Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Grateful'

This study deals with the perspective of Indonesian parents of children with disabilities concerning the inclusion of their children in mainstream schools. It explores the extent to which these parents believe in inclusion and what they identify as challenges and opportunities in the current inclusion of their children. Employing a case study approach, the main data for this qualitative study was collected through interview with seven parents of elementary school children with various disabilities in two cities in Indonesia, namely Jakarta and Yogyakarta.From their personal narratives, we learn that despite cultural differences, parents in Indonesia shared common opinions—with regard to various aspects of inclusion—with parents who lived in other parts of the world shown by previous studies. They, for instance, believed that the practices of inclusion cast positive impacts upon children's social and academic development. Parents also believe that inclusion is a better way to prepare children for the “real” world. However, cultural differences yielded different perspectives. Unlike previous studies, the Indonesian parents put greater emphasis on academic achievement instead of social ones. Parents in Indonesia also demonstrate distinct ways in facilitating and supporting their children inclusion. These subjective perspectives of parents can perhaps be interpreted as a cultural production of inclusion.
Cette étude porte sur le point de vue des parents indonésiens d'enfants présentant un handicap au sujet de l'inclusion de leurs enfants dans des écoles ordinaires. Particulièrement, elle explore dans quelle mesure ces parents croient en ce concept et ce qu'ils identifient comme des défis et des opportunités dans l'inclusion actuelle de leurs enfants. Utilisant une approche de type étude de cas, les principales données de cette étude qualitative ont été recueillies par des entrevues dans des écoles primaires. Sept parents d' élèves ayant divers handicapés provenant de deux villes indonésiennes (e.g. Jakarta et Yogyakarta) ont participé.Nous apprenons dans leurs récits personnels que les parents en Indonésie partagent des opinions communes en ce qui concerne divers aspects de l'inclusion avec des parents provenant d'autres parties du monde, tel que montré dans des études précédentes. Par exemple, ils croient que les pratiques de l'inclusion produisent des effets positifs sur le développement social et scolaire de leurs enfants. Les parents estiment également que l'inclusion est de meilleure façon de préparer leurs enfants pour le monde «réel». Toutefois, certaines différences culturelles ont donné des perspectives dissemblables. Contrairement aux études antérieures, les parents indonésiens mettent davantage l'accent sur la réussite scolaire plutôt que sur la réussite sociale. Les participants ont aussi démontré une façon distincte pour faciliter et soutenir l'inclusion de leurs enfants. Les perspectives subjectives des parents peuvent être interprétées comme une production culturelle de l'inclusion.

Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
L. Frank Weyher
Deadheads (fans of the Grateful Dead) created a durable culture that has lasted for over 50 years despite the death of several band members and the break-up of the band in 1995. What mechanisms account for the rise and persistence of this culture? This empirical question informs a theoretical question: what mechanisms are responsible for social cohesion? Social cohesion has been widely studied in sociology, but because these studies range from sovereign states to interpersonal interaction, the field lacks definitional consensus for the term. Instead of focusing on definitions, therefore, this study instead seeks to contribute to the understanding of underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the development and maintenance of social cohesion. This study employs a mixture of qualitative methods: I conducted seven years of face-to-face and online participant observation, conducted 22 semi-structured, informal face-to-face interviews with 39 interviewees, and collected 86 online, long-form surveys (combined n=125). This study uses both inductive and deductive approaches to analyze material gathered from a mixture of qualitative methods: ethnography, open and closed coding of interviews and surveys, and triangulation to the body of historical work on the Grateful Dead. The mechanisms that emerged from this study suggest that processes related to ritual, religion, and identity, all operating through emotion, are central mechanisms in the longtime cohesion evidenced in the deadhead community. Fan behavior at Grateful Dead shows is reminiscent of Durkheim’s description of tribal behavior in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, and my research shows that fans create collective effervescence, sacred objects, and feel that they are part of something larger than themselves. Randall Collins builds on Durkheim in his theory of Interaction Ritual Chains, which informs the ways in which deadheads, through engaging collectively in intense rituals, create a long-term sense of community. Finally, I explore the structural symbolic interactionist school of identity theory with Stryker, McCall and Simmons, and Burke. When combined, these theories describe influences on deadhead group composition, explore the complex interaction between the individual and the group, and emphasize the role that emotion plays in that identity-work. Using an inductive approach and Hedström and Swedberg’s (1996) typology of mechanisms, I arrive at a number of mechanisms at work in deadhead cohesion: (1) situational (macro-level) mechanisms include internal and external constraint; (2) individual action (micro-level) mechanisms include self-transcendence, self-reinforcement, and self-talk; and (3) transformational (micro-level to macro-level) mechanisms include group maintenance and disruption. Future work should test these mechanisms using a group that shares characteristics with deadhead culture (such as transience, emergence, boundedness, motivation, and with little official structure) such as the grassroots political movement that emerged after the November 2017 national election, as well as hate groups that have existed for years but have recently become more active. Looking forward, more work is needed on meaning-making and the role of emotions in social cohesion. This work has implications for several sociological disciplines, such as group behavior, social movements, and culture, as well as social cohesion, religion, ritual, and identity theory.

Mass Media and Communication
Ph.D.
This dissertation uses mass communication research about framing and positioning to explore media framing as brand positioning and analyze coverage that links the band Phish to the Grateful Dead. Based on content analysis, textual analysis, and interviews, this dissertation explores the framing of Phish--formed in Vermont in 1983 and often compared or connected to the Grateful Dead, a band formed in California in 1965-- in a popular mainstream music magazine and beyond, placing particular interest in how this framing intersects with positioning the band vis-à-vis the Grateful Dead. By exploring framing of a commercially-oriented subject that media coverage regularly constructs in terms of or in relation to another more recognizable subject, this project aims to contribute to mass communication theory and our understanding of media in society. Through comprehension of media about Phish and Phish/Grateful Dead connections, this dissertation studies how, why, and with what result stories are told through such associative coverage. After reviewing previous works regarding Phish, positioning, and framing, media content is closely examined and discussed. A case study of Phish coverage employed a three-pronged multi-method approach focusing on content (Part A) and context (Part B). Part A1 is a content analysis of all Phish album reviews from Rolling Stone. This included 12 album reviews spanning from 1995-2009 and written by eight authors. Findings showed that the majority of reviews connected Phish to the Grateful Dead, that the connections were constructed through various link forms, and that Phish were connected most to the Grateful Dead. Part A2 is a textual analysis of all Rolling Stone coverage of Phish. This included coverage from 1992-2010 and 305 items such as magazine covers, articles, and letters to the editor. Findings identified five frames and four subframes used to portray Phish. Part B is a series of interviews involving a primary group of 19 individuals who have significantly written, edited, and/or published content about Phish; and a secondary group of five individuals who added valuable context for understanding the issues. Findings included discussion of media conventions in general (journalistic) and specific (Phish) terms, and interpretation of the Phish/Grateful Dead link as a powerful, oversimplified reference point. About Phish, the project found they are an entity that innately defies standard molds and thus makes for an extraordinary and fruitful case study. Their naturally complex nature and paradoxical success makes them a potentially perplexing challenge for people in media to understand and address. Media often use the Grateful Dead motif in Phish coverage as a potent method of information assimilation to reconceive simply Phish's unusual combination of characteristics via something more familiar and accessible. In terms of the literature, the collection of media content illustrates framing of the band via socially shared and persistent organizing principles that symbolically structure Phish's character (Reese, 2003). The collection of content also illustrates positioning of Phish through portrayals that are often oversimplified and relate new information to familiar knowledge. The combination of literature on framing and positioning offers a productive explanation of media coverage about Phish, since both processes overlap in their tendency to oversimplistically relate X to Y. Thus, this dissertation's findings suggest a new way of thinking about cumulative media framing's ability to result in and serve as brand positioning, which may happen out of a brand's design.
Temple University--Theses

The characters of Forlorn Days have been beaten down, be it personally or professionally. These stories are meant to present these characters as they struggle in their own indecisions and adversities. Some are more successful than others, while some come to the realization that it is nearly impossible to escape their flaws. The worlds they occupy are filled with a sense of disillusionment, whether it be soul crushing jobs, fractured relationships, or a lack of communicating with those around them. The characters that populate these stories are looking for a connection of any kind to break out of the fates that await them. In this yearning to break out of their disillusionment, they find that it’s more difficult than they thought. Life continues to go around regardless of the decisions they have made.

Consistent with the contemporary positive psychology movement, dispositional gratitude has gained considerable empirical evidence as a valuable emotion in increasing an individual's subjective well-being; however, gratitude has not yet been validated as a contributing factor to sobriety in individuals in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. In the current study, participants were self-selected outpatients and staff members in recovery at a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center. The researcher assessed respondents' psychological symptoms, coping skills, dispositional gratitude, experience of relapse or abstinence, and demographic influences. Results indicated a significant negative correlation between gratitude and relapse, suggesting that a grateful disposition has emotional and psychological benefits for individuals in recovery from substance addiction. Additional findings revealed that the coping strategy of using alcohol or other drugs to feel better was statistically significant and made the strongest unique contribution to relapse; coping strategies including gratitude and religion/spirituality, although not statistically significant, each contributed less to the variance in relapse amongst participants. Finally, results suggest that education made the strongest unique contribution to relapse, which was statistically significant, while annual household income made less of a contribution and was not statistically significant. Research limitations, clinical implications, and future directions for the field are discussed.

This project explores how musical improvisational processes come into being through interacting discursive power relationships that are embodied and enacted through performance. By utilizing the concepts of framing and performativity I am able to show how discursive power constitutes the performance of improvisational music. To exemplify this theory, the project presents a case study examining a Grateful Dead cover band named Uncle John's Band that performs at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, FL. Using an ethnographic methodology, the project articulates the dominant discursive power relationships that constitute Uncle John's Band's improvisational performances. The dominant discursive power relationships revolve around the lived philosophies and performance style of the Grateful Dead as embodied and communicated through performance by the members of Uncle John's Band. Dominant discursive power relationships also form among audience members as well as the staff at Skipper's Smokehouse. All of these power relationships constitute the performance of improvisational music. In a reflexive turn, the project also offers a re-articulation of ethnography through the tenets of improvisation. Finally, the project presents conclusions concerning the nature of researching improvisational music performance and some future directions for this study.

The interpretation of this qualitative study indicates that individuals, teams and the organisation can benefit through allowing focus of unlocking that which provides a positive stimulus during challenging times in organisational settings. For social scientists, and in particular behavioural scientists, including industrial psychologists that are interested in positive psychology, it is hoped that there is an invitation to grow this area of research further and to gain new insights and direction for what are the enablers to experience positive change and gratitude.

Bakgrund: Hjärttransplantation har utförts sedan 1967 och det är idag främst patienter med svår hjärtsvikt som kan bli aktuella för hjärttransplantation. Efter en hjärttransplantation följer en livslång medicinering och patienterna behöver gå på regelbundna kontroller för att minska risken för avstötning av det nya hjärtat. Sjuksköterskans ansvar är exempelvis att ge patienterna och dess närstående information kring hjärttransplantationen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva patienters erfarenheter av att leva med ett transplanterat hjärta. Metod: En beskrivande innebördsanalys har använts för att analysera sju bloggar. Resultat: Resultatet visade att tiden efter hjärttransplantationen upplevdes besvärlig och patienterna satte upp nya relevanta mål med stöd av sjuksköterska, närstående och vänner för att kunna anpassa sig till de nya levnadsvillkoren och den livslånga medicineringen. I samband med hjärttransplantationen upplevde patienterna hur de fått ett nytt sätt att se på livet och tack vare tacksamheten över att få fortsätta leva valde vissa av patienterna att sprida kunskap om organdonation vidare. Konklusion: Hjärttransplantationen innebar en stor omställning för patienterna och de fick anpassa sig till de nya levnadsvillkoren. Känslor som oro, uppgivenhet och tacksamhet präglade deras vardag. Stöd av närstående, vänner och sjuksköterska uppskattades av patienterna för att återgå till en vardag utan ett ickefungerande hjärta.
Background: Heart transplants have been performed since 1967. Today it’s primarily patients with severe heart failure who are considered for the procedure. After the transplant a lifelong immunosuppressive medication for the patients follows, and they need regular check-ups to lower the risk of rejection of the heart. The nurse’s responsibility was for example to give the patients’ and their families’ information about the procedure. Aim: The aim was to describe patients’ experiences of living with a transplanted heart. Method: A descriptive content analysis was used to analyze seven blogs. Results: The first period following the transplant was experienced as difficult. The patients created new relevant goals with help of nurse, family and friends in order to adjust to the new life and lifelong medication. The patients’ experienced how they got a new perspective of life. Because of the gratitude of survival, the patients chose to spread knowledge about organ donation further. Conclusion: The heart transplant meant a big adjustment for the patients, to a new life. Feelings like anxiety, resignation and gratitude were now a part of their life. Support from family, friends and nurse was appreciated by the patients in order to get back to a life without a non-functioning heart.

L’étude du long poème épique de Lion de Bourges permet de mettre en évidence un parcours individuel modelé par la recherche d’un ordre politique et féodal, au sein duquel le héros tente d’inscrire son action, celle d’un ordre familial, au travers du lignage et de la parentèle, et celle d’un ordre personnel, à la fois recherche des origines et du père, qui devient une quête d’identité. L'idéal chevaleresque s’inscrit donc dans trois perspectives complémentaires. C’est d’abord face à l’instabilité des structures et du pouvoir royal, l’aspiration au rétablissement d’un ordre politique, mais l’inachèvement des actions entreprises et la constante réapparition du mal font que cette quête de l’ordre reste imparfaite. C’est ensuite l’effort pour la restauration d’un ordre familial mis à mal par les entreprises des traîtres et les aléas de l’aventure, mais là encore l’engagement et les efforts du héros ne permettent d’obtenir que des résultats imparfaits ou insatisfaisants. C’est donc à un niveau supérieur, dans la quête d’un ordre intérieur et dans un élan vers la perfection que l’itinéraire personnel de Lion de Bourges peut trouver son véritable sens. Cependant, son ultime tentative pour s’approcher du sacré ne conduit qu’à un échec : le contact avec le surnaturel chrétien est réservé au personnage du Blanc Chevalier, revenant secourable, et le héros doit se contenter d’une forme intermédiaire de merveilleux féerique. En définitive, ce poème témoigne, de manière originale et fort cohérente, de la vision pessimiste de l’idéal humain et de l’engagement héroïque, qui devient prédominante dans l’épopée française tardive
The long epic poem Lion de Bourges portrays the personal quest of a hero, first, to set in order a feudal political structure; then his own family structure (through ancestry and parentage); and finally, his personal life; for seeking his origins and father becomes a search for his own identity. The chivalric ideal therefore is seen through three complementary perspectives. Initially, when faced with the instability of social structures and royal power, Lion seeks to re-establish political order, but both Lion’s inability to complete his goals and the constant reappearance of evil cause this quest to remain incomplete. Afterwards, Lion’s effort to bring his family back together is derailed by traitors’ plots and the fortunes of adventure, so there again the hero’s efforts produce only imperfect or unsatisfactory results. It is thus only at the highest level, the quest for personal order, for spiritual perfection, that the private itinerary of Lion de Bourges might find its true goal. However, his last desire, to reach sanctity, leads to failure as well: contact with the Christian supernatural is reserved for the White Knight, a helpful spirit, and the hero must content himself with a lesser form of supernatural, the enchanted marvelous world. Clearly, this poem demonstrates, in an original and highly consistent way, the pessimistic view of the human ideal and of heroic engagement that predominates in late French epic

This Master Thesis is the research done in the country of Rwanda. The project leads to study the climate of this country in order to establish whether this climate could be used to produce energy from air and to implement the first wind turbine for serving the nation.   After an introduction about the historical background of wind power, the thesis work deals with assessment of wind energy potential of Rwanda in focusing of the most suitable place for wind power plants. The best location with annual mean wind speed, the rate of use of turbine with hub height for an annual production per year, the mean wind speeds for 6 sites of Rwanda based on ECMWF for climatic data for one year at relief of altitude of 100m and coordinates are reported too.   The result of energy produced and calculations were done based on power hitting wind turbine generator in order to calculate Kinetic energy and power available at the best location to the measurement over the period of 12 months, that could be hoped for long term.   With help of logarithmic law, where wind speed usually increases with increasing in elevation and the desired wind speeds at all 6 sites were used. The annual energy production was taken into account at the best site with desired wind speed at the initial cost of turbine as well as the cost of energy (COE).However, with comparison of the tariff of EWSA, the price of Wind designed in this Research per kWh is cheaper and suitable for people of Rwanda.

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Theorists conceptualize gratitude as incorporating either an interpersonal perspective in which an individual feels or gives thanks to another person as the source of a provided benefit, or an impersonal perspective in which one’s feelings of gratitude are not necessarily directed to other human beings as the beneficial source, but rather feelings of gratitude are attributed to a nonhuman source (e.g., nature, fate, luck, God, the cosmos). This latter perspective maintains that not only do people feel gratitude for valued benefits provided by another person (i.e., interpersonal source), but people can also experience gratitude for valued benefits that do not emerge or originate from others (i.e., impersonal source). Theorists also posit that over time, people can take any particular benefit for granted (i.e., habituate), failing to experience feelings of gratitude because they presume that the availability of a benefit/source is stable and certain, and unlikely to be lost. By comparison, evidence suggests that perceiving uncertainty or the potential loss of a benefit/source inspires a greater sense of gratitude. Reflecting on the pragmatic uncertainty of finite benefits/resources that are frequently taken for granted should lead to enhanced feelings of gratefulness.

Although the majority of empirical work examining feelings and functions of gratitude is structured around an interpersonal source perspective in which people receive one-time benefits, investigations focused on gratitude for impersonal sources of benefits remain scant and understudied. The present research follows from McCullough’s (2001) and Watkins’ (2014) call to increase empirical research examining gratitude in contexts in which the source does not involve a human benefactor. The current work including a pilot test and four studies (N = 1459) offers such an examination. The findings from this initial set of studies demonstrated some evidence that those with pro-environmental attitudes exhibited increased gratitude for water when provided with specific information about water’s value (vs an unrelated topic) (Study 1). I also found that people with more pro-environmental attitudes value water more when water is presented as a relatively more uncertain resource (Study 2). The effect of certainty on gratitude was replicated in Study 3, showing that those in a low certainty condition were more grateful for water than those in a high certainty condition. Moreover, gratitude for water predicted the intent to perform water conservation behaviors and interest in water conservation volunteering (Study 3). I also found some evidence that habituation mediated the effect between the perceived certainty of a benefit and lower gratitude, suggesting that people experience less gratitude for benefits they take for granted, in part, because they think less about them (Study 4). However, this affect only appeared consistently among more liberal, pro-environmental people. The current research contributes to and expands gratitude theory and research by providing some initial evidence that feelings of gratitude can serve broader adaptive purposes than is currently theorized. Thus, gratitude not only helps people identify and bond with social benefactors, but it also may serve as a generalized psychological system that prompts people to recognize and positively respond to most any form of benefit/source.

碩士
國立屏東教育大學
教育心理與輔導學系碩士班
94
The study examined whether the experimental intervention in invoking grateful experiences or goal setting promotes participants’ well-being. The participants were 337 senior high school and vocational school students. Grateful experience was found to promote participants’ positive emotions and reduce their negative emotions. Goal setting was also found to tend to increase participant’s positive emotions, although its effect on negative emotions was not significant. In addition, grateful disposition was found to be positively related to positive emotions even after controlling for the effects of other traits. Similarly, agreeableness was also uniquely related to positive-emotion. Both experimental and correlational method shows that grateful experience could be beneficial to an individual’s well-being.

碩士
樹德科技大學
兒童與家庭服務系
99
This study focused on grateful disposition and its correlation with personal resource of elementary school students. This study adopts questionnaire collected from grade five and grade six of elementary school students totally 398 students. Research tools were: “Basic Information Table”, “Grateful Scale”, “Life Satisfaction Scale”, “Physical Distress Characteristic Table”, and “Pro-social Organizational Behavior Scale”. This research adopted questionnaires, collected elementary school students’ background variables, grateful, psychological resources, body resources, and sociological resources related empirical data. By statistical analyzing of collected data, following outcomes were obtained: 1. The gratefulness of elementary school students is a single factor structure. 2. There exist significant differences of gratefulness among different background of elementary school students. 3. Gratefulness significantly affected personal resources. Based on research outcomes, researchers proposed following suggestions: 1. Suggestions for school institute Urge students to join community activities in order to receive more emotional support and social support. Help students to taste gratefulness experience in life, taking positive manner, keeping hope with future. 2. Suggestions for elementary school teachers This study found that gratefulness affected psychological resource the most. Teachers of elementary school may try to raise gratefulness of students through practice grateful behavior by grateful passport, recall grateful experiences by grateful list, or repay benefactor by repay visiting. 3. Suggestions for future studies 1) Improve sample source This research merely studied grade five and grade six elementary school students. Therefore, in order to expand research outcomes inference, it is advised to include elementary school students of other areas so as to conduct cross-sample analysis. 2) Refining in research design This study adopts questionnaire method, answerer may have been affected by uncontrollable answering situation thus misunderstood questions or fail to project into built situations and interfering factors. It is suggested to adopt qualitative research to supplement the short comings of quantitative research for further study. Keywords: grateful, personal resource, body resource, physical resource, social resource

碩士
國立新竹教育大學
人資處輔導教學碩士班
94
Abstract The purpose of the study was to exam the effects of different grateful programs, including experimental groups of “grateful thinking,” “act of altruism or kindness,” “gratitude visit” on promoting the senses of well-being, contrast with diary-control group. A pretest-posttest none-quivalent-group design was applied to this study. Four classes of 5th grade students recruited from an elementary school were randomly assigned to three experimental groups and one control group. Participants in the experimental groups received the 8-week grateful treatments with a 40-minute session per week. The subjects in the control group did not receive any treatment, yet were asked to write a diary per week instead. The instrument of “The children’s sense of well-being scale” was mainly used to assess subjects’ senses of well-being, which composed of “self acceptance,” “positive affect,” “interpersonal relationship,” and “life satisfaction” dimensions. In this study, the researcher also used the approaches of “weekly grateful form”, “student feedback questionnaire”, “parents’ feedback questionnaire” and “teachers’ feedback form” to certify the differential effects of grateful programs. The findings of this study were presented as the following: First, the “gratitude visit” program had immediate effects on promoting all four dimensions of subjects’ senses of well-being, the “act of altruism or kindness” program had immediate effects on promoting subjects’ senses of “self acceptance” and “interpersonal relationship” dimensions, yet the “grateful thinking” program and the “control group” did not have any significant effects on promoting subjects’ senses of well-being. Second, the “gratitude visit” program could significantly promote more “positive affect” and “life satisfaction” than the “grateful thinking” program did. Third, the “gratitude visit” program had retaining effects on all four dimensions of subjects’ promoted senses of well-being. The “grateful thinking” yet generated neglect effect on subjects’ “positive affect”. On the other hand, the “act of altruism or kindness” program and the “control group” did not have any significant effects on retaining subjects’ senses of well-being. Forth, the “gratitude visit” program had sustainable effects on retaining “positive affect” compared with the other programs. Finally, the results of feedback questionnaires showed that subjects in the ”gratitude visit” program felt the most improvements in “grateful attitude,” “altruistic behaviors,” and “interpersonal relationship”, yet parents in the “act of altruism or kindness” program felt the most improvements of their children in “grateful attitude,” “altruistic behaviors,” and “interpersonal relationship”.

碩士
中華大學
科技管理學系
104
This study was aimed to discuss the results of implementing the character education with curriculum materials designed with Merit Times. According to the questions proposed based on background and motivation of the study, the purposes of this study were as the following. First, to discuss the curriculum designed with Merit Times to plan the character education; Second, to discuss the process of implementing the character education with Merit Times; Third, to explore the performance of implementing the character education with Merit Times; Finally, to discuss personal reflection and growth in the process of this study. This study utilized the method of action research, and there are 27 students in 7th grade to be observed. Through the teaching observation and the performance of class management, this study decided to take three core values of character – responsible, caring, and grateful – as the basis for curriculum design. In addition, the curriculum conducted via reading class, self-study courses, and morning reading time. Through the guidance from teachers, students cooperated and learned with heterogeneous grouping, and students' learning interest was enhanced with diversified methods such as: role-playing, appreciation, role model for learning, moral dilemmas, and game competitions. Moreover, this study conducted the analysis by teaching record, research diary, records of students’ anecdotes, interviews, document gathering and behavior checklists of character, pretest and posttest of the behavior checklist. As a result, the conclusion of implementing character education was as the following: 1.This study classified the contents of Merit Times as "responsible, caring, and grateful" to design the teaching curriculum fitted with the theme, which guided students’ cognitive and practical behavior efficiently. 2.The mass of newspaper clippings and the lack of skills for question-and-answer led to insufficient teaching time. After discussion with critical friends, this problem was solved by reflection and adjustment. 3.After the implementation of twenty lessons, students’ cognition about "responsible, caring, grateful" was improved significantly. In terms of practical behavior, more positive performances were presented. Besides, the function of family education was highlighted by parent-child reading activities, and the feedback received from parents increased the frequency of positive behavior for children. 4.During the curriculum, the positive class atmosphere was brought out more greatly with parent-teacher communication and teacher-student interaction. Furthermore, the relationship between parent-teacher and parent-child was more harmonious. Similarly, during the process of design and discuss, the communication with peer were increased, from which we gained personal development on professional field of teaching and research by sharing experience and knowledge.

For a short period during the 1960s Toronto’s Yorkville district was found at the centre of Canada’s youthful bohemian scene. Students, artists, hippies, greasers, bikers, and “weekenders” congregated in and around the district, enjoying the live music and theatre in its many coffee houses, its low-rent housing in overcrowded Victorian walk-ups, and its perceived saturation with anti-establishmentarian energy. For a period of roughly ten years, Yorkville served as a crossroads for Torontonian (and even English Canadian) youth, as a venue for experimentation with alternative lifestyles and beliefs, and an apparent refuge from the dominant culture and the stifling expectations it had placed upon them. Indeed, by 1964 every young Torontonian (and many young Canadians) likely knew that social rebellion and Yorkville went together as fingers interlaced. Making the Scene unpacks the complicated history of this fraught community, examining the various meanings represented by this alternative scene in an anxious 1960s. Throughout, this dissertation emphasizes the relationship between power, authenticity and identity on the figurative stage for identity performance that was Yorkville.
Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2007-10-02 09:46:00.077

This thesis demonstrates how two early nineteenth century British novels, William Earle’s Obi, or The History of Three-Fingered Jack (1800) and the anonymously-written The Woman of Colour; A Tale (1808), feature prominent women of colour that move beyond the silenced, enslaved, minor representations of black and mixed race women made popular in previously published texts throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The progression of Amri and Olivia’s positions through the use of literary strategies, such as Homi K. Bhabha’s mimicry, Paul Gilroy’s double consciousness, and gender-reversals reveal the inherent ambivalence of the women’s positions in each narrative and the importance of these representations against the hegemonic female position. Although I argue that neither author succeeds in overturning traditional limitations of representing women of colour in literature of the period, investigating these texts is crucial to understanding the autonomous, influential women of colour in later nineteenth century literary works.

This Master Thesis is the research done in the country of Rwanda. The project leads to study the climate of this country in order to establish whether this climate could be used to produce energy from air and to implement the first wind turbine for serving the nation.   After an introduction about the historical background of wind power, the thesis work deals with assessment of wind energy potential of Rwanda in focusing of the most suitable place for wind power plants. The best location with annual mean wind speed, the rate of use of turbine with hub height for an annual production per year, the mean wind speeds for 6 sites of Rwanda based on ECMWF for climatic data for one year at relief of altitude of 100m and coordinates are reported too.   The result of energy produced and calculations were done based on power hitting wind turbine generator in order to calculate Kinetic energy and power available at the best location to the measurement over the period of 12 months, that could be hoped for long term.   With help of logarithmic law, where wind speed usually increases with increasing in elevation and the desired wind speeds at all 6 sites were used. The annual energy production was taken into account at the best site with desired wind speed at the initial cost of turbine as well as the cost of energy (COE).However, with comparison of the tariff of EWSA, the price of Wind designed in this Research per kWh is cheaper and suitable for people of Rwanda.

Rwanda has considerable opportunities development energy from hydro sources, methane gas, solar and peat deposits. Most of these energy sources have not been fully exploited, such as solar, wind and geothermal. As such wood is still being the major source of energy for 94 per cent of the population and imported petroleum products consume more than 40 per cent of foreign exchange. Energy is a key component of the Rwandan economy. It is thus recognized that the current inadequate and expensive energy supply constitutes a limiting factor to sustainable development. Rwanda’s Vision 2020 emphasizes the need for economic growth, private investment and economic transformation supported by a reliable and affordable energy supply as a key factor for the development process. To achieve this transformation, the country will need to increase energy production and diversify into alternative energy sources. Rwandan nations don’t have small-scale solar, wind, and geothermal devices in operation providing energy to urban and rural areas. These types of energy production are especially useful in remote locations because of the excessive cost of transporting electricity from large-scale power plants. The application of renewable energy technology has the potential to alleviate many of the problems that face the people of Rwanda every day, especially if done so in a sustainable manner that prioritizes human rights.