26 research outputs found
The Fine Art of Leaving
No full textA personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s experience of resigning and employing into a new job as a nurse
The Heart\u27s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
No full textWhat is it like to be a student nurse washing the feet of a dying patient? To be a newly graduated nurse, in charge of the Intensive Care Unit for the first time, who wonders if her mistake might have cost a life? Or to be an experienced nurse who, by her presence and care, holds a patient to this world? The author, a poet and nurse practitioner answers these questions by examining her own experiences and through them reveals a glimpse into the minds and hearts of those who care for us when we are at our most vulnerable. This work offers the joys, frustrations, fears, and miraculous moments that nurses, new and experienced, face every day. In these essays, she traces her twin paths, nursing and writing, inviting readers to share what she discovers along the way, lessons not only about the human body but also about the human soul. Rich, intimate, and never shrinking from the realities of illness, the grace of healing, or the wonder of words, it will inspire student caregivers, intrigue readers, and affirm those who have long worked in nursing, a profession that the author calls odd, mysterious, humbling, addicting, and often transcendent
Reaping What You Sow : The Effects of Teachers' Perceptions on Students' Self-Concept
No full textiii, 56 p.The author reflects on her experience student teaching in a first grade Spanish immersion classroom, focusing on the effects of negative reinforcement by some of the staff
Does A Classroom Website Increase Positive Communication And Relationships Between Parents And Teachers?
Get PDFThe research questions addressed in this project was: Does a classroom website increase positive communication and relationships with teachers and parents? It provides readers research regarding the benefits of different communication strategies that can take place between teachers and parents. The project then narrows down to the focus of building a classroom website that will increase communication and build relationships between parents and teachers. Throughout the different chapters, the author describes the benefits, but also the barriers that come with communicating through a classroom website. It provides readers information on several different types of school website designs and classroom website designs. However the author focused on using Dunn and Pete’s Taxonomy of a Classroom Website design to create the website for parents to visit throughout the school year and to learn about their child’s education
Introducing Inquiry-Based Computational Science and Modeling to High School Students and Teachers
No full textComputational science and modeling (CSM) has become an integral part of modern research fields. But many high school students (future scientific researchers) are not given adequate exposure to this primary mode of investigation. Therefore, a one week workshop for high school science teachers was held at Hope College to introduce a large number of students to CSM before they reach the undergraduate level. During this workshop the teachers were trained in using WebMO, a research tool which creates input files from a menu-driven interface and organizes complex output files from computational engines. The workshop also included instruction on building inquiry-based lessons, which engage students in forming their own questions and making their own discoveries. Each teacher developed a WebMO-based inquiry lesson appropriate for high school students. Workshop participants completed pre, mid, and post-workshop assessments to determine gains in their CSM proficiency as well as the modifications needed to improve the effectiveness of the training and the overall experience of the workshop. After each teacher implements a WebMO lesson, students were assessed to determine their confidence in defining and recognizing CSM, as well as its impact on their understanding of the chemistry content
Postprandial cardiac hypertrophy is sustained by mechanics, epigenetic, and metabolic reprogramming in pythons
Get PDFConstricting pythons, known for their ability to consume infrequent, massive meals, exhibit rapid and reversible cardiac hypertrophy following feeding. Our primary goal was to investigate how python hearts achieve this adaptive response after feeding. Isolated myofibrils increased force after feeding without changes in sarcomere ultrastructure and without increasing energy cost. Ca2+ transients were prolonged after feeding with no changes in myofibril Ca2+ sensitivity. Feeding reduced titin-based tension, resulting in decreased cardiac tissue stiffness. Feeding also reduced the activity of sirtuins, a metabolically linked class of histone deacetylases, and increased chromatin accessibility. Transcription factor enrichment analysis on transposase-accessible chromatin with sequencing revealed the prominent role of transcription factors Yin Yang1 and NRF1 in postfeeding cardiac adaptation. Gene expression also changed with the enrichment of translation and metabolism. Finally, metabolomics analysis and adenosine triphosphate production demonstrated that cardiac adaptation after feeding not only increased energy demand but also energy production. These findings have broad implications for our understanding of cardiac adaptation across species and hold promise for the development of innovative approaches to address cardiovascular diseases. Copyright © 2024 the Author(s)
In Our Sleep We Ran After Them : Daughters Defining Families and the Act of Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros
Get PDFU.S. Latino writers have steadily increased their critical and mass appeal since the 1980s when the mini-boom of U.S. Latino-literature first began. One of the leading writers of this literary boom is Chicana author Sandra Cisneros. Despite her distinct portrayals of intriguing families and familial relationships, critical articles and books which discuss her works rarely consider the family as a whole functioning unit. Cisneros\u27s two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, contain similar narrators: adolescent daughters of the families upon which the novels are centered. The two narrators, Esperanza and Celaya, observe and report on the individual members of the family and the way in which the individuals interact with one another. These novels portray both the Mexican tradition of celebrating the family and the American tradition of celebrating the individual and the way the two cultures interact and affect Cisneros\u27s characters. When the option is presented to them, Esperanza and Celaya both accept the role of storyteller in each of their families. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the way the narrators subjectively view their family members and how individual relationships affect the family as a whole. In accepting the role of storyteller and telling the stories of their families, the narrators are able to voice the pain of their family members as well as find their own voices along the way. Not only does the act of storytelling in these novels bring healing, but the very structure of the narratives allows insight into the inner-workings of each individual and permits healing for the entire family
Mythological Women and Sex: Transgression in Christian and Buddhist Religious Imagery
No full textabstract: Many religious textual accounts describe provocative women: The Great Whore
from the Apocalypse, Saint Mary Magdalene from the New Testament, and the
Daughters of Mara from the Buddhist tradition are all accused of fornication or the
seduction of men. However, when artists have depicted these subjects, the women are
rarely shown transgressing in the ways the texts describe. The Great Whore is often
masculinized and shown as the equal of kings, Mary Magdalene assumes divergent
attitudes about prostitution in early Renaissance Europe, and the Daughters of Mara are
comparable to other Buddhist deities, recognizable only from the surrounding narrative.
Therefore, in this inquiry, I seek out the ways that artists have manipulated misogynistic
religious narratives and introduced their own fears, concerns, and interpretations.
Artistic deviations from the text indicate a sensitivity to cultural values beyond
the substance of their roles within the narrative. Both the Great Whore and her virtuous
counterpart, the Woman Clothed in the Sun, have agency, and the ways they are shown to
use their agency determines their moral status. Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of
prostitutes and a reformed sinner, is shown with iconographical markers beyond just
prostitution, and reveals the ways in which Renaissance artists conceptualized prostitution. In
the last case study, the comparison between the Daughters and the Buddhist savioresses,
the Taras, demonstrates that Himalayan artists did not completely subscribe to the textual
formulations of women as inherently iniquitous. Ultimately, these works of art divulge
not just interpretations of the religious traditions, but attitudes about women in general,
and the power they wielded in their respective contexts.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Art History 202
Incorporating A Learning Community Approach To Enhance A Fuel Cell Research Experience For Undergraduates (Reu)
No full textMemorable political messages : rethinking the role of conversation in public opinion
Get PDFThe focus of this dissertation research was to investigate students' memorable political messages. The memorable messages literature (Knapp, Stohl, & Reardon, 1981) has demonstrated that within domains other than politics, people have recalled messages that serve as a guide for their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior within that domain. This study extended this logic to the political realm in an effort to identify the content of political messages reported as memorable. By understanding what types of political messages people identify as being memorable or important, and through knowing characteristics about the source of these messages, more can be known regarding student's political development. Guidance from Burleson's (2009) message centered approach to interpersonal communication was used to deduce whether certain types of messages, coming from certain types of sources, were more likely to come from politically engaged participants. Thus, relationships between message substance, message source characteristics, and political engagement variables were also tested. In order to obtain students' memorable message, 191 participants were solicited from communication courses and asked to complete an online survey regarding their political opinions. After memorable messages were explained, students were asked to record their political memorable message if one existed. After students reported their message, several follow-up questions assessed including measures of message valance, the identity and role of the source, the channel through which the message was transmitted, and the perceived credibility and similarity of the source. Classification of memorable political messages was accomplished through an author-generated system and though a card sorting task (additional N = ??) and multidimensional scaling. This method led to the creation of a classification scheme for the content of memorable messages and tested whether message and source characteristics associated with political outcomes of interest including: scores on a political knowledge test, a political participation index, self-reported political interest, and an index created from these three measures representing a general engagement index. Results from this dissertation research suggest: a) a vast majority (98%) of students report having a memorable political message, b) the content of these memorable messages can be classified into ten content areas, c) students are more likely to report positive messages that originate from the mass media, and d) students who have the highest levels of political engagement tend to be those reporting a negative message from a non-credible source, or those reporting a positive message from a highly credible source. Although the latter relationship was predicted, the finding that negative messages were consistently reported from those interested and engaged in politics has several practical and theoretical implications discussed through the course of this manuscript.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Communication, 2011Includes bibliographical reference
