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Salve Regina University Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2011
Get PDFThe Undergraduate Catalog describes the institution, admission procedures, programs, academic disciplines and requirements for undergraduate students. The catalog includes lists of faculty and administrators, descriptions of campus, course listings, and the academic calendar.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/catalogs/1025/thumbnail.jp
Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama [audio]
No full textA reflection on the inauguration of Barack Obama in a historical perspective comparing the racial background of Barack Obama, the state of the economy, and the euphoric excitement of this first inauguration
Imported oil: Ethical perspectives and strategies toward American energy sustainability.
No full textOil is a vital global commodity, but it is frequently viewed as America\u27s critical economic Achilles\u27 heel. The importation of petroleum has crucial economic and security implications for America. As such, it is generally held that the United States must curb substantially its heavy dependence on foreign petroleum sources. This study examines short and long term strategies to lessen imported oil, as part of the continuing national debate about increasing American energy requirements. A bright vision of a future ethical energy landscape can be realized. This moral imperative requires us to work together in the spirit of cooperation between the public, businesses, governments, and academia toward the common interests of environmental, energy, and economic security. Some believe that science and technology alone can not solve all the world\u27s problems, and as a result, they argue for a holistic approach to energy and ecological challenges, like climate change, that includes a spiritual and ethical dimension. Energy production and usage raise important questions for ethics and religion. Ethical assessment of energy issues must transcend mere economic motives. This multidisciplinary study also examines diverse religious and ethical perspectives that could assist in increasing public awareness about essential environmental and energy matters. Fundamental ethical ideals like clean air and water ought to play an essential role in determining public energy policy. Ethics offers moral vision to decision makers to formulate public energy policy that enhances the human condition and the natural environment. Market forces (corporate profits) do not always account for critical ecological and human costs. Perspectives in ethics and spirituality, as a response, help balance the cost-benefit energy equation. Sustaining public health and conserving energy coincides with indispensable environmental integrity. Bridging the partisan divide in the U.S. could help further deploy domestic renewable energy technologies. These cornerstone technologies can aid to wean the country from adverse oil imports, thus bolstering the American economy. Moreover, clean energy fosters stewardship of the earth. As a nation, we need to come together to seek sustainable energy solutions to proactively resolve the longstanding critical quest of realizing oil independence
A semiotic analysis of virtual reality.
No full textThe research question addressed by this dissertation is: How might semiotics (i.e., the study of signs) assist in understanding the cultural and possible political ramifications behind virtual reality? Because human culture is an expansive subject, the proposed research specifically assesses it in terms of virtual empiricism, which is the difficulty associated with interpreting meaning from cultural interactions and subsequent experiences with the signs of virtual reality media. Virtual empiricism concerns the dependency between the mind of an observer and the phenomena produced by virtual reality technology (VRT), when considered as signs which resemble real-world objects. VRT is viewed as a sign system similar to language. As an idea, language has comprised the first form of virtual reality. As a technology, virtual reality forms a bridge between human senses and computer outputs. Because the relationship between general media and culture is complex, the use of an analytical tool is necessary to understand its workings. Semiotics is an effective means by which to analyze virtual empiricism because it acknowledges meaning derived from both this technology\u27s content and its unique expression. A semiotic analysis will be conducted here on three types of case studies, including cinema, advertising and video gaming. Virtual empiricism is further examined in terms of phenomenology and symbolic realism because the meanings derived from virtual reality technology\u27s signs are interconnected with perceptions and social interactions. The examination reveals a capitalist ethos that pervades VRT manifested as the dual thread of competition and consumption. This ethos has ideological ramifications in that it assists in the forging of an unequivocally secularized world-view. Capitalist ethos is exposed as a motivating agent behind the meaning of virtual reality technology\u27s signs. It is further revealed that by championing alternatively false renditions of mythology, capitalist ethos clashes with and tends to trivialize the guiding principles of traditional myths. In conclusion, the analysis reveals a tightly coupled synergism between the signs of virtual reality and culture, which, precipitated by the underlying capitalist ethos, distorts the significance of tradition
Cosmopolitan Contract: Kaitiakitanga and Multicultural Conservation Ethics
Get PDFIn the ever evolving world of global architectural conservation, this thesis seeks to analyze the inherent conflicts between Eastern and Western conservation practice. The overarching theme calls conservation professionals to participate in a process of shared resource management. This process of shared cultural stewardship manifests itself elegantly in three spirit buildings: the Ise Shrine, located in Japan, the Golden Temple, located in India, and the Hinemihi Meetinghouse, now located in England
Ochre Court, east face
No full textImage of the east face of Ochre Court.Ochre Court, designed by Morris Hunt, was a gift to the Sisters of Mercy from Robert Goelet, in 1947, thereby establishing Salve Regina University in 1947. Ochre Court served as the entire campus for the first few years of the college’s existence, and it remains the heart of the university.1997. 35 mm. Color slide. 3.5 x 2.3 cm. (1 3/8 x 7/8 in.)https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1037/thumbnail.jp
Miley Hall
No full textArchitects rendering of Miley Hall.Front of image: Residents Hall and Student Center, Architects\u27 Rendering.Front of image: Dormitory + Student Center + Salve Regina College + Newport, Rhode Island. Maginnis and Walsh and Kennedy Architects. Boston Massachusetts.Built on grounds of Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs\u27 turn-of-the-century Whiteholmes estate, this functional brick and steel, international modern postwar structure is at Narragansett and Ochre Point Avenues. It is named for Salve Regina\u27s first president Sister M. Hilda Miley. Maginnis and Walsh and Kennedy were the architects.1963. Image. 25.4 x 45.72 cm. (10 x 18 in.)https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1041/thumbnail.jp
O\u27Hare Academic Center
No full textO\u27Hare Academic Center, extension 1.O\u27Hare Academic Center, located near the Newport Cliff Walk, proclaims the geometric functionalism of post-World War II architecture.Black and white photograph. 17.78 x 12.7 cm. (7 x 5 in.)https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1043/thumbnail.jp
Ethics Across the Curriculum, or, On Being Bilingual
Get PDFBoth philosophical ethical systems and religious ethics are eminently desirable in higher education today. And, like two languages, and despite the differences, they can and should complement each other. In an increasingly secular milieu, our graduates will have to be bilingual
Terra Nullius: The Aborigines in Australia
Get PDFThis thesis explores the relationship that has developed over the past 200 years between the Aboriginal people and the people of Australia. It looks at the reasons as to why and how Australia remained a “Terra Nullius”, or land belonging to no one, for so long, when in fact it is proven that the Aborigines had been on the land prior to colonization. This paper investigates the Aboriginal people’s struggle for ownership and ties to the land that was taken from them by the British in 1788. It also looks at the lifestyle of the Aboriginal people prior to British colonization and the effects that came from colonization. It highlights three major events that have occurred which are unique and demonstrate the ongoing struggle of the Aboriginal people. Those three important events are the Stolen generation , or a government policy that forced the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes, the Mabo case, or the largest fight that went to the High Court to prove Aboriginal ownership to the lands in Australia, and the 2008 Apology made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the Aboriginal people. Through the examination of these major events and the past history this paper will highlight the distinctive relationship that exists still today in Australia and what can be done to mend the divided country of Australia in the future