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Toward a Theory of Internet Memoir: A Content Analysis of Grief-Related Storytelling in Social Media
No full textThis dissertation is a content analysis of life story sharing on the internet, prompted by a person’s death, to demonstrate how social network sites are eliciting the development of a newform of memoir. It explores how the public publishing of grief expression has changed through the growth and development of social media. This study raises questions about what is considered memoir in the context and form of content surfacing on the internet in relation to the death of a loved one, when compared with the context and form of a traditionally published book.At the heart of this study is the question, “How are digital expressions that are related to loss different from and similar to the published memoir, both in the past and present?” The selected published memoirs are The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), Your Father’s Voice: Letters for Emmy About Life With Jeremy—And Without Him After 9/11 (2004), and Losing Mumand Pup (2009). The selected published online content examples are Randy Pausch (2008),Marina Keegan (2012), and the story of Kristina Chesterman (2014), as presented through a selection of social network sites. Using a Grounded Theory Constant Comparative approach, the author of this study proposes a revised definition of grief memoir and a formal definition of online grief memoir. It examines the selected published memoirs and the online content examples to produce a study that documents the growth of the online medium with regard to the way we share a life story through social media after someone has died
Recollections of Sister Sheila O’Brien and Sister Mary Pat Murphy
No full textInterview with two Sisters of Mercy about their time at Salve Regina
Frederick Douglass and His Abolitionist Friends in Newport and New Bedford
No full textJohn Rice is the great-great-grandson of Isaac Rice, considered to be one of the most illustrious citizens of nineteenth-century Newport. In his article, “Frederick Douglass and His Abolitionist Friends in Newport and New Bedford,” John traces his ancestor’s leadership in the antislavery movement in Newport by drawing on family papers and artifacts, as well as archival records, biographies, and other accounts. Opening with a letter written by the great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass to Isaac Rice’s daughter, Mary Ann C. Rice Remington in 1860, John describes the web of abolitionist connections and activism by members of the Rice family and their distinguished antislavery colleagues. John M. Rice was raised in Newport and attended Newport public schools. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, a Master’s Degree in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Rhode Island. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department for thirty-one years. His Newport ancestors go as far back as the eighteenth-century. His 4th great-grandfather is Abraham Casey, a co-founder of Newport’s Free African Union Society in 1780
Vegetation of Rose Island
Get PDFA informational display of the vegetation communities and vegetative change on Rose Island, Newport.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/ric_research/1001/thumbnail.jp
Designing a Curriculum for Addressing Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
No full textThis dissertation demonstrates the need for higher education to address human enhancement and transhumanism, and then offers a curriculum design for accomplishing the task by leveraging an already growing trend in education known as the “STEAM” movement. The STEAM acronym represents the integration of the “arts” with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines. This dissertation reviews the STEAM philosophy and its adaptation to the higher education setting, and then proposes improvements to the STEAM framework for addressing specific needs of 21st century learning. To appropriately address the concepts of transhumanism, and more generally, human enhancement, an idea for “STEAM Labs” will be introduced. STEAM Labs, which would facilitate transdisciplinary project-based learning, could be used as a framework for implementing an emerging academic branch known as the metahumanities in order to address transhumanism. Illustrating that idea, this dissertation offers a design for a curriculum in the metahumanities
Thomas Aquinas, defensor hominis integralis: The Enduring Relevance of Thomistic Anthropology in a Technological Age
No full textTechnological advancements, especially with regard to enhancements of human capacities and powers, have instigated a collision between opposing views of the human person. I begin with the premise that the predominant classical view of the human person attained its clearest and most cogent expression in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and can be termed the theory of the homo integralis. The human person is, for Thomas, the integrated being par excellence: he is a union of the material (body) and the immaterial (soul); his freedom is guided by a normative nature; he is himself a product of and participant in nature; he is a member of a common species from which he draws his identity; and he balances the needs of his embodied state with a recognition that his existence is not limited to it. Due to the philosophical and technological revolutions of the modern period, themselves an outgrowth perhaps of earlier attitudes, a contrasting view of the human person emerged: the homo technologicus. Technological man, unlike his classical predecessor, is marked by fundamental disintegration: he is divided in himself, between mind and body; he is dissociated from a normative human nature; he is divided from nature itself as he sets himself against it through technological means; he is divided from the human community in radical, self-determining autonomy; and he is severed from any sense of transcendent purpose or value aside from that which can be attained through his own powers, technological or otherwise. By recovering a sense of the homo integralis as articulated by Thomas Aquinas, a fresh appraisal of contemporary issues regarding the human relationship to technology, human capacities and powers as evaluated by movements like transhumanism, and ultimately, human meaning and value, is made possible and is shown to provide a consistent and appealing rejoinder to the disintegrated vision of man that emerges in a technologized world
Teamwork: The Strongest Virtue in Hospice
No full textProblem Statement: Teamwork within the end-of-life care team is vital to a patient experiencing a peaceful death. Limited information exists to help organizational leadership assess teamwork within this specialty. Purpose: Teamwork: The Strongest Virtue in Hospice aims to provide organizational leadership with a method to assess teamwork within the end-of-life care specialty. Methods: Quantitative information was gathered from surveying 70 end-of-life care nurses using the Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) Teamwork Perception Questionnaire (T-TPQ) (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ] 2010). Data collection occurred over six weeks and included demographic information on the primary work setting, time working as a nurse, and time working in the end-of-life care specialty. Descriptive statistics with the calculation of the central tendency of each of the five components in the T-TPQ survey and T-score analysis are used to analyze the results. Inclusion Criteria: Registered and licensed practical nurses on the end-of-life care team. Exclusion criteria included having worked less than sixteen hours a week for the last four weeks before taking the survey. Results: The T-TPQ survey is a valuable tool to assess teamwork within the end-of-life care specialty team. The end-of-life care team agrees that teamwork within the team is adequate to meet patient needs, rating leadership and mutual support stronger than situational monitoring and communication. Conclusion: This research provides organizational leadership with valuable information on the assessment of an end-of-life care team and a pathway to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team
A Handbook for Overwhelmed Educators in a Post-trauma World: The Case for Incorporating the Expressive Arts into the High School ELA and Undergraduate College Writing Classrooms
No full textThe purpose of this study is to explain why trauma-informed expressive arts activities are an essential component of the English Language Arts (ELA) high school and undergraduate college writing classrooms, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and to provide ELA teachers and undergraduate college writing instructors with practical, trauma-informed handbooks necessary to implement expressive arts in the classroom.Existing handbooks were examined, and a four-pronged criteria was developed to include: trauma-informed, adolescent, expressive art-based, and a handbook format. A meta-analysis was then conducted on four sample handbooks fitting this criteria utilizing the Constructivist Self-Development Theory (CSDT) as the defining lens.Knowledge generated from this study is expected to inform high school ELA teachers and undergraduate college writing instructors, as well as administrators at the high school and university levels
Research in the Name of Justice: Race and Revisiting the Purpose of Scholarly Inquiry
No full textThis session seeks to highlight challenges made to the research community regarding the realities of racism. As researchers and faculty members nationwide have dared to shift their approaches to scholarly inquiry, many of the attempts to address diversity, equity and inclusion concerns have been met with vitriol and retribution. Complicating notions of objective and value-free research, the presentation highlights tangible examples of research that are intentional and explicit in resisting the racist, colonial project of traditional academic inquiry
The Industrial Brontë Sisters: Advocates for Women in a Turbulent Age
No full textThis dissertation addresses the question “How do the Brontë sisters take advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age?” It considers historical context, including an increase in paid work for women, that precedes the publication of the Brontë novels. The main source for the dissertation is the literature of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte’s four novels, Emily’s one, and Anne’s two, seeking to explore the Brontës’ call for female empowerment as symptomatic of the age, and one that is realized in the latter half of the Victorian Age and beyond. The main areas of focus for this dissertation are the ways in which the Brontës addressed women’s inequality in marriage, education, social class, and work