This paper describes the stakes of ongoing conversations in areas queer theory and black studies on epistemological, ethical, political role unintelligibility. In line with longstanding philosophical questions about value aporia as gap or absence understanding, thinkers like Lee Edelman Frank Wilderson III have articulated how people regularly fallen into spaces unintelligibility they run again...

Objective To analyze the prevalence and predictors of children's estrangement from noncoresident biological mothers fathers during young middle adulthood. Background Intergenerational relationships exhibit considerable heterogeneity need not always be close or intact. However, despite its potentially far-reaching impact on entire family system, only very few quantitative studies have been condu...

This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my adviser, Professor Mani Srivastava. Thank you for guiding me as I explored this problem space. I also would like to thank fellow NESL PhD student and mentor David Jea for his insightful input and feedback as I progressed through my research. The experiment for the thesis is a joint work with Dave. I also appreciate the earnest a...

needed them. Marital problems, isolation or estrangement from the extended family, poor communication, and underlying personality disorder all increased a couple's difficulties. It is part of human nature to be able to cope with death and bereavement. When coping fails we should not turn away or offer only symptomatic treatment. Rather we should look for a cause, and help the couple to overcome...

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The damaging effects of employment have been discussed for many years. Marx identified several possible forms of alienation. Laborers can be alienated from the product of their labor (Marx, 1963 trans.). They can also be alienated from the process of production, making work external from their nature and not improving their abilities. In Marx’s view capitalists abuse the power of ownership to a...

BACKGROUND A small portion of Americans account for a disproportionate amount of the incidences of sexually transmitted infection observed over a short period of time. Studies with adults have begun to characterize this population, yet there is very little data on adolescent sexually transmitted infection repeaters (STIR). This study explores characteristics associated with STIR among 102 girls...