scholarly journals Bird & Squirrel On The Run! by J. Burks

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabelle Pendry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Minimal Change ◽  
Animation Industry ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Mount Pleasant ◽  
The World ◽  
Winter Food ◽  
The Moment

Burks, James. Bird & Squirrel On The Run! New York: Scholastic Graphix, 2012. Print. After years as an artist in the hallways of the animation industry, author/illustrator James Burks takes an unlikely duo on an adventure of discovered friendship. Timid Squirrel, complete with winter food preparations and a fear of almost everything (“Don’t you know that cats are responsible for 47 percent of all squirrel deaths each year?”), suddenly loses his winter safety net in dramatic fashion, catching the hungry eye of a determined and ferocious cat.  Squirrel has no choice but to grudgingly pair himself with the animal responsible for his loss, an adventurous Bird who brazenly lives in the moment (“The world is our oyster!”) but who attracts trouble with every swoop of his wing.  Together they venture south to find warmth and food, dodging their persistently predatory cat and other natural hazards but find help along the way from a kind family of moles.  A few shared life and death adventures later, Bird and Squirrel begin to appreciate and learn from each other’s ways, discovering new aspects of their own personalities while becoming true friends in the process.   ​ Burks uses clean lines and brightly coloured characters against more neutral backgrounds to frame clear and simple facial expressions that will appeal to younger readers. The fast paced story is presented with minimal change in perspective and timeline which makes this an ideal introduction to graphic novels for younger readers. ​​ Recommended: 3 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Annabelle Pendry Annabelle Pendry loves her job as Teacher Librarian at Mount Pleasant Elementary in Vancouver, BC.

Backward glances: Feminism, nostalgia and Joan Braderman’s The Heretics (2009)

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Michelle Meagher ◽  
Roxanne Loree Runyon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Loss Framing ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Although nostalgia is a much-maligned orientation to the world, feminist scholars including Heather Hillsburg (2013) and Kate Eichhorn (2015) have argued that it might be recuperated for feminist ends. This article mobilises the call to rethink nostalgia through an analysis of the feminist stories and storytelling in Joan Braderman’s 2009 film, The Heretics. A documentary about a feminist collective founded in New York City in the 1970s, The Heretics sets up a way of thinking about feminism’s past that is steeped in nostalgia. Throughout the film, Braderman maintains that the 1970s were ‘a time when everything seemed possible’. By contrast, she assesses the moment in which she makes the film as a time in which ‘fear corrodes even the young’. As feminist viewers of the film who did not (indeed by virtue of age could not) experience feminism in the 1970s, we initially read the nostalgic narrative of loss framing the film with suspicion. By drawing on feminist scholarship on nostalgia and feminist storytelling, however, we argue that nostalgia can function in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2003) would call a reparative mode that enriches the relationships that feminist scholars, activists and cultural workers bear to feminisms’ pasts.

Contemporary Partnerships

2021 ◽  
pp. 906-922
Author(s):  
Russell Janzen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
York City ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment

This chapter seeks to determine what makes for a contemporary partnership on the ballet stage through an examination of gender roles and choreographic invention in three works created for the New York City Ballet in 2017. While choreographers often strive to make new, of-the-moment dances, traditional ballet training still holds strong, turning out dancers whose bodies and abilities adhere to ideals established long ago. This perpetuation of antiquated ideas of masculinity and femininity limits the ways in which ballet partnerships are able to reflect the world of today. After a brief overview of the expectations put on men and women in ballet, with an emphasis on partnering class and partnering techniques, the chapter looks at how Pontus Lidberg, Justin Peck, and Lauren Lovette, each utilizing different approaches, used choreography to craft contemporary partnerships in their new works for the New York City Ballet in 2017.

All the Water in the World by G. E. Lyon

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilda Roche
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
The World

Lyon, George Ella. All the Water in the World. Illus. Katherine Tillotson. New York: Atheneum Books, 2011. Print. A gorgeous synthesis of poetry and illustration, All the Water in the World imbues complex environmental science concepts with an intense personal immediacy, full of sentiment and expression. The text follows water’s cyclical passage through different levels of the global climate, as it permeates all facets of life on earth. Science and aesthetics are used in inspired collaboration to create a realistic depiction of natural phenomena and an evocation of the innately lyrical and metamorphic quality of water in its diverse and omnipresent manifestations. Lyon’s adept use of emphasis and repetition perfectly captures the rush and cadence of moving water. She creates a clear discourse focusing on the morality of water conservation and its implications for human equality and preservation of the natural world. Tillotson employs oil paint manipulated through collage, printmaking, and digital techniques to capture the many moods of water, transitioning between cartoonish representation and dynamic, impressionistic imagery. The charm and immediacy of All the Water in the World comes from its depiction of familiar manifestations of water that will evoke a visceral response in a young audience. The book seamlessly associates those common experiences with the larger natural patterns that water follows, as it interacts with the earth, ocean and atmosphere. All the Water in the World is an emblematic example of how talented writers and illustrators are integrating engagingly vivid non-fiction into young children’s libraries. Highly Recommended:  4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Matilda RocheMatilda spends her days lavishing attention on the University of Alberta’s metadata but children’s illustrated books, literature for young adults and graphic novels also make her heart sing. Her reviews benefit from the critical influence of a four year old daughter and a one year old son – both geniuses. Matilda’s super power is the ability to read comic books aloud.

The Life and Death of Lucille Angel from Primary Care, Chaplaincy, and Palliative Care Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wendell Moller
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Palliative Care Program ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Safety Net Hospital ◽  
The World

Palliative care physicians enjoy the opportunity to make a special kind of difference in the lives of patients, families, and communities. Through their experiences in the palliative care program at the safety-net hospital, many medical students and residents have learned to their surprise that the dying poor sometimes have access to better care than the dying rich. Today, the dying poor are not only receiving better care—as this story illustrates, they are also playing an important role in helping to illuminate what such care really looks like, and their experiences are helping to improve the care of dying patients in their community and throughout the world.

scholarly journals Crossing the Rubicon: Death in ‘The Year of the Transplant’

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
The World ◽  
Organ Removal ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Intense Debate ◽  
Sydney Australia

How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce ‘extinct’ the patients from whom ‘spare parts’ were sought for grafting. But transplant surgeons increasingly argued the moment of death was less important than was the moment of establishing that a patient was beyond the point of no return in dying, at which time she or he should be passed to the transplant team. This raised concerns that people identified as being a potential source of organs might not be adequately cared for in their own right. In 1968 the World Medical Association issued an international statement on death at its meeting in Sydney, Australia following a debate between delegates about how and by whom death should be assessed prior to organ removal. Soon afterwards Australian surgeons performed two of the one hundred and five heart transplants carried out around the world that year, dubbed by theNew York Timesto be one during which an ‘international epidemic’ of such grafts were carried out. This essay examines debates about death and transplanting, then analyses the pioneering Australian heart transplants, in the context of the Declaration of Sydney and continuing international discussions about whether these operations were moral and legal.

Central Banks and Gold

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon James Bytheway ◽  
Mark Metzler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. This book explores how this financialized form of globalism took shape a century ago, when Tokyo joined London and New York as a major financial center. This book shows that close cooperation between central banks began along an unexpected axis, between London and Tokyo, around the year 1900, with the Bank of England's secret use of large Bank of Japan funds to intervene in the London markets. Central-bank cooperation became multilateral during World War I—the moment when Japan first emerged as a creditor country. In 1919 and 1920, as Japan, Great Britain, and the United States adopted deflation policies, the results of cooperation were realized in the world's first globally coordinated program of monetary policy. It was also in 1920 that Wall Street bankers moved to establish closer ties with Tokyo. The text tells the story of how the first age of central-bank power and pride ended in the disaster of the Great Depression, when a rush for gold brought the system crashing down. In all of this, we see also the quiet but surprisingly central place of Japan. We see it again today, in the way that Japan has unwillingly led the world into a new age of post-bubble economics.

[review of:] Dace Prauliņš. 2012. Latvian. An Essential Grammar

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Nicole Nau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Contribution

Dace Prauliņš, Latvian. An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2012. ɪsʙɴ 978-0-415-57692-5. Descriptive grammars of Modern Latvian written in English are still something of a rarity, and any such book will be warmly welcomed bylinguists as well as by the growing number of people learning Latvian all over the world. It is for the latter group that Dace Prauliņš wrote this book, and it would be unfair to review it as a scholarly contribution to the analysis of Latvian grammar.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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