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Balanced wonder : experiential sources of imagination, virtue, and human flourishing
\"In Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder and argues in a scholarly yet accessible way that the experience of wonder when balanced serves as a strong contributor to human flourishing. Along the way Pedersen describes seven properties of wonder and shows how wonder is distinct from other altered states, including awe, horror, the sublime, curiosity, amazement, admiration, and astonishment. Examining the contribution of both emotion and imagination in the experience of wonder--filtered through the Neo-Aristotelian work of philosophers Douglas Rasmussen, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Martha Nussbaum--Pedersen also makes it clear that wonder may contribute to human flourishing in various ways, such as widening of perception, extension of moral scope or sensitivity, a wondrous afterglow, openness, humility, an imaginative attitude, reverence, and gratitude. Importantly, for wonder to act as a strong contributor to human flourishing one needs to wonder at the right thing, in the right amount, in the right time, in the right way, and for the right purpose\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond Coming of Age: The Genderless Hero in Ukrainian Wonder Tale ATU 312D
The article aims to unsettle the meaning of gender assignment for Ukrainian variants of the dragonslayer wonder tale of ATU 312D, “Kotyhoroshko”, which is represented by a child hero through a post-structural deconstruction on four levels: language, job, body, and belief, of which the last level, belief, is crucial for folklore studies and definitive for my understanding of gender in folk narratives. Drawing on the interpretative framework, the article explores customary law and belief from Ukrainian ethnographic collections of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The article hypothesises that the child hero in fairy tales is genderless since the non-modern ethnographic evidence of customary law, belief narrative, and historical material on childhood in the early modern and modern eras suggest that children up to seven years old are beyond the gendered system as it is irrelevant for them, and, consequently, the fairy tale hero Kotyhoroshko is genderless.
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Small world
First, Nanda's entire world is the circle of her mother's arms but as she grows, she sees the wonder of whirligigs, fractals in the snow, and even the circle of the Earth, itself.
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The Tudor Play of Mind
Contrary to the widespread assumption that Elizabethan drama grows
out of an essentially homiletic tradition, The Tudor Play of
Mind proposes that many important plays-including such diverse
works as Gorboduc, Endimion, Tamburlaine, The Spanish Tragedy,
Every Man in His Humour, and Bussy D'Ambois -are
informed by the ancient rhetorical tradition of posing questions
and arguing them in utramque partem emphasized in humanist
education. This accounts for the complex and often ambivalent
responses they demand. In support of this thesis, Joel B. Altman
shows how abstract debate questions were developed into
increasingly subtle mimetic fictions in the sixteenth century. He
discusses the significance of this process for the drama through
detailed analyses of early debate plays, the Terentian commentaries
and English comedy, Lyly's court allegories, Senecan tragedy, and
the experimental plays of Marlowe. Altman's argument that Tudor
playwrights offered their audiences dramatized inquiries will
profoundly affect our interpretation of individual plays and our
assessment of the larger cultural function of drama in the period.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1978.
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Sword of the dragon
Wonder Woman sees a message in the clouds instructing her to go to Stonehenge, where she finds a group of tourists being held hostage by Morgaine Le Fey, who demands Wonder Woman steal the Star Sword of Merlin.
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Stevie Wonder performs at the DNC
Stevie Wonder told the crowd “I love you” at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21 before performing his song “Higher Ground.”
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Wonder Woman : an origin story
Born an Amazon princess on the island of Themyscira, Diana leaves the island to become Wonder Woman, defender of Earth.
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The effect of awe on natural risk-taking preferences: The role of need for closure
Awe alters people's worldviews and encourages individuals to explore novel experiences. Guided by awe as an emotion, across three studies (N = 896), we tested the effect of awe on natural risk-taking preferences (NRTPs) and the mediating role of the need for closure (NFC). In Study 1, trait awe predicted NRTPs beyond other positive emotions (e.g., amusement). In follow-up studies elicited by videos, positive awe (relative to diverse control states) decreased NFC and natural risk perceptions (NRPs) and increased NRTPs (Studies 2 and 3). Conversely, negative awe reduced preferences for natural risk-taking but did not significantly increase the NFC or NRPs (Study 3). Moreover, NFC mediated the effect of positive awe on NRTPs in Study 2; however, in Study 3, the mediation of âNFC (variation of NFC) was not supported for positive or negative awe. The findings supported the key role of positive awe in promoting NRTPs and in reducing NFC, distinguished it from general positive emotion (e.g., amusement and joy) and its negatively valenced variant: negative awe.
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Wonder Woman : the ultimate guide to the Amazon warrior
A guide to the world of Wonder Woman includes seventy-five years of iconic characters, major story arcs, and key issues, along with information on locations, enemies, and allies.
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A Rising Crisis: Escalating Burden of Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension‐Related Mortality Trends in the United States, 2000–2023
Introduction Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are major contributors to cardiovascular and renal disease mortality, yet their combined long‐term impact on mortality trends in the United States remains underexplored. This study evaluates national trends in DM and hypertension‐related mortality from 2000 to 2023, analyzing disparities across sex, age groups, race/ethnicity, urbanization, and geographic regions. Methods We analyzed mortality data from the CDC‐WONDER database, identifying deaths with DM and hypertension as listed causes among adults aged 25 and older. Age‐adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) per 100,000 were calculated, and temporal trends were assessed using Joinpoint regression to determine annual percentage changes. Results A total of 2,742,668 DM and hypertension‐related deaths were recorded. The AAMR nearly doubled from 33.7 per 100,000 in 2000 to 66.2 per 100,000 in 2023. A sharp increase was observed from 2018 to 2021 (APC: 16.3 [95% CI: 11.8–19.6]), followed by a decline through 2023. Men had consistently higher mortality rates than females. Mortality rates were highest among older adults (65+ years), Non‐Hispanic Black individuals, and nonmetropolitan populations. The South had the highest mortality rates, with Mississippi and the District of Columbia reporting the greatest burden. Conclusions DM and hypertension‐related mortality has significantly increased over the past two decades, with notable demographic and geographic disparities. Public health interventions should prioritize high‐risk populations to mitigate mortality trends and improve health equity. Diabetes mellitus and hypertension‐related mortality nearly doubled in the United States from 2000 to 2023, with striking disparities across sex, age, race, and geography. Men, Non‐Hispanic Blacks, older adults, and residents of the South experienced the highest mortality rates, underscoring the urgent need for targeted strategies to reduce this growing burden.
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