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Fear and Frustration: A Qualitative Analysis of the Social and Political Impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. Older Adults

The COVID-19 pandemic had dramatic impacts on the physical, social, and emotional health of individuals. Older adults, in particular, have experienced the highest mortality rates and the greatest concerns ranging from physical safety to economic stress to social isolation. This paper presents findings drawn from the COVID-19 Coping Study, a national longitudinal study of the...

Joking With a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man

in 2021, comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham attempts to answer the same questions in his COVID-era comedy special Inside. Though neither of these works are about existential philosophy explicitly, Notes ... philosophy explicitly, Notes From Underground is revered as such. In this comparative essay, I argue that Inside is also a deeply existential work, similar to Notes From Underground in both the themes it

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Jeffersonian; Champion of Natural Law Philosophy

radicalism prior to his assassination in 1968. Neither view of the man, however, generally acknowledges his deep-rooted political philosophy of Natural Law. This aspect of King, which informed his civic ... Philosophy Commons, Intellectual History Commons, Political History Commons, Political The ory Commons, and the United States History Commons - Article 5 Cover Page Footnote James M. Masnov Thi s article is

Captikwł and The Laws of Nature; The Syilx People's Ethical and Cultural Connection with Mother Earth

collection of stories inspire an environmental ethical philosophy and justice that is deeply rooted in their identity as indigenous people and practiced across generations ... handed down through generations. The concept represents an ethical philosophy encapsulated in Syilx identity thanks to this collection of stories that teach them about laws, values, customs, and moral

The Personal and the Political in the Work of Mariama Bâ

In her two novels, Une si longue lettre and Un Chant écarlate, Mariama Bâ describes how political as well as domestic problems develop from the tensions between tradition and the modern world. Desire ... woman, harmony of rich and poor, harmony of educated and uneducated. It is not a revolutionary political philosophy, since the rich and the poor remain. The working classes are not idealized: "L'humble

An Awakening of the Hawaiian Way of Life: Framing Kapu Aloha and the Mauna Kea Controversy

news articles, mainly excluding the Native Hawaiian voice. Then, the melodramatic rhetoric elucidates a frame unique to the Hawaiian people also known as their philosophy of kapu aloha demonstrated in ... instituting a code of conduct and philosophy to follow. The frame is exhibited through the melodrama rhetoric, offering an oppositional attitude seeking to assess social and political issues such as Mauna Kea

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at a Hospice Facility Fear and Frustration: A Qualitative Analysis of the Social and Political Impacts of Covid-19 on U.S. Older Adults Know the Truth Campaign Delany N. Bishop Noelle A. Haury ... Burnham attempts to answer the same questions in his COVID-era comedy special Inside. Though neither of these works are about existential philosophy explicitly, Notes From Underground is revered as such. In

Pathologists’ first opinions on barriers and facilitators of computational pathology adoption in oncological pathology: an international study

sending feedback on CPath clinical performance to the supplier. Social, political and legal factors – Healthcare regulation Considering legal factors, the uncertainty about the liability position of ... change; and Social, political and legal factors. We did not use the Patient factors domain since pathologists are not in direct contact with patients. Toward the end of the interviews, participants had the

Circumscription: Proust's The Captive and the Problem of Other Minds

philosophy shows, his efforts are thwarted by the deceptions of others and by his own irreconcilable views. The other is radically inaccessible, yet the object of our search; the self is a stable entity, yet ... character and as narrator-raises the questions regarding the minds of others which have confronted modern philosophy, especially in the works of Wisdom, Austin, Wittgenstein, and Cavell. Proust presents

Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon As a Noir Novel

in a newly independent West African country, protagonist Veronica witnesses the arrest of a political activist who opposed the ruling elite. When she investigates his disappearance, Veronica realizes ... will uncover a global social problem—the ruling elite clings to power by secretly eliminating political opponents. As a typical noir novel, Heremakhonon reveals the identity of the perpetrators from the

Charlton Heston’s Rhetoric on Political Correctness, Use of Ideographs, and Construction of Ethos in “Winning the Cultural War”

measures of the Clinton administration, Heston's Right-leaning speech critiqued the limitation of personal freedom and the national obsession with political correctness. While on the surface Heston’s speech ... M. W. (1996). The role of the right-a focus on the 'political' in 'political correctness'. Journal of the Association for Communication Administration Charlton Heston's Rhetoric on Political

Clandestine Migration and the Politics of Form in Nicole Caligaris’s Les Samothraces

literary form and Thomas Nail’s political theory of the migrant. Reading Les Samothraces against the grain, I argue that the text’s literary form encodes the political tensions of its contemporary moment ... an oblique take on contemporary migration. Some recognizable tropes— rapacious smugglers, dangerous border crossings, and detention centers—anchor the text in today’s political climate. Reading Les

Running Scared in the Valley Below: El Salvador's Role in the Creation of Central American Neoliberalism

counterrevolutionary violence supported materially and ideologically by the Reagan administration. Through eyewitness accounts, political analysis and criticism of the state violence against rural leftists and villagers ... political parties was openly calling for regime change in that country. Her questioning of a moment in history that was immediately forgotten, swept under the rug by Abrams and his Reagan-era counterparts

Saturnine Vision and the Question of Difference: Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Theory of Language

distinctions of philosophy itself. Chief among these distinctions is that of philosophical thought itself, or the difference it makes with respect to the realms of nature, myth, or the appearances. By focusing ... , coupled to the theology of the Jewish religion of revelation, tied to Romantic linguistic philosophy, paired off with historical materialism, or even related to Lutheran theology, the critics have primarily

Literature on the Margins: Russian Fiction in the Nineties

Despite shrinkage in print runs and readership, canonical Literature during the 1990s developed along three major lines that connected writers of various generations in both aesthetics and philosophy ... no political or, indeed, any other kind of censorship. Yet, at the same Published b time, it is a literature dumbfounded by the loss of many millions of readers.' The writer has ceased to be both a

Zamyatin's We and the Idea of the Dystopie

An examination of We clarifies conventions for the dystopic novel even as it reveals that We transcends those conventions. Under the surface text, which presents a narrative of political and ... modern reader all political novels seem dystopic. But such categorizing, however born out of whatever despair, can be misleading and some attempt needs to be made to sketch out the limits of the idea of

Ethnos Meets Eros on the River Plate: Marcelo Birmajer, Sylvia Molloy, Anna Kazumi Stahl

. In contrast to previous eras when writing reflected a melting pot philosophy which saw Eros as a means of fusing ethnicities and eliminating particularities, today's fiction often celebrates these

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to his assassination in 1968.? Neither view of the man, however, generally acknowledges his deep-rooted political philosophy of Natural Law. This? aspect of King, which informed his civic protest ... ? political? philosophy? and? illustrates? it? for? those? willing? and? able? to? see:? Martin? Luther King, Jr. was a Natural Law Jeffersonian.? ? King and Natural Law? King?s? legacy? as? a? champion? of

Expressionism, Futurism, and the Dream of Mass Democracy

This essay throws new light on a radical tendency in cultural modernism by analyzing the role of a single metaphor—the figure of politics as a stage—in political debates among German Expressionists ... might develop the political subjectivity needed to create a truly mass democracy. While the essay demonstrates that Futurists and Expressionists failed to develop a clear vision of what form mass

Cold War Nature: Transforming German Poetry

This essay considers German ‘Naturlyrik’ in terms of factors contributing to the mid-century emergence of political ecopoetry and 21st-century post-pastoral register. Cold War aesthetic ... ,’ a concern with positioning poetry as pastoral and isolated in the aesthetic realm, and a willingness to subordinate nature to confrontational political ideologies. Yet Cold War nature in its later