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Thomas Forsyth Torrance and Scientific Theology: An analysis and assessment of his project
No full textWhat does religion, specifically Christian theology, contribute to scientific investigation and rational thought? Prior to the Enlightenment, theology was the repository of rational thought, namely, the domain of truth. Since the Scientific Revolution, religious thought has been challenged by the scientific community as composed only of abstract reasoning and dogmatic declarations. Thomas F. Torrance presents what he calls Scientific Theology as an approach that restores theology and science into the same arena of knowledge. Torrance offers some unique aspects to his method by assessing both religion and science to evaluate a priori elements that hinder a rational, objective processing for truth. This research project evaluates Torrance\u27s epistemological, hermeneutic and philosophical premises to assess his theological science method
Classical-Christian Friendship Operating in Western Literature: Oral Traditions to the Apex of Print Culture
No full textThe classical-Christian model of friendship has operated for many centuries from oral traditions and through the age of print. However, technological developments in communication and media rearrange mindscapes. Consequently, values, or, those things that give meaning, can change, such as perceptions of friendship. If one accepts that communication is vital to human relationships, the paradigm for the classical-Christian friendship should operate according to the new vocabulary of expanding communication and media possibilities. This work examines literature and philosophical thought within their historical contexts in order to gauge the operation of the classical-Christian friendship model from the beginning of Western literature to Western literature at the apex of print culture
Hollywood tastemaker: Jeweling the red carpet: The Neil Lane collection, 1995-2010
No full textHow is the Hollywood red carpet used to promote jewelry brands and designer names? What role does celebrity culture play in influencing fashions in jewelry? In the United States, the last decade of the twentieth-century witnessed an increased awareness of second-hand clothing and estate jewelry. Fashionably called “vintage,” the attention corresponded with larger cultural changes that included a growing popular interest in celebrity life and a 24-hour news cycle. Analyzing E! Entertainment Television, the fashion industry newspaper Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), and the jewelry trade magazine Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone (JCK), this project questions why jewelry became more visible on the red carpet beginning in the 1990s. Using Neil Lane, an estate jewelry retailer and designer, as a case study this dissertation evaluates the jewelry worn by actresses to the Golden Globe and Academy Award ceremonies over the last twenty-five years, to consider how he publicized a vintage jewelry aesthetic and became a celebrated arbiter of taste. Using the theories of Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Igor Kopytoff, and others, this project investigates how the fashion industry, media, and celebrity culture intersected during this period to inform the aesthetic of jewelry which was subsequently designed, made, and retailed in America during the early twenty-first century
Impacts of Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Sustainable Alternative to Conventional Tourism
Get PDFThis ethnographic project examines the economic and social influences of tourism, specifically ecotourism, on the local communities of Costa Rica. The proposed research seeks to investigate the effects of ecotourism on the environment and quality of life for residents in Costa Rica while demonstrating the importance of sustainable development in relation to the ecotourism sector. The primary purpose of this research is to view the impact of ecotourism on Costa Rican society, with a particular focus on culture, economics, the environment, and specifically from the perspectives of local Costa Rican residents. Ultimately this paper will define what ecotourism is and what it means to Costa Rica. The proposed research will explore the following questions: (1) How does ecotourism and sustainable development relate to one another? (2) How do the impacts of conventional tourism compare to those of ecotourism? (3) How does ecotourism effect the Costa Rican environment and its wildlife? (4) How does ecotourism affect the economy and quality of life for Costa Rican residents? (5) What impact does ecotourism have on the country\u27s culture
Environmental ethics and the electric power grid: A case for technological momentum
No full textThis qualitative analysis examines the effects of a growing environmental ethic on the electric power grid in southeastern New England from the late nineteenth century to the start of the new millennia. The increased awareness of the environment evolved into a new belief system of the population and altered the methods of construction, operation and maintenance of the advanced technology system of the electric power grid. The manner in which this occurred suggests that technological momentum is a better concept than technological determinism with which to examine the development of technological systems in the modern world. This dissertation examines the trinity of actors affecting this process. The electric power companies, with the New England Electric System as the main protagonist, attempted to expand the electric power grid to meet expected consumer demand and economic opportunities. A devoted cadre of nascent environmentalists, dismissive of the commercial and technological requirements of the electric power grid, suggested to the population that the new idea of protecting the environment should instead take priority. The interaction of these two forces led to a governmental response that attempted to continue to meet the population’s demands while preventing the degradation of the environment. The resultant transformation of the population’s perception of the electric power grid, its regulation by the government, and its operation by the system members, suggest that advanced technology systems are influenced as much by philosophical concerns as any technical constraints
Editor\u27s Note
Get PDFIn our Spring 2016 issue, we present two articles on quite different but nevertheless compelling topics in Newport history. The first, Marian Desrosiers’ “Daily Fare and Exotic Cuisine in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Newport,” provides a window into the various foods and drinks consumed by eighteenth-century Newport residents .Secondly, Paul Harpin’s article, “W. Douglas Hazard and the Newport Herald, 1907-1945” takes us to another century and another equally absorbing topic—the rise, success, and demise of a very popular daily newspaper. The Newport Herald was faltering in 1907 when three employees scraped together the funds to buy the paper from its owners. The three men not only revived the daily paper, but built it into a popular staple of Newport daily lif
The Last Days of Hermione Pelham and John Banister of Newport, Rhode Island
Get PDFHermione Pelham, descendant of Gov. Benedict Arnold, married well, raised two boys, and enjoyed the lifestyle of a wealthy woman with a grand house, orchards, and servants. It was a life made possible by her landed inheritance and the hard work of her colonial merchant husband. Wealth does not guarantee health, as both died at a relatively young age
Hollywood tastemaker: Jeweling the red carpet: The Neil Lane collection, 1995-2010
No full textHow is the Hollywood red carpet used to promote jewelry brands and designer names? What role does celebrity culture play in influencing fashions in jewelry? In the United States, the last decade of the twentieth-century witnessed an increased awareness of second-hand clothing and estate jewelry. Fashionably called “vintage,” the attention corresponded with larger cultural changes that included a growing popular interest in celebrity life and a 24-hour news cycle. Analyzing E! Entertainment Television, the fashion industry newspaper Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), and the jewelry trade magazine Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone (JCK), this project questions why jewelry became more visible on the red carpet beginning in the 1990s. Using Neil Lane, an estate jewelry retailer and designer, as a case study this dissertation evaluates the jewelry worn by actresses to the Golden Globe and Academy Award ceremonies over the last twenty-five years, to consider how he publicized a vintage jewelry aesthetic and became a celebrated arbiter of taste. Using the theories of Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Igor Kopytoff, and others, this project investigates how the fashion industry, media, and celebrity culture intersected during this period to inform the aesthetic of jewelry which was subsequently designed, made, and retailed in America during the early twenty-first century