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Consolations
No full textThis piece was written on a walk one afternoon as a meditative reflection work. It is dedicated in memory of all those who have lost their lives due to the worst tragedies – mainly the Holocaust at the outbreak of WWII and, most recently, the New Zealand mosque attacks. The title of the piece comes from a term in the Kaddish, a Jewish hymn that was my starting point for my desire to write this work. The title, Consolation, is my attempt at looking back at these vicious attacks as a person of privilege trying to share my own emotions towards them. May we all find peace in each other in a world filled with so much hate
Recounting Racism: A Look at Issues of Racism at Augustana College and the College\u27s Response
No full textAugustana College has had a long history of giving marginalized voices a chance to speak out and protest. This video depicts examples of these protests. From the 1972 Sit-In Protest up through the present day, Augustana students have taken it upon themselves to speak out against racial injustices
Paper: Investigating the Work of William Styron: the Perpetuation of the Fantastic Hegemonic Imagination
Get PDFWilliam Styron\u27s Confessions of Nat Turner depicts a fictitious characterization of the historical Nat Turner. Styron, a white southerner, assumes Turner\u27s perspective in order to tell a speculative story about his slave rebellion of 1831. Similarly, he tells the story of a fictional holocaust survivor in his novel, Sophie\u27s Choice. The decision to take on these perspective evinces some arrogance on Styron\u27s part, and the way in which he executes the narrative of each novel delivers their stories with varying levels of respect to their subjects: Styron\u27s indirect telling of Sophie\u27s story allows Styron some freedom to speculate, while his direct assumption of Turner\u27s point of view fails to deliver the content of the novel without perpetuating the fantastic hegemonic imagination
Torre del Mangia
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Investigating the benefits of virtual reality on student acquisition of 3D anatomical information
Get PDFVirtual reality (VR) technology is becoming more accessible within educational settings due to price decreases and greater software availability. VR is particularly useful for teaching anatomy, as students often struggle to learn the three-dimensional relationships between body structures from two-dimensional images in textbooks. Using funds from Augustana’s Pedagogy and Technology Grant, we purchased and assembled a VR workstation and began researching the effectiveness of VR in anatomy education. The early results of this research show that students exhibited substantial increases in their knowledge anatomical structures and their ability to reconstruct the three-dimensional relationships between anatomical structures after 30 minutes using the 3D Organon VR Anatomy© program. This increase, however, was similar to the knowledge increase shown by students using an anatomy visualization program made for desktop computers from the same company. When asked to compare the two, students indicated a preference for the VR program because of the ability to interact with structures in three-dimensions. Furthermore, participants reported that the VR program was easy to use, even though very few of them had previously used VR. These results, while preliminary, indicate that VR has the potential to greatly enhance the student experience of learning anatomy when used in conjunction with traditional anatomical education methods
The Ethical (Or Not So Ethical) Story Behind Your Bar Of Chocolate: The Untold Tale Of A Distressed Ghanaian Farmer
Get PDFIn a time where the ethics of business dealings have become a key factor in the likelihood of the success of that venture due to globalization, it is important to start considering those ventures that are so popular, but whose inner working are rarely heard of. This paper analyzes the history and process of cocoa production in Ghana. It looks at the status quo with regards to the social and economic standing of Ghanaian Cocoa farmers as opposed to the earnings made by cocoa processing companies. With the statistics derived, the paper then considers who is to take responsibility for the unethical treatment of cocoa farmers
