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I can show you I care : compassionate touch for children
After learning about \"Compassionate Touch,\" a way to make others feel better by touching them while thinking warm thoughts, Patrick shares the idea in Show and Tell and his classmates try it out.
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“OUR BRAINS OBLIGE”: MEMORY, GHOSTS, AND STORYTELLING IN CRAIG DAVIDSON’S THE SATURDAY NIGHT GHOST CLUB
A masterpiece of contemporary Canadian fiction, Craig Davidson's The Saturday Night Ghost Club (2018) is a masterfully crafted coming-of-age story that deals with various issues ranging from love to personal loss. This paper aims to analyse the novel's Gothic undertones and the symbolic significance of the textual ghosts in depicting individual trauma, arguing that ghosts, as liminal concepts, are not only embodiments of trauma, but also effective means of understanding the self and healing. Drawing on ideas from narratology and psychology, the article also focuses on the complex interplay between storytelling and memory.
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Strega Nona : her story
Grandma Concetta heals everyone with her remedies and advice, and when she retires, she leaves Nona her magic pasta pot with its secret ingredient.
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METAL, HEAL THYSELF
Metals are critical in a huge range of structures and products--from bridges to engines, from airplanes to solder joints in electronic devices. But metals are susceptible to fatigue damage. Over time, stress and motion create microscopic fissures that enlarge and spread until the metal breaks. While researchers have concocted some types of self-healing concrete and plastic, self-healing metal was always considered science fiction. Until a decade ago. That's when Michael Demkowicz, professor of materials science and engineering at Texas A and M University, used computer simulations to theorize that, under certain conditions, the microscopic cracks formed in metal by wear and tear would reseal. Now, by accident, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have witnessed the phenomenon. The investigators were using an electron microscope to observe how cracks formed as the team repeatedly tugged on the ends of a nanoscale slice of platinum.
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The space between before and after
\"When 10-year-old Thomas's mother, who suffers from depression, disappears, he creates a fantasy narrative in which his mother is safe and sets in motion a path of healing, not just for himself, but for his father and aunt as well\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal in Sindiwe Magona's Chasing the Tails of My Father's Cattle
Sindiwe Magona's historical novel from 2015 is an impressive fictional achievement with great narrative complexity. The focus of this essay will be on the prominent aspect of nostalgia and on the close relation of trauma and nostalgia in this narrative. While nostalgic memory and traumatic memory are two different ways of remembering the past, we will show that they also have much in common by sharing a future-oriented perspective that might serve the strengthening of the self and the rebuilding of one's identity. Despite the critical views of nostalgia in earlier scholarship, more recent publications have shown that it does not solely boost an escapist or reality-denying attitude but can also be future-oriented and stimulate approach orientation. Narration has the potential of playing the role of mediator for both nostalgia and trauma, and in Sindiwe Magona's novel, both may be 're-lated' in a positive way. Although the novel foregrounds the traumatic experience of loss and betrayal, nostalgia paves the way and opens the door for the significant process of 'working through' trauma, so that healing can take place.
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The mourning parade : a novel
\"Single mom and veterinarian Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Following her psychiatrist's advice, she decides to sell her once-happy home to escape the immense pain and grief of living there alone. Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, Natalie impetuously commits to honoring her boys' memory and volunteers to assist philanthropist Andrew Graham at his elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand. All she wants once she gets there is relief. But she soon realizes she may be in over her head when she faces three major challenges: her debilitating PTSD is creating night terrors; Peter Hatcher, the sanctuary's irascible in-house vet, has a longtime grudge against her and wants desperately for her to fail; and Sophie, a female elephant with a raging leg infection and PTSD caused by human abuse, is demanding that Natalie use every trick in her veterinarian's black bag to heal her. Dr. Hatcher wants to euthanize Sophie, as he claims she's a lost cause, and Natalie knows she must find a way to convince the others to let her keep trying. Can she and Sophie find a way to heal together and learn to love life again? Or will another tragedy shatter Natalie's progress?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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RATIONAL VALUES AS REFINED AESTHETIC MOLD-ERASMUS DARWIN
Medical profession helps people not only by healing the body but also the soul. Medicine has been by man's side since its beginnings, and a society that lacks care for man is doomed to suffering. Even if sometimes the doctors who became literate abandoned the path of practicing medicine, their thoughts turned consciously or not to this noble profession. As Richard Gordon said, without medicine we could not talk about the human being himself: \"Man's activities have been hopelessly open to disaster since that calamitous business of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Best treatment is to admit, to analyze, to avoid. Medicine readily confesses its share. But what a disaster, were there no doctors amid the world's unending catalogue of disasters.\"1 Literature is just one of the languages that doctors use to relate to the world and reality. Of all the exact sciences, medicine is the closest to literary fiction. The art of the word is a reference to what defines us as people. Human gregariousness had to be supported through communication, and medicine has language as its main means of existence and of creating deep inter-human connections. Hence the naturalness of the expression of deep feelings on the page written by those who heal their fellow men physically.
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