Cavell


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English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape

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(See Iris Marion-Young in Democracy and Difference.) We remain with it here because Cavell's introduction of Nora keeps the account of conversation sufficiently capacious.
Stanley Cavell's American Dream features a welter of impressive endorsements, one of which claims it "a work for every Shakespearean." A foreword by Cavell advocates the book's efforts to "make my philosophizing more accessible to an audience beyond professional philosophy" (xvi), a claim satisfied by the sheer breadth of Rhu's philosophical reapplications.
Amongst scholars of literature the pioneering essay on King Lear is probably Cavell's best known work.
Another task on Rothman and Keane's agenda is elaborating why the task of reading Cavell ought to be on the current film study agenda--or why it hasn't been.
"Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell are such prominent and significant figures to nurses worldwide and I can only imagine how moving the service was."
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First, it should be no surprise, are Stanley Cavell's.
We put them before ourselves and I think what the report has highlighted is, 'Who is there for our nurses?' The NHS should read this and see it as a wake-up call." The Cavell Nurses' Trust has supported nurses, midwives and health assistants since being founded in 1917 following the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse shot dead by the Germans in 1915 for helping to evacuate 200 Allied soldiers in Belgium.
Redditch-based charity Cavell Nurses' Trust has received more than PS2,000 from the sale of over 45,000 pints of Edith Cavell Ale.
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In a very curious essay called "The Future of Possibility," Stanley Cavell addresses squarely the prospect of possibilities lost, citing the following passage: "Everything is worn out: revolutions, profits, miracles.
In 'The Passion of Edith Cavell', with its subtitle 'The Way of the Cross', Whelan depicts the life and death of Cavell in the tradition of East Anglian narrative painting while referencing the format and precendences of stations of the cross.
World War I nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans 100 years ago for helping to smuggle hundreds of Allied troops out of Belgium during the conflict.