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List of St. Augustin\u27s School graduates
Get PDFList of graduates of St. Augustin\u27s School, listed by class year, with death dates. Some married names are also added.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/st-augustin/1004/thumbnail.jp
Assessment in Simulations
Get PDFSimulations are employed widely as teaching tools in political science, yet evidence of their pedagogical effectiveness, in comparison to other methods of instruction, is mixed. The assessment of learning outcomes is often a secondary concern in simulation design, and the qualitative and quantitative methods used to evaluate outcomes are frequently based on faulty paradigms of the learning process and inappropriate indicators. Correctly incorporating assessment into simulation design requires that an instructor identify whether a simulation should produce positive changes in students\u27 substantive knowledge, skills, and/or affective characteristics. The simulation must then be assessed in ways that accurately measure whether these goals have been achieved. Proper assessment can help demonstrate that simulations are productive tools for learning and that their popularity in the classroom is justified
The Evolution of Newport\u27s Economy From the Colonial Era to Beyond the War of 1812
No full textNewport, Rhode Island, at the start of the reign of George III (1760) was one of the major international maritime trading centers on the eastern seaboard of British North America. Newport was expanding its maritime commerce. One hundred years later, Newport\u27s maritime commerce had suffered a catastrophic loss and Aquidneck Island was becoming a summer vacation destination for the wealthy American industrialists. This dissertation seeks to explain the changes that occurred in Newport\u27s economy in those years. Newport, Rhode Island was founded in 1639, and the Colony was chartered by King Charles II of England in 1663. Due to the efforts of the Rev. John Clarke and Roger Williams, the Colony became the first nonsectarian state of its time. Because of its religious freedom, Newport became home to a host of enterprising merchants such as Aaron Lopez, a Jew from Portugal, and Quaker Thomas Robinson. During the American Revolution Newport was occupied by the British (1776) and besieged by the Colonials and the French in August of 1778. The British destroyed much of the city\u27s housing and caused a large depression in its economy. They left in 1779, taking a number of prominent Tory merchants with them to New York City. The French arrived in Newport in 1780, bringing hard currency with them, whereupon some of the Colonial merchants returned. Newport\u27s economy then began to recover as the maritime merchants started to trade with the Baltic countries and China; however, the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the actions of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars again suppressed trade. The loss of the majority of the major maritime merchants through death or retirement, and other events related to the Industrial Revolution in Rhode Island, put Newport into a decline once again. With Providence flourishing as an industrial and trading center, Newport found itself unable to compete effectively. By the mid-nineteenth century, Newport was relying increasingly on tourism and manufacturing to survive. None of the literature reviewed to date has provided a comprehensive description of the economic structure of Newport and a detailed analysis of the various adverse impacts of events to say with certainty which factors caused Newport\u27s maritime shipping economy to eventually decline. In most cases scholars pointed to the British occupation. There is enough information in the researched material, however, to demonstrate that this was not the case. An analysis of the events after the American Revolution indicates that Newport had fully recovered by 1800 and was doing a profitable maritime trade. This study made use of detailed tax records kept by the Newport Historical Society; Rhode Island census records; the Historic Newspaper Archives, which includes the Newport Mercury, Newport Gazette and the Providence Gazette; first-hand accounts of events in Newport during and after the Revolution; maps from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan and the British War Department; and land records at City Hall in Newport and Town Hall in Portsmouth. It also used Microsoft Excel and MATLAB to analyze the available data
Atomic cinema in America: Historical and cultural analysis of a new film genre that reflected the nuclear zeitgeist of the Cold War (1945–1989)
No full textThe dissertation identifies a new film genre forged in the cold war era, called atomic cinema. Genre analysis has frequently been criticized for its over emphasis on classificatory labels and for the theoretical minefield that can result from the ahistorical search for ideal forms or an expectation that categorizing texts can achieve a kind of scientific precision. This dissertation argues that the best uses of genre are ones that are formed in relation to particular historical contexts and questions. Employing Terry Eagleton’s approach to texts as the key to this study’s interdisciplinary approach, surveys of works by film theorists, critics, historians, Cold War strategists, and even anti-nuclear activists were conducted in the development of an analysis to analyze the zeitgeist of three eras during the Cold War—1945-1963 (The Dawn of the Atomic Cinema), 1964- 1979 (Transformative Years of Atomic Cinema), and 1980-1989 (Armageddon Redux). This chronological partitioning aided the historical examination of the public discourse over the growing nuclearism, the in situ backdrop in which these films were produced and subsequently understood by audiences. All of which enabled an effective means to document the maturation of the genre as well as vetting borderline films effectively—resulting in an atomic cinema filmography of eight-hundred and fifteen films and made-for-television movies. Facilitating the etymological discussion of the author’s chosen term atomic cinema, a comparative analysis of how notable film scholars and critics (i.e., Susan Sontag, John Baxter, Jack Shaheen, Paul Boyer, Peter Biskind, Mick Broderick, Joyce Evans, Toni Perrine, Kim Newman and Jerome Shapiro) defined and approached their study of atomic-themed films was conducted—demonstrating that a coherent definition for this body of films did not exist. Concomitantly, their research and divergent filmographies provided insights useful in devising a comprehensive definition for atomic cinema that accounts for the distinct use of symbolism, motifs, mise-en-scène, and atomic terminology associated with the atomic paradox—nuclearism—that developed over time in atomic cinema productions
The Rhode Island Charter from Birth to Statehood
No full textThe concept of separation of church and state is fundamental to American identity. It is etched deeply into this country’s communal disposition and present in its national documents. The Constitution and its First Amendment rights affect American interaction with theocratic governments around the world, interaction among citizens nationally, and entitlement to free speech and religious practice. The natural assumption would be that this concept developed on the eve of the Revolution as a way to rein in the power of a future federal government—but, in fact, the 1663 Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations first introduced a policy advocating the separation of church and state into American life. It is one of the earliest government documents anywhere creating a wall of separation between church and state. The phrases “Religious Toleration” and “Lively Experiment” are synonymous with Rhode Island because the inclusion of these phrases in the Charter allowed the Colony to become the first royally sanctioned secular government in North America. It is also because of these phrases that the Charter occupies a place in contemporary debate, even while the majority of obsolete colonial charters have fallen out of memory
Georgian, Sweet Georgian (Architecture)
No full textWithin six decades of its founding in 1639, Newport had evolved from a thriving farm outpost to a wealthy merchant harbor. By 1720, Newport had entered its Golden Age when, as a center of English culture, it became one of the five most populous cities in the colonies and the principal rival in shipping to Dutch New Amsterdam (later New York). Mercantile wealth promoted cultural ambition, including the design of buildings inspired by English Georgian styles.1 The term Georgian refers to the reigns of the four British monarchs named George who ruled from 1714 to 1830. During this period, architecture followed the dictates of classical style handed on from earlier Renaissance and Baroque models. In Newport, Georgian architecture unfurls in three stages, each with a distinctive flavor. The first is late Baroque, featuring robust classical buildings with heavy sculptural decoration. A reaction against the floridness of the late Baroque fostered the more austere neoclassical style known as Palladianism. This term refers to the 18th-century European revival of the approach to ancient Roman architecture advocated by the earlier Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). After 1780, and extending into the first decades of the 19th century, the Federal style in America (named for the new federal government) followed the lead of a lighter and more delicate post-Revolutionary English Georgian style. Newport still has examples of these stages of architectur
Daigler, Mary Jeremy. Incompatible with God’s Design: A History of the Women’s Ordination Movement in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church.
Get PDFExplaining the Unexplainable: A New Cultural Outlook on H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos
Get PDFAlthough the majority of the scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft focuses on the idea of nihilism as the purpose of the Cthulhu mythos, the exploration of three stories The Nameless City, The Whisperer in Darkness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth disproves this overly basic and irrelevant reasoning. Through a cultural studies lens, there is a parallel between the curiosity and fear surrounding the other within the text and those same emotions felt towards the immigrants coming into America during the 1920s. This argument analyzes the transformation of the relationship between the narrator and the aliens, showcasing how this otherness can be understood and identified with
Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Health Care Training and Cultural Awareness Promoting Health Care Pluralism
Get PDFIntegration between traditional and contemporary health care in a host nation can be beneficial to nation- and capacity-building and, subsequently, to the overall health of the society. Traditional health care in this sense refers to the indigenous health care system in the host nation, which includes characteristic religious or cultural practices, whereas contemporary health care is also known as conventional or Westernized; integration is a synchronization of these two health care forms. However, the choice of integration depends on the political and cultural situation of the nation in which the Department of Defense health care personnel are intervening. Thus, cultural awareness training is essential to ensure the success of missions related to global health and in promoting a health care system that is most beneficial to the society. The present study attempts to show the benefits of both cultural training and health care integration, and how adequately evaluating their efficacy has been problematic. The author proposes that determinants of this efficacy are better documentation collection, extensive predeployment cultural awareness and sensitivity training, and extensive after-action reports for future development