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Empowering the Underserved Classroom: Web Technology as a Conduit for STEAM and Inquiry-Based Learning
No full textThis dissertation follows past research that analyzes and proposes solutions to improve learning outcomes and mitigate educational inequality in America’s inner-city and rural public schools. The belief is that in doing so, the affected students are better prepared to succeed socially and economically as adults. After analysis, a public-school student’s access and experience with EdTech, highly effective creative pedagogies, and student-centered learning often depend on her parent’s income, where she lives, her ethnicity, or her race. If her parents are middle-class and own a home in a middle or upper-class neighborhood, she is much more likely to receive the most effective public education America can provide. If her parents are working-class, newly immigrated, or racial minorities, she often learns in an underserved classroom that provides a sub-standard education and lacks the tools, strategies, and experiences that make learning highly effective. Besides worsening inequality, this reality poses two other possible results. The first is to the underserved child’s success as she matriculates through school, and the second is her potential upward mobility. There are, of course, competing ideas for rectifying educational inequality. These fixes include charter schools, vouchers, cultural sensitivity training, privatization, and eliminating teachers’ unions, to name a few. However, this essay offers less disruptive approaches that teachers can use in the classroom. The primary argument is a social determinist view of technology which holds that when used as a conduit for instituting creative pedagogies and Inquiry-Based Learning, 21st-century education technology (EdTech) web-based platforms can be a valuable tool for mitigating education and technology inequality for underserved students. The direct result is that underserved students receive engaging, well-rounded curricula that inspire them to own their learning while also maximizing their critical and creative thinking skills. Moreover, by becoming Masters of Technology, they are empowered to mobilize upward in American society
Military Effectiveness, Moral Injury, and the Just War Tradition in Western History
No full textA nation’s military effectiveness is a key factor in that nation’s decision to start and fight a war. Because Western liberal democracies normally attempt to make war in accordance with the Just War Tradition, the relationship between military effectiveness and that tradition would be of great interest to political and military leaders. Yet, to date, no one has conducted research to explore this relationship. This study uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore this relationship. Specifically, military morale and moral injury are considered to be factors in determining military effectiveness. Practice of jus ad bellum (“the right to war”) and jus in bello (“the law in waging war”) is considered a component of military morale while moral injury (experienced by a combatant who perpetrates or observes acts contrary to his own morality) is considered inversely proportional to morale. It is postulated that practice of jus ad bellum and jus in bello enhances morale and, therefore, military effectiveness. Moral injury, however, always diminishes morale and, therefore, military effectiveness. Military effectiveness, therefore, is proportional to the degree to which a warring nation practices the laws of war and inversely proportional to the degree to which its combatants suffer moral injury. This hypothesis is tested in four post-Second World War counterinsurgency campaigns conducted by Western liberal democracies: (1) the British effort to suppress the Mau Mau insurgency in colonial Kenya, (2) the French effort to suppress the native Algerian insurgency to gain independence, (3) the United States counterinsurgency effort in Iraq following the fall of Sadaam Hussein’s Sunni Islamic regime, and (4) the United States effort to defeat Al ‘Qaeda and remove the Islamic fundamentalist regime of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Qualitative analysis is used to evaluate the impact of application of the Just War Tradition and moral injury on the military effectiveness of the Western counterinsurgencies. Quantitative methods are employed to model the impact of application of the Just War Tradition and moral injury on the military effectiveness of the United States counterinsurgency in Iraq. Conclusions are derived from the tested hypotheses and suggestions for further research are indicated
Effect of Short-Term Home Follow-Up Visits on Readmissions of Veterans With Heart Failure
No full textHeart failure (HF) is a medical condition where the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body\u27s needs. It requires ongoing management and has the highest readmission rate among chronic conditions, resulting in a significant burden on healthcare systems and patients. This study evaluated effectiveness of the home visiting nursing service, called Hospital in Home (HIH), in preventing readmissions among veterans with HF. The HIH, a short-term nursing visiting program, was adopted by the Veterans Administration to provide multiple nursing interventions in patients’ homes in a span of 30 days. Patient records were reviewed in one hospital in the Northeast region of the United States that serves a predominantly urban population of veterans. Records of veterans who received nursing visiting services post-discharge were compared with those who received usual care, which was typically a follow-up visit with a primary care provider or a specialist
Ernest Hemingway: The Sustainable Effect of Creative Writing as a Therapeutic Technology Infused by Cubism
No full textAbstract This dissertation will examine whether creative writing served as a therapeutic device for Ernest Hemingway. A succession of four issues will be analyzed: Hemingway’s suffering and depression, creative writing as a technology, the integration of Cubism in his stories, and his contribution to American literature. The confluence of these factors will provide a unique perspective. For its methodology, this dissertation will compare a traumatic experience in Hemingway’s life to the content of his short stories and novels, and analysis of Hemingway’s first depressive episode and its imprint on his stories will depict the human condition. Hemingway’s sensitive description of human emotion and events responds to the fundamental issue of what it means to be human in an age of advanced technology. It is now evident that Hemingway suffered from bipolar disorder, also identified as manic depression, and this dissertation will provide an overview of bipolar disorder including its genetic component. Opinions of experts will confirm Hemingway’s manic depression, and justify the value of writing as one method of treatment for depression. In conclusion, the expected findings and scholarly contribution of this dissertation will enhance the understanding of Hemingway’s works. For many years, readers have appreciated his stories without realizing his need to write in addition to his extraordinary talent. Hemingway transmitted his emotional pain to the characters in his stories and therefore, this dissertation will provide a new perspective of Hemingway’s works by emphasizing the importance of creative writing in its role as a therapeutic technology
The Effect of Sulfuric Acid Concentration on the Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Vanadyl Solutions
Get PDFThe effects of sulfuric acid concentration in VO2+ solutions were investigated via electrochemical methods and electron paramagnetic resonance. Viscosity of solutions containing 0.01 M VOSO4 in 0.1–7 M H2SO4 was measured. Diffusion coefficients were independently measured via electrochemical methods and EPR with excellent agreement between the techniques employed and literature values. Analysis of cyclic voltammograms suggest the oxidation of VO2+ to VO2+ is quasi-reversible at high H2SO4 concentrations (\u3e5 mol/L) and approaching irreversible at lower H2SO4 concentrations. Further analysis reveals a likely electrochemical/chemical (EC) mechanism where the H2SO4 facilitates the electrochemical step but hinders the chemical step. Fundamental insights of VO2+/H2SO4 solutions can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the concentration effects in electrolyte solutions
Recollections of Judith (Gray) Holcomb, \u2768
No full textJudith recalls her reasons for choosing Salve Regina, her experiences as a non-Catholic member of the Salve Regina community, her perspective as a native Newporter and commuter student, her close friendships with Sisters who were fellow students, and the way the Sisters who were staff and faculty closely cared for and directed students. She also describes the differences between her experiences as a student at UC Berkeley and Salve Regina. This interview was conducted via Zoom video conferencing
Memories of Mary Beth Pelletier \u2706, \u2712
No full textMary Beth Pelletier \u2706, \u2712 discusses growing up with a father who was a professor at Salve, the theater program at Salve including her memories of her mentor Patricia Hawkridge, her work in undergraduate admissions, and her current role in the Office of Mission Integration
Interview with Jane (Brodie) Pelligrino \u2768
No full textIn this interview conducted via Zoom, Jane (Brodie) Pellegrino, class of 1968, remembers her time at Salve Regina, including the leadership of the Sisters of Mercy who taught, served in loco parentis and enforced (or overlooked) rules regarding dress and male visitors. Jane recalls experiences with faculty such as professor of chemistry Asciano DiPippo and Sister Mary Philemon. She also reminisced about the Sisters Mary Eloise and Mary Jean Tobin, who in addition to teaching, were dorm mothers. Jane recalls major events that happened during her time at Salve and shortly after, such as the assasinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Czech Spring and the Chicago Convention, and hypothesized about the difference in cultural attitudes between her class, graduating in May 1968, and those who came in the years after
Empowering the Underserved Classroom: Web Technology as a Conduit for STEAM and Inquiry-Based Learning
No full textThis dissertation follows past research that analyzes and proposes solutions to improve learning outcomes and mitigate educational inequality in America’s inner-city and rural public schools. The belief is that in doing so, the affected students are better prepared to succeed socially and economically as adults. After analysis, a public-school student’s access and experience with EdTech, highly effective creative pedagogies, and student-centered learning often depend on her parent’s income, where she lives, her ethnicity, or her race. If her parents are middle-class and own a home in a middle or upper-class neighborhood, she is much more likely to receive the most effective public education America can provide. If her parents are working-class, newly immigrated, or racial minorities, she often learns in an underserved classroom that provides a sub-standard education and lacks the tools, strategies, and experiences that make learning highly effective. Besides worsening inequality, this reality poses two other possible results. The first is to the underserved child’s success as she matriculates through school, and the second is her potential upward mobility.There are, of course, competing ideas for rectifying educational inequality. These fixes include charter schools, vouchers, cultural sensitivity training, privatization, and eliminating teachers’ unions, to name a few. However, this essay offers less disruptive approaches that teachers can use in the classroom.The primary argument is a social determinist view of technology which holds that when used as a conduit for instituting creative pedagogies and Inquiry-Based Learning, 21st-century education technology (EdTech) web-based platforms can be a valuable tool for mitigating education and technology inequality for underserved students. The direct result is that underserved students receive engaging, well-rounded curricula that inspire them to own their learning while also maximizing their critical and creative thinking skills. Moreover, by becoming Masters of Technology, they are empowered to mobilize upward in American society
Chameacyparis Obtusa (Hinoki False Cypress), ID #317
Get PDFLocation: Misto GatehouseHeight: 16.2 mDBH: 1 meterRadius of Crown: 4.695 metersCondition: GoodAge Class: Maturehttps://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1035/thumbnail.jp