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Pestilences of New England\u27s first wars: An investigation of colonial trauma during the Pequot and King Philip\u27s wars
No full textDuring the Contact Period (ca. 1600-1675 A.D.) southern New England Colonists and Native Americans underwent significant cultural changes associated with the introduction of European diseases, and the impacts of the Pequot (1636-1637) and King Philip’s Wars (1675-1677). These Colonial Period traumas impacted traditional modes of healing and with it the health and well-being of Indigenous and Colonial peoples alike. This dissertation focuses on changes in southern New England Colonial and Native American uses of traditional medicines, modes of healing, and dietary systems in the early Colonial Period, and how the breakdown in traditional modes of healing led to adverse health outcomes. Colonial Period trauma includes genocide, land deprivation, alteration of traditional subsistence patterns, slavery, and the loss of cultural identity through forced assimilation. The findings of this study reveal that repercussions of Colonial trauma effected both Colonial and Native populations resulting in adverse health status and disease that claimed more lives than those lost in battle. However in such adversity, advancements in medicine and New England’s first public health initiatives were made
Samuel Slater and the Development of Southern Worcester County, Massachusetts
Get PDFA written piece detailing the impact of Samuel Slater on the rural towns of Southern Worcester County Massachusetts
Family Portraits in Genesis
Get PDFThe Book of Genesis is principally a description of the emergence of interconnected families with specific relationships such as husband and wife, husband and wife-surrogate (distinct from prostitutes and harlots) sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers-sons-daughters-in-law.
Love, loyalty, fidelity and affection appear often and in many forms, but no family portrayed in Genesis appears immune to exploitation, manipulation, trickery, treachery, lust, hatred or murder. Both men and women are seen as active forces in the destiny of these troubled families, for good and ill.
This essay is offered as an invitation to those interested in the evolution of family life to look where they might not expect to find anything worthwhile. What I found is hardly final - for me or for anyone else
Unearthed: Advocating Against Fracking and Breaking the Bond of the Imagined World Order
Get PDFWhile discussing the imagined world order, it is evident that the world is not perfect. Over the course of the centuries, the earth has been maimed by humans, whether it be during the agricultural age or throughout the process of industrialization into the modern era. Humans must realize that sooner, rather than later, we must address the environmental destruction we are causing. A specific case, with that such as hydraulic fracturing of shale, otherwise known as fracking, provides as an example of one of the environmental justice issues that is plaguing the earth. However, there are complications. In the consumer capitalist world of today, economic profits are swaying individuals away from protecting the environment and leading people to exploit it. This must change. With a reexamined mind through critical ecological thinking, one can notice the multiple violations of basic human rights caused by fracking, as well as its destruction of the environment and health of individuals. This research will encourage and inspire readers to think critically about the environment. Furthermore, this information can also be used to inspire individuals to read the literature surrounding both their legal and human rights and work towards improving the corrupt imagined world order.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/env434_justice/1005/thumbnail.jp
Stop Factory Farming for the Sake of Humanity!
Get PDFAbstract: The world is being destroyed. We do not care about the mistreatment of animals in factory farms because of our consumeristic taste buds, but this gluttony is even more problematic than we think. It is blinding us from an even larger factor at stake. Our factory farming methods are a leading contributor in the causes of global warming. What this means for us is that our consumption has a direct impact on our destruction. We need to think big, and act. The only way to combat this issue is through taking courses of action that will force people to open their eyes and understand the injustice. Once we get the support of the general public (there is strength in numbers), we will have the necessary tools to combat the larger system at play here which is raping our planet, namely capitalism.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/env434_justice/1002/thumbnail.jp
Outsourcing Learning: Is the Statecraft Simulation an Effective Pedagogical Alternative?
Get PDFAlthough rising costs have been a general trend in higher education since the early 20th century, a fundamental restructuring of the higher education marketplace is currently underway. In recent decades students and their parents have been forced to finance college education through greater and greater debt. As a result, students and their families are increasingly demanding that institutions of higher learning provide evidence of value. Universities must now ask what methods of instruction most efficiently expand a student\u27s knowledge base. Can instruction that has been traditionally supplied in a physical classroom be delivered more effectively at lower cost through digital means? If so, how can these savings be measured and can they be propagated across an entire curriculum? This paper examines the effects of using Statecraft, a commercially-available online simulation, in teaching international relations. The simulation was used in two semesters of an undergraduate international relations course as part of a flipped classroom pedagogy, in which Statecraft replaced lectures and other instructional activities that required a physical classroom. The study demonstrates that a significant portion of instruction can be outsourced to an online provider of standardized content with little to no negative change in pedagogical outcomes