Hannah Ryggen: Woven Histories

HOMILETICS "The Song of Hannah"

(The importance of the preacher's exegetical work is greater than the life-span of one sermon. It has more to do with the life-span of the preacher himself. Exegetical study maketh the exact theologian. His study builds his ministering. It is therefore interesting to examine the relationship between a detailed exegetical study of a text and a sermon that is preached as part of its results. This...

Durkin , Hannah ( 2013 ) Remembering slavery on screen

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Woven Turbo Codes

A new code construction namely woven turbo codes, is presented , which is a variation of woven convolutional codes. Parallel encoders (turbo codes 2]) can be considered as a special case of woven turbo encoders, where only one outer and inner encoder is used. However, woven turbo codes with a larger number of outer codes yield higher minimum distances than turbo codes with random permutations.