What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than
the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the
other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions
...stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and
frontier ideology. In exploring the rich vein of writing and film
that emerged from the Vietnam War era, he strikingly illuminates
how these stories reflect American social crises of the period.
Some material examined here is familiar, including the work of
Michael Herr, Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Susan Sontag, Francis
Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone. Other material is less well
known- Neverlight by Donald Pfarrer and De Mojo
Blues by A. R. Flowers, for example. Bates also draws upon an
impressive range of secondary readings, from Freud and Marx to
Geertz and Jameson. As the products of a culture in conflict,
Vietnam memoirs, novels, films, plays, and poems embody a range of
political perspectives, not only in their content but also in their
structure and rhetoric. In his final chapter Bates outlines a
"politico-poetics" of the war story as a genre. Here he gives
special attention to our motives-from the deeply personal to the
broadly cultural-for telling war stories.
Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditationsPart personal memoir, part philosophical reflection and written in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, The World Is ...Gone employs the Robinson Crusoe fable to launch an existential investigation of the effects of extreme isolation, profound boredom, nightly insomnia, and the fear of madness associated with the loss of a world populated by others.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
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The midcycle surge of LH sets in motion interconnected networks of signaling cascades to bring about rupture of the follicle and release of the oocyte during ovulation. Many mediators of ...these LH-induced signaling cascades are associated with inflammation, leading to the postulate that ovulation is similar to an inflammatory response. First responders to the LH surge are granulosa and theca cells, which produce steroids, prostaglandins, chemokines, and cytokines, which are also mediators of inflammatory processes. These mediators, in turn, activate both nonimmune ovarian cells as well as resident immune cells within the ovary; additional immune cells are also attracted to the ovary. Collectively, these cells regulate proteolytic pathways to reorganize the follicular stroma, disrupt the granulosa cell basal lamina, and facilitate invasion of vascular endothelial cells. LH-induced mediators initiate cumulus expansion and cumulus oocyte complex detachment, whereas the follicular apex undergoes extensive extracellular matrix remodeling and a loss of the surface epithelium. The remainder of the follicle undergoes rapid angiogenesis and functional differentiation of granulosa and theca cells. Ultimately, these functional and structural changes culminate in follicular rupture and oocyte release. Throughout the ovulatory process, the importance of inflammatory responses is highlighted by the commonalities and similarities between many of these events associated with ovulation and inflammation. However, ovulation includes processes that are distinct from inflammation, such as regulation of steroid action, oocyte maturation, and the eventual release of the oocyte. This review focuses on the commonalities between inflammatory responses and the process of ovulation.
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When slavery was abolished across ...most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.A group of Caribbean countries are suing ten European nations for a total of 4 trillion dollars for the damage inflicted on them. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter and other activists groups are causing increasing numbers of white people to reflect on how this history of abuse and exploitation has benefited them.Blood Legacy explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former - himself among them - can begin to make reparations for the past.
Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest
was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s,
locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin' R&B, and a
...surprising number of them would skyrocket to success, including
Little Bill and the Bluenotes, the Wailers, Ron Holden, Paul Revere
and the Raiders, the Kingsmen, Merrilee Rush, and the Sonics.
With entertaining accounts gleaned from hundreds of interviews,
Peter Blecha tells the story of music in the Pacific Northwest from
the 1940s to the 1960s, a golden era that shaped generations of
musicians to come. The local R&B scene evolved from the area's
vibrant jazz scene, and Blecha illuminates the musical continuum
between Ray Charles (who cut his first record in Seattle) and
Quincy Jones to the rock 'n' rollers who forged the classic
jazz-tinged "Northwest Sound." DJs built a teen dance circuit that
the authorities didn't like but whose popularity pushed bands to
develop crowd-friendly beats. Do-it-yourself enthusiasts launched
groundbreaking record companies that scored a surprising number of
hit songs.
Highlighting key but overlooked figures and offering a new look
at well-known musicians (such as an obscure guitarist then known as
Jimmy Hendrix), Blecha shows how an isolated region launched
influential new sounds upon an unsuspecting world.
Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of "the powers of the false," Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that ...deal with the Shoah, with colonialism, and with racialized identities. She argues that Jonathan Safran Foer'sEverything Is Illuminated, Richard Flanagan'sGould's Book of Fish, and Richard Powers'sThe Time of Our Singingare novels in which a space for unvoiced, silent, or silenced difference is created. Seen through the lens of Deleuze and his collaborators' philosophy, literature is a means for mediating knowledge and affects about historical events. Going beyond any simple dichotomy between true and untrue accounts of what "really" happened in the past, literature's powers of the false incite readers to long for a narrative space in which painful or shameful stories can be included.
Türk hukuk tarihinde 1961 Anayasası, dördüncü anayasa olma özelliğine sahiptir. 27 Mayıs 1960 Askerî Darbesi sonucunda ve Millî Birlik Komitesi (MBK) öncülüğünde hazırlanan bu anayasa, temel hak ve ...hürriyetlere ayrıntılı bir şekilde yer verdiğinden ve özgürlükçü-çoğulcu bir anlayışı yansıttığından Türk demokrasisinin gelişmesine önemli bir katkı sağlamıştır, ancak anayasanın söz konusu hürriyetçi yönü, kabul edilişinden sonraki yıllarda anayasayı eleştirilerin odağı hâline getirmiştir. Özellikle, anayasanın benimsemiş olduğu ideoloji ve bu çerçevede yapılan özgürlükçü uygulamalar, bu uygulamalardan kaynaklanan ve 1960’ların sonları ile 1970’lerin başlarında yaşanan öğrenci ve siyasal şiddet olayları, Süleyman Demirel başta olmak üzere dönemin siyasetçileri ve Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri (TSK) tarafından tepkiyle karşılanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda TSK, 12 Mart 1971’de Cumhurbaşkanlığına bir muhtıra vererek meşrû hükûmetin istifasını istemiştir. “12 Mart Muhtırası” olarak da adlandırılan bu olayın etkisiyle Türkiye’deki siyasal yaşam, 27 Mayıs Askerî Darbesi’nden sonra yeniden kesintiye uğramıştır. Muhtıra, Türkiye’deki siyasal hayatı olduğu gibi mevcut hukuksal düzeni de önemli ölçüde etkilemiştir. Bu kapsamda, 1961 Anayasası’nda birtakım değişikliklerin yapılması gündeme gelmiş ve anayasa, muhtıranın etkilerinden kaynaklı olarak 1971 ve 1973 yıllarında değiştirilmiştir. Bu değişiklikler, anayasada yapılan en geniş çaplı düzenleme niteliğine sahip olmuştur. Söz konusu düzenlemelerle anayasanın içeriği kapsamlı bir şekilde değiştirilmiş ve uygulanış biçimi ilk hâline göre önemli ölçüde farklılaşmıştır. Bu da, anayasanın ilk hâlinden farklı bir niteliğe sahip olmasına neden olmuştur. “12 Mart Muhtırası Sonrası 1961 Anayasası’nda Yapılan Değişiklikler Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme” isimli çalışmanın hazırlanmasındaki asıl amaç, 1961 Anayasası’nın hangi süreçten geçilerek kabul edildiğini, 12 Mart Muhtırasının verilmesine hangi siyasal olayların neden olduğunu, muhtıra kapsamında anayasada ne gibi değişikliklerin yapıldığını ve bu değişikliklerin Türk demokrasisinde ne gibi etkiler meydana getirdiğini hukuksal ve tarihsel bir perspektifle ortaya çıkarmaktır. Adı geçen çalışma, telif eserlerden ve süreli yayınlardan yararlanılarak oluşturulmuştur. Ayrıca bu makale, nitel bir çalışma olup, doküman analizi yöntemi kullanılarak hazırlanmıştır.
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