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The Moral Integrity Development on Nursing Students in Two-Year Colleges: Author: Wirtz, Ellen Frances; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Education; Abstract: Moral integrity development and professional decision making ability is a vital characteristic in nurses. A review of the literature revealed that while the moral development of baccalaureate nursing students had been investigated, there was little data investigating the variables affecting the moral development of nursing students in two-year colleges. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate if age, gender, prior work experience in the health care field, prior college experience and grade point average made a difference in the moral development of nursing students in two-year ...; Download File | View full details

Sound design for non-fiction film and video: a discussion of methodology, perception, and ethics: Author: Burge, Eric William; Date: 2007-12-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: Traditional documentary films, particularly science and natural history works, presume to authentically or legitimately convey accurate representations of historical events that actually occurred at a prior time. Factual and convincing representations are not necessarily congruent, and a film's merit of authenticity is often based on the perceived validity of the visual content represented. While visual imagery dominates a presentation's general delivery, a film's sound design is a fundamental structural element that is often overlooked or less scrutinized with regard to factual or accurate re...; Download File | View full details

Now and all are important: a post-structural critique of humanism, Aldo Leopold's The Land Ethic and Disney/Pixar's Wall-E: Author: Dye, Charles Eugene; Date: 2008-12-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: Feelings of hopelessness and meaninglessness have become hallmarks of American society. As a filmmaker and film educator it is clear I share a responsibility to address these defining issues. Using some of the ideas of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, Neil Evernden, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bill Nichols, Nell Noddings, José Ortega y Gasset, Edward Said, and Erwin Straus, I observe this problem to be a result of dispassionate humanism-a machineworld story considered appropriate in the current social construction. From this critical perspective, I then analyze Aldo Leopold's The Land Ethic ...; Download File | View full details

Project FRESH: Author: Aune, Matthew David; Date: 2010-05-15; Program: Architecture; Abstract: Project FRESH is about creating a sustainable food system for our future. It is the goal of this project to design a large scaled environmentally controlled farm. The vision of this farm is to relieve many of the social and environmental stress that arise out of our current food systems. Furthermore this book is a compilation of research that investigates the problems and solutions that pertain to our modern food system. The first part of the book is research that expresses the current issues that exist with our food system today. This research will state and elaborate on the problems for whic...; Download File | View full details

Recovering the ethics of readership from immediacy: Holocaust and deconstructive criticism's spectre in Anglophone African trauma narratives: Author: Oines, Luke Anton; Date: 2010-12-15; Program: English; Abstract: Anglophone African Trauma Narratives is a title that classifies a growing subgenre of Lost Boy and child soldier narratives. This corpus is represented by works such as: A Long Way Gone, What is the What, War Child, Beasts of No Nation, and They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. Such works market the memories of violent childhood as an empathy-creating nexus for Western audiences. Despite the humanitarian appeal, the aesthetic architecture of AATN creates serious problems for ethical readership. The virtuality created by these texts (to varying degrees) has the effect of transporting the reader'...; Download File | View full details