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Exterior of Ochre Court during the day
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Upward view of Ochre Court in the sun
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Power Sta., Portsmouth, R. I.
No full textDescription: Note taped to back of postcard: Power Plant in Portsmouth Torn down 1910? Now, the site of Johnnycake Lane, Portsmouth
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Miss Brophy\u27s Third Grade Class, Newtown School
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Later note taped to back: Miss Brophys 3d grade class C - unknown. Newtown School, Portsmouth
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Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I.
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Assisted reproductive technology, bioethics and literature: Progenitors and others\u27 relatedness to embryos, androids, and children
No full textThe dissertation explores the question, With the use of assisted reproductive technology, what becomes of humanity? The inquiry discusses the rise of ART, and the lack of uniform legal treatment of the human embryo. It investigates two scenarios where people use ART. One, progenitor couples using assisted reproductive technology (ART) and their relationship to their embryos, including those that are cryopreserved. The inquiry uses scholarly literature that studies relationships between progenitor couples and their embryos, including a multi-institutional study conducted on fertility patients\u27 attitudes and opinions toward their cryopreserved embryos. It examines two Jodi Picoult novels, which portray the use of ART for begetting children as challenging the meaning of what it means to be a parent, partner, spouse, or family member. It considers narratives in both Picoult novels that use the findings from the studies to demonstrate how the characters are reacting to the possibilities ART offers. Picoult\u27s novels, characterized as contemporary realistic fiction, are compared to novels of another type of popular fiction, alternate history, or science fiction. The second scenario involves societies using ART in futuristic novels and their relationship to their creations, including children that are cloned and androids that are manufactured. By comparing the two genres of popular fiction, it examines the relationality, or relatedness between people and the human or quasi-human beings that will be born from ART, in order to explore the impact ART has upon people. The thesis is that as assisted reproductive technology offers greater success in bringing embryos to term on our terms, such as pre-implantation diagnosis, the technology exerts pressures upon procreative couples and families that threaten to rupture the familial bond and reduce the status of their progeny to less than fully human
A Heideggerian reading of \u27Revolutionary Road:\u27 Understanding the human-technology relationship in 1950s suburbia
No full textThe 1950s was a time of great advances in technology with the increased accessibility of modern technology. This study will investigate the human-technology relationship in 1950s suburbia looking through the lens of Martin Heidegger\u27s philosophy. This dissertation will also examine Richard Yates\u27 \u27Revolutionary Road,\u27 which explores a literary snapshot of the period. Both the philosophy and literature contribute their own unique perspectives in our age of advanced technology, while leaving open the possibility of further exploration
Society\u27s automaton: An existential perspective on police training and stress management education
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the issue of police training techniques and the perceived antiquated ideology within the profession of law enforcement. This ideology which endorses the masculine image of physical and psychological toughness and the suppression of natural human emotions despite its considerable impact on an individual’s psyche and the perceptions of weakness associated with someone in policing who may succumb to the detrimental consequences of cumulative stress. This study attempted to determine if the current construct of basic recruit training, as well as supplemental departmental in-service instruction, within the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island focus their attention and resources toward the crime fighting and physical fitness component of policing at the expense of adequate attention being placed upon the predominant community service obligations, thus insufficiently preparing an individual to assume the duties of a police officer in contemporary society. A questionnaire was designed by the researcher based upon a Likert scale which was made available only to the uniform patrol officers, excluding supervisors, from qualifying municipal departments within the three participating states provided they attended the same academy. The data revealed an influence of the informal social norms of a police organization and willingness to conform on the part of an individual in order to gain acceptance. The data also revealed that regardless of the construct of the training academies within the three participating states the focus and attention is predominately in the crime fighting aspects of policing, which is perceived by the officers participating in this study to have not properly prepared them to assume the duties of a police officer. Overall officers’ recognized cumulative stress as real, but it is not adequately anticipated in the training academies nor adequately addressed later on by in-service programs or the informal police sub-culture