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Get PDFOur Winter/Spring issue of Newport History presents a combination of visual and intellectual delights. In her article, “A Web of Commemoration: Mary Clark Sturtevant and the Berkeley Memorial Chapel, 1881-1934,” Sara A. Butler deftly tells a family history that intertwines with the founding of St Columba’s, the Berkeley Memorial Chapel, in Middletown. Our second article, “Behind the Camera,” celebrates the Newport Historical Society’s acquisition of a significant treasure trove of twentieth-century photographs taken by John T. Hopf, a Newport man who chronicled his native town for some seven decades
Abiding the Postmodern World: An Ethical, Existential, and Cinematographic Examination of the Big Lebowski
No full textThe Big Lebowski (1998) is arguably the most significant cult film in history, and as such, it has garnered a healthy amount of scholarship. Most scholars have addressed the film’s playful use of genre, idiosyncratic dialogue, and farcical nature in an effort to illuminate the particular auteur style of the Coens. Through Jameson’s use of parody, pastiche and nostalgia, Lyotard’s use of metanarratives, and by Baudrillard’s use of hyperreality, this dissertation examines how The Big Lewbowski is postmodern in form, but functions as a cultural critique. Second, the film is examined through a philosophical lens. The Dude is described as an existential hero by using Heideggarian and Sartrean philosophy. Third, the film is examined through ethical lens where Aristotelian virtue ethics are applied to illustrate the absurd banality of life in the postmodern era. Finally, the film’s cinematography is examined in terms of composition and technique to show how the camera visually supports the film’s underlying cultural critique
The Citizen-Soldier Reconsidered: Technology, the Militia, and the Black Boys Uprising of 1765
No full textThis dissertation argues that a significant factor contributing to the successes of the American colonial militia against British regulars during the American Revolution was technological: the fusion of adaptive hybrid tactics acquired through contact with the Indians, combined with the superior accuracy and range of the Pennsylvania rifle. Each of these two technologies represent a unique and singular advance, however each by itself did not provide the advantages necessary for American militiamen to achieve tactical parity with British professional soldiers. The fluid maneuver and non-linear aspects of adaptive hybrid tactics were not sufficient to counter the shock effects of British regimental linear infantry tactics absent the long range accuracy and stand-off distances made possible by rifles. Likewise, the significant improvements of the Pennsylvania rifle over contemporary smoothbore muskets in range and accuracy were negated by its unsuitability for conventional infantry tactics. Only when both the technologies of adaptive hybrid tactics and the Pennsylvania rifle were combined would they provide a means for American militiamen to reach tactical parity. The original research presented here focuses on the experience of the Pennsylvania militia formations established and evolving over the course of the French and Indian War, and during the subsequent years of Pontiac’s War, from 1754 to 1765. In particular, the “Black Boys Uprising” of 1765 in the Conococheague Region of Pennsylvania serves as the index case, the first time American militiamen successfully defeated British regulars by employing adaptive hybrid tactics combined with accurate long-range rifle fires. This event demonstrates the means by which American militia might achieve tactical parity with British regulars
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Technohumanity: Films as a Lens for Examining How Humans and Technology Co-shape the World
No full textUtilizing a postphenomenological lens, in this study, I analyze Human Security Era (1990s–2010s), techno-futurist films as case studies to explore how humans and technology can and do co-shape a more harmonious world, resulting in TechnoHumanity. To build a techno-humane world, humans must find a way to spur technological innovation and advancement, embedding ethics in design to avoid a dystopian path to dehumanization. Films, and specifically the content or text of the films, provide case studies for a postphenomenological analysis to explore designed, in-design, and future technologies and their interrelationship with humanity
Salve Regina Oral History Project: James Farrington [audio]
Get PDFOral History Interview with Dr. James Farrington, a professor and eventual Department Chair of Criminal Justice/Administration of Justice between 1980-1998. The interview was conducted on June 21, 2018
Salve Regina Oral History Project: Jacqueline Janicki [audio]
No full textOral History interview with Jacqueline Janicki, an alumna and a retired nursing professor from Salve Regina. The interview was conducted on June 14, 2018
Reflection: Marian Mathison Desrosiers
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Reunion 2018 Exhibit, Mary Fran Lau and Elaine Anderson\u27s Reflections
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Reflection: Susan Schiffer Flood
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