From No Man's Land to Mother-Land: Emasculation and Nationalism in Richard Wright's Depression Era Urban Novels

To supplement preexisting wellness programming for the surgery clerkship, a faculty surgeon at Vanderbilt initiated Fireside Chats (FC) in 2015. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt’s Depression-era radio broadcasts, FC features small group sizes, off-campus excursions, and a reimagining of the mentor–mentee relationship that eschews hierarchy in favor of deep, mutualistic connections in both personal and professional domains. Here we describe the rationale and implementation of FC and present survey data that demonstrate the warm reception of FC and its efficacy in stewarding the mental health of medical students. Moreover, unlike large group activities such as “learning communities,” FC continues to meet in-person during COVID-19 and preserves social engagement opportunities that may alleviate pandemic-induced isolation and distress.

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Onderwysstudente se parodieë as hibridiese tekste: ’n navorsingsverslag

Literator ◽

10.4102/lit.v27i2.194 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 83-108

Author(s):

E. Kruger

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Research Programme ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Context Dependency ◽

Research Report ◽

Original Text ◽

Education Students ◽

No Man's Land ◽

Teacher Education Students

Parody as hybridic text: research report Parody can be seen as one of the techniques of selfreferentiality through which a consciousness of the context dependency of meaning is revealed in an aesthetic way. This article explores the theoretical background of parody as literary style against which the researcher challenged a group of teacher education students in a research programme to generate their own parodies. The task required that they choose a well-known fairy tale and use its structure to mock their own society. Students of another group were asked as the writers’ peers to read the stories in order to engage in a dialogue between encoder and decoder in the process of reception. The educational aim of the programme was to equip students to reflect critically and react creatively to social, political and economic issues that surround them. Furthermore, the researcher wanted to discover how these texts would generate a flexibility, fluency and hybridity in relationship with the students’ cultural identity and how they would project their own liminality in a no-man’s land between youth and adulthood. Analysis and interpretation of the parody texts revealed themes of late capitalism, materialism and consumerism, as well as typical student cultural manifestations of language usage and some of their existing attitudes toward the South African political society in post-apartheid. The students’ parodies have intertextual density with imitation and subversion of the original text contexts and values. The writers used a variety of stylistic techniques to generate double-voiced narratives as manifestation of literary creativity.

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Methods of Evaluation of the Functional Results of Flexor Tendon Repair of the Fingers

Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) ◽

10.1016/s0266-7681(85)80018-8 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 60-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

A. B. NIELSEN ◽

P. Ø. JENSEN

Keyword(s):

Functional Outcome ◽

Standard Method ◽

Flexor Tendon ◽

Tendon Repair ◽

Functional Results ◽

Functional Evaluation ◽

Flexor Tendon Repair ◽

Methods Of Evaluation ◽

Method Of Measurement ◽

No Man's Land

The methods used by Buck-Gramcko, Kleinert and Tsuge in evaluating the functional results of flexor tendon repair were each applied to assess the functional outcome in sixty-seven fingers where both tendons had been severed in “no man's land”. The method of Buck-Gramcko gave the highest rating, and the three methods showed evident differences in the results of evaluation after surgery. The study suggests a need for one standard method of measurement and recording, if a comparison of results after flexor tendon repair is to be of value. We found that the method of Buck-Gramcko incorporated the most essential features in the functional evaluation.

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