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Indoctrination over Objectivity? Examining Breitbart\u27s Framing of Candidates and Social Issues in the 2016 Election
Get PDFDuring the 2016 election, Breitbart News became a key conservative source in reporting on the candidates and social issues. Drawing on scholars who have studied news media and politics, this paper uses content analysis to dissect what specific frames appear in Breitbart\u27s coverage. The study finds that Breitbart departs from typical journalistic standards, reinforces problematic gender and racial stereotypes, and utilizes propaganda tactics to spread conservative ideologies. Though it was once considered a fringe source, Breitbart\u27s growing and highly engaged audience demonstrates the platform\u27s potential to shape political discourse and even influence election outcomes
Freedom for African Americans in British-Occupied Newport, 1776-1779, and the “Book of Negroes”
No full textThe upheaval of the American Revolutionary War produced a number of opportunities for enslaved adult males in Rhode Island to liberate themselves. One legal path to freedom, starting in February 1778, was enlistment in Rhode Island’s reestablished 1st Rhode Island Regiment. After the British army and navy invaded and occupied Newport in December 1776, enslaved Rhode Islanders had new opportunities to gain their freedom: they could run away from their masters and escape to Newport. There was an involuntary path to freedom for enslaved Rhode Islanders as well: raiding parties of British soldiers or their Loyalist allies operating out of Newport sometimes captured slave owners, and also took their slaves. After the British evacuated Newport in October 1779, some of these fugitives who had sought refuge with the British made their way to New York City and after the war were resettled by the British military in eastern Canada, one of the few places in the British empire where slavery had not taken root
Cr/Hacking the (Gendered) System: Breaking Down Barriers to Women’s Empowerment in STEM: A Manifesto
Get PDFThis manifesto re-envisions Alice Rossi’s (1964) “immodest proposal” to reignite the spark of suffrage and connect it to a revolution that breaks down the barriers to women’s empowerment in STEM-related careers. This is a decisive moment in time and transformation is within reach because there are two generations of women and minorities working in STEM-related fields, and the technology culture is changing the image of the hacker from the lone male to collaborating women. My goal is to motivate these cr/hackers to push beyond pipeline initiatives, and acknowledge that we are also a powerful institution. We will revolutionize STEM culture using three strategies: iNfIl7R@ti0n, dI$rUp7i0N, and eNG@G3Ment
Fagus sylvatica (European Beech) ID# 1134
Get PDFLocation: Across the road from the Mercy Chapel
Height: 25.92 m
Diameter at Breast Height: 112.6 cm
Radius of Crown: 8.3 m
Condition: Fair
Age Class: Maturehttps://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1002/thumbnail.jp
Salve Regina University Sixty-Seventh Annual Commencement program, 2017
Get PDFThe Commencement program details the order of exercises, academic honors, and graduates.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/commencement-programs/1069/thumbnail.jp
Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel
No full textHumanities’ scholars often address the question of what it means to be human in the age of technology. Looking at our modern landscape, we observe that the twentieth century has brought about continual change in the way the United States produces food for Americans. New technology has slowly and steadily created a food supply that many consumers deem problematic. As a result, the last couple of decades have revealed a noticeable push back on this modernized food system by the Slow Food Movement. This humanities dissertation addresses, more specifically, what does it mean to be an eater in the age of technology? An interesting place to find the answer to such a quandary is in the novel. How does fiction engage in the current cultural milieu when it comes to matters of our food? How do novelists participate in the broader cultural discourse, and how do they attempt to engage readers to be more responsive and active participants? In an attempt to answer these questions, four fictional works were selected and examined through the lens of cultural criticism. Mining for evidence of Slow Food ideology, I found that the novels explored the failings of our current industrial food system and illuminated alternative ways of interacting with our land, our animals, and our planet. I noticed several themes begin to emerge through my investigation. The novelists wrote extensively about the agricultural systems at work today, including the use of chemicals, pesticides, and genetically altered crops. There was evidence that the farmers have taken much of the abuse when it comes to industrialized methods. Whether financially or physically, farmers have suffered the greatest burden. The novels also demonstrated an undercurrent of resistance to modern agriculture through many of the attitudes, actions, and blame professed by characters. Also, the novels revealed an element of teaching through the dialogue between various well-informed characters and others who were unaware or ill informed. Another significant element was the illumination of positive examples of slowness in practice. Mindfulness, pleasure, conviviality, and community, all concepts of slow food were plentiful in the fictional works. In addition, the novels featured attempts to bring about social repair through a critique of environmental abuse and depictions of the efforts at preservation. In lively, readable, and dramatic examples the novelists construct characters, form dialogue, and create contrasts that invigorate the current cultural discussion about our food industry. For the sensitive, active reader, these novels communicate slow food ideology and add to the modern eater’s understanding of this complex concern
Dramaturgy, wargaming and technological innovation in the United States Navy: Four historical case studies
No full textThe research and findings discussed in this dissertation use a historical perspective to examine the implications of dramaturgical action and wargaming for technological innovation in the United States Navy. Four wargame case studies conducted at the Naval War College between 1919 and 1924 serve as the basis for the research and subsequent analysis. Each wargame entailed the use of submarine platform types in the tactical level wargames. This dissertation relied upon an interdisciplinary approach to technological innovation which was situated at the intersection of the philosophy of technology, action theory and the history of the United States Navy. The approach used to develop the critical argument for this thesis work included a presentation of the underlying assumptions for the definition of technology including its link to the praxis of innovation; discussion of the historical and philosophical material that serves as the interdisciplinary foundation for the research; and an in depth comparative analysis of the four wargame case studies based on information retrieved from the Naval War College archives. Kenneth Burke’s characterization of the dramaturgical situation served as the primary tool to conduct the analysis in conjunction with the definition of technology supplied in the entering assumptions. The findings presented in this dissertation reveal unique relationships between the communities that interact at multiple levels to produce naval innovation, the influence asserted through changing geo-political situations and how wargaming serves as a catalyst for innovation
Salve Regina Oral History Project: Sister Elizabeth McAuliffe [audio]
Get PDFOral History interview with Sister Elizabeth Betty McAuliffe, Dean of Undergraduate Studies. The interview was conducted on 6/29/2017