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Mercy Hall, Science Laboratory
No full textStudents working in the Science Laboratory in Mercy Hall.Back of photograph: Science Lab Mercy Hall Circa 1947-1948. Anon Studios 193 Thames Street, Newport, Rhode Island 02840. German Cote, Rose Marie Jalette, Barbara (?), Sarah Conalty. Now 1987 , it is part of Megley Theater.Circa 1947-1948. Black and white photograph. 24.13 x 19.05 cm. (9.75 x 7.75 in.)https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1046/thumbnail.jp
Island Park, Portsmouth, R.I.
No full textPostmarked 1911.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/postcards/2299/thumbnail.jp
Collateral damage: Technology\u27s influence upon the American warrior\u27s ethical obligation to the noncombatant from the Civil War to the War on Terror
No full textWhat role has technology served in shaping the U.S. professional military ethic and its attitudes toward collateral damage and the sanctity of the noncombatant? Earlier research has examined the military\u27s ethic, the role of technology in military operations, and the roots of noncombatant immunity. The interrelationship of all three subjects has not enjoyed similar investigations. A nation\u27s military has an ethic that is inherently related to the values of the society that it serves. In the United States, the military moral compass is contained in a professional military ethic that has been shaped and continues to evolve from multiple influences. The sway of the just war tradition and the discourses of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill offer perspectives on ethical obligations to place rational and compassionate limits on war making. The unique stimuli, however, of a democratic nation with its own historical experiences and values, contribute to the formation of a moral framework that is distinctive from those of other national military organizations. One ethical-shaping influence experienced by both society and its armed forces, and cautioned by the French philosopher Jacques Ellul and the cultural critic Neil Postman, is technology. This study assesses the professional military ethic and the factors that have influenced its appraisal of collateral damage and the sanctity of the noncombatant. Critical to this examination are the consideration of technology\u27s multifaceted influence upon individual Service ideologies and their relationship to collateral damage from the Civil War to the War on Terror. This study concludes with an assessment of the external and internal influences that offer a hope to the mitigation of technology\u27s risks to the noncombatant
Guatemala as a National Crime Scene: Femicide and Impunity in Contemporary U.S. Detective Novels
Get PDFThis paper examines the representation of femicide and impunity in contemporary detective novels set in Guatemala. The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman (1992), Body of Truth (1992) by David Lindsey, and Grave Secrets (2002) by Kathy Reichs portray Guatemala in the 1980s and 1990s as a distressing crime scene. The novels depict Guatemala as a dark, frightening place, plagued with inefficient bureaucracy, a chaotic legal system, and a crippled sense of justice where there are dangerous repercussions for searching for and revealing the truth. U.S. journalists, CIA agents, Peace Corps volunteers, forensic scientists, and private investigators navigate the dangerous terrain between lies and truth while grappling to understand the root causes of violence and impunity. By presenting an array of North American characters who travel to Guatemala with complex and often conflicted allegiances, these works of fiction provide a lens through which to view current discussions of gendered violence and impunity. It is my contention that reading these representations of Guatemalan violence in light of our current globalized climate of fear turns a critical eye on the silence and complicity in the U.S. and abroad that allow these grisly murders to remain unpunished – in fiction and in real life
The Mercury Connection: Autism and Childhood Vaccines
Get PDFA literature survey of government and private studies have found that Thimerosal not to be a cause of auism. The reliance on limited, flawed and outdated studies on the effect of ethyl-mercury suggest that more research is needed to understand the effects of ethyl-mercury and particularly Thimerosal. In the meantime efforts should be increased to remove Thimerosal from vaccines world-wide
Warren\u27s Petigreed Poultry Plantations Portsmouth, R.I.
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Narratives of melancholy: Sense of self in depression from asylums to neuropsychiatry
No full textMy research offers a critical and historical appraisal of changing notions of the self as expressed in narratives associated with “melancholia” or depressive illness. Depression has been described both as a disease and as a way of life and, at the same time as an illness and an identity. When viewed as a disease, depression is often treated as separate from the self, however those experiencing depression may not separate their moods from who they are. Engaging a selection of first-person and literary narratives that span the periods from the state hospital movement to deinstitutionalization and community mental health care, I explore the changing political and socio-cultural determinants of ideas about the self and depression as a means of critically evaluating the thinking behind current models of care
Becoming Fanny – Becoming Eugénie: Who Is the Revolutionary? - Jane Austen versus Marquis de Sade
No full textJane Austen’s writings are often interpreted as socially conservative, whereas the Marquis de Sade claimed to be revolutionary. However, Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir (1795) proposes to perpetuate male aristocratic privilege at the expense of other classes, especially women. Conversely, Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814) challenges patriarchal structures through Fanny Price’s confrontation with Sir Thomas Bertram and the system he represents. Sade endorses ancient inequalities while Austen demands a new social justice