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Serge, Evan John. "O Captain, My Captain! U.S Newspaper Framing of the Death of Captain America." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32593.
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This thesis explores how U.S. newspapers framed the death of Captain America. Specifically, the presence of various frames and their classifications was determined via a content analysis of 139 newspaper articles. Additionally, this thesis explores relationships between frame substance and other frame classifications. Generic/recurring frames were more prevalent than issue-specific/recurring frames. Frames tended to be episodic more often than thematic. Frames were also most likely to be neutral in valence, though differences from this overall trend emerged in some individual frames. Frames tended to be ambiguous rather than substantive. No relationship emerged between frame substance and the classification of generic/issue-specific frames, nor did one emerge between frame substance and the episodic/thematic frame classification. However, frames possessing negative valence were more likely to be ambiguous than frames possessing positive valence. Implications for framing theory and the news coverageâ s treatment of Captain Americaâ s death as an indicator of post-9/11 American identity are also discussed. Limitations of this study and opportunities for future research are acknowledged.<br>Master of Arts
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Pratt, Ken. "Hunting Captain Henley." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/607/.
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The term post traumatic stress is routinely used to describe the psychological experiences of soldiers returning from war. It is used here to describe the effects it has on the families of PTS victims, in particular children. Hunting Captain Henley is a novel which explores the long term effects of a father’s post traumatic stress on a son’s (intellectual) development. It tracks the progress of the narrator from childhood to adulthood as he sets about tracking down the (English) Royal Signals Captain who allegedly bullied his dad into shooting Arab civilians during the Ismaelia police uprising at Suez in 1951. In his 1919 book Scottish Literature: Character and Influence G. Gregory Smith first coined the phrase Caledonian Antisyzygy to spotlight the zigzag of contradictions at the heart of Scottish Literature, especially under the stress of foreign (in particular English) influence. The term has since been used to point at the schizophrenia at the heart of Scottishness. The novel considers the dual influences of the English (language) on Scottish writing and families. As a prologue to the book a commentary is provided. Scotland’s Fascist Voice addresses the unexplored area of the present-day fascist consciousness in Scotland. It does so by firstly acknowledging Scotland’s role in the creation of the British Empire then delineates a developing contemporary identity borne out of that imperial experience. It examines the significance of The Raucle Tongue, hitherto uncollected prose by Hugh MacDiarmid, in particular his Plea for a Scottish Fascism. The remaining chapters of the commentary explain the significance of a form of cultural repression at work in Scottish society and showcase the fascist style mindset and its incumbent voice. It is concluded that as both victims and perpetators of Empire Scots must now acknowledge this duality of experience and carry forth its impact on both our language and identity into the 21st century.
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Dively, Ronda S. "Empathy for Captain Ahab /." View online, 1989. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131012518.pdf.
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Payne-Passmore, Susanna. "Captain: a chamber opera." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23805.
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This opera, for soprano, contralto, baritone, treble voice, and chamber orchestra, sets an original story, a meditation on gender and the effects of restrictive gender norms in a society. The narrative follows a young sailor who wishes nothing more than to work on the sea forever, but is derailed from that destiny by her forced betrothal to a captain. She escapes this fate through the discovery of a latent power, sailing away from her home into an uncertain future of her own making.
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Cavanagh, Mary Emily. "Captain of my own ship." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206173/1/Mary_Cavanagh_Thesis.pdf.
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This study sought to understand how middle-class, white, male baby boomers approach ageing in contemporary Western society. The thesis explored the relationship between bodily ageing and identity construction, and the influence of consumer culture in this process. Findings presented an agentic view of middle-aged men’s experiences of ageing that challenges traditional notions of ‘old men’. Specifically, these baby boomers did not identify as ‘old men’. Findings showed there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to ageing positively. Instead, myriad, complex, intersecting factors were involved in these men’s positive experiences of ageing. These differences resulted in multiple, nuanced pathways towards experiencing ageing positively.
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Pardoe, J. M. R. "Captain Malcolm Kennedy and Japan 1917-1945." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308144.
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Hamilton, Desirae. "The Captain of the People in Renaissance Florence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804880/.
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The Renaissance Florentine Captain of the People began as a court, which defended the common people or popolo from the magnates and tried crimes such as assault, murder and fraud. This study reveals how factionalism, economic stress and the rise of citizen magistrate courts eroded the jurisdiction and ended the Court of the Captain. The creation of the Captain in 1250 occurred during the external fight for dominance between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope and the struggle between the Guelfs and Ghibellines within the city of Florence. The rise of the Ciompi in 1379, worried the Florentine aristocracy who believed the Ciompi was a threat to their power and they created the Otto di Guardia, a citizen magistrate court. This court began as a way to manage gaps in jurisdiction not covered by the Captain and his fellow rectors. However, by 1433 the Otto eroded the power of the Captain and his fellow rectors. Historians have argued that the Roman law jurists in this period became the tool for the aristocracy but in fact, the citizen magistrate courts acted as a source of power for the aristocracy. In the 1430s, the Albizzi and Medici fought for power. The Albizzi utilized a government mandate, which had the case already carried out or a bullectini to exile Medici adherents. However, by 1433, the Medici triumphed and Cosimo de Medici returned to the city of Florence. He expanded the power of the Otto in order to utilize the bullectini to exile his enemies. The expansion of jurisdiction of the Otto further eroded the power of the Captain. Factionalism, economic stress and the rise of the citizen magistrate courts eroded the power of the Captain of the people.
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Berglund, Kalle, Kim Ysberg, Hampus Nilsson, Tony Lundell, and Dan Lakss. "Captain Osprey and The Wings of Fate : En spelproduktion." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2169.
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I den här slutreflektionen kommer ni att kunna läsa om vårt kandidatarbete i sin helhet. Ni får ta del av det koncept vi arbetade fram och strävade efter att realisera. Ni kommer att få följa med i arbetsprocessen där vi låter er få inblick i hur vi gick från idé till färdig produkt inom de tre avdelningarna programmering, grafik och ljud. Avslutningsvis kommer vi att reflektera över kandidatarbetstiden, både som grupp och på individnivå. Några av de frågeställningar vi tar upp handlar om hur vi har lyckats genomföra projektet trots bristande planering och utan någon hierarkisk ordning samt hur det har varit att arbeta i en grupp där majoriteten av medlemmarna har haft en ny roll för första gången i ett projekt. Throughout this final reflection you'll be able to read about our graduation project as a whole. You'll take part of the concept we developed and strived after trying to realize it. An insight of our work process where we describe how we transfered our idea from paper to a final product will be given. You will read about the work process from the programmers, sound designers and graphical artists perspective. Toward the end of the document thoughts about how we worked as a team and at an individual level are discussed. Some of the questions we bring up is about how we managed to complete the project despite the lack of planning, hierarchic structure and at last, how it was like working in a new area of expertise for the first time.<br>Detta är en reflektionsdel till en digital medieproduktion.
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Hunt, Adam Christopher. "The Captain of Industry in British literature, 1904-1920." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0026/NQ50035.pdf.
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Borrero, Brittni M. "Faded Glory: Captain America and the Wilted American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334586489.
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Straub, Christopher Aaron. "CHANGING PORTRAYALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK IN HAWAIIAN EDUCATION." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2009. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/213.
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This paper covers the portrayals of Captain James Cook within Hawaiian education. It begins by providing a backdrop to early European portrayals of Captain Cook and then proceeds to investigate how these portrayals changed as they were incorporated into Hawaiian textbooks. The paper then continues to illustrate the changes made in Cook’s portrayal within Hawaiian textbooks and how these changes coincide with the prevailing interests of the eras in which the authors wrote them.
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Norberg, Peter. "AYE, AYE, CAPTAIN : En undersökning av ansvar och beslutsprocesser inom sjöfart." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Sjöfartshögskolan (SJÖ), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-25712.
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Beslutsfattande är den viktigaste av alla ledningsaktiviteter. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur befälhavare upplever beslutprocesserna ombord och i den omgivande organisationen. Undersökningen har gjorts genom intervjuer med tre befälhavare. Intervjuer valdes för att kunna lyssna till intervjupersonernas upplevda värld och de har varit semistrukturerade, som stöd har en intervjuguide använts. Det går i den här formen att följa trådar eller infall men också att gå tillbaka och förtydliga. Som underlag för analysen beskrivs teorier om beslutsprocesser, ansvar inom sjöfarten och arbete i team eller grupper. Analysen har sedan gjorts utifrån en modell i beslutsteorin. Resultatet har blivit en berättelse genom beslutsprocessen och den har givit två intressanta slutsatser nämligen: att när styrning från managementbolag allt mer börjar användas upplever sig befälhavarna maktlösa och långt från besluten fast de å andra sidan är tydliga med att de bestämmer och skaffar sig strategier för att behålla beslutet.<br>Decision making is the most important of all managerial activities. The purpose of this study is to examine how commanders experience decision-making processes on board and in the surrounding organization. The survey was conducted through interviews with three masters. Interviews were chosen to listen to the interviewees’ perceived world and they have been semi-structured, as support an interview guide has been used. In this shape it is possible to follow threads or whim but also to go back and clarify. As a background for analyze, theories of decision-making, responsibility in shipping and work in teams or groups are described. The analysis has been based on a model of decision theory. The result is a story by the decision making process and it gave two interesting conclusions: when control by management companies is increasing masters experience loss of power and distance to decisions but on the other hand they are clear that they are in charge and acquire strategies for retaining that.
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DeWalt, Christina A. Childs. "Creating Captain America: a Frame Analysis of the Pat Tillman Epic." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271804/.
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Pat Tillman—an Arizona Cardinals player who sacrificed everything to serve his country but died in Afghanistan—was initially touted as a true American hero who was killed by enemy fire. In reality, however, the Tillman narrative was based on nothing but military propaganda. This research focused on how mainstream U.S. newspapers used news frames, overall story tone, and news sources before and after the official acknowledgement of the true cause of Tillman's death as fratricide. As hypothesized from C. Wright Mills' "lesser institutions," Antonio Gramsci's hegemony, and Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's propaganda model, the newspapers generally decreased both direct and indirect references to news frames involving "lesser institutions" (e.g., NFL, Arizona State University) and ideological values (e.g., heroism, patriotism) after the revelation, but they were not critical of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars or the Bush administration at all. In addition, they increased their dependence on official sources and decreased family and friend sources after his cause of death was changed. The results as a whole indicate that in the Tillman saga, the revelation of his true cause of death introduced a significant disruption to the propaganda information system, causing news frames to decrease, but the third filter of the propaganda model—reliance on official sources—was strong enough to overcome that disruptive event and continue to protect the power elite.
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Neumann, Regan Jamie. "The Impact of Positional Leadership on Secondary School Captains." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367837.
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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate how the position of School Captain impacts on young people. The study examined student leadership through the lives of six young people who, during 2007, assumed the position of School Captain in their respective schools in Brisbane, Australia.
Although educational leadership in schools through transformational approaches has been an area given increasing attention by researchers over the last two decades, the study of student leadership in secondary school settings has been relatively unexplored. The area of positional student leadership has been given even less attention. The focus of this investigation was the impact of positional leadership for a group of students, specifically known as School Captain, in secondary schools.
The investigation used the theoretical construct of symbolic interactionism as the foundation for a qualitative research approach. Case study method provided a framework for the research strategy, which allowed me to listen to students’ stories, as well as the stories of “significant others”, such as leaders, teachers and parents. The study design was supported by data collection methods that included text analysis, passive observations, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions.
The results of the research indicate that the impact of the role (and associated status) of School Captain on students in a secondary school embraces many aspects of their lives. Carrying out the role has potential to develop self-awareness, culminating in a deepening of maturity. This comes from personal interactions in relationships, managing the responsibilities of the position, the commitment associated with the role, and the development of self-confidence and management through practising leadership skills. Also it appears that learning management is enhanced by participating in a range of activities associated with the role.
This dissertation concludes with a recommendation that future research be conducted into the area of student and youth leadership in school and societal settings to explore further personal impact and possible engagement with the school and the wider community.<br>Thesis (Professional Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Education (EdD)<br>School of Education and Professional Studies<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Beaumont, Graham Kingsley, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and MARCS Auditory Laboratories. "An investigation of the management of flight aspects of airline captain performance." THESIS_CAESS_MARCS_Beaumont_G.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/524.
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A clear definition of pilot performance beyond manipulative skills remains a challenge. Attempts have been made to annunciate the cognitive and behavioural skill set which comprises this area of performance. Crew resource management (CRM) is one such effort which, while it has done much to identify pilot behaviours, has not translated easily into useable selection and general performance instruments. CRM has not yet identified an umbrella construct which clearly and efficiently organises management of flight aspects of the airline piloting role. Markers that are used by airline check and training personnel in a specific airline to assess suitability for command were identified. Organisational understanding of SA was explored and revealed a more strategic focus than the tactical approach adopted by preceding researchers. In a further study, this strategic focus was investigated through a series of semi-structured interviews with experienced airline Captains. Recurring activity themes were identified and were found to approximate the proposed constructs of self-regulation. This concept was explored and defined in a further study which identified actions which were considered essentials to the functionality of each of these recurring themes. These results were used as the foundation for a novel set of management of flight performance indicators for the organisation within which the research was carried out. Initial trials of an ipsative questionnaire derived from these action statements were carried out as the final study of this research<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Krason, Monica M. "You Can Go Home Again: The Misunderstood Memories of Captain Charles Ryder." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1560934108115459.
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O'Hallahan, Ryan C. ""Our Captain is a Gentleman”: Officer Elections among Virginia Confederates, 1861-1862." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4869.
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Enlisted soldiers preferred to elect company- and regimental-level officers during the first year of the American Civil War. This thesis explores how early Confederate mobilization, class conflict between elites and non-elites, and Confederate military policies affected officer elections from spring 1861 to spring 1862 among Virginia Confederates. Chapter 1 explores how the chaotic nature of mobilization and common soldiers' initial expectations regarding their military service influenced elections from April 1861 until late July 1861. Chapter 2 details the changing nature of elections as elite officers faced challenges from non-elites and Confederate policies regarding furloughs and conscription forced officers to reconcile their men’s expectations of loose discipline with directives from senior commanders.
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Blanton, Jedidiah E. "The chosen ones a qaulitative inquiry into the collegiate team captain experience /." Click here to access thesis, 2009. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2009/jedediah_e_blanton/blanton_jedediah_e_200901_ms.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S..)--Georgia Southern University, 2009.<br>"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." Directed by Daniel Czech. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-75) and appendices.
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Steinmetz, Christian J. "A Genealogy of Absence & Evil: Tracing the Nation's Borders with Captain America." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07162008-095222/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Mary E. Stuckey, committee chair; Greg Smith, Ted Friedman, committee members. Electronic text (220 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 19, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220).
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Jones, Maxwell Hugh. "The Royal Geographical Society and the commemoration of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621604.
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Verdolini, Thaís Helena Affonso. "Aspectos da tradução e da variação linguística na obra Captain Underpants (Capitão Cueca)." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2335.
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Previous issue date: 2011-06-09<br>Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa<br>There are few studies concerning the description and analysis of the sociolinguistic levels in translation. Another field of study which lacks further research is the translation of contemporary children s literature in Brazil. The present work intends to analyze how the linguistic variations are organized in the translation of a children s book. The corpus is the contemporary book series The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997) (in Brazil, As aventuras do Capitão Cueca, 2001). The study of this book series targets to understand how linguistic variations take place in the translation process, especially the diastratic variation focusing on child language. The original and the translated books are analyzed and compared so that the coherence of terms and resources can be observed with emphasis on slang and child language , as different books from the series were translated by different translators. The theoretical principles come from Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics and Literacy.<br>Um campo pouco explorado nas discussões em torno do ato tradutório é o que descreve e analisa a aplicação dos níveis sociolinguísticos na tradução. Outro assunto cujos estudos ainda são escassos no Brasil é o da tradução de obras infanto-juvenis atuais. A presente pesquisa busca verificar de que maneira se organizam as variedades linguísticas em especial a diastrática dentro do processo tradutório de uma obra literária infantil. O corpus é uma obra contemporânea, a série de livros The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997) de Dav Pilkey (no Brasil, As aventuras do Capitão Cueca, 2001). Por meio desse estudo particular, procura-se compreender como as variações linguísticas, principalmente a variação diastrática no que tange à variedade da criança, ocorrem no processo de tradução. Analisam-se as obras original e a traduzida, contrastando as e observando alguns volumes da série para verificar coerência de recursos e termos -focalizando a gíria e a modalidade infantil utilizadas , uma vez que diferentes números foram trabalhados por diferentes tradutores. O embasamento teórico partirá de fundamentos da tradutologia, da pesquisa sociolinguística e de estudos sobre alfabetização.
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Rothwell, Julia C. "Let's eat the captain! Thinking, feeling, doing : intercultural language learning through process drama." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63847/1/Julia_Rothwell_Thesis.pdf.
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This research investigated the sustained use of process drama in a middle school foreign language classroom. The experience led to widespread learner engagement, a deeper contextualisation of the language as a socio-cultural practice, and a willingness to use the spoken and written language, regardless of limited proficiency. The drama required that language use be context and culture specific, contingent and multi-modal, which encouraged the beginner students to "mushfake" or improvise spoken and written text. Particularly important was the way the body was used through drama to express emotion, remember language and to illustrate the sociocultural context of its use.
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Sauer, Gordon Chenoweth. "Unspoken voices Captain Cook's third voyage, the Lono question, and the discourse of trade /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1211389044/.
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Jones, Peter Daniel. "Captain Swing and rural popular consciousness : nineteenth-century southern English social history in context." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270386.
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Cerencio, Priscilla Ferreira. "O escudo da América: o discurso patriótico na revista Captain America Comics (1941-1954)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-17042014-112811/.
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Quando nos deparamos com a imagem do personagem Capitão América tendemos a relacioná-lo com um herói confiante, tão patriótico que veste a bandeira de seu país. O super-herói, criado por Joe Simon e Jack Kirby na década de 1940, ao longo do século XX se transformou em um ícone tão representativo da nação americana quanto o próprio Tio Sam. Nesta dissertação nos propomos a analisar os aspectos centrais do discurso patriótico contido na revista Captain America Comics, publicada nos Estados Unidos entre os anos de 1941 e 1954. Seguindo a metodologia americana, analisamos as publicações observando como esta mídia, ciente de sua influência na cultura popular e seu papel como um meio de comunicação de massa, busca entreter e formar a opinião do público leitor, acompanhando as transformações do país durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e nos anos que a seguiram.<br>When we faced the image of the character Captain America we tend to relate him with a confident and such patriotic superhero that even wears the flag of his country. The superhero, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the 1940s, during the 20th century became an icon as representative of the American nation as Uncle Sam itself. In this M.A. thesis we intent to examine the most significant aspects of the patriotic speech contained in the comic book Captain America Comics, published in the United States between 1941 and 1954. Following the American methodology, we analyzed the publications noting how this media, aware of its influence on popular culture and its role as a mass communication media, tries to entertain as also form the opinion of the readership, accompanying the transformations of the country duringWorldWar II and the years that followed.
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Scobie, Ruth. "The many deaths of Captain Cook : a study in metropolitan mass culture, 1780-1810." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4305/.
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This thesis traces metropolitan representations, between 1780 and 1810, of the violent death of Captain James Cook at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to these representations, in order to show how the interlinked texts of a nascent commercial culture initiated the creation of a colonial character, identified by Epeli Hau’ofa as the looming “ghost of Captain Cook.” The introduction sets out the circumstances of Cook’s death and existing metropolitan reputation in 1779. It situates the figure of Cook within contemporary mechanisms of ‘celebrity,’ related to notions of mass metropolitan culture. It argues that previous accounts of Cook’s fame have tended to overemphasise the immediacy and unanimity with which the dead Cook was adopted as an imperialist hero; with the result that the role of the scene within colonialist histories can appear inevitable, even natural. In response, I show that a contested mythology around Cook’s death was gradually constructed over the three decades after the incident took place, and was the contingent product of a range of texts, places, events, and individuals. The first section examines responses to the news of Cook’s death in January 1780, focusing on the way that the story was mediated by, first, its status as ‘news,’ created by newspapers; and second, the effects on Londoners of the Gordon riots in June of the same year. It suggests that the related demands and concerns of mass culture and commerce inform the representation of Cook’s death in elegy (such as Anna Seward’s Elegy on Captain Cook) and visual art (such as John Webber’s Death of Cook). The second section discusses the further absorption of Cook’s death into metropolitan entertainment culture. The key site for this process was the Leverian Museum, in the centre of London, where artefacts collected by Cook’s crew in Hawaii were displayed in a room dedicated to his memory. The section suggests that these objects were presented as sensational or sentimental relics of distant ‘Owhyhee.’ The techniques by which this took place emerged from similar presentations, in popular entertainment, of antiquities as animated materialisations of a gothic past. These techniques, in often controversial ways, shaped the understanding of Cook’s death, not only in the museum but also in travel writing, theatre, poetry and painting.
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Buyukada, Utkan. "Gestaltning av nationell identitet i Avengers : Karaktärsanalys av Iron Man, Captain America och Thor." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-103143.
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Uppsatsens huvudsakliga syfte är att undersöka hur amerikansk nationell identitet förmedlas i populära filmer. Undersökningen sker genom att analysera tre av de populäraste karaktärerna i de fyra Avengers-filmerna. Karaktärerna som ska analyseras är Iron Man, Captain America och Thor. Benedict Andersons undersökning av hur nationell identitet och nationalism sprids med hjälp av litteratur är förutsättningen för uppsatsen. Utgångspunkten är att populärkultur påverkar tittaren och kan sprida idéer som har verkliga effekter i samhället. I analysen tar effekterna av terrorattacken mot World Trade Center en viktig plats och hur den påverkar uppfattningen av amerikansk nationell identitet i Marvel-filmer narrativt och visuellt. Innan 9/11 var amerikansk nationell identitet stark kopplad till triumfalism och exceptionalism. Trots att terrorattacken påverkar gestaltningen av amerikansk nationell identitet i popkultur så förblir Amerikansk triumfalism och exceptionalism en grundläggande del av amerikansk identitet. Samtidigt undersöks den paradoxala relationen mellan individualism och kollektivism. En gestaltning av gemenskap och individualism präglar filmerna där även regissörers påverkan kan spela roll i det hyperindustrialiserade Marvel-maskineriet.
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Harrison, Jen. "Incarnations: exploring the human condition through Patrick White's Voss and Nikos Kazantzakis' Captain Michales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/671.
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Nikos Kazantzakis' Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White's Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel's social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.
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Harrison, Jen. "Incarnations exploring the human condition through Patrick White's Voss and Nikos Kazantzakis' Captain Michales /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/671.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 16 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Modern Greek. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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McLeod, Anne Byrne. "The mid-eighteenth century navy from the perspective of Captain Thomas Burnett and his peers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/120046.
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This thesis explores the concerns of mid-eighteenth century naval captains through the careers of Captain Thomas Burnett and the cohort of thirty five officers who were posted captain in 1757 soon after the start of the Seven Years' War. A subsidiary cohort, that of the 129 lieutenants who were, like Burnett, first commissioned in 1744 is used as a control against which to measure the statistical worth of the smaller cohort. Examination of the day to day concerns of the captains has been made possible through the rich and varied resource of their letters to the Admiralty, which have hitherto been little used as a source by historians. Despite the formality of these letters not merely the concerns but also the personalities and characters of the writers are vividly conveyed. After tracing the career of Thomas Burnett this thesis examines the 1757 cohort and its progression to the rank of master and commander. At this point the correspondence with the Admiralty begins. The influences, 'interest' and formative experiences behind their appointments are considered. The duties of the mid-eighteenth century captain are outlined, as their relationship with the Admiralty is analysed and the extent to which they were kept under strict Admiralty control by precedent and financial scrutiny is demonstrated. All aspects of manning are shown to dominate the daily concerns of captains. The extent to which 'interest' or chance gave them the opportunity to display their professional expertise and increase their standing within the active naval corps is weighed. Tracking this cohort beyond the war into the years of peace and subsequent wars has revealed the extent to which the timing of being made post captain was crucial and that 'interest' was more significant than merit in accelerating and promoting active careers.
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Clemens, Peter Ethan. "The intelligent man on the spot, Captain James H. Hausman in South Korea, 1946-1948." Kansas State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36182.
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Asiain, Teresa. "The translation of children's literature : ideology and cultural adaptations : Captain Underpants as a case study." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2016. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/27117/.
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The aim of this research is to explore cultural differences in the children’s publishing industry in the USA and Spain and the impact these have on translation, and to develop a case study of the translation of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series into Spanish from a cultural and linguistic perspective. The main aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate the ways in which ranges of meaning are narrowed, expanded or refracted in children’s literature translation and how they affect early readers’ understanding of the text (as more or less subversive), modelling all this as a dynamic rather than static system. Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism is applied to the Captain Underpants texts to show that the translation process is a continuum, never a finalized project, which can - and does - change with time. This dissertation explores the ways in which the translator of the Captain Underpants series, Miguel Azaola, negotiates the pressures and constraints, be they political, historical, cultural, editorial, commercial, or linguistic, which are imposed upon him via ideology, commissioning editors and the publishing industry. All translations imply a certain level of manipulation of the original text, and the translation of a subversive text written for a younger audience is even more vulnerable to change, due to the existing power imbalance between adults and children and the potential of humour as a tool for undermining or reinforcing social control. The Captain Underpants books mock and challenge authority-figures and the structures of the adult world (parents, teachers, political and religious institutions). These books provide a carnivalesque context that enables children to establish a dialogue with the text through which to question societal norms that have been learnt in school and at home. This dissertation examines how humour and references to food have been translated into Spanish in this context. It also points out the dilemmas posed by retaining the original pictures in the translated text, and how the lack of a supporting cultural peritext affects not only the visual meaning of the text as a whole but also children’s reading experience and their perception of the books as cultural artefacts. Translation loss in children’s literature can be attributed to linguistic difficulties of capturing meanings or stylistic features. However, it may also reflect societal attitudes towards childhood and cultural differences. The history of publishing for children in Spain and the didactic mission of the publishing house (El Barco de Vapor) have had a strong impact on the translation of this series. Examples of the manifestation of this impact include domesticated names, loss of word-play, discrepancies between pictures and texts, and the almost complete deletion of the dual readership (adult and child). Translation has diminished the potential subversive elements of the target text, resulting in a significant reduction of humour. By adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, in which theories from children’s literature, translation studies, reader response and studies on recent Spanish publishing trends are integrated, this thesis aims to make a scholarly contribution to the hitherto neglected study of the translation of contemporary children’s literature into Spanish. Highlighting throughout the differences in the textual content and children’s responses to the translated texts, this thesis explores the editor’s and translator’s decision-making processes and the challenges posed by translation for younger readers.
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Harrison, Jen. "Incarnations: exploring the human condition through Patrick White�s Voss and Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales." University of Sydney. School of Modern Languages and Cultures, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/671.
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Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White�s Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel�s social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.
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Demers, Denise Marie. ""I AM THE CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP": MOTHER'S EXPERIENCES BALANCING GRADUATE EDUCATION AND FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/810.
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More women than ever before are entering the halls of higher education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), more women than men are obtaining bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees (U.S. Department of Education, 2011a) According to Home (1998), at the end of the 20th century, women with families were the fastest growing population at the university level. At the beginning of the 20th century, students over the age of 25 were the fastest growing population in higher education (Carney-Crompton & Tan, 2002). These statistics beg the question, Why do women return to school? What are their challenges? What are their stories? More importantly, how do they do it all? How do they balance the demands of home and school and, most often, employment as well? My research examined the tensions women face going to school, specifically women who have children at home, commonly referred to as nontraditional age students. I was interested in the competitive demands of balancing two challenging roles, that of student and mother. Additionally, I wanted to know how these two roles affected their health and self-care. I designed a qualitative study to explore life as a graduate student mother. I specifically sought to learn about strategies of balancing the challenges as well as how, or if, schooling affected their health and self-care. Using the Roy Adaptation Model, I searched for ways in which women balance their multiple roles. With this research, I aim to help these women in their efforts to be successful in school and in life. I utilized both individual interviews and a focus group. Themes for interviews included I'm a Mother first, I'm the Captain of the Ship, "We got there together," the Adventure is Stressful, Finding Joy in the Journey, Attitude Determines Altitude, and Letting Go. Additionally, two overarching themes surfaced from the focus group: 1. Stress is Ubiquitous and 2. Identity Crisis. From this study, health educators can begin to understand how graduate school mothers experience graduate school, thus obtain a greater ability to develop and implement strategies to help this population.
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Voelcker, Timothy John Malcolm. "From post captain to diplomat : the transformation of Admiral Sir James Saumarez in the Napoleonic Wars." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441810.
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McVey, Alexander. "You're a crook, Captain Hook: Criminal liability for maritime disasters causing death in Australian territorial waters." Thesis, McVey, Alexander (2015) You're a crook, Captain Hook: Criminal liability for maritime disasters causing death in Australian territorial waters. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29161/.
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The world is seeing more maritime disasters every year, in a variety of jurisdictions around the world. Many of these disasters cause a large number of deaths. As a result of those deaths, there is often pressure on the relevant authorities to prosecute the parties responsible. The master of the vessel may be the most obvious party to charge, but there may have been other parties responsible for the operation and management of the vessel whose negligent or reckless conduct contributed to the vessel’s demise. Despite the contributions of other parties, the master of a vessel may become a scapegoat, and, as a result, bear the brunt of any prosecution. There are several reasons why the master may receive the most blame in these situations. One of those may be that the law in force within the relevant jurisdiction does not provide particular criminal charges that apply to parties other than the master. This paper asks whether Australian law encourages prosecuting bodies to scapegoat the master of a vessel and whether this is demonstrative of the wider problem of seafarer criminalisation worldwide.
Criminal law will be fit for its intended purpose if it provides prosecuting authorities with the means to prosecute those truly responsible for damage caused, and to prosecute those parties in an appropriate manner. In 2012, the Australian government spearheaded sweeping changes to domestic maritime law. Those changes brought several new criminal charges relevant to maritime disasters causing death, and amended previous charges. This paper looks to the law in Australia applicable to maritime disasters causing death and asks whether the laws are fit for their intended purpose. The research conducted is doctrinal, focussing particularly on the Navigation Act 2012 (Cth), the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 (Cth), and the Crimes at Sea Act 2000 (Cth).
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Hammarling, Ted. "Hur rättvis rättskipning gestaltas genom dialog i Batman v Superman (2016) och Captain America: Civil war (2016)." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-33542.
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Denna uppsats undersöker superhjältefilmers syn på rättskipning, lag och rätt och därigenom representation av relationen mellan legalitet, legitimitet och etik. De två superhjältefilmerna jag utgår från är Batman v Superman och Captain America: Civil War. Båda filmerna är väldigt lika varandra, till exempel genom att båda har uttryck för krig och att slåss mot varandra i filmtitlar. Metoden som har använts i uppsatsen är en tematisk analys av dialogerna i båda filmerna. Dialogerna som tagits upp i uppsatsen handlar om brott, rättvisa och ansvar. Det finns intressanta aspekter på rättvisa som också redovisas genom karaktärerna runt om hjälten också. Sådana karaktärer kan vara journalister, författare, flickvänner, betjänter, till och med skurkar. Alla dessa karaktärer har var sin åsikt om hur hjälten ska handla och det är slående hur de skapar en diskussion som visar hur komplexa filmerna gör frågorna som tas upp.
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Corbett, Joseph. "Captain John Smith and American Identity: Evolutions of Constructed Narratives and Myths in the 20th and 21st Centuries." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5618.
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Historical narratives and anecdotes concerning Captain John Smith have been told and retold throughout the entire history the United States of America, and they have proved to be sacred, influential, and contested elements in the construction of the individual, sectional, regional, and national identity of many. In this thesis, I first outline some of the history of how narratives and discourses surrounding Captain John Smith were directly connected with the identity of many Americans during the 18th and 19th century, especially Virginians and Southerners. Then I outline how these narratives and discourses from the 18th and 19th centuries have continued and evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries in American scholarship and popular culture. I demonstrate how Captain John Smith went from being used as a symbol for regional and sectional identity to a symbol for broader national American identity, and how he has anachronistically come to be considered an American. I then show how Captain John Smith has continued to be constructed, to a seemingly larger degree than previous centuries, as a hero of almost mythic proportions. Finally I demonstrate how this constructed American hero is used as a posterchild for various interest groups and ideologies in order to legitimize the places of certain discourses and behavior within constructed and contested American identities.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>History<br>Arts and Humanities<br>History; Public History
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Cusset, Anne. "Individu et société dans cinq romans de Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana." Lyon 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995LYO31014.
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Ecrits a la fin de la vie mouvementee de l'auteur, robinson crusoe, captain singleton, moll flanders, colonel jack, et roxana semblent etre des histoires de marginaux vivant a l'ecart de la societe. Pourtant, l7etude des liens entre individu et societe dans ces recits montre que la situation est plus complexe. Marginaux, exclus, isoles, pauvres surtout, mais jamais decourages, les heros, hommes et femmes, visent leur reintegration reussie de la societe. Si les romans se passent en grande patie a londres, l7etranger n7en est pas absent; les lieux exotiques ont un role dramatique important : le heros s'y rachete par son travail et sa reflexion, et il prospere. En angleterre, il transgresse les lois morales et civiles, et defoe essaye d'analyser les notions de faute et de delit. La societe est ekke que si l'on est marginalise, on ne peut la reintegrer qu'en se rendant coupable d'entorses a ses lois. Le heros est excusable si c'est la necessite de survie qui l'a pousse a sa mauvaise action, s'il ne persevere pas dans l e mal lorsqu'il est a l'abri du besoin, et si son repentir est veritable. C'est bien le roman de l'individu que daniel defoe a ecrit, et non une critique sociale. Il examine les droits et les devoirs de l'homme et de la femme. La reintegration achevee, le roman s'acheve. C'est nouvelle forme de fiction, recit qui fait croire a sa veracite, marque l'emergence de la notion d'individu moderne. L'homme existe dans la lutte, et prend corps dans la communication avec autrui<br>Written at the end of the author s'evential life, robinson crusoe, captain singleton, living on the fringe of society. And roxana seem to tell the story of men and women living on the fringe of society. And yet, studying the relationship between the individual and society in these stories reveals a more complex situation. Excluded, isolated, poor, but neve r put off, the hero, whether a man or a woman, aims at being admitted as a successful member of society. London is the main scene of the stories, but the heroes also go overseas and these exotic places play an important dramatic part; there, the hero redeems himself, through his work and reflexions, and becomes rich. En england, he breaks moral or civil laws, and defoe suggests a reflexion on the notion of crime : society is such that if one is on its edge, one cannot find one's way back into its midst without in fringing on its laws. So the heroes can be forgiven provided that it is th e necessity of survival that prompted their crimes, that they are not hardened in their bad ways, and that they sincerely repent their crimes. It is not severe criticism of society but definitely the struggle of an individual that defoe puts at the center of his novels, examining men's and women's rights and duties. Once the reintegration successful performed, the novel stops. A new form of fiction pretending authenticity, the novel emerges along with the very notion of the modern individual
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Lekare, Denise, and Lotta Jacobsen. "This is your captain speaking : En studie om kvinnliga och manliga piloters upplevda balans mellan arbete och familjeliv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39960.
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Denna studie av Lotta Jacobsen och Denise Lekare syftar till att undersöka hur manliga och kvinnliga piloter vilka flyger långdistans upplever sin arbetssituation, särskilt i relation till familjelivet. Metoden som tillämpats är kvalitativ i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex piloter. För att analysera intervjusvaren har vi använt oss av en feministisk organisationsteori och en teori om work-life balance. Resultaten visade att informanterna upplevde en hög grad av balans mellan sfärerna, till följd av starka fysiska, temporära och psykologiska gränser mellan arbete och familjeliv, vari arbetssfären är starkt avgränsad från familjesfären och vice versa. Denna balans hotas när arbetsperioderna blir för långa eller piloterna är oense med andra sfärmedlemmar om gränsernas karaktär. Ytterligare ett resultat var att de kvinnliga piloterna inte kände sig direkt diskriminerade, men att det däremot fanns en hög grad av indirekt diskriminering mot kvinnor inom flygbranschen. Detta har resulterat i att kvinnliga piloter får det svårare att avancera i sina karriärer. Därför är ett utmärkande drag för denna studie den undersökning av flygbranschen som görs, som resulterar i skilda möjligheter för män och kvinnor till avancemang i karriären, särskilt i kombination med familjebildning.<br>This essay by Lotta Jacobsen and Denise Lekare examines how male and female long haul pilots experience their work situation, especially in relation to their family life. A qualitative method was applied, consisting of semistructured interviews with six pilots. To analyze the interview responses, we used a feminist organizational theory and a theory of work-life balance. The results showed that our respondents experienced a high level of balance due to the strong physical, temporary and psychological borders between work and family life, as the work sphere is strongly delimited from the family life sphere and vice versa. This balance is threatened when the working periods is too excessive or the pilots disagree with other sphere- members about the nature of the borders. Another result was that the female pilots did not feel directly discriminated against, however, there was a great amount of indirect discrimination in the aviation industry against women. This has resulted in female pilots having a harder time advancing in their careers. Therefore, a key characteristic for this essay is its examination of the aviation industry that results in different possibilities for men and women to advance in their careers, especially in relation to building a family.
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Sahed, Wahiba. "Le capitaine." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX32065.
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Longtemps « seul maître à bord après Dieu», le capitaine n’exerce plus aujourd’hui son autorité de la même manière, ce qui ne signifie d’ailleurs pas que cette dernière soit remise en question. Le particularisme de sa fonction en fait un personnage tout à fait spécifique à bord. Ce dernier caractère le place dans une certaine mesure, sur un même plan que le marin âgé de moins de dix-huit ans, personnage indispensable tant pour son rôle traditionnel que pour son activité à bord du navire.Sa position à bord en fait un marin différent des autres membres de l’équipage. Il a autorité sur l’ensemble de l’équipage. Même si cette autorité, comme c’est d’ailleurs le cas pour les chefs d’entreprise à terre ne s’exerce plus avec la même rigueur que dans le passé, elle n’en demeure pas moins. Marin, responsable de l’expédition maritime, mandataire commercial de l’armateur, préposé nautique, le capitaine a vu son rôle évoluer au fil du temps. D’un point de vue réglementaire, ses fonctions à bord, et sa position font qu’il conserve une situation originale, l’ensemble de la réglementation du travail maritime ne pouvant, de ce fait, lui être appliquée<br>Long "only master after God," the captain's authority is no longer present in the same way, which does not, moreover, that the latter is questionable. The specificity of its function is a very specific character on board. This last character is placed in a certain extent, on the same plane as the sailor who is under eighteen years of age, character essential for both its traditional role for its activity on the ship. Its position on board is a marine different from other crew members. He has authority over all of the crew. Although this authority, as is also true for business leaders on the ground no longer exercised with the same rigor as in the past, it nonetheless. Marin, head of maritime shipping, commercial agent of the owner, attendant water, the captain has seen its role evolve over time. From a regulatory point of view, his duties on board, and its position makes it retains a unique situation, the entire maritime labor regulations can not, therefore, be applied to him
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Andersson, Anton. "Libertalia, bokstavligen och bildligt talat? : En studie av Captain Charles Johnsons verks skildringar av Libertalia genom nutida historikers tolkningar." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71391.
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Piracy has a big mysterious stamp. In the west, we have a clear picture of the 17th and 18th century pirates through stories about prostheses, planks, parrots and eyepatches. These stories come from one source, Captain Charles Johnson's legendary work that addresses a large number of pirates and their lives on the seven seas. This study investigates how modern historians relate critically to Captain Charles Johnson's work and how they interpret his stories about the fictional pirate utopia, Libertalia. What are their purposes and what have they been affected by? By applying a social-constructive theory, the purpose of course becomes evident by seeing what truths these historians created and carried on and how Charles Johnson's work was used in history. Through a social constructive study influenced by source criticism of the works of Marcus Rediker, David Cordingly and Philip Gosse, their interpretations have been perceived as very different. The different historians seem to have their own personal agendas and perceptions and have through their expertise created perceptions and stories that may characterize future generations' perception of the golden age of the piracy and, in particular, their image of Libertalia as a fair society without rulers. The researchers' source-critical approach varies from seeing Johnson's work as narrative stories for future generations to the fact that Johnson primarily had a profit interest in the authorship. These ideas, however, are something that the historians themselves have concluded and thus become part of the social construction we call reality, in which we exist.
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Percy, C. E. "The language of Captain James Cook : some aspects of the syntax and morphology of the 'Endeavour' journal, 1758-1771." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315977.
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Aragona, Jared Lane. "Utopian Canvas: Visionary Aspects of Early English-American Literature, 1497-1705." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1049%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Poyser, Shawn. "Team Captain| A Quantitative Study Examining the Relationship between Extracurricular and/or Co-Curricular Participation and Leadership Styles of Beginning Superintendents." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10172525.
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<p> This mixed-methods study was conducted to determine if there was a significant relationship between extracurricular and/or co-curricular participation and leadership styles of beginning superintendents in the state of Missouri. First-year superintendents from 63 school districts in Missouri were invited to participate in the study, and 28 participated. The first instrumentation used in the research was a Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5X Short Form, created by Bass and Avolio (2004), consisting of 45 leadership style questions and was administered on-line through Mind Garden, Ltd. In addition to the MLQ 5X-Short, participants were invited to complete a second survey created by the researcher, the Profile of Extracurricular and Co-Curricular Participation Questionnaire, was administered on-line through Survey Monkey and consisted of nine demographic and background questions. This particular survey also asked participants to identify past involvement in extracurricular and/or co-curricular activities and to answer three open-ended questions regarding their perceptions of the impact, if any, of those activities on their leadership experiences. The quantitative and qualitative data indicated many of the first-year superintendents had participated in extracurricular and co-curricular activities in high school and/or college. Many participants also reported they believed these activities had made a significant impact on their lives, including leadership skills.</p>
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Murray, Zoe. "To maintain order amongst a disreputable people: The case of Captain Armstrong, colonial governance and scandal at the antipodes, 1878-1887." Thesis, Department of History, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8830.
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On 4 April 1882, the New South Wales government steamer Thetis arrived at Lord Howe Island bearing J. Bowie Wilson, recently appointed commissioner of an inquiry into the conduct of the Island’s resident magistrate, Captain Richard Armstrong. Following a hastily convened investigation, Wilson recommended that the government confirm Armstrong’s suspension from office. Armstrong claimed he had done nothing to deserve the dismissal and that Wilson’s inquiry made a mockery of justice. So, while the colonial press initially expressed indignation against Armstrong’s alleged wrongdoings, over time the focus of moral outrage shifted to Wilson. This thesis explores the case of Captain Armstrong, a prominent scandal in 1880s New South Wales. It traces Armstrong’s connection with Lord Howe Island from its beginning in 1878 to its end in 1887, when he finally received tangible recognition of injustice, £1500 compensation. By untangling the many threads of the Armstrong case, it is possible to paint a vivid and detailed picture of colonial governance in late nineteenth-century New South Wales. It is not merely that the case highlights the experience of a minor official in a remote outpost – a much neglected area of Australian and imperial history – but that subsequent press and parliamentary debates reveal some of the most vexing issues in colonial society. It sheds light on the contemporary temperance movement, competing ideals of masculine character and pervasive anxieties surrounding the issue of the colony’s reputation. The Armstrong case provides compelling evidence that colonial governance, whether in a remote outpost or an established colony, was a fragile enterprise, fraught with contradictions and anxieties.
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Schorr, Erin Marie. "A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF PEER LEADERSHIP EXHIBITED BY DIVISION I FOOTBALL CAPTAINS." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174683034.
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Alburger, Mary Anne. "Making the fiddle sing : Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie and his 'Airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles' (1816)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395253.
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This thesis is in two parts. Part One, <I>Captain Simon Fraser</I>: <I>his life and </I>Airs, provides an introduction to traditional Scottish Gaelic music and song related to <I>Airs</I> (his major musical publication), and investigates his family's and his own military and farming careers, and their possible relevance to the melodies he published. It also examines how Fraser collected, published, and promoted <I>Airs</I> and similar projects, in part through his unpublished correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, and with the Highland Society of Scotland, with other supporting documentation. Part Two, <I>Gaelic songs from Captain Simon Fraser's</I> Airs, is a collection of the author's editions of songs created from marrying edited melodies from the collection of the Gaelic poems associated with them through their titles, or similar information. This is intended to prove that the music in <I>Airs,</I> although originally set instrumentally, can provide valid musical sources for mainly eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic songs. The collection is prefaced by two introductions. The first discusses Fraser as a musician and editor, as well as some of the difficulties which may arise when dealing with music of his kind. The second introduction explains how the editorial notes are presented, what elements of the song will be discussed and explains this editor's working methods. These notes, which utilise scholarly apparatus, may be found in Part Two, after the songs, which are interleaved with facsimiles of Fraser original versions, for ease of study. The results of the research found in Part One is a detailed picture of Fraser as a soldier, a farmer, and a collector and publisher of traditional Gaelic melodies, alongside new insights into the workings of patronage at the end of the 'long eighteenth', through Fraser's unpublished correspondence with the Highland Society of Scotland, and with Sir Walter Scott. Part Two provides practical examples of the suitability of Fraser's art music settings as a basis for the production of versions of Scottish Gaelic songs for which there is no comparable historic source.
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Valente, Raquel Daniela Monteiro. "A formação na Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) : o curso de promoção a Capitão." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14253.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Humanos<br>A formação dos militares da Guarda Nacional Republicana é fundamental para o cumprimento da missão atribuída à instituição e, em última instância, para a garantia da segurança das pessoas e bens.
O presente estudo está subordinado ao tema "A Formação na Guarda Nacional Republicana. O Curso de Promoção a Capitão", visando saber qual a avaliação que os futuros capitães fazem relativamente ao Curso de Promoção a Capitão. Deste modo foi aplicado um inquérito por questionário aos formandos dos Cursos de Promoção a Capitão que decorreram entre 2008 e 2014, em que o método de amostragem escolhido foi a amostragem por conveniência.
O presente trabalho está estruturado em três capítulos fundamentais. O primeiro capítulo é dedicado ao enquadramento teórico, onde são apresentados os principais conceitos de formação e o ciclo formativo. O segundo capítulo está dirigido para a Guarda Nacional Republicana, sendo abordada a formação na instituição, falando em específico sobre o Curso de Promoção a Capitão. O terceiro capítulo é dedicado ao estudo empírico, nomeadamente metodologia, amostra, instrumentos de investigação e resultados.
A partir do estudo empírico é possível concluir que os fatores que mais influenciam a avaliação que os Oficiais fazem do Curso são as habilitações académicas e a idade.<br>The training of military personnel of the Guarda Nacional Republicana is essential for the fulfillment of the mission assigned to the institution and ultimately to guarantee the safety of people and goods.
This study is entitled "Training in the Guarda Nacional Republicana. The Captain Promotion Programme" and aims to find out the assessment that the future captains made in the the end of the Captain Promotion Programme. A questionnaire was applied to the graduates of the Captain Promotion Programme which took place between 2008 and 2014, in which the sampling method chosen was the convenience sampling.
This work is structured into three main chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the theoretical framework, where the main concepts of training and the training cycle are presented. The second chapter is directed to the Guarda Nacional Republicana, in particular on training in the institution, speaking in particular about the Captain Promotion Programme. The third chapter is devoted to the empirical study, including methodology, sample, research tools and results.
Resulting from the empirical study we conclude that the factors that mostly influence the evaluation that officials make of the Programme are the academic qualifications and the age.<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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