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Okazawa, Yasuhiro. "The scientific rationality of early statistics, 1833-1877." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289440.
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This thesis examines the activities of the Statistical Society of London (SSL) and its contribution to early statistics-conceived as the science of humans in society-in Britain. The SSL as a collective entity played a crucial role in the formation of early statistics, as statisticians envisaged early statistics as a collaborative scientific project and prompted large-scale observation, which required cooperation among numerous statistical observers. The first three chapters discuss how the SSL shaped the concepts, practices, and institutions of statistical data production. The SSL demonstrated how the use of a hierarchical division of labour and blank form minimised observers' leeway to exercise individual observational skills and ensured uniformity in the production of statistical facts. This arrangement effectively depreciated first-hand observation in statistics and allowed statisticians to rely on the statistical facts collected by other people. It prompted the SSL to launch the Journal of the Statistical Society of London to serve as a virtual storage of observed facts where one could share their data for further aggregation and retrieve that of others for their analysis. The statisticians also engaged in contemporaneous discussion on the best mode of a statistical office with a view towards producing complete and internationally comparable statistical facts. The SSL's endorsement of the Belgian Central Statistical Commission model and the International Statistical Congress was intended to support the introduction of uniformity into statistical data at both the national and international levels. The last two chapters of this thesis discuss how the SSL's activities contributed to the historical formation of human sciences and the emergence of social scientists. Statisticians demanded the recognition of a scientific field which, independent from natural science, studied people as social beings and whose discourses moulded the treatment of the people they studied. The SSL's activities helped statisticians not only establish their scientific expertise but also develop their unique scientific ethos. Statisticians learnt not to trust their personal observations since individuals could see only a partial, and potentially distorted, picture of society. Instead, statisticians disciplined themselves to patiently wait for the accumulation of statistical facts and analyse data in their entirety because this was the only way, they believed, to truly understand the complex relationships people had with each other. The SSL's activities assisted statisticians' conception of statistical fact and produced a new kind of intellectual inquirer who patiently collected statistical facts as the basis of knowing and intervening in people's lives.
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Dyck, C. I. "William Cobbett and the farm workers, 1790-1835." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356847.
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Massey, Ellen. "Boggley wollah and "sulphur-steams" colonialism in "Vanity fair" and "Jane Eyre" /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1698507681&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lasak, Jessica Lee. ""So much for the dixonary" the rejection of Johnsonian linguistic authority in "Vanity Fair" and "The Mill on the Floss" /." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1342744831&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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González, Zúñiga Marcelo. "Far More Female. La Cleopatra de Shakespeare: Culminación y crisis del renacimiento inglés." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2006. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108928.
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En el curso de esta investigación se intentará demostrar que el personaje de Cleopatra en la obra The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, de 1606-7, recoge y proyecta todos estos aspectos mencionados con anterioridad, para dar vida a una mujer incomparable a la vez que controvertida en la que, básicamente, entran en conflicto dos poderosas corrientes: el paganismo y el idealismo apolíneo platónico.
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Berggren, Elin. "Characterization in Social Satire : A comparative analysis of the heroines Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austenʼs Pride and Prejudice, and Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackerayʼs Vanity Fair." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-40753.
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This essay presents a comparative analysis of the characterizations of the female protagonists Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen̕ s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackeray̕ s Vanity Fair (1847-1848). The analysis is conducted from a gender perspective, and with the use of feminist criticism. The two novels complement each other since they are both satirical images of society, concerning aspects such as class and gender. Also, both novels portray women climbing the class ladder, during the period of the Napoleonic wars. In the comparison, the main focus lies on the social satire constructed around the heroines of these novels. I come to the conclusion that Austen̕ s and Thackeray̕ s characterizations are very different from each other, mainly due to their different satirical approaches. This conclusion is put in relation to a patriarchal context and to feminist values.I denna uppsats presenteras en komparativ analys av karaktäriseringarna av de kvinnliga huvudkaraktärerna Elizabeth Bennet i Jane Austens Stolthet och Fördom (1813), och Becky Sharp i William Makepeace Thackerays Vanity Fair (1847-1848). Analysen är utförd från ett genusperspektiv, och med användning av feministisk samhällskritik. De två romanerna kompletterar varandra då de båda är satiriska illustreringar av samhället, och både rör aspekter såsom klass och genus. Dessutom porträtterar båda novellerna klassklättrande kvinnor under tiden för Napoleonkrigen. I jämförelsen ligger största fokuset på samhällssatiren konstruerad kring hjältinnorna i de båda romanerna. Jag når slutsatsen att Austens och Thackerays karaktäriseringar skiljer sig mycket från varandra, främst på grund av författarnas skilda förhållningssätt till sin satir. Denna slutsats relateras till en patriarkal kontext, samt till feministiska värderingar.
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Hammarlund, Tim, and Viktor Sjunnesson. "Where do we draw the line? : how far different cultures are willing to adopt the concept of the sharing economy." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19689.
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In the recent decades a new type of economic system based on collaborative consumption has increased in popularity. The new cost competitive model challenges the traditional business model that has fueled the hyper consumption, which the 20th century is known for. This research focuses on how national cultures impact the development of this new economic system, in order to understand how much people of different cultures are willing to share. A conceptual model was created to try to understand cultural influence on sharing. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions have been used to measure and compare the empirical data, that was collected through five focus groups representing four different countries: Sweden, France, China and United States. Out of the six cultural dimensions, it was found that the indulgence dimension together with power distance might influence people’s willingness to share. Indulgence was also found to explain socialization as a motivational factor together with power distance and long-term orientation. In conclusion, four different sharing sectors were analyzed, and it was found that transportation and clothing was considered shareable, disregarding national culture. Accommodation might be dependent on national culture since the focus groups that were supposed to be indulgent showed resistance to share, while the restraint groups showed a greater willingness. Technology was not considered shareable by any group. Furthermore, three motivational factors, that might be depend on national culture, was identified. These are environment, socialization and technology. An additional four motivational factors were identified, but these might be independent of national culture. These four are personal, economical, trust/safety and convenience. Lastly, additional findings showed that similar genders have similar willingness to share across cultures which makes it a topic of interest for future research.
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Schreiber, Johannes Matthias [Verfasser], Carlo L. [Akademischer Betreuer] Bottasso, Wingerden Jan-Willem [Gutachter] van, and Carlo L. [Gutachter] Bottasso. "Wind sensing for wind farm control / Johannes Matthias Schreiber ; Gutachter: Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Carlo L. Bottasso ; Betreuer: Carlo L. Bottasso." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1221279742/34.
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Buys, Pieter Willem. "The legitimacy predicament of current day accounting theory / Pieter Willem Buys." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4578.
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Recent corporate reporting history is well–known for its corporate failures and
questionable accountancy practices, many of which caused the profession to be
frowned upon. However, the splodge on the accounting profession?s reputation
goes deeper than its corporate reporting failures. The scientific foundation
thereof is also being questioned in academic circles. Even though accounting
scholars have been trying to formulate foundational accounting theories, it has
been the accounting regulators that have been more successful in promoting
their versions of what accounting theory should be, which place a question
mark on the legitimacy of current day accounting theory. This thesis aims to
delve deeper into the foundational philosophies of accounting and its impact on
the practice of accounting.
With the current accounting globalisation efforts, the profession?s stewardship
function is becoming less prominent in its promulgated standards, which in
turn brings the focus on the many questionable ethical practices found in the
profession. Even though the regulatory bodies require their members to commit
themselves to professional codes of conduct, which entails competency,
integrity, objectivity and confidentiality, the 1st article in this thesis claims that
ethical conduct is more than mere adherence to rules and regulations. It is also
about the image of not only the profession, but also accounting research and
education.
Accounting is broadly practised, researched and taught within its so–called
conceptual framework, of which a key objective is to guide and inform accounting practice. The conceptual framework became the basis upon which
accounting theory is based. However, many accounting scholars are openly
critical of presenting accounting theory as a set of practical guidelines. The 2nd
article in the thesis concludes that, from an academic perspective, accounting
theory should be based on three quintessential guidelines. The first of which is
its primary purpose of reporting on the historic economic events, secondly the
provision of useable and comparable information about these events and finally,
the facilitation of business decisions based on relevant and reliable information.
In the above mentioned business decisions, the concept of value is often taken
for granted and many accounting techniques? effectiveness is judged on how
well it approximates an item?s value. The 3rd article argues that the multiple
purposes for which accounting information is used complicates the issue of
value, as reported by accounting. Two key conflicting valuation perspectives are
the so–called decision–usefulness and true income perspectives. The current
drive towards fair value accounting, as opposed to historic cost accounting, cast
doubts on the reliability and relevance of accounting information. Even though
it may be argued that value–based techniques are more relevant because it is a
better reflection of the current business conditions, the mere subjective nature
thereof and the accountant?s objective valuation skills make the true relevance
of this information questionable. Furthermore, mixed model valuations found in
financial statements makes cross–company information unreliable.
Accountancy research of the past four decades focussed on the concept of user
decision–usefulness. The user is also pre–eminent in the globalisation of
accounting standards of the FASB and the IASB, where users are specified as
the equity investors, lenders and capital providers. The 4th article acknowledges
that although these user categories are important consumers of the financial
data, there are other users which are also impacted by the financial information
and the company?s operational performances. There are also concerns over
accounting?s key assumptions, such as its quantification and predictive
abilities, which are fundamental to the decision–usefulness objective.
Furthermore, there are questions around how the regulators decided what
information is suppose to be useful and what type of utility is being sought. In summary, the focus on the vocational aspects of accountancy stands in
contrast to claims of accounting as an academic discipline in the social
sciences. The reality is that the practices of the profession will probably always
play a central role in what is taught at university level, and the regulators, as
the final authority on accounting standards, will probably remain dictatorial in
promulgating their versions of accounting theory. Yet, accounting and its wide
spread impact on society, makes it a key discipline within the economical and
management sciences. It is therefore essential for the resurrection of accounting
as a social scientific discipline that there is a return to foundational accounting
research that will prepare (and enable) prospective practitioners and academics
to question the status quo and push back on accounting practices that are
threatening to extinguish the flame of accounting scholarship.Thesis (Ph.D. (Accounting))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Ferreira, Aline Tassar de Moraes. "Are consumers willing to buy ethical goods?: evidences of an attitude-behavior gap in the fashion market." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24822.
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Objetivo: Este estudo pretende aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o comportamento do consumidor em torno de práticas éticas. Um crescente grupo de pesquisadores vem analisando como as preocupações éticas dos consumidores em relação às práticas comerciais vem se traduzindo em comportamento real no momento da decisão de compra. Apesar desse crescente interesse, o consenso está longe de ser definido. Enquanto uma linha de pesquisa afirma que os consumidores estão mais dispostos a comprar produtos inseridos em um ambiente ético, outra vertente afirma que o discurso e ações dos consumidores não necessariamente se mostram coerentes. Embora os consumidores relatem ter preocupações éticas e valorizem marcas cujas práticas seguem padrões éticos, eles não estão dispostos a comprar mais produtos ou serviços dessas mesmas marcas. Metodologia: Realizamos um estudo experimental manipulando três diferentes apelos de marketing relacionados à ética (doação, comércio justo, controle) para testar esses achados conflitantes. Resultado: Neste estudo, os consumidores estavam mais dispostos a comprar produtos associados a doações, mas essa diferença desapareceu quando introduzimos uma variável dependente mais realista (ou seja, a vontade de receber informações adicionais via e-mail). Além disso, os recursos de comércio justo não influenciaram nem as intenções de compra dos consumidores nem sua disposição em receber informações adicionais. Implicações práticas também são discutidas.Limitações: Uma das principais limitações desse estudo se deve ao fato de não envolver um cenário totalmente realista e assim não captar as reais intenções de compra. Uma avaliação mais realista das intenções de compra evitaria armadilhas potenciais de desejabilidade social, criando uma avaliação mais precisa da variável dependente principal. Contribuições Sociais e Práticas: Ao se aprofundar no entendimento do comportamento ético do consumidor, as empresas podem evoluir em suas ofertas que entreguem benefícios para o consumidor, para o negócio e o bem estar coletivo. Originalidade: Poucos estudos relacionados ao Comportamento Ético do consumidor foram feitos usando o método do experimento e também com algumas especificidades do mercado da moda.
Purpose: This study intends to deepen the knowledge about consumer behavior around ethical practices. An increasing body of research has analyzed whether and how consumers’ ethical concerns regarding business practices translates into actual behavior. Despite this burgeoning interest, consensus is far from granted. Whereas one strand of research claims that consumers are more willing to buy products embedded in an ethical environment, another strand asserts that consumers’ words and deeds do not match. Precisely, although consumers report having high ethical concerns and valuing brands whose practices follow ethical standards; they are not willing to purchase more products or services from these same brands. Design/Methodology: We conducted one experimental study manipulating three different ethics-related marketing appeals (donation, fair trade, control) to test these conflicting findings. Findings: In this study, consumers were more willing to purchase products associated with donations, but this difference vanished when we introduced a more realistic dependent variable (i.e., willingness to receive additional information via e-mail). Furthermore, fair trade appeals did not influence neither consumers’ purchase intentions nor their willingness to receive additional information. Practical implications are also discussed. Research limitations: The main limitation of this study is related to does not involve a totally realistic scenario and thus does not capture the real intentions of buying. A more realistic assessment of purchase intentions would avoid potential pitfalls of social desirability, creating a more accurate evaluation of the principal dependent variable. Practical and Social implications: By deepening the understanding of consumer ethical behavior, companies can evolve their offers delivering benefits to the consumer, to the business and to the collective well-being. Originality: Few studies related to Consumer Ethical Behavior were done using the experiment method and using also some specificities of the fashion Market.
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Ryan, Anne E. "Victorian Fiction and the Psychology of Self-Control, 1855-1885." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307669988.
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Germany, Samuel R. "The Solo Vocal Collections of Gerald R. Finzi Suitable for Performance by the High Male Voice, a lecture recital together with three recitals of selected works of J.S. Bach, H. Wolf, R. Vaughan Williams, A. Jolivet, F.J. Haydn, J. Brahms, L.V. Beethoven, R. Strauss, J.P. Rameau, M. Ravel, S. Barber, G. Faure." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277863/.
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A primary purpose of the study was to articulate the significance of these compositions to the twentieth century repertoire, with special attention given to Dies Natalis, recognized as an outstanding contribution to English music literature. Overviews and specific analyses, with pertinent performance applications and background data, fulfill this purpose and provide information of merit for the programming and performance of Finzi's songs for high male voice.
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Johnson, Toria Anne. "'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4197.
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This thesis traces the use of pity in early modern English literature, highlighting in particular the ways in which the emotion prompted personal anxieties and threatened Burckhardtian notions of the self-contained, autonomous individual, even as it acted as a central, crucial component of personal identity. The first chapter considers pity in medieval drama, and ultimately argues that the institutional changes that took place during the Reformation ushered in a new era, in which people felt themselves to be subjected to interpersonal emotions – pity especially – in new, overwhelming, and difficult ways. The remaining three chapters examine how pity complicates questions of personal identity in Renaissance literature. Chapter Two discusses the masculine bid for pity in courtly lyric poetry, including Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Barnabe Barnes's Parthenophil and Parthenophe, and considers the undercurrents of vulnerability and violation that emerge in the wake of unanswered emotional appeals. This chapter also examines these themes in Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Sidney's Arcadia. Chapter Three also picks up the element of violation, extending it to the pitiable presentation of sexual aggression in Lucrece narratives. Chapter Four explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled by Shakespeare in The Tempest and Ben Jonson, in Bartholomew Fair. This work represents the first extended study of pity in early modern English literature, and suggests that the emotion had a constitutive role in personal subjectivity, in addition to structuring various forms of social relation. Ultimately, the thesis contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also, crucially, a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness.
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Nardeux, Bruno. "Une "forêt" royale au Moyen Age : Le pays de Lyons, en Normandie (vers 1100 - vers 1450)." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMR086.
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Alors que la forêt de Lyons est souvent assimilée à une simple forêt-frontière, dix années d’enquête nous obligent à modifier radicalement cette définition géo-historique. Il faut dire qu’entre temps, il a fallu reconsidérer la notion même de forêt qui désignait au haut Moyen Âge, non pas de grandes étendues boisées, mais tout au contraire un espace fortement humanisé où coexistent futaies et taillis, landes et prairies, champs et villages. De cette grande forêt médiévale de Lyons – la plus importante de Normandie avec ses 30 000 ha – entièrement dévolue à l’usage et aux besoins de son détenteur ducal ou royal se dégage alors un pays, lui-même fruit de la sédimentation de quatre espaces nettement identifiés, entre 1100 et 1450. Des multiples séjours des Plantagenêts puis des Capétiens, attestés par plus de 500 chartes signées en forêt de Lyons entre 1100 et 1400 et justifiées soit par la chasse (espace résidentiel), soit par la guerre (espace militaire) résultent en effet un espace politique qui explique la fortune étonnante d’au moins deux favoris issus du pays de Lyons : Guillaume de Longchamps, chancelier d’Angleterre sous Richard Cœur de Lion et Enguerrand de Marigny, le familier de Philippe le Bel. S’ajoutent à cela tous les revenus qu’un espace économique comme la forêt de Lyons procure à son détenteur, en se rappelant l’importance prise par le bois dans l’économie médiévale. En définitive, l’on découvre ainsi que ce pays a fini par produire un véritable écosystème d’une résilience à toute épreuve jusqu’à ce que les années sombres de la fin de la Guerre de cent ans finissent par avoir raison de cet âge d’or qu’a représenté le Moyen Âge pour la forêt de LyonsAlthough the forest of Lyons is often defined simply as a border forest, ten years of research has enabled me to make a radical change to this old geographical definition. My reconsideration of even the concept of “forest,” shows that, in the High Middle Ages, the word meant not large stretches of woodlands but, instead, a well-developed space, where timberlands, thickets, heaths, pastures, cultivated fields, and villages coexisted. The medieval forest of Lyons, the most important in all Normandy with its 30,000 hectares, was entirely devoted to the use and necessities of its ducal or royal title-holder, and it emerged as a pays formed by the coalescence of four distinct spaces between 1100 and 1450. The many sojourns of the Plantagenets and then the Capetians — due to hunting (residential space) and various wars (military space) — are documented by more than 500 acts signed in the forest of Lyons between 1100 and 1400. These sojourns produced a political space that explains the stunning careers of at least two royal favorites, natives of the pays of Lyons: William Longchamp, chancellor under Richard the Lionheart, and Enguerrand de Marigny, chief minister of Philip the Fair. Since wood was a necessity in medieval times, the forest of Lyons was also an important economic space because it earned significant revenue for its title-holder. All things considered, it is clear that the pays of Lyons produced a true ecosystem able to survive all hardships until the dark, final period of the Hundred Years War put an end to the Golden Age that the Middle Ages had brought to the forest of Lyons
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Templeman, Sally Jane. "Cooks, cooking, and food on the early modern stage." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9824.
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This project aims to take the investigation of food in early modern drama, in itself a relatively new field, in a new direction. It does this by shifting the critical focus from food-based metaphors to food-based properties and food-producing cook characters. This shift reveals exciting, unexpected, and hitherto unnoticed contexts. In The Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus, which were written during William Shakespeare’s inn-yard playhouse period, the playwright exploits these exceptionally aromatic venues in order to trigger site-specific responses to food-based scenes in these plays. Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair brings fair-appropriate gingerbread properties onstage. When we look beneath the surface of this food effect to its bread and wine ingredients, however, it reveals a subtext that satirizes the theory of transubstantiation. Jonson expands on this theme by using Ursula’s cooking fire (a property staged in Jonson’s representation of Smithfield’s Bartholomew Fair) to engage with the prison narrative of Anne Askew, who was burned to death in front of Bartholomew Priory on the historic Smithfield for denying the doctrine of transubstantiation. This thesis also investigates water, which, for early moderns, was a complex and quasi-mystical liquid: it was a primary element, it washed sin from the world during the Great Flood, it was a marker of status, it was a medicine, and it was a cookery ingredient. Christopher Marlowe not only uses dirty water to humiliate his doomed monarch in Edward II, but he also uses it to apportion blame to the king for his own downfall. In Timon of Athens, Shakespeare draws on the theory of the elements to cast Timon as a man of water, who, Jesus-like, breaks up and divides (or splashes around) his body at his “last” supper. Fully-fledged cook characters were a relative rarity on the early modern stage. This project looks at two exceptions: Furnace in Philip Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts and the unnamed master cook in John Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Both playwrights use their respective gastronomic geniuses to demonstrate the danger that lower-order expertise poses to the upper classes when society is in flux. Finally, this project demonstrates that a link existed between ornate domestic food effects and alchemy. It shows how Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence and Thomas Middleton’s Women, Beware Women use food properties associated with alchemy to satirize notions of perfection in their play-worlds.
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Hsu, Pi-fen, and 許碧芬. "The Position of Women in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37466965342242877558.
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碩士中國文化大學
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the two controversial heroines in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Amelia is a naïve, faithful, self-effacing woman who always tries to meet patriarchal expectations for women. From a Victorian point of view, she is regarded as an ideal woman. In comparison, Becky is selfish, self-confident and cunning. In order to achieve her goals, she departs from the model of traditional femininity. A female rebel against tradition was the standard image for bad women in the Victorian period. Therefore, Becky seemingly represents the image of the disastrous siren. Although Amelia and Becky are both attractive and charming, they represent two different kinds of women, considered respectively as the monster and the angel. Thackeray is a patriarchal writer and whether the heroine of Vanity Fair is a traditional Victorian woman or not, his attitude toward women is crucial. In addition, Thackeray's irony and mockery also take a wide range in Vanity Fair, and his true attitude and ideas are more complicated than the text. This thesis also analyzes Thackeray’s interpretation of the two heroines and discusses the women’s position at different levels in this novel.
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Wang, Ying-fen, and 王櫻芬. "Excess and Transgression:The Dark Moral(ity) in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32219806812323091826.
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碩士國立成功大學
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This thesis attempts to reveal how William Thackeray in Vanity Fair presents to its readers an alternative morality, which is different from the Victorian mainstream moral codes. I suggest that what Thackeray wants to criticize in this “Novel without a Hero” is the over-strict Victorian morality standard, which was difficult for the people to follow; this difficulty ironically caused their hypocrisy and led to misfortune. For Thackeray, only through adequate allowance of “excess” and “transgression” can people obtain their happiness. Of course, the excess and transgression could also lead the protagonists to catastrophes in life journey, if they do not properly manage the related practices－this vision is what Thackeray calls the “dark moral” in his novel. Many critics’ arguments, like those of Gordon Ray, Eric Trudgill, Walter E. Houghton, Suzanne Keen, and Anne Thackeray, are relied on as the interpretive framework of my thesis to respectively examine the Victorian moral attitudes, the novel’s strategy of “narrative annexes,” the inconsistency and ambiguity in interpolated narration, as well as Thackeray’s personal history. With these analyses, I can explore the characters’ or narrator’s/author’s excess and transgression and illustrate the “dark moral” in Vanity Fair. In general, the excess and/or transgression serves as the means of subversion that brings forth the possibility of self-transformation, so as to open up a new space for pursuing happiness.
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Kallenbach, Bradley Dean. ""... as far as words can give:" Romantic poetry as displaced mystical experience in William Wordsworth's Prelude." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10867.
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M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, 2011This dissertation investigates the ways in which a broad and perennial problem – ‘the problem of dualism’ - is approached by three areas of inquiry, namely, English Romanticism, mysticism and contemporary studies of consciousness. By comparative analysis of key passages in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Huxley’s survey of mystical traditions in the Perennial Philosophy and work by contemporary philosopher Colin McGinn on the ‘mind-body problem,’ I explain how each discipline proposes an ideal state of ‘synthesis’ or ‘coalescence’ between the subjective and objective as a solution to ‘the problem of dualism.’ In turn, each discipline discerns a faculty or means towards such a synthesis. These are the ‘Imagination,’ ‘Third Eye,’ and ‘Bridging Principle’ respectively. Thus, this dissertation has three additional aims. First, I argue that the Romantic ‘Imagination’ and mystical ‘Third Eye’ faculty are conceptually similar in an attempt to show that certain Romantic poets (primarily Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley) sought access to a super-sensuous realm via the ‘Imagination.’ However, seminal texts such as Coleridge’s Biographia, Shelley’s Defence of Poetry and Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy imply that the Romantic poet, unlike the mystic, is thwarted from voluntary and veridical access to these realms: the Imagination reaches an impassable threshold which the mystical ‘Third Eye’ traverses. This condition, coupled with an inability to convey mystical experience in language with greater acuity, I argue, may account for the presence of melancholy in key Romantic works such as Wordsworth’s Prelude and Immortality Ode. I thus seek to enhance our understanding of the critical commonplace referred to as “Romantic melancholy.” Second, I aim to illustrate this view by analysis of key passages in Wordsworth’s Prelude and Immortality Ode. Finally, I aim to show that the early Coleridgean understanding of ‘the problem of dualism’ as highlighted in the Biographia can be further elucidated by contemporary theories of consciousness on the ‘mind-body’ problem.
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Chao, Po-Yu, and 趙柏宇. "Are the Participants of Government Projects on Rural Human Resource Development Willing to Farm?" Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77453368111999963740.
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碩士國立屏東科技大學
農企業管理系所
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This study focuses on participants of the government’s “Wander Vogel Project” and “Gardener Project” to see the trainees will be willing to work in agricultural sector. Work values, job satisfaction and job involvement are the three dimensions used to evaluate the reopectiue effect on the willingness to farm. In the study, 500 questionnaires were distributed, in which 389 valid responses were obtained with a effective rate of 77.8%. The SPSS statistical software was used to conduct t test, One-Way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation analysis. The results show that: Most of the respondents were “married”, “male”, aged “26-30 years” with “high school (level) of education”. A major of the respondents live in southern Taiwan. The correlation analysis shows that work values, job satisfaction and job involvement are significantly and positively correlated.
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余鎔亘. "A Study on the Factors Affecting Willingness and Willing-to-Pay Fare to Use Paratransit for Medical Trips for the Elderly." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61171579265318100070.
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Vu, Thi-Hien, and 武氏賢. "Why Are Customers Continuously Willing to Pay for The Less Fair Transactions in Price? A Dynamic Model of Customers’ Usage of Willingness to Pay." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26181585632073635584.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
國際管理碩士學位學程
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Today, the Vietnamese milk market has been such that consumers are paying higher and higher prices for the products of unchanging quality. In the context of the market, the purpose of this research is to identify the causal links among customers’ payment equity, satisfaction and willingness to pay. By introducing the concept of payment equity, we investigate the relationships between willingness to pay and payment equity through the intervention of satisfaction. Importantly, the study provides an in-depth examination of subjective price and subjective quality in relationships with payment equity, satisfaction and willingness to pay. The results provide causal evidence that payment equity has a strong effect on customer satisfaction, and higher customer satisfaction will lead to higher willingness to pay. Subjective quality play as outcome while subjective price play as input of usage process. Both of them have strong relationship with payment equity, satisfaction and willingness to pay. Finally, we found that some demographic and marketing mix variables moderate the whole model and affect directly to willingness to pay.
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Williams, Brett Gerard. "The importance of disciplining the choice of policy instrument to the effectiveness of the GATT as international law disciplining agricultural trade policies / Brett Gerard Williams." 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw72122.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves p. i-xxxii) Pt. 1. Is there a link between the problem with agriculture under GATT rules and policy choice under GATT rules? -- pt. 2. The economic and political significance of distinctions between policy instruments -- pt. 3. The application of the pre-Uruguay Round GATT to agriculture -- pt. 4. The Uruguay Round rules on agriculture -- pt. 5. The thesis and its importance Seeks an answer to the legal difficulties in applying GATT to agriculture
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Chen, Pin-Yuan, and 陳品元. "The Study of Buying Motive, Identity, and Satisfaction Influence to Repurchase Willing-In the Case of I Tomato Internship Business Far East University." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5ptf54.
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碩士遠東科技大學
行銷與流通管理系碩士班
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The purpose of this study is researching the whole employees' buying motive, the degree of identity, consumer satisfaction, and the will of repurchase status of I Tomato Internship Business in the Far East University. Moreover, discuss the diversity situation in the different background variables, and analyze the influence situations of buying motive, the degree of identity, consumer satisfaction, and the status of the will of repurchase. Depend on the results of study that offer suggestions for operations management unit, and expect for increasing the future management performance. In this study, the study objects are the whole employees in the Far East University. Using self questionnaire to a random sample of 10th April to 31th April 2015 Surveying. The questionnaires are totally 300, and recovering after excluding invalid questionnaires, the questionnaire effective rate of 89%. After using statistical methods of descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression. The study results are following below: first, the whole employees' buying motive, the degree of identity, consumer satisfaction, and the will of repurchase status of I Tomato Internship Business are middle-high level in the Far East University. The different gender consumers have only in part of differences on identity. The different age consumers have part of differences on buying motive, identity, and consumer satisfaction. The different occupational consumers have differences on buying motive, identity, consumer satisfaction, and the will of repurchase status. Consumer buying motives and the identity of the consumer satisfaction has a positive influence exists. However, the buying motives influence on repurchase intention less than significant level, but the consumer identity and consumer satisfaction repurchase intention have a positive influence exists.