253 research outputs found
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: An Ethic of Reconciliation
No full textThe author of this dissertation contends that reconciliation is the goal of divine and human action. The problem addressed is that human attempts at reconciliation are incomplete. Reconciliation can be defined with careful attention to the use of the words mercy, justice, and truth. The disse1iation\u27s thesis is that the South African expe1ience of mercy provides a reconciliation model for relationship, conversation, and ministry in Portland, Oregon. Chapter 1 introduces the challenge of addressing the problem through an account of a Restorative Listening Project on Gentrification meeting. The challenge is to move from words to action. Chapter 1 then describes the ministry contexts in and around Westminster Presbyterian Church in P01iland. Chapter 2 addresses four key issues: (a) human and divine aspects of reconciliation and the relationship between them, (b) reconciliation as a central theme in the Bible, (c) enacting human reconciliation, and (d) biblical roots of the words restorative justice and mercy. Chapter 3 addresses four issues similar to those in chapter 2 from a theological perspective: (a) human and divine aspects of reconciliation, (b) a postmodern challenge to universals and reconciliation as a goal, ( c) enacting human reconciliation, and ( d) justice out of balance. The final issue exemplifies how determining the meaning of the word justice can lead to tension. In this chapter, as in the previous one, the author intentionally chooses scholars who disagree to explore the tensions that stand in the way of reconciliation. Chapter 4 describes the South African experience of mercy, relates mercy to forgiveness, and defines truth as narrative truth. It examines critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission experience in South Africa and provides a model for reconciliation based on the South African experience. Chapter 5 describes the Restorative Listening Project on Gentrification and the Genesis Community Fellowship, used by the dissertation\u27s author in translating the reconciliation model from chapter 4 into action. Chapter 6 claims that a balance of mercy, justice, and truth is the strongest and deepest reconciliation response to human divisions and injustice. The dissertation claims that balance demands increased attention to mercy. The dissertation shows that though human attempts at reconciliation are imperfect, it is important to continue them
Euthanasis as an act of false mercy
No full textKs. Adam Skreczko,Euthanasis is sometimes perceived as an act of mercy, and this view is also
shared by many Christians. They say it is justified when it arises due to mercy,
love of a neighbour, care and sympathy one feels while looking at the sufferings
of a person. That is why it is necessary to distingush euthanasia from mercy.
This concerns not only non-believers who do not analyse the issue, but also the
Christians who treat the Church’s teaching selectively and are driven by false
views. In the title of the article, euthanasia is defined as an act of false mercy.
The author focuses on the following problems: a) Manipulating terminology
concerning the problem, b) Is euthanasia ’good death’? c) The need for the
’imagination of mercy’, d) the proper understanding of mercy in the context
of euthanasia.Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie11/113714
People’s perceptions towards homosexuality in a South African rural communities
No full textThe aim of the study was to explore and describe the perceptions posed by society towards homosexual individuals in selected South African rural communities. The research methodology employed was a qualitative approach via the used of a purposive sampling method for the selection of 12 voluntary participants who were willing to participate in the study. In-depth interviews were conducted and data analysed according to thematic content method. The perceptions of community members were shared through participants' responses to a central research question. Participants expressed different responses which were both positive and negative towards homosexuality. The findings of the study showed that society is still conservative when it comes to homosexuality. However, it discourages harsh negative attitudes towards homosexual people. The study recommends that Society needs to develop more accepting and tolerant behaviors towards homosexuality
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: W&L Law Faculty Panel
No full textOn March 27, 2019, the W&L Law Library hosted a panel discussion of Just Mercy, the bestselling true story of a lawyer exonerating the wrongly convicted and representing society’s most vulnerable through the perils of our justice system.
The event continued an annual tradition of faculty panel discussions on popular works of fiction and non-fiction with a connection to the law, featuring perspectives from W&L Law professors David Bruck, Nora Demleitner, Brandon Hasbrouck, and Jon Shapiro. Professor J.D. King moderated the discussion, and librarian Andrew Christensen provided introductory remarks.
Author Bryan Stevenson will speak at the W&L Law commencement ceremony on May 10, 2019.
Please note that, at the speaker\u27s request, Prof. Hasbrouck\u27s audio has been suppressed in this video (46:30 through 58:43)
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Without mercy ::the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South /
No full text"Without Mercy reads like a John Grisham thriller." ---David R. Dow, author of The Autobiography of an Execution On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed in as little as six weeks---E. D. Rivers, the governor of the state, oversaw a pardon racket for white killers and criminals, allowed the Ku Klux Klan to infiltrate his administration, and bankrupted the state. Race and wealth were all that determined whether or not a man lived or died. There was no progress. There was no justice. David Beasley's Without Mercy is the harrowing true story of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the violent death throes of the Klan, but most of all it is the story of the stunning injustice of these executions and how they have seared distrust of the legal system into the consciousness of the Deep South, and it is a story that will forever be a testament to the death penalty's appalling inequality that continues to plague our nation
HUMAN CAPITAL ASSESSMENT INDICATORS AS INFLUENTIAL DETERMINANTS PERTAINING TO THE ADMISSION CRITERIA UTILIZED BY PRE-LICENSURE PROGRAMS FOR NURSING EDUCATION
No full textThe attainment of educational credentials contributes to the acquisition of human capital. Academic preparedness is a component therein that allows for the attainment of increased levels of education. Most institutions of higher education utilize measures of academic preparedness, such as grade point averages or standardized tests. Requirements for the levels of academic preparedness are based upon many factors. The requirements most relevant to this study are the selectivity of the institution and the academic preparedness of potential candidates of pre-licensure programs for nursing education.
The pre-licensure education of nurses is enigmatic when compared to other professional disciplines. Pre-licensure education for registered nurses exists in three distinct and differently classified programs: a hospital-based diploma program, an associate degree program, or a baccalaureate program. (There is an additional baccalaureate program, known as accelerated second degree programs, for students possessing a baccalaureate degree in another discipline. These accelerated programs are not included in this discussion.) The National Center for Education Statistics classifies each of the three programs, making clear that the differing program levels of post-secondary education are neither equivalent nor interchangeable.
According to the literature, the academic preparedness of individuals and the level of selectivity of higher education institutions vary greatly depending upon the particular classification of nursing program. What then, is the level of programmatic selectivity, given that all three pre-licensure programs produce candidates for the identical occupational certification while attracting candidates known to have varying levels of academic preparedness? This study aimed to determine the levels of selectivity of the three pre-licensure nursing education programs types so as identify trends and patterns within and across pre-licensure program types. In order to determine these trends and patterns, the author examined the admissions requirements that are transparent to the public on schools’ websites in which these programs are housed, employing the methodology of document analysis. The determination for the level of selectivity was based upon Barron’s Measure of Selectivity (Barron’s Educational Series, 2011)
The Relation of Human Suffering in God's Grace
No full textSuffering is a legacy of the existence of the world of souls [humans] living on earth. Suffering is not imagination, not some nightmare, on the contrary is real, actual, but not academic. Suffering comes when humans are born. Humans cannot escape suffering. Suffering comes from various angles of life. Suffering comes from a broken relationship with God. Starting from the failure of Adam and Eve's relationship with God, humans began to feel suffering. Humans cannot resist the suffering they experience. The purpose of this study is to determine the cause of human suffering and its consequences, and how to overcome suffering. The author uses a descriptive method of literature and research results as follows: first, mercy is the perfect character of the deity of God. God's mercy from eternal to eternal until humans are afraid of God. Kindness is the essence of the quality of divinity, but God shows mercy on an ongoing basis through His sovereign will. Second, the source of God's mercy. The source of God's mercy is God's goodness and love expressed mysteriously. God's mercy is stated to guide someone to live righteously. People who receive God's mercy are living in godly living conditions and they need God's protection or care. Third, God's mercy cannot be stopped by humans. Instead humans can be made to not understand by God. God is free to act surprisingly, correcting human deviation. God is free to allow the test of Satan and not to tell anyone about it that was tested. God is also free to regulate
 
Análisis del nivel de cultura en profesionales y emprendedores de los cantones Zaruma Portove y Piñas; como elementodeterminante para el desarrollo sustentable de la provincia d el Oro
No full textEl presente estudio tiene como finalidad aanalizar el nivel de cultura tributaria en profesionales y emprendedores de los cantones Zaruma, Portovelo y Piñas; como elemento determinante para el desarrollo sustentable de la provincia de El Oro. Así mismo busca describir los fundamentos teóricos que sustentan el análisis de la cultura tributaria y su relación con el desarrollo sostenible; desarrollar la metodología de la investigación basada en un estudio de campo de profesionales y emprendedores en libre ejercicio de los cantones Zaruma, Portovelo y Piñas; y elaborar una propuesta de solución al problema, considerando el desarrollo de una consultora que brinde los servicios requeridos a los profesionales. Para su realización se tomó un estudio cuantitativo basado en 400 encuestas estructuradas que se desarrollaron de manera presencial entre los tres cantones. Los resultados mostraron que existe un alto nivel de cultura tributaria en la mayoría de la población, pero que existe un alto porcentaje de profesionales con bajo nivel de conocimiento y cumplimiento tributario.This research has the purpose to analyze the tax culture level in professionals and entrepreneurs en the cities of Zaruma, Portovelo y Piñas; as a factor that determines the development of the province El Oro. As the same, the study tends to describe the theory that are base of tax culture and its relation to development, to develop the methodology of the research based in a survey of professionals and entrepreneurs in Zaruma, Portovelo y Piñas; and to make a proposal of solution to the problem through an agency of consulting that offers services in taxing. To make the study, the author used a quantitative study of 400 professionals and entrepreneurs. As main results, there is a high level of tax culture in the most of the sample, however there is a high percentage of people that has a low level of knowledge of taxing
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Evaluación del nivel de percepción de riesgo de la voz que tienen los docentes, que laboran en la Institución “Plaza Sésamo School y unidad educativa Jason Miller” mediante una escala de detección del riesgo vocal en docentes"- Facultad de Ciencias de la Discapacidad, Atención Prehospitalaria y Desastres de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, septiembre 2024 – marzo 2025
No full textLa voz es el medio que usamos los seres humanos para la comunicación, es el principal instrumento de trabajo para todo aquel profesional que use su voz, los docentes son una de las poblaciones más vulnerables en sufrir patologías vocales debido a la necesidad de intensificar su voz por el ruido ambiental en su trabajo, mismo que es generado por la población a la que se dirigen (sus alumnos). El presente proyecto de campo titulado «Evaluación del nivel de percepción de riesgo de la voz que tienen los docentes, que laboran en la Institución “Plaza Sésamo School y unidad educativa Jason Miller», tuvo como objetivo identificar situaciones de riesgo que afectan a la vida laboral y la producción vocálica en los docentes, se usó la escala de detección del riesgo “EVM-D” la cual detecta situaciones de riesgo vocal del docente dentro del contexto escolar.
La población total aplicada la escala fue de 70 docentes, de dos instituciones educativas privadas. Para este proceso es importante resaltar que las respuestas obtenidas fueron anonimizadas y son custodiadas por el autor de este proyecto. En los resultados obtenidos se observó que el 79% de docentes reflejó un nivel de riego vocal muy bajo y un 9% de la misma población presentó un riesgo moderado.
El producto obtenido de la escala aplicada demostró un leve riesgo vocal o ausencia del mismo en los docentes encuestados, a pesar de ser considerada una comunidad de alto riesgo vocal debido a la intensidad a la que expone su voz por su contexto, pese a que estos resultados sean bajos, no se puede ignorar al porcentaje de riesgo moderado, por ende, es necesario implementar medidas preventivas para precautelar el progreso de alguna patología vocalThe voice is the means humans use to communicate. It is the main working tool for any professional who uses their voice. Teachers are one of the populations most vulnerable to vocal pathologies due to the need to raise their voices above the ambient noise in their workplace, which is generated by the population they address (their students). The objective of this field project, entitled “Assessment of the level of voice risk perception among teachers working at Plaza Sésamo and Jason Miller schools,” was to identify risk situations that affect the working life and vocal production of teachers. The “EVM-D” risk detection scale was used, which detects situations of vocal risk for teachers within the school context. The total population applied the scale consisted of 70 teachers from two private educational institutions. It is important to note that the responses obtained were anonymized and are kept by the author of this project. The results showed that 79% of teachers had a very low level of vocal risk and 9% of the same population had a moderate risk.The results obtained from the scale showed a slight vocal risk or absence thereof in the teachers surveyed, despite being considered a high-risk vocal community due to the intensity to which they expose their voices in their context. Although these results are low, the percentage of moderate risk cannot be ignored, and therefore, it is necessary to implement preventive measures to guard against the progression of any vocal pathologyPregrad
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