Exercises for developing imagery in the fourth grade.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Resisting NSA Surveillance: Glenn Greenwald and the public sphere debate about privacy

In May of 2013, National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong with thousands of classified NSA documents. He contacted Glenn Greenwald, blogger, activist, and journalist for The Guardian. Greenwald and several other reporters flew to Hong Kong, where they spent a week interviewing Snowden. Greenwald began reporting on the documents in The Guardian, publishing many articles that demonstrated that the US government was spying on US citizens without court warrants. The leak was considered the biggest in NSA history. One year later, Greenwald published No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, and The U.S. Surveillance State. In this book, he discussed his meeting with Snowden, the NSA documents, and his concerns about the US surveillance state. In both Greenwald’s Guardian articles and No Place to Hide, the journalist discusses the implications of NSA surveillance. He explains technical means of surveillance and encourages the public to resist these tactics. Analyzing Greenwald’s rhetoric, I find that he takes a Foucauldian perspective on surveillance. NSA surveillance, Greenwald argues, leads citizens to self-discipline and suppress their own dissenting thoughts because of the possibility of being watched at any time. Additionally, Greenwald’s case can be analyzed through Goodnight’s three spheres of argument. Many scholars express concern that the technical sphere, which is open to only elite members with specialized knowledge, is eclipsing the public sphere, or the arena in which citizens discuss matters of common concern. This case demonstrates the effects of a public sphere pushback on isolated, technical arguments. Greenwald calls for the public sphere to deliberate as an antidote to surveillance. He characterizes the NSA as an isolated technical community which does not consider public concerns. Central tenets of the public sphere include public access and openness, and central tenets of surveillance power include public inaccessibility and technical closure. Greenwald’s rhetoric juxtaposes these competing values to encourage public sphere resistance of surveillance. He asks his readers to resist the NSA by continuing to discuss NSA surveillance

MS

thesisThis study compared visitors to a moderate altitude (1,829 m to 3,10D m) hospitalized with myocardial ischemia and/or infarction to hospitalized residents of that moderate altitude with similar diagnoses. The purpose was to quantify, describe and compare visitor and resident characteristics and hospital courses in order to determine whether a relationship existed between the severity of myocardial ischemia and/or infarction occurring at moderate altitude and the altitude of residence. The study group consisted of 112 patients admitted to the Intensive Care-Coronary Care Unit of a 64 bed rural hospital with either myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction. The study design was an ex-post facto chart review for a 36 month period. Subjects were divided into two groups of either visitors or residents of the study area. These two groups were further subdivided into subjects with ischemia and subjects with infarction. Data on numerous variables was collected from the medical record. Using an independent student t-test and chi-square statistic no relationship was found between the severity of ischemia or infarction and the altitude of residence. There were no significant differences during hospitalization between visitors and residents in complications, length of hospitalization or length of supplemental oxygen usage. Based on a Spearman Rho correlation and independent student t-test, findings do suggest that altitude may affect physiologic response to ischemia or infarction. Visitors tended to have more frequent ventricular tachycardia and sinus bradycardia and higher admission blood pressures. Prior to hospitalization altitude may have affected visitors' abilities to compensate for an ischemic event. This is suggested by the findings that a larger percentage (46%) of the visitor population was diagnosed with myocardial infarction than was the resident group with only 30% diagnosed with infarction

Questions of Professional Practice and Reporting on State Secrets: Glenn Greenwald and the NSA Leaks

In 2013, journalist Glenn Greenwald met with Edward Snowden, who leaked the most documents in the history of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Greenwald reported on these documents and proved that the NSA spied on millions of American citizens. However, he also provided commentary about the state of journalism and argued that journalists are often complicit in the keeping of state secrets. Using a rhetorical analysis of Greenwald\u27s writings in The Guardian and his later book, this essay argues that journalists function as a technical audience that debates professional standards for leaking secrets. In Greenwald\u27s case, journalists were involved in the re-secreting of NSA behavior as they focused their coverage on Greenwald. This essay finds that secrets are communicatively revealed and concealed using different rhetorical appeals. In an age of political hostility toward journalists, the success of leak journalism in starting public discussion has significance for democratic deliberation

Analysis of the effectiveness of an instructional strategy to teach selected problem-solving skills to nursing students

The purpose of this research was to determine if selected problem-solving skills of freshmen nursing students in an associate-degree nursing program could be enhanced by an instructional strategy that combined simulated patient encounters with two types of feedback obtained from experienced nurses. The skills were: (1) the detection, encoding, and retrieval of cues and (2) the generation of tentative problem formulations. Six videotaped simulations of nurse-patient encounters were shown to a group of experienced nurses, who were asked to write tentative problem formulations with relevant cues and summarizing assessments of the situations. Data of the nurses\u27 information processing activities while performing the simulation exercises were additionally collected and analyzed. The results of this analysis were used to develop an instructional package that was tested on a sample of freshmen nursing students.;The sample was randomly assigned to three groups: two treatment groups and a posttest-only control group. The following were hypothesized: (1) that the selected problem-solving skills of the treatment groups would be significantly improved by the instructional strategy, and (2) that the skills would be more greatly enhanced in the treatment group which received outcome and process feedback from the experienced nurses than in the treatment group which received outcome feedback only.;The results of the analysis of covariance supported the first hypothesis but not the second hypothesis. It was found that the mean of the group receiving outcome feedback was significantly higher than the control group, but that there was no difference in the means of the control group and the treatment group which received both outcome and process feedback.;Limitations of the study were related to the samples used; i.e., the number of experienced nurses was small and the sample of students was drawn from an existing nursing program. Implications for future research included: (1) other applications and modifications of the components of the instructional strategy; (2) variation of the types of simulation; (3) further research into problem-solving processes and outcomes of experienced nurses

"That most detestable picture": the Reception of G. F. Watts’s The Spirit of Christianity in Australasia

George Frederick Watts’s Dedicated to all the Churches (1875), which became better known as The Spirit of Christianity, was possibly the most discussed picture shown at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held in Dunedin in 1889-90. In contrast, its appearance at Melbourne’s Centennial International Exhibition (1888-90) passed with barely a comment. This paper contrasts the reception of the painting in these contexts as part of a broader investigation of the expectation that this and other British paintings that were toured to Australasia for international exhibitions would play a significant role in the education and civilisation of exhibition visitors. In particular, it considers the role of “colonial taste,” and what the reception of Watts’s painting might tell us about the understanding of “High Art” by the “enlightened” versus the “common” colonist

The State Collections of Colonial New Zealand Art: Intertwined Histories of Collecting and Display

This thesis explores the collecting and exhibiting of colonial art (before 1908) by New Zealand's state institutions: the Colonial (later Dominion) Museum; the Alexander Turnbull Library; and the National Art Gallery. It recovers evidence of the provenance of works of art within the state collections and accounts for acquisitions in terms of the ideological interests they serve, interests which reflect the intellectual concerns of the key individuals and the historical and political circumstances within which they worked. It examines how works of art were displayed in the institutions themselves, and in other exhibitions, including international exhibitions, both locally and abroad, from 1865 to 1940. This allows for analysis of the 'use' to which colonial art was put by the state, while investigation of the related contemporary discourse provides evidence of its reception and interpretation by critics and audience. This study employs a variety of analytical strategies, including: the place of class in relation to the colonial art world; the aesthetics of 'space' and the practicalities of exhibition in the colonial period; the shifting ground of what constitutes 'art', in particular 'New Zealand art', in the period under study; and the fluctuating, often problematic, status of much colonial art as both 'information' and as 'art'. Consequently, while informed by international scholarship, this thesis needed to adapt models formed for the explanation of metropolitan museology to accommodate the unique nature of the colonial experience in New Zealand. It concludes that, in contrast to many European institutions, the state was largely content to use New Zealand's art as information - as illustration of the colony's natural wonders and resources - and that no real attempt to define a national art history was initiated until the centennial celebrations of 1940. Significantly, this thesis does not just consider the evolution of one state institution. Rather, it recognises that the histories of New Zealand's cultural institutions - Museum, Gallery and Library - require a consideration of their development in relation to one another. This reveals a history of interconnectedness that reflects the complexity of colonial culture, and which ironically prefigures the challenge posed by colonial art to the postmodern descendent of the Museum and Gallery - the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The State Collections of Colonial New Zealand Art: Intertwined Histories of Collecting and Display

This thesis explores the collecting and exhibiting of colonial art (before 1908) by New Zealand's state institutions: the Colonial (later Dominion) Museum; the Alexander Turnbull Library; and the National Art Gallery. It recovers evidence of the provenance of works of art within the state collections and accounts for acquisitions in terms of the ideological interests they serve, interests which reflect the intellectual concerns of the key individuals and the historical and political circumstances within which they worked. It examines how works of art were displayed in the institutions themselves, and in other exhibitions, including international exhibitions, both locally and abroad, from 1865 to 1940. This allows for analysis of the 'use' to which colonial art was put by the state, while investigation of the related contemporary discourse provides evidence of its reception and interpretation by critics and audience. This study employs a variety of analytical strategies, including: the place of class in relation to the colonial art world; the aesthetics of 'space' and the practicalities of exhibition in the colonial period; the shifting ground of what constitutes 'art', in particular 'New Zealand art', in the period under study; and the fluctuating, often problematic, status of much colonial art as both 'information' and as 'art'. Consequently, while informed by international scholarship, this thesis needed to adapt models formed for the explanation of metropolitan museology to accommodate the unique nature of the colonial experience in New Zealand. It concludes that, in contrast to many European institutions, the state was largely content to use New Zealand's art as information - as illustration of the colony's natural wonders and resources - and that no real attempt to define a national art history was initiated until the centennial celebrations of 1940. Significantly, this thesis does not just consider the evolution of one state institution. Rather, it recognises that the histories of New Zealand's cultural institutions - Museum, Gallery and Library - require a consideration of their development in relation to one another. This reveals a history of interconnectedness that reflects the complexity of colonial culture, and which ironically prefigures the challenge posed by colonial art to the postmodern descendent of the Museum and Gallery - the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Mrs. Rebecca Rice

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