High School Days Research Articles

Sports dermatology “illustrated”: why I do it, how I do it, and what about you?

Whether I'm talking to the medical school dean, to prospective residents, or to friends at a dinner party, I hear the same question all the time: “Wow, sports dermatology. I've never heard of that. What is it?” I almost universally begin by noting the genesis of my academic pursuits. As a toddler, the importance of erudite dedication clearly pervaded my daily activities while I “coexperienced” my mother obtaining her master's degree in education. In somewhat stark contrast, I vividly recall my father's diatribes on the importance of athletics. An outstanding and natural athlete by any measure, my father understood the strength of sports. A competitive baseball player who fell short of professional aspirations, in part related to leg velocity, my father encouraged my running long before my fourth birthday. I distinctly recall a regional newspaper's article whose title askedwhat mademe run before I had even entered kindergarten. Sports and academics filled my grammar school, high school, and collegiate days. But at the same time that I ran for years on varsity track and crosscountry and played on select baseball summer teams, I studied hard and garnered the valedictorian spot in my 1600-student high school. I have always struggled to locate the balance between these seemingly mutually exclusive endeavors. It was not until 1991, when I traveled 2 blocks down from my undergraduate collegiate house to my New

High School Day, Chicago ACS Meeting

They say if you walk away from a seminar with just one good idea, the day was a success. Attendees at the High School Program at the Chicago ACS Meeting could not help but walk away with dozens!

村上春樹裡面的中國：以〈雪梨的綠街〉、〈開往中國的慢船〉、《聽風的歌》三篇小說為主

Murakami Haruki was deeply influenced by China. His first work Hear the Wind Sing (1979) begins as follows: ”The perfect writing is not in existence as well as faultless desperation.” From this citation, we can see that he might be inspired by ”Desperation is as well as hope for nihility” written by Lu Hsun. Murakami Haruki was fond of Lu's True Story of Ah Q in his high school days and had been attracted by him since then. Afterward, he even wrote the short story the Fall of the Kingdom in which the protagonist named ”Q” is an elitist white-collar class. In A Guidance of the Short Stories for Young Readership, which can be regarded as an orthodox literary criticism, Murakami intermittently demonstrates his comments on ”Ah Q”. In addition, as a son of participant being involved in the aggressive war to China, grown up in harbor city Kobe where the China town is located, since his first short story Slow Boat to China, Murakami Haruki's works, such as A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, After Dark and so on, constantly focus on the historical memory of China. I think that Murakami literature cannot avoid the issue of China. This paper will examine the issue of China in Murakami literature with Murakami Haruki's early works.

A Study on the Readiness for Volunteer Learning of High School Students : Focusing on Club Activities in Junior High School Days

A Study on the Readiness for Volunteer Learning of High School Students : Focusing on Club Activities in Junior High School Days

Knowledge of Physiotherapy: A Study of Ishikawa High School Students

OBJECTIVE: To investigate how senior high school students' knowledge of physiotherapy is acquired and their possible view of physiotherapy as a career. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Two non-vocational senior high schools in Japan. PARTICIPANTS: Six hundred and twenty-three students with a scholastic deviation value of more than 60. METHODOLOGY: A questionnaire in a closed-question format was used to survey the students' accuracy of knowledge and sources of information about physiotherapy. MAIN RESULTS: The science students and healthcare-aspiring students were more knowledgeable about physiotherapy compared to the literary and non-healthcare aspiring students with a mean score of 4.3, ranging from 0 to 11. Instruction in exercises (51%) was shown to be the most accurate, and intensive therapy (6%) was the least accurate. Television, one's own experience as a client, and career literature or pamphlets were the most cited sources of information. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Only half of the 619 students were aware of physiotherapy. This is partly due to the fact that the profession of physiotherapy has become commonly regarded as medical rehabilitation instead of one of the branches of therapeutics. Eighty-five per cent of the respondents indicated their aspiration to have a career, so acquisition of appropriate information on careers during high school days is important. Therefore, knowledge of physiotherapy conveyed by physiotherapists and the mass media to senior high school students should be improved in its accuracy of content.

BOWEN AND VOLF: ONE WHITE MAN'S KNAPSACK FOR HIS JOURNEY WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIBERATION

I have a faded memory of driving through a small town with my family on our way home from a weekend visit to our grandparents ’ homes in the city. Mom told us four kids that we were stopping to see if Dad could find a friend from his high school days. We pulled up to a house in a small neighborhood and stayed in the car while Dad got out to greet the man working in the yard. He was black! I don’t think I’d ever seen a black person before, except on television, in the movies, and maybe as we drove through the city. I was almost mesmerized. I wanted to join my dad in the yard, listen to their conversation, and maybe even ask him something—even though I didn ’t know what, but Mom, knowing that all four of us would want to do what one of us wanted to do, told us to stay in the car. When Dad returned a few minutes later, I was disappointed. I felt like we were closing the lid on a treasure chest. I learned later that my father and this man graduated one year apart from the same high school and the same college and that they have kept in touch over the years.

MSJAMA. Mathematical models of isolation and quarantine.

THE RECENT EMERGENCE OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY syndrome (SARS) has drawn attention to the strategies of isolation and quarantine (I&Q) as a method of disease control. The fundamental dilemma associated with the implementation of I&Q is how to predict the populationlevel efficacy of individual quarantine: Which and how many individuals need to be quarantined to achieve effective control at the population level? Although some forms of I&Q have proven effective in SARS, 1,2 they are not appropriate for all infectious diseases. Diseases like varicella, for which costs of quarantine may be high (many work and school days are lost when noninfected contacts are kept at home) and the return minimal (a relatively mild disease is avoided), require a different approach. Furthermore, in some cases, I&Q may be not only costly but harmful. An I&Q policy for varicella, in the long run, may actually increase the average age (and therefore the severity) of first infection. Using I&Q to control rubella in China could actually lead to higher levels of disease because under the current system (of no control), about 97% of the population has rubella antibodies obtained from direct exposure to infectious individuals. 2 Such a level of natural immunity would be impossible to accomplish under the current effective US and Canadian vaccination policies. Mathematical modeling can help determine when I&Q arethebeststrategiesfordiseasecontrolaswellashowthey might affect short- and long-term disease dynamics. Mathematical modeling offers ways of integrating populationlevel knowledge based on previous epidemics with availableindividualandpopulationdatatopredicttheoutcomes of several alternative scenarios. This kind of mathematical epidemiologyisparticularlywellsuitedtoproblemsforwhich formal experimentation is impossible for logistical or ethical reasons. In these situations, mathematical models can play a role in planning and experimental design in epidemiology, ecology, and immunology. Mathematical disease modeling is an attempt to fit empirical data to abstract processes. Decisions must always be made about which variables to exclude from the model. Although inclusion of more variables (for example, the baselinehealthstatusofeveryindividual)wouldmakethemodel more accurate, such models would be impossibly complex. The balance between predictive power and its level of detail depends on the questions the model is intended to answer. Variables that can influence the outcome of I&Q policies include the number of contacts an infected person has per unit of time, the probability of infection per contact, and the proportion of the population that is vacci

Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes

Isn’t it doubly stimulating to read about “oral tradition” and “orality” by entrusting it to the print medium? Acts associated with media of communication surely reflect the ontological status of the verbum: plural voices, pluralistic voicing, and the inevitable symbiosis of routes and genres. Yes, this is the primary constitution of the “oral,” no matter in which specific (?) discipline we locate or discourse it. Ethnomusicology, my primary field of specialization, has long claimed “the study of music of oral tradition” for itself by ignoring “others.” Well, as scholarship and the production of knowledge in various spheres of life have intensified and diversified, we are constantly reinventing ourselves, tongues, and the field of ethnomusicology. In my high school days, I learned the songs of the Beatles and Temptations mainly through their sheet music, the printed matter (and also through “afternoon jumps” or dance sessions). In actual fact, some girlfriends brought the scores to me to play on the piano for their enjoyment. In our field methods and techniques, we (that is, investigator, informant, objects/subjects of the study) probe and respond, employing the primordial oral means. A few of us are preoccupied with the study of “new art music” by Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Korean, African, and African-American composers; not so much because of the perforce and persistence of orality, but because the boundaries, materials, tools, and hypotheses of the contemporary ethnomusicologist are resilient and voluptuous. The glare and lure of the oral are now often overshadowed by the multivocal nature of the objects of study, and by the increased momentum of the production of knowledge (and quality, of course) on what were formerly assumed to be predominantly oral musical traditions. O.K., let’s agree for a while that the music culture of the Anlo-Ewe, for example, is predominantly oral. To what extent can we apply the old canons about oral traditions? My father was the “bookkeeper” for his performing and social groups. He had attended adult (night) education classes in his late youth and could read and write in his local language. He wrote and read records of defaulters, etc. Then there was his close friend,

Asking Personal Questions

You might say I was grandmothered into the Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley as an interviewer-editor in 1970. In those days, there were few courses in oral history methods. The idea of a graduate oral history program was just a glimmer on the horizon. It seemed as if university archival programs looked for a reasonable match of skills and trusted on-the-job training eventually to produce a competent oral historian. When I began work, ROHO had recently begun a project on Earl Warren's California career, with the goal of documenting how he had evolved from a solemn law-and-order district attorney into the charismatic chief justice who would find a consensus for integrating the nation's schools and protecting individual civil liberties. The office was looking for interviewers who understood the state's politics and had some knowledge of the issues that had made Warren's reputation as a crusader and innovator in public administration. I shudder to remember some of my bloopers during the first few recording sessions. But I was saved by some serendipitous earlier experiences. Most fortunate, I think, was the tough political science professor at Connecticut College who suggested firmly that all social science majors sit for the U.S. Civil Service Junior Professional Assistant exam in the spring of our senior year. What on earth for, we wondered. You never know, said Miss Dilley. The exam turned out to be very similar to the PSAT of high school days and a boring way to spend a Saturday morning. Eventually, I received an official paper that said I qualified as a GS-5, whatever that meant. Subsequently, letters arrived at

My Life & My Theological Reflection: Two Central Themes

In these remarks I take up two central themes with which I have been preoccupied throughout my life, and which are expressed in the development of my theological reflection from a very early age on: the problem of God?the questionableness of all our thinking and talking about God (probably going back to before my high school days); and my life-long concern that human relations should be pervaded, above all, by loving, caring, responsible attitudes and activities (going back at least to the seventh grade). The more visible of these two themes in my writing has been my attempt to get clear, and to make new proposals respecting, the problematic of God-talk today; but underlying, and deeply shaping my thinking about God (as we shall see in what follows) have been my moral commitments, my convictions about how we humans should live.2

Relationships between Body Shape, Body Image and Health Complaints in Women Registered at a Facility for Managing Body Shape

This study aims at examining relationships between perceived body shape, body image and health complaints among 88 women registered at a facility for managing body shape, which leads to adequate management of obesity in women for healthy lives.The survey was conducted by using a questionnaire consisted of 12 items of general characteristics and interests for weight control, 47 items of body image, and 57 items of Cornell Medical Index(CMI). The data were analyzed by using mean standard deviation, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results are following.1. The means of age, body weight, height of the women were 27.02 years, 56.02 years, 56.03kg, 161.71cm, respectively. The level of obesity by body shape was 47.7% for standard type, 26.2% for slim type, 26.1% for fat type. Those women graduated from high school or higher education institutions were 97.7%.2. More than 70% of the subjects perceived their weight as overweight, while 26.1% of the women were fat according to the level of obesity. Ninety percent of the subjects were not satisfied with their body shape.3. Body weight increased most during middle and high school days. The women became interested in weight control through talks with friends(35.2%), influence of mass communication(34.1%), and social custom(22.7%). As to the method of weight control, subject's own judgement(54.5%) revealed highest percentage, whereas only 20% of the subjects adopted prescriptions of experts for weight control or of doctors. Those who had side reactions from weight control were 30.7%. High percentages of the women reported the decrease the amount of eating(54.5%), the increase the amount of exercise(27.3%) as the effective methods of weight control.4. The score of body image differed significantly by the perceived body shape : the score was highest in the perceived standard type.5. The level of health complaints did not differ by the perceived body shape. In relation to the level of obesity, physical health complaints were high in the groups of very slim type and of very fat type, while mental health complaints were high in the groups of very slim type and of fat type.6. Very high correlations were observed between the perceived body shape and body image and between physical health complaints and mental health complaints.

An Invitation to Innovation: Rethinking the High School Day

How do we use time? Do current schedules recognize the importance of time and its relationship to learning? As high schools change, is there a conscious examination of how to structure time during the school day or are we trying to force innovative and successful ways of educating students into a rigid and unexamined structure?

"A Country Boy Can Survive": Confessions of an Ex-Shitkicker

Not Forgotten '? Country Boy Can Survive" Confessions of an Ex-Shitkicker BY PATRICK HUBER Every year I make at least two trips home to visit my parents in Ste. Genevieve (pop. 4,411), a predominandy Catholic, mining and farming town in southeastern Missouri. Until it recently closed, my favorite place to hang out while I was home was down at the O.K. Corral, a local watering hole where proprietor Wally Bauman served up cold draft beer in chilled mugs and where fifty cents got you three plays on the jukebox. There, I'd gulp down icy Stag drafts, shoot a few games ofeight-ball, and occasionally eat a pickled egg or two with old high school friends. Once in a while Flick Samples, looking for a litde cheap entertainment, would bet Piss Schweiss a couple of bucks that he wouldn't drink a glass of dill pickle juice from the three-gallon jar on the bar. If Piss was in a good mood, he'd get Wally to set him up with a tall one. Usually, though, nothing much ever happened at the O.K. Corral. We'd just hunker down at the end ofthe bar, watch a hockey game on t.v., and catch up on one another's lives. After three or four beers, our conversation usually turned to reminiscing about the glory days of our fading youth—high school football games, favorite coaches and teachers, old girlfriends, locker room pranks, cruising town on school nights, weekend beer parties. Carl Roth would drop a couple of quarters in the jukebox and invariably he'd select #1 5 5 —Hank Williams, Jr.'s, "A Country Boy Can Survive"—and then, in celebration of our local anthem, Stupe Papin would order another round. No single song, it seems, reminds us of our high school days like that one does. Granted, HankJr. has released some godawful stuff in recent years, "If It Will It Will" and "Born to Boogie," come to mind, but his earlier songs still hold a special place in our memories. Looking back from the vantage point of more than a decade of reflection, I can now more fully comprehend the central role that Hank "Bocephus" Williams , Jr., and country music generally, played in my life as a high-school kid growing up in Ste. Genevieve. As teenage boys wrestling with issues ofmasculinity and peer conformity, my four closest friends and I drew on country music to shape our emerging identities and to help us negotiate that sometimes awkward transition to adulthood. In our limited social world we saw ourselves as different from the rest of our classmates at Valle, our small Catholic high school of less than three hundred students. We weren't like the more popular and upwardly mobile middle-class kids ("preppies" and "pretty boys" we called them) who served 105 on student council, belonged to the National Honor Society, organized Red Cross blood drives, performed in school productions of Oklahoma!, and aspired to go on to snobby Washington University. At the time we despised them, on principle, as brown-nosing overachievers. We poked fun at the way diey mingled uncomfortably at beer parties, nursing warming cans of relatively pricey Budweiser beer (almost $6 a twelve-pack in 1 98 5 ), and tryinginconspicuously to ditch their partially full cans of beer when no one was looking. They were always so fashionable in their trendy deck loafers and pastel-colored Polo shirts with the collars turned up, and seemed to us to be combing their hair incessandy. We weren't what we called "gearheads," either—the group of mechanically minded, working-class kids whose idea of fun was to pop the hood of somebody 's Chevy pickup truck and work on the engine in the bowling alley parking lot on Highway 61. Nor were we "potheads," a gang of boys from the nearby town ofBloomsdale, who, although they hunted and fished like us, also smoked dope, a hobby that my uninitiated group strongly condemned at die time. Rather, my friends and I were, in a word, "shitkickers"—sports-minded country boys who proudly embraced a rural identity and small-town lifestyle. None of us were...

肺線維症を合併したＨｅｒｍａｎｓｋｙ‐Ｐｕｄｌａｋ症候群の一剖検例

An autopsy case of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) was reported. In Japan, up till now, more than 30 patients with this disease have been described in the literature, in which the autopsy studies ware rare.A 39 year-old male was admitted of the hospital, because of cough and dyspnea on exertion. The family history revealed consaguineous marriage of his parents. He was albino and had often experienced the prolongation of epistaxis since his high school days. On admission, chest X-rays revealed bilateral pneumothorax and diffuse reticulonodular shadows. At sewing operation for pneumothorax, lung biopsy was performed, demonstrating pulmonary fibrosis and deposits of brownish granular materials in alveolar epithelia and macrophages. Lumi-aggregometer represented a decrease of secondary platelet aggregation and an absence of ATP release. From these results, the diagnosis of HPS associated with pulmonary fibrosis was settled. In spite of steroid therapy, he was died of pleural hemorrhage 9 days after operation. Autopsy revealed accumulation of brownish granular materials in the epithelial cells of renal tubules, alveolar macrophages, and in the cells of reticuloendothelial tissues, particularly in the bone marrow, spleen, and liver. The granular deposits were confirmed histochemically to be a ceroid pigment and ultrastructurally to consist of membrane-bound, osmophilic amorphous inclusions.From the clinical manifestaions and pathological findings, this case was considered to be a hereditary generalized ceroid storage disease associated with pulmonary fibrosis and these lesions were suggested to result from a lysosomal dysfunction of macrophages in tissues.

The Historian as Policy Analyst

AM DELIGHTED to have the opportunity to address my fellow historians. History has vitally interested me ever since my high school days, when fell under the influence of two history teachers, Ruth McVey and Robert Pearson. During my sophomore year at Mitchell High School, studied world history with McVey. During my junior year, Pearson taught me American history. Neither of these courses is taught any more at Mitchell High School, and consider this a serious loss, because it was that junior course in American history, especially, listening to that fine teacher and getting to know him, that quickened my interest in history and led to my decision, at the age of sixteen, to become a history teacher. After World War II, enrolled at Northwestern University and went all the way through, on the G.I. Bill, to become a Ph. D. in American history. And can honestly say now, having been in politics for thirty-five years, that have never for one day regretted laying the foundation in the study of history. Not that it provides all the answers-no single study does-but no other discipline is better than history for giving one the breadth and perspective that can sometimes, if used with caution, be helpful in developing public policy. During his campaign for the presidency in 1960, John Kennedy was asked what he regarded as his most important single asset if he were to win the election and become the president of the United States. And he answered, I think that it is my sense of history. By that, he said, I mean the capacity to know what are the great historical movements and values and institutions that have brought the United States to a position of power and influence in the world, and beyond that some capacity to discern what the basic historical forces are that are moving in our own day, which ones we ought to oppose and which ones we ought to support. As a historian,

ピッチャーの肩関節唇断裂に対する鏡視下手術の治療経験

The case was a 17-year-old male, southpaw pitcher. Since his age of 9 he had been playing an active part as a pitcher in baseball games throughout his primary, middle and high school days. In Autumn 1987 he experienced pain in his left shoulder while throwing a ball. Because shoulder pain on throwing a ball continued he was admitted to our department ward in May 1988. No abnormalities were noted on plain x-ray and arthrography, but arthroscopic examination revealed a tear of glenoid labrum in its postero-superior portion and an abnormal bandle which arose posterior to the long biceps tendon and attached to the joint capsule above. These lesions, being judged as the cause of the pain, were resected. Postoperative management which consisted of ROM exercise and muscle training supplemented with a pitching rehabilitation program using PNF technique, was initiated on the 2nd postoperative day. 6 weeks postoperatively the patient returned to his work as a pitcher and now, 6 months after operation, he is playing baseball without experiencing any pain on pitching.

A high school day in San Diego

This article presents an imaginary project assigned to US high school students in the year 2007. The project presents students with three scenarios for Europe in the year 2015, prepared in the 1980s, and requires them to judge which is the most realistic. The scenarios describe a marginalized Europe, a divided Europe and a Europe undergoing a renaissance.

Richard Weck, 5 March 1913 - 9 January 1986

Richard Weck was born on 5 March 1913 in Franzensbad, on the river Eger, in Bohemia, which district was then in Austria. It became part of Czechoslovakia when that country was created in 1918, so that Franzensbad was renamed Františkovy Lazňe. It is located near Cheb at the western extremity of the country, and is now within a few kilometres of borders with the German Federal and Democratic Republics. The circumstances of his early childhood were made insecure by these national and political upheavals, which were further exacerbated by the post war depression of 1918. Richard’s father managed a small restaurant in this area of lakes and spas. His mother died young, and his only sister too in a tragic domestic accident. It then became Richard’s responsibility to look after his younger brother. He was capable of outstanding work during his High School days but had to supplement his grant by giving private lessons to less successful students in mathematics, geometry and physics. His leisure was usually spent in earning extra money in the hotel business, which must have conferred on him the seemingly instinctive knowledge of food and wine that distinguished him as a companion during the remainder of his life.

Another Look: Splendor in the Grass

ANOTHER LOOK: SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS By Kenneth Hey Splendor in the Grass reached the nation's wide screens in October 1961. The critics recognized the film's examination of interpersonal behavior in a rural Kansas community around the 1929 market crash, but they divided over the manner in which the film portrayed that behavior. Some critics credited screenwriter William Inge for lucidity and seriousminded attention to the subject of adolescent conflict in modern society. However, other commentators saw an emotionally charged study of sexual frustration, and they blamed director Elia Kazan for exploiting an unfortunate social reality. With the perspective of two decades, it seems both critical groups missed the "film." Splendor in the Grass tells the story of two adolescents, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty) and Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood), who confront social intransigence in the form of Mr. "Ace" Stamper's (Pat Hingle) arrogant class attitudes and Mrs. Loomis' (Audrey Christie) ignorant traditionalism. Bud and Deanie approach personal intimacy ladened with parental advice about "two types of girls," "nice girls," and the respectable young man with "gumption." Unable to relate to each other in a manner befitting their feelings, they drift in different directions, Bud to the "other kind" of girl and Deanie to an uncomfortable flirtation with a new personality. To the end of their high school days, Bud submits to his father's tyranny and Deanie tries in vain to break free of her mother's proscriptions. At their high school graduation dance, Deanie attempts suicide, a rebellious action which lands her in a sanitarium. Shortly thereafter, Bud, capitulating once more to his father's wishes, leaves Deanie and attends Yale Kenneth Hey Is In the Department ofa Film at Bnooklyn College. He necently published articles on On the Waterfanont In both Film & Hlstony and The American Quarterly. University with an oblique promise that after graduation Ace would send Deanie and his son on their honeymoon. Bud responds to his weakness by failing every Freshman course, while Ace reveals his weakness by commi ting suicide immediately after the Wall Street crash. Finally liberated from paternal control, Bud marries a New Haven waitress and returns to a farm in Kansas. Deanie eventually emerges from the mental institution and marries a well-to-do fellow patient. Prior to leaving Kansas for good, Deanie seeks out Bud on his small ranch, and their meeting prompts a voiceover narration of William Wordsworth's poem "Ode: Intimations of Immorali ty" : Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind. The advice of Deanie' s psychiatrist—adjust to whatever happens—underlines the youths' frustrations and powerlessness and propels them into different worlds. The film's attention to sexual problems dominated critical responses. Esquire (December 1961) printed a review which ridiculed underlying assumptions in the story line. "I hazard that the theme is: Should a Nice Girl Sleep with Him or Go to a Mental Hospital? And: Should A Clean-Living Boy (etc.) or Go to Yale? This seems to me an Emily Post problem, in the same class as Should Doilies or Tablecloth be Used for Formal Tea?" After comparing Kazan's garishness to that of Cecil B. deMille, the author concluded that "Kazanistan is as mythical as Ruritania. So is Ingeland." The New Yorker (October 14, 1961) disagreed as to the filmmakers' abilities but agreed that the story pointed the wrong direction. "Inge and Kazan are so skilled in their craft that one is forced to believe they have done by calculation what one would far rather believe they had done by inadvertance ." According to the urbane critic, the filmmakers had titillated the masses. "Splendor in the Grass is as phony a picture as I can remember seeing. Not only that, it's phony in a particularly disgusting way. Although it purports to be a study of young love... what it amounts to is a prolonged act of voyeurism, which we as adults are invited to become parties to on the pretext that it will provide us with fresh insights into the sexual anguish of teen-agers." The cynicism behind the film...

The Literary Impact of Jewish Culture

ondary and college levels has been the interest in the literary contributions of American writers of Jewish descent. According to Jewish Studies in American Colleges and Universities,1 there are over 250 institutions of higher learning offering such courses. This is a far cry from the turn of the century, when only two institutionsHarvard and Columbia-offered courses dealing with Jews and Judaism after the Biblical period.2 Of the number of public high schools in America which have introduced Jewish studies in the past few years there is still no accurate count, but it would be safe to say that they probably number in the hundreds and exist in practically every one of our fifty states.3 How times have changed from my own high school days in a prestigious Brooklyn high school from 1920-1924! In all those four years I never heard an American-Jewish author mentioned by any of my English teachers (two of whom were Jewish), and we certainly studied no selections or read as supplementary books any works by such authors. Of the classics we had our full dose: The Odyssey, Stevenson's Treasure Island, George Eliot's Silas Marner, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, Polgrave's Golden Treasury (who knew that his grandfather was a Jew named Meyer Cohen?) and a collection of Long's American Poems that had not a single poem by an American Jew. Was this so because there was no literature by American Jews by 1920? Hardly! Emma Lazarus in her Songs of a Semite (1882) had won the praise of major American critics, as she had won the praise for her earlier books from Ralph Waldo Emerson for her Admetus and Other Poems (1871). This she had dedicated to My friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Her engaging contemporary, Adah Isaacs Menken, friend of Dickens, Swinburne, Dumas fils, and one of the outstanding actresses on both the American and British stages of the mid-nineteenth century, in her Infelicia (1868) expressed her indignation at the indignities of the treatment of Jews in the notorious Mortara affair in Italy in 1858 as well as her kinship with fellow Jews in several other poems .4 By 1912 Mary Antin had written her Promised Land, one of the most touching evocations of the gratitude of having escaped from the Russian Pole of Settlement and being reborn in the new world. Abraham Cohen, who had already written two works of fiction in English at the end of the nineteenth century, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) and The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto Joseph Mersand teaches at York College of The City University of New York. He is also a Past President of NCTE.