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Stress Response and Emotional Security in the Intergeneration Transmission of Depressive Symptoms
Get PDFFew studies have examined possible explanations (i.e., examining mediators) as to why depressive symptoms are transmitted from mothers to adolescents, as well as neglected to consider which adolescents are most vulnerable to this transmission (i.e., examining moderators). Thus, the aim of this study is to focus on stress reactivity as a moderator of the transmission of depression from mothers to adolescents through emotional insecurity. Ninetythree mother-adolescent dyads were examined, with adolescents between the ages of 13 to 17. Data was collected in the home through surveys, a mother-adolescent interaction task and physiological measures from the adolescent to examine stress response. Results suggested that emotional insecurity mediated the relationship between maternal and adolescent depressive symptoms. Findings also provided some support that higher baseline stress response acted as a partial moderator such that adolescents who evidenced a higher stress response at baseline appeared more vulnerable to the transmission of depression
Exploring a Mor-In-Touch Approach to Art Teaching
Get PDFHow can students be more in touch with their artistic process through materials, decisions, social interactions, and environment when creating a work of art about identity for a collaborative mosaic relief installation?
This thesis explored an opportunity for my students to work together to create a collaborative art installation in our high school. This was important to do because the school had just been recently renovated and the new environment felt devoid of any art or personality that once reflected its former students. The important factors behind the installation design were to bring the visual dialogue of community into the new space and provide an opportunity for the current students to reflect their personal identities. The term “Mor-iIn-Touch,” which I developed in my research phase, can be described as an art-teaching philosophy. It is my belief that being or becoming more in touch or “Mor-in-Touch” will bring deeper meaning and personal connection to the artistic process
Nurse Perceptions of Influenza Vaccination
Get PDFThe purpose of this research study was to determine the perceptions of influenza vaccine of registered nurses who decline the annual influenza vaccination. Influenza is a serious public health issue because it is a highly contagious virus that is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The topic of making annual influenza vaccinations mandatory for health care workers remains controversial. A comprehensive review of the literature surrounding influenza vaccinations was explored and discussed. The data for this study was obtained via anonymous voluntary surveys with one open-ended and 14 closed-ended questions. A mixed method design was used to analyze the voluntary responses from acute and critical care registered nurses employed at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital who declined the influenza vaccination during the 2013-2014 influenza season. The results were examined and disseminated to provide insight and possibly modify future educational campaigns to promote increased annual influenza vaccination rates among registered nurses and health care workers overall. APRNs have the opportunity to serve as leaders by advocating for annual vaccinations, providing evidence based education, and supporting policy changes to positively impact patient outcomes, institutions, communities, and overall population health
Instruction Design Towards the Promotion and Integration of Movement in the Visual Arts Classroom
Get PDFMy research project focuses on the integration of movement into the visual arts classroom. I explore two questions: “How can the teaching of movement enhance and strengthen learning in Visual Art Education?” and then, “How can I design powerful Visual Art Education learning experiences by incorporating movement”? It is my hope to encourage students in the art classroom to become healthy, life-long learners by engaging the mind and body. This study explores ideas and strategies for integrating the teaching of art with movement for both Elementary and Secondary level students
Eye on Ethics: Prima Facie and Actual Moral Duties in Social Work
No full textPrima facie duties are those duties social workers ought to perform, other things being equal. A principal challenge in social work, however, is that “other things” often are not equal. Moral philosophers refer to this as the ceteris paribus problem; ceteris paribus is Latin for “other things being equal.” Ross’s prescient conceptual framework anticipated these kinds of difficult moral choices faced by today’s social workers. Using Ross’s language, among the most daunting challenges social workers face is choosing their actual duty from among competing prima facie duties
Eye on Ethics: Moral Injury in Social Work
No full textThere is no simple remedy that heals moral injuries. No decision-making algorithm will resolve these dilemmas quickly and easily. Rather, moral injuries are the stuff of intense reflection and the kind of hard emotional work that social workers are trained to do when matters of life and death are involved. There may never be a right answer. Moral injury demands hard pursuit, even when there is no promise of resolution
How Did They Do It? A Structural Analysis of Portuguese American political Incorporation in Rhode Island (1937-2012).
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Get PDFGRAPH-ENE is a rich internet application for building and manipulating undirected, simple graphs. It is intended for use as a classroom teaching aid, plus as a tool for students to interactively manipulate graphs for assignments. Being web based, it is portable—it can run anywhere a browser is available. Since it is interactive, it provides problem-solving capabilities that are not available using pencil and paper
The Empty Gallery
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Tess’s story is entirely fictional. However, this book is inspired by one true event. On August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa (or, as she is known in France, La Joconde) was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. An Italian workman named Vincenzo Peruggia hid in a broom closet until the museum closed and simply walked out with the painting under his coat. Monsieur Béroud was the real painter who discovered the theft.
The painting was missing for two years, and most of the world gave up hope of ever finding it again. Finally, Peruggia tried to sell the painting and was caught in the attempt. La Joconde was returned to the Louvre in 1913 and remains there today
Thoroughly Under the Skin
Get PDFThis honors project examines the connections between literature and political theory. Specifically I will follow the journey of the British literary critic Raymond Williams. Williams had a very interesting life. He grew up in the Black Mountains of Wales as the son of a railroad worker: a life he memorialized in his autobiographical novel Border Country (1960). In his obituary of Williams in The New Statesman in 1988, Stuart Hall reminds us how Williams’s deep sense of attachment to the Welsh working class border community of inhabited shared commitments in which he grew up. This community of shared commitments was understood as a “whole way of life.” It was a sense of community that he never lost.
The key concept that Williams produces that starts this transition is “structures of feeling” which is at the heart of this project paper. Williams’s concept of structures of feeling is a way to examine a work of art by looking at it in its present tense. By examining a work of art in its present tense, Williams argued that one can gain an understanding of lived experiences during the time period the art was produced -- studying the emotions/feelings which are generated in the work of art. Scholars such as Fredric Jameson have built upon Williams’s concept of structures of feeling while moving towards affect theory.
Some questions my essay responds to are: What is the significance of Raymond Williams’s struggle with the Marxist concept of ideology? How is this at the heart of the cultural Marxism of the New Left Review? How does this struggle lead to his rejection of the base/superstructure interpretation of Marx and in his study of sociology of literature and Gramsci whom the New Left Review features in the 1960s? How does Williams move to a concept of cultural materialism and how is his development of the concept of “structure of feelings” critical to his struggle, and eventually to the “affect theory” of Fredric Jameson’s cultural Marxism? And how does Williams help generate a political sociology of symbolic world-making power and legitimation struggles that come to be associated with the likes of Alain Tourain (1977) and Pierre Bourdieu (1980, 1988)