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Betty, Michèle Anne. "Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19969.
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This essay was born of a desire to understand the relationship between poetry and politics in a meaningful and current way. The twentieth century has seen atrocities that have taken place on an unprecedented scale: times of historical and social extremity, states of exile, censorship, military occupation, political persecution, torture, warfare, assassination, apartheid and, more recently, forms of violent terrorism. This essay will consider the function of poetry in a world overcome and consumed by violence. The essay will begin with a consideration of the political function of the ideas expressed in Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (hereinafter A Defence). Shelley's notion of the promise of art and what it de facto delivers, and his ideas on the significance of poems in the context of politics will be examined. The essay will then consider the views of the Russian Formalists on how to establish the "literariness" of a text and the ability of a text to "defamiliarise", as well as the devices that can be used by a poet to achieve literariness and defamiliarisation. It will touch on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his concepts of folk humour and grotesque realism in a text. Carolyn Forché's idea of poetry as a witness of a lived experience, as enunciated in her text Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, will be discussed. Thereafter, the essay will consider Viljoen and Van der Merwe's notions of liminality in literature, as expounded in their text Beyond the Threshold, and their explanation of how language can act as a transformative vehicle. In order to illustrate these concepts practically, the essay will analyse two South African poetry collections, namely: Nathan Trantraal's Chokers en Survivors and Oswald Mtshali's Sounds of a Cowhide Drum. The analyses will reveal what distinguishes mere resistance poetry and political diatribe from poetry that is lasting and effective.
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Olson, Ted. "Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1129.
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Excerpt: April is also National Poetry Month, and this column will focus on an April-themed poem—not one of the many April poems evincing sincere religiosity or forced sentimentality, and not that famous poem that cynically asserts that “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.
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Roodt, Kendra-Lynn. "Strategies for value-creation in a post-merged organisation." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/8650.
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A merger occurs when two or more organisations integrate for a specific reason and become one entity in order to ensure success. Careful consideration and thorough planning must be done and several steps need to be followed to avoid a merger being unsuccessful. Good leadership and communication strategies are the key to a successful merger. This study deals with the strategies for value-creation in a post-merged organisation and the main problem that this research study addressed was: What strategies could an organisation use to ensure that desired values are created in a post-merged organisation? To answer the above question it was necessary to address the preferred organisational values and outcomes of a successful merger and leadership strategies that organisations can utilise to ensure that the preferred values and outcomes of a merger are achieved. Thereafter, various models were outlined and evaluated and a proposed integrated model for the implementation of desired values in a merged institution element was developed to ensure that the members of the organisation internalise the desired values and that these values are reflected in all organisational functions and behaviour. Lastly, based on the theoretical findings of the literature survey, a questionnaire was developed and distributed amongst employees of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). As a result of this study it was clear that it is imperative that the decision to implement the leadership and communication strategies proposed in the integrated model remains with the senior management. The organisation will only experience success while coordinating these strategies if senior management is totally committed to the process.
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BASSI, GIOVANNI. "The Post-romantic flower trope: poetic creation, metamorphic bodies." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/90442.
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McCuaig, Nicole M. "Transmitting the Impulse: The Creative Treatment of Ronald McCuaig's Poetry and Actuality." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404460.
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The object of this research is to expand the practice of archiveology, a term coined by Joel Katz in 1991 and theorised more recently by Catherine Russell to describe the process of reusing found archival footage in expository documentary to “produce new modes of thinking about the past” (2018, 47). This research will experiment with poetry as a source of archive, adding to the more commonly deployed materials such as film, still photographs, or letters used in documentary production. The intention of the work is to illuminate the literary career of the Australian poet Ronald McCuaig (1908–1993), who was also my grandfather. Ronald McCuaig was described by Australian author Geoffrey Dutton as “Australia’s first modern poet” (1986, 49), and was widely respected for his literary contribution, which spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. In recent years, however, his work and career had begun to fade from view. As an established documentary filmmaker, I have completed a significant practice-based study, experimenting with production methods for multiplatform outcomes. The rich archive collection that emerged throughout the study led me to question how it is possible to do justice to literature through my usual documentary practice. I have initiated a hermeneutical experiment, re-versioning McCuaig’s literary work—predominantly poetry—through the methodologies of archiveology and videopoetry.
Over the past ten years, audience screening options and spaces have changed dramatically, providing opportunities to develop work that provides for a multifaceted viewing experience, adding online spaces to traditional cinema or television viewing. These options provide an opportunity to experiment with archiveological practices for new viewing artefacts such as videopoems. I aim to demonstrate the impact of Ronald McCuaig’s original work and its potential to provide powerful social commentary, still of relevance in 2020, using Walter Benjamin’s ‘dialectical image’ as a conceptual framework. The outcome of poetry from the 1930s, reimagined into videopoetry with companion documentary sequences, results in a synthesis and an unusual and expanded outcome for a documentary filmmaker: a gallery exhibition. Rather than a single screening event, the exhibition includes multiple screening spaces, a material culture collection, furniture installations, an exhibition publication, digitised original anthologies, and an online space. The combination of these outputs and proposed future endeavours provides audiences with a more visceral connection to the poet, his life and work.<br>Thesis (Professional Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)<br>Queensland College of Art<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Estevez, Cristina. "Creating identity : the role of George Gordon, Lord Byron, in realizing the Romantic poet." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3279.
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The Romantic Age in literature was a time of change and revision, especially in the world of heroes and the fictional worlds in which they lived and played. Many socalled "heroes" came into play at this time, but this was not enough for the Romantic poets, especially George Gordon, Lord Byron. The Byronic hero became the solution to the problem created by an unsatisfactory hero. In creating the Byronic hero, Byron changed literature, allowing poets and readers alike to participate actively in the processes of writing and reading. This work will examine Byron's development of his hero in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and how other poets, such as Karel Hynek Macha in his Maj, used the Byronic hero as a model that would help them foster a revival of both literature and nationhood. This work explores why the Byronic hero was adopted and embraced by those in England and abroad.
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McQuillan, Elizabeth Carmel. "The reception and creation of post-1960 Franco-Belgian BD." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8926/.
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This thesis investigates the reception and creation of post-1960 Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, through an examination of the key BD journals of the period, namely, Pilote (1959-1989), L'Echo des savanes (1972-present) and (A Suivre) (1978-1997). The BDs considered as representative of these magazines are not only contextualised socio-historically as cultural artefacts of the period, but are also analysed as texts. This thesis also considers the historical processes of the institutionalisation and intellectualisation of the BD in France and Belgium in a bid to understand the current cultural status and popularity of Franco-Belgian BD. In terms of reception, I focus mainly on the critical reception of BD. In terms of creation I focus particularly on the work of three authors, Claire Bretécher, Christian Binet and Benoît Peeters, concentrating on a personal aesthetic appreciation rather than a general public appreciation of their work. After a structural introduction to the thesis, I discuss certain significant aspects of pre-1960 BD history. In particular, I highlight the political suspicion in which children's illustrés were held in the immediate post-war period. I then suggest specific cultural and historical reasons, which explain BD's transition from frowned-upon illustrated children's material in the 1950s to its welcomed reception as a medium capable of meaningful adult commentary in the 1970s. This introductory chapter concludes with a summary of the key events marking BD's cultural institutionalisation in France and Belgium. This summary particularly emphasises the State intervention of the 1980s, which definitively recognised post-1960 BD as a national asset. In chapter one, I discuss the field of BD criticism, and investigate, in three sub-sections, the contents and context of the main critical trends such as they developed in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s-1990s. I argue that the decisive process of BD's intellectualisation was inaugurated with the establishment of the CBD (Club des Amis de la bande dessinée) in 1962.
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RUSSO, ANGELOANTONIO. "Managing the post acquisition integration process: determinants and value creation." Doctoral thesis, Università Bocconi, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11565/4050949.
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Wirtz, Jason. "Poets on inventing revisioning invention theory, practice and pedagogy within rhetoric, composition, English education and creative writing /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Flynn, Teresa. "Silenced by reason: The creation of the civilised post-divorce family." Thesis, Flynn, Teresa (2015) Silenced by reason: The creation of the civilised post-divorce family. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/28658/.
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This thesis sets out to explore how family law has come to shape and regulate the nature of the post‐divorce family, with particular reference to contemporary Australia. In so doing, it positions law as part of a broader set of behavioural, social and economic regulations through which separating families are re‐formed in the contemporary context. In considering law in this wider context, I have a particular interest in the mediation process within family dispute resolution. Here I consider how the mediation process works to steer negotiations between divorcing parents in particular directions, and in the process potentially sidelines, or silences, other emotional and personal issues deemed to be irrelevant to the desired outcome, which is increasingly construed in terms of the ‘best interests of the child’.
As the site of my analysis is the private, confidential and relatively unobserved process of mediation within family dispute resolution, I have drawn together a range of sources and insights to create an imagined representation of mediation as an analytical device for the purpose of discussion throughout the thesis. This allows me to illustrate certain interpersonal dynamics of the mediation process and pinpoint particular issues for discussion.
In order to investigate the factors that have contributed to the regulation of the postdivorce family over time I draw on three major theoretical sources. First, Michel Foucault and his ideas on governmentality; second Jacques Donzelot and his work on the policing of families from the mid‐eighteenth century in France; and, third Norbert Elias’s insights into the civilising process. Taken together these insights help to illuminate the often hidden but persuasive role of law, the broad social mechanisms by which separating families are regulated, how the regulation of behaviour and emotion at family breakdown relies on law working in co‐operation with the social and behavioural experts, and how our social orderliness relies on our ability to civilise our behaviour. I also rely on a range of socio‐legal interpretations of family law in developing an analytical perspective for investigating the ways in which law has operated over time and in the contemporary situation.
In the conclusion to the thesis I bring the central strands of my discussion together and consider how the process and practices of mediation within family dispute resolution ‘help to shape the stories that are told’ (Day Sclater, 1999a, p. 179), and in particular, the way in which certain emotional and personal issues, deemed to be officially irrelevant to the desired outcome in mediation, are potentially sidelined or silenced.
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Zubkova, Alina Boleslavivna. "Creative Economy: Driving of Internationalization and Global Development." Thesis, НТУ "ХПІ", 2015. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/35808.
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Early 2000th the concept of creative class and creative economy has been developed by Richard Florida and John Howkins. However, "creative economy" is not a well-defined term currently. The United Kingdom (UK) has the largest creative sector of the European Union. In the Creative Economy Report of UNESCO 2013 is stated: "Creative economy it is not a single superhighway, but a multitude of different local trajectories found in cities and regions in developing countries" [5]. Creative clusters open the fastest way for internationalization. Creative clusters development gives us the chance to be included into global supply chains and value creation. Successful startups as the key products of creative clusters will lead to economic growth through the entrepreneurship and SME development in Ukraine and Kharkiv in particular.
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Webb, James Engineering & Information Technology Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The measurement, creation and manipulation of quantum optical states via photodetection." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. Engineering & Information Technology, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43686.
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In this thesis, we demonstrate an array of photodetection theory and techniques bridging the traditional discrete and continuous variable experimental domains. In quantum optics, the creation and measurement of states of light are intertwined and we present experimental architectures considering both aspects. We describe the measurement of mean photon numbers at optical sideband frequencies using homodyne detection. We use our technique to provide a direct comparison to photon-counting measurements and observe that our technique exhibits superior speed, dynamic range and mode selectivity compared to photon counters. Our analysis also rejects a semiclassical description of the vacuum state, with our observations supporting the quantum mechanical model. We create a new means of describing the detection ???signatures??? of multi-port networks of non-photon-number discriminating detectors. Our model includes the practical effects of loss and dark counts. We use this model to analyse the performance of the loopand balanced- time-division-multiplexed detector architectures in a projective measurement role. Our analysis leads us to describe a prescriptive recipe for the optimisation of each architecture. In light of contemporary technology, we conclude the balanced TDM detector is the better architecture. Our analysis is then extended to the tomographic reconstruction of an unknown optical state using multi-port photon-counting networks. Our new approach is successfully applied to the reconstruction of the photon statistics of weak coherent states and demonstrates reduced error and sensitivity to experimental parameter variations than established techniques. We report the development of a source of quadrature squeezed vacuum at 1550 nm, and characterise the squeezing observed at the first 3 free spectral ranges of the downconversion cavity. This is then used as a source of frequency-entangled photons for a projective photon subtraction operation described by our earlier theory. We propose a new hybrid time/frequency domain approach to homodyne detection and illustrate its application in characterising the prepared state. Our output state has a statistically significant single photon contribution and permits future experimentation in frequency basis quantum information.
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Renner-Fahey, Ona. "Mythologies of poetic creation in twentieth-century Russian verse." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1056554664.
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Johnson, Rebekkah A. Neuman Dale A. "The creation of the post-1952 cabinet departments an evaluation of developmental patterns /." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Political Science and School of Business and Public Administration. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004.<br>"A dissertation in political science and public affairs and administration." Advisor: Dale A. Neuman. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 24, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 458-487). Online version of the print edition.
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Miyoshi, Maiko. "Writing as self-creation : an examination of characters who write in selection of texts for children post 1960." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2009. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/writing-as-self-creation(ea4addaf-3e74-46ef-97f9-c56cc722b693).html.
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Njoroge, wa Ngugi J. "Creation in "The catechism of the Catholic Church" a basis for catechesis in post-colonial Africa /." Nairobi, Kenya : Paulines Publications Africa, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kC7ZAAAAMAAJ.
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Sastry, Sandhya. "Optimising intercultural synergies : a dynamic model of value creation in post-merger integration contexts." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703505/.
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The research study presents a dynamic model to manage intercultural issues in post-merger integration (PMI) contexts. Employing the concept of fault-lines and fault-zones the model contributes to extant knowledge as it enables real value creation for mid-market companies such as EA by resolving PMI problems through practical solutions in real time. Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) activity across the world continues to occur unabated. Yet such deals post-merger face high failure rates. The main reason for failure cited in extant literature is cultural - both national and organisational. However, the literature is remarkably silent on the nature and attributes of cultural issues that have the power to create value or destroy such deals. The purpose of this study is to provide a dynamic model for leadership to optimise and manage intercultural issues during post-merger integration, combined with theoretical underpinnings and research rigour. Following a review of relevant literature, a case study approach was used which employed quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Findings revealed that: (a) certain fault-lines can be identified that contribute to clash and fuse in PMI contexts (b) these fault-lines need to be managed across both intercultural and non-intercultural fault-zones (c) experiential learning has an intercultural dimension during the process of internationalisation (d) intercultural management is a specialism with specific skillset and competences that is related to the dynamic capabilities and experiential learning in an enterprise. Based on this, a dynamic model is put forward that enables leaders to harness synergies and creates value during PMI.
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Sastry, Sandhya. "Optimising intercultural synergies: A dynamic model of value creation in post-merger integration contexts." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703505/1/Sastry_2015.pdf.
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The research study presents a dynamic model to manage intercultural
issues in post-merger integration (PMI) contexts. Employing the concept of
fault-lines and fault-zones the model contributes to extant knowledge as it
enables real value creation for mid-market companies such as EA by
resolving PMI problems through practical solutions in real time.
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) activity across the world
continues to occur unabated. Yet such deals post-merger face high failure
rates. The main reason for failure cited in extant literature is cultural - both
national and organisational. However, the literature is remarkably silent on
the nature and attributes of cultural issues that have the power to create
value or destroy such deals. The purpose of this study is to provide a
dynamic model for leadership to optimise and manage intercultural issues
during post-merger integration, combined with theoretical underpinnings
and research rigour.
Following a review of relevant literature, a case study approach was used
which employed quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
Findings revealed that: (a) certain fault-lines can be identified that
contribute to clash and fuse in PMI contexts (b) these fault-lines need to be
managed across both intercultural and non-intercultural fault-zones (c)
experiential learning has an intercultural dimension during the process of
internationalisation (d) intercultural management is a specialism with
specific skillset and competences that is related to the dynamic capabilities
and experiential learning in an enterprise. Based on this, a dynamic model
is put forward that enables leaders to harness synergies and creates value
during PMI.
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Kiel, Sue. "Homecoming: finding a place for shamanic practice in the creation of post colonial theatre." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12549.
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At the centre of my research, in the light of my homecoming and notions of home, there is a question: might I find a place where dimensions of shamanism might intersect with modes of performance, in the creation of theatre for the 21st Century? In this liminal hybrid moment, a place between the present and the future, I suggest that art is actually necessary and that it is essential for artists to build a counter-narrative, both locally and globally, to terror, suffering and denial. Art and social change can be a trend for certain nations, societies, even artists and theorists. In my view, however, which is my point of departure, it is particularly in an era of self reference, modernity, post modern and post colonial rupture and fragmentation that an informed coherence between the inexplicable terror of unsettling major social upheaval and the individual, may be able to be sketched once again and with certainty, by and through art and performance; if not actual transformation; then a witnessing, an acknowledgement and an end to the pain of denial. This explication begins with an overview of current socio-political dilemmas, and looks at the role of theatre in impacting change. My exploration continues with an examination of the role of shamanism as a tool to assist the theatre maker, the actor and even the audience in the pursuit of a transforming experience where one might initiate a shift in perceptions, thought and consciousness. In my observation of current theatre makers in South Africa, I am finding that this is already taking place. The object of this paper is to frame and make more specific, the role of shamanism as it connects to interdisciplinary techniques and technologies for performance. In my practical research, which will include my culminating production, Passages (provisional title), I attempt to tease out these methodologies in order to expand my work and be a part of the development of theory and practice in theatre making in these significant and urgent times, for my 21st Century homes. The primary theorists that I have referenced, contained in my theoretical framework, are Ashraf Jamal, Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembe, Homi Bhabha, Breyten Breytenbach, Iain Chambers and Hamid Naficy. In my research for my praxis, I have worked predominantly with the findings of Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Antonin Artaud, Peter Sellars, Jerzy Grotowski, Alison Oddey and Rachel Karafistan.
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Kranz, Daniela. "Shades of Jewishness : the creation and maintenance of a liberal Jewish community in post-Shoah Germany." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/872.
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This PhD thesis focuses on the creation and maintenance of the liberal Jewish community in present day Cologne, Germany. The community has the telling name Gescher LaMassoret, which translates into „Bridge to Tradition.‟ The name gives away that this specific community, its individual members and its struggles cannot be understood without the socio-historic context of Germany and the Holocaust. Although this Jewish community is not a community of Holocaust survivors, the dichotomy Jewish-German takes various shapes within the community and surfaces in the narratives of the individual members. These narratives reflect the uniqueness of each individual in the community. While this is a truism, this individual uniqueness is a key element in Gescher LaMassoret, whose membership consists of people from various countries who have various native languages. Furthermore, the community comprises members of Jewish descent as well as Jews of conversion who are of German, non- Jewish parentage. Due to the aftermaths of the Holocaust and the fact that Gescher LaMassoret houses a vast internal diversity, the creation of this community which lacks any tradition happens through mixing and meshing the life-stories and other narratives of the members, which flow into the collective narrative of the community. On the surface, the narratives of the individual members seem in conflict, they even contradict each other, which means that the narrative of the community is in constant tension. However, under the dissimilarities on the surface of the individual narratives hide similarities in terms of shared values and attitudes, which allow for enough overlaps to create a community by way of braiding a collective narrative, which offers the members to experience a 'felt ethnicity.'
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Snow, Michelle Hansen. "Music education and entrepreneurship: post-secondary music teacher education and value creation for individuals and communities." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12633.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University<br>Entrepreneurship is a topic gaining attention within post-secondary education in the United States in a multitude of disciplines outside of the traditional business school. In the discipline of music, entrepreneurship education can be described as an approach to preparing professional musicians that considers the artistic and economic environment they will encounter upon graduation. The aim of entrepreneurship education is to help a student creatively apply her or his education, skills, passion, and vision toward creating a sustainable career in music. Entrepreneurship education may hold particular significance in the realm of music teacher preparation in post-secondary education for its potential to broaden employment opportunities for music educators and to help them create new and expanded value for individuals and communities within and beyond the pre-K-12 school settings for which music educators are traditionally prepared to work. Examples include preparation in studio teaching and community music leadership.
Drawing on the historical and theoretical foundations of traditional entrepreneurship, and examining current models of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking in music education, I develop a conceptual framework for how entrepreneurship education might serve as a means of positively transforming music teacher preparation practices in post-secondary education to better meet the career needs and interests of music education majors and other music majors who aspire to teach music. Programs that are designed to create musical, social, and economic value for individuals and communities may challenge and expand current accepted definitions of "music educator" and might bring greater relevance to the aims, processes, and content involved in music teacher preparation programs. Particular attention is focused upon three entrepreneurial models of music education: the Sistema Fellows Program of El Sistema USA, Musical Futures in the United Kingdom, and the Music-in-Education concentration at New England Conservatory.
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Broadbridge, Helena Tara. "Negotiating post-apartheid boundaries and identities : an anthropological study of the creation of a Cape Town Suburb." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52353.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the complex and contested processes of drawing boundaries and
negotiating identities in the post-Apartheid South African context by analysing how
residents in a new residential suburb of Cape Town are working to carve out a new
position for themselves in a changing social order.
Drawing on data gathered through participant observation, individual and focus group
interviews, and household surveys between November 1998 and December 2000, the
study examines how residents draw and negotiate boundaries in their search for stability,
status, and community in a society characterised by social flux, uncertainty, ambiguity
and contradiction. It explores the construction and shifting of identities believed to be
embodied in those boundaries, at the levels of the individual, the household and the
community. A range of everyday social and spatial practices - including streetscape
design, its use and contestation, neighbourliness and sociality, .household livelihoods and
strategies, home maintenance and improvements - are shown to reveal residents' own
conceptualisations of boundaries, their practical significance and symbolic power, as well
as their permeability and transgression. The marking and maintenance of boundaries
convey how social relationships, practices and power in the suburb are structured and
continually negotiated. By analysing these actions and responses, the study illustrates
some of the ways in which recent changes in South African society have unsettled the
relationship between class, race and space to construct new boundaries and shape new
identities.
The fmdings suggest that although social differentiation among the residents is
increasingly being restructured around class, race remains a salient variable in residents'
constructions of themselves and each other. Ethnic-religious prejudice is also shown to
influence local conflict and constructions of community.
The study draws out four discourses through which residents contemplate and formulate
circumstances and processes in their neighbourhood. The first emphasises racial
integration, the second middle class suburban living, the third safety from crime, the
fourth distrust and disorder. The discourses are significant, not only in their practical
manifestation in everyday interaction but also because they suggest some of the ways in
which connections and disconnections with the past, with (he old identities and the old
affiliations, are managed in a new, post-Apartheid South Africa.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie verken die komplekse en betwiste prosesse van die trek van grense en die
onderhandeling van identiteite in die Suid-Afrikaanse post-Apartheid konteks, deur te
analiseer hoe inwoners in 'n nuwe Kaapstadse residensiële voorstad te werk gaan om 'n
nuwe posisie in 'n veranderende sosiale orde vir hulself daar te stel.
Op grond van data bekom deur deelnemende observasie, onderhoude met indiwidue en
fokusgroepe, en opnames in huishoudings tussen November 1998 en Desember 2000,
ondersoek die studie hoe inwoners grense trek en onderhandel in hulle soeke na
stabiliteit, status, en gemeenskap in 'n samelewing gekenmerk deur sosiale vloeibaarheid,
onsekerheid, dubbelsinnigheid en teenstrydigheid. Dit verken die konstruksie en die
verskuiwing van identiteite wat gesien word as dat dit binne hierdie grense tuis hoort, op
die vlakke van die indiwidu, die huishouding en die gemeenskap. 'n Reeks alledaagse
sosiale en ruimtelike praktyke - insluitende omgewingsbeplanning, die benutting en
betwisting daarvan, buurskap en gemeenskapsin, huishoudelike bestaansmiddele en
strategieë, huisonderhoud en verbeterings - toon inwoners se eie voorstellings van grense,
hulle praktiese betekenis en simboliese invloed, sowel as hulle deurdringbaarheid en
oorskryding. Die afbakening en handhawing van grense deel mee hoe sosiale
verhoudings, praktyke en mag in die voorstad gestruktureer en voortdurend onderhandel
word. Deur hierdie optredes en reaksies illustreer die studie sommige van die wyses
waarop onlangse veranderings in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing die verhouding tussen
klas, ras en ruimte beïnvloed het om nuwe grense te konstrueer en nuwe identiteite te
vorm.
Die bevindings suggereer dat, hoewel sosiale differensiasie tussen die inwoners
toenemend geherstruktureer word wat klas betref, ras 'n duidelik waarneembare
onderliggende veranderlike in inwoners se siening van hulleself en mekaar bly. Etniesgodsdienstige
vooroordeel word ook getoon 'n invloed op plaaslike konflikte en die
konstruksie van gemeenskappe te wees.
Die studie onthul vier diskoerse waardeur inwoners omstandighede en prosesse in hulle
omgewing bedink en te kenne gee. Die eerste beklemtoon rasse-integrasie, die tweede
voorstedelike middelklas lewenswyse, die derde misdaadsbeveiliging, die vierde
wantroue en wanorde. Die diskoerse is betekenisvol, nie slegs in hulle praktiese
manifestering in die daaglikse omgang nie, maar ook aangesien hulle sommige van die
wyses waarop koppelings en ontkoppelings met die verlede, en sy ou identiteite en ou
affiliasies, in 'n nuwe, post-Apartheid, Suid-Afrika hanteer word, suggereer.
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Nyström, Matilda, and Emelie Johansson. "Textile waste is only matter out of place : Antecedents of value creation in reverse textile value chains." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-641.
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The current waste management system of Post Consumer Textile Waste (PCTW) in Sweden leads to vast amounts of incinerated or exported textiles. The amount of PCTW reused or repurposed within the country is small in comparison to the amounts of textile products consumed every year. Hence, there is an observed problem in terms of low value creation from textile waste. A system that allows for more textiles to be kept and reused in Sweden could create more economic value in a resource-efficient way. Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate value creation from PCTW for reuse and redesign in Sweden, and to establish a framework for the antecedents of value creation in reverse textile value chains. A pre-study was conducted to map the PCTW industry structure, and served as the basis for sampling cases. Data collection consisted of multiple case studies from 4 charity organisations, 3 clothing brands and 3 redesign brands. The interviews were performed in a semi-structured manner in order to discover the state-of-art in value creation and to identify the key enabling attributes. The findings were analysed to adjust the deductive framework to the textile industry context. Results and findings shows that the state-of-art for value creation among the selected cases varies depending on its mission. Charity organisations are facing a new competition of resources from clothing brands, who have realised a potential of new differentiation by engaging in value creation from PCTW. This has led to a new mind-set among the charity organisations to work more strategically in all their activities. Redesign brands are a relatively new actor and want to work symbolically with redesign to communicate the values in textile materials. Enablers and disablers to value creation from PCTW were found in the interviews and led to the development of an empirical framework. As a whole, this thesis provides rich descriptions of the current preconditions and challenges within the field. Furthermore, it presents a framework for the antecedents of value creation along the recovery processes involved in reuse and redesign value chain. The empirical framework confirms the themes in the theoretical framework, and concludes that there is a set of generic antecedents for value creation in reverse textile value chains. However, there are also category specific antecedents, which need to be considered. The specific experiences of one actor category might as well be valuable knowledge to another, which is why increased collaboration is suggested to enhance value creation from PCTW.
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Kinsella, Michael. "Poet to poet : Seamus Heaney's Wordsworth." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14185/.
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Bender, Lucas Rambo. "Du Fu: Poet Historian, Poet Sage." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493294.
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This dissertation argues that Du Fu’s (712-770) ascent to the pinnacle of the Chinese literary pantheon was bound up with a revolution in the ways poetry was understood to be a serious endeavor. In Du Fu’s time, poetry had been valued for sustaining a time-transcending ritual institution descended from the ancient sages. Those later critics who placed Du Fu at the center of the poetic canon, by contrast, have generally located the his verse’s “serious” value in its embodiment of admirably accurate and appropriately felt perceptions of the precise historical circumstances that occasioned its composition. Although these latter critics have often claimed great antiquity for this latter vision of poetry’s moral significance, I argue that it was not an intellectual possibility in the Tang, and that it only came to be broadly persuasive when Du Fu’s collection was extensively remade through the addition of commentarial and contextualizing paratexts that were previously unprecedented within the Chinese critical tradition. Placed back into its original intellectual and material context, then, Du Fu’s poetry reads very differently than it has to post-medieval critics.
It was, however, no coincidence that Du Fu was chosen as the center of this radical reinvention of the Chinese poetic tradition. It is possible to trace in the poet’s early collection a process of divergence from the norms of his time, leading ultimately to the creation of a new poetic language that does in fact raise many of the questions that Du Fu’s most influential critics have sought to answer. Yet this new poetic language never fully delivers the reassuring claim that these later critics have seen in his collection: that the good man will always be able to understand and movingly convey the moral truth of his experience. Instead of demonstrating the poet’s apprehension of such natural and given truth, Du Fu’s mature verse dramatizes itself as within the process of seeking for sense, a process that it leaves always open and unfinished.<br>East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Smith, Aimee J. "An exploration of the creation and maintenance of Catholic identity in young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225960.
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This research explores the creation and maintenance of young Catholic identity in Northern Ireland. It examines the influence of segregation and deprivation on identity, seeks evidence of change and continuity and the capacity for young people to contribute to peacebuilding and social change. Taking into account that identity is not created within fixed spaces, but is subject to change in location and over time, a multi-sited ethnographic research design was employed across locations in Belfast and Derry. These included Catholic majority/minority and mixed spaces. We find that segregation has an impact on identity content; in single-identity areas we find exclusive identities based on opposition. In shared spaces we find that identities can be inclusive. In addition, we find that performance of identity ranges from strong to low, given quality of intergroup contact. Deprivation had an impact on the strengths of these performances rather than the content (exclusive/inclusive) of identity. In conclusion identity in young people can operate along a continuum, with differing levels of content and performance where identity is subject to change within spaces and movement between locations. Therefore divisive identities are not inevitable; given the right circumstances and support, social cohesion can flourish in a divided society.
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Nobre, Thierry. "La structuration des entreprises en phase de post-creation pre-developpement. L'apport de l'intervention socio-economique : cas d'experimentations." Lyon 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LYO22010.
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Quatre dimensions permettent d'analyser le processus de structuration des entreprises en phase de post-creation pre-developpement. Une dimension dynamique: il s'agit de determiner s'il existe une chronobiologie du processus de structuration et plus particulierement d'evaluer le role des crises. Une dimension politique : les rapports de pouvoir sont pris en compte pour analyser les differentes forces structurantes qui en decoulent. Une dimension strategique: l'etude de la relation entre la demarche strategique de l'entreprise et la structuration pemet de constater que les comportements des acteurs effectuent la mediatisation entre ces deux porcessus. Une dimension sociale : l'existence de couts externes importants sur le personnel de ces entreprises constitue un obstacle non negligeable au processus de structuration. Apres en avoir teste l'adaptabilite dans sept cas, l'etude de la specificite de l'intervention socio-economique dans ces entreprises conduit a observer de fortes convergences avec les autres organisations. Les particularites proviennent davantage des caracteristiques de la negociation de l'intervention que de la nature de ces entreprises. L'intervention socio-economique entraine des effets structurants durant les deux etapes de l'intervention. Le diagnostic provoque des effets structurants directs, la mise en place ou la transformation de structures et des effets structurants indirects, grace a la transformatio des comportements qu'il declenche. La mise en place d'outils de gestion entraine des effets structurants directs qui concernent principalement la definition de relations hierarchiques et fonctionnelles et des effets structurants indirects, grace a la clarification des objectifs qui a terme declenche des modifications structurelles<br>Four dimensions enable to analyse the process of structuration of firms in a phase of post-creation pre-development. A dynamic dimension : the question is to determine whether there exists a chronobiology of the structuration process and more particularly to evaluate the role of crisis. A political dimension : the power connections are taken into account to analyse the various structuring forces that are derived from them. A strategic dimension : the study of the connection between the strategic step of the firm and the structuration enables to state that the actors' behaviour effect the mediatization between these two process. A social dimension : the existence of important externalised costs on the staff of these firms constitute a non negligeable obstacle to the structuration process. Atler having tested its adaptability in seven cases, the study of the specificity of socioeconomic intervention in these firms leads to observe strong convergences with the other organisations. The particularities proceed rather from the characteristics of the negotiation of the intervention than from the nature of these firms. The socio-economic intervention involves structuring effects during both stages of the intervention. The diagnosis provokes direct structuring effects, the implementation or transformation of structures, and indirect structuring effects, thanks to the transformation of behaviours it sets in motion. The implementation of lmanagement tools involves direct structuring effects that mainly concern the definition of hierarchical and functional relations and indirect structuring effects, thanks to the clarification of objectives that sonner or later sets structural amendments in motion
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Pometko, Agnė. "Naratyvioji asmenybės tapatybė: Alexanderis Nehamas, Richardas Rorty." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050523_153946-16147.
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The narrative identity: Alexander Nehamas, Richard Rorty
This work analyzes the problem of narrative identity developed in the works of Nehamas and Rorty. These two American philosophers work in the same – postnietzschean – paradigm. Both of them claim that the identity is not simply given to a person; rather, it is something one has to achieve if he/she wants to have one. A means both philosophers offer to such an achievement is to narrate a story about one’s person, one’s style of life and thus to create ones identity. Nehamas and Rorty assert that while creating identity one has to obey to some rules. However, the rules the philosophers announce are somewhat different. As to Nehamas, he claims that the project of the self-creation ought to be coherent and distinctive. These two criteria are to be achieved, otherwise the self-creation will fail. In addition, this project has to be accomplished in writing. Nehamas demonstrates how these criteria distinctiveness and coherence – are achieved in the writings of certain philosophers. These philosophers are Socrates, Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Foucault and ultimately Nehamas himself. Nehamas suggests that all these philosophers belong to the tradition of the art of living and that all of them are primarily concerned with the projects of self-creation and self-perfection. As to Rorty, he asserts that the creator of oneself has to fulfil one major requirement. Like Nehamas, Rorty claims that the aim of self-creator, whom he... [to full text]
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Lauzer, Shawn. "Fighting the War Within: A Look at Ontario Metis Life and the Creation of a New Standard Post-Powley." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23331.
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In Canada today there exists a new form of segregation towards the Métis people, called the Powley points. Because of it, Métis are being forced to become a different version of themselves, counter to their own personal identity, thereby creating a new standard of identity for Métis, one that not all Métis are able to meet because of historical factors. What the research shows is an over representation of Western Métis politics regarding Métis identity and the formation of it. I therefore, propose a change to the current status quo regarding how Métis are defined and how they are expected to define themselves within this system. For this thesis I rely primarily on archival research and textual analysis, such as journal articles, census data, and published material from the Métis organizations, to establish the current situation in Métis politics as well as my position regarding these issues.
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Menares, Salas Felipe. "Destruction, creation and survival : evidence from the evolution of firms in an emerging market, in a post-crisis context." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/147249.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Economía<br>We use a panel database of the universe of firms constructed from Chilean IRS, to
study the evolution of firms, in a sense of destruction, creation and survival. As expected,
larger and more productive firms are less likely to be destroyed; and (also as expected)
they are less likely to be created than smaller and less productive firms. However, when we
analyze young firms, the most succeded are those who made an important investment in his
first year of life, and the productivity will be relevant depending of the sector. So there’s
some evidence about the entrepreneurship and the stock of capital they make and how
is that related with his relevance in an emerging market. We have shown that “financial
dependence” has different meaning for smaller firms, as reflected in a significant difference
in sign of the corresponding parameter. For them it is an indicator of ”financial constraint”
and acts in our regressions as a predictor of firm destruction, also a stronger predictor of
firm creation smaller firms, acting like a “financial access”. but does not affect the chances
of survive.
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Little, David L. II. "MEASURING POST-SECONDARY STEM MAJORS' ENGAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABILITY: THE CREATION, ASSESSMENT, AND VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY CURRICULA EVALUATION." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/stem_etds/3.
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Ongoing changes in values, pedagogy, and curriculum concerning sustainability education necessitate that strong curricular elements are identified in sustainability education. However, quantitative research in sustainability education is largely undeveloped or relies on outdated instruments. In part, this is because no widespread quantitative instrument for measuring related educational outcomes has been developed for the field, though their development is pivotal for future efforts in sustainability education related to STEM majors.
This research study details the creation, evaluation, and validation of an instrument – the STEM Sustainability Engagement Instrument (STEMSEI) – designed to measure sustainability engagement in post-secondary STEM majors. The study was conducted in three phases, using qualitative methods in phase 1, a concurrent mixed methods design in phase 2, and a sequential mixed methods design in phase 3. The STEMSEI was able to successfully predict statistically significant differences in the sample (n= 1017) that were predicted by prior research in environmental education. The STEMSEI also revealed statistically significant differences between STEM majors’ sustainability engagement with a large effect size (.203 ≤ η2 ≤ .211). As hypothesized, statistically significant differences were found on the environmental scales across gender and present religion. With respect to gender, self-perceived measures of emotional engagement with environmental sustainability was higher with females while males had higher measures in cognitive engagement with respect to knowing information related to environmental sustainability. With respect to present religion, self-perceived measures of general engagement and emotional engagement in environmental sustainability were higher for non-Christians as compared to Christians. On the economic scales, statistically significant differences were found across gender. Specifically, measures of males’ self-perceived cognitive engagement in knowing information related to economic sustainability were greater than those of females. Future research should establish the generalizability of these results and further test the validity of the STEMSEI.
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Hill, Rebecca. "Online Programming Realities : A Case Study of House of Cards and the Perceived Advantages Over Traditional Television." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104705.
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The choice of content and number of technologies that audiences view television with are increasingly expanding in the post-network era, leading those who use the medium to question its definition. In the wake of the Internet, online programming and streaming technologies, the death of television is frequently forecast. Netflix’s 2013 release of their original online production House of Cards prompted popular media and trade journals alike to declare a revolution of television that would result in a paradigm shift of current production and viewing practices. House of Cards is esteemed for its distribution method and asserted advantages over traditional television by creators and executives surrounding the show, which calls for an examination of the specific practices that are dubbed ‘innovative’, as current television production practices have been put in place for years. The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the claims surrounding the series through production and textual analysis. Second-hand sources are used to gather evidentiary claims surrounding the production, and analyzed using historical poetics analysis with Jason Mittell’s complex television definitions in order to make comparisons of particular elements of the creation, production and distribution of House of Cards. Making these areas its starting point, this inquiry provokes larger questions of the future of online television programming in general, and its role in the death of television in particular.
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BERTHE, GERARD. "Reflexion sur la post-cure proposee aux alcooliques : a propos de la creation d'un etablissement en milieu rural par l'association des foyers vie libre." Lille 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991LIL2M178.
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Pentes, Tatiana. "CRUEL BEAUTY: The articulation of ‘self’, ‘identity’ and the creation of an innovative feminine vocabulary in the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo." Art History & Theory, Arts, University of Sydney, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1905.
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Master of Letters (with Merit)<br>The objective of this paper is to examine the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo and to explore the way in which they articulate a ‘self’ and ‘identity’ through creating an innovative feminine vocabulary. The aim of this creative research is to explore the way in which Frida Kahlo represented her sexual subjectivity in the body of self-portraits she produced in her short life time. The self-portraits, some of which were produced in a state of severe physical disability and chronic illness, were also created in the shadow of her famous partner- socialist Mexican muralist/ revolutionary Diego Rivera. An examination of the significant body of self-portrait paintings produced by Frida Kahlo, informed by her personal letters, poems, and photographs, broadens the conventional definitions of subjective self beyond the generic patterns of autobiographical narrative, characteristic of an inherently masculine Western ‘self’. In Kahlo’s self-portraits the representation of the urban Mexican proletarian woman-child draws stylistically from the domain of European self-portraiture, early studio photographic portraiture, and the biographical Mexican Catholic retablo art, with its indebtedness to the ancient Aztec Indian symbology of self.
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Pentes, Tatiana. "CRUEL BEAUTY: The articulation of ‘self’, ‘identity’ and the creation of an innovative feminine vocabulary in the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1905.
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The objective of this paper is to examine the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo and to explore the way in which they articulate a ‘self’ and ‘identity’ through creating an innovative feminine vocabulary. The aim of this creative research is to explore the way in which Frida Kahlo represented her sexual subjectivity in the body of self-portraits she produced in her short life time. The self-portraits, some of which were produced in a state of severe physical disability and chronic illness, were also created in the shadow of her famous partner- socialist Mexican muralist/ revolutionary Diego Rivera. An examination of the significant body of self-portrait paintings produced by Frida Kahlo, informed by her personal letters, poems, and photographs, broadens the conventional definitions of subjective self beyond the generic patterns of autobiographical narrative, characteristic of an inherently masculine Western ‘self’. In Kahlo’s self-portraits the representation of the urban Mexican proletarian woman-child draws stylistically from the domain of European self-portraiture, early studio photographic portraiture, and the biographical Mexican Catholic retablo art, with its indebtedness to the ancient Aztec Indian symbology of self.
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AL, Darabseh Mutaz, and Nazia Rumana Nasar. "An Exploratory Study on the Post-Acquisition Process of Technological Acquisition – a case study of HMS." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för innovations-, entreprenörskaps- och lärandeforskning (CIEL), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42787.
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Although M&A’s have the greatest probability of failure in organizations, the major reasons for this outcome is the integration process. M&As have been a popular strategy for accessing new markets, introducing new products, expanding their knowledge base, and enhancing competitive advantage. In this study, we explore a case of technology acquisition, and we propose a theoretical framework based on literature that identifies phases in post-acquisition process. The process involves three stages: knowledge absorption, operational phase and commercial phase that is explored and evaluated with the empirical data of the case study. Then, thematic analysis was utilized in this study to identify common themes related to the role of acquisition. The related functions and benefits were grouped under acquisition roles. Since the case study was a successful acquisition, it was easy to figure out the roles and dimensions of integration from it. Both the methods contribute in addressing, the necessary phases that need to be organized with integration and deriving different functionalities to achieve common goals. Finally, we present a discussion and bring out the relationships that emerged from this study from different themes and have been mapped to stages in the post-acquisition process, resulting in outcomes from each role. Thus, this study puts an emphasis on the range of factors that create value from successful technological acquisition and conclude as post-acquisition process with integration elements is the initial pivotal position for the consequences.
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Seibel, George L. IV. "Being a Poet." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1346412172.
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Tolley-Stokes, Rebecca. "The Publisher-Poet." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5769.
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Cooke, Peter David. "Gustave Moreau, #painter-poet'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307413.
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KAPLAN, SHEILA. "MURILO MENDES: COLLECTOR POET." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14602@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>Nesta série de ensaios interdependentes sobre Murilo Mendes, buscamos
iluminar diferentes aspectos de sua obra, em especial aquela produzida na Itália,
onde o autor se fixou de 1957 até sua morte, em 1975. O fio implícito que liga
estes ensaios é a indagação sobre a sua relação com o repertório da cultura
ocidental, elemento destacado tanto em sua poesia quanto na prosa. Relação esta
que o distingue de outros escritores modernistas, uma vez que, para Murilo
Mendes, não se tratava de contrapor uma cultura à outra, mas de formar um
conjunto único, em que as diferenças não assumem posição hierárquica, nos
moldes, por exemplo, de uma equação centro-periferia. A metáfora do
colecionador, que guia o primeiro ensaio, é utilizada como uma chave que permite
analisar sua prosa-inventário da tradição ocidental. O surrealismo à brasileira do
autor, tema de outro ensaio, mostra o modo peculiar como Murilo absorveu as
vanguardas do início do século XX. E o seu projeto universalista é tratado no
terceiro capítulo. Os textos que compõem este estudo procuram, assim, acercar-se
dessa obra por meio de uma escrita ensaística, conforme definição de Adorno, em
que os vários pontos se entrelaçam como em um bordado. Escrita marcada pelo
experimento, mais do que pela busca de um pensamento sistêmico e conclusivo.<br>This is a series of interdependent essays on Murilo Mendes which focus on
different aspects of his work, particularly the texts he wrote in Italy, where he
lived from 1957 until his death in 1975. The thread that implicitly runs through
these essays is his relationship with the Western cultural repertoire, an aspect that
stands out in both his poetry and his prose. Indeed, it is this that differentiates him
from other Modernist writers. Murilo Mendes was not interested in setting one
culture against another, but in uniting them in such a way that their differences
were not represented hierarchically, such as center versus periphery. The
metaphor of the collector that appears in the first chapter serves as a key for
analyzing his body of prose from the Western tradition. His Brazilian-style
surrealism is the object of another essay that discusses the particular way he
incorporated the European vanguards of the early twentieth century. The third
chapter is about his universalism. Overall, this study seeks to address the work of
Murilo Mendes using the essay form as defined by Adorno, where points in the
different texts interweave like a tapestry. The style is more experimental than
strictly systematic or conclusive in its thinking.
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JUNIOR, JUAREZ DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS. "PARMÊNIDES THE LOGOS POET." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26061@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>A interpretação do Poema de Parmênides tradicionalmente tem como fontes Platão, Aristóteles e os neoplatônicos. Recentemente as questões lógicas e filológicas relacionadas ao verbo ser vem atraindo atenção não só de comentadores da filosofia antiga como Charles Kahn, mas também da filosofia analítica a partir dos críticas de Frege e Russell. Nesta dissertação, utiliza-se como eixo interpretativo os textos de Gorgias e Melisso sobre o ser, considerando a hipótese de que como estes pensadores desenvolveram os seus trabalhos em uma época mais próxima a Parmênides do que Platão e Aristóteles as suas interpretações nos fornecem uma leitura mais aproximada do sentido inicial do Poema. A partir da apresentação dos diversos sentidos do verbo ser pela filologia e das formulações de Kahn, será investigado o ser nas formulações de Melisso, Górgias comparando-o com o ser de Parmênides.<br>Plato, Aristotle and the Neo-Platonists have traditionally been considered to be the main sources for interpreting Parmenides The Poem. However, in the last century, the logical and filological dilemmas regarding the concept of being have begun to draw the attention of other scholars seeking more precise interpretations of The Poem, such as ancient philosophy commentator Charles Kahn and analytical philosophers Frege and Russell. In this paper I will argue that philosophers Gorgias and Melisso offer a more accurate interpretation of the concept of being discussed in Parmenides original text. Consequently, it will also be shown that in order to understand precisely The Poem, it is necessary to focus on the interpretations drawn by the two pre-Socratic philosophers supra-cited regarding the Poem, rather than to emphasize on the analysis made by Plato and Aristotle. The main reason supporting this argument that will be presented is that the works of such pre-Socratic philosophers were written in a time period much closer to the one of Parmenides than the works of Plato and Aristotle were. In order to build my argument I will first analyze the filological meanings of the concept of being. Then I will scrutinize the formulations of this concept as Kahn presents them. After that, I will examine the formulations of the concept of being in the works of both Melisso and Gorgias. Finally, I will compare and apply all of these formulations and meanings to Parmenides original text, and therefore conclude my argument.
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Svanefjord, Natasha. "Varför är Platon poet?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30074.
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Oade, Stephanie. "Catullus : lyric poet, lyricist." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:469ce045-65e7-4df3-8a1e-c16e4195b9f7.
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There exists between lyric poetry and music a bond that is at once tangible and grounded in practice, and yet that is indeterminate, a matter of perception as much as theory. From Graeco-Roman antiquity to the modern day, lyrical forms have brought together music and text in equal partnership: in archaic Greece, music and lyric poetry were inextricably (now irrecoverably) coupled; when lyric poetry flowered in the eighteenth century, composers harnessed text to music in order to create the new and fully integrated genre of Lieder; and in our contemporary age, the connection between word and music is perhaps most keenly felt in pop music and song 'lyrics'. In 2016, the conferral of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Bob Dylan brought to wider public attention the nature of lyric's poetical-musical bond: can Dylan be considered a poet if the meaning, syntax and expression of his words are dependent upon music? Is music supplementary to the words or are the two so harnessed that the music is in fact a facet of the poetic expression? The connection between music and poetry is perfectly clear in such integrated lyric forms as these, but a more indeterminate connection can also be felt in 'purely' musical or poetic works - or at least in the way that we perceive them - as our postRomantic, adjectival use of the word 'lyrical' shows. Describing music as lyrical often suggests that it carries an extra-musical significance, a deeply felt emotion, something akin to verbal expression, while a lyrical poem brings with it an emotive aurality and a certain musicality. Text and music of lyrical quality may, therefore, invoke the other for the purpose of expression and emotion so long as our understanding of lyric forms remains conditioned by the appreciation of an implied music-poetry relationship This thesis works within the overlap of music and poetry in order to explore the particular lyric voice of Catullus in the context of his twentieth-century musical reception. Whilst some of Catullus's poems may have been performed musically, what we know of poetry circulation, publication and recitation in first-century BCE Rome suggests that the corpus was essentially textual. Nevertheless, Catullus's poetry was set to music centuries later, not in reconstruction of an ancient model, but in new expression, suggesting not only that composers of the twentieth century found themes in Catullus's poetry that resonated in their own contemporary world but that they found a particular musicality, something in the poetry that lent itself to musical form. I argue that it is in these works of reception that we can most clearly identify the essence of Catullan lyricism. Moreover, by considering the process of reception, this thesis is able to take a broader view of lyric, identifying traits and characteristics that are common to both music and poetry, thus transcending the boundaries of individual art forms in order to consider the genre in larger, interdisciplinary terms.
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Rashid, Affan, and Ruta Venskute. "Waste to Value : A study of reverse logistics system for Post-consumer textiles in Nässjö municipality." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CeLS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36389.
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Background: The demand of textiles and clothing is constantly increasing; as a result the post-consumer textile waste increase as well. This point is bringing the focus on creating the value from waste by recycling. Sweden, municipalities are responsible for handling the textile waste that is currently categorized as the household waste. The post-consumer textile when disposed is mixed with the other household waste, which eliminates the commercial value of the material Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the current system in Nässjö municipality to manage post-consumer textiles and identify the possibilities for value creation through reverse logistics processes. Method: To fulfil the research purpose a qualitative study employing single case is used. Study caters multi-perspectives from different actors i.e. municipality, logistics service providers and consumers. Purposive sampling is used to select the respondents from each actor seeing their position in the companies and knowledge on the subject. Primary data is gathered by conducting 11 semi-structured interviews and field visit to the waste collection site. Secondary data is obtained using web sources and also from different project reports from government and other agencies. The empirical data is categorized and then analysed by thematic analysis with the developed theoretical framework of systems’ theory. Findings: Legislation to collect textiles as the separate entity and put it in the reverse logistics system is on the way. Today, input in the system is very low due to the unawareness of consumers about the available options. Municipality is processing the waste as a normal household waste and it is incinerated to produce energy for the residents. LSP are coordinating with municipality and tend to increase their resources for effective participation in the new system. Municipality requires strategic changes to meet the coming legislative requirements. Conclusion: A sub-system could be developed for post-consumer textile in Nassjo municipality. Input in the system has to be determined by consumers education and convenience. Municipality has to define their roles for manage sub-system effectively. The study has provided the rich description of potential possibilities in this context.
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Steinback, Glenn-Iain. "RUSSIA IN TRANSITION: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE DISOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, EVOLUTION OF CAPITALIST REFORM AND THE CREATION OF PUTINISM, 1985-2015." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/158.
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This thesis examines the historical progression of social and political transitions in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to establish the development of Putinism in an historical context and assert a definition of Putinism as a governing philosophy which exploits the rhetoric of democracy and civil society to conceal authoritarian practices. Analysis begins with Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘moral position’ as the basis of the Gorbachev reforms and the conceptual introduction of democratic and market mechanics, followed by the rejection of the Soviet system and the mixed legacy of shock therapy under Boris Yeltsin, culminating in the ultimate ascendancy of Vladimir Putin as a response to the perceived loss of national status and social dislocation resulting from the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras. Ultimately, it is asserted that Putinism is ideologically grounded in Chekism, fundamentally anti-democratic and inherently kleptocratic, seeking to maintain power and perpetuate a sistema centered on the Kremlin. Through vertical centralization of the state, the development of alternative mechanisms of governance, domination of political discourse, development of a personality cult, state sponsored redefinition of Russian identity and the encouragement of exceptionalist and neo-imperialist policies.
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Wilmot, Chloé Margot. "An investigation into the factors that influence the success of small business in Port Elizabeth." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001629.
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South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, currently 23.90%. One way for the government and policy-makers of South Africa to address this dire statistic is through the fostering and promotion of entrepreneurship and small business creation. The benefits of entrepreneurship are numerous and can include: increasing a country’s productivity, enhancing the welfare and well-being of its citizens, reducing emigration rates, improving economic development and perhaps, most importantly, increasing employment rates. Worldwide, small businesses within the private sector have become indispensable to sustainable job creation and therefore it is of the utmost importance that small businesses in any economy develop, grow and succeed. Despite the fact that research pertaining to small businesses has increased over the years, little empirical evidence has been established. In particular, research into what makes small businesses successful has been limited. Entrepreneurial activity in South Africa remains less than ideal and therefore it is appropriate that research into the success factors of small businesses in South Africa be investigated. Furthermore, the survival of South African small businesses beyond four to five years of being in operation is estimated at only 20.00%. It is evident that a lack of knowledge exists and with respect to this research the factors found to be the most common determinants of success for small businesses in Port Elizabeth were determined and investigated. Convenience- and snowball sampling techniques were used to identify potential participants. In total 43 usable questionnaires were returned. Methodological triangulation was used to analyse the data, according to descriptive- and inferential statistics, as well as content analysis. This being so, the research was conducted within two paradigms, primarily, the positivist research paradigm and also the phenomenological research paradigm. The key findings of this study indicate personal factors to be the most important success factor group, while the environmental success factor group is considered the least important. The most important factors attributable to the success of participants’ small businesses include: maintaining good customer services skills and relationships; having a strong commitment to product/service quality; and having honest employees with sound professional ii knowledge and a positive morale. The least important success factors include: trade exhibitions and business fairs; small business legislation; and industry structure and competition. Finally, the hypothesis tests indicate that significant differences only exist between: the relationship statuses and business factors and the business sectors and environmental factors. The results of this research have significant practical implications for the various stakeholders of entrepreneurship. It is hoped that the results will add to the existing body of knowledge and in turn aid South Africa in becoming aware of the factors essential for small business success. In doing so, South Africa at large will be able to take full advantage of entrepreneurship and small business creation, which continue to remain well within its reach
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Farrell, Lindsay Thomas. "Visual metaphors of creation and redemption in the Assisi frescoes the art of Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh : their implications for a post-modern aesthetic /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Peters, Friedrich Ernst. "Der Gewaltige und der Poet." Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5891/.
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Weyer, Christine Louise. "Joan Metelerkamp : poet of connection." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/734.
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McDowell, Stacey. "Keats and the chameleon poet." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654573.
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The 'chameleon poet' is a phrase immediately associated with Keats. Although he only used it once in a letter written early in his poetic career, the phrase has since gained currency in literary criticism and it now invokes a familiar set of assumptions about Keats and his works. My thesis offers a recontextualized understanding of the idea of the chameleon poet by showing how the phrase, rather than being a whimsical and idiosyncratic idea of Keats's own coinage, was in common currency during the nineteenth century, and how the seemingly unlikely analogy between a poet and a chameleon has several antecedents in earlier works. Not only has the chameleon been compared to poets, playwrights and actors, but the creature has been used in a figurative sense to describe a form of self endowed with . the ability to change. By tracing Itne literary heritage of the chameleon, I show how the model of self Keats embraces for the poet has more negative and troubling associations than Keats' s letter acknowledges. While a chameleon-like model of self offers positive attributes of responsiveness and changeability, more commonly the creature is referred to in a pejorative sense to register anxieties about the instability of identity, lack of integrity, capriciousness and duplicity. Having traced the literary context of the chameleon poet, I outline how Keats' s particular use of the phrase has been interpreted in literary criticism. I identify a tendency in scholarly responses to criticise the chameleon poet for its implicit amorality or apathy, or to explain away the idea on the basis that Keats in his poetry does not exemplify the model he set out for himself. However, as I aim to make 'clear in my discussion of Keats's poetry, by exploring ideas about transformation and disguise, sympathetic responsiveness, hypocrisy and the stability of selfhood, Keats's works reveal him engaging in a self-reflective manner with implications directly relevant to a chameleon-like model of .poetic self. By first identifying how Keats differs from the usually negative' interpretation of chameleon changefulness, I show that while Keats embraces the idea of a chameleon-like poet in his letter, his poetry reveals a more circumspective approach in which he registers the consequences that such a model entails.