Script Of All Dignity

Author : Daisy Robyns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9798608792397

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Script of All Dignity by Daisy Robyns Pdf

Author : Susan Orpett Long
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824843960

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Final Days by Susan Orpett Long Pdf

In postindustrial societies, people must consciously define their individuality through the choices they make. Recently, death has become yet another realm of personal choice, making a "good death" one in which we die in our "own way." Does culture matter in these decisions? Final Days represents a new perspective on end-of-life decision-making, arguing that culture does make a difference but not as a checklist of customs or as the source of a moral code. Grounded in rich ethnographic data, the book offers a superb examination of how policy and meaning frame the choices Japanese make about how to die. As an essay in descriptive bioethics, it engages an extensive literature in the social sciences and bioethics to examine some of the answers people have constructed to end-of life issues. Like their counterparts in other postindustrial societies, Japanese find no simple way of handling situations such as disclosure of diagnosis, discontinuing or withholding treatment, organ donation, euthanasia, and hospice. Through interviews and case studies in hospitals and homes, Susan Orpett Long offers a window on the ways in which "ordinary" people respond to serious illness and the process of dying. Moving beyond stereotypes of stylized samurai violence and Buddhist meditation as Japanese cultural models of dying, Long offers fresh insights into how experiential and social factors mediate between formal cultural rules and what people do. Given the existence of various culturally legitimate scripts on how to die well and the complex nature of human relationships, she makes a convincing and original argument that ambivalence need not be viewed as anomalous. Indeed, ambiguity and a diversity of views are not obstacles to the moral life of a society, but rather are the raw material in postindustrial societies from which people construct meaningful deaths and thus meaningful lives.

Author : Sherwin T. Wine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Humanistic Judaism
ISBN : UOM:39015028791179

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Celebration by Sherwin T. Wine Pdf

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 0811217221

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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Author : Chris Arnade
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525534730

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Dignity by Chris Arnade Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." —J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "[A] deeply empathetic book." —The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through "expert" pontification on inequality, addiction, and poverty to allow those who have been left behind to define themselves on their own terms. After abandoning his Wall Street career, Chris Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens and McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve. As Takeesha, a woman in the Bronx, told Arnade, she wants to be seen she sees herself: "a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind.

Author : Kelby Harrison
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739177068

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Sexual Deceit by Kelby Harrison Pdf

Sexual Deceit is an extended ethical analysis of the phenomenon of sexual identity passing — i.e. socially presenting as X, when one understands oneself as Y, where the variables represent any contemporary sexual identity — alongside identity passing in the contexts of race, gender, and briefly, religion and class. The analysis of passing utilizes and challenges traditional moral understandings of identity falsification, complicating our understandings of moral obligations under systemic oppression. Tracing the intervention of social construction theory on contemporary political understandings of LGBT communities and activism, Sexual Deceit argues against social construction models of identity — notably performativity, promulgated by the work of Judith Butler and consumed and repeated by many scholars and theory educated queer people. A new model of identity is constructed, based on a phenomenological concept of style that provides for a socially adjustable yet rooted notion of sexual identity. The ethical implications of sexual identity passing are considered in the context of eschatological images of social justice and within practical matters such as military service, leadership, and sexual harassment law.

Author : Edward Hasted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Kent (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015039587186

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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent by Edward Hasted Pdf

Author : Frank Coulson,Robert Babcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199714254

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography by Frank Coulson,Robert Babcock Pdf

Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, ownership, dissemination, and use. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography includes essays on major types of script (Uncial, Insular, Beneventan, Visigothic, Gothic, etc.), describing what defines these distinct script types, and outlining when and where they were used. It expands on previous handbooks of the subject by incorporating select essays on less well-studied periods and regions, in particular late mediaeval Eastern Europe. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography is also distinguished from prior handbooks by its extensive focus on codicology and on the cultural settings and contexts of mediaeval books. Essays treat of various important features, formats, styles, and genres of mediaeval books, and of representative mediaeval libraries as intellectual centers. Additional studies explore questions of orality and the written word, the book trade, glossing and glossaries, and manuscript cataloguing. The extensive plates and figures in the volume will provide readers wtih clear illustrations of the major points, and the succinct bibliographies in each essay will direct them to more detailed works in the field.

Author : Jason Harper,Joshua Binger,Christine Regan
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597813723

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The Enduring Spirit by Jason Harper,Joshua Binger,Christine Regan Pdf

Author : Sue Sattel,Jamie Whaley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X006081017

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Sexual Harassment of Students by Sue Sattel,Jamie Whaley Pdf

This manual offers principals and other administrators strategies to help them prevent, recognize and investigate instances of sexual harassment in their schools. While addressing faculty or staff harassment of students, it also focuses on a growing trend -- students harassing other students. It also looks at the unique problems associated with harassment at the elementary level (how to discuss and investigate situations involving younger students), as well as with athletic programs and highly vulnerable special needs students. This resource features a wide variety of ready-to-use forms, checklists and worksheets.

Author : Edward Hasted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Canterbury (England)
ISBN : YALE:39002004360807

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History of the Antient [sic] and Metro-political City of Canterbury, Civil and Ecclesiastical by Edward Hasted Pdf

Author : Sophie Ibbotson,Max Lovell-Hoare
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781784770174

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Uzbekistan by Sophie Ibbotson,Max Lovell-Hoare Pdf

Uzbekistan Travel Guide - Expert advice and holiday tips including Tashkent architecture and hotels, Silk Road history, Islamic art and textiles, museums and culture. Also included are detailed maps, trekking and hiking routes, touring by bike, public transport, archaeological sites like Samarkand and Bukara, Fergana Valley and Kyzylkum Desert.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Trinitarianism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH69LR

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The Concessions of Trinitarians by John Wilson Pdf

Author : Jack French,David S. Siegel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786471461

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Radio Rides the Range by Jack French,David S. Siegel Pdf

This is a comprehensive encyclopedia to the more than 100 radio programs portraying the American West, in fact and fiction, heard by generations of listeners from the Great Depression through the Cold War era. The book includes both the popular and lesser known series, as well as would-be offerings that never made it past the audition stage. Each entry describes the series, the extent to which it was based on actual facts, the audience it was written for, and its broadcast history. The descriptions also examine how the programs reflected society's changing social and cultural attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities and the role of women. The availability of surviving audio copies and original scripts is noted. An extensive bibliography and several appendices provide additional sources of information about Western programming during the Golden Age of Radio.

Author : Ben Urwand
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728356

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The Collaboration by Ben Urwand Pdf

To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time—a "collaboration" (Zusammenarbeit) that drew in a cast of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer. At the center of Urwand's story is Hitler himself, who was obsessed with movies and recognized their power to shape public opinion. In December 1930, his Party rioted against the Berlin screening of All Quiet on the Western Front, which led to a chain of unfortunate events and decisions. Fearful of losing access to the German market, all of the Hollywood studios started making concessions to the German government, and when Hitler came to power in January 1933, the studios—many of which were headed by Jews—began dealing with his representatives directly. Urwand shows that the arrangement remained in place through the 1930s, as Hollywood studios met regularly with the German consul in Los Angeles and changed or canceled movies according to his wishes. Paramount and Fox invested profits made from the German market in German newsreels, while MGM financed the production of German armaments. Painstakingly marshaling previously unexamined archival evidence, The Collaboration raises the curtain on a hidden episode in Hollywood—and American—history.