Young Daughter Research Articles

The Scent of Hope

In this narrative medicine essay, a neonatologist bends over her young daughter and breathes in the scent of hope after her child is hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis and a new diagnosis of diabetes.

The Master’s Fall: The Fall of the Bourgeoisie Through the Fall of Patriarchy

The Master’s Fall: The Fall of the Bourgeoisie Through the Fall of Patriarchy

Writing against extraction: Petroleum resistance in Sony Labou Tansi’s Je, soussigné cardiaque

This paper analyses the presence of petroleum in the 1977 play Je, soussigné cardiaque by Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi. The play relates petroleum extraction led by the Spanish colonist Perono in the imaginary country of Lebango. The main character, Mallot, is a new teacher in town. He is accompanied by his pregnant wife and their young daughter. Mallot realizes that Perono rules over this petro-imperial tyranny, where the Lebangolese ecosystem is shaped and voided by resource exploitation. My reading focuses on the presence of petroleum beyond an anthropocentric perspective that sees it only as a resource, as I argue that petroleum offers new possibilities of nonhuman resistance to extraction.

Review of: <em>Carpenter Under Construction: The Story of Don Plank</em>—Diane Freed

Carpenter Under Construction is the story of Don Plank’s life, written by his youngest daughter. It briefly touches on his early life and moves through major life events. About half of the book covers the busy later years in life when he and his second wife moved from mission to mission in various support roles. Don was a good carpenter, but Freed puts more emphasis on what God built Don to be rather than on what Don himself built during his long life. [First paragraph.]

ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЕ И МИФОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ В ЕВАНГЕЛЬСКОМ ПРЕДАНИИ О КАЗНИ ИОАННА КРЕСТИТЕЛЯ

This article is a historical and religious analysis of the Gospel’s story about the execution of John the Baptist. The first part of the work deals with the modern theories and reconstructions of the history and genealogy of the Herodian family. The comparative analysis of the Gospels, Josephus and several other witnesses shows that the dancer could be not only Salome, the daughter of Herodias, but it could also be Herodias Salome, the young daughter of Herod Antipas and Nabatean princess Phasaelis. This fact opens an alternative reading of the story: we can see not only the story about confrontation of Eros and Thanatos, but also the story about the innocence as a weapon of evil minds. The second part of the paper is the analyses of the story as a myth. In process we can understand the significance and the meaning of the episode on three levels: literal (Jesus is not John, since the second was recently decapitated), mythological (John is the “forerunning sacrifice” of Jesus а sacrifice made according to the pagan mythological model) and theological (the death of John is the end of the old mythological system based on the sacrifice and the forerunning of the new one, based on the “non-sacrificial” principal of non-violence).

From the Editor’s Gable

From the Editor’s Gable

Role Reversal

In this narrative essay, a medical student discusses how observing a patient interacting with her adult daughter was a reminder of the ways in which the roles will eventually be reversed in her relationship with her own young daughter.

Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, by Jessica Ordaz

Review: <i>The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity</i>, by Jessica Ordaz

Survivors “Surviving Well” and “Surviving Poorly”: Reflections on the Limitations and Possibilities of Transformative Justice

Survivors “Surviving Well” and “Surviving Poorly”: Reflections on the Limitations and Possibilities of Transformative Justice

Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647–1693

Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647–1693

Three Cases of Familial Moyamoya Disease with RASA1 Mutations—A Case Report

The prevalence of moyamoya disease (MMD) is relatively high in East Asia, whereas the susceptibility genes of MMD have not been identified. Here, we reported 3 patients diagnosed with MMD from 1 single family, including a 53-year-old mother (case 1) and her 32-year-old and 29-year-old daughters (cases 2 and 3). The younger daughter was diagnosed with cerebral hemorrhage. Computed tomographic angiogram showed the typical signs of MMD in 3 patients. Clinical whole-exome sequencing was performed in 3 daughters of case 1, and RASA1 mutations in chr5: 87,376,389 and NM_002890.2: c.2012-4C>T were determined to have the strongest correlation with MMD. RASA1 mutations were verified in case 1, husband of case 1 and the descendant of case 3 by using Sanger sequencing. According to the findings of literature review, this is the first study indicating the association between RASA1 mutations and MMD.

Diving Lessons

Diving Lessons

Unveiling Compound Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Lead Author's Financial Disclosures Nothing to disclose. Study Funding None. Background/Synopsis A 38-year-old female with a history of hypercholesterolemia as well as a family history of hypercholesterolemia in mother diagnosed at age 68 and in young daughter at age 11 is referred for further evaluation and management of hypercholesterolemia. Objective/Purpose To review the role of genetic testing in management of severe hypercholesterolemia. Methods In addition to routine clinical care, genetic testing was completed by Invitae using gene sequencing and deletion/duplication analysis with next generation sequencing technology (NGS). Results A 38-year-old female has been treated since age 20, when she was first found to have high cholesterol. She is referred for further evaluation after her 11-year-old daughter is noted to have high cholesterol. Invitae Familial Hypercholesterolemia Panel identified a LDLR: c.1027 G>A (p.Gly343Ser) pathogenic variant and LDLR: c.1880 C>T (p.Ala627Val) variant of uncertain significance (VUS). Conclusions Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease, with a prevalence of 1 in 311, characterized by significantly elevated LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) and responsible for up to 2%-3% of heart attacks in individuals younger than age 60 years. In fact, men with FH who are untreated have a 50% chance of having a coronary event by age 50 and untreated women have a 30% risk by age 60. FH is caused by pathogenic (disease-causing) variants in four major genes: APOB, LDLR, LDLRAP1, PCSK9. The severity of the LDL-C elevation can be determined by the specific variant's impact on LDL-receptor activity and function, and/or the impact from other genes that raise and/or lower the LDL-C. Pathogenic variants in the APOB and PCSK9 and additional LDLR variants may be present as well and are described as double heterozygotes if different genes are affected, compound heterozygotes if different alleles in the same gene are affected, or homozygous if 2 copies of the pathogenic variant is found. In our clinical case, genetic testing revealed a pathogenic variant in the LDLR gene, c.1027 G>A (p.Gly343Ser). This gene is responsible for effective transport of LDL cholesterol into the cell, when defective leads to build up of the un-transported cholesterol in blood vessels. In addition to the pathogenic LDLR variant, a VUS in the LDLR gene, c.1880 C>T (p.Ala627Val) was identified. Variants are of uncertain significance generally do not have evidence to determine pathogenicity with little to no direct impact on phenotype. For now, our patient should be considered heterozygous FH based upon the single pathogenic variant. However, given the supporting evidence and expectation that the VUS is likely pathogenic, we did advise her that the genetic description may change to compound heterozygous depending upon database expansion. Of note, the underrepresentation of this variant in existing databases may reflect sampling bias. Our patient is of Afro-Caribbean (Haitian) heritage, which is a population that has been underrepresented in medical studies. Nothing to disclose.

Men and Women in The Distribution of Inheritance in Mandar, West Sulawesi, Indonesia

In general, there are two patterns of inheritance distribution in Indonesia, based on Islamic and customary inheritance laws. This research specifically focused on the distribution of inheritance for men and women in Mandar by scoping the research area in Polewali Mandar Regency, West Sulawesi Province. This research is an empirical legal study using the sociology of law approach. Data collection techniques were obtained through literature study and interviews. The results showed that the Mandar people who lived in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi Province, considered that whether son or daughter earned the same sharing, there was no difference. The view that puts the same position between the two has influenced the legal treatment of inheritance. The distribution of inheritance in Mandar, especially for sons and daughters, was found in two patterns, namely, using Islamic inheritance patterns and customary inheritance patterns. This customary inheritance pattern is practiced in the form that they are no longer able to define, whether it is in the form of Islamic law or customary law, dividing the inheritance to their children to be managed by themselves, and some have shared the inheritance with their children, but the heir still manages the assets, and the house of the parents belongs to the youngest child, without distinguishing between the youngest son or the youngest daughter.

Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations

Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations

One Night in Miami (2020)Blood Brothers: Malcolm X &amp; Muhammad Ali (2021)Muhammad Ali

<i>One Night in Miami</i> (2020)<i>Blood Brothers: Malcolm X &amp; Muhammad Ali</i> (2021)<i>Muhammad Ali</i>

Doran H. Ross

Doran H. Ross

“Warm as a Departed Friend”

Hu Xudong was born on October 30, 1974, in Chongqing, Sichuan, and died tragically on August 22, 2021, in Beijing. He was a poet, academic, and prolific columnist and essayist who will be greatly missed for his sparkling wit, humane touch, and acute social observations. For many years, he taught at Peking University in the Institute for World Literatures in the School of Foreign Languages, and served as the deputy director of the PKU Brazilian Cultural Center. He produced four formally published books of poetry as well as several self-published collections, in addition to hundreds of newspaper columns and essays. Hu is survived by his wife, Zhou Shu, a reporter and writer, and his young daughter, Daodao.

The Infanticide in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Le Livre d’Emma or Colonized Caring Made Manifest

Le livre d’Emma (2001) by Marie-Célie Agnant recounts the story of Emma Bratte following the murder of her young daughter, Lola. Flore, who is also the narrator of the story, meets Emma at the psychiatric ward where she is confined: she is tasked with acting as an interpreter since Emma refuses to speak any language but Haitian Creole. It is during the sessions with Flore that Emma speaks of “la malédiction du sang”, a blood-borne curse originating with the slave trade and colonization. This generational curse refers to the oppression and exploitation that enslaved people were subjected to, related in particular to women’s reproductive labor, and the perpetuation of exploitative care into the present. As such, rather than read the infanticide as the result of Emma’s alleged madness, I read the commonly perceived violent act of infanticide as the signifier for the persistent defects of configurations of care giving and care receiving in colonial and postcolonial societies.

«У нас дома все говорили “Левин”»: о произношении фамилии героя романа «Анна Каренина» в семье Л. Н. Толстого

The article deals with the issue of correct pronunciation of the surname of Konstantin Levin — a character from L. N. Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. According to the writer’s youngest daughter A. L. Tolstaya and his great grandson I. V. Tolstoy, the author of the novel and all his family pronounced it like “Lévin.” This tradition is currently preserved in the L. N. Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow and in L. N. Tolstoy Museum-Estate ‘Yasnaya Polyana’. Apart from the spoken tradition there is also a written tradition originated from L. N. Tolstoy himself. Manuscripts of Anna Karenina attest to the fact that L. N. Tolstoy, S. A. Tolstaya and all other copyists always wrote “Levin,” letter “ё” (“yo”) being used in necessary cases. N. N. Strakhov who helped L. N. Tolstoy prepare the first separate edition of Anna Karenina (1878) wrote in the same manner. The tradition of spelling the surname of the character as “Levin” is registered in all lifetime and posthumous editions of Anna Karenina as well as in translations into foreign languages. However there is a contradiction in spelling “Lyovin” in two private letters of L. N. Tolstoy’s contemporaries (I. S. Aksakov and K. N. Leontiev), who were not in his inner circle, and a viewpoint of V. V. Nabokov claiming that L. N. Tolstoy derived the character’s surname from his own name Lyov used at home.