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O'Keefe, Roger. "Law, war and 'the cultural heritage of all mankind'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270870.
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Kravchenko, I. O. "Human trafficking is one of the modern problems of mankind." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67146.
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The problem of human trafficking was mentioned for the first time at
the beginning of the 20th century. It is known that this type of trafficking
takes the third place after arms and drugs trafficking. Millions of people
around the world become victims every year. Men, women as well as
children can become victims of human traffic. This type of slavery can
manifest itself in various forms: forced labor, forced begging, sexual
exploitation. According to the data of the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) more than 230 thousand of Ukrainians became the
victims of human trafficking during the period from 1991 to 2016.
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Holmstedt, Matthias, and Tatiana Golubnic. "The greatest Illusion of mankind : A critical review of the financialsystem." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6591.
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<p><em><p>“Money is controlled by a market; I trust the government has control. I do not think you are right, of course the government has the control and they would not do like this, it cannot be true that my savings is not real, I work hard for them! But just stop it I just do not want to make these kinds of questions to myself; I just need a house, go traveling and have some fun, I do not want to go around and worrying”.(Anonym comment)</p><p>This comment by a person with university degree in business and middle manager at one of the larger Swedish companies, when discussing the thesis you are about to read, without the person having reading it in advance, actually seems representative for the overall knowledge about what is really going on in the financial system today and the willingness of people question it. The knowledge you will obtain and the result you will experience after finished your reading is challenges of basic “taken for granted assumptions” of businessmen, academics or people in general within the society today, for the purpose of understanding the system and its role in society. You will experience a unique critical presentation of the financial system today, and also discover that this knowledge about the financial system is not a knowledge the majority should possess, even one of the important principles of the system might be just that the majority do not possess this knowledge.</p><p>The financial system, when the time of writing, suffer from large global problems. This thesis is examining the foundation of the system, such as the concept of money, and the forces and principles within the system. The research goes from how the system has developed historically to how it is constructed and maneuvered today. Money is described as trading tools which value is only an illusion of value for persons in the society. The financial system is further broken down into three different subsystems in order to understand the term financial system. From the perspective of the three subsystems the financial system is described as a deceiving system fooling the participants that they possess value in forms of bank notes and coins. Further the thesis shifts the focus to how the system looks today by categorizing actors and tools in the system, how state authorities is trying to maneuver the system and create a network model of the Swedish financial system, the conclusion became that no one can escape the system and do not have a chance not to enter the system, the chapter also reveals how no one really has the power to control and influence the system. Finally the thesis provides foundations for the reader to make his own opinion if the gambling within the system has been taken to long, if the financial system could be labeled as a pyramid scheme, if the system has provided more benefits than drawbacks to society and finally some speculation in consequences if the system would crash and speculation of how historians in the future would describe the present version of the financial system. But before starting reading, think about the message from the director Alan Alda:</p><em><p>“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in”</p><p>(Citation: Alan Alda, Quoteland, n.d)</p></em></em></p>
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Dietrich, George B. "Extending the principle of the common heritage of mankind to outer space." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29561.
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The purpose of the thesis is to explore to what extent, if any, has the principle of the common heritage of mankind been implemented in the practice of states and in what areas. With that objective in mind, various fields of international law are critically canvassed, including the Antarctic Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty and the U.N. Convention on the law of the Sea, plus such international organizations as the European Space Agency and INMARSAT, all with the view to finding the best model for the application of the principle of the Common Heritage of Mankind to Outer Space. The thesis recommends the establishment of a special outer space organization as the best way to satisfy the needs of the developing countries and their expectations.
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Connor, A. "The spiritual brotherhood of mankind : religion in the novels of Hall Caine." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3009465/.
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Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine was a best-selling novelist active between 1885 and 1923. His novels were noted for their melodramatic plots, often involving love triangles, with affairs, adultery, extra-marital sex and infanticide. Several of his books sold more than a million copies, and most were adapted for the stage and screen, often by Caine himself, who was also a prolific dramatist. In addition, Caine worked as a journalist and enjoyed a brief political career. Despite his massive commercial success the novels are little read nowadays. Contemporary literary critics dismissed his plots as overly sensational and formulaic and there has been little subsequent in-depth commentary on his novels. However, Caine should not be disregarded as a purely commercial writer of limited ability. He was a deeply religious man with extensive scriptural knowledge, who frequently drew inspiration for his novels from the Bible and viewed fiction as a vehicle for moral and religious instruction. He also used the novels to express his personal beliefs and to engage in specific religious debates. Caine had family connections to the Isle of Man where he eventually settled permanently, and a highly significant archive of largely unexplored material is held at the Manx Museum. Investigation of this resource has enabled a detailed critical appraisal of Caine’s approach to religion in his novels. Each chapter of this thesis considers Caine’s relationship to either a Christian denomination or major religion. The first chapter examines Nonconformity as a powerful formative influence on Caine’s religiosity and on his view of fiction. In the second and third chapters, which deal with the Anglican Church and Roman Catholicism respectively, Caine confronts several religious issues of great interest to his contemporaries and with some relevance again in the twenty-first century. The final two chapters consider Caine’s belief in the fundamental unity of all religions by examining his relationship with the Jewish and Islamic faiths. Taken as a whole, this thesis reclaims Caine for a new readership and reminds us of the powerful role popular novels and drama once had in religious debate, and arguably still have. Caine is not always a likeable figure, certainly not a straightforward one, but he is a striking character and, as such, deserves the consideration offered throughout this work.
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Penney, Jordan. "'The quiet of mankind' : authority, spirit, and enthusiasm in England, 1660-1714." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1166/.
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'Enthusiasm' was a term widely used in early modern England as a pejorative to designate individuals who believed themselves to have direct communication with God. For historians the term has typically been examined as currency in polemical clashes. But this study will approach the subject from a much wider angle by investigating the tensions, in religion and politics, that the controversy over enthusiasm actually signified. It will do so by applying a framework consisting of three parts - authority, spirit, enthusiasm - and suggest that, between 1660 and 1714, one part cannot be understood without reference to the other two. As a study of ideas traced in printed literature and manuscripts, it will proceed by elucidating the various conceptions of piety that were carefully devised to meet two purposes. One, satisfying the basic obligations of Christianity, which entailed some measure of personal engagement with the holy spirit without seeming to be enthusiastic; and two, satisfying the obligations of political and ecclesiastical authority. Whereas the Anglican 'testimony of spirit' attested to the imperceptible influence of the holy spirit on one's virtue and tranquillity of mind, more radical Protestants felt it sensibly on the body, or clearly upon the emotions or thoughts, where it might even dictate divine orders, literally and directly. This study will consequently demonstrate the complexities of inward piety and the role it played in arguments for and against English institutions, how these points are related, and how attitudes to each of these varied along political and religious lines. Additionally it will illustrate their relevance for understanding contemporary attitudes to ecclesiology, conscience, spiritual substance, rational religion, the self, the will, resistance, prophecy, millenarianism, and tradition.
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Gardner, David B. "Filled with the fullness of God a choral concert expressing God's design for mankind /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Baslar, Kemal. "The concept of the commom heritage of mankind : a challenge for inter-national law." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294522.
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Nelson, Jeffrey O. "A map of mankind : Edmund Burke's image of America in an enlightened Atlantic context." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30566.
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This thesis re-evaluates Edmund Burke’s (1730-1797) image of America by focusing on the place of colonial America in his early thought and pre-parliamentary writings. In so doing, it considers Burke’s relationship to the humanist tradition, offers an appraisal of Burke’s historicism, and seeks to describe the nature of his place within the Age of Enlightenment. Burke’s interest in the British North American colonies emerged well before his rise to prominence as a Member of Parliament in the mid-1760s. Behind Burke’s later partisan speeches was a capacious understanding of America as a European frontier with a colonial experience that also included the Spanish and the French, native inhabitants and imported slaves. His early writings are an important example of the manner in which eighteenth-century thinkers perceived that in heretofore unknown peoples and civilisations there existed an opportunity for historic comparison, as well as for working out the complex implications of particularity and universality. They suggest a way in which “the reception of America”, according to David Armitage, by figures like Burke can help us to see “what uses America had within earlier intellectual projects and to what extent America shaped their distinctive features”. This thesis is foremost an attempt to explore the ways in which America provided the young Burke with material that enlarged his mental horizons and fashioned his distinctive historical and political thought. Finally, the thesis seeks to make scholarly contributions to studies on the place of America in the European consciousness and to the concept of Atlantic History.
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Carlsson, Rasmus. "Teaching Climate change : Reading the Symbiosis Between Mankind and Nature in Ballard’s The Drowned World." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-72080.
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The purpose of this essay is to examine J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World to investigate how the relationship between humans and nature affects humanity, and whether humanity is indestructible. By performing an eco-critical reading of The Drowned World, the protagonist’s actions and choices on his journey are examined, as well as how they affect his partner, comrades and nature. In this process, the result was that a complete lack of conscious humanity is impossible as the basic human instincts linger. Furthermore, this essay provides didactical approaches to teaching this novel in an upper-secondary school classroom as well as insight into the many aspects of the novel, which are comparable to modern day society on terms of politics, globalism and environmentalism.
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Augstein, Franziska A. "James C. Prichard's views of mankind : an anthropologist between the Enlightenment and the Victorian age." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317637/.
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The Bristol doctor James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) is acknowledged as Britain's foremost student of anthropology and ethnology in the early nineteenth century. At a time when European scholars increasingly embraced racial theories to account for cultural diversities, Prichard was a stout defender of monogenism. Being was brought up as a Quaker, he later converted to Anglicanism, embracing the Evangelical wing of the church. He regarded the unity of mankind as a necessary precondition in the struggle to uphold Christian morality under threat of materialism and Utilitarianism. Oddly, his theories have often been misrepresented, in particular their opposition to contemporary racial theorizing has been underestimated. My dissertation, the first study dedicated exclusively to Prichard, explores his notions of man's place in nature and puts them in the context of contemporary European learning. This comprises an investigation into his theories of insanity as well as his ethnological writings laid down in his Researches into the Physical History of Mankind and other works. In order to support monogenism Prichard became a self-taught expert in philology and mythology, adding the latest results of continental scholarship to the knowledge acquired at Edinburgh University. He studied German comparative philology years before the method spread in Britain, availing himself of methods deemed by many as theologically dangerous. Yet, synthesizing German Romantic theories with Edinburgh learning, Prichard's anthropology remained within the framework of Christian piety, culminating in the assertion that mankind was a unity due to its common "psychology" which Prichard inferred from his observation that all human tribes believed in a life after death. The concept of the atonement, so important for early nineteenth-century Evangelicals, came to stand at the core of Prichard's anthropology. But his conflation of science and theology appeared increasingly unacceptable. By delineating the debates Prichard was engaged in, the thesis adds to the understanding of the development from eighteenth-century thought to secularized mid-nineteenth-century theories of man.
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Kapossy, Bela Friedrich. "Virtue, sociability and the history of mankind : Iselin's contribution to the Swiss and European Enlightenment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619874.
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Krombach, Hayo B. E. D. "Hegelian reflections on the idea of nuclear war : dialectical thinking and the dialectic of mankind /." Basingstoke [GB] : Macmillan, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb354916324.
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Stockton, Hannah Melissa. "'Flows for all mankind' : everyday life, the city and empire on the London Thames, 1660-1830." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/33940.
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This thesis takes a material culture approach to exploring how the Thames was experienced from 1660 to 1830. It conceives of the river as a material object, constantly shaped by its designers, makers and users. The river was an essential part of the day-to-say lives of Londoners and visitors and framing the river as a kind of object allows an exploration of the material-human interactions on a number of different levels, from transformative changes to the river's geography to more everyday contact at work, leisure and home. The thesis understands the river's changing relationship to key transformations in Britain's long eighteenth century as London became the metropolis of an expanding commercial and territorial empire. The first chapter addresses the redesigning of the river, tracing the building projects imposed by political and mercantile interest groups which transformed riverfront architecture with six new bridges and vast dock complexes and aimed to control how people experienced the river's relationship to the nation and its growing empire. The second chapter uses watermen's court records and criminal trials alongside material remnants of river work to show that watermen asserted an informal control over the river space which was increasingly eroded by the desire to secure imperial trade against theft. Chapter three explores the growing use of the river as leisure space, using diaries to identify quotidian leisure activities on the river. It highlights the increasing commercialisation of riverine leisure as boat trips and guidebooks proliferated. The final chapter uses objects depicting the Thames to show how the river filtered into everyday lives through consumption, often constructing a picturesque view for a polite audience. Like the other material engagements with the river, these objects constructed an experience of the eighteenth-century waterway which glorified commerce and obscured from everyday experience the realities of an imperial river.
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Allen, J. M. "The films of Asrul Sani from 1966 to 1983: a new art for a new mankind." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20354.
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Why an Indonesian poet and short story writer like Asrul Sani became a film writer and director, and how his work expressed himself and his society in changing times, were the first questions stimulating this research. He claimed that art could be an "engineer of the soul" in a modernising society. Educated in both the Dutch and nationalist Taman Siswa sytems, he travelled overseas to study Western drama and film, and to perform the haj. He wrote extensively on cultural issues and became a cultural bureaucrat. Though his output is diverse, there are some continuous strands in his thinking and methods. His film work invites analysis for its weaving of Muslim and Western strands into the Indonesianising of a technological art form, and as proof of the sincerity of cultural manifestos he declared at times of political strain. Research by others into Indonesian film has explored the history of government policies, narrative style and conventions of genre and characterisation. Examining four films as examples of four different genres, in the context of Sani's other work, allows discovery of the complex creativity of an exemplar who desired "a new art for a new mankind". Choosing a set period permits discovery of the context from which films can be interpreted. Some Third World film theories and postcolonial literary theory are used to test these discoveries. Sani's work examines the leadership role of intellectuals, artists and religious scholars and the place of the masses. It expresses Islamic doctrine and convictions and translates them into patterns of moral code and legitimisation of the socio-political environment. Sani seeks too to encourage dynamism and spiritual rearmament. Sometimes his images are complex and his techniques can be read at several levels. His personal vision often dims, his commitment to film as poetry and as "a thorny conscience" falters, but some sense of hope remains.
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Whisman, Derek K. "A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42655.
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The seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost is one of the most widely studied texts in all of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satanâ s fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the story involves the distinctive personification of Sin and Death. Milton depicts Sin as the daughter of Satan, with no mention of a mother, born through a process of spontaneous generation. Satan then becomes so captivated by his daughterâ s wickedness that he forces himself upon her, causing Sin to bear a son, Death. This illustration is striking, especially given that it also appears in the opening pages of the fourteenth-century Mirour de l'Omme (c. 1376) by John Gower. In both Milton and Gowerâ s poems, Satan, Sin, and Death are personified as having this familial, incestuous relationship which ultimately creates the worldâ s evils. Their depictions are not merely reminiscent of one another, but rather, often match up in nearly identical fashions. John S. P. Tatlock was the among the first to notice these similarities, but was also quick to express his hesitance to say with any sort of assurance that Milton had read Gower: â Since only one manuscript of the Mirour is known, and that was never published until seven years ago [1899], the chance is infinitesimal that Milton ever heard of the poem. But that his and Gowerâ s sources are ultimately the same seems to me highly probable.â Yet to date, no studies have been conducted to determine which shared sources could possibly lead Milton and Gower to construct such similar personifications of Sin and Death. Indeed, John Fisher notes that currently â the influence of the Mirour upon Paradise Lost remains an open question.â It is upon this open question that I now attempt to help fill this century-old void in literary research<br>Master of Arts
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Tanner-Kaplash, Sonja. "The common heritage of all mankind : a study of cultural policy and legislation pertinent to cultural objects." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4478.
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Government policy is subject to many influences, which may range from a philosophical position arising from changes in the value systems of a given society, to logistic considerations, such as available methods of implementation and the prevailing economic structure. The value system known as "the common heritage of all mankind" - the long-term global stewardship of natural and man-made resources - is explored in this thesis in the context of cultural policies, specifically those concerning cultural objects. Heritage, linked to the concept of inheritance as a legally protected future interest, is traced in its historical migration from the private sphere to the development of national public assets to an international awareness of global stewardship. Implementing legislation is a salient indicator of cultural policy; the cyclical relationship in which legal precepts internalized by a society from earlier laws become integral to the cycle of policy formulation and application is illustrated, featuring legislation from several States. While the thesis is cast within a particular philosophical framework, practical economic realities are among the most important logistic considerations for government policy development. Illicit activities have been recognized as a major threat to cultural objects in the modern world, in addition, these objects are frequently "luxury goods" for which historically, regulation and taxation have been the rule rather than the exception; the thesis argues for a practical, domestic and economic approach to the problem of protection. This implies control of cultural objects in some form, including the documentation of significant pieces. The thesis conclusions propose that both the responsibilities and associated costs could be defrayed and shared by governments and the private sector by means of a licensing program.
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Bowery, Roy W. "Jesus Christ, Savior for all mankind a study-guide for the Gospel of Luke, chapters 1-18 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Kurle, Robert F. "Jesus Christ, Savior for all mankind a New Life Group inductive Bible study guide for Luke, part two /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Nygren, Thomas. "History in the Service of Mankind : International Guidelines and History Education in Upper Secondary Schools in Sweden, 1927–2002." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43817.
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In this study the guidelines of the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe are investigated in relation to Swedish national curricula, teachers’ perceptions of and students’ work in history, from 1927 to 2002. Inspired by John I Goodlad’s notions of curricula and implementation, the formulation of history is studied. The ideological curricula are analyzed via the international guidelines directed to Swedish history teaching. The formal curricula are examined in national guidelines and also how history is formulated in final examinations and inspectors’ reports. The perceived curricula are studied in teachers’ debates and interviews with experienced teachers. The experiential curricula are examined through looking at students’ choices of topics in final exams, 1,680 titles of students’ individual projects in history and an in-depth analysis of 145 individual projects written between 1969 and 2002. The study shows that the means and goals of history education have been formulated in both different and similar ways within and between curricular levels. On all the curricular levels studied the history subject has become more internationally oriented. After World War II national history landed in the background and the world history, favored by UNESCO, became dominant in Sweden from the 1950s onwards. Despite the fact that the Council of Europe’s Euro-centrism became more prominent in the 1994 syllabus in history, students still preferred world history over European history. International and national guidelines also stressed the value of paying heed to marginalized groups, local cultural heritage and contemporary history. These orientations were also represented in the teachers’ views of history teaching and in the students’ work in history. The results of the study suggest that the implementation of the international guidelines were more than a top-down process. During the entire period studied, guidelines have been formulated and transacted, but also reinterpreted and in some cases, ignored. Teachers and students seem to have been co-creators in the transformation of history education. History as a subject, according to the study, encompassed an ever expanding geographical area and more and more perspectives. Not least on the student level, the subject was formulated and dealt with in manifold ways, often oriented towards contemporary world history. Students’ history had great similarities with the international notion of history education in the service of mankind. Students expressed a rejection of war, an understanding of minorities and a wish to safeguard the local cultural heritage. Even if there were exceptions, students’ history appears to have been influenced by international understanding during a century filled with conflicts.<br>History Beyond Borders: The International History Textbook Revision, 1919–2009
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Waterman, G. Scott. "The Common Cause of All Advanced and Progressive Mankind: Proletarian Internationalism, Spain, and the American Communist Press, 1936 - 1937." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/421.
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In July 1936, units of the Spanish military, backed by a collection of domestic right-wing elements and by fascist governments elsewhere in Europe, staged a rebellion against the legally constituted national government that had been elected five months previously. The governing bloc, an ideologically broad coalition of liberal republicans, Marxists, and anarchists known as the People's Front, embodied the strategy formulated by Stalin and the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow to stem the advance of international fascism and mitigate the danger it posed to the Soviet Union and, by extension, the communist movement and the global radical working class it represented. During the destructive and bloody civil war that ensued, the Comintern sponsored recruitment of anti-fascist volunteer fighters from around the world. Before the war ended, nearly 3,000 Americans had surreptitiously traveled to Spain to defend its republican government. This thesis addresses the question of how these volunteers came to develop an allegiance to their global political and social movement strong enough to motivate them to risk death in what they perceived to be its defense against fascism.
Drawing on the theoretical formulations of political scientists Benedict Anderson and David Malet, this thesis will demonstrate that over the course of a century, radical proletarian internationalism developed into a community of working-class revolutionaries, mostly within or allied to communist parties, whose shared ideological formulations and sociopolitical aspirations bound them together, irrespective of nationality. American members of that global community - whose numbers and influence had recently expanded in the context of the Great Depression and the People's Front strategy of liberal-left conciliation - had their perceptions and priorities about the Spanish crisis shaped by the American communist press. Examination and analysis of its coverage of the political, social, and military dimensions of the conflict there will demonstrate it to have been copious and persistent, imparting unmistakably to its readership the centrality of the Spanish people's struggle against fascism in the defense of the global working class, whose political and social survival was at stake. The thesis will argue, in the context of the contentious historiography of American communism, that although the messages conveyed to American proletarian internationalists via the communist press reflected policies and priorities determined in Moscow and designed to serve the interests of the Soviet state, American anti-fascists were for the most part well informed ideologues whose decisions reflected both the concerted influences of their movement's leadership as well as their own deep commitments to a more equitable world.
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Riehle, Ashley. "“The transition from Maritime Knights to Enemies of Mankind”: As seen in the stories of William Kidd and Stede Bonnet." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1310064266.
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Åkesson, Nilsson Gunilla. "Determination of chlorinated fatty acids using SPE, XSD and GC/MS with particular regard to cultured human cells /." Uppsala : Dept. of Environmental Assessment, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/a493.pdf.
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Young, Michael. "'For Allah created the English mad, the maddest of all mankind!' : the mental health of the British in Colonial India, 1900-1947." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2018. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34764/.
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The thesis investigates the theory that there were many physical and social factors inherent in the lives of the British in colonial India in the twentieth century which predisposed some of them to mental illness. It seeks to learn more about those individuals who became mentally distressed during their service to the Raj and the treatment they received. The study begins with an interrogation of the literature of the history of modern Western psychiatry and its relevance to colonial India between 1900 and 1947. With the use of contemporaneous text books and Indian professional medical journals it explores how psychiatry was implemented in the sub-continent. These considerations are followed by an exploration of the physical and social determinants of stress in such areas as climate and topography. It identifies the stressors associated with the artificial and archaic society of Britons in India, who are shown to be an ethnic minority determined to preserve their privileged position. The use of the cultural web, an investigative tool adapted from the study of organisational change, illustrates how the colonial rulers were incapable of changing their lifestyle as national and international developments began to impact on them as a community. Evidence is provided showing how the profession of psychiatric nursing was generally ignored by the colonial nursing establishment and often disparaged by doctors. Previously unseen medical case records from the European Mental Hospital at Ranchi in northern India give insight into the practice of psychiatrists and their attitudes to their patients. It identifies the rapidity with which methods of treatment newly developed in Europe were implemented at the hospital. The thesis concludes that there were many stressful factors in British life in colonial India which could lead to mental illness and identifies several topics suitable for further academic research. It also shows that the European Mental Hospital in India was in the forefront of international psychiatric practice in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Upton, Aisha A. "To Serve All Mankind: How Women in Graduate Chapters of a Black Greek Letter Organization Sorority Balance Work, Family, and Civic Engagement." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1343852183.
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Hunt-Logan, Cameron. "The influence of the "Book of Job" on the Middle English morality plays." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001794.
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Frank, Jan. "Dietary phenolic compounds and vitamin E bioavailability : model studies in rats and humans /." Uppsala : Dept. of Microbiology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/a446.pdf.
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Gomes, Alessandro Martins. "A relação entre Deus, terra e humanidade e suas implicações com a dignidade do ser humano." Faculdades EST, 2012. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=402.
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Uma análise da relação entre Deus, terra e homem e suas implicações com a
dignidade do ser humano. A primeira parte aborda o entendimento do objetivo e do
propósito da criação do homem, incluindo principalmente o domínio que Deus lhe
delega logo após sua criação, e como esse domínio foi perdido. Esses objetivos são
vistos a partir de três perspectivas: a relação entre Deus e terra, entre Deus e
homem e entre homem e terra. Aborda também a importância do entendimento das
particularidades da criação do homem, principalmente com relação à sua distinção
em relação aos outros seres criados: ser criado à imagem e semelhança de Deus. E,
também, as implicações da relação entre o homem e a terra e o que ambos
possuem em comum. Deus criou a terra para o homem, e este passou a habitá-la e
tirar dela seu sustento, e, mesmo tendo o homem caído e perdido o domínio, Deus
permaneceu imutável na sua promessa feita a Abraão. A segunda parte aborda as
leis criadas para reger o uso da terra pelo homem, visto que o homem necessita
viver em sociedade, tal observação se faz necessária. Para isso, analisam-se as leis
presentes na Torá, e, principalmente o sabá, como sábado e como ano sabático; e o
ano do jubileu. Esses preceitos de Deus mostram a importância da terra para o povo
de Israel e para Deus. Na terceira parte observar-se também a implicação dessa
relação tão abrangente na dignidade do ser humano, e como o livro de Rute nos dá
exemplos tão simples e profundos da superação de problemas tão complexos
vividos pelo povo naquela época. A posse de terra é um dos grandes, senão o
maior, dos problemas sociais vividos pela humanidade desde os tempos antigos, e
uma das áreas que tem sido mais disputada no mundo é a terra da Palestina no
Oriente Médio. Portanto, essa pesquisa é importante e necessária para se chegar ao
elo da relação entre Deus, terra e homem com a dignidade do ser humano.<br>An analysis of the relation between God, land and the mankind and their involvement
with the human beings dignity. The first part broaches the understanding of the aim
and the purpose of the creation of the human being, including mainly the power that
God delegate to the human being shortly afterwards their creation, and how this
power was lost. These aims are see starting from three views: the relation between
God and land and God and the mankind and between the mankind and the land. It
broaches too the importance of the understanding of the peculiarity of the mankind
creation, mainly regarding to your distinction with reference to the others being
created: Be created in image and likeness of God. And, also, the implications of the
relation between the mankind and the land and what both have in common. God
created the land to the mankind, and the mankind passed to live in it and to take of it
their maintenance, and in spite of the man has fallen and lost the power, God kept
unchanged in his promise done to Abraham. The second part broaches the laws,
made to govern the use of the land by the man witness that the man needs to live in
society, the remark becomes necessary. For this, we analyse the laws in Torah and
meanly the Sabbath, as Saturday and such sabbatical year, and the jubilee year.
These rulings of God show the importance of the land to the people of Israel and to
God. In the third part notice also, the implications of this relation so ample in the
human beings dignity, and as the book of Ruth gives us examples so simple and so
deep of overcome so complex problems. Lived by the people on that epoch.. The
possession of the land is one of the great, or the greatest social problems faced by
the mankind since the old times and one of the areas that have been more disputed
in the world is the Palestine land in the Middle East. Therefore, this research is
important and necessary to approach the link of the relation between God, land and
mankind with the human beings dignity.
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Lööf, Larsson Jacob. ""All Mankind is of One Author, and is One Volume" : An examination of commitment and abandonment in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-25919.
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This essay examines commitment and abandonment structured as two binary opposites informing For Whom the Bell Tolls. The intention behind this structuring is to highlight Hemingway’s message of the novel, set forth by the epigraph by Donne; everyone is part of mankind and every death diminishes everyone equally. The consistent structuring of characters can be seen by the fact that everyone who is committed, loyal and honest is punished while the reverse is true for people who abandon, desert and betray. The one exception to this is Pilar who, because of the role as a liberated woman given to her by Hemingway, is not included in this general categorization.
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Schulz, Markus. "'Die Vernichtung der Menschheit hat begonnen': Zivilisationskritik im Spätwerk von Günter Grass / The destruction of mankind has started : criticism of civilisation in Günter Grass' later work." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2005. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-02242005-142018/.
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In the 80s and 90s of the 20th century Günter Grass treated the various chances of a sudden extinction of mankind for instance the decline by overpopulation and nuclear destruction. So the study deals with five main aspects to show Grass' own criticism of civilisation. The thesis at hand shall be a contribution to describe the significance of these various topics concerning Grass' prose, essayistic works and statements during the last 25 years.
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Chardeaux, Marie-Alice. "Les choses communes /." Paris : L.G.D.J, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/515561878.pdf.
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Friholm, Robin, and Paulina Odeholm. "Människan och webben : Ett arbete om hur webben påverkar människan." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-10527.
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I detta arbete skriver vi om den semantiska webben och vad den har för effekt på människan. Vi börjar med att skriva vad den semantiska webben är för att sedan gå över till hur webben fram till idag påverkat människan för att kunna fastställa vad en semantisk webb kan göra föratt påverka oss. Vi skriver även om det mänskliga elementet, hur vi utvecklas tillsammansmed teknologin och hur vi har förändrats under processen. Vi skriver hur webben ändrarspråket, tänkandet och till och med hur den gör oss människor lata men även hur den hjälpeross i vår utveckling.<br>In this paper we write about the semantic web and what effect it has on mankind. We start off by writing what the semantic web is and what it has to offer us. We then write what thedevelopment of todays web has done to affect us to be able to secure a thought of what afuture semantic web might do to affect us. We also write about the human element togetherwith technology to see how we’ve evolved together. We write about how the web haveeffected our language, our thinking and how it’s making us lazier but also how it’s helping usin our development.
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Di, Brizio Maria Beatrice. "Contextualisation des usages théoriques et heuristiques de la notion de couvade : Edward Burnett Tylor et l'ethnologie évolutionniste des "Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization" 1865." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0661.
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Cette thèse étudie le traitement de la notion de couvade par l’ethnologue britannique Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), accordant une place centrale à la première édition de ses Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (1865). Le terme couvade renvoie à des représentations et pratiques liées à la naissance, lesquelles imposent au père de modifier ses activités, son alimentation et éventuellement de s’aliter. Mobilisant une vaste littérature ethnographique, Tylor repère ces usages en Amérique, Asie, Europe, Afrique. La première partie de cette thèse analyse la notion dans le cadre des Researches et précise les finalités de cet ouvrage, l’explication des conduites de couvade qui y est proposée, les sources de Tylor, ainsi que ses critères de sélection, classement et interprétation des données empiriques. La seconde partie aborde le contexte d’émergence du concept en Grande Bretagne, entre 1810 et 1865, et prend en compte la naissance de l’ethnologie comme science générale de l’homme et science des races, le débat sur le polygénisme et le monogénisme de l’espèce humaine, les théories sur l’origine de la civilisation. La troisième partie explore les usages, avant Tylor, des informations sur les comportements de couvade et du terme couvade (1538-1865). L’objectif de ce travail est d’éclairer le rôle du concept dans la construction de l’ethnologie évolutionniste, monogéniste et scientifique que Tylor entend promouvoir, d’élucider les continuités et les ruptures intellectuelles marquant l’adoption de cette catégorie dans les Researches, enfin de mettre au jour le traitement et l’interprétation des données empiriques évoquées par la notion<br>Focussing on the first edition of the Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (1865), this thesis analyses the treatment of the notion of couvade by the British ethnologist Edward Burnett Tyllor (1832-1917). The term covers a set of cultural representations and practices symbolically associating the father to the birthing process and modifying his ordinary activities and dietary habits. These usages, which may possibly involve confinement, are found by Tylor in america, Asia, Europe, Africa: their descriptions are culled from printed ethnographical sources. The first part of this thesis exalines the concept in the context of the researches: the general aims of the text are specified, as well as Tylor's explanation of the couvade practices, Tylor's sources and criteria for empirical data selection, classification, and interpretation. The second part deals with the British context of emergence of the notion, in the years 1810-1865: it takes into account the rise of ethnology as racial science and general science of man, the debates over monogenesis or polygenesis of the human species, the controversies on the origin of civilization. The third part elucidates pre-Tylorian usages of couvade descriptions and meanings of the word couvade (1538-1865). The general aim of this thesis is to understand the role played by the notion in the devlopment of Tylor's monogenist, evolutionary, and scientific ethnology, as well as to establish the intellectual continuities and disjunctions characterizing the concept's adoption in the Researches. Finally this work explores the heuristic usages and interpretive implications of the notion
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Lepiller, Ségolène. "Sortir de la caverne, entrer dans la grotte : étude épistémologique sur l’art paléolithique et la préhistoire, au carrefour des sciences naturelles et humaines." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEE044.
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L’entreprise philosophique est traditionnellement associée depuis Platon à la sortie de la caverne. Nous nous proposons ici d’adopter l’itinéraire inverse, en interrogeant philosophiquement les grottes et les éléments de mobilier ornés par les hommes qui ont vécu en Europe avant la fin de la dernière glaciation. Cet objet singulier invite d’abord à réfléchir sur la définition de la science préhistorique, qui ne peut être assimilée à l’étude de ce qui précède l’histoire, et sur l’unité de ce qui a été nommé « art paléolithique ». Cependant, au-delà de ces considérations conceptuelles, il convient de prendre acte du double défi dont a été porteuse la découverte de cet art au XIXème siècle. Elle a en effet permis de questionner, d’une part l’identité et l’origine de l’homme, et d’autre part l’unité de la discipline préhistorique, ainsi que sa place dans le champ des sciences. Concernant le premier point, si les interrogations autour de l’existence de l’homme fossile avaient progressivement permis, au fil du XIXème siècle, de le penser contemporain d’espèces animales disparues, la découverte de ses œuvres artistiques, initialement controversée, a fait apparaître ses aptitudes esthétiques, ses capacités spirituelles, et finalement sa pleine humanité. Pour ce qui est de la seconde question, l’art paléolithique a radicalisé et rendu tangible la situation instable des études préhistoriques, au carrefour de plusieurs sciences à la fois naturelles et humaines. L’analyse des discours et des pratiques des préhistoriens montre ainsi que ce terrain de recherche peut être considéré comme un laboratoire où se rencontrent différents modèles scientifiques. Cependant, la conception de l’homme et de la science véhiculée par la préhistoire s’est trouvée, dans les dernières décennies du XXème siècle, remise en question par de nouveaux paradigmes d’anthropologie naturalisée. À l’intersection des sciences naturelles et des sciences humaines, les études portant sur l’art paléolithique s’avèrent ainsi offrir un poste d’observation privilégié sur les rapports entre plusieurs manières de voir le monde, de comprendre l’homme, et de définir les principes de la science<br>Ever since Plato’s allegory the practice of philosophy has traditionally been linked to stepping out of a cavern. What this work aims at doing is to go in the very opposite direction, by examining with a philosophical approach the caves and ornamented artefacts which men ventured into and used in Europe before the end of the last ice age. This particular issue cannot be tackled without defining first what the sciences of prehistory consist in, as they can’t be confined to the study of what happened before the beginning of history. Another important issue to address is that of the unity of what has been labelled « Palaeolithic Art ». However, the double challenge laid down by the discovery of that form of art must be reckoned with, beyond all those conceptual considerations. Indeed, it has enabled researchers to ponder about man’s identity and origins on the one hand, and about what makes sciences of prehistory stand out from other scientific fields, and how they relate to those other sciences on the other hand. As regards the first question under scrutiny, the discovery of fossil men made it increasingly possible throughout the 19th century to consider that they lived at the same time as some now extinguished animal species, but the discovery of their artistic work raised initially a lot of controversy. However, it revealed then that those men had a sense of aesthetics, some spiritual abilities, and that they were, in a nutshell, fully-fledged human beings. As for the second issue, Palaeolithic Art has made the blurred status of research on prehistory both more blatant and more tangible, as such research intertwines various sciences, especially those of nature and Humanities. A deeper examination of the approaches and practices of researchers on prehistory shows that that field of studies can be considered as an experimental one, where different scientific model systems are driven to merge. Yet, the scientific approach of prehistory implies an underlying conception of mankind and sciences, which was challenged in the last decades of the 20th century, when new paradigms were introduced by naturalised anthropology. Since they stand at the junction point of sciences of nature and Humanities, the studies on Palaeolithic Art offer the opportunity to get a privileged insight into various ways to see the world, to understand mankind, and to define the principles of sciences
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Moss, John. "Storming the Castle: Non-Secular Subversion of the Pas D'Armes in The Castle of Perseverance." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1600.
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It is important to remember that the categories of medieval performance were established far removed from their period in history. As a genre, the morality play includes a wide diversity of time, geography, content and performance styles. Such disparities have made it difficult to develop a comprehensive definition, without which comparisons between works cannot be consistent. As scholarship continues to explore these works in context of their performance, it becomes increasingly important to identify which performance styles best inform their production. In examining The Castle of Perseverance within the parameters of pas d’armes, new meanings can be drawn from its text. Instead of simply incorporating the conventions of tournament staging, the play exposes the faults of the secular societies they were intended to promote. Currently it is impossible to determine definitely that The Castle of Perseverance was intended to be a subversion of the pas d’armes. There is no identified author or even record of a single performance in medieval times. Yet the circumstantial evidence within the text supports the theory of subversion. Further research is still needed on the performance of The Castle of Perseverance within the appropriate historical context in order to better understand its place within the larger canon of medieval drama.
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Reynolds, Ryan Michael. "Moving targets: Political theatre in a post-political age." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/898.
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This thesis gauges the contemporary landscape of political theatre at a time in which everything, and consequently nothing, is political. That is, almost all theatres today proclaim a politics, and yet there is widespread resignation regarding the inevitability of capitalism. This thesis proposes a theory of political action via the theatre: radical theatre today must employ a strategy of "moving targets". Theatrical actions must be adaptable and mobile to seek out the moving targets of capital and track down target audiences as they move through public space. In addition, political theatre must become a moving target to avoid amalgamation into the capitalist system of exchange. I approached this topic through four case studies. Two of the case studies, Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping and the Critical Art Ensemble, are based in the United States. I studied their work via materials - books, essays, videos, websites, interviews, and more - but not in person. The other two case studies are lifted from my own experience with the Christchurch Free Theatre: an original production of Christmas Shopping and a devised production of Karl Kraus' play The Last Days of Mankind. These latter two case studies served as laboratory experiments through which I was able to test ideas and problematics of political theatre that arose through my research. These case studies led to the determination that creating aesthetic experiences and actions - as opposed to having explicitly political content - can be a strategy or foundation for a radical political theatre that resists, undermines, and at times transcends the seeming inevitability of consumer capitalism. In an age in which any political intervention is seen as senseless disruption, a form of pointless violence, this theatre has adopted the strategies of terrorist actions to have a disruptive effect without positing a specific alternative social structure.
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França, Freitas Vinícius. "Thomas Reid sur les premiers principes de la connaissance spéculative, morale et politique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H221.
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Cette dissertation rend compte de la théorie des premiers principes de la connaissance de Thomas Reid (1710-1796), plus particulièrement, de la théorie des premiers principes de la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Dans le premier chapitre, je discute des engagements fondationnalistes de Reid dans la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Je soutiens qu'il est clairement un fondationnaliste en ce qui concerne la connaissance spéculative et morale, mais qu’il n'est pas clair qu’il conserve les engagements fondationnalistes en matière de savoir politique - les premiers principes de la politique ne sont pas des croyances évidentes en soi : ils ne sont pas justifiés depuis le début de la recherche. Par conséquent, ils n'ont pas ce qu'il faut pour être une croyance fondamentale dans une vision fondationnaliste de la structure de la connaissance. Dans le deuxième chapitre, je discute la compréhension de Reid des sources de la connaissance, à savoir, le sens commun et la connaissance de l'humanité. Je soutiens que si la philosophie de l'esprit et de la morale repose sur les premiers principes du sens commun (croyances immédiates et irrésistibles dues à la constitution originelle de l'esprit), la politique repose sur les premiers principes de la connaissance de l'humanité (croyances dues à un mélange de la sagacité et de l'expérience du philosophe politique qui vit parmi les êtres humains dans une société politique). Dans le troisième chapitre, j'essaie d'expliquer la compréhension de Reid des premiers principes de la philosophie de l'esprit, de la morale et de la politique. Je m’efforce de répondre à ces questions : Qu'est-ce qu'un principe premier de la connaissance ? Comment expliquer la distinction entre les principes des vérités contingentes et les principes des vérités nécessaires ? Quelles sont les moyens que nous avons pour identifier les premiers principes de la connaissance ? Le quatrième et dernier chapitre est entièrement consacré à la discussion du sens commun. Plus particulièrement, je discute la manière dont Reid défend les premiers principes du sens commun contre l'attaque sceptique<br>This thesis aims to discuss Thomas Reid’s (1710-1796) theory of the first principles of knowledge, more particularly, the first principles of philosophy of mind, morals and politics. In the first chapter, I discuss Reid’s foundationalist commitments in philosophy of mind, morals and politics. I argue that he is clearly a foundationalist about speculative and moral knowledge, but it is not clear if he keeps foundationalist commitments with regard to political knowledge – the first principles of politics are not self-evident beliefs: they are not justified from the start and, therefore, they do not have what is needed for being basic beliefs in a foundationalist view of the structure of knowledge. In the second chapter, I discuss Reid’s understanding of the sources of speculative, moral and political knowledge, namely, common sense and knowledge of mankind. I argue that while philosophy of mind and morals are based upon the first principles of common sense – immediate and irresistible beliefs due to the original constitution of mind, politics is based upon first principles of the knowledge of mankind – beliefs that are due to a mixture of the sagacity and the experience of the political scientist who lives among other human beings in a political society. In the third chapter, I try to explain Reid’s comprehension on the first principles of philosophy of mind, morals and politics. I try to explain what a first principle of knowledge is, how to understand the distinction between the principles of contingent and necessary truths and what the means we have to identify the first principles of knowledge are. The fourth and last chapter is entirely dedicated to common sense. More particularly, I discuss how Reid defends the first principles of common sense from the skeptical attack
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Smith, Victoria. "Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6051/.
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Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoration and eighteenth-century libertine figure as it appears in John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester's Satyr against Mankind, "The Maim'd Debauchee," and "Upon His Drinking a Bowl," Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and James Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. I argue that the limitations and self-contradictions of standard definitions of libertinism and the ways in which libertine protagonists and libertinism in general function as critiques of libertinism. Moreover, libertine protagonists and poetic personae reinterpret libertinism to accommodate their personal agendas and in doing so, satirize the idea of libertinism itself and identify the problematization of "libertinism" as a category of gender and social identity. That is, these libertines misinterpret-often deliberately-Hobbes to justify their opposition and refusal to obey social institutions-e.g., eventually marrying and engaging in a monogamous relationship with one's wife-as well as their endorsement of obedience to nature or sense, which can include embracing a libertine lifestyle in which one engages in sexual encounters with multiple partners, refuses marriage, and questions the existence of God or at least distrusts any sort of organized religion. Since any attempts to define the word "libertinism"-or at least any attempts to provide a standard definition of the word-are tenuous at best, it is equally tenuous to suggest that any libertines conform to conventional or standard libertinism. In fact, the literary and "real life" libertines in this study not only fail to conform to such definitions of libertinism, but also reinterpret libertinism. While all these libertines do possess similar characteristics-namely affluence, insatiable sexual appetites, and a rebellion against institutional authorities (the Church, reason, government, family, and marriage)-they often misinterpret libertinism, reason, and Hobbesian philosophy. Furthermore, they all choose different, unique ways to oppose patriarchal, social authorities. These aberrant ways of rebelling against social institutions and their redefinitions of libertinism, I argue, make them self-satirists and self-conscious critics of libertinism as a concept.
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Leroy, Jacqueline. "Grammaire du mankon : langue du bantou des Grassfields parlée dans la province nord-ouest du Cameroun." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030101.
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Cette thèse a pour objet une grammaire descriptive du mankon, langue ngemba, appartenant au groupe Grassfields de l'est du Bantou des Grassfields, parlée dans la province Nord-Ouest (anglophone) du Cameroun. Cette grammaire est à ce jour la seule grammaire descriptive complète écrite sur une langue de ce groupe. Elle présente plusieurs enjeux : historique, typologique et théorique. Jusqu'à une date relativement récente ces langues, mal connues, étaient considérées comme non bantoues (semi-bantoues ou bantoi͏̈des). Or, à partir des années 1960, les recherches sur leur phonologie, leur tonologie et leur système de classification nominale ont mis progressivement en évidence leur caractère bantou. Elles ont de ce fait remis en cause la classification génétique de ces langues par rapport aux langues bantoues au sens étroit. Il est maintenant généralement admis que ces langues sont, sinon bantoues, au moins étroitement apparentées aux langues bantoues au sens étroit. Il est probable que la description du système verbal et de la syntaxe du mankon comprise dans cette thèse, contribuera à enrichir le débat sur ce point. Au plan théorique, la description de la morphophonologie, et plus particulièrement de la morphotonologie du mankon, d'une grande complexité, devrait être d'un intérêt majeur pour la linguistique théorique et les sciences cognitives. Cette grammaire comprend cinq parties. La première partie traite de la phonologie. La deuxième partie présente la morphophonologie segmentale et tonale. La troisième s'adresse au nom (classes nominales, système d'accord), à la dérivation verbo-nominale, aux syntagmes nominaux, substituts et pronoms. La quatrième examine le verbe (la dérivation ; les conjugaisons perfective affirmative, perfective négative, imperfective affirmative et imperfective négative ; les auxiliaires. La cinquième partie décrit la syntaxe (les fonctions ; les principaux types d'énoncés ; les énoncés complexes ; la hiérarchisation énonciative)<br>This dissertation deals with a descriptive grammar of Mankon, a Ngemba language, belonging to the Eastern group of Grassfields Bantu, spoken in the North-West province (English speaking) of Cameroon. It is currently the only extensive descriptive grammar written on a language of this group. It is of historical, typological and theoritical interest. Up to recently, these languages, little known, were considered non Bantu (semi-Bantu or Bantoid). From the 1960s onwards research work done on their phonology, tonology and nominal class system, has gradually brought to light their Bantu characteristics and, therefore questioned their genetic relationship with Narrow Bantu languages. It is nowadays generally agreed that these languages are, if not Bantu, closely related to Narrow Bantu languages. Hopefully, the description of the Mankon verb sytem and syntax included in the present dissertation will bring in new arguments concerning this historical issue. As for theory, the description of thes Mankon morphophonology and more precisely the morphotonology, extremely complex, should be of interest for theoretical linguistics and cognitive sciences. This grammar is divided into five parts. Part I considers the phonology. Part II deals with segmental and tonal morpho-logy. Part III presents the noun (nominal classes and the concord system), derived nouns, noun phrases, substitutes and pronouns. Part IV deals with the verb : derivation ; the perfective affirmative, perfective negative, imperfective affirmative and imperfective negative conjugations ; auxi-liary verbs. Part V considers syntax : functions, the main types of sen-tences, complex sentences and pragmatic functions
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Vasconcelos, Pereira Junior Magno. "Construção e transformação do centro urbano de São Luís-MA: Uma análise do Património Histórico." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/397725.
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Esta tese apresenta a trajetória e os resultados de uma investigação realizada referente à evolução urbana da cidade de São Luís, capital do Maranhão, com um olhar sobre o Centro Histórico. A investigação se fundamenta na necessidade de conhecer os processos que geraram, para o centro da cidade, o título Patrimônio da Humanidade em 1997. É neste contexto que foi analisada a morfologia urbana desde sua fundação até o reconhecimento do título pela UNESCO. Realizou-se uma pesquisa dos principais aspectos que contribuíram para que pudesse ser alcançado esse logro internacional, entre eles: a análise da própria sociedade colonizadora, pensando em como ela desenvolveu o núcleo inicial e quais as normas e leis criadas para o progresso da cidade; os ciclos econômicos, que ora proporcionaram a construção dos grandiosos casarões, ora impossibilitaram a renovação dos antigos casarões; a aparição do primeiro movimento conservacionista e seus principais protagonistas na São Luís do século XIX; as intervenções urbanísticas realizadas pelo governo em prol da revitalização e renovação do centro histórico; e, finalmente, a análise da proposta de elevar a capital ludovicense a Patrimônio Cultural da Humanidade.<br>This thesis presents the path and the results of an investigation related to the urban evolution of the city of Sao Luís, capital of the State of Maranhão, with an eye on the historical center. The research meets the need to understand the processes that led the city center to receive the World Heritage title in 1997. In this context, we analyzed the urban morphology from its foundation to the recognition of the title by the UNESCO through the main aspects that contributed to achieving this international recognition, namely: the colonial society itself, focusing on how it developed the initial core of the city and which rules and laws it created for its progress; the economic cycles, which both provided the construction of grand mansions and prevented their renovation; the appearance of the first conservationist movement and its key players in nineteenth century São Luís; the urban interventions carried out by the government towards the revitalization and renewal of the historic center; and, finally, the proposition to raise São Luís’s historical center to a World Heritage site.
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Cho, Yasunaka. "Evaluation of the Baan Mankong Slum Upgrading Project in Thailand." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368085651.
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Aufort, Julie. "Fossilisation des apatites biologiques : approche cristallochimique et applications géochimiques." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUS484.
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Les fragments de squelettes de vertébrés préservés sous forme de fossiles fournissent des informations paléo-environnementales uniques via leur composition isotopique et leur teneur en éléments traces. Toutefois la validité de ces informations dépend crucialement de la préservation de l’enregistrement géochimique biogénique au cours de la fossilisation. Ce travail a pour objectif de comprendre comment s’effectue l’acquisition de l’information géochimique puis sa préservation en étudiant les propriétés de fractionnement isotopique de l’apatite, constituant inorganique majeur des os et dents de vertébrés, et les mécanismes de transformations cristallochimiques impliqués par la fossilisation. Celles-ci sont sondées à l’échelle atomique à l’aide des spectroscopies ATR-FTIR et RMN du solide, leur interprétation s’appuyant sur la modélisation des spectres ATR-FTIR et le calcul ab initio (DFT) des propriétés de fractionnement isotopique à l’équilibre de l’apatite. Les transformations à l’échelle atomique observées suite à l’altération d’os actuel en solution aqueuse attestent d’un processus de dissolution partielle de l’apatite biogénique et de formation de fluor- ou hydroxy- apatite carbonatée secondaire à la surface des cristallites, selon la présence ou non de fluor en solution. Ces résultats ont ensuite été appliqués à l’étude de la transformation d’os fossiles issus des environnements karstiques de Bolt’s Farm dans le Berceau de l’Humanité (Afrique du Sud) et des environnements fluvio-lacustres volcano-sédimentaires des collines Tugen dans la vallée du Rift Grégory (Kenya). La formation de fluorapatite carbonatée est systématiquement observée, de l’hydroxyapatite carbonatée est également formée dans les fossiles de Bolt’s Farm moins fluorés, soulignant ainsi le potentiel des ossements fossiles à révéler les conditions précoces de fossilisation. Un degré maximal de transformation, aussi bien des os fossiles que des os actuels altérés, est observé à environ 60 % d’apatite secondaire, suggérant l’idée d’un rôle protecteur de cette phase contre la dissolution totale de l’apatite primaire<br>Chemical and stable isotope compositions of fossil remains of vertebrates provide unique palaeo-environmental information. However, its reliability depends on the preservation of the biogenic geochemical record during the fossilisation process. This work aims to undersand how the geochemical record is acquired and preserved by studying the isotopic fractionation properties of apatite, the main inorganic constituent of vertebrates bones and teeth, and the crystal-chemical transformations occuring during fossilisation. These transformations are probed at the atomic scale using ATR-FTIR and solid-state NMR spectroscopies and their interpretation is supported by the modelling of ATR-FTIR spectra and DFT calculations of theoretical equilibrium isotopic fractionation properties. Atomic scale transformations of bones altered in aqueous solutions consist of partial dissolution of the biogenic apatite and formation of secondary carbonated fluor- or hydroxy- apatite, depending on the presence or absence of fluoride in the solution. These results were then applied to the study of the transformation of fossil bones from the karstic environments of Bolt’s Farm cave system (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) and from the fluvio-lacustrine environments of the Tugen Hills (Gregory Rift, Kenya). Systematic formation of secondary carbonated fluorapatite is observed, as well as formation of secondary carbonated hydroxyapatite in the less fluorinated Bolt’s Farm fossils, highlighting the potentiality of fossil bones to record local physical-chemical conditions prevailing in fossilisation environments. The ~ 60 % maximum fraction of secondary apatite observed in fossils and modern bones altered under controlled conditions suggests it has a protective role against further dissolution of the primary apatite
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Fischer, Manfred M. "A spatial Mankiw-Romer-Weil model: Theory and evidence." Springer Verlag, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00168-010-0384-6.
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This paper presents a theoretical growth model that extends the
Mankiw-Romer-Weil [MRW] model by accounting for technological
interdependence among regional economies. Interdependence is assumed to work
through spatial externalities caused by disembodied knowledge diffusion. The
transition from theory to econometrics leads to a reduced-form empirical spatial
Durbin model specification that explains the variation in regional levels of per worker output at steady state. A system of 198 regions across 22 European countries over the period from 1995 to 2004 is used to empirically test the model. Testing is performed by assessing the importance of cross-region technological interdependence, and measuring direct and indirect (spillover) effects of the MRW
determinants on regional output. (author's abstract)
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Fischer, Manfred M. "A spatial Mankiw-Romer-Weil model: Theory and evidence." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3959/1/SSRN%2Did1364060.pdf.
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This paper presents a theoretical growth model that extends the
Mankiw-Romer-Weil [MRW] model by accounting for technological
interdependence among regional economies. Interdependence is assumed to work
through spatial externalities caused by disembodied knowledge diffusion. The
transition from theory to econometrics leads to a reduced-form empirical spatial
Durbin model specification that explains the variation in regional levels of per
worker output at steady state. A system of 198 regions across 22 European
countries over the period from 1995 to 2004 is used to empirically test the model.
Testing is performed by assessing the importance of cross-region technological
interdependence, and measuring direct and indirect (spillover) effects of the MRW
determinants on regional output. (author's abstract)
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Moody, Hayley Ruscoe. "Feasibility of ranking articular cartilage conditions with non-destructive near-infrared spectroscopy with extension to the Mankin grading system." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/62760/1/Hayley_Moody_Thesis.pdf.
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Grading osteoarthritic tissue has, until now, been a laboratory process confined to research activities. This thesis establishes a scientific protocol that extends osteoarthritic tissue ranking to surgical practice. The innovative protocol, which now incorporates the structural degeneration of collagen, enhances the traditional Modified Mankin ranking system, enabling its application to real time decision during surgery. Because it is fast and without time consuming laboratory process, it would potentially enable the cataloguing of tissues in osteoarthritic joints in all compartments of diseased joints during surgery for epistemological study and insight into the manifestation of osteoarthritis across age, gender, occupation, physical activities and race.
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Rossignol-Raynal, Éva. "Une réactualisation des figures mythiques de l'aller-retour chez Alfred Döblin, Jorge Semprun et Vercors : l'expérience de l'aller-retour dans six œuvres européennes marquées par la Seconde Guerre mondiale : "Voyage et destin" et "Hamlet ou la longue nuit prend fin" (Alfred Döblin), "L'Écriture ou la vie" et "Le Grand voyage" (Jorge Semprún), "Les Armes de la nuit" et "La Puissance du jour" (Vercors)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0360.
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Le médecin allemand d'origine juive Alfred Döblin, le jeune résistant espagnol et communiste Jorge Semprún, et l'écrivain-éditeur Vercors (Jean Bruller) ne se connaissent pas et n'ont a priori rien en commun. Pourtant, tous trois ont traversé́ la Seconde Guerre mondiale, par l'exil, la clandestinité ou l'expérience concentrationnaire. Chacun a contribué à la lutte contre le nazisme mais en a également payé le prix. Ces trois hommes, dont seul un – Döblin – était déjà un écrivain confirmé, ont produit à partir de 1945 des œuvres marquées sinon profondément influencées par ces évènements. Ainsi, les évènements historiques nous donnent à lire un exilé, un déporté, et un porte-parole de revenants. Suite à ces expériences, les récits étudiés ici, aussi divers soient-ils dans leur conception, leur scénario, leur narration, et leur style, sont pourtant marqués par un même traumatisme du déplacement, aussi bien dans leur aller que dans leur tentative de retour. Comment retranscrire l'aller et accomplir son retour ? Remise en cause des valeurs traditionnelles, quête identitaire, questionnement anthropologique, subversion du discours et des mythes : telles sont les pistes explorées dans ces textes, à l'actualité troublante<br>German doctor of Jewish origin Alfred Döblin, young Spanish resistance fighter and communist Jorge Semprún, and writer-publisher Vercors (Jean Bruller) did not know each other and have nothing in common. However, all three went through the Second World war, through exile, clandestinity, or the concentration camp experience. Each contributed to the fight against Nazism but also paid the price. Among these three men, only Döblin was already a confirmed writer. However, they all produced works from 1945 onwards that were marked, if not deeply influenced, by these events. Thus, historical events present to us an exile, a deportee, and a spokesman for ghosts. Following these experiences, the stories studied here, although diverse in their conception, scenario, narrative, and style, are nevertheless marked by the same trauma of displacement, both in their journey and in their attempt to return. How could the outward journey be transcribed? Is there a possibility of returning to the life they once knew? Traditional values, identity quest, ontological questioning, subversion of discourse and myths: these are the paths explored in these texts, which are disturbingly topical
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Landry, Éric. "Le modèle de Mankiw, Romer et Weil appliqué aux dix provinces canadiennes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23728.pdf.
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Fischer, Manfred M. "Spatial Externalities and Growth in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil World: Theory and Evidence." SAGE, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5477/1/spatial.pdf.
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This paper presents a theoretical growth model that accounts for technological
interdependence among regions in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil world. The reasoning behind the
theoretical work is that technological ideas cannot be fully appropriated by investors and
these ideas may diffuse and increase the productivity of other firms. We link the diffusion of
ideas to spatial proximity and allow for ideas to flow to nearby regional economies. Through
the magic of solving for the reduced form of the theoretical model and the magic of spatial
autoregressive processes, the simple dependence on a small number of neighbouring
regions leads to a reduced form theoretical model and an associated empirical model where
changes in a single region can potentially impact all other regions. This implies that
conventional regression interpretations of the parameter estimates would be wrong. The
proper way to interpret the model has to rely on matrices of partial derivatives of the
dependent variable with respect to changes in the Mankiw-Romer-Weil variables, using
scalar summary measures for reporting the estimates of the marginal impacts from the
model. The summary impact measure estimates indicate that technological interdependence
among European regions works through physical rather than human capital externalities.
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Fischer, Manfred M. "Spatial Externalities and Growth in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil World: Theory and Evidence." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4760/1/20151202_spatial_spillovers_nocorr_fertig.pdf.
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This paper presents a theoretical growth model that accounts for technological interdependence among regions in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil world. The reasoning behind the theoretical work is that technological ideas cannot be fully appropriated by investors and these ideas may diffuse and increase the productivity of other firms. We link the diffusion of ideas to spatial proximity and allow for ideas to flow to nearby regional economies. Through the magic of solving for the reduced form of the theoretical model and the magic of spatial autoregressive processes, the simple dependence on a small number of neighbouring regions leads to a reduced form theoretical model and an associated empirical model where changes in a single region can potentially impact all other regions. This implies that conventional regression interpretations of the parameter estimates would be wrong. The proper way to interpret the model has to rely on matrices of partial derivatives of the dependent variable with respect to changes in the Mankiw-Romer-Weil variables, using scalar summary measures for reporting the estimates of the marginal impacts from the model. The summary impact measure estimates indicate that technological interdependence among European regions works through physical rather than human capital externalities. (author's abstract)<br>Series: Working Papers in Regional Science
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Mason, Maxwell O. Putney Christopher. "Gogolian spatial models and mankind's potential for redemption a comparison of "The carriage" and Dead souls /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,128.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures." Discipline: Slavic Languages and Literatures; Department/School: Slavic Languages and Literatures.