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Video: Charges of Forgery: Roger Williams and the Narragansett Deed to Providence
No full textIn the Fall 2024 Rare Book Salon, Salve’s archivist and faculty with expertise in the fields of archaeology, cultural and historic preservation, and history engage in a multidisciplinary discussion spanning Indigenous histories and land evidence. In this 1896 paper from Salve Special Collections on the authenticity of the 1638 deed to Moshassuck, which would become the site of Providence, George Paine uses legal evidence and primary sources to examine the document signed by Sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi that conveyed the land rights to the English colonizer
Eco-Illusions: Unveiling Greenwashing Techniques on Corporate Social Media
Full text linkAs the climate crisis continues, businesses are becoming savvier with how they communicate their environmental impact to their audiences. Greenwashing, the act of making unsubstantiated claims about the environmental friendliness of products, is becoming more popular amongst unsustainable corporations. Past research shows that companies are using specific techniques to deceive consumers. By conducting a content analysis of five corporate Instagram accounts from companies with past greenwashing allegations, this research used four main criteria to categorize greenwashed posts: color palette recurrent language, pleasant nature imagery, and vague appeals. Vague appeals were most commonly used online. Understanding how companies are perpetuating greenwashing through their media will lead to eliminating the deception of consumers
A Name, A Voice, A Life: Exhibiting the Stories of 17th-19th Century Black Newporters
No full text“A Name, A Voice, A Life,” the NHS exhibit, was up from May until November 2024 at NHS headquarters on Touro Street. In their article about the “A Name, A Voice, A Life” exhibit, co-curators Kaela Bleho and Zoe Hume detail the vitality and resilience of Newport’s historic Black community. The lives and voices of Black residents, enslaved and free, have been notably absent from the historical record. As Bleho and Hume explain, the exhibit evolved out of a massive multi-year effort to uncover the names and lives of Newport’s Black residents, to disentangle their narratives from traditional, often biased sources, and to claim the fundamental centrality of the Black community in Newport’s history. Zoe Hume is a doctoral candidate in the Museum Education and Visitor- Centered Curation program at Florida State University. Her research interests and professional practice center activism, belonging, and difficult histories in memory work. She was a Buchanan Burnham Fellow with the NHS in 2021. Since then, she has worked closely with the staff at NHS creating biographies for the ongoing Voices From the Archives project. Kaela Bleho has worked in the museum field for over ten years, both as a digital specialist and a researcher. She joined the staff at Newport Historical Society in 2019, where she is Collections and Digital Access Manager and project lead on the Voices initiative. Kaela has a master’s degree in Archaeology from University College London (2015), and a bachelor’s in Anthropology from McGill University (2014)
Boethius and the Quest for Harmonia
Full text linkLanguishing in prison awaiting execution, Roman scholar Boethius (6th c. C.E.) finds solace in creating a Neo-Platonic paradigm of happiness which can lead to God, Whom he terms The One/The Good. He terms his paradigm \u27harmonia\u27. This remarkable work in philosophy, entitled Consolation of Philosophy , influenced much of medieval scholarship
Sea Cucumber (Holothuroidea)
Full text linkLife history characteristics of Sea Cucumber (Holothuroidea) in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, US
Fagus Sylvatica (European Beech) ID #13 Year of Observation: 2022
Full text linkLocation: O\u27Hare Academic Building Pathway Radius of Crown: 6.096 m Height: 13.716 mDiameter at Breast Height: 31 cmCondition: GoodAge Class: Semi-Maturehttps://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1036/thumbnail.jp
Increasing Identification of High Fall Risk in Community-Dwelling Seniors 65 and Older Through Primary Care Screening Using the STEADI Three Key Questions Fall Risk Screening Tool
No full textMore than one in four people 65 years of age and older will experience a fall in the next year. Falling once will double the chance of a person 65 years of age and older falling again. Falls can affect patients physically, psychologically, and financially. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an older adult fall prevention initiative, Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI). The STEADI Initiative\u27s three core elements are screening, assessing, and intervening. This quality improvement project’s aim was two-fold. First, this quality improvement project examined the correlation between the screening frequency of people aged 65 and older in a primary care setting and the identification of patients at high risk for falls. Secondly, this quality improvement project compared two fall-risk screening tools in terms of the ability to identify high fall risk in people 65 years of age and older. The two fall risk screening tools compared are the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) fall risk screening tool and the STEADI Three Key Questions fall risk screening tool. This QIP used the STEADI-developed Three Key Questions screening tool and fall screening frequency guidelines to update the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) at the three primary care practices at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) within Southern New England. The quantitative information collected revealed an increase in screening frequency but did not show a statistically significant change in the amount of screening that occurred. The STEADI Three Key Questions screening tool showed a statistically significant increase in identifying high fall risk compared to the Medicare ACO screening tool
An Ontology of Music
Full text linkThe term \u27ontology\u27 is helpful here, because most people need some propaedeutic for studying and enjoying music, so vast and diverse is the field of music. There are five terms that provide such help, viz. sound, pitch, melody, harmony, and rhythm. With these five, one can launch on a great exploration of any area of music
The Importance of Coastal Wetland Restoration in Old Lyme, CT: The White Sands Beach Salt Marsh Restoration Project
Full text linkIn New England, coastal wetlands are rapidly drying up from widespread droughts, eroding from sea level rise, or being overrun by invasive species. Old Lyme, Connecticut relies heavily on the environmental and economic benefits of wetlands. In the last decade however, many coastal homes in Old Lyme, like the summer cottages of White Sands Beach, have been threatened by a lack of resilient wetlands surrounding them, and the coastal biodiversity of the town has decreased. The White Sands Beach Salt Marsh Restoration Project restored over an acre of coastal wetland at White Sands Beach through integrated marsh management strategies
From the Abbey to the Digital Age: How Extraordinary Women Have Used Music to Take Power When None Was Given: A Historical Narrative in the Lives of Hildegard, Umm Kulthum, and Twenty-First Century Female Arab-Rap and Popular Music Artists
No full textFrom the Abbey to the Digital Age, that is, a historical narrative, examines the lives of the following women: Hildegard von Bingen, a Medieval abbess, Umm Kulthum, twentieth-century Egyptian popular music singer, Myam Mahmoud and Lynn Fattouh (known as Malikah), female Arab-Rap artists, and Assala Nasri, a popular music artist. From the Abbey, reveals how the aforementioned women, used music to mitigate the oppression that they face (d) on a daily basis, within their respective historical time periods; a historical narrative that focuses on how these women gained empowerment by using music as their guide. Seminal documents, such as Hildegard’s letters, that span decades, her antiphons, morality play, and her journal serve as evidence in crafting a concise historical narrative. Such methodology applies to all women. Findings consist of the narratives themselves. Each chapter/narrative reflects the research conducted based on the research question: How have Hildegard, Umm Kulthum, Myam Mahmoud, Lynn Fattouh, and Assala Nasri, use music as a way to mitigate social, political, cultural, and religious oppression?
Each chapter/narrative tells the story of the above-mentioned individuals, in terms of how they gained empowerment; they did so by writing, composing, and performing their own music; they collaborated with other artists. Even in times of danger, they persevered and found a way to be heard; more importantly, to bring about positive changes for all women, be it religious, the right to full citizenship, and the right to speak freely, in a primarily male-dominated Arab-world.
By carefully examining contemporary interview transcripts, scholarly articles, secondary sources by prominent historians, and copious amount of primary sources, as well as the artists’ own lyrics, one finds that feminism does exist in the Arab world. By writing, performing and producing their music, while adhering to traditional familial and religious principles, female Arab-Rap and pop artists have navigated the often perilous waters of Arab culture. They have successfully delivered a potent message of empowerment, using music and social media forums to educate the masses; while concurrently, exercising political autonomy. The evidence put forth, has revealed women from the past and present, who used music to amplify their messages. Female Arab-Rap and pop artists, champion humanitarian efforts for a number of vital causes. Social media helps to spread the word. Enjoy