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Göransdotter, Maria. "A Home for Modern Life : Educating Taste in 1940s Sweden." Umeå universitet, Institutionen Designhögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-68869.
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This paper focuses on how interior decoration and taste was seen and taught in relation to the vision of the ideal home in 1940s Sweden. Two phenomena that are focused on are surveys of how people actually lived, and the attempts made to alter that way of living. The activities of Svenska Slöjdföreningen (SSF, the Swedish Society of Industrial Design) is used as a prism for discerning the discourse on domestic interior reform, and the study consists of a close reading and analysis based on archival material and publications linked to SSF. Part of the archival material consists of survey protocols and photograph, of Swedish homes, from a survey into “dwelling habits” initiated by the Association of Swedish Architects (SAR) and the SSF. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, these kinds of surveys were made in order to analyse the standard of living, and the usage of homes and furniture with the aim to find adequate ways of building better housing, of producing better furniture, and of educating people to be more modern and enlightened consumers and home-makers. Based on these findings, courses were given on how to furnish and decorate the home. Through courses in how to furnish and decorate the home, the ideal home was to become real. I mean that the concept of “taste” was almost as important as the concept of “home” in the vision of what modern Swedish society should be like, but that manifesting “good taste” in the home in the 1940s meant something more than merely creating an aesthetically pleasing or beautiful interior. Taste was, above all, seen as an indicator of the degree of modernity and social awareness of people.
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Lane, Margaret. "Women and domestic life in Hull, 1920s to the 1960s." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5374.
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Larson, Christina F. "America Seen through the Work of Paul Sample." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1427980908.
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Messenger, Sharon Ann. "The life-styles of young middle-class women in Liverpool in the 1920s and 1930s." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366703.
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Resuloglu, Cilga. "The Tunali Hilmi Avenue, 1950s-1980s: The Formation Of A Public Place In Ankara." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613369/index.pdf.
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In this study, the socio-spatial formation of a public place in Ankara, the capital city of the Turkish Republic, is analyzed between the 1950s and the 1980s. Within this framework, the focus of analysis is the Tunali Hilmi Avenue (earlier Ö<br>zdemir Street) as one of the main streets in Ankara. To understand experiences of daily life in relation to spatial constitution of a public place is vital for this study, because this opens the way for discussing the formation of a &ldquo<br>street&rdquo<br>as a public place where social forms and practices come into being in the city.
Focusing on the socio-spatial experiences of people on a street as a public place, this study uses visual and written documents about the architectural and planning processes, as well as the information gathered from oral history survey about the experiences of individuals, in order to understand how public life and public place are shaped in a reciprocal manner, and how the spatial formation of a street is realized in relation to daily experiences of its inhabitants.
The decades from the foundation of the Turkish Republic until the late-1950s are initially presented as the period when this part of the city transformed from a suburb of vineyards into a residential area. The main period of analysis in this study is from the late 1950s to the late 1980s when the Tunali Hilmi Avenue was formed as a significant public place in Ankara, acquiring residential as well as cultural, recreational and commercial functions to act as an urban sub-center in the city.
Aiming to produce a comprehensive architectural history of the socio-spatial formation of the Tunali Hilmi Avenue as a public place, with reference to its public role in a specific period of time, this study examines this process as associated with the contemporary changes in the built environment and daily life of Ankara. From such a broad perspective, the study evaluates the unplanned formation of the Avenue as an urban sub-center not only as an urban or architectural entity but also as a social process.
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Akinsha, Konstantin. "Second life of Soviet photomontage, 1935-1980s." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7871.
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This dissertation explores the development of Soviet photomontage from the second half of the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Until now, the transformation of the modernist medium and its incorporation into the everyday practice of Soviet visual propaganda during and after the Second World War has not attracted much scholarly attention. The firm association of photomontage with the Russian Avant-garde in general, and with Constructivism in particular, has led art historians to disregard the fact that the medium was practised in the USSR until the final days of the Soviet system. The conservative government organisations in control of propaganda preserved satirical photomontage in its post-Dadaist phase and Heartfield-like form, finding it useful in the production of negative propaganda.
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Kristenson, Olle. "Pastor in the Shadow of Violence : Gustavo Gutiérrez as a Public Pastoral Theologian in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-109762.
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This dissertation is a study of the role of Gustavo Gutiérrez as a public pastor in the 1980s and 1990s in Peru. His collaboration with the Lima newspaper La República from the early 1980s gave him a figurative pulpit from which he addressed the Peruvian public on specific occasions. The fundamental question in the dissertation is: How did Gutiérrez respond as pastor to the Peruvian public and how did he express his pastoral concern? The study analyses materials that has not been object for previous studies, such as theological essays and articles in newspapers and periodicals. With inspiration from discourse analysis four discourses have been identified in Gutiérrez’ texts. These discourses interact and through this interaction Gutiérrez formulates his pastoral message. For the socio-political analysis two political discourses are used, the radical and the liberal. The radical political discourse deals with justice for the poor and liberation from oppression as a condition for peace and harmony in society, which are in focus for the liberal political discourse. With the Catholic theological discourse Gutiérrez sets the socio-political analysis in relation to Catholic doctrine and through the pastoral theological discourse he gives reason for hope and inspiration to action. As an advocate for a theology of life, Gutiérrez urges those who read and listen to him to break the pattern of death and opt for this theology of life. In his role as pastor, Gutiérrez speaks words of comfort and encouragement but also words of admonition and warning to those in power who have the capacity to transform society.
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Ferris, Catherine. "Living dictatorship : everyday life in fascist Venice 1929-1940." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444566/.
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This PhD thesis analyses the lived, everyday experience of Italian fascism in Venice from 1929-1940 through the examination of a number of collective cultural experiences, encountered by Venetians in their daily lives and over the life-course, in order to reveal how far the fascist regime succeeded in penetrating and appropriating the private spheres and 'collective memory' of Venetian society, as well as to demonstrate the complexities of 'ordinary' people's lived experience of fascism and their responses to the intrusion of the regime and its cultural products into their daily lives. To this end, the thesis is loosely structured according to the chronology of the life-course, with chapters addressing the experience of youth, adolescence and free time popular celebrations and festivals the impact of economic autarchy on food, drink, fashion etc. the experience of death and funeral rituals. Treading a line which seeks to heed Mossean exhortations to examine fascism from the inside as well as out- and to take seriously fascism's own understanding of itself whilst rejecting a reduction of the fascist project to nothing more than spectacle and discourse, this study aims to highlight the intricacies, complexities and potential creativity of life under Mussolini's dictatorship, drawing new attention to the distinction between, on the one hand, the regime's intentions and, on the other, the reception of fascist cultural products by its citizens. Using a theoretical framework informed by the work of Koselleck, Jauss, Said, Hoggart, Chartier and, in particular, Michel de Certeau, the results of this research ultimately reveal the limitations of the regime's reach: the lagunari of the 1930s emerge as 'consumer-producers' who used the fascist cultural products they encountered creatively, absorbing, accepting, modifying or rejecting their messages, mediated as they were through narratives - of the nation, the church and the Serenissima republic - with the potential to both strengthen and weaken their intended meaning, as these mingled and clashed with pre-existing and enduring mentalites.
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Fox, Craig. "Everyday Klansfolk : white protestant life and the K.K.K in 1920s Michigan." Thesis, University of York, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479508.
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Caunce, Stephen Andrew. "Farming with horses in the East Riding of Yorkshire : some aspects of recent agricultural history." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328699.
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Lock, Chung-sum Andy, and 駱松森. "To live and work in peace and contentment: the political attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese, with special referencto the China factor, from the late 1940s to the late 1950s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31211707.
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France, Alan. "Youth and citizenship in the 1990s : an ethnography of life in Westhill." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10237/.
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This thesis examines the meanings and experiences of citizenship for a particular group of working class young people. By using an ethnographic methodology it identifies the different social processes that influence how they experience citizenship and how they perceive themselves as present and future citizens. Ideas proposed by T.H. Marshall have dominated post war discourses on citizenship, but these have failed to explain what it means to the young working class to be a citizen. The meaning of youth has historically and culturally undergone change. What it means to be young and working class is greatly influenced by factors such as, the cultural context of community life, the structural relationships of production and consumption, and the wider ideological meanings and policies of political movements such as those of the New Right. It is within this context that citizenship in the 1990s, as a way of life for the young working class,needs to be understood. Sites such as community, work, and leisure and consumption remain central to young people's experience of citizenship. It is in these sites where they gain support and status towards moving into the adult world. Yet changes, especially in work and leisure, are making life increasingly difficult for the young. Opportunities to undertake transitions into adulthood are being affected by the lack of opportunities for full employment, the growth of social divisions and increased generational conflict. These can then undermine young people's feelings of responsibility and obligations. Young women's experience and meanings of citizenship differ from those of young men. Expectations of others around sexuality and gender are influential in 'shaping' young women's choices and opportunities. Young working class women are clearly aware of this and attempt to develop strategies within relationships and the job market which help them resist the inevitability of the 'motherhood trap'. Young people's responses to their experiences of citizenship are to reject the system that claims to represent their interests, that of Parliamentary democracy. But this is not to say that the young are non political, as they construct and act upon their own 'political theories' of the world. It may also be the case that if a wider definition of the 'political' is constructed, then certain actions around 'resistance', 'defence' and 'survival' could also be deemed as possible political responses to their experiences of citizenship.
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Sousa, Ada Lima Ferreira de. "A figuratividade nas hist?rias em quadrinhos: uma an?lise das constru??es metaf?ricas e meton?micas em V de vingan?a." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2014. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/19407.
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Previous issue date: 2014-11-13<br>Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a constru??o de met?foras e de meton?mias nas hist?rias em quadrinhos e est? inserido no campo da Lingu?stica Cognitiva Corporificada. Tomo por base, especificamente, a Teoria Neural da Linguagem (FELDMAN, 2006) e, em conson?ncia com esse arcabou?o te?rico-metodol?gico, utilizo as no??es de categoriza??o (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1999), corporalidade (GIBBS, 2005), figuratividade (GIBBS, 1994; BERGEN, 2005) e simula??o mental (BARSALOU, 1999; FELDMAN, Ibid.). A hip?tese defendida ? a de que a constru??o da figuratividade em textos constitu?dos por mecanismos verbais e n?o verbais est? atrelada ? ativa??o de estruturas neurais relacionadas a nossas a??es e percep??es. Desse modo, a linguagem ? considerada uma faculdade cognitiva ligada ao aparato cerebral e ?s experi?ncias corp?reas, de maneira que ela fornece amostras do processo cont?nuo de (re)constru??o de sentidos efetivado pelo leitor, o qual (re)define suas vis?es acerca do mundo ? medida que certas redes neurais s?o (ou deixam de ser) ativadas durante o processamento lingu?stico. Dados obtidos na an?lise apontam que, no tocante ?s hist?rias em quadrinhos, a leitura dos recursos gr?ficos integrada ? da linguagem verbal parece ter um papel importante na constru??o de met?foras e de meton?mias, havendo casos, inclusive, de met?foras metonimicamente motivadas. Essas conclus?es adv?m da an?lise de dados retirados da obra V de vingan?a (MOORE; LLOYD, 2006). O estudo do corpus ? pautado na metodologia da introspec??o, isto ?, a an?lise individual dos aspectos lingu?sticos conforme se manifestam na pr?pria cogni??o do sujeito (TALMY, 2005).<br>The object of this study is the construction of metaphor and metonymy in comics. This work is inserted in the field of Embodied Cognitive Linguistics, specifically based on the Neural Theory of Language (FELDMAN, 2006) and, consistent with this theoretical and methodological framework, the notions of categorization (LAKOFF & JOHNSON, 1999), embodiment (GIBBS, 2005), figurativity (GIBBS, 1994; BERGEN, 2005), and mental simulation (BARSALOU, 1999; FELDMAN, 2006) have also been used. The hypothesis defended is that the construction of figurativity in texts consisting of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms is linked to the activation of neural structures related to our actions and perceptions. Thus, language is considered a cognitive faculty connected to the brain apparatus and to bodily experiences, in such a way that it provides samples of the continuous process of meaning (re)construction performed by the reader, whom (re)defines his or her views about the world as certain neural networks are (or stop being) activated during linguistic processing. The data obtained during the analysys shows that, as regards comics, the act of reading together the graphics and verbal language seems to have an important role in the construction of figurativity, including cases of metaphors which are metonymically motivated. These preliminary conclusions were drawn from the data analysis taken from V de Vingan?a (MOORE; LLOYD, 2006). The corpus study was guided by the methodology of introspection, i.e., the individual analysis of linguistic aspects as manifested in one's own cognition (TALMY, 2005).
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Lock, Chung-sum Andy. "To live and work in peace and contentment : the political attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese, with special referenc to the China factor, from the late 1940s to the late 1950s /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1352527X.
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Norton, Elizabeth Harmon. "Monsters Like Us: Reexamining “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Through the Decades." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849692/.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the multiple versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in concert and determine the reason for their continued presence in the American cultural landscape. To do so I will look at the novel and four films and examine the context in which they were created. In reexamining the novel and films, a central theme begins to emerge: interiority. Fear in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" moves from an external to an internal threat. The bodily locus of the monstrous other has been re-purposed and re-projected outward. The internal nature of the monstrous threat is displayed in the narrative’s use of production and distribution, mental health professionals, pseudo-families, and the vilification of sleep. Finally, this paper will examine the studio influence on the various films and their impact on the relative endings.
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Rosa, Lara Terezinha Rodrigues. "O cotidiano de trabalho do assistente social na Casa de Apoio UNIFESP/CACAU." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19401.
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Previous issue date: 2016-09-27<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>This dissertation discusses and deeper reflection on the everyday reality of users
Treatment Outside Domicilio-TFD and Support House UNIFESP/CACAU. The built
reflection web over the four chapters that make up this dissertation is the result of an
intense dialogue with the Marxist theoretical framework and the research participants,
considering that we have chosen the qualitative methodology, through the mediation
of oral history that from the narratives brought by patients and caregivers of the
House of Support, we grasp the meanings of livings and conviviality during the
period of medical treatment outside of the household. Participants of this research
were intentionally chosen, forming a universe of six speakers with experience
intensely lived under the Support House and TFD. In this sense, in chapter I present
the theoretical foundations that have sustained our methodological construction to go
findado field in ethical perspective. In Chapter II, in brief statements we contextualize
the Brazilian socio-historical formation, as well as the trajectory Health Policy in
Brazil, discussing elements related to the SUS and TFD. Finally, in Chapters III and
IV, we deepen the reflection on the daily work of the social worker in Support House
and the meaning of home support in the life trajectories of users of this service and
treatment outside of domicile. Closer to the everyday reality of survey participants
was a challenging and very important process because we know the area of ethical
and political mediations that, despite the many daily challenges of reality treatment
outside household and hosting Support House points out ways and possibilities of
reflections aimed at ensuring the quality of health care and the emancipatory
empowerment in the struggle for Saude Publica universal, full and equal access<br>Esta dissertação problematiza e aprofunda a reflexão sobre a realidade cotidiana de
usuários do Tratamento Fora de Domicílio-TFD e da Casa de Apoio
UNIFESP/CACAU. A teia de reflexão construída ao longo dos quatro capítulos que
constituem esta dissertação é resultado de uma intensa interlocução com o referencial
teórico marxista e com os participantes da pesquisa, haja vista que optamos pela
metodologia qualitativa, pela mediação da história oral que a partir das narrativas
trazidas pelos pacientes e acompanhantes da Casa de Apoio, apreendemos os
significados das vivências e convivências durante o período em tratamento médico
fora de domicilio. Os participantes dessa pesquisa foram intencionalmente escolhidos,
conformando um universo de seis interlocutores com experiências intensamente
vividas no âmbito da Casa de Apoio e do TFD. Nesse sentido, no primeiro capítulo
apresentamos as bases teóricas que sustentaram nossa construção metodológica para o
ir a campo findado na perspectiva ética. No segundo capítulo, contextualizamos
brevemente a formação sócio-histórica brasileira, bem como a trajetória da política de
saúde no Brasil, problematizando elementos referentes ao SUS e ao TFD. Por fim, no
terceiro e quarto capítulos, aprofundamos a reflexão sobre o trabalho cotidiano do
assistente social na Casa de Apoio e o significado da Casa de Apoio nas trajetórias de
vida dos usuários desse serviço e em tratamento fora de domicílio. Aproximar da
realidade cotidiana dos participantes da pesquisa foi um processo desafiador e de
extrema importância, pois conhecemos um espaço de mediações éticas e políticas
que, apesar dos múltiplos desafios cotidianos da realidade do tratamento fora de
domicílio e a hospedagem na Casa de Apoio, aponta caminhos e possibilidades de
reflexões que visam à garantia da atenção de saúde de qualidade e o empoderamento
emancipatório na luta por uma saúde pública de acesso universal, integral e
igualitária
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Mason, Emma Jane. "A social analysis of the Soviet prison camps of the 1930s." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369722.
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CARVALHO, Lucimeire Alves de. "Condição de Nilpotência para Grupos Localmente Finitos de expoente p e Álgebras de Lie (p-1)- Engel de Característica p (ou 0)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1940.
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Previous issue date: 2011-04-25<br>Let P be a locally finite group of prime exponent p, admitting a finite soluble automorphism group G of order n coprime to p. In this work we study the influence of the centralizers of the automorphisms in G on the structure of P. In this sense we show that if CP(G), the subgroup of fixed points is soluble of derived length d, then P is nilpotent of class bounded in terms of p, n and d. It will be also shown that if a (p-1)-Engel Lie algebra L of characteristic p (or 0) admits a finite soluble automorphism group G of order n coprime to the characteristic of L, such that CL(G), the subalgebra of fixed points, is soluble of derived length d, then the Lie algebra L is nilpotent of class bounded in terms
of p, n and d.<br>Seja P um grupo localmente finito de expoente primo p, admitindo um grupo G de automorfismos solúvel finito de ordem n coprima com p. Neste trabalho estudaremos a influência dos centralizadores dos automorfismos em G sobre a estrutura de P. Nesse sentido, mostraremos que se CP(G), o subgrupo de pontos fixos, é solúvel de comprimento derivado d, então P é nilpotente de classe limitada em termos de p;n e d. Será demonstrado também que se uma álgebra de Lie (p-1)-Engel L, de característica p (ou 0) admite um grupo de automorfismos G solúvel finito de ordem n coprima com a característica de L, tal que CL(G), a subálgebra de pontos fixos, é solúvel de comprimento
derivado d, então a álgebra de Lie L é nilpotente de classe limitada em termos de p;n e d.
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Gagnat, Maren Ranheim. "The effect of different live feed on the early growth and development of ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta Ascanius, 1767) larvae and its organs." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for biologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-19404.
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Salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) have been an increasing problem for the Norwegian aquaculture industry in recent years, and several chemicals have been used by the industry to get rid of the louse. However, resistance and reduced sensitivity towards a large quantity of these has resulted in a blooming interest for the use of wrasse as a biological method of sea louse control. The ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) is considered the most promising species for aquaculture, but problems with poor survival, growth and skeletal deformities suggest that a suboptimal first feeding practice may be used. At present, commercial farmers first feed the ballan wrasse larvae on enriched rotifers from 4 to approximately 30 dph, followed by Artemia sp. until weaning on formulated feed is successful. Copepods are considered the natural prey of most marine fish larvae, and usually a greater larval growth, survival and development are observed when they are used as first feed instead of rotifers. This has been attributed to the copepods high fraction of essential fatty acids in their polar lipid fraction, in addition to their great amounts of protein and free amino acids. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of using intensively reared copepods (Acartia tonsa naupliii) as early live feed for the ballan wrasse larvae on the larval growth and survival, and early organ growth and development, compared to using rotifers (Brachionus ibericus). Four different feeding regimes were used, varying in the live feed provided during the first 30 days. Larvae from the “Copepod”-treatment were fed exclusively with A. tonsa during this period. Larvae from the “Cop7”-treatment were fed A. tonsa from 4 to 10 dph, with a transition to enriched rotifers. Fish larvae from the “RotMG”-treatment were fed enriched rotifers the whole period, while the “RotChl”-treatment had a diet consisting of unenriched rotifers. All treatments had a transition to Artemia from 24-30 dph, and were weaned to formulated feed from 40-50 dph. Results from the present study indicated that intensively reared A. tonsa was more suitable as early live feed for ballan wrasse larvae compared to enriched or unenriched rotifers. Increased growth rates were obtained while feeding the larvae with copepods, and it resulted in larvae with significantly higher dry weight at the end of the experimental period (61 dph). No difference in larval growth was observed when feeding with enriched or unenriched rotifers, however larvae fed unenriched rotifers had a significantly lower survival than larvae from all other treatments. Higher organ volume growth rates were observed when copepods were used as feed, and the organ volumes were found to relate to the larval standard length. At 21 dph, the Copepod larvae had a significantly higher proportion of musculature than larvae from the other treatments, and the intestine appeared to be more developed and mature.
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Daly, Lisa Jean. "Defending a way of life civil defense in the United States, 1940--1963 /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Chua, Ai Lin. "Modernity, popular culture and urban life : Anglophone Asians in colonial Singapore, 1920-1940." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265490.
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As a thriving cosmopolitan port city in Southeast Asia, Singapore under British colonial rule was quick to embrace international trends in popular culture. The multiethnic, Anglophone, Asian middle-class was most influenced by new ideas and modern mass consumer technologies. In this thesis, modern popular culture is investigated through a social history sunounding various modes of mass consumer technologies which became increasingly embedded in the everyday life of Singapore's cityscape. The local popular press and amateur associations played a key role in the promotion of new technologies and consumer tastes, which in turn provided opportunities for commercial enterprises in Singapore. The motor car brought about an important qualitative shift in the physical experience of movement, freedom of mobility and the experience of the city's streets. The automobile was also a focus for the expression of new middle-class lifestyles and social tastes, while allowing earlier patterns of ethno-economic employment to continue. A highly cosmopolitan cinema industry also developed rapidly in Singapore, marking its presence on the city's built landscape. Despite official attempts at censorship, vibrant public debates illustrate the cinema's deep influence on changing social ideals, values and fashion trends especially amongst young people and women. Shortwav� radio offered an even more intense experience of global cultures and the wonders of modern technology. Even as the colonial government attempted to connect the British empire through wireless radio, broadcasting in Singapore became increasingly localised in terms of personnel involved and content. Together with gramophone records, the medium of radio developed symbiotically with other urban entertainments at the time. In conclusion, this thesis reveals the depth and textures of an distinctively local experience of modernity in inter-war Singapore. In addition, the shared experience of popular modernity by the Anglophone Asian community formed a basis for a multiethnic community identity, echoing the newly assertive political expressions of the permanently-settled local community during this period.
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Bland, Kasey Dawn. "The Life and Career of Fashion Designer, George Stavropoulos." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1217262462.
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Kirby, Peadar Maitiu. "Growth with inequality : the international political economy of Ireland's development in the 1990s." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312031.
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Black, James E. Dr. "Subterranean Dissent in the Okefenokee Swamp: The Life and Politics of Walt Kelly's 1950s POGO." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/40.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze how and why Kelly initially began interjecting political satire into his comic strip Pogo and how he was able to avoid being blacklisted during the time of the Red Scare. The scope of this study includes a history of the medium, a biography of the author, and a discussion of humor as a means of dissent and personal artistry. The methodology uses both historical documentation and semiotic analysis of Kelly’s work from high school, the Disney studios, The New York Star and Pogo. Case studies include gender racial, and political analysis. The findings resulted from an analysis of the archive. Conclusions reached were that Kelly’s work created a new form of political dissent that was less satirical than editorial cartoons of the day and more directed toward the enjoyment of the reader rather than at any political affiliation, a form of comedic writing that continues to be used today in such forms as the Daily Show, Colbert Report and Saturday Night Live. This new form of political satire is important to journalistic studies since it reveals a theme of parrhesia, a Socratic term for speaking truth to power, that was further developed in the twentieth century by Star columnist I. F. Stone and French philosopher Michel Foucault. The primary limitation of this study was that Pogo was an extremely personal work, one that could not be duplicated by others successfully after the author died.
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Kao, Stella. "Rediscovering the House and Body: Theatre and Performance Life in Hong Kong in the 1990s." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10423.
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What the future brings for Hong Kong and its residents had been urgently debated in local and global conversations during the period leading to the 'handover,' or, Hong Kong’s 'return' to China in 1997. My dissertation examines differing attempts by theatre practitioners to respond to these questions in the 1990's, and to inscribe new 'local-ethnographies' through performance life to rearticulate what could be said about the body and how it dwells in the city that is called, 'home.' "Changes: A City in Circulation," the first chapter, considers many differing conceptions of 'time' and 'space' which have affected how dwellers experience, and imagine Hong Kong as their "house" and "home." The second chapter, "His(her)stories: Ethnographies of the House and Body," discusses the excavating and editing of perceptions, experiences and memories for performative projects, and how difficult it has been to create 'local-ethnographies' of what it means to be a dweller in Hong Kong through any single historical interpretation. The third chapter, "Stretching the Limits: Between Bodies and Language" analyzes the instrumentality of the body and voice of performers, and how the body and voice have been key to stories that are told through performance life. "Traces of the Familiar: Between the Public and Private," the fourth chapter, looks at the interrelationship between 'self' and the 'body social,' and explores through what is staged, whether what is 'familiar' as well as 'unfamiliar' have been made 'sharable' as part of the personal stories, use of found objects, and the inhabitation of urban space that are relived and exhibited through performative projects. "Working with Human Material through Performative Work," the fifth chapter, examines the challenges to art being perceived as work, and how what is worked upon through performative laboring has been affected by, but in turn, has the potential to shape the relations of production of its times. As performance life continues to bring together those from disparate parts of the city together at least for a brief moment in time, the sixth chapter, "Dwelling Places: Somewhere Between the 'Outside' and 'Inside,'" is concerned with how my own participating, observing, researching, and writing could also be points of contact, as 'stranger' and 'friend,' 'outsider' and 'insider,' to those met through the borrowed spaces of theatre. My hope is that what is written is not an ending, but a beginning too to more entrances that could be shared, and further conversations that could be held.<br>Anthropology
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Starks, Tricia. "The body Soviet : health, hygiene, and the path to a new life in the 1920s /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488196234910834.
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O'Hanlon, Seamus. "Home together, home apart : boarding house, hostel and flat life in Melbourne, c1900-1940." Monash University, Dept. of History, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8568.
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Roberts, M. E. R. "The modernisation of family life? : Sexual divisions in architecture and town planning 1940-1957." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374738.
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Lees, David William. "Vichy on film : the portrayal in documentary propaganda of life under Occupation, 1940-1944." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/75487/.
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During four years of Vichy rule and German Occupation, French cinema audiences were exposed to a multiplicity of filmed propaganda. Documentary films formed an important part of the cinema experience in the dark years, and from March 1943 were made obligatory in cinemas across the entire French nation. The documentaries produced, commissioned, funded and sanctioned by the cinema section of the Vichy propaganda ministry, the Secrétariat Général à l’Information (SGI), were, though, distinct from any other propaganda produced by the Vichy authorities. Far from promoting exclusionary and potentially divisive themes like anti-Semitism and collaboration, Vichy documentary films throughout all four years of Occupation projected an image of life under Pétain which was frequently idealised and represented a more moderate approach than that taken in radio or poster propaganda. Drawing on themes which had been the subject of popular support before the Occupation, in particular the family, the Empire and French international standing, along with popular symbols like the tricolore and the Marseillaise, these films ignored the upheavals of the defeat and exode of June 1940 and instead seemed to suggest that life continued as it had done before the creation of the Vichy regime. This thesis examines for the first time the continuity of themes from before the Occupation in Vichy documentary film and investigates why documentaries were so distinct from the content and approach of other Vichy-produced propaganda, especially radio and posters. By examining career trajectories and interests of those responsible for documentary production, the thesis sheds new light on the motivations of Vichy’s functionaries. The close examination of the nature of the themes and values from before the Occupation conveyed in Vichy documentary film therefore advances our knowledge regarding the competing ideas and interests at work in the dark years of Occupation.
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Van, Heerden Imke. "“A life lived in cages”: strategies of containment in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of iron, Life & times of Michael K, Elizabeth Costello: eight lessons and “The poetics of reciprocity”." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1746.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In its conversations with four texts by J.M. Coetzee – Age of Iron (1990), Life & Times of Michael K (1983), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) as well as the critical essays published in Doubling the Point, “The Poetics of Reciprocity” (1992) – this thesis will demonstrate the manner in which the singularities of each of these texts prompt, expand and challenge the framework that sustains its reading of Coetzee’s fiction. Whereas some critical methodologies seek to eliminate the characteristic indeterminacy of Coetzee’s fiction, imprisoning his novels in a contextual cage, this thesis demonstrates an allegiance to the primacy of the literary text together with a concern with the ethics of reading. The thesis proposes – in both content and form – an inductive ‘style of reading’ concerned with the continuous modification of its own strategies according to the ‘internal logics of the text’. I first encountered the term, ‘confinement’, in relation to Coetzee in an unpublished conference paper by Lucy Graham, “‘It is hard to keep out of the camps’: Areas of confinement in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee”. Graham’s paper focuses on the different camps, the ‘different circles of hell’, in Life & Times of Michael K especially, mentioning that ‘images of the camp resonate throughout Coetzee’s most recent fiction’. Although this thesis considers a variety of concrete and conceptual camps as well, it rather places predominant emphasis on the relationship between reader and literary text, which is examined in terms of two forms of delimitation, confinement and containment.
This study identifies its style of reading as a ‘containment’ rather than a ‘confinement’. The term is intended to evoke an adaptable, constructive delineation of Coetzee’s fiction that involves a reciprocal relationship between reader and/or critic and text. As the thesis’s primary conceptual tool, one that I will argue is both solicited and thematised in Coetzee’s fiction, containment refers not only to a style of reading, but also to any reciprocal relationship, any mutual exchange. It applies to the relationship between genres (realism and metafiction) and ‘reality’ in Age of Iron; between text and reader in Life & Times of Michael K; between self and other in Elizabeth Costello; and between text and critic in “The Poetics of Reciprocity”. The notion of containment accepts the critical challenge posed by Coetzee’s fiction to engage with what Derek Attridge would call each ‘singular event’ or ‘act of literature’ on its own terms.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die tesis se gesprek met vier tekste deur J.M. Coetzee – Age of Iron (1990), Life and Times of Michael K (1983), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) asook die kritiese tekste wat in Doubling the Point, “The Poetics of Reciprocity” (1992) gepubliseer is – sal dit toon hoe die sonderlinghede van elk van hierdie tekste die raamwerk wat my interpretasie van Coetzee se fiksie ondersteun, uitbrei en uitdaag. Waar sekere kritiese metodologieë probeer om die kenmerkende onbepaaldheid van Coetzee se fiksie te elimineer en sy romans in ’n konstekstuele hok te beperk, demonstreer hierdie tesis ’n getrouheid aan die voorrang wat die literêre teks moet geniet, insluitend ’n gemoeidheid met die etiek van lees. Die tesis stel, ten opsigte van sowel inhoud as vorm, ’n induktiewe ‘leesstyl’ voor wat gemoeid is met die deurentydse aanpassing van sy eie strategieë volgens ‘die interne logikas van die teks’. Ek het die term ‘beperking’ vir die eerste keer teëgekom in ’n ongepubliseerde referaat deur Lucy Graham, “‘It is hard to keep out of the camps’: Areas of confinement in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee”. Hierdie voordrag fokus op die onderskeie kampe in spesifiek Life & Times of Michael K. Graham wys daarop dat ‘die kamp-beeld in resente Coetzee-werke resoneer’. Alhoewel hierdie tesis ook variante van konkrete en konsepsuele kampe bekyk, gaan dit verder om by voorkeur die klem te laat val op die verhouding tussen leser en literêre teks. Dit word ondersoek in terme van twee vorme van afbakening en ontperking, naamlik beperking en inperking.
Hierdie studie definieer sy eie leesstyl as ‘inperking’, in teenstelling tot ‘beperking’. Die bedoeling met die term is om `n aanpasbare, konstruktiewe afbakening van Coetzee se fiksie te ontlok wat ’n wedersydse verhouding tussen leser en/of kritikus en teks behels. As die tesis se primêre konsepsuele instrument, waarvan ek sal aanvoer dat dit in Coetzee se fiksie aangevra en getematiseer word, verwys ‘inperking’ nie net na leesstyl nie, maar ook na enige wederkerige verhouding, enige wedersydse uitruiling. Dit geld vir die verhouding tussen genres (realisme en metafiksie) en realiteit in Age of Iron; tussen teks en leser in Life and Times of Michael K; tussen die self en die ander in Elizabeth Costello; en tussen teks en kritikus in “The Poetics of Reciprocity”. Die begrip ‘inperking’ aanvaar die kritiese uitdaging wat deur Coetzee se fiksie gestel word om wat Derek Attridge elke ‘sonderlinge geleentheid’ of ‘literatuurdaad’ sou noem, op sy eie terme te benader.
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Charpentier, Marc 1965. "Broadway north : musical theatre in Montreal in the 1920s." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35990.
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This thesis examines the professional musical stage of Montreal in the decade following the First World War. Throughout the 1920s, almost all of the city's musical theatre attractions were foreign in origin, and were staged by American, French, and British roadshow companies, arriving mainly from New York City. Analysis of Montreal's musical theatre entertainment and satellite relationship with Broadway highlights the growing cultural influence of the United States upon Quebec society in the interwar period. As a northern outpost of Broadway, Montreal was directly affected by the profound transformation of the entertainment industry of the United States. After peaking in the second half of the decade, the musical stage of Montreal was gradually supplanted by the decline of the roadshow system, the advent of the sound film, the onset of the Great Depression, and the resurgence of local stock theatre companies.<br>The northern extension of Broadway into Montreal heightened divisions within Montreal society between a growing middle class of businessmen, managers, and other professionals who embraced modernity and cultural change, and more conservative forces who favoured the traditional Quebec based on religious and nationalist values. While the musical attractions sent northwards from Broadway were a popular divertissement for a large proportion of Montrealers from all social classes and linguistic backgrounds, they were abhorred by the province's clerical and nationalist elites and their supporters who regarded them as a threat to the survival of traditional French Canadian values and culture.
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Kšanienė, Daiva. "Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. : Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minor and the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]: Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. :Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minorand the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]." Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa ; 4 (1999), S. 174-179, 1999. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15529.
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Laursen, Ole Birk. "Black and Asian British life writing : race, gender and representation in selected novels from the 1990s." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578659.
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This thesis explores six post-1990s black and Asian British women novelists and the ways in which they utilise life writing strategies in their novels. Using a comparative approach, it explores how their novels are informed by issues of diaspora, hybridity and cultural identity, and how these questions are implicitly linked to the autobiographical nature of their novels. Attention is paid to how these novelists represent their individual subjective identities and how their particular experiences are linked to the narrative structures of their novels. My contention is that these novelists employ autobiographical strategies in their novels to challenge in fictional form the dominant discourses of race, gender and cultural identity, and that such strategies allow these authors to re-imagine and re-assert their subjectivities in fiction. As a frame for my analysis, I focus on three themes - the politics of location, the notion of trauma and the narration of family - and examine how these six novelists utilise autobiographical strategies in order to explore these issues. This approach allows me to both identify some key characteristics which are common to black and Asian British women's life writing as well as highlight differences which point to the diversity of this body of literature. My theoretical framework draws heavily on, first, feminist and postcolonial theorists and critics of autobiography and life writing and, second, black British cultural theorists and critics. Throughout the thesis, I interrogate the limitations of existing feminist and postcolonial autobiography and life writing theories when applied in this context, and address concerns over certain aspects of existing black British cultural theory.
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Bahmad, Jamal. "Casablanca belongs to us : globalisation, everyday life and postcolonial subjectivity in Moroccan cinema since the 1990s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19847.
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This dissertation examines the representations of Casablanca in Moroccan cinema and their articulation of postcolonial subjectivity since the 1990s. To overcome a deep economic recession and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive programme of structural adjustment policies under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund. Market reforms ushered in novel forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities over the next decades. In the cultural field, a popular cinema emerged in the early 1990s and has projected the complex structures of everyday life in urban space. The New Urban Cinema (NUC) has anchored national cinema in the everyday life and affective economy of a society in transition. The country’s largest city, Casablanca, is the setting for some of NUC’s most original portrayals of the Moroccan subject under globalisation. Taking space, affect and violence as intertwined sites of film analysis, my research project closely examines the new forms of postcolonial subjectivity that have evolved in Morocco through this cinema. Twenty films are read against the backdrop of neoliberal Casablanca and the social, economic as well as political transformation of Morocco and the world under globalisation. The dissertation combines close textual analysis with a cultural studies perspective, which situates films in their historical contexts of production and reception in Morocco and beyond. Drawing on postcolonial, film and urban studies, my aim is to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship on cinematic responses to neoliberal globalisation, and to a social history of contemporary Morocco.
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Reaume, Geoffrey. "999 Queen Street West, patient life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ41572.pdf.
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Jodoin, Delaine Denise. "Health care restructuring and consumer preferences for end-of-life health care in Alberta in the 1990s." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40012.pdf.
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Ling-yin, Lynn Ang. "A question of 'Chineseness' : the Chinese diaspora in Singapore 1819-1950s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2393.
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This thesis is a study of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore from 1819 to the 1950s. It begins by situating the diasporic subject in a historical context, highlighting some of the key moments in the diaspora's development, such as the advent of colonialism during the nineteenth century, and the formation of an ethnic enclave in the settlement. The discussion then calls into question the construction of the Chinese subject in colonial discourses, and interrogates the ways in which the diasporic population was constituted within the framework of colonialism. The main purpose has been to examine how the diaspora in Singapore has evolved, and to explore the adequacies, or inadequacies, of existing diasporic theories in the ways they relate to the Chinese experience. This is achieved by recapitulating the theoretical implications of existing diaspora frameworks, and questioning the tensions and limitations generated by such discourses. Simultaneously, this study takes into consideration the construction of a "Chinese identity", and does so by presenting possible ways of conceptualisng what it means to be "Chinese" for subjects of the diaspora. In discussing the extent to which the subject's sense of "self" and belonging has been shaped by its immigrant past, this research draws on and studies the writings, both literary and non-literary, that have emerged from the community. A central concern in all this is the identity and subjectivity of the diasporic subject, and the point here is that not every subject experiences diaspora in the same way, but that these alterities are important in the constitution and formation of a Chinese identity. As I note in the introduction, the issue of what it means to be Chinese, and indeed, the issue of home and belonging, is one that is always contested for people in the diasporic community, and the aim of this thesis has been to continually deconstruct the idea of a "single" Chinese diaspora, and to expose it as a heterogeneous, fragmented, and internally differentiated construction.
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Butler, Timothy S. C. "People like us : gentrification and the service class in Hackney in the 1980s." Thesis, Open University, 1991. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57317/.
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This is a study of service-class residents in Hackney, an inner London borough situated directly to the north of the City of London. The main focus of the study is on why these people chose to live in Hackney in the first place, why they have stayed and what influence living in Hackney has had on their social and political attitudes. Chapters two to four are concerned with debates about the structure and class formation of the service-class, whether it is one class or many, what (if any) are its political allegiances, and the relationship between the service-class and gentrification. Chapter five considers the changes which have taken place in London and Hackney over the last fifteen years. Chapter six introduces the empirical basis for this discussion: a survey of 245 largely service-class recent homebuyers in two areas of Hackney. Chapters seven to nine present these findings which show that the respondents are representative of a distinct, and elite, sub-group of the service class, in terms of their family background, their income and occupation and in their social and political attitudes. Whilst many respondents initially came to Hackney because of its cheap housing and central location, their reasons for staying have more to do with the cultural significance of living in inner London. This, in turn, has had important consequences for their social, cultural and political behaviour. The concluding chapter suggests that there are 'locality effects' observable in the behaviour and attitudes of service-class residents in Hackney which are reasons for living in inner London and consequences of living there. There are also significant differences between the two areas studied which may have implications for the internal formation of the service-class even within a spatially delimited area, such as inner London.
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Carroll, Alex K. "Selective Remembrance: Narratives of Ethnic Reconfiguration and Spatial Displacement in the Life of Queho, 1880s-1940." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110076.
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Social memories and collective representations act as vehicles for configuring, legitimizing, and sustaining particular constructs of knowledge and power in the world of lived relations, while simultaneously marginalizing or negating others. This paper explores constancy and change in popular and official histories of a
Southern Paiute man who lived in southern Nevada from the 1880s-1940. Accused of killing between seven and thirty people between 1910 and 1940, Queho became the center of multiple historical accounts written over the course of one hundred years. This diachronic analysis highlights the continuous reconfiguration of Queho's ethnicity and place of origin followed by a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of reconstructing these social
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Ryder, Shawn G. ""Strenuous Life" Strained: Political and Social Survival Strategies of the New Orleans Athletic Club, 1923-1940." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/132.
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The New Orleans Athletic Club, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest athletic clubs in the United States that still operates today. After the boom of the 1920s and increased revenues, the club was forced to confront the Great Depression and shift its emphasis on the "strenuous life" to the "social life" to survive. The club had capitalized on the popularity of boxing during the 1920s and just finished constructing a lavish new club house when the stock market crashed in 1929. With members losing their jobs, the popularity of boxing waning, and the club in dire financial straits, the club looked for alternative strategies to survive. Its "social life" strategy relied on the club's various political ties to cut expenses and increased incentives for membership, which led to a larger, albeit, limited presence of women at the club.
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Gates, Angela. ""A (blind) woman's place is (teaching) in the home"| The life of Kate Foley, 1873-1940." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10254368.
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<p> This thesis examines the life and career of Kate Foley, home teacher of the blind with the California State Library from 1914–1940. The purpose of this investigation is to determine how Foley, who was disabled, built a successful career with the state library despite facing significant discrimination and prejudice. Using a wide variety of primary source material, including letters, library publications, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, and census data, this biography evaluates Foley’s pioneering role as well as the challenges she faced. Home teaching provided a new vocational opportunity for blind women, whose professional choices were extremely limited. Despite her unique career, the extensive contributions she made, and the fact that she was lauded upon her death as a pioneer and asset to the State of California, Foley’s life has been largely ignored in the historical literature. This biography remedies the omission, drawing upon the history of library services, the history of disability, women’s history, the history of Progressive Era California, and the history of state and federal welfare systems to provide context for her life and achievements. Chapters include discussions of the cause of Foley’s blindness, her education at the California School for the Blind, her volunteer teaching work, her career with the California State Library, the early organized blind movement, and the development of social services for blind individuals.</p>
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Webb, Keith Robert. "Labor and social barter in an Appalachian community : Carroll County, Virginia, 1880s-1930s /." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212009-040508/.
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Ramoškaitė, Rūta. "Lietuvos ir Italijos kultūriniai ryšiai 1922 - 1940 metais." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050610_144340-61869.
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Lithuania and Italy relationships in 1922– 1940 years
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Nazi movement gained in popularity not only in Italy, but it became popular in other countries. Were Nazi cultural ideas interesting and near to Lithuania? For the attainment of answering to this question, I reached to find out and evaluate Nazi Italy and Lithuanian cultural life spread in Lithuanian and Italian societies. The subject of my work – Italian and Lithuanian cultural life. Work purpose – reach to find out and evaluate Nazi Italy and Lithuanian cultural propaganda spread in Lithuanian and Italian societies.
I referred sparse historiography material, which established Italian cultural life features during writing this work. Furthermore I used two source groups. 1) Archival, manuscript material; 2) periodicals of the days. I put in to work descriptive, material analyzes-synthesis, comparative and statistics method, which let systematize and summing-up data analysis.
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1. Lithuanian international recognition determined relations with Italy. Italy and Lithuania had not only political but also miscellaneous cultural, artistic relations. They were very active in the thirties.
2. Interest in not only political but also cultural Lithuanian problems determined that in third-fourth decade of XX century Italian books were printed about Lithuanian art, memoirs about Balts language, Lithuanian geography, and also comprehensive information about Lithuania in... [to full text]
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Sanger, Amanda. "REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78698.
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This study is a contribution to the programme of memorializing District Six through the site-specific stories that are shared in research, education, and the co-curated spaces of the District Six Museum. When buildings, streets, street names and place names are erased from a landscape; when cultural, economic, religious, and educational spaces are shut down; then people’s connections to place are disrupted, diverted, reimagined, often lost to future linked generations. These connections, however, continue to live on in people’s memories - individual and collective, sometimes lying dormant waiting to be triggered into wakefulness and visibility. In the case of District Six, these memories have lived on as nostalgia about a recent past with the trauma, often, edited out. Consequently, District Six has frequently been rendered as a stereotype - a friendly, unproblematic, tolerant, kanala place, where grand narrative re-enactments provide a sense of closure for some or evokes a sense of renewed anger about the stories not told and the unfulfilled restitution process. The stories of women factory workers are a case in point, where the closing down of factories and the subsequent loss of livelihoods are remembered in two ways. Firstly, through a lens of nostalgia premised on the idea that the past was a better place when we had jobs and could feed our families. Secondly, this recent past is also remembered with a sense of unresolved anger that people are less important than profit margins and real estate - a mentality that resulted in the export of cheap labour factories overseas and gentrification. This study explores the stories of two women clothing workers from District Six. I mapped out the important clothing factories contained in the stories of the two women I interviewed like, for example, the Ensign Factory that was in a section of District Six now rezoned as part of Woodstock. The site and its surroundings have taken on a new corporate brand but still lives with the spectral traces of the old District Six. I make these and other District Six fragments more visible through the stories of Ruth Rosa Phala-Jeftha and Farahnaaz Gilfelleon, using the District Six Museum’s oral history methodology – one steeped in a critical pedagogy where the storytellers have agency and are invited into a co-curated sense-making and interpretive process.<br>Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.<br>Historical and Heritage Studies<br>MSocSci<br>Unrestricted
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Martin, Jennifer Gail. "Portrayal of Older People in Disney Live Action Films from the 1990s and 2000s." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1817.
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Children as young as three years old are scared of the idea of growing old, and negative stereotypes about older people have started to develop by the time children enter elementary school. Negative stereotyping of older characters has been found to be prevalent in all forms of media. Because children use media to figure out who they are and what the world is like, this study looks at some of the most popular films of the past two decades aimed toward children. This study is a content analysis of older major and minor characters from the 60 top grossing Disney live action films in the 1990s and 2000s. This study is a continuation of an earlier study conducted analyzing the same subject in Disney animated films. The two studies will be compared throughout in order to identify trends in Disney's portrayal of older characters. The results of this study found an even more disparate underrepresentation of women and minorities than previous studies. However, this study found a majority of positive portrayals of older people. The majority of older characters in Disney live action films were identified with: the personality traits of “friendly” and “intelligent”; the primary roles of “friend” and “boss”; the health status of “active” or “very active” and in good health; and the stereotypes of “Perfect Grandparent”, “John Wayne Conservative”, and “Golden Ager”. These positive portrayals in all areas are in sharp contrast to many previous studies conducted concerning the portrayal of older characters in the media and are even more positive than the results from the previous study conducted on Disney animated films. As children interpret their social reality based on the media they watch, including Disney live action films, this research postulates that children will cultivate a more positive image of older people as they are portrayed in these films.
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Kšanienė, Daiva. "Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. : Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minor and the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-222480.
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Lam, Heung-wan, and 林香雲. "Social structure, gender consciousness and identity: analyzing the life history of middle class women in HongKong in the 1990s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215464.
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Magatti, Mauro. "On the social embeddedness of economic life : a comparative analysis of two textile districts, Britain and Italy, 1950 - 1970s." Thesis, University of Kent, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280894.
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Koumaditis, Markos. "Peasant economy, household structures and communal life in western Thessaly, ca. 1880s-1930s : the plain village of Kria Vrisi." Thesis, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408714.
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Blanco, M. J. "Diaries, letters and reflections : life-writing in Carmen Martín Gaite's Cuadernos de Todo and her novels of the 1990s." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19309/.
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This thesis examines the various kinds of material (including diary-style writing, impressions of people and places, and notes on work in progress) collected in Carmen Martìn Gaite's Cuadernos de todo and subsequently considers the significance of diaries, letters, and life-writing in her novels of the 1990s. After observations on the importance of diaries and letters in women‟s literature, there is an assessment of such narrative material in the contemporary novel and references to how Foucault's essay on 'self-writing' serves to channel the ideas of the self-reflective capacities of letters and diaries. There follows an examination of Cuadernos de todo, with particular reference to the use of diaries and letters in Martín Gaite's work, their relationship to the 'writing-cure'. The section dedicated to Cuadernos de todo opens with an analysis of the first cuadernos (which were written in the 1960s) as notebooks used by the author as a site for her reflections on society and other matters, themes which are developed in her later novels. Next, there is a discussion of how Martín Gaite used these cuadernos as a writer‟s notebooks, for developing ideas on her novels and essays, showing the close link between the authors 'diaries' and her work, between life and literature. The cuadernos americanos constitute the last part of the assessment of Cuadernos de todo. Written during different periods the author spent on lecture-tours and as a university teacher in the United States, these cuadernos americanos are particularly significant for her development as a novelist. They reveal a new approach to diary-writing as, free from the family and the social commitments she had in Spain, the author found more time for reflection. The last of the cuadernos americanos is also a clear example of the use of diary writing as therapy, of the 'writing-cure'. The final part of the thesis focuses on Martìn Gaite's four novels of the 1990s – in which the use of diaries, letters, and life-writing is especially significant. Here the theories of Donald Winnicott and Nancy Chodorow on child development and motherhood, themes which run troughout Martín Gaite's writing, are discussed to shed additional light on the author's approach to life-writing and fiction.