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Williams, Oscar R. "The making of a Black conservative: George S Schuyler." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1181154006.
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Nilsson, Stefan S. O., and Jonas B. Nockmar. "Civilreligion i George W Bush: s officiella uttalanden : 2001." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2311.
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Uppsatsen behandlar hur USA: s president George W Bush använder civilreligiösa inslag i sin retorik under sitt första år som president. Han startade ämbetsperioden med att använda religiösa anspelningar i sitt installationstal., för att sedan fortsätta i samma anda hela året.
Bush är inte den första presidenten att använda sådana retoriska knep. Ända sedan USA: s grundande har presidenterna förstärkt sin talarkonst genom att hänvisa till Gud och att landet är utvalt av Gud - ett nytt Israel. Landets presidenter har alltid varit mer eller mindre övertygade om att Gud står på USA: s sida. Detta trots att det första tillägget i USA: s konstitution föreskriver en separation mellan religion ochstat.
Uppsatsen analyseras utifrån en innehållsanalys, som är en vanlig metod för att analysera politiska tal. Vår innehållsanalys består av åtta olika kategorier som speglar Bushs civilreligiösa retorik väl. Resultatet visar att Bush som president anser att det är självklart att en amerikansk president har en gudstro. Han använder ett religiöst språkbruk genom att citera ur Bibeln och Koranen i sina offentliga framträdanden. Han säger sig vara övertygad om att USA är utvalt av Gud att styra över världen. En stor del av Bushs civilreligiösa retorik går att hitta i att han försöker ena nationen genom att hänvisa till landets historia. Han visar ofta hur krigshjältar och presidenter har offrat sina liv för USA.
Vi anser att Bush använder civilreligiös retorik för att ena nationen vid svåra tillfällen. Efter terrorattacken den 11: e september 2001 ökar frekvensen av civilreligion hos Bush. Det är tydligt att den amerikanske presidenten vill ena en nation i chock. Vi menar också att det av tradition förväntas att USA:s president har ett civilreligiöst språkbruk. Vi menar att Bush använder civilreligionen som en ursäkt för att inte genomföra reella politiska förändringar i samhället.
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Rodriguez, Ismael. "George S. Patton Jr. and the Lost Cause Legacy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699940/.
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Historians have done their duty in commemorating an individual who was, as Sidney Hook’s Hero in History would describe, an “event making-man.” A myriad of works focused on understanding the martial effort behind George S. Patton Jr. from his ancestral lineage rooted in military tradition to his triumph during the Second World War. What is yet to be understood about Patton, however, is the role that the Civil War played in his transformation into one of America’s iconic generals. For Patton, the Lost Cause legacy, one that idealized the image of the Confederate soldier in terms of personal honor, courage, and duty, became the seed for his preoccupation for glory.
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Iler, Sarah M. "The Libertarian Sage: The Conservatism of George S. Schuyler." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289585457.
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Williams, Oscar Renal. "The making of a Black conservative : George S. Schuyler /." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181154006.
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Maxwell, Robbie John. "Educator to the nation : George S. Benson and modern American conservatism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11770.
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This thesis examines the career of American conservative activist George S. Benson (1898-1991), who served as President of the Church of Christ–affiliated Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas (1936-1965) and rose to national prominence in the early 1940s, when he established the National Education Program. This examination provides an interpretation of the nature, origins and influence of modern U.S. conservatism. By focusing on the period from the 1930s to the mid-1960s, this work builds on a number of recent studies that have demonstrated the significant advantages to exploring modern conservatism beyond the social and political tumults of the 1960s and 1970s. Benson’s efforts also reveal some flaws in the analytical paradigm that dominates the literature on the modern right: the transition between conservatism’s marginalization in the 1930s and its recapture of the political mainstream by the late 1970s. Tempering this ‘rise of the right’ narrative by accepting both the importance and incompleteness of this resurgence provides the basis for the more nuanced approach that defines this work. Benson’s efforts to promote conservatism were defined – perhaps in equal measure – by failures, successes, and innovations. As a result, his career provides a new perspective on the boundaries of modern conservatism. Much of the work on conservatism focuses on either elites or grassroots activists. Benson operated within a space between these two groups that has rarely been explored. His career relied, almost exclusively, on the financial support of conservative businessmen, who shared his desire to effect a political re-education of the American public. To do this, Benson utilized a remarkable range of outlets for his message, which included a newspaper column, a radio broadcast, a relentless speaking schedule, and the production of approximately fifty films. He also made pioneering efforts to increase the influence of conservatism within the education system. Benson’s appeal to businessmen also resided in his construction of an innovative discourse for communicating the virtues of unfettered corporate capitalism and challenging its critics. Drawing on his own youthful experiences in Oklahoma, one of the last ‘frontier’ outposts, as well as the mythology of frontier individualism and the discourse of populism, Benson offered a folksy rebuke of ‘big government’ and embraced the corporate world as the heir to these virtues (despite the obvious contradictions). Benson’s faith ensured that religion became the second pillar of his ‘Americanism.’ His economic outlook constituted a prescient departure from Church of Christ traditions that, like those of many Southern fundamentalist and evangelical groups, harbored long-standing concerns that economic modernity constituted a destabilizing and amoral influence over a society that required order, stability and a primary dedication to non-worldly ideals. Moreover, Benson offers a new insight into the confluence of the traditionalist and libertarian wings of the right, a defining feature of the modern conservative movement. Benson’s political vision resonated most profoundly in the South and Southwest, where the heartland of modern conservatism emerged from a collision between the region’s remarkable postwar economic transformation and its preexisting religious and political culture. In a more general sense, certain themes within Benson’s crusade, notably including the power and influence of organized labor, provided key successes for the right during these years. These successes were testament to the importance of favorable circumstances, but Benson’s career was defined by the conviction that a more effective communication of conservatism would solve the right’s problems throughout the nation; one key argument of this work is that the message itself had notable limitations. These limitations, in turn, reveal a more profound ambiguity towards conservatives’ economic message within American political culture, the shortcomings of religious conservatism, and the problematic and incomplete nature of Benson’s efforts to ‘fuse’ economic and social conservatism. On the other hand, that conservatives’ ambitions were not met during this period does not suggest that Benson operated in an era of political comity; in one important respect, conservatives such as Benson helped to constrain political discourse and ensure the persistent moderation of their opponents.
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Kuch, P. R. "A critical edition of G.W. Russell (AE)'s writings on literature and art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384734.
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Berg, Mattsson Alexander. "The unraveling of Orwell´s puzzle : A literary analysis of the characters in George Orwell´s Animal farm." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27052.
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Cassidy, Nathan John. "A translation and historical commentary on book one and book two of the Historia of Georgi?s Pachymer?s." University of Western Australia. Classics and Ancient History Discipline Group, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0080.
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[Truncated abstract] My focus has been twofold. On the one hand I have highlighted and elucidated the events which Pachymerēs narrates, glossing with prosopographical and topological notes the people, places and things mentioned in the text, and explaining other esoteric details, such as the range of many and varied, ornate Byzantine court honorifics. On the other hand I have made a critical comparison between Pachymerēs and the other important sources for the period, Greek, Western, and Eastern, to provide explanations for differences in the various narratives, to suggest which source is the more accurate for any given event, and to fill up the narrative ‘gaps’ of Gomme .... I must stress that both by training and inclination I am an historian, not a philologist, so the commentary will be historical rather than philological. This is despite the importance Pachymerēs himself places in the clever use of language and his frequent use of allusions to and quotes from other works, Classical, Byzantine or biblical. The question of mimēsis, how much Pachymerēs is directly trying to imitate or incorporate older texts, has received limited attention, and only where Pachymerēs’ use of the earlier text is vital to the understanding of his own work. Similarly, questions of language, and the way in which Pachymerēs uses it, have not been explored except in those instances where it directly affects the historical point our author is making. Pachymerēs’ Historia is an important source for a pivotal period in Byzantine Imperial history, and many scholars have not used it as efficiently as they could due to the denseness of his prose and his “tortuous syntax” (Bartusis 1992:55) ...
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Grant, Susannah, and n/a. "God�s governor : George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853." University of Otago. Department of History, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070427.112933.
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The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand historiography. This thesis seeks to understand Grey as a real person. Acknowledging the past as a strange and foreign place, it argues that Grey (and previous interpretations of him) can only be understood in context. The intellectual milieu of liberal Anglicanism and Victorian structures of imperial authority are crucial to understanding Grey�s policies of racial amalgamation.
Focusing on Grey�s first governorship of New Zealand, 1845 - 1853, this thesis begins by exploring the imperial networks within which he operated. The members of Grey�s web gathered and shared information to further a range of different agendas - scientific, humanitarian, and political. Grey�s main focus was native civilisation. His ideas about race were informed by liberal Anglican theology, scientific investigation and personal experience. Grey believed in the unity and improvability of all mankind. His mission as governor was to elevate natives to a state of true equality with Europeans so that all could progress together still further up the scale of civilisation. This model formed the basis of Grey�s 1840 plan for civilising native peoples, in which he proposed a range of measures to promote racial amalgamation in Australia.
Between 1845 and 1853 Grey implemented those measures in New Zealand. He used military force and British law to establish peace and enforce Crown authority. He used economic policies to encourage Maori integration in the colonial economy. He built schools and hospitals and enacted legislation to encourage the best features of British culture and limit the effects of its worst. He also augmented his power and encouraged amalgamation through personal relationships, official reports and the structures of colonial authority.
Grey was driven by complex, sometimes contradictory motives including personal gain, economic imperatives and political pressures. His policies have had ongoing, often devastating effects, on Maori and on race relations in New Zealand. This thesis brings to light the ideas and attitudes which formed them. Grey understood himself as a Christian governor ordained to civilise Maori and join them with British settlers in accordance with God�s divine plan for improving humankind.
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Westlund, Olle. "S(t)imulating a Social Psychology : G. H. Mead and the Reality of the Social Object." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Uppsala university, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391259613.
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Negrón, Mara. "Savoir féminin : Deux exemples : George Sand, folklore-féminité, Clarice Lispector, au-delà du savoir." Paris 8, 1990. http://octaviana.fr/document/17434404X#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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Pour george sand nous avons voulu approcher la question du choix d'un genre exclu, le roman champetre, comme etant le lieu ou un certain imaginaire maternal pouvait se dire. Nous avons propose une lecture de "la foret" et du folklore, comme lieux du maternal. Dans la partie de notre etude sur la pomme dans le noir de clarice lispector, nous avons voulu donner un exemple "d'une economie libidinale dite feminine". Dans l'ensemble de notre reflexion sur savoir "feminin", il nous a semble essentiel de faire ressortir cette approche de la connaissance, cette maniere tres singuliere qu'a clarice lispector de "faire apprentissage", maniere qui inscrit tres fortement une difference sexuelle dans l'ecritureIt is apparent in reading george sand, that her choice of an unrecognized gender, the rural novel, is the setting where a certain maternel imagination could express itself; "the forest" and folklore becoming the maternal scene. In the second part of this study, the apple in the dark by clarice lispector is used as an example of a "feminine libidinal economy". In a general reflection upon "feminine knowledge", it is essential to emphasize this approach to insight, the singular way clarice lispector has of "doing an apprenticeship". This manner of approaching knowledge strongly inscribes the sexual difference in her writing
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Elliott, David Lee. "Living acts of semiosis John Dewey's model of esthetic experience as key to a temporal theory of signs /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4903.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 9, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Van, Eerden James Patrick. "An inquiry into the use of human experience as an apologetic tool illustrations from the writings of George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Edmisten, Kelly L. "Cold terror : cultural crisis creation in the rhetoric of Truman and Bush /." Electronic version (PDF), 2007. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2007-1/edmistenk/kellyedmisten.pdf.
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Kelly, David M. "The treatment of universalism in Anglican thought from George MacDonald (1824--1905) to C S Lewis (1898--1963)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20968.
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Lisiecki, Chet. "Lyric Poetry, Conservative Poetics, and the Rise of Fascism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18532.
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As fascist movements took hold across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, there emerged a body of lyric poetry concerned with revolution, authority, heroism, sacrifice, community, heritage, and national identity. While the Nazi rise to power saw the deception, persecution, and brutalization of conservatives both in the Reichstag and in the streets, these themes resonated with fascists and conservatives alike, particularly in Germany. Whether they welcomed the new regime out of fear or opportunism, many conservative beneficiaries of National Socialism shared, and celebrated in poetry, the same ideological principles as the fascists.
Such thematic continuities have made it seem as though certain conservative writers, including T. S. Eliot, Stefan George, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, were proto-fascist, their work cohering around criteria consonant with fascist ideology. My dissertation, however, emphasizes the limits of such cohesion, arguing that fascist poetry rejects, whereas conservative poetry affirms, the possibility of indeterminacy and inadequacy. While the fascist poem blindly believes it can effect material political change, the conservative poem affirms the failure of its thematic content to correspond entirely to material political reality. It displays neither pure political commitment nor aesthetic autonomy, suspending these categories in an unresolved tension.
Paul de Man's work on allegory hinges on identifying a reading practice that addresses this space between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. His tendency to forget the immanence of history, however, is problematic in the context of fascism. Considering rhetorical formalism alongside dialectical materialism, in particular Adorno's essay "Lyric Poetry and Society," allows for a more rounded and ethical methodological approach. The poetic dramatization of the very indeterminacy that historically constituted conservative politics in late-Weimar Germany both distinguishes the conservative from the fascist poem while also accounting for its complicity. Fascism necessitated widespread and wild enthusiasm, but it also succeeded through the (unintentional) proliferation of political indifference as registered, for example, by the popularity of entertainment literature. While the work of certain conservative high modernists reflected critically on its own failures, such indeterminacy nonetheless resembles the failure to politically commit oneself against institutionalized violence and systematic oppression.
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com, dlurry@gmail, and David Layne Urry. "From Wigan Pier to Airstrip One: A Critical Evaluation of George Orwells Writing and Politics post-September 11." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090122.114436.
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This thesis summons a contemporary reading of George Orwell, evaluating his current role and function as novelist, essayist, and twentieth century cultural icon. The year 2003 marked the centenary of Eric Blairs birth and proved a productive year for Blair (and Orwell) enthusiasts. After nearly three years of research, my journey through Orwells words and world(s) has undergone significant re-evaluation, taking me far beyond such an appropriate commemoration. In the tragic aftermath of 9/11 ¯ through Afghanistan and Iraq, Bali, Madrid, and London ¯ Orwells grimly dystopian vision acquires renewed significance for a new generation. Few writers (living or dead) are as enduringly newsworthy and malleable as George Orwell. The scope and diversity of his work ¯ the sheer volume of his letters, essays, and assorted journalism ¯ elicits a response from academics, journalists, critics and readers. My research, tempered by a War on terror and a televisual Big Brother, shapes these responses at a time when 24-hour surveillance is viewed as the path to instant celebrity.
Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four provides unique insights into a highly pervasive and secretive regime, which in light of post 9/11 political trajectories is highly admonitory. These pathways and connections are produced in my research. I do not make easy links between past and present ¯ Eric and Tony Blair ¯ at the level of metaphor or simile. Indeed, the pages that follow traverse the digital archives and probe the rationale for mobilising Orwell in this time and place. I am focussed on writing a history and establishing a context calibrated to the fictional Oceania.
This doctorate commenced as an investigation of George Orwells journalism and fiction one hundred years after his birth. At the outset of the candidature, the Twin Towers fell and new implications and interpretations of Orwell arose. My research demonstrates that the Oceania of Orwells imagining presents an evocative insight into the contemporary alliance forged by the Bush, Blair, and Howard triumvirate in its quest for world peace. Using Orwell as a guide, I move through theories of writing and politics, in the process uncovering capitalisms inherently hostile and negligent attitude towards those who are materially less fortunate. I began my work convinced of Orwells relevance to cultural studies, particularly in understanding popular cultural writing and the need for social intervention. I concluded this process even more persuaded of my original intent, but shaped, sharpened and compensated by new events, insights, tragedies and Big Brothers.
It is imperative for the future directives of cultural studies that critical, political, pedagogic and intellectual links with Orwell are (re-)formed, (re-)established and maintained. My text works in the spaces between cultural studies and cultural journalism, pondering the role and significance of the critical ¯ and dissenting ¯ intellectual. Memory, History, and Identity all circulate in Orwells prose. These concerns and questions have provided impetus and direction for this thesis. They have also shaped the research.
Few expect Orwells totalitarian dystopia to materialise unchallenged from the pages of a book. The wielders of power are more capable and more subtle. Yet it is impossible to deny that the litany of lies and contempt central to Big Brothers Oceania is reproducible by any administration assisted by a complicit media and a malleable citizenry. The emergence of such a phenomenon has been well documented in the post 9/11 United States. This thesis has arisen out of the miasma of hubris, lies and contempt framing and surrounding Mr. Bushs war on terror. My purpose ¯ not unlike Orwells in Nineteen Eighty-Four ¯ is to warn, not judge or berate. Orwell understood political rhetoric. He was not a prophet but a journalist who interpreted the nuances and temptations of excessive power. He had witnessed the extraordinary death of history in Spain, and thereafter he raised his pen to combat intellectual hypocrisy and dishonesty wherever he found it. Under Orwells tutelage, plain words pierce, probe and unsettle. They are sharp cutting instruments, fully capable of transcending time. How else are we to explain his enduring popularity as a writer? This thesis offers a critical and interpretative homage to George Orwell, a man who recognised the beauty of well chosen words, who loved and appreciated their enduring complexity and power.
A framing structure has been chosen that places Orwell in close relation to poverty, class and politics, war and journalism. Individual chapter headings (and their contents) exploit Orwells unique response to the significant talking points of his era. After resolving to write professionally, Orwell starved and struggled in Paris, and frequented doss houses in and around London. I track these wanderings in chapter one. He studied the effects of the Depression and unemployment in Yorkshire and Lancashire (chapter two), and fought and was wounded in Spain (chapter three). Thereafter he turned to political writing and journalism (chapter four). What he failed to anticipate was a post war Britain overwhelmed by despondency and dissolved by internal devolution (chapter five). His concluding apocalyptic discharge, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was directed at the higher echelons of institutional power and corporate corruption in Britain, America, and Europe, which I explore in chapter six.
The world has changed significantly since Orwell (and J. B. Priestley) went in search of Englands faltering pulse in the 1930s. Englishness and traditional working class values have distorted and shifted in unexpected ways. These transformations are partly the result of war and the loss of empire. They are also a response to American cultural and economic hegemony, the privatisation of industry, offshore investments, the emergence of the European Economic Community, and the burgeoning global economy.
George Orwell matters, even after this scale of change because he faced his own prejudices on the page and developed a writing style that enabled him to challenge the accepted orthodoxies and hypocrisies of his era. This is evident when returning to his essays and journalism, fifty-five years after his death. He possessed the ability to make readers feel uncomfortable, raising topics and concerns that we would rather not discuss. Denounced as a traitor by the pre-1956 unreconstructed left and feted as a hero by the self-congratulatory right, Orwell resists labelling and easy categorization. We owe him a considerable debt for exposing the likely directions of unchecked political ambition, and this insight should not be treated lightly. As I read him, Orwell was the last man in Europe, the canary in the mine. He is a literary world heritage site of considerable iconic appeal and international significance. He is an outsiders outsider perpetually facing inwards, and we need him now.
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Savage, Joshua G. "“Thank God It’s Only Maneuvers!:” Tennessee and the Road to War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2317.
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“Thank God It’s Only Maneuvers!:” Tennessee and the Road to War offers the reader a comprehensive explanation of the importance of the Tennessee Maneuvers of June 1941 to American preparation for World War II. Beginning with pre-war changes in the infantry, followed by the inception of the Armored Force, and continuing through the testing of both during the 1941 Maneuvers, the reader will gain an appreciation of the significance of these actions to overall American preparation before and during the Second World War. This work also presents a look at how these extensive combat actions influenced the people of the State of Tennessee throughout their existence.
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Morel, Olivier. "Cosmopolitan zone : figures juives, étrangers, immigrés et cosmopolites dans l'espace berlinois de Imre Kertész, George Tabori, Wladimir Kaminer et Zafer ̧ Senocak." Paris 8, 2010. http://octaviana.fr/document/15018560X#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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La littérature de l'étranger, l'étranger dans la littérature, la littérature de l'immigré ou des descendants d'immigrés, l'histoire de l'hôte dans la littérature et les enjeux de l'hospitalité littéraire, le refuge de la littérature ou dans la littérature, la domesticité et la cité littéraire, l'ouverture de la littérature à l'étranger tout comme l'étrangèreté de la littérature : c'est autour de ces notions aux accents divers et aux formulations voisines, à la fois, que s'organise ce travail. Qu'arrive-t-il à une littérature dite "nationale", lorsqu'elle est marquée, aujourd'hui et plus que jamais, par l'extranéité, par l'arrivée de l'étranger, par la condition de l'autre, du non-autochtone, de l'immigré, de l’exilé ou du réfugié ? Il y a un devenir cosmopolite qui fait arriver à la littérature quelque chose qui la travaille aussi diversement depuis l'origine, au cœur de sa provenance historique. C'est en Allemagne que le concept de Weltliteratur a vu le jour. Le devenir cosmopolite, la mondialisation littéraire de la capitale allemande actuelle, Berlin, forment un carrefour d'enjeux. Sous ce motif spatial (étendue) et capital (propriété, ville) — monde, avoir-lieu de l'étranger, appartenance, Berlin, etc. — il est toujours question du lieu de la littérature : que se passe-t-il entre la littérature et le lieu, où la littérature a-t-elle lieu, la littérature a-t-elle lieu ? L'espace littéraire berlinois de Imre Kertész, George Tabori, Wladimir Kaminer et Zafer Şenocak sera la source primordiale de l'étude, portant sur la période 1999-2007The foreigner's literature, the foreigner in literature, the literature of the immigrant, the history of the guest in literature and the stakes of literary hospitality, literature's refuge or refuge in literature, literature's domesticity and city, the openness of literature to the stranger as well as the strangeness of literature: this work focuses on these notions and their various accents. What happens to a so-called “national” literature when it is marked, today, more than ever, by the exteriority, by the foreigner’s arrival, by the condition of the other, of the non-domestic of the immigrant, the exile or the refugee? There is a cosmopolitan becoming that has influenced literature in its variety since its own origin, in the core of its historical provenance. The concept of world literature (Weltliteratur) appeared in Germany. The cosmopolitan becoming and the literary globalization of today’s capital of Germany, Berlin, constitute the intersection of this research. In other words, these spatial (extension) and capital motives (property, city) — world, space of the foreigner, belonging, city, Berlin — raise the question of the location of literature: where is literature’s place in today's world? Imre Kertész, George Tabori, Wladimir Kaminer and Zafer Şenocak’s literary spaces are the main focus of this study of their work from 1999 to 2007
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Dupetit, Guillaume. "Afro-futurisme et effet miroir : les contre-récits de Parliament-Funkadelic." Paris 8, 2013. http://octaviana.fr/document/182422941#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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Bien avant qu’il fût placé un mot dessus, des artistes tels que Sun Ra, Lee Perry ou encore George Clinton représentaient déjà les premiers bouillonnements de l’Afro-futurisme. Mêlant musique et science-fiction, leurs créations encouragèrent l’imaginaire à entrer en dialogue avec le réel et la vie quotidienne. Les connexions et les perspectives de l’Afro-futurisme s’étendent dans le temps et dans l’espace, croisent les disciplines et leurs composantes, sont à la fois profondément ancrées dans des traditions et constamment en quête de renouveau. Bien qu’il convienne d’étayer les définitions proposées du terme, l’enjeu majeur réside dans son application à la musique et son exemplification. L’objectif pointé dans cette étude n’est pas de délimiter des contours fixes ou encore mesurer l’étendue des ramifications multiples qu’intègre le discours afro-futuriste, mais de l’éclairer à travers la production musicale. Notre axe d’étude premier, fil conducteur de cette analyse, se confinera au domaine musical de l’Afro-futurisme à travers l’exemple précis du collectif Parliament / Funkadelic (sous la direction de George Clinton), afin de restituer au mieux un contexte contigu à sa création musicale et d’entrevoir le jeu de sens opéré au sein de l’Univers P-FunkLong before anyone had given it a name, artists such as Sun Ra, Lee Perry and George Clinton already represented the first effervescence of Afrofuturism. Combining music and science fiction, their creations forced fantasy to fall within the bounds of reality. The connections and perspectives of Afrofuturism extend in time and space, cross disciplines and specialties, and are both deeply rooted and constantly renewed. Although it is necessary to expound on the proposed definitions of the term, our main focus here will be on its application and exemplification. The objective of this study is not to define fixed contours or to measure the extent of the multiple ramifications embodied in the afrofuturistic discourse, but rather to provide an example of what it can generate in terms of musical discourse. The central theme of this analysis, thus, will confine itself to the musical field of Afro-futurism through the specific example of the Parliament / Funkadelic collective, in order to express the environment in which his musical creation is inscribed and to give a glimpse of the multiple meanings of the P Funk Universe
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Ham, Suok. "Zum Bild der Künstlerin in literarischen Biographien : Christa Wolfs Kein Ort. Nirgends, Ginka Steinwachs' George Sand und Elfriede Jelineks Clara S." Würzburg Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3028788&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Teemant, Marie Elizabeth, and Marie Elizabeth Teemant. "The North American Indian Reframed: The Photography of Edward S. Curtis in Context with American Art and Visual Culture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621850.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis and his primary photographic body of work, The North American Indian, within the context of the art and visual culture that informed and influenced Curtis in his image making process. Within the history of photography, an understanding of who Curtis was is complex. Depictions of Curtis have included various roles including photographer, businessman, philanthropist, artist, ethnologist, capitalist, and profiteer. Until the last twenty years, much of the scholarship surrounding Curtis was focused on his biography, without consideration to the similarities Curtis's work had to contemporary photographers or to American art depicting Native Americans prior to him. My research will examine this prior scholarship and focus on two different frameworks The North American Indian fits into in terms of how the Native subjects are depicted. The first framework is within the influential artwork of American painters and the Native American as incorporated into American art. I will compare Curtis's depiction of Native Americans to those by Benjamin West, Thomas Cole, and George Catlin. All three of these painters included Native Americans in their work at varying levels and for various purposes. While Curtis was working in a different medium, the ways in which he framed and posed his subjects exhibits his awareness in continuing the expected Native American image. The second framework considers The American Indian and its parallels to missionary albums (used to promote missionary work among non-Christian people) as well as a Carlisle School yearbook (used to promote the school's mission in educating and acclimating its students from tribes across the country). In addition to the three types of objects being created in the first two decades of the twentieth century, they also share a relationship through the use of photographs and words to convey a meaning the images alone could not accomplish. Native Americans have been used to symbolize the American continent since the first Europeans laid claim to the land. Curtis is only one of many artists who turned their attention to native subjects and attempted to create an understanding of who they were. A more nuanced understanding of Curtis and his work surfaces through acknowledging the ways in which The North American Indian functions similarly to other works depicting Native Americans.
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McInnis, Jeff. "Shadows and chivalry : pain, suffering, evil and goodness in the works of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2881.
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This thesis argues that George MacDonald's literary influence upon C. S. Lewis-concerning the themes of pain, suffering, evil and goodness-was transforming and long-lasting. It is argued in the opening chapter that MacDonald's work had a great deal to do with the change in young Lewis's imagination, helping to convert him from a romantic doubter to a romantic believer in God and his goodness. A review of both writers' first works suggests that such influence may have begun earlier in Lewis's career than has been noticed. The second chapter examines how both authors contended with the problems that pain and suffering present, and how both understood and presented the nature of faith. Differences in their treatment of these subjects are noted, but it is argued that these views and depictions share fundamental elements, and that MacDonald's direct influence can be demonstrated in particular cases. The view that MacDonald was primarily a champion of feelings is challenged, as is the idea that either man's later writing displays a loss of faith in God and his goodness. The third chapter, in specifically refuting the assertion that MacDonald's view of evil was inclusive in the Jungian or dualistic sense, shows how both authors' work maintains an unmistakable distinction between evil fortune and moral evil. The next two chapters examine fundamental similarities in their treatment of evil and goodness. Special care is taken in these two chapters to trace MacDonald's direct influence, especially regarding the differences they believed existed between hell's Pride and what they believed God to be. The fifth chapter reviews their ideas and depictions of heaven in summing up the study's argument concerning the overall influence of MacDonald's writing upon Lewis's imagination-in particular the change in Lewis's understanding of the relations between Spirits, Nature, and God.
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Ateeq-Ur-Rehman, Sardar [Verfasser], Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Rutschmann, Peter [Gutachter] Rutschmann, Jochen [Gutachter] Aberle, and George S. [Gutachter] Constantinescu. "Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport in Dasu-Tarbela Reservoir using Neural Networks and TELEMAC Model System / Sardar Ateeq-Ur-Rehman ; Gutachter: Peter Rutschmann, Jochen Aberle, George S. Constantinescu ; Betreuer: Peter Rutschmann." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1175582719/34.
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Souza, Renato Ferreira de. "Georg Herbert Mead: Contribuições para a Psicologia Social." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17178.
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Previous issue date: 2006-10-06The developed work intends to contribute for the understanding of an author/character of the social psychology. We analyzed and we added knowledge about George Herbert Mead and the unfoldings of his psychosocial theory. For this purpose we worked in two basic pathways: first, through the social approach of the psychology s history, we confronted Mead s life with moments of constitution of the psychology at his time, placing in projection central aspects of his dialogue not always identified. We correlated the history of Mead with social subjects, politics, economical and scientific of his time; information on what happened in the plan of the interpersonal s relationships at the time he was elaborating his theory, as well as his connections with practices and specific cultural values were mediated. The second path elapses from an incursion that goes through a thematic concerning to the Meadelian s studies, for what we prioritized the sociologists Peter Berger s and Thomas Luckmann s works and of the philosopher Jürgen Habermas. It is then intended to contribute to the history of the social psychology and to diffuse the Meadelian s scientific concepts, turning them more accessible to the specialists of the social psychology
O trabalho desenvolvido pretende contribuir para a compreensão de um autor/personagem da psicologia social. Analisamos e acrescemos conhecimento sobre George Herbert Mead e os desdobramentos de sua teoria psicosocial. Para este propósito trabalhamos em duas vertentes básicas: primeiro, através da abordagem social em história da psicologia, confrontamos a vida de Mead com momentos de constituição da psicologia à sua época, colocando em relevo aspectos centrais desta interlocução nem sempre identificados. Correlacionamos a história de Mead com questões sociais, políticas, econômicas e científicas de sua época; informações sobre o que se passava no plano das relações interpessoais ao tempo em que elaborava sua teoria, assim como suas conexões com práticas e valores culturais específicos foram contemplados. A segunda vertente decorre de uma incursão na literatura que perpassa por temáticas concernentes aos estudos meadianos, para o que priorizamos os trabalhos dos sociólogos Peter Berger e Thomas Luckmann e do filósofo Jürgen Habermas. Pretende-se assim contribuir para a história da psicologia social e difundir os conceitos científicos meadianos, tornando-os mais acessíveis aos estudiosos da psicologia social
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Roberts, Timothy Paul English UNSW. "Little terrors:the child???s threat to social order in the Victorian bildungsroman." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23930.
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This thesis is a study of rebellious child protagonists in Victorian bildungsroman. It discusses five novels ??? Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, What Maisie Knew, Vanity Fair and Kim ??? that feature ???radical child??? protagonists who use indirect methods of narrative control to resist conservative models of character development. It argues that these novels form a subset of subversive English bildungsromane, which threaten the genre???s traditionally liberal values. Theories of narrative desire, reader seduction and discursive manipulation are used to reveal how the radical child in the Victorian bildungsroman takes command of the reader???s sympathy and gains power over the realist text, despite its physical and social powerlessness. Especially important is the presence of a fantasy counterplot, which coexists with, and ultimately undermines, the bildungsroman???s realistic surface narrative of successful socialisation. The counterplot allows radical child protagonists to develop in a non-linear manner that contradicts bourgeois ideals of stable progress. Focusing instead on sites of rupture between the individual and society, subversive bildungsromane resist both the dialectical model of character, which aims to harmoniously unite the protagonist with the realist world, and the dialogic model of interaction, which requires the restriction of personal liberty for the common good. This rebellious child in the Victorian bildungsroman thus represents an assault on the genre???s democratic ideals. Rejecting compromise, the radical child replaces the bildungsroman???s central ethic of interpersonal responsibility with an individualistic ethic of domination. Indeed, the thesis argues that the appeal of such child protagonistslies in their rejection of the obligatory, but anticlimactic, exchange of freedom for security that underpins the realist bildungsroman???s social contract, a rejection attractive to the reader precisely because it is unrealisable in reality. Finally, the thesis compares this radical child with the Gothic monster. While the monster is punished for its subversion, the radical child???s counterplot enables it to enact most of its subversive desires unpunished. The conservative English bildungsroman thus becomes a more effective way of representing asocial energies than the more obviously radical Gothic genre, which openly displays its anti-democratic sentiments.
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Candela, Munayco Frank Ronny. "Gestión del desempeño docente a nivel secundaria y su relación con la inteligencia emocional en la Institución Educativa St. George´s College de la UGEL 07 del distrito de Chorrillos 2018-2019." Master's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/17357.
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Este estudio analizar la relación entre la gestión del desempeño
docente a nivel secundaria y la inteligencia emocional en la Institución
Educativa St. George´s College de la UGEL 07 del distrito de Chorrillos, en
el periodo 2018-2019. Es de tipo correlacional, método hipotético deductivo y
diseño transversal. La medición se hizo en una muestra censal basada en 90
docentes. Los instrumentos fueron el Marco del buen desempeño docente,
de Enciso, y el Inventario de inteligencia emocional, de BarOn (ICE),
adaptado por Ugarriza, los cuales fueron sometidos al juicio de 5 expertos
para su validación en base al marco teórico de la categoría “validez de
criterio”; el procedimiento para determinar la confiabilidad fue el Alfa de
Cronbach para ambos instrumentos.
El resultado para la hipótesis general determinó una correlación baja
de Rho = 0,366, donde la gestión del desempeño docente a nivel secundaria
se relaciona de forma positiva, baja y significativa con la inteligencia
emocional. Las primera, segunda y tercera hipótesis específicas
establecieron coeficientes de correlación baja de Rho = 0,351, Rho = 0,312 y
Rho = 0,386, respectivamente, mientras que las cuarta y quinta hipótesis
específicas determinaron coeficientes de correlación muy baja de Rho =
0,237 y Rho = 0,245, respectivamente, donde la gestión del desempeño
docente a nivel secundaria se relaciona significativamente con los
componentes de la inteligencia emocional “intrapersonal, interpersonal,
adaptabilidad, manejo de estrés y estado de ánimo en general”, de forma
positiva, baja y significativa.
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Fern, Terry L. (Terry Lee). "Adaptation of Handel's Castrato Airs for Bass: A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of J.S. Bach, W. Mozart, M. Ravel, G. Finzi, R. Schumann, A. Caldara, G. Handel, H. Wolf, H. Duparc, C. Ives and S. Barber and an Operatic Role by Verdi." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332021/.
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The lecture recital was given on April 18, 1977. The subject was Adaptation of Handel's Castrato Airs for Bass, and it included a discussion of conventions peculiar to Handelian opera seria, concerns regarding adaptation of Handel's castrato airs and a comparison of adaptation practices in eighteenth- and twentieth-century presentations of Handel's operas. Three coloratura castrato airs and two virtuoso bass airs were performed at the conclusion of the lecture.
In addition to the lecture recital, one operatic role and three recitals of solo literature for voice, piano and chamber ensemble were publicly performed. These included the role of "Samuele" in A Masked Ball, by Verdi, performed in English on March 19, 1975 with the Opera Theatre of North Texas State University, a program presented on November 24, 1975,of solo literature for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble, including works by J. S. Bach, W. Mozart, M. Ravel and G. Finzi, a program consisting of a set of works by R. Schumann presented on June 27, 1985, and a program presented on October 28, 1985,of solo literature for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble,including works by A. Caldara, G. Handel, H. Wolf, H. Duparc, C. Ives and S. Barber.
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ANDRADE, MARIA GRACIEMA ACHE DE. "GEORGES BATAILLE`S ARCHANGELICAL POETRY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15795@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A poesia arcangélica de Georges Bataille versa sobre o único livro do autor integralmente composto por poemas, L’Archangélique (O Arcangélico), publicado pelo autor em Paris, em 1944. O presente estudo consiste numa tradução da obra para o português, de uma leitura dos poemas, do levantamento da teoria do autor sobre a poesia, e de uma problematização da experiência da tradução dentro dos termos do que seja a experiência poética tal como entendido por Bataille.
Georges Bataille`s archangelical poetry is a study dedicated to Bataille´s only book entirely made up of poems, L Archangélique (The Archangelic), published in Paris in 1944. The study consists of the book`s translation, from French to Portuguese, followed by a reading of the poems, a review of Bataille s theory of poetry and also some issues on the translation experience that is thought to be proposed in terms of Bataille`s poetic experience.
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Finnegan, Sean Justin. "Schoenberg, Polyphony, and Mode : A Reception of the Composer's Twelve-tone Method in American Publications, c. 1925-1950." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279380/.
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Although Schoenberg viewed his twelve-tone method as an extension of the Germanic musical evolution from Bach to Brahms, one group of writers in America identified twelve-tone antecedents with Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. Such a correlation of Schoenberg's practice with this textural orientation of the past was part of a larger movement (what I term "neopolyphony") recognizing twentieth-century musical developments as the genesis of a polyphonic epoch reviving both the technical and aesthetic concerns of the former era. With Schoenberg's practice applied to this analogical context, other writers (Hill, Krenek, Perle) advanced certain modal theories based in various degrees on the internal organization and functional role of the Church modes.
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Lewis, Michael E. (Michael Edward) 1952. "Solo Trombone Performances at the Gewandhaus in the Nineteenth Century: a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of G. Jacobs, S. Sulek, E. Bloch, C. Wagenseil, W. Ross, G. Pergolesi, T. George, F. Hidas, J. Albrechtsberger and Others." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331410/.
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This study investigates and documents tenor/bass trombone solo performances at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, East Germany, between 1821 and 1876. Included is the discussion of a newly discovered composition, the Concertino fur Bassposaune und Orchester, by Carl Heinrlch Meyer, which is the earliest concerto for the tenor/bass trombone. Its performance at the Gewandhaus in 1821 marked the beginning of the solo tradition for the tenor/bass trombone, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus became one of the leading centers of solo trombone performance for the next fifty years.
The study includes background information on the rise of the virtuoso soloist in nineteenth-century Germany. It specifically focuses on Friedrlch August Belcke and Carl Traugott Queisser and their performances at the Gewandhaus. All solo trombone performances at the Gewandhaus in the nineteenth century have been documented, and specific information has been provided regarding the soloists, dates of performances and repertoire performed on the concerts. The paper includes a discussion of performance reviews from the Allgemeine Musfkalische Zeitung.
The conclusion discusses the importance of solo trombone performance at the Gewandhaus, and the reason for its sudden decline after 1876.
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Brien, Donna Lee. "The case of Mary Dean : sex, poisoning and gender relations in Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16340/.
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The genre of biography is, by nature, imprecise and limited. Real lives are lived synchronously and diversely; they do not divide spontaneously into chapters, subjects or themes. All biographers construct stories, in the process forcing the disordered complexity of an actual life into a neat literary form. This doctoral submission comprises a book length creative work, Poisoned: The Trials of Mary Dean, and a reflective written component on that creative work, Writing Fictionalised Biography. Poisoned is a biography of Mary Dean, who, although repeatedly poisoned by her husband at the end of the nineteenth century, did not die. This biography, presented in the form of a first-person memoir, is based closely on historical evidence and is supported with discursive notes and a select bibliography. The reflective written component, Writing Fictionalised Biography, outlines the process and challenges of writing a biography when the source material available is inadequate and unreliable. In writing Poisoned my genre solution has been fictionalised biography - biography which is historically diligent while utilising fictional writing strategies and incorporating fictional passages. This written component reflectively discusses how I arrived at that solution. It includes discussion of the sources I utilised in writing Poisoned, including the limitations of trial transcripts and other court records as biographical evidence; useful precursors to the form; the process wherein I located both a form for my fictionalised biography and a voice for my biographical subject; possible models I considered; how I distinguished established fact from speculative supposition in the text; as well as some of the ambivalences and ethical concerns such a narrative process implies.
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Evangelisti, Charles William. "To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32235.
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Between 1760 and 1833, English explorers systematically filled in the map of British North America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudsonâ s Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European comprehension. Their published accounts of geographic exploration provided the British audience with new geographical information about North America. New geographic information often paved the way for settlement. However, in the case of the Canadian West, increased geographic comprehension did not necessarily lead to settlement. By 1833, the explorers had built a base of knowledge from which the British conceptualized the Canadian wilderness. Over the course of seventy years, the British conception of western Canada remained remarkably consistent. The popular British image of western Canada, persisting into the 1830s, was of a wasteland fit only for the fur trade. The British, who had been expanding around the world for several hundred years, were not yet interested in settlement in western Canada. This thesis seeks to expand upon the link that existed between the fur trade, its employees, and their influence on the British conception of western Canada.Master of Arts
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Carlson, Cody King. "The Marshall System in World War II, Myth and Reality: Six American Commanders Who Failed." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707257/.
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This is an analysis of the U.S. Army's personnel decisions in the Second World War. Specifically, it considers the U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall's appointment of generals to combat command, and his reasons for relieving some generals while leaving others in place after underperformance. Many historians and contemporaries of Marshall, including General Omar N. Bradley, have commented on Marshall's ability to select brilliant, capable general officers for combat command in the war. However, in addition to solid performers like J. Lawton Collins, Lucian Truscott, and George S. Patton, Marshall, together with Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lesley J. McNair, often selected sub-par commanders who significantly underperformed on the battlefield. These generals' tactical and operational decisions frequently led to unnecessary casualties, and ultimately prolonged the war. The work considers six case studies: Lloyd Fredendall at Kasserine Pass, Mark Clark during the Italian campaign, John Lucas at Anzio, Omar Bradley at the Falaise Gap, Courtney Hodges at the Hürtgen Forest, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. at Okinawa. Personal connections and patronage played strong roles in these generals' command appointments, and often trumped practical considerations like command experience. While their superiors ultimately relieved corps commanders Fredendall and Lucas, field army and army group commanders Clark, Hodges, and Bradley retained command of their units, (Buckner died from combat wounds on Okinawa). Personal connections also strongly influenced the decision to retain the field army and army group commanders in their commands.
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Pata, Martin. "Obama's Foreign Policy: Is there such a thing?" Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165568.
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This thesis examines the foreign policy of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. A significant theme of Barack Obama's candidacy for presidency was "change"; more specifically change in policy from previous administration. Therefore, the thesis looks at the changes brought about by President Obama once he was elected. First, we look at foreign policy of the United States under President George W. Bush, then we look at foreign policy-related assertions of Barack Obama during his candidacy, and lastly we look at the actual policies of the new administration, with particular focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, drones and extrajudicial killing, Guantanamo detention facility and extraordinary rendition, and NSA surveillance.
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Gomrad, Mary Ellen. "VISUAL AND VERBAL RHETORIC IN HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY'S WAR-RELATED POSTERS OF WOMEN DURING THE WORLD WAR I ERA: A FEMINIST." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4010.
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This thesis explores the development of a series of posters created by Howard Chandler Christy during the World War I era. During this time, Christy was a Department of Pictorial Publicity (DPP) committee artist commissioned by the committee chair, Charles Dana Gibson. The DPP was part of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) developed by the Woodrow Wilson administration to generate the propaganda necessary to gain the support of the American people to enter World War I. The CPI was headed up by George Creel, a journalist and politician, who used advertising techniques to create the first full-scale propaganda effort in United States history. American poster images of women during World War I represent an era when propaganda posters came of age. These iconographic interpretations depicted in political propaganda helped shape the history of the twentieth century. While exploring these portrayals of women, the observer looks through a historical lens to contemplate the role of propaganda in the American war effort, while considering the disparity between images of women and the reality of their experiences in the patriarchal society in which they lived. Howard Chandler Christy's war-related posters represented the gendered rhetoric of a social order that functioned under the well-established assumption that men and women both had their place in society based on gender-specific stereotypic characteristics. Women were central to propaganda posters from this era; their images were widely used in posters encouraging Americans to support the war effort. With few exceptions, these representations perpetuated traditional concepts of appropriate gender roles. Posters often used women as icons characterizing the nation in time of war. For example, a beautiful woman, with a backdrop of the United States flag or sometimes even dressed in Old Glory, suggested why the nation was fighting. Some posters explicitly used beautiful women to signify that America's honor was at stake and we needed fighting men to protect it. The poster art form spread rapidly during the early twentieth century, putting a woman in her place rather than challenging the historical circumstances that created the complex, problematic issues related to the visual representation. Reading these posters as cultural texts, it is apparent that women's images are central to gaining an understanding of the social norms and cultural expectations.M.A.
Department of Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies
Graduate Studies;
Liberal Studies MA
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Russell, John. "Medvedev¿s presidency: implications for NATO¿s future relations with Russia." NATO Parliamentary Assembly website, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2749.
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YesIn discussing the implications of Medvedev¿s presidency for NATO¿s future relations with Russia, I will take, as a starting point, an admittedly controversial judgment that the Soviet Union was brought down, not, as many in the West would maintain, by President Reagan, NATO intransigency and Star Wars, nor even by perestroika or `democratization¿, but by Gorbachev¿s policy of glasnost, the very openness that Vladimir Putin appeared bent on eradicating between 2000 and 2008 as he moved Russia back along more traditional authoritarian lines in order to overcome the widespread chaos and insecurity of the 1990¿s. I would argue further that it is disingenuous to ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of Russians today connect openness ¿ which we in the West see as the very life-blood of our civic, democratic and free societies ¿ as a major cause of unprecedented national humiliation, enfeeblement and instability. On the contrary, it is my firm belief that these differing perceptions of openness should be factored into any formulation of an effective NATO policy toward its former long-standing adversary.
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Campbell, Christopher. "Designing Theory: Social Space(s) in the Fiction of Georges Perec." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377869529.
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PEREIRA, LUISA RAUTER. "HISTORY AND THE DIALOGUE WE ARE: REINHART KOSELLLECK`S HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HANS-GEORG GADAMER`S HERMENEUTICS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7199@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOA dissertação investiga diversas faces das relações entre a história dos conceitos de Reinhart Koselleck e a hermenêutica filosófica de Hans-Georg Gadamer. Ao propormos uma interpretação da obra de Koselleck a luz das questões da filosofia hermenêutica, pretendemos entender e problematizar uma forma de conhecimento histórico que se baseia no diálogo e no vínculo entre passado e presente, com vistas a abertura de novos horizontes e perspectivas de futuro. Tal propósito é bem realizado pelos estudos históricos de Koselleck, mediante seu laço teórico com a filosofia heideggeriana e inserção nas questões políticas e sociais de sua época, o que os torna um importante campo para discussão no âmbito de nossa disciplina. O vigoroso debate travado entre os autores a respeito dos fundamentos do conhecimento histórico revela não somente discordâncias, mas também amplo campo de convergências, às quais iremos abordar. Estas idéias suscitam grande interesse num momento em que a ciência histórica cada vez mais parece definir seus objetivos como a investigação da alteridade histórica. A relação entre história e filosofia pode nos revelar perspectivas interessantes para a disciplina que nas últimas décadas, tem sofrido um grande impacto de correntes da antropologia.
Dissertation looks into the various aspects of relations between Reinhart Koselleck`s history of concepts and Hans-Georg Gadamer´s philosophical hermeneutics. By proposing to interpret Koselleck´s work in the light of inquiries made by hermeneutics philosophy, we intend to comprehend and bring into question one form of historical knowledge that is based upon the dialogue and the link between past and present, with a view to opening up new horizons and prospects of future. Such purpose is well served by Koselleck`s historical studies, be it through their theoretical ties with the Heideggerian philosophy or their insertion into the political and social questions of his days, whereas they also make up a major discussion topic within our discipline. These authors` strong argument on the fundamentals of historical knowledge shows not only dissent, but a wide field of consent as well, which will both be approached here. Authors` ideas are of much interest just when historical science increasingly seems to state its purpose as an inquiry into historical otherness. The relation between history and philosophy may disclose interesting prospects for the discipline, which has greatly experienced the impact of anthropological trends in the latest decades.
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Altman, Pamela Frost. "Marvin S. Pittman : a historical inquiry of his life, legacy and leadership /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/paltman/Altman_Pamela_F_2000701_edd.pdf.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of Meta Y. Harris. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and appendices.
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Dehdouh, Rachid. "Histoire et philosophie des sciences biologiques et médicales chez Georges Canguilhem." Paris 8, 2007. http://octaviana.fr/document/122023617#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995), en s’inspirant de la philosophie de Nietzsche et de la phénoménologie de M. Merleau-Ponty, développait une anthropologie biologique, qualifiant le vivant en général et le vivant humain, en dernier ressort comme : une rationalité, une puissance vitale, une rectitude et une sagesse. Cette anthropologie de la vie ou de la « corporéité », est caractérisée selon Canguilhem par deux aspects essentiels et complémentaires : le premier, c’est sa démarcation, voir son rejet de toute normalité voulant assujettir le vivant à des normes conventionnelles sous forme de disciplines chargées de régulariser ses diverses activités : physiologie, psychologie et sociologie. Le deuxième aspect, résidait dans la restitution au corps vivant, l’humain en particulier, son essence bafouée par une tendance scientifique technique. Cette essence manifeste une normativité créatrice, et qui échappe a toute norme ou valeur préétablie ou extrinsèque. Or, le vivant en tant que variations, multiplicité, individualité et création accrues, ne donne pas l’occasion pour une étude scientifique normalisâtes, sauf dans ses dimensions mécaniques et physico-chimiques. En revanche seule une approche phénoménologique -selon Canguilhem- peut se rendre compte de cette corporéité, qui est en elle-même une création, une raison et une sagesseGeorges Canguilhem (1904-1995) inspiring of Nietzsche’s philosophy and Merleau-ponty’s phenomenology developed a biologic anthropology distinguishing the being in general and the human being at last as a: rationality, a vital power and a wisdom. This anthropology of life and “corporeity” is characterized according canguilhem by two essentials and complementary aspects: the first is: its reject with all normality wanting to imposed the being at conventional norms under the form of disciplines charged to regulate its diverse activities: physiology, psychology, and sociology. The second aspect resided in the restitution in the body living, the human being in particular. His essence battered by a technique and scientific tenancy. This “corporeity” manifested a creative normativity that escape from all norms or pre-established value. The being with its variations, multiciplity, individuality and creations doesn’t give the opportunity for a normalisates studies, except in its mechanicals and physical-chemical dimensions. In reach of this corporeity which is it a creation, a reason and wisdom
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Dragadze, T. "The domestic unit in a rural area of Soviet Georgia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384024.
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Martin, Alain. "La représentation du monde canaque dans l'oeuvre de Georges Baudoux (1870-1949)." Paris 8, 1995. http://octaviana.fr/document/172678447#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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La these intitulee la representation du monde canaque dans l'oeuvre de georges baudoux (1870-1949) se donne pour objectif d'apprehender la civilisation canaque a travers l'oeuvre d'un ecrivain caledonien. Le premier axe de lecture tente de legitimer ce qui fait de baudoux un authentique ecrivain et de definir le "pacte de lecture caledonien" reconnaissable dans ses "details" : son histoire, sa toponymie, les descriptions de son ile, de sa faune, de sa flore, ses personnages typiques, la mise en scene de leurs "parlers", sans ignorer ses presupposes, ses procedes, son lexique, ses metaphores, ses cliches. . . On propose ensuite une analyse des legendes canaques en mettant en valeur les particularites du style de baudoux et la representation litteraire des personnages canaques dans leur etre et dans leurs actions. Le second axe de lecture s'appuie sur l'idee que ces personnages canaques ne peuvent se comprendre que dans le cadre de leur societe sacree, mythique, rituelle, et guerriere. On s'est alors attache a reperer l'action des mythes, l'importance des rites, l'organisation "symbolique" et guerriere. Mais ce discours ethnographique revele autant qu'il cache, privilegie certains actes (le festif, le transgressif, le cannibalisme), fait entendre d'autres points de vue. Le troisieme axe de lecture etudie ces differents foyers normatifs, comme ceux des informateurs, des personnages canaques, des metis, et le discours dominant du narrateur "blanc" qui critique les valeurs et les croyances des canaques, au nom d'une ideologie racialisteThe aim of the thesis entitled la representation du monde canaque dans l'oeuvre de georges baudoux (1870-1949) (representation of the kanak world in the work of georges baudoux (1870-1949) is to understand kanak civilisation as portrayed in the writings of a new caledonian author. The first approach endeavours to give legitimacy to the factors which make baudoux a genuine author and to define a "new caledonian reading pact" recognisable in "details" such as baudoux's description of history, mastery of place names, descriptions of the island and its fauna, flora and typical characters as well as their speech, without neglecting his preconceived ideas, processes, lexicon, metaphors, cliches, etc. There follows an analysis of legendes canaques (kanak legends) stressing baudoux's style peculiarities and the literary representation of kanak characters in their essence and acts. The second analytical stand point is posited on the assumption that these kanak characters can only be understood within the bounds of their sacred, mythical, ritual and warrior society. An attempt is made to define the effect of myths, the importance of rites and the organisation of symbols and warfare. But this ethnographic approach reveals as much as it conceals, stresses certain acts (feasting, transgressions, cannibalism) and puts over other points of view. The "third reading" concentrates on the moral attitude of the "white" narrator who criticises the values and beliefs of the kanaks, in the name of a racist ideology. But the work also reveals other value systems-those of the informants, and of the kanak and mixed-race characters which give the work its richness and its multiple registers
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Leung, Chi-keung Danny. "Historical and constructive philosophies of science : Kuhn, Bachelard and Canguilhem /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21904248.
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Kim, Seong-Ha. "Passage(s) entre l'informe et le neutre : Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, l'art contemporain." Amiens, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AMIE0003.
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Cette recherche, intitulée le(s) "Passage(s) entre l'informe et le neutre : Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, l'art contemporain" est consacré au(x) passage(s) entre l'informe et le neutre dans l'art contemporain et également dans la pensée et/ou les écrits de Bataille ainsi que de Blanchot. Elle se base, tout d'abord, sur l'exposition "L'informe : mode d'emploi" en 1996, sur celle "Neutre intense" en 2008, sur la pensée de Bataille, particulièrement sur son article "Informe" publié en 1929, auquel se référait l'exposition "L'informe", sur le cours, intitulé "Le Neutre", donné par Barthes (1977-1978) auquel renvoyait l'exposition "Neutre intense" et également sur le neutre de Blanchot auquel Barthes se référa pour donner ce cours. Le(s) passage(s) repose(nt), tout d'abord, sur la différence sans rapport d'opposition entre le haut et le bas, entre le vertical et l'horizontal, entre l'intérieur et l'extérieur et également sur le mouvement vers l'infini, c'est-à-dire vers ce qui est plus bas que le bas ou vers ce qui est plus autre que l'autre. Ce mouvement "plus. . . Que. . . " met en cause la différence sans rapport d'oppostition entre la bassesse et l'élévation, entre l'horizontal et le vertical et, finalement, entre l'extérieur et l'intérieur. Il s'agit du mouvement dynamique dans lequel ces deux opposés s'approchent et simultanément s'éloignent l'un de l'autre. Ce mouvement est également examiné dans les sept chapitres : "Fin de Dieu", "Meat", "Mère", "Personnes", "Excentrique(s)", "Labyrinthe invisible" et "Chaufferie avec cheminée". Les titres sont empruntés aux sept oeuvres d'art à partir desquelles cette recherche sur le passage entre l'informe et le neutre pourrait êtreThe objective of this study entitled "Passage(s) between the formless and the neutral : George Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, the art contemporary" is to analyze the passage between the formless and the neutral in the art contemporary, as well as in Bataille's thinking and Blanchot's thinking or in Bataille's writings and Blanchot's writings. It is based, first of all, on the exhibition "Formless: A User's Guide" in 1996 which refer to Bataille's thinking, particularly to the article "Formless" that Bataille published in "Documents" in 1929, on the other exhibition "Intense Neutral" in 2008 which refer to Barthes's lecture on the neutral in 1977-1978. But, in this lecture, Barthes was based on Blanchot's neutral. From these references, this work approaches the movement toward the infinity, that is to say toward what is lower than the lowest or toward what is othermore than the other. This movement "more. . . Than. . . " is related to the difference without the relation of the opposition between the baseness and the elevation, between the horizontal and the vertical, between the exterior and the interior. This work intends to show this movement in the seven chapters : "End of God", "Meat", "Mother", "Anyone", "Excentric", "Invisible labyrinth" and "Boiler with the fireplace"
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Brugière-Zeiss, Danielle. ""Seelewig" de G. Ph. Harsdörffer et S. Th. Staden (1644) : un opéra ? : un projet pastoral original entre musique et littérature." Bern : P. Lang, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390777371.
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König, Alexander Georg [Verfasser], and S. [Akademischer Betreuer] Hohmann. "Absicherung hochautomatisierten Fahrens durch passiven virtuellen Dauerlauftest / Alexander Georg König ; Betreuer: S. Hohmann." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1234063654/34.
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Muhle, Maria. "Eine Genealogie der Bio-Politik : eine Untersuchung des Lebensgriffs bei Michel Foucault und Georges Canguilhem." Paris 8, 2007. http://octaviana.fr/document/122059700#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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La thèse étudie la notion de bio-politique développée par M. Foucault en la distinguant du pouvoir souverain et des disciplines. Pour une meilleure compréhension on procédera à l’étude de la notion de vie impliquée dans cette politique. On commencera par une critique de la notion de vie nue présentée par G. Agamben qui relie la bio-politique structurellement à un pouvoir souverain. Afin de montrer qu’une telle interprétation laisse de côté des intuitions fondamentales de la notion foucaldienne, nous étudierons la notion de vie telle qu’elle est présentée par G. Canguilhem : elle se définit par sa possibilité d’erreur et se forme dans la polarité entre le normal et le pathologique, dans son conflit avec le milieu et les valeurs négatives. Elle développe une normativité interne c’est-à-dire elle se crée ses propres normes. Cette notion de vie est doublement fondamentale pour la bio-politique : elle est son objet et elle est le modèle que la bio-politique adopte afin de mieux s’exercerThis thesis examines the notion of bio-politics developed by M. Foucault by distinguishing it from sovereign power and the disciplines. In order to do so, it looks at the notion of life implied by this politics. The thesis begins with a critique of the notion of bare life introduced by G. Agamben, who proposes a structural identity between bio-politics and sovereign power. In order to show that such interpretation fails to account for some fundamental intuitions of Foucault’s conception, it examines the notion of life presented by G. Canguilhem: life defined by a possibility of error, and creating itself within the polarity between the normal and the pathological, in conflict with its milieu and the negative values ; life develops an inner normativity, that is, it creates its own norms. This notion of life is fundamental for bio-politics in two ways: it constitutes its object, and the model which bio-politics adopts in order to improve its own exercise
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Mißbach, Christine [Verfasser], Bill S. [Akademischer Betreuer] Hansson, Rolf G. [Akademischer Betreuer] Beutel, and Richard [Akademischer Betreuer] Benton. "Evolution of insect olfactory genes / Christine Mißbach. Gutachter: Bill S. Hansson ; Rolf Georg Beutel ; Richard Benton." Jena : Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060044374/34.
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