Stories Of Courage Research Articles

Aamir - A story of courage and vulnerability

Aamir - A story of courage and vulnerability

Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh's courageous sacrifice in the Indian nationalist movement

Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh is considered one of the most influential young revolutionaries of the Indian nationalist movement. His courageous sacrifice for the Indian nationalist movement is remembered as Martyrs’ Day on 23 March. On this day, on 23 March 1931, Bhagat Singh Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged. To liberate the country of India, these brave sons had kissed the noose with a smile. That is why this day is called Martyr’s Day. At that time Bhagat Singh was only 23 years old. At the young age of 23, he along with his comrades sacrificed their lives for the motherland, due to which Bhagat Singh became a favorite of the youth during the freedom struggle. This famous slogan of “Inquilab Zindabad” had expressed the voice of patriotism in every vein of the heart, mind and body of the Indian youth. Bhagat Singh was born on 27 September 1907 at 09.00 am in Banga village, District – Lyallpur. His father’s name was Sardar Kishan Singh Sandhu and mother’s name was Vidyavati Kaur. At the time of his birth, his father Kishan Singh and some family members were in jail. His uncle Ajit Singh was always in front of him as a motivating force and role model. His father Sardar Kishan Singh, who worked all his life for the independence of the country, was his source of inspiration. Inspired by the revolutionary family, the spirit of courage, sacrifice and patriotism developed in Bhagat Singh. In his early days, Bhagat Singh supported Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement. But later, due to Gandhiji canceling the non-cooperation movement, some anger arose among them. But like the entire nation, he respected Gandhiji. Bhagat Singh was only 12 years old at the time of Jallianwala Bagh massacre. This massacre filled Bhagat Singh’s mind with anger against the British. At the same time, Bhagat Singh was so disturbed by the hanging of four revolutionaries and the imprisonment of 16 other revolutionaries in the Kakori incident that he merged his party Navjawan Bharat Sabha with the Hindustan Republican Association and gave it a new name, Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. “Today the desire for sarfaroshi is in our hearts, let us see how much strength the killer has in his arms” These are the words of those revolutionaries whose story of courage, sacrifice and bravery is remembered across the country. The country always pays tribute to his martyrdom.

Exploring the Line between Creation and Creator in Mabou Mines’s Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play

Abstract During the last ten years of his life, Lee Breuer, who passed away in 2021, had been interested in framing Tennessee Williams’s canon, particularly the late plays, through the perspective of the grotesque and the Grand Guignol. Mabou Mines’s Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play (2017), directed by Breuer and conceived by Breuer and Maude Mitchell, views Williams’s work alongside Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) in order to expose the grotesque truth of the messy and complex creative process. On one level, Glass Guignol is a multilayered exploration of the relationship between Williams and his sister Rose, whose story of courage in facing the mental and emotional challenges that culminated in an eventual lobotomy in 1943 was the inspiration for several of the female characters in both his canonical early plays and his less familiar later works. Developed through various workshops and staged scenes since 2011, the finalized version of Glass Guignol interweaves the story of Rose herself with Williams’s various fictional creations of women who reflect her spirit, if not necessarily her actual experiences: Laura in The Glass Menagerie (1945), Catherine in Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Clare in The Two-Character Play (revised between 1967 and 1976), and Nance in A Cavalier for Milady (c. 1976). While a symbiotic brother-sister love is at the center of The Two-Character Play, which serves as the primary framework of Breuer’s piece, it was also a common preoccupation for Romantic poets. Glass Guignol uses this relationship to delve into broader territory, asking questions about the relationship between creator and creation, and taking Frankenstein as yet another framework for the complexities and contradictions of this partnership. With its nineteenth-century asylum staging, the play foregrounds the grotesque and the Grand Guignol, both sensibilities that embrace contradiction, instability, and a lack of boundaries. Ultimately, Breuer explores how the artist sews together bits and pieces of identity, emotion, and experience in the pursuit of that seamless and perfect illusion of reality.

Teratology research in the shadow of the Dobbs decision.

Following the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, numerous states have passed laws banning or severely restricting abortion. The consequences of the decision stretch beyond abortion contexts, including progress on developing a more robust evidence base for care in pregnancy. In this Robert L. Brent lecture, I explore the impact of the Dobbs decision on teratology research, arguing that it is of importance even and perhaps especially for those concerned about the moral complexities of ending a pregnancy. For as abortion restrictions threaten teratology research, they also threaten its life-affirming aims. First, I show how teratology research and abortion are intertwined, highlighting the stories of Sherri Finkbine and Frances Kelsey, two courageous women whose lives intersected with both. Second, I describe how restrictions on abortion make teratology research more difficult and ethically complex, highlighting additional risks to research participants and staff, as well as new challenges to scientific validity and feasibility. And third, foregrounding yet another story of courage (and heartbreak), I highlight how abortion restrictions make teratology research more important than ever. Honoring Dr. Brent's legacy requires addressing-rather than avoiding-the ethical challenges of pregnancy-related research, especially now in the post-Dobbs era.

Fala aí checklist: Peer conversations recognising practices of care, hope and solidarity in times of loss and difficulty

In Brazil, as elsewhere, The COVID-19 pandemic and related upheavals exacerbated problems like unemployment and domestic violence. Feelings of hopelessness, isolation and impotence became pervasive. Seeking ways to respond to the uncertainty, insecurity and discouragement that many young people were expressing, the author sought ways that stories of courage, care, hope and solidarity could be shared and acknowledged. Drawing on the ‘checklist of psychological and social resistance’ developed in Lebanon by David Denborough and Mohamad Safa, a conversation guide for Brazilian communities was developed. It can be used by professionals, but is particularly designed for use among friends, family members and colleagues. It can even be used for individual reflection. Through consultation with the Nelson Mandela Favela in Rio de Janeiro, and its young people in particular, the Fala aí checklist was refined to be accessible and culturally resonant as a prompt for peer conversations that sustain hope and connection. The Fala aí checklist is included in the paper.

Courage, resistance and vulnerability in memory culture: Swedish Museum education and the representation of the Holocaust survivor at the turn of the twenty-first century

This article provides a Swedish perspective on critical memory culture and the use of difficult history in museum education. It is based on a detailed study of the educational resource the Teacher’s Guide, published by the Swedish Museum of Cultural History in Lund named Kulturen in 2006 in connection with their permanent exhibition, To Survive. Voices from Ravensbrück. The Guide shows how women, imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, found ways to resist their situation and overcome their victim position. It also relates to the role Sweden played in the rescue of the women from the camp. First, the article explicates the narrative structure of the guidebook and examines how it characterises the survivors as resistance heroines and presents their story as a story of courage. Then, the article relates the Teacher’s Guide to two contemporary phenomena in Sweden: a governmental educational campaign to raise young people’s awareness of the Holocaust and foster engagement in resistance to present neo-fascism and a historiographical debate taking issue with negative and difficult aspects of Sweden’s involvement in the Second World War. The Teacher’s Guide is discussed based on Aleida Assmann’s concept of self-critical memory culture, Judith Butler’s notion of vulnerability and the concept of difficult history in museum pedagogy. It is argued that by emphasising courage and neglecting vulnerability in its story of resistance, the Guide deprives the audience of the opportunity of responding adequately to the difficult history of surviving the Holocaust as a history of ambiguity. Ultimately, it is argued that the Guide constitutes a hindrance to the emergence of a self-critical memory culture on the Holocaust in Sweden.

Anything of Which a Woman is Capable: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 1—The Foundations by Mary M. McGlone, and: Called Forth by the Dear Neighbor: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 2—from 1860–2010 by Mary M. McGlone

Reviewed by: Anything of Which a Woman is Capable: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 1—The Foundations by Mary M. McGlone, and: Called Forth by the Dear Neighbor: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 2—from 1860–2010 by Mary M. McGlone Mary Helen Kashuba SSJ Anything of Which a Woman is Capable: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 1—The Foundations. By Mary M. McGlone, CSJ. U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, 2017. 547 pp. $21.99. Called Forth by the Dear Neighbor: A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 2—from 1860–2010. By Mary M. Glone, CSJ. U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, 2020. 458 pp. $24.99. These two volumes cover a period of nearly 400 years, from the founding of the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1650 to their presence in the United States during the early years of the twenty-first century. Pioneers among non-cloistered religious, the Sisters of St. Joseph originated in Le Puy, France and spread to the United States in 1836. Their story is dramatic, narrated in many gripping details by Mary McGlone. She follows them from their humble beginnings in a French orphanage through the log cabins of the American mid-west to well-established motherhouses across the United States. [End Page 70] Volume I begins with mid-seventeenth-century France and explores both the traditional and newly discovered and somewhat controversial sources of the congregational foundations. After spreading throughout southeastern France, the sisters' work was halted by the French Revolution. Mother St. John Fontbonne restored the congregation in Lyon in 1808 and sent eight sisters to St. Louis, Missouri in 1836. Their story during the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century occupies the rest of this volume. It is a story of courage and determination, along with conflict and frustration. In the mid-nineteenth century, America was mission territory for the Catholic Church. McGlone paints a vivid picture of settlers in need of religious education and clergy determined to offer it to them. The First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 strongly urged the establishment of Catholic schools, and bishops strove to enforce it by recruiting women religious. At their invitation, sisters moved frequently to new assignments. Within the first two decades of their arrival, the Sisters of St. Joseph went to Philadelphia in 1847, to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1851, Wheeling, West Virginia in 1853, and Canandaigua, New York in 1854. From there they continued to move across the United States as far as California in 1912, and eventually to missions abroad. The author notes two major challenges that faced the sisters: personnel and finances. After the first sisters came from France, the American Sisters of St. Joseph were on their own. Local women slowly came to join them, often opening new missions with little training either in religious life or in the classroom. Their numbers were always insufficient to fill the repeated invitations they received. In addition, their accommodations seldom provided the necessities, if at all. Yet these pioneer women rose to the occasion, many becoming leaders in new foundations, establishing schools, orphanages, and hospitals, and attracting more young women to the congregation. Another problem that faced these pioneers was their relationship with the clergy. The Constitutions of the congregation specified the local bishop as their primary superior. However, the degree of his authority [End Page 71] differed according to the various versions of the rule. It also depended on the bishop or pastor's interpretation. Some congregations, notably Carondelet and Philadelphia, obtained papal approval of their Constitutions, which gave them relative independence. Others chose to remain diocesan communities. Some enjoyed harmonious relations with the local clergy. However, the stories of conflicts between superiors and clergy provide suspenseful reading, which McGlone amplifies with numerous quotations from letters and memoirs. The outcome is sometimes surprising! In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was not unusual for the sisters to move back and forth from one diocese to another. They went...

Dynamics of the Transmission of Trauma through three Generations of Slovene Families

In this paper, we will present a study into the dynamics of the transmission of emotional traumatic in three families of victims of World War II and post-war communist oppression. This study is taken from a broader research project in which we investigated the experiences of nonclinical families that managed to survive through three generation, and in which post-traumatic growth is present, i. e. the ability to integrate traumatic experiences and provide greater security for future generations.
 The main focus will be on how emotional content is transmitted and transformed through generations and how to recognise it in various forms of behaviour, thinking and emotions, that appear in each of the generations. As we follow the transformation of traumatic content, we will also follow the the signs that show how traumatic content has integrated and begun to bring new, deeper emotional and mental insights.
 The emotional depth of the traumatic experience is what burdens the victim the most and slows down the dynamics of trauma processing. It appears in the form of symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome, insecurity and mistrust. This is found even in victims who have articulated the trauma sufficiently to rise above intimidation, managed to develop emotionally strong and connecting interpersonal relationships, maintain faith in the future, and form a coherent narrative of their traumatic past.
 The most interesting result of the research was that all three families, regardless of their diversity, are similar in term of processing the trauma. They were all able to speak openly about their traumatic experiences. In all three families there there was a great deal of discussion and searching for the social framework and personal truth of historical events, and the desire to present and describe the events that left such deep wounds in such a way that they would be clear, reworked and accessible to future generations as a document of the reality of some tragic and difficult times.
 Another source of trauma processing was religious faith, which allowed all the participants in this study to look at trauma and life more deeply, through relationships and connections between people and through a deeper understanding of human history embedded in a broader and deeper spiritual flow. Faith helped these families to find the courage to make decisions, to face life’s challenges, and to endure even the most severe of life's trials.
 A third source that facilitates the processing and integration of a traumatic experience is secure interpersonal relationships and compassionate parenting. Despite the fact that the whole question of parenting was demanding and full of challenges for our interviewees, the quality of parenting has been improved from generation to generation, and sincere affection for children and gratitude for children were present everywhere. The ability to follow the new generation and its initiatives while maintaining a connection to its roots is a dynamic that characterises all three families. There is also a lot of thinking and conscious effort in establishing and maintaining good marital relationships in these families.
 For the recovery from trauma this study shows the importance of talking about it and also talking about it in a safe relationship until it takes a form that is genuine and at the same time clear, coherent and thus suitable for the general public. That’s when the traumatic story ceases to be traumatizing and becomes a story of courage, perseverance, and truth.

Horizon Leans Forward...Stories of Courage, Strength, and Triumph of Underrepresented Communities in the Wind Band Field

CAML Review is published three times per year. It is concerned with music and music materials and strives to promote a better understanding of the cultural importance of music libraries, archives and documentation centres locally, regionally and nationally.

Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words, Lee T. Bycel (2019)

Review of: Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words, Lee T. Bycel (2019) New Brunswick, Camden, Newark, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 216 pp., ISBN: 978-1-97880-621-4, h/bk, £23.28

Human Well-Being and Pandemic Crisis: Implications for Social Work Practice from Kerala Experience

Nipah virus, the consecutive 2018 and 2019 floods, the internal social, economic, and political struggles have had a significant impact on the lives of people in Kerala, India. While the state of Kerala was trying to get back to some form of stability, Covid-19 slams into, in an unprecedented way, drastically disrupting the lives of many. It has shaken the interconnectedness and interdependence of families and placed communities in a state of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. This article is about the vulnerabilities, experiences, voices, and untold stories of courage and resilience among people in Kerala. Authors present a reflective analysis of the multidimensional impact of Covid-19 on the ordinary lives of the people of Kerala. 
 The deleterious impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the entire humanity reckons the attention of governments, economists, educators, social scientists, medical and allied professionals, including social workers, to make concerted efforts to preserve and promote human well-being. Taking into consideration the structural inequalities in society, the present paper utilises a critical social work theoretical lens to analyse how it has impacted the well-being of people, especially the marginalised and vulnerable communities in Kerala.

You are not alone: an interview with the Chief Executive Officer of Chnnl, Dr Liz Berryman

If you have ever felt bullied or embarrassed within the workplace, Liz Berryman gives us hope to be heard. Although there has been a shift away from the hierarchical culture within the hospital system, many people fall victim to these old ways, especially as medical students. As Liz explains: “You are not alone.” Having experienced bullying first-hand, she was able to not only stand up for herself but also create a revolutionary app called Chnnl. Her story of courage in the face of adversity shows that we should not give up hope and that there is always something to be done. As the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chnnl, Liz Berryman has an important message to New Zealand medical students — wellbeing is important! She has made admirable contributions to collegial wellbeing in health whilst balancing life as a junior doctor, mother, and leader in other areas of medicine including board roles with the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) and Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ).

Isha SesayBeneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Isha SesayBeneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Editor’s Introduction: The Sheltering Tree

Editor’s Introduction: The Sheltering Tree

One Thousand and One Nights: New Stories of Courage and Passion From the Middle East.

One Thousand and One Nights: New Stories of Courage and Passion From the Middle East.

Golden Eagle rising – reconciliation, Indigenous resurgence, and a new beginning

ABSTRACTThis powerful piece by Shain Jackson introduces us to the bringer of natural law and justice to the shishalh people, Ch’as-kin, the Golden Eagle. Sadly, Ch’as-kin does not remain forever to continue guiding the people to maintain the good ways set out for them. The story Shain tells goes on to paint a picture of the pain, loss, death and suffering that follows when we are left without a protective spirit guide. Like all great stories of courage, redemption and reconciliation, it is up to the people to find their way back to the good life; to a place of justice, healing and a re-newed way of living. It is in this process of resurgence that all of us, not just the shishalh, will become healthy and whole again.

The Misery of Residential School. In Reversing Canada’s Genocide of First Nations.

This is a story about a young Anishinabe-Saulteaux boy, Clive Linklater, who shares his personal experiences in residential school. From his first day at residential school, through the days of endless rules and punishments, he shares his experiences of institutionalized assimilation. This is his story; however, many First Nations children at the time of the Residential School era in Canada had similar experiences of being stripped of their language, culture and connection with their family and community. While this is a difficulty story, it is a true story, and it is also a story of courage, endurance, and perseverance. Although residential schools no longer exist, it is important to continue sharing the truths about this part of Canada’s history. It is with pride that we celebrate the resilience of First Nations Peoples, and all Indigenous Peoples. We are still here.

The Tortoise and the Soldier: A Story of Courage and Friendship in World War I by Michael Foreman (review)

The Tortoise and the Soldier: A Story of Courage and Friendship in World War I by Michael Foreman (review)

BILLBOARDS AND MOVING BOXESCowardice: A Brief History. By Chris Walsh

He banked the fire against the tarp behind them to reflect the heat and they sat warm in their refuge while he told the boy stories. Old stories of courage and justice as he remembered them until the boy was asleep in his blankets … Chris Walsh's study of cowardice is not a brief history, unless we take history in the original Herodotean sense of an investigation, literally the process whereby an agent of seeing and thereby knowing explores a subject. Walsh is discursive like Herodotus and wide-ranging. He tells us lots about what others have had to say about cowardice and about actions, historical and fictional, and concepts, like duty, honour, dignity, patriotism, self-sacrifice, endurance, fear, shame, and post-traumatic stress (PTSD), connected with cowardice and the related social virtue of courage, moral and physical. War features prominently throughout because such notions of human behaviour are best displayed, examined, and defined in the context of the politically sanctioned use of armed force.

Feminism as life's work: four modern American women through two world wars

With suffrage secured in 1920, feminists faced the challenge of how to keep their momentum going. As the centre of the movement shrank, a small, self-appointed vanguard of women carried the cause forward in life and work. Feminism as Life's Work profiles four of these women: the author Inez Haynes Irwin, the historian Mary Ritter Beard, the activist Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette, a psychologist. Their life-stories, told here in full for the first time, embody the changes of the first four decades of the twentieth century--and complicate what we know of the period. Through these women's intertwined stories, Mary Trigg traces the changing nature of the women's movement across turbulent decades rent by world war, revolution, global depression, and the rise of fascism. Criticizing the standard division of feminist activism as a series of historical waves, Trigg exposes how Irwin, Beard, Stevens, and Pruette helped push the U.S. feminist movement to victory and continued to propel it forward from the 1920s to the 1960s, decades not included in the wave model. At a time widely viewed as the doldrums of feminism, the women in this book were in fact taking the cause to new sites: the National Women's Party; sexuality and relations with men; marriage; and work and financial independence. In their utopian efforts to reshape work, sexual relations, and marriage, modern feminists ran headlong into the harsh realities of male power, the sexual double standard, the demands of motherhood, and gendered social structures. In Feminism as Life's Work , Irwin, Beard, Stevens, and Pruette emerge as the heirs of the suffrage movement, guardians of a long feminist tradition, and catalysts of the belief in equality and difference. Theirs is a story of courage, application, and perseverance--a story that revisits the bleak and lonely years of the U.S. women's movement and emerges with a fresh perspective of the history of this pivotal era.