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Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir,
unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to
tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation
Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish
architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation
Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered
families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large
collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs
study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the
leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans,
and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a
genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe;
Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the
logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis.
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden
by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims'
narratives-the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the
victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on
their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives
of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and
how this resistance can promote resilience.
Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir,
unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to
tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation
Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish
architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation
Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered
families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large
collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs
study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the
leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans,
and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a
genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe;
Armen Garo, the centre of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the
logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis.
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden
by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims'
narratives-the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the
victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on
their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives
of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and
how this resistance can promote resilience.
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment,
and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the
demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy
dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that
we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate
worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and
narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from
the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent
about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future.
Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the
arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion
informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on
the role of the media in forging public discourse. Contributors to
the collection argue that today's media are failing humanity.
Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world's
citizens can act, the corporate-controlled media are widely used as
instruments of commercial and political propaganda, creating an
immense web of images and narratives that their creators know to be
not true--fabrications designed to sell, to manipulate, in a sense
to enslave worldwide audiences. At the core of the discussion in
this book is a utopian vision of one unified humanity-billions of
people whose destinies and dreams are imbricated and
interdependent, and who share the same world, the same habitats. It
is a vision of a world that cherishes diversity but is also
united-a world where our differences are no longer a cause for
conflict and where separate countries or separate ethnic or
religious communities no longer have to compete or wage war to
exploit available resources. As extensions of humans, the media can
be instruments of salvation instead of destruction, liberation
instead of oppression. But first, we must recognize the challenges
we face.
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment,
and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the
demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy
dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that
we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate
worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and
narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from
the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent
about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future.
Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the
arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion
informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on
the role of the media in forging public discourse. Contributors to
the collection argue that today's media are failing humanity.
Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world's
citizens can act, the corporate-controlled media are widely used as
instruments of commercial and political propaganda, creating an
immense web of images and narratives that their creators know to be
not true--fabrications designed to sell, to manipulate, in a sense
to enslave worldwide audiences. At the core of the discussion in
this book is a utopian vision of one unified humanity-billions of
people whose destinies and dreams are imbricated and
interdependent, and who share the same world, the same habitats. It
is a vision of a world that cherishes diversity but is also
united-a world where our differences are no longer a cause for
conflict and where separate countries or separate ethnic or
religious communities no longer have to compete or wage war to
exploit available resources. As extensions of humans, the media can
be instruments of salvation instead of destruction, liberation
instead of oppression. But first, we must recognize the challenges
we face.
In the post - September 11 world, therapeutic writing has become a
topic of heightened interest in both academic circles and the
popular press, reflecting a growing awareness that writing can have
a beneficial effect on the emotional and cognitive lives of
survivors of traumatic experiences. Yet teachers and others who
encounter such writing often are unsure how to deal with it. In
""The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma"",
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy investigates the relationship between
writing and trauma, examines how we process difficult experiences
and how writing can help us to integrate them, and provides a
pedagogy to deal with the difficult life stories that often surface
in the classroom. MacCurdy begins by discussing what trauma is, how
traumatic memories are stored and accessed, and how writing affects
them. She then focuses on the processes involved in translating
traumatic images into narrative form, showing how the same patterns
and problems emerge whether the writers are students or
professionals. Using examples drawn from the classroom, MacCurdy
investigates the beneficial effects of the study of trauma on
communities as well as individuals, witnesses as well as writers,
and explores the implications of these relationships for the world
at large, particularly as they pertain to issues of justice,
retribution, and forgiveness. Throughout the volume, the author
draws on her own experience as teacher, writer, survivor, and
descendant of survivors to explain how one can engage student work
on difficult subjects without appropriating the texts or getting
lost in the emotions generated by them. She further shows how
appropriate safe-guards can be put in place to protect both teacher
and student writer. The end result of such a pedagogy, MacCurdy
demonstrates, is not simply better writers but more integrated
people, capable of converting their own losses and griefs into
compassion for others.
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