Author: Susan Curtiss File Type: pdf Genie A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day Wild Child reports on the linguistic research carried out through studying and working with Genie, a deprived and isolated, to an unprecedented degree, girl who was not discovered until she was an adolescent. An inhuman childhood had prevented Genie from learning language, and she knew little about the world in any respect save abuse, neglect, isolation, and deprivation.This book is organized into three parts encompassing 11 chapters. Part I provides a case history and background material on Genies personality and language behavior. This part describes the interaction between the authors and this remarkable girl. Part II details Genies linguistic development and overall language abilities, specifically her phonological development, as well as receptive knowledge and productive grammatical abilities of syntax, morphology, and semantics. This part also provides a comparison between her linguistic development and the language acquisition of other children. Part III presents a full description of the neurolinguistic work carried out on Genie and discusses the implications of this aspect of the case.This book will prove useful to neurolinguistics and pyscholinguistics.

Author: Chogyam Trungpa File Type: epub Inthis modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master ChogyamTrungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on thespiritual path falls prey what he callsspiritualmaterialism.The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process ofself-improvementthe impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, bynature, essentially empty. The problem is that ego can convert anythingto its own use, he said, even spirituality. His incisive,compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick we all play onourselves, and to offer us a far brighter reality the true and joyousliberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than workingto improve it. It is a message that has resonated with students for nearlythirty years, and remains fresh as ever today. Thisnew edition includes a foreword by Chogyam Trungpas son and lineageholder, Sakyong Mipham.**

Author: Curtis Marez File Type: pdf When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers--Mexican migrants in particular--in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture. Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other media technologies expressed a farm worker futurism, a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. In addition to drawing fascinating links between the worlds envisioned in UFW videos on the one hand and visions of Cold War geopolitics on the other, he demonstrates how union cameras and computer screens put the farm worker movement in dialogue with futurist thinking and speculative fictions of all sorts, including the films of George Lucas and the art of Ester Hernandez. Finally Marez examines the legacy of farm worker futurism in recent cinema and literature, contemporary struggles for immigrant rights, management-labor conflicts in computer hardware production, and the antiprison movement. In contrast with cultural histories of technology that take a top-down perspective, Farm Worker Futurism tells the story from below, showing how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, it presents a completely novel analysis of speculative fictions engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both.

Author: Hans Boersma File Type: pdf Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregorys theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role. The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregorys thought time and space allegory gender, sexuality, and virginity death and mourning slavery, homelessness, and poverty and the church as the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship that highlight Gregorys appreciation of the goodness of creation, this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that in the hereafter the categories of time and space will disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregorys theology. **