The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life (20th Anniversary Edition)

The recent release of Pope Francis’s much-discussed encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, has reinforced environmental issues as also moral and spiritual issues. This anthology, twenty years ahead of the encyclical but very much in line with its agenda, offers essays by fifteen philosophers, theologians, and environmentalists who argue for a response to ecology that recognizes the tools of science but includes a more spiritual approach—one with a more humanistic, holistic view based on inherent reverence toward the natural world. Writers whose orientations range from Buddhism to evangelical Christianity to Catholicism to Native American beliefs explore ways to achieve this paradigm shift and suggest that “the environment is not only a spiritual issue, but the spiritual issue of our time.”https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_press/1003/thumbnail.jp

The Painful Challenge of George Eliot\u27s Epigraph

Through her altruistic epigraph to a painful story, George Eliot suggests that the journey to greater human fellowship often requires a passage through suffering. In The Lifted Veil, Eliot explores the form of pain that shackles sado-masochistic relationships, and the roots of that pain - buried in the misperception that punishment is deserved. This paper will explore Latimer\u27 s attempt to change by moving through his masochistic stance into the sadism which has bound him. The masochistic need for the sadist is captured by Eliot when she has Latimer moan: While the heart beats, bruise it - it is your only opportunity; while the eye can still turn towards you with moist timid entreaty, freeze it with an icy unanswering gaze; while the ear, that delicate messenger to the inmost sanctuary of the soul, can still take in the tones of kindness, put it off with hard civility, or sneering compliment... Although Latimer\u27s lament rings with self-pity, it also illustrates the tightness of the trap. Latimer\u27 s response at the onset of his heart attack represents a last resistance to change: I make great effort, and snatch at the bell again. I long for life, and there is no help. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. (2) Latimer\u27s cry for help is understandable, but surges through entrenched psychological or social structures usually have to be finalized in solitude. The courage to engage in the solitary completion of the journey arises from earlier accomplishments and future promises

Aging in Place: Accessible, Rent-Geared-To-Income Housing for Unattached Older Women: Phase I - Report Series # 11

This qualitative study has been structured to give a voice to an often forgotten population within social housing, namely unattached older adult women. To date, limited research has been conducted with this group. Canadian housing studies have traditionally focused on the needs of the frail elderly and the affluent elderly. However, current and projected demographics of Canadians, aged 65 to 84, indicate that the greatest number of “well older adults” is unattached women living on fixed incomes in subsidized housing. With little attention paid to this group, measures to improve quality of life for low income single women as they age in place are speculative at best. Through the co-operation of CityHousing Hamilton, and the Sheridan Elder Research Centre (SERC), this 3 stage qualitative study seeks to identify some of the needs of these women. Phase 1 results will inform a pilot project to retrofit existing apartments in 3 of CityHousing Hamilton’s buildings, each built in the 1970s and each within the urban environment. The pilot project will be followed by practical ongoing retrofitting solutions to be provided for use by the city. Phase 1, which began in January of 2005, is complete. Phases 2 and 3 are scheduled for completion by the end of 2007

Alien Registration- Carroll, Mary E. (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Carroll, Mary C. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Learning disabilities historical overview and definitions

What is meant by terms brain damaged and learning disability ? It was the intent of the writer to acquaint the reader with history of the term. learning disabilities and provide a review of the definitions of the term

Alien Registration- Carroll, Mary G. (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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Luminescence probes for the measurement of oxygen

The goal of this project was to design an optical sensor for oxygen. One type of system suitable for oxygen detection in aqueous solutions is based on two distinct emission bands: one band oxygen-sensitive, the other insensitive to oxygen quenching. By taking the ratio of these bands, a quantitative measurement of the oxygen present could be obtained. This could be accomplished in a system where a fluorescing compound, through triplet state energy transfer, causes a lanthanide ion to luminesce. By choosing a compound which has a triplet energy near the excitation wavelength of terbium (III) or europium (III) and which has a fluorescence that is itself insensitive to oxygen quenching, a suitable system could be developed. The lanthanide luminescence bands would not be subject to direct oxygen quenching. Rather, the triplet state energy transfer to the lanthanide would compete with the rate of quenching of the triplet state by oxygen. As the solution is deaerated, an increase in lanthanide luminescence would be observed. Chemical systems tested for this application include micellar solutions containing a naphthalene- or pyrene-derivative and terbium (III) or europium (III)