Hard Feelings Research Articles

The View of Slang Words in the Movie “No Hard Feelings” (2023)

This paper explores the types of slang words in the movie "No Hard Feelings," (2023) and analyses the significance within the context of the movie and contemporary Sociolinguistics. By analyzing the dialogue, the research highlights how slang words enhance character development, drives narrative progression, and reflects cultural authenticity. The research delves into the sociolinguistic implications of movie slang, examining its role in mirroring and shaping real-world language trends. The findings suggest that the strategic use of slang in the movie not only enriches the film’s realism but also influences audience perceptions and everyday communication patterns. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between film dialogue and sociolinguistic evolution, emphasizing the cultural resonance of cinematic language choices. In conclusion, the strategic use of different types of slang in "No Hard Feelings" demonstrates the power of language to convey character, context, and culture. It underscores the film's commitment to capturing the nuances of modern life, making the characters' interactions both believable and compelling

토픽모델링을 활용한 ‘자해’관련 유튜브 댓글의 내용분석

Objectives In this study, YouTube video comments were collected and analyzed to confirm the impact of YouTube related to “self-harm” on those who do not self-harm and to find effective ways to help those who do self-harm.
 Methods To this end, comments on the top nine videos derived by searching for the keyword “self-harm” on YouTube were collected, and 10 topics were derived by topic modeling comments from users who did not seem to have self-harm experience. Topic modeling is an analysis method that finds hidden topics based on statistics that analyze big data.
 Results The topics of the selected topics are “You need empathy and comfort to help self-inflicted people live in the world.”, “Concerns and discomfort towards self-harming people who worry about scars on their bodies.”, “Presenting a religious solution to self-harm.”, “We should consider self-harm as a social problem and find alternative ways together.”, “Thank you for telling me the reactions that people around you can do.”, “I remember my experiences related to self-harm that I experienced in my adolescence.”, “Need safe and professional counseling on self-harm,” “The way adults deal with self-harm.”, “Reaction to posting self-harm photos.”, “to be aware of one's psychological difficulties through an understanding of others' self-harm.”.
 Conclusions In the comments on YouTube related to “self-harm,” users' efforts and supportive actions to sympathize with and understand those who harm themselves were confirmed. On the other hand, concerns and concerns about self-harm scars appeared at the same time, and although I understand the hard feelings, it was confirmed that there was a negative opinion on self-harm behavior. Finally, we proposed a way to help those who harm themselves through the contents of 10 topics.

Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525–1527 ed. by Richard Rex

Reviewed by: Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525–1527 ed. by Richard Rex Korey D. Maas Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525–1527. Edited by Richard Rex. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021. xvi + 306 pp. The bad blood between Henry VIII and Martin Luther has long held a prominent place in narratives and interpretations of the early English Reformation. The King's 1521 salvo against Luther's Babylonian Captivity, rewarded with the ultimately ironic "Defender of the Faith" title, never goes without mention. Nor do the hard feelings resulting a decade later from Luther's refusal to endorse the dissolution of Henry's first marriage, and from the intransigence attending England's bid to enter the Schmalkaldic League. Less well-known is the subject of Richard Rex's latest volume, what he dubs the "second controversy" between Henry and Luther. That this conflict has received less sustained attention is largely understandable, as it revolved around only two relatively brief letters. Luther wrote privately to Henry, expressing his belief that the King was becoming favorable to the Wittenberg theology and hoping that the imprudence of his earlier invective might be forgiven. Henry then replied publicly, saying, in effect, "You're badly [End Page 246] misinformed about my inclinations toward your still damnably heretical doctrines—but I'm glad we now agree about the foolishness of your earlier writings." Although the brevity and straightforwardness of the exchange itself might not demand extended scholarly analysis, Rex emphasizes that it quickly (if briefly) became an international affair, with more than a dozen editions of the two letters being published almost immediately across continental Europe. He highlights especially "the level of attention it attracted from leading Catholic scholars in Europe" (40), who "gave it all the publicity they could" (x), and who leveraged the opportunity to heap "praise on the king and scorn on Luther" (23). In addition to the texts of the original letters, the bulk of the volume is given over to transcriptions, translations, and annotations of the various pamphlets, letters, and prefaces produced in the months after the initial correspondence was made public. As such, it makes readily accessible to scholars a valuable cache of primary source material. The author's own 54-page introductory essay sheds further light on some important contextual questions. Perhaps the most obvious and baffling of these: What possible reason could Luther have had for suspecting a royal change of heart? Rex rightly notes that all objective indicators militated against that supposition, and that the most frequent explanation—that Luther had been misled by the exiled Christian II of Denmark—is unsupported by any extant evidence. Intriguingly, though, especially in light of long-running debates about who might have helped draft the King's contribution to the "first controversy" of 1521 (which the introduction illuminates), the author points to evidence indicative of Thomas More having a hand in Henry's 1526 reply to Luther. Similarly relevant to the earlier controversy, Rex deftly demolishes the "abiding myth" (2) that Henry was already at work on anti-Lutheran polemic as early as 1518. One significant question is unfortunately left unaddressed. While emphasizing that the attention given the correspondence by Catholic polemicists is one of the "remarkable features" (40) of the exchange, the author nowhere indicates—aside from the inclusion of one further contribution by Luther himself—whether the exchange [End Page 247] provoked any similarly polemical reactions from European Protestants. If it elicited only silence that is surely worth highlighting, if only because it further bolsters the implicit thesis that Luther's original missive constituted an unforced error and handed his detractors an embarrassingly lopsided rhetorical triumph. If, on the other hand, Protestants did weigh in against the King's letter, those interventions, too, surely deserve some attention. [End Page 248] Korey D. Maas Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan Copyright © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press and Lutheran Quarterly, Inc.

Staying in bounds: A framework for setting workplace boundaries to promote physician wellness.

Staying in bounds: A framework for setting workplace boundaries to promote physician wellness.

The Manifest Content dan Al-Ru'ya: Kondensasi Mimpi dalam Cerpen “Perempuan Patah Hati Yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi”

This study focuses on the same events that repeatedly appear in the main character's dreams. The contents of the dream are interpreted as instructions, so the main character carries out the instructions according to the contents of her dream and hopes it will come true. This study aims to discover how the manifest content and Al-Ru'ya appear as condensation of dreams in the short story Perempuan Patah Hati Yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi by Eka Kurniawan. The method used in this study is qualitative, utilizing Sigmund Freud's dream interpretation theory. The data used are sentences that show the dream events experienced by the main character. The data analysis technique describes the condensation of dreams experienced by the main character. The study results show the condensation of dreams that first includes the manifest content, namely the repetition of dreams that appear clearly and are easy to remember due to the influence of physical products. The dream recurrence occurs due to a mental disorder characterized by hard feelings of trauma and sadness. Second, Al-Ru'ya, namely the belief in dreams that come true, such as finding a beach location on Pangandaran beach, meeting a handsome man and loving her, then becoming her future love, and the last is meeting the man's dog. Dreams come true because dreams are believed to be a realization of wishes, fulfil desires, perceptions and beliefs, and magical instructions.

Plaque attack: Microglia have hard feelings toward amyloid-β

Classically, microglia recognize and internalize amyloid-β (Aβ) via it binding to cell surface receptors. In this issue of Neuron, Hu etal.1 report that microglia "feel" and internalize Aβ plaques using the stiffness-sensing channel Piezo1. This could allow new approaches to treating Alzheimer's disease.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor Dora Malech I’m of the late 20th-century mix-tape generation, an era of cassettes lovingly ordered and bestowed upon friends or more-than-friends with the hope that not only each song but also their chronology and proximity would merit consideration. Curating The Hopkins Review for you elicits a similar pleasure, particularly imagining the physical publication reaching you, a thrill centuries older than my personal nostalgia, complicated and magnified by the sense of responsibility inherent in curating not familiar pop songs but of-the-moment and never-been-read-before literature. If, however, you’re more of a flip-around-the-issue reader, there are no hard feelings here. In fact, may I recommend dipping in on page 25 or page 70 and spending some time with the winners of our inaugural Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize and Anne Frydman Translation Prize, respectively? Of the Dixon Prize-winning story “Gretel” by Hedgie Choi, judge Porochista Khakpour writes, “Hedgie Choi’s ‘Gretel’ manages to be funny, sad, deeply disorienting, and almost mystically magnetic in a way few stories are. . . . I was stunned by how deeply relatable it often was, and . . . by the twists and turns of the plot and Choi’s lush and yet crisp prose that stayed with me long after reading.” Frydman Prize judge Jean McGarry chose Kevin Meehan’s excerpt from Camille’s Lakou, translated from the French and Guadeloupean Kreyol of Marie Léticée’s Moun Lakou (Ibis Rouge Editions, 2016) as her winner, writing of the judging process, “When I ask myself what my criteria might be when reading a piece of translated prose or poetry, these are not very different from what I ask of literature written in English: supple syntax creating an easy and expressive rhythm, diction appropriate to the subject matter and narrative voice, and a linguistic brightness that draws the reader in and proves consistently absorbing. And then, I have to admit one criterion stands out that relates not at all to the quality of the translation: my interest in the work itself.” McGarry quotes the opening sentences of the vignette “Vegetable Soup” (page 74) as an exemplar of such criteria, stating, “A list can be boring, but the odd concreteness of this one enchants.” It’s an honor to share the winning pieces with you in this issue, as it’s also a celebration of Dixon and Frydman’s literary legacy here at Johns Hopkins University and beyond. We were so impressed with the quality of work submitted to the inaugural contests [End Page 1] that we couldn’t resist choosing our own “Editors’ Choice” selections as well, which you can look forward to reading in the next issue, thr 16.2. I’ve long planned that this letter would celebrate our first awards from the journal; it is, however, a more recent surprise that this letter can also celebrate our first award for the journal. At the Modern Language Association of America’s annual mla convention in early January, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (celj) announced The Hopkins Review as the winner of its Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial or Design Achievement. Of our journal, the judges write, “The Hopkins Review has undertaken a major design overhaul that is visually stunning and inclusive of its locality. . . . The design changes have brought this important arts journal into the social stream of 21st-century cultural connections.” Read the celj judges’ full comments at HopkinsReview.com, along with original web content and more information about submitting your own writing to the next Dixon and Frydman contests. We’re grateful to Dixon and Frydman’s daughters Antonia and Sophia Frydman for their generosity in making these awards possible. Contest submissions (like all submissions) are free for subscribers—a good reason to subscribe, though we believe each piece in this issue is a reason to subscribe, and this year’s surreal exteriors from volume 16’s featured cover artist Se Jong Cho present four more reasons to make sure you receive your quarterly print issue of thr, an award-winning journal of literature and culture with the heart of a mix-tape, and, as always, with . . . Love...

No Hard Feelings? Leadership, Emotions, and Emotional Capacities

The global pandemic left the world with prevailing uncertainties, which leaders continue to navigate and adapt to in attempts to create a new sense of normalcy for their employees. This major shift in work elicits intense emotions (e.g., ambiguity, tension, fear) that leaders must manage both for themselves and their followers. Consequently, leaders must now, more than ever, pay attention to their own and their followers’ emotions. Leadership and emotions both inherently have interpersonal outcomes, thus, it is important to understand the psychological mechanisms that are at play and its relevant outcomes. In the present symposium, we advance the role of emotions in workplace relationships, namely the leader-follower relationship, in hopes to further develop academics’ and practitioners’ understanding of the interpersonal effects of emotions (gratitude, positive and negative affect) and emotional capacities (emotional intelligence) that may influence a more successful, healthier, and happier work environment. It is our hope that practitioners and scholars will recognize the importance of and take action to create healthier social interactions at work to ultimately improve workplace behaviors and well-being during the challenging transitions the workforce currently faces. Self, Follower, and Ability Ratings of Leader Emotional Intelligence and Follower Outcomes Presenter: Alisha Gupta; Virginia Commonwealth U. Presenter: Zhavit Levitats; Yale U. (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence) Presenter: Alexander S. McKay; Virginia Commonwealth U. Presenter: Zorana Ivcevic; Yale U. (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence) Presenter: Chris Alwine; - Presenter: Shengjie Lin; Yale U. (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence) Unpacking Dimensional Complexity between Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Presenter: Matthew Crayne; U. at Albany, State U. of New York Presenter: Omer Kocak; Istanbul Medipol U. The Daily Impact of Leadership Interactions on Positive and Negative Affect Presenter: Keaton Allen Fletcher; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Claire Burnett; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Cooper Drose; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Spencer Garcia; Georgia Institute of Technology Group Gratitude and Group Helping Behavior: The Role of Leader Entitlement and Servant Leadership Presenter: Michael Lance Frazier; Creighton U. Presenter: Steve Russell; Creighton U.

Pain and suffering

This paper intends to relate pain with suffering. In the natural world how do we try to look at these two important aspects of human life? This is a unique experience that an individual undergoes in certain environment. But the intention to do away with such hard feelings is not very easy, although every human being has a natural desire within oneself to be free from pain and suffering. It is needed for an individual and also for society to be free from pain and suffering in order to have an overall well-being. An approach to understand the matter deeply and intensions to quit from suffering may show us the path of relief. It is a way that helps to heal the world by alleviating suffering.

Bylaw revisions can allow members to re‐join boards after terms expire

Many experts advise that nonprofits put in place term limits for board members as a way to ensure fresh perspectives are reflected in the group's leadership. It's also a way to guard against any one board member accumulating too much power or influence over the board. But the downside is a loss of “institutional knowledge” that could take a long time for new board members to attain. And, it could mean that the group's founder or a longtime major donor is forced to leave the board, which might lead to hard feelings.

The Battles of Germantown: Effective Public History in America

The Battles of Germantown: Effective Public History in America

Defoe, Daniel. Captain Singleton. Ed. Manushag N. Powell.

Defoe, Daniel. <i>Captain Singleton</i>. Ed. Manushag N. Powell.

Acupuncture for Psychosomatic Symptoms of Hwa-byung, an Anger Syndrome: A Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: Emerging studies found the potential effects of acupuncture for treating chronic pain and mental disorders, namely, depressive and anxiety disorders. Acupuncture is widely used for treating culture-related anger syndrome, Hwa-byung. This pilot trial aimed to investigate the feasibility of a clinical trial testing acupuncture for the psychosomatic symptoms of Hwa-byung.Methods: A total of 26 patients with Hwa-byung planned to be randomly assigned to the acupuncture or sham acupuncture groups. About 10 treatment sessions were applied over 4 weeks. The 100-mm visual analog scale was used to measure the six major Hwa-byung symptoms: stuffiness in the chest, heat sensations, pushing-up in the chest, feeling a mass in the throat, feelings of unfairness, and hard feelings. The criteria for assessing the success of this pilot trial were defined as improvement in three or more of the six Hwa-byung symptoms after treatment, with an effect size >0.2.Results: A total of 15 patients were finally included and randomly assigned to the acupuncture group (n = 7) or the sham acupuncture group (n = 8). After 10 treatment sessions, the Cohen's d effect sizes for acupuncture compared to sham acupuncture were >0.2 for each one of the six major Hwa-byung symptoms, which met our a priori criteria for success. Also, the effect size for the somatic symptoms of “stuffiness in the chest” was 0.81 (95% CI −0.40, 2.20), referring to a large effect size.Conclusions: Our results suggest that acupuncture treatment would be regarded as an acceptable intervention for a full-scale study of psychosomatic symptoms in patients with Hwa-byung.Trial Registration: cris.nih.go.kr, identifier: KCT0001732.

It's the ED's role to help resolve board member, staff disputes

Disagreements between board members and staff are not uncommon and can arise for a number of reasons. In most cases, these things get resolved rather quickly and the individuals involved move on with no hard feelings.

No hard feelings: maternal emotion socialization and callous-unemotional traits in children.

Parents' identification and discussion of their own and their children's emotions are important emotion socialization behaviors (ESBs) that may mitigate child conduct problems (CPs). However, ifparents perceive their child to be relatively unemotional, which may be the case for children with conduct problems and high callous-unemotional traits (CP + CU), these parents may be limited in their capacity to use ESBs effectively. This study tested these questions by looking at ESBs in mothers (N = 145) of children aged 2-8years with CP + CU (n = 24), CPs and low CU traits (CP-CU; n = 94) and a non-clinical community sample (n = 27). After watching an emotional movie excerpt, mothers were asked to (1) provide ratings of their child's emotional experience and then (2) engage in a debriefing task with their child about the content. Children's expressed emotion during the excerpt and transcriptions of the debriefing task were coded by masked raters. Unexpectedly, mothers' perceptions of their children's emotion did not vary by group. Emotional ratings provided by mothers of children in the CP + CU group most closely aligned with ratings from independent observers. ESBs did not differ by group in the debriefing task. Mothers of children with CP + CU traits were shown in this study to be reliable reporters of their children's expressed emotion and showed similar rates of parental ESBs as mothers of children in the other groups. Results are discussed in reference to various models of parenting and CU traits that might account for these unexpected findings.

Salmonella Breast Abscess and Salmonella Mastitis: A Review and Update of the Literature

Salmonella breast abscess / mastitis is a rare infection which can affect children and adults. It can affect females more commonly who are non-lactating and it does affect males as well as individuals who have predisposed conditions including: the immunocompromised, diabetics, rheumatoid arthritis, malignancies and other diseases. It may be acute, chronic, unilateral, or bi-lateral, as well as it may be recurrent if it is not appropriately treated. There tends to be a history of previous enteric fever (abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea) which may not have been treated or adequately treated but this history has tended not to be apparent at the time of presentation. Manifestations of the disease tend to include a short- or long-history of: lump/mass in the breast which may or may not be painful, a history of previous diarrhoea, weight. The breast examination findings tend to be non-specific with some the findings including tenderness or no tenderness, a mass that may or may not be tender, a fluctuant lump that may feel like containing fluid, a firm or hard feeling lump that may mimic carcinoma of the breast. Confirmation of the diagnosis tends to be via obtaining culture and sensitivity results of a Salmonella organism and its sensitivity pattern. Treatments that have been given include: Utilization of correct antibiotics based upon the sensitivity pattern of the cultured organism, plus surgical treatment which could be complete aspiration of the pus, incision and drainage of the abscess or in cases where carcinoma of the breast was the provisional diagnosis or the diagnosis is unknown subcutaneous mastectomy and this can be avoided by biopsy of a lesion that mimics a malignant lesion. Follow up of patients is required to ensure the breast lesion has fully resolved. Adoption of the World Health organization guidelines for the prevention of Salmonella infection would help avoid the development of the infection. Urine culture, routine haematology and biochemistry blood tests as well as serology WIDAL tests and stool culture are some of the tests that tend to be undertaken in the investigation of the disease and in order to diagnose the disease a good history would be required including a history of travel from a non-typhoid endemic area to an endemic area. Conclusions: Salmonella breast abscess / mastitis is an uncommon disease which clinicians should have a high index of suspicion for. A history of previous enteric fever does help in suspecting the disease which at times does need to be distinguished from carcinoma of the breast. The diagnosis is confirmed by obtaining the culture results of the pus from the breast abscess / breast tissue. If all breast lesions are biopsied especially in cases of suspicion of a breast cancer and a past history of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and vomiting the results of the pathology examination of the specimen would negate malignancy and confirm an infection which would help in avoiding mastectomy procedures and enable utilization of antibiotics and drainage/aspiration of abscess to provide adequate treatment.

Lightweight versus Heavyweight mesh for open repair of inguinal hernia

Background Open repair of inguinal hernia with mesh is associated with a decreased risk of recurrence compared to hernia repair without mesh. However, the use of traditional heavyweight (HWM) polypropylene mesh in hernia repair has raised concerns about the higher incidence of postoperative chronic groin pain, persistent groin discomfort, foreign body sensations, testicular atrophy and impaired sensations in the groin. Lightweight mesh (LWM) is composed of a reduced component of reactive biomaterial and is considered an innovative measure to lessen the long term consequences of the mesh repair of inguinal hernia. Objectives The objective of this review is to systematically analyse the randomised, controlled trials (RCTs) to compare the effectiveness of LWM versus HWM in patients undergoing open inguinal hernia repair. Search methods The Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group (CCCG) Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 2012), MEDLINE (until March 2012), EMBASE (The Intelligent Gateway to Biomedical & Pharmacological Information until March 2012), and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E until March 2012) using the medical subject headings (MeSH) terms were searched without date, language or age restrictions. Selection criteria RCTs comparing the effectiveness of LWM versus HWM in patients undergoing open inguinal hernia repair. Data collection and analysis At least two review authors independently scrutinised search results, selected eligible studies and extracted the data. This data was further confirmed by the third review author to check the accuracy. Main results Fourteen published articles on eleven RCTs encompassing 2589 patients undergoing open inguinal hernia repair either using LWM or HWM were retrieved from the electronic databases. There were 1282 patients in the LWM group and 1307 patients in the HWM group. Statistically, there was no difference between LWM and HWM in terms of duration of operation, postoperative complications, the risk of hernia recurrence and the risk of developing testicular atrophy. LWM was associated with lower postoperative pain score, early return to work and daily activities. In addition, LWM was associated with the reduced risk of developing chronic groin pain and the reduced risk of developing other groin symptoms such as groin discomfort, sensory impairment, regional hard feelings, point tenderness and foreign body sensations. Authors' conclusions LWM may not increase the risk of inguinal hernia recurrence. LWM seems to be associated with the reduced risk of developing chronic groin pain and other symptoms such as groin discomfort, sensory impairment, regional hard feelings, point tenderness and foreign body sensations. These outcomes should better be judged after long-term follow up and therefore, LWM may only be considered a viable alternative to HWM in open inguinal hernia repair instead of recommending its routine use.

The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University by Rick Bonus

Reviewed by: The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University by Rick Bonus Rachel Endo (bio) The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University, by Rick Bonus. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 264 pp. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-1-4870-0742-5. The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University is a critical ethnography that centers the collegiate experiences of culturally diverse Pacific Islander students and their allies who attended the University of Washington between 2004 and 2018. Rick Bonus, who has spent over twenty years on the faculty in American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, provides firsthand insights into how an elite predominantly White university (PWI) that purported to value diversity, equity, and inclusion failed to fully live up to its promise in serving Pacific Islander students and other minoritized students. Using the cultural metaphor of the ocean to amplify the significance of "respecting nature, ancestry, and religious belief, and how paramount it was to the community care for the community above the self" (6), this work investigates how Pacific Islander students transformed their university by creating culturally affirming programs and spaces with little formal institutional recognition and support. The introduction interrogates several dominant definitions and explanations of "student success" in relation to the literature on academic achievement. Primarily drawing on Angela Valenzuela's framework of subtractive schooling, Bonus untangles the various individual and institutional challenges that Pacific Islander students navigated at a PWI that materially and symbolically failed to nurture their imagined-community values of care and collectivism. The first chapter provides an in-depth analysis of Pacific Islander students' collegiate experiences in relation to their university's structures and systems that stratified different groups of students based on classed, racialized, and other identities. While college is often imagined as a time for discovery, most incoming Pacific Islander students instead experienced despair and uncertainty, carrying forward memories from their K-12 years where they felt perpetually devalued [End Page 171] and uncared for. The second chapter provides an overview of the challenges and possibilities of collective mentorship through the Pacific Islander Partnerships in Education mentorship program (PIPE), where Bonus has also served as faculty advisor. In contrast to dominant mentoring programs that focus on one-to-one-relationships, PIPE is a culturally relevant partnership where participants "treated each other as if they were family members, something that many of them thought was the glaring omission in their school lives" (92; original italic). Like any close-knit community, various misunderstandings and tensions arose that at times created hard feelings, but overall, the program has persisted because it is a dynamic space where everyone genuinely cares for each other like family. The third chapter highlights the various reasons why many Pacific Islander students leave school. Bonus offers all PWIs with a bold reminder: several high-promise students do not necessarily drop out of school, but rather are pushed out for a range of reasons for which the institutions are directly and indirectly responsible. For Pacific Islander students, their university was a persistent reminder of their "colonized lives" (196) in all aspects of multiple types of curricula: formal, hidden, and informal. Ironically, many left school because they spent too much time participating in extracurricular activities for which most faculty and staff view as "wasteful, excessive, and unnecessary" (122). Indeed, universities pressure students to finish their coursework and degrees quickly without fully considering the value of a whole-person approach to retaining and supporting them. The fourth chapter articulates the possibilities of high-impact educational practices, which are loosely defined as "courses and programs that were central to students' lives rather than peripheral or extracurricular to their course of study in the university" (151). There are intangible payoffs when students are afforded opportunities to co-construct knowledge in ways directly connected to their lived experiences. Bonus focuses on several case examples including Poly Day, Pioneer!, a study-abroad class in Manilla, a course that one of his former students taught on Pacific Islander Studies, and other initiatives that blended academic content with community engagement and critical thinking. High-impact practices did not compete with traditional academic activities but rather...

Angry Like Me

In this article we take on a challenging picture book, The Heart and the Bottle written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, and how one preschool boy’s response changed us. As part of a three-center initiative to discuss hard feelings and grief with preschool learners, we teamed with six preschool teachers to read and work through this text. We explore how both the preschoolers’ and the teachers’ responses challenged us to look at how the disjoint between pedagogy (literature that says we should teach these types of texts) and practice (how this classroom experience actually unfolds) leaves much room for continued support. Drawing from Jessica Whitelaw’s call for the role of disquieting texts in children’s lives, this article holds both the imperative for these texts, and the difficulties of using them, at its heart (2017).

Symptom. Toxic story

Symptom. Toxic story