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Introduction: “We shall neither delay nor rest until the cause is won.”
No full textOn January 5, 1920, the night before the Rhode Island legislature voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, R. I. suffrage workers held a “Victory Dinner.” The organizer of the affair, Sara Algeo, a key leader in the final woman suffrage effort, remembered that, although the event was held in Providence at the Turks Head Club, “it was wholly democratic in the happy mingling of men and women of all walks of life, who have stood from the beginning shoulder to shoulder in their fight for women’s rights.” One hundred years after the suffragists’ celebration, this historic combined Summer/Fall 2020 issue of Newport History and Rhode Island History presents various aspects of the narrative of the woman’s suffrage cause in Rhode Island. Articles examining deeply embedded cultural obstacles and the work of organized anti-suffragists in the state frame accounts of the indefatigable labor of Rhode Islanders who worked for the right of women to gain the elective franchise
Clement of Alexandria and the Logos
Get PDFDirector of a catechetical school in Alexandria, Clement employed a key concept in Middle Platonism, i.e. Logos, as a means to spread the Gospel among Hellenized Egyptians and Berbers. Ever the pedagogue, Clement freely employed rich metaphors; especially memorable was Christ the Minstrel ; singing a ... new song for the cosmos
Improving Provider Sexual Health Education for Male Post Deployment Veterans
No full textAbstract Background: Post-deployment male veterans have an almost three-fold higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections than the civilian population. Despite resources available to primary healthcare providers, there is little research that assesses the effectiveness of existing sexual health education materials for providers in the Veteran Affairs (VA) system. This quality improvement initiative assessed both the barriers to sexual health education and the level of provider awareness of existing sexual health education materials. Methods: This quasi-interventional quality improvement study was conducted with an educational intervention with pre- and post-test for primary care providers. A total of 19 primary care providers, including physicians and nurse practitioners, with at least one year of experience participated. A pre-test was administered to assess barriers, provider experience, and provider knowledge of sexual health educational resources available. Providers attended a one-hour intervention educating them about resources available to support sexual health education and counseling. A post-test was administered at the end of the in-service intervention to assess effectiveness. Data were analyzed using SPSS to conduct a repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: Results indicate that provider knowledge of two key resources (Men’s Health: A Guide to Preventing Infections, which known at the PVAMC as the VA Men’s Health Guide, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) increased from pre-test to post-test (p = 0.01 and p = 0.001, respectively). No other differences were demonstrated to provide sexual health education or barriers hindering sexual health education. Conclusion: An educational intervention aimed at increasing primary care provider knowledge about sexual health resources is effective in raising awareness of key guidelines and recommendations. No difference was demonstrated after educational intervention with regard to the barrier’s providers experience with sexual health education. Key Words: STI, sexually transmitted disease, sexually transmitted infection, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, herpes, male, veterans, military, intervention, education, preventio
HELP: Hydration for Loss and/or Prevention
No full textABSTRACT Problem Statement There is a lack of a clinical definition of dehydration and no research based standard for identification, treatment, and intervention. Purpose Identify and improve the gap in education and training for APCs (Advanced Practice Clinicians) for identification of dehydration in the elderly. Method A quantitative analysis was conducted by surveying a group of APC’s to determine their self-identified level of clinical competence for assessment and treatment of dehydration and their perceived need for additional training in this area. Analysis Use of the blind survey removed potential bias and could be used to generalize responses from a larger population response. Significance A clinical pathway would allow for consistent identification and treatment
Fagus sylvatica (European Greenleaf Beech) ID #1051
Get PDFLocation: Behind the garden outside of Gerety Hall
Height: 8 m
Diameter at breast height: 76.3 cmhttps://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1015/thumbnail.jp
The Lippitts of Rhode Island: Anti-suffrage and Female Political Activism
No full textIn “The Lippitts of Rhode Island: Anti-suffrage and Female Political Activism,” Carrie Taylor examines the public activism of several women members of the wealthy, politically influential Lippitt family of Rhode Island. In the nineteenth-century, Mary Ann Balch Lippitt was an activist on behalf of education for hearing-impaired individuals; her daughter, Mary Lippitt Steedman, and daughter-in-law, Margaret Farnum Lippitt, were both active in the Rhode Island Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage that emerged in the state in the early twentieth-century. Taylor details the Lippitt women’s activism with its roots in the nineteenth-century “cult of true womanhood.” Carrie E. Taylor is the director of the Lippitt House Museum in Providence, R.I. She has an M.A. in public history from the University of South Carolina and previously worked at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Atlanta History Center
Concerning Water as the Archai: Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy: A Dissertation Providing Philosophical, Mythological, and Archaeological Responses to the Neo-Marxians
No full textThis dissertation presents a new account of Thales based on the idea that Acheloios—a deity equated with water in the ancient Greek world and found in Miletos during Thales’ life—was the most important cultic deity influencing the thinker, profoundly shaping his philosophical worldview. In doing so, it also weighs in on the metaphysical and epistemological dichotomy that seemingly underlies all academia—the antithesis of the methodological postulate of Marxian dialectical materialism vis-à-vis the Platonic idea of fundamentally real transcendental forms. Unbeknownst to many philosophers, there are various Neo-Marxian scholars that position the origin of coinage as the pivotal technological development giving rise to impersonal “metaphysical cosmology,” suggesting that the value of money was more-or-less projected back onto the cosmos in the form of “ideal substances.” While the arguments are incredibly sophisticated and persuasive, their conclusions (either stated or implied) are rather difficult to swallow: the self is merely an illusion, abstract ideas of an ultimate source of value, like God or the Good, are totally delusional (as is the soul), and essentially everything is reducible to mankind’s enslavement to commodities and the notion of our own objectified labor (the true source of all value according to Marx). Not only is this a dangerous belief that many philosophers (consciously or unconsciously) have adopted, since essentially any action could be “justified,” it is also demonstrably false, since it rests on a thorough misunderstanding of Thales and misconception of philosophy as such. My work rectifies that misunderstanding. In an important sense, it is an attempt at redefining philosophy as a “love of wisdom,” which I argue was accurate even in its Presocratic setting, and it uses the influence of Acheloios on Thales to do so. Throughout its pages I explore the etymology and historical uses of the word ὔδωρ, examine the archaeological context of 7th to 6th century Miletos, consider various aquatic myths Thales encountered, and highlight a hitherto overlooked tradition stemming from Thales and influencing such thinkers as Pythagoras, Empedokles, and Hippo, which culminates in a completely new reading of Plato’s Phaedrus. It is there that we find Socrates and Phaedrus engaging in dialogue while surrounded by the iconography of Acheloios and the nymphs, all while they lie reclined like river gods (the sinews of Acheloios) on the banks of the Ilisos. And it is in that dialogue that Plato defines philosophy as a love of wisdom—the beholding of a multiplicity of hermeneutical frameworks—and alludes to the fact that it began with the sacrifice of Acheloios, the initial philosophical maneuver which he attributes to Thales. I end with a threefold rejoinder to the Neo-Marxian school, corresponding to the λόγος, μῦθος, and ἔργον of Acheloios. It turns out that, (1) the λόγος of Acheloios contained the ideal preconditions conducive to an abstraction to a more refined philosophical worldview in which water operated as the One among the Many; (2) the μῦθος of Acheloios actually encouraged the application of the notion of sacrifice to Acheloios himself (thus revealing his essence as divine water); and, (3), the ἔργον of Acheloios, in which he kneels in assent to sacrifice, is found on a coin that was probably designed by Thales himself. In the final analysis, I suggested we have recourse to Acheloios yet again, and reorient ourselves toward the οὐσια ὄντως οὖσα
Salve Regina Oral History Project: Janet Titus Boudreaux \u2784 [audio]
Get PDFOral history interview with Janet Titus Boudreaux, an alumna of Salve Regina, Class of 1984. The interview was conducted over Zoom on August 12, 2020
“The women know what they want and they know how to get it”
No full textIn “The women know what they want and they know how to get it,” Ingrid Peters, Deputy Director of the Newport Historical Society, delves into the lives of some of the women listed in the Newport Women 1919 Voter Registration Book. Tuesday, July 1, 1919 marked the first day that women could register to vote in the presidential election of 1920; by October 1920, 77,836 women were registered to vote in Rhode Island. The Newport Women 1919 Voter Registration Book in the collections of the Newport Historical Society reveals not only the names of Newport\u27s first women voters, but also shows that African-American women, some active in the pro-woman suffrage Newport Woman’s League, part of the Colored Women’s Clubs movement in the state, turned out to register to vote in Newport during the period leading up to the 1920 November election
Fagus sylvatica (European Beech), ID #712
Get PDFLocation: South of Wallace Hall, on Ruggles Avenue.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1023/thumbnail.jp