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The central purpose of this study was to determine whether a single interpersonal communication event could influence perceptions of physical attractiveness in a dating environment. A total of 104 undergraduate students at a large United States university engaged in speed-dating in order to examine the effects of both positive communication and negative communication. Speed-dating was incorporated into the present research because this round-robin method of dating offered an efficient means for investigating attraction and analyzing the effects of a single conversation. It was upon arrival at the event that participants completed a pre-test measure, engaged in a series of three minute speed-dates, and then completed a post-test measure. Results produced evidence of an interaction. Perceptions of physical attractiveness increased from pre-test to post-test in the positive communication condition while perceptions of physical attractiveness decreased from pre-test to post-test in the negative communication condition. Additional findings illustrated that three minutes of non-neutral social interaction had differing effects on women and men. One of the central conclusions from the present research was that females can strategically use interpersonal communication as a tool for enhancing their physical appearance. The results from this study also yielded practical implications that are relevant to casual dating as well as theoretical implications that are germane to communication theory.

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority's power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through \"lynching plays\" and Richard Wright's fiction to contemporary activist poetry, and from photography of African American suffering through Blaxploitation cinema and Spike Lee's films to rap lyrics and performances. Diverse both in their period coverage and their choice of medium for discussion, the 11 essays are unified by a shared concern to unpack violence's multiple meanings for black America. Underlying the collection, too, is not only the desire to memorialize past moments of black American suffering and resistance, but, in politically timely fashion, to explore their connections to our current conjuncture.

Assuming no prior knowledge and covering complex textual and contextual material in a clear, engaging way. this book is a critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

The current study analyzed source credibility in a sports related context. A review of previous literature was undertaken in order to highlight the central findings focused on the dimensions of competence, goodwill, and trustworthiness. Quantitative methods were then utilized as a means to empirically test whether unconfirmed reports of performance-enhancing drug use could negatively impact perceptions of athlete ethos. Findings revealed that athletes who were inconclusively linked to performance-enhancers were evaluated less favorably in terms of their overall competence, goodwill, and trustworthiness. The implications from this study indicate that clean athletes who are wrongfully accused should proactively communicate their innocence to the general public. Athletes who are not clean should employ various face and image restoration strategies in order to effectively manage their public credibility. Study limitations and directions for future research were appropriately addressed within the present scholarship.

African American history is, from its beginnings, a history not merely coterminous with but actively constituted by punitive violence. Some of the major problems of studying representations of violence in black American history may be briefly set out. Violence is thus to be understood as originary or formative in the African American experience, rather than as representing a turn away from some prelapsarian, non-violent moment. At many other times, however, resistance to institutionalized violence has taken the form of an answering violence by African Americans themselves, enacted against both persons and property. Violence's durability as a resource adopted by African Americans in the attempt to liberate or even simply to protect themselves can be seen by scanning the early entries in Charles M. Christian's valuable chronology, Black Saga. The chapter also provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.

This chapter focuses especially on five films Pam Grier released during a two-year period when her stardom had an intensity rivalling that of Blaxploitation's iconic male performers, such as Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree and Fred Williamson: Coffy, Foxy Brown, The Arena, Friday Foster and Sheba, Baby. Scenes of Grier suffering and avenging can thus supply an updated \"cinema of attractions\", without thereby foreclosing on possibilities of political instruction and mobilization Such female investment in targeted violence is not merely reproduced in Grier's Blaxploitation films, but hyperbolized. Mythical violence \"is lawmaking\", as Benjamin writes; it operates as \"bloody power over mere life for its own sake\". And yet, for Slavoj Zizek, divine violence possesses the revolutionary potential ascribed to it by Benjamin, for it is \"the sign of the injustice of the world, of the world being ethically 'out of joint'\".

This article reads the stylistics of films by Michael Winterbottom in the light of several models of globalization. The first section assesses how Winterbottom's mise-en-scène itself generates mappings of the current globalized world that have both progressive and reactionary valencies. The next section adjusts the formalist focus to soundtrack, and explores the implications of use of a globally diffuse music — and multilingual dialogue — in these films. Finally, the article reviews the adequacy of Winterbottom's cross-cutting as an editing response to the multiplicities and inequalities of contemporary globalization.

Guanidinium-rich molecular transporters have been shown to deliver otherwise non-permeable biologically relevant cargo into cells. While many such transporters have been reported, the studies reported here focus on guanidinoglycosides, which have been shown to permeate the cell-membrane in a heparan sulfate-dependent manner. In attempt to promote a cooperative interaction with cell-surface heparan sulfate, dimeric guanidinoglycosides were synthesized and studied for their cellular uptake properties in various Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines. Flow cytometry studies revealed that conjugates prepared with the monomeric compounds showed reduced uptake in mutant cells expressing heparan sulfate chains with altered patterns of sulfation, whereas the dimeric constructs could distinguish the various mutants and maintain high levels of uptake. These findings suggest that uptake depends on the valency of the transporter and the sulfate content on the cell surface receptors, thereby providing reagents that could distinguish cell types based on the composition of their cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans. To further investigate the viability of these transporters, their potential to escape endosomal vesicles and diffuse into the cytosol was examined using a FRET-based cellular assay in HeLa cells. Findings indicate that guanidinoglycosides appear to enter the cytosol at around half the rate of poly9arginine. Interestingly, confocal microscopy studies indicate co-localization of the two different transporters.

The civil rights leader has been transformed into ‘a weightless effigy’ of sorts, but in the Trump era, America needs his actual teachings more than it realises 21 January is dedicated, for the 34th time, to the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr Day in the United States, and this year is particularly special as January 2019 marks 90 years since the activist’s birth. While King is noted for his utopianism (notably the vision of a colour-blind America articulated in his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963), his last years were frequently shot through with darker thoughts about his country. Another socio-economic diagnosis by King, in a speech after receiving an honorary degree at Newcastle University in 1967, also remains timely: “There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today…