)

Diversity and knowledge in the age of nation-building: Space and time in the thought of Yanagita Kunio

The study examines the thought of Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962), an influential Japanese nationalist thinker and a founder of an academic discipline named minzokugaku. The purpose of the study is to bring into light an unredeemed potential of his intellectual and political project as a critique of the way in which modern politics and knowledge systematically suppresses global diversity. The study reads his texts against the backdrop of the modern understanding of space and time and its political and moral implications and traces the historical evolution of his thought that culminates in the establishment of minzokugaku. My reading of Yanagita’s texts draws on three interpretive hypotheses. First, his thought can be interpreted as a critical engagement with John Stuart Mill’s philosophy of history, as he turns Mill’s defense of diversity against Mill’s justification of enlightened despotism in non-Western societies. Second, to counter Mill’s individualistic notion of progressive agency, he turns to a Marxian notion of anthropological space, in which a laboring class makes history by continuously transforming nature, and rehabilitates the common people (jomin) as progressive agents. Third, in addition to the common people, Yanagita integrates wandering people as a countervailing force to the innate parochialism and conservatism of agrarian civilization. To excavate the unrecorded history of ordinary farmers and wandering people and promote the formation of national consciousness, his minzokugaku adopts travel as an alternative method for knowledge production and political education. In light of this interpretation, the aim of Yanagita’s intellectual and political project can be understood as defense and critique of the Enlightenment tradition. Intellectually, he attempts to navigate between spurious universalism and reactionary particularism by revaluing diversity as a necessary condition for universal knowledge and human progress. Politically, his minzokugaku aims at nation-building/globalization from below by tracing back the history of a migratory process cutting across the existing boundaries. His project is opposed to nation-building from above that aims to integrate the world population into international society at the expense of global diversity.

An investigation of twentieth century observant Jewish fine artists

People of the Jewish faith base their belief on the written word of the Torah. Presented in this paper are fine artists that produce work within these laws. The Torah sets guidelines for life and morality. The belief system within this domain is that visual images have an impact on the viewers, and artists are accountable for what they produce. This is in opposition with art education, where freedom of expression takes precedence over morality. The results of this study will form the basis for a curriculum for the community college. The researcher's area of inquiry is directed to painting and sculpture made by artists of the Jewish faith who follow the Torah, meaning those who are observant of their faith and practices. Their skills and perceptions will be presented to educate the viewer about their visions. The research questions were posed to rabbinical authorities and artists in order to establish a clear and defined statement of what the Jewish law is regarding the fine arts. The evidence presented was obtained by questionnaires, personal interviews, articles, and opinions from Jewish scholars. Four rabbis were selected based on their erudition on Torah law, and their strong leadership positions in Jewish educational institutions. The ten artists were selected based on recommendations from art historians, and art and gallery directors. The artists and the rabbis were mailed questionnaires, which was followed by an interview. The conclusion from this study is that fine artists are encouraged to use their talents, this is supported by the Torah text, and rabbinic explanation. The restriction for the Jewish artist is in making a replication of a realistic full-scale figure, making a visual rendition of G-d, a nude, or violent image. Art is made by the observant Jew with the intention of enhancing the world with visions inspired by their belief in the Torah. A crucial belief in Judaism is that there is but one G-d, and all man-made images should reflect the majesty of G-d's creations.

Escritura nômade e tédio em "Harmada", de João Gilberto Noll

In the context of poetic productions of modernity and postmodernity (Hutcheon, 1999), this paper, from the concept of nomadism (Deleuze, 2012), together with the philosopher Derrida's notion of writing (2009), has the objective to study Harmada the novel (1993), written by artist Joao Gilberto Noll, the aspect of Nolliana nomadic scripture and boredom towards deconstruction of the Romanesque style. The narrative focus on introducing a transit fiction, promoted by nomadisms scripture of the wandering narrator who, in the work constitution, will the conduct of language, a plot that invades the body of the characters full of boredom and foreigners themselves, moving in fragmented and fluid spatiality of narrating. In this perspective, the research is limited with theoretical and methodological foundation in poststructuralist discussions in relation to considerations of literary aesthetics and concerning the thinkers-teóricos- critics: Derrida (2009), Deleuze (1995), Foucault (1996, 2001), Barthes (1977), Svendsen (2006). Against the background of critical understanding, the nomadic writing Harmada interlace in three stages: first, in the author's language; Second, the characters, the narrator-protagonist leading, unnamed, living overwhelming crises and painful existential ambiguity, placed through the artist's metaphor failed under the sign of "missing" while searching for other possible artistic ways of being in the world; and, finally, the nomadic reading instance as presentification effect (GUMBRECHT, 2010) for a reader experimentation. Finally, our work addresses the relationship between the nomadic scripture and the experience of boredom as a strategic power in the literature do Noll gear.

Mafteaḥ leshon ha-ḳodesh, That is the Key of the Holy Tongue : Wherein is contained, First the Hebrue Grammer (in a manner) word for word out of P. Martinius : Englished for the benefit of those that (being ignorant in the Latine) are desirous to learne the holy tongue

by John Udall ; Carefully corrected, and many faults amended which were found both in the Latine and English copies By a Jew Rabine

'A piece of fine meshwork': the intertwining fiction of Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien

This thesis comprises a comparative analysis of the works the Irish author Edna O’Brien and her contemporary and friend, the Jewish-American author Philip Roth. It investigates the striking biographical, textual and stylistic symmetries between two writers from very different cultures and literary traditions. The thesis begins with the, until now, undetected intertextual nexuses between Roth’s fiction and O’Brien’s. These allusions significantly alter the readings of a number of their novels, while at the same time indicating wider transatlantic frames of reference now apparent in their work. O’Brien has, since the beginning of her career, been in frequent correspondence with all of the pre-eminent Jewish-American authors of her time, and her work conducts a dialogue with key Jewish-American texts. Conversely, Roth’s fiction—like O’Brien’s, obviously indebted to Joyce—has frequently alluded to other seminal Irish authors. The literary and personal relationship of Roth and O’Brien symbolize myriad links between Jewish and Irish literary cultures. In O’Brien’s (and wider Irish) fiction, the Jew is often positioned as an exotic but dangerous “Other”. Equally, throughout the Jewish canon Irish Catholics are frequently employed as foils. Roth and O’Brien investigate difference by depicting relationships that cross these boundaries. Through understanding the complex interrelations at play between the fiction of Roth and O’Brien, and between their work and that of a wider pantheon of Irish and American writers, this thesis will reposition both as transnational authors while developing a culturally sensitive, textually nuanced account of their transatlantic literary relations.

Contemporary Transformations of the Relations between Politics, Culture and Religion in Western Europe. Some Notes on the Spanish Case

According to Tilly, two laws shaped the process of transformation undergone by Western European societies since the Peace of Westphalia until the end of the 20th century: their increasing inner homogenisation and their growing heterogeneity between them. Cultural inner homogenisation affected, fi rst, those ethnic groups living within the territories of the said states. The second phase of homogenisation impinged on those groups that immigrated after World War II. This process followed different models according to the country considered, but the 1973 oil crisis revealed their general lack of success. During the last quarter of the 20th century and onwards, these European societies have been altered by two progressive and contradictory global logics: a process of cultural homogenisation at the world level (rather than society level) and a process of cultural re-creation led by those groups with an immigrant background, who have reacted against their integration shortcomings by searching for new sources of social and personal esteem in their respective cultural and religious traditions. This paper seeks to clarify these processes from a social differentiation and political representation theory perspective. The latter becomes indispensable, as the said processes have happened in a context in which the structure of relations (i.e. communication) between civil society and the democratic political sphere have experienced a radical crisis. In this way, the complex relations that exist between civil society, culture, religion and politics in these Western European societies are depicted.

"Sub Tiberio quies"? Judaea’s Political Situation under the Prefects (6-41 c.e.), between Reality and Ideology

Deeply conflicting views on the political situation of Judaea under the Roman prefects (6-41 c.e.) have been offered. According to some scholars, this was a period of persistent political unrest and agitation, whilst according to a widespread view it was a quiescent period of political calm (reflected in Tacitus’ phrase sub Tiberio quies). The present article critically examines again the main available sources –particularly Josephus, the canonical Gospels and Tacitus– in order to offer a more reliable historical reconstruction. The conclusions drawn by this survey calls into question some widespread and insufficiently nuanced views on the period. This, in turn, allows a reflection on the non-epistemic factors which might contribute to explain the origin of such views.

Deconstrucción de los relatos evangélicos de la pasión. Sobre el arraigo de la ficción en la Historia de las religiones

Las más elementales exigencias de rigor crítico e independencia siguen a menudo sin cumplirse hoy en día en la reconstrucción histórica de la figura del judío Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesús el galileo), en parte porque el carácter inconsistente de las fuentes evangélicas no es tomado en serio. El presente artículo analiza las incongruencias de los relatos de la pasión, muestra en ellos los indicios de un proceso de despolitización, y señala el carácter insostenible de varias afirmaciones clave de muchos historiadores contemporáneos sobre el predicador galileo.

Judaísmo y judaísmos: una realidad plural y compleja

En este artículo se presenta una visión panorámica de la situación actual del judaísmo así como de los principales problemas y desafíos que afronta en la actualidad. De manera especial se reflexiona sobre el concepto de identidad judía, pues son muchas y diferentes las respuestas a las preguntas ¿quién es judío? y ¿qué significa ser judío?

What Heraclitus and Parmenides have in common on Reality and Deception

It is usually assumed that Heraclitus is, exclusively, the philosopher of flux, diversity and opposition while Parmenides puts the case for unity and changelessness. However, there is a significant common understanding of things (though in differing contexts), not simply an accidental similarity of understanding. Both philosophers, critically, distinguish two realms: on the one hand, there is the one, common realm, identical for all, which is grasped by the ‘logos that is common’(Heraclitus) or the steady nous (Parmenides) that follows a right method in order to interpret the real. On the other hand, the realm of multiplicity seen and heard by the senses, when interpreted by ‘barbarian souls’, is not understood in its common unity. Analogously, when grasped by the wandering weak nous it does not comprehend the real’s basic unity. In this paper I attempt to defend the thesis that both thinkers claim that the common logos (to put it in Heraclitean terms) or the steady intellect (to say it with Parmenides) grasp and affirm the unity of the real.

Djurterapins inverkan på människor med demenssjukdom och andra kognitiva sjukdomar- en litteraturöversikt

Bakgrund: I Sverige insjuknar varje år ungefär 25 000 människor i någon form av demenssjukdom, en sjukdom som ökar världen över och troligtvis kommer att fördubblas inom de närmsta 20 åren. Demenssjukdom drabbar hjärnan vilket påverkar minnet och den kognitiva förmågan och kan ge beteendemässiga och psykiska symtom (BPSD). Studier visar att nio av tio personer någon gång kommer att visa symtom som ångest, oro, vandrande och aggressiva beteenden. Läkemedelsadministrering för att behandla symtom som oro, ångest och agiterande beteenden är inte ovanligt. Dock kan läkemedel ofta orsaka biverkningar hos äldre människor. Att istället använda djurterapi för att behandla symtom som kan uppstå vid demenssjukdomar kan ses som ett positivt alternativ då studier visat att djurterapi har en positiv inverkan på människan med demenssjukdom och andra kognitiva sjukdomar. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva vilken inverkan djurterapi har på människor med demenssjukdom och andra kognitiva sjukdomar. Metod: Studien är en litteraturöversikt baserad på artiklar med kvantitativ och kvalitativ ansats (n=15). Resultat: Resultatet av denna litteraturstudie visar att djurterapi ger minskad stressnivå, minskat uppvisande av aggressiva beteenden, färre vanföreställningar, minskad ångest, nedstämdhet, sorgsenhet, depressiva symtom och apatiska beteenden samt ökning av glädje, lycka, engagemang, vakenhet, medvetenhet, verbala uttryck samt ökat minne. Konklusion: Resultatet tyder på att djurterapi med fördel kan användas som alternativ eller kompletterande behandling för människor med demenssjukdom. Dock ser författarna att utökad forskning behövs för att se långvarig inverkan av djurterapins effekter.