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This paper uses water waves as a metaphor to critically examine Black athlete activism and Derrick Bell's interest-convergence principle as an analytical lens for understanding how Black Athletes leveraged the capitalist system of sport to build power through wealth. Specifically, we focus on how the convergence of interest between Michael Jordan, Nike, and the National Basketball Association "built the beach" on which the current wave of Black athlete activists stand. While Jordan has been noted for his lack of activism related to race-related issues in the United States, Jordan's ability to accumulate billions of dollars in generational wealth through interest-convergence, he did lay the foundation for current Black athlete activists including Steph Curry and Lebron James. As such, Black athlete activists like James and Curry have the ability to speak up and speak out when they deem it is necessary without the fear of financial ruin or loss of livelihood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the first woman-centered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain Marvel (2019), which was both lauded and criticized in reviews for its unambiguous feminism. I use intersectional and Black feminist theoretical frameworks to argue that the film exemplifies a white feminist ideology whereby protagonist Carol Danvers' (Brie Larson) humanity and womanhood come to stand in for her marginalization as an Other within the logics of the film. I analyze three sets of encounters between Carol and individuals or communities that the film marks in opposition or in alignment with her, sometimes interchangeably: the Skrulls, alien shapeshifters who are mistaken for terrorists but revealed to be refugees; Carol's human advocates: her friend, Maria, and colleague, Agent Fury; and the Supreme Intelligence, a deceptive A.I. designed by the Kree, an imperialist alien race determined to control Carol and her powers. Ultimately, I conclude that Captain Marvel's themes of individual empowerment and heroism operate as symbolic of a contemporary feminism that reinforces the familiar narrative that a white woman's oppression and subsequent rebellion can stand in for the human experience, broadly writ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I demonstrate an approach fostering inventive interpretation of short stories in Literary Studies and higher education generally. It involves constructing an 'assemblage'—at its simplest, an evolving network of unusual connections for creative outcome. The assemblage of this article combines freshly located research literature, directly and indirectly related to a story's themes, and/or the personality type of protagonists. Importantly, this assemblage also utilizes text analysis software revealing the relatively invisible (e.g. (in)frequent words, parts of speech, and topics) and Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI to enrich the interpretation. The use of all these elements helps productively exceed initial intuitions about the story, facilitating creativity. I model the approach using Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Black Cat , whose protagonist is a homicidal psychopath. Specifically, the assemblage here includes relevant software-based research (a corpus analysis of homicidal psychopathic language), non-software-based research (psychoanalytical literary criticism of The Black Cat using the empirically validated concept of transference), text analysis software (WMatrix and Datayze), and the LLM Generative AI, 'ChatGPT' (using the freely available LLM GPT-3.5). One use of this approach is as a pedagogy in Literary Studies employing text analysis software (e.g. on a digital stylistics course). Yet given creative adaptability is a key 21st-century skill, with digital literacy—including the use of Generative AI—an important contemporary competence, and with the short story genre universally known, I highlight too the utility of this approach as a university-wide pedagogy for enhancing creative thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous American poet and short story writer. He has received wide-ranging critical concern worldwide. As for his short stories, scholars attached special attention to his horrible stories with elaborations focused on characters' abnormal mentality and action, the bizarre and grotesque aspects of stories and the horrible effects of murders, and the thrilling and shocking effects on readers brought about by the narration of brutality and horror, but they ignored the moral implications in some short stories. A close reading of "The Black Cat" reveals that Poe portrays an unreliable narrator who conceals the truth about killing his wife in order to escape legal liability. This paper applies unreliable narration theory to analyzing the narrator's unreliable narration on "three axes", the bonding unreliability from the whole structure of the work in particular, so as to unveil the violent and perverse, and hypocritical and selfish temperament of the male character as well as the moral implications embedded in the story to stimulate readers' thoughts about the human nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is widely documented that emotions play an important role in product marketing and branding. The current study explores the role that a human brand association can play in eliciting emotional responses and attachments from consumers that drive their subsequent behaviour. The human-centred Jordan Brand was examined because it uses the likeness/image of Michael Jordan. The study revealed the impact of consumer responses and decision-making through survey analysis (N = 1,133) at two Jordan Brand partner university's athletic events. The results demonstrate that the partnership between the university athletic department and Jordan Brand elicits strong emotional responses, the propensity to donate to the university, and increased consumer willingness to pay for merchandise bearing the human brand's likeness. The findings are useful for both scholars and practitioners as evidence that strategies designed to elicit emotional responses can yield positive results in consumer perception of the brand and financial success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM) is a nursing care model that is dominated by the family and integrated with the nursing paradigm that focuses on families. A case study was conducted to determine the intervention to improve the quality of life for the patient with diabetes mellitus. Nursing care was carried out using the Calgary Family Intervention Model approach with the author for three days and continued by the family for two weeks. With data collection techniques include interviews, observation, physical examination, and documentation. The tools used in this case study are a set of physical examination tools, blood sugar check tools, a nursing kit, and the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. The results showed that Mr. J's family had problems in the dimensions of physical and psychological health, with the established nursing diagnosis being a poor quality of life. In family members who experience diabetes mellitus with quality of life problems there are positive changes to the family and in handling, nutrition, exercise, foot care, and stress management for the patient. It can be seen from the results questionnaire which showed an improvement in scores than before, especially in the dimensions of physical and psychological health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we consider the emerging trend of solo, female-led superhero films, and their repeated location in aesthetically distinct pasts or "closed moments." This pastness, we contend, serves to distinguish the concerns of the protagonists, which are often read as feminist, as redundant for the contemporary audience. This framing is in keeping with a postfeminist cultural context, wherein feminist values and successes are celebrated, while simultaneously declared irrelevant. We examine the historical or closed settings in Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Captain Marvel (2019) and Black Widow (2021), and consider how this collective investment in the past impacts and informs the films' engagement with sexism. We also explore how the bodies of the protagonists become implicated in this process, via the repeated framing of particular body politics as historically resolved. Overall, we signal the birth of a new subgenre, and signpost the continued containment of female superheroes, even as they, and their politics, become more visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Superhero comics books' reliance on revision has been discussed but the role of gender in relation to these concepts in such comics is yet to be explored. This paper examines the first story arc of Kelly Sue DeConnick's acclaimed comic book series Captain Marvel (2012) through the interrogative lens of postfeminist culture, considering how past and present collided within the relaunching of the popular Marvel comics superheroine Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) into Captain Marvel. Simultaneously a postmodern pastiche and a contemporary mediation of popular feminism, the story takes Danvers back, via time travel, to periods before the western second-wave feminist movement took hold. The article thus considers how this Captain Marvel storyline engages with contemporary feminist issues such as the proliferation of female superheroes in Marvel comics as well as the retroactive insertion of feminist discourses into an ostensibly prefeminist setting, questioning what, if any, radical interventions in dominant modes of women's representations in superhero narratives these stories might offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will self-report the ability to evaluate the merits and potential drawbacks of providing telepalliative care in the rural emergency department setting. 2. Utilizing an evidence-based approach, participants will self-report the ability to synthesize a rationale for clarifying goals of care in the emergency department prior to potential patient transfer to a higher level of care. Critically ill patients who present to rural emergency departments are often transferred far from home to quaternary medical centers for interventions that may or may not align with their goals of care. A telepalliative care consultation prior to potential transfer opens an alternative pathway to provide patient-centered goal-concordant care that positively impacts patients, families, clinicians, and health systems. Background: Specialty palliative care is prevalent in urban and academic settings, however in rural areas, access to this care is limited and the population faces a higher probability of serious illness. Disparities and misalignment between patient values, preferences, and plan of care often results in patient transfer from rural facilities to quaternary medical centers for low-value, goal-discordant care. Mr. J was a 90-year-old African American man with inclusion body myositis (bedbound), chronic respiratory failure, and increasingly frequent hospitalizations who presented to a rural hospital near his home critically ill from congestive heart failure. A goals of care (GOC) discussion between the emergency department clinician and family resulted in a request to "have everything done" to save his life. Triggered by a machine-learning algorithm (SafeNET), a "TeleGOC Pause" (clinician premeeting, telepalliative consultation, and recommendations) was performed. During the consultation, the patient's wife and daughter shared, "He wants to live, who doesn't?", and that he was afraid to die. The telepalliative clinician shared that Mr. J's body was dying, and that time may be short. Recalling his heart being shocked during a previous admission, his family wanted to avoid such interventions and hoped to get him back home. A recommendation was made for DNR/DNI and home hospice care. They agreed, the transfer was canceled, and he was admitted locally for diuresis overnight to improve symptoms before being discharged home with hospice the following day. Mr. J lived with his family for another 2 weeks. Telepalliative care in the emergency department aligns patient values and care preferences with a goal-concordant care plan, addresses disparities in care, and can avoid goal-discordant transfers away from a patient's home community. This service opens an alternative care pathway that positively impacts patients, families, and clinicians while providing substantial potential cost savings for health systems. Models of Palliative Care Delivery; Innovative Technologies [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" (1843) offers an intriguing account of the role that unconscious conflicts play in what appears to be senseless human violence. The story presents an unnamed convict's efforts to narrate a series of uncanny experiences which culminates in his killing of his wife. Although one might at first assume that a person who awaits the hangman has no reason to lie, this essay argues that the narrative as a whole is an elaborate attempt at misdirection intended to shift the blame for murder away from one unconscious agency onto another which resides in the same psyche. Using psychoanalysis, this essay further seeks to unveil the psychological motives behind such a seemingly futile exercise at a moment when the protagonist waits for his execution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]