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The themes produced by Toni Morrison in the last fifty years deal with issues related to the cultural and political resistance of black communities in the United States in the midst of the history of the African American diaspora, addressing race relations, construction of black identity, spirituality and sexuality. The award-winning writer conquered American society and literary criticism by the peculiar way in which she directed her characters in the contexts of political, social, economic, cultural disorders and ethnic conflicts that her engaged writing elucidates. Thus, she exposed very creatively the dilemma of the American black people who struggle to achieve prosperity and racial emancipation without severing the ties of ancestry that are responsible for sustaining the identity of African Americans. This work intends to examine how acts of remembrance are configured as one of the devices used in the novel Jazz, published by Toni Morrison in 1992, to narrate the horrors that continued to happen during the years following the abolition of slavery in the United States. Thus, we aim to analyze the memories of one of the protagonists of the novel, the character Joe Trace, in the light, mainly, of the fourth chapter of the first part of Aleida Assmann's book Erinnerungsräume: Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses, which explores the construction of individual identity based on acts of remembrance. We also intend to analyze how the experiential memories of horror brought by the character make up the artistic strategy of the author Toni Morrison, who thus becomes a disseminating agent of the cultural memory of the trauma of American slavery through literature. Bearing in mind that one of the biggest challenges of the postmodern world is the anti-racist struggle, we would like to demonstrate, once again, how Toni Morrison's literature supports this struggle to be won.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Relevance of a Dialogue -- Chapter One: Context and Theory: Molefi Kete Asante and the Afrocentric Idea -- Afrocentricity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Westernity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Chapter Two: Reason and Analysis: Africana and New Interpretations of Reality -- Where Do We Stand? -- Dialogical Methodology -- Chapter Three: Afrocentricity and Modernism: Innovative Encounters with History and Ideology -- Afrocentric Critique on Modernity and Modernism -- The Obscure History of European Modernity -- The Historical/Ideological Conditions of European "Exceptionalism -- Ideology of Race: The Scientific Method of Proof -- Roots of Modernity-The Profit Motive -- The Geopolitical Triangular Atlantic Platform -- The African Experience and the Marxist Model -- Roots of Western Capitalism and the Marxist Paradigm -- Marxist Model in African Realities -- African Critiques to Marxism -- Toward the Reclamation of African Socialism -- The Afrocentric Response to Marxism -- Blackness and Existentialism -- The Existential Problem -- The Négritude Movement -- The Idea of Individualism -- Classical African Ideals -- Chapter Four: Afrocentricity and Postmodernism: The Moment of Truth -- An Afrocentric Critique on the Postmodernist Deconstruction of Power Relations -- The Collapse of the Super Structure -- Toward an Afrocentric Critique -- The Quest for the Center -- Afrocentricity and Feminist Epistemology -- Overview of the Movement -- Feminist Scholarship -- The Concept of Gender -- Postfeminism -- Black Women on Feminism -- Black Womanism -- African and European Perspectives: Postcolonialism or Neocolonialism? -- Talking Global and Postcolonial: The Political-Economic Thrust -- The Theoretical/Conceptual Discussion -- Postcolonial Theory and Literary Criticism.

"Since its inception, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been nurtured by the dream - cherished by some scientists while dismissed as unrealistic by others - that it will lead to forms of intelligence similar or alternative to human life. However, AI might be more accurately described as a range of technologies providing a convincing illusion of intelligence - in other words, not much the creation of intelligent beings, but rather of technologies that are perceived by humans as such. Deceitful Media argues that AI resides also and especially in the perception of human users. Exploring the history of AI from its origins in the Turing Test to contemporary AI voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri, Simone Natale demonstrates that our tendency to project humanity into things shapes the very functioning and implications of AI. He argues for a recalibration of the relationship between deception and AI that helps recognize and critically question how computing technologies mobilize specific aspects of users' perception and psychology in order to create what we call "AI." Introducing the concept of "banal deception," which describes deceptive mechanisms and practices that are embedded in AI, the book shows that deception is as central to AI's functioning as the circuits, software, and data that make it run. Delving into the relationship between AI and deception, Deceitful Media thus reformulates the debate on AI on the basis of a new assumption: that what machines are changing is primarily us, humans. If 'intelligent' machines might one day revolutionize life, the book provocatively suggests, they are already transforming how we understand and carry out social interactions"--

This article, focused on the Persian Gobryas, the head of Patischorian tribe and a member of the mysterious circle bringing Darius I (the Great) to the throne called the "Seven" by Herodotus, aims to argue that the concept of seven families was originally derived from the tribal structure of the Achaemenid society rather than from traditions found in classical writers. Mainly based on the administrative Elamite texts from Persepolis, the paper attempts to add contextual and practical detail to the classical narrative about the status of the "Seven" in the Achaemenid imperial system. This data leads us to the Fahliyān region in southwestern Persia as the house of the Patischorians and shows how Gobryas and his house were involved in the political, economic and administrative structures of the Persian Achaemenid Empire especially during the reign of Darius. The case also provides a valuable context for the study of various aspects of social organization particularly the land tenure.

Tactfulness represents an aspect of interhuman relations. The term comes from the Latin tactus which means contact, influence, action, sense of moderation. The nowadays accepted meaning, tactfulness implies the strict abidance of day-to-day behaviour rules. Being a psychosocial phenomenon, tactfulness occurs only in a social interaction, in every human activity. We can speak about tactfulness in relations between spouses, friends, coworkers, members of a political organization, etc. In all these situations, tactfulness takes aim at human relationships, carrying the observance of reputation, of other's prestige, with the purpose of accomplishment, without difficulties, of one's own interests. Tactfulness has an important part in educator-educated relationships on every school rung, although in the more recently emerging studies was insisted increasingly on implications in work with finality instructive. Tact is the fundamental teaching of craftsmanship (which is the full development of all components of teacher personality) requirement for ensuring authority and educator by profession.

This essay answers one of my questions under my Ph.D. Research topic "A Critique of Nigeria's Basic Education in the Light of John Dewey's Concept of Education for Functionality." The study identified Four Research Questions, out of which this one also emerged: "What are the challenges faced in the implementation of educational policies in Nigeria for the purpose of attaining educational functionality?" In carrying out this research, the study discovered that Nigeria's education system is enmeshed in a series of challenges. These challenges become more domineering when a specific focus is placed on education for functionality. The research discovered these problems as the major setbacks to Nigeria's possibility of attaining education for functionality:

Poor Method of Assessment of Students' Performance,
Inadequate Teaching and Learning Process,
Lack of sufficient Teacher Training in Functionality,
Inadequate Qualified Teachers,
General lack of Motivation for technically viable Fields of Studies,
Government's poor commitment to the provision of learning equipment, among many others.

Abstract This paper, starting from deductive method, aims to analyze the coexistence mechanisms of the philosophical foundations of the principle of human dignity by the legal practice, both in legislative documents as judicial decisions. On the metaphysical aspects that keeps in its wake, the principle of human dignity opens spaces for criticism of the consistency and coherence of that principle in legislative works, notably, in judicial decisions. Finally, it is concluded that while the reputation based on dignity is a universal virtue, its content depends largely on social, religious and traditional of certain communities.

Social exclusion in cross-national perspective : setting the stage / Robert J. Chaskin, Joan Yoo, Surinder Jaswal, Shengli Chen -- Mapping social exclusion : concepts and contexts -- Globalization and social exclusion : concepts and processes / Robert J. Chaskin, Jung-Hwa Ha, Mouleshri Vyas -- Social exclusion as a policy idea : dissemination, adaptation, and application / Colleen Grogan, Surinder Jaswal, Gao Xiang, Joan Yoo -- Social exclusion on the ground: dimensions, populations, and impact -- Urban restructuring, housing policy, and social exclusion / Robert J. Chaskin, Mouleshri Vyas, Bong Joo Lee, Shengli Chen -- Migration and changing social ecosystems / Xiang Gao, Virginia Parks, Mouleshri Vyas, Hyemee Kim -- The transition to adulthood for marginalized youth / Mark E. Courtney, Suo Deng, Anjali Dave, Vijay Raghavan, Bong Joo Lee -- Social exclusion and older adults / Jung-Hwa Ha, Deborah Carr, Subharati Ghosh, Hyeon Jung Lee -- Shaping and responding to social exclusion : the state, ngos and community action -- Changing roles and relationships between ngos and the state in shaping and responding to social exclusion / Jennifer Mosley, Ethan Park, Suo Deng, Monica Sakhrani -- Democratic engagement and mobilization: the role of grassroots movements / Mouleshri Vyas, Jennifer Mosley, Colleen Grogan, Yan Long, Hyoung Yong Kim, Robert J. Chaskin -- Health policy and social exclusion / Colleen Grogan, Surinder Jaswal, Jung Min Park -- The impact of globalization and social exclusion on education and child development / Suo Deng, Shewli Kumar, Joan Yoo, Camille A. Farrington -- State responses and structures for child protection / Bong Joo Lee, Mark E. Courtney, Xiang Gao, Monica Sakrani -- Social exclusion in a globalized world: implications for research, policy and practice / Robert J. Chaskin, Surinder Jaswal, Bong Joo Lee -- Index.