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Starke, Nathalie. "The Faces of Oppression : In Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25957.
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This essay examines the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison with feminist and African Amerian theory. The focus is on opppression and I study the men's roles and functions, whether the male characters follow social structures, if patriarchy is something noticeable and how this affect the female characters.
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Dimitrov, Luciana Duenha. "Uma leitura de The bluest eye, de Toni Morrison." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2007. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2143.
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Previous issue date: 2007-01-30In this study, racial prejudice is the basis of Toni Morrison s The bluest eye, despite not being the only aspect evidenced in the novel. What should be spotlighted as well is how the time is deconstructed; the evident presence of several discourses that can rise racism up, or bring it down; and the strong influence of colors in the conception of scenes that, in some of the narrative moments, can be associated with pictorial images. When the facets mentioned among many others are put together, there is the achievement of a great result in the novel s aesthetics. The main goal of this study is to exploit those aspects, looking forward to establishing those inseparable relations between the novel s main theme and its form, in order to consolidate their relevance both to the romance s construction and constitution.
Neste trabalho, o preconceito racial que fundamenta The bluest eye, de Toni Morrison, não é o único aspecto em destaque no romance; merece ser ressaltada igualmente a forma como se desconstrói o tempo, a coexistência de discursos que ora enaltecem, ora abominam o racismo, a forte influência de cores na concepção de cenas que, em muitos momentos, podem ser associadas a imagens pictóricas. A confluência desses e de outros tantos aspectos sem dúvida contribui para o excelente resultado estilístico alcançado na narrativa. O objetivo, aqui, é explorar tais aspectos, buscando essas relações indissociáveis entre o tema central e a forma, no intuíto de comprovar sua relevância para construção e constituição do romance.
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Leung, Chuen-lik Rachel, and 梁川力. "Identity, part and whole: Toni Morrison's Beloved and The Bluest Eye." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952094.
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Leung, Chuen-lik Rachel. "Identity, part and whole : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Bluest Eye /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161392.
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Evensson, Ulla. "Self-hatred and Its Consequenses in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34043.
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Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye from 1970, shows how the upbringing and society's norms can affect a young girl in an African-American society, where racism and a feeling of inferiority is the standards. Pecola's wishes for blue eyes since that may make her part of a world where she has never belonged. Her wish is not only a futile attempt to be looking differently but also a wish for a better life.
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Light, Susan A. "The political practice of home : the Bluest eye, Beloved, and feminist standpoint theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60584.
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The larger issue of the relationship between theory, fiction and experience provides the backdrop for a study of constructions of home in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Feminist standpoint theory contends that knowledge is socially and historically constructed. Using the home as a category of analysis, I show how Morrison's constructions of home are located within specific socio-economic, racial, and political contexts which mold the novels' characters. Both feminist standpoint theory and the novels develop a notion of "positionality"--one's location within a larger social and historical network. Differences in focus do exist, however, which stem from their respective developmental and experiential contexts--one being primarily theoretical and scholarly, and the other being the complex literary and fictional mediation of a political experience. Unlike the theoretical articulation of concepts of the standpoint, fiction offers a complex perspective that may, in turn, be used to inform discussions of political and epistemological concepts.
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Nylin, Kristina. "Why Read Fiction in the English Language Classroom? : Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12828.
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The essay makes a case for the use of the Nobel Prize-winning (1993) author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (1970) in the English language classroom. The essay argues that the novel is an excellent reading choice and to what is appropriate according to the learning goals stated in Gy11's course syllabus English 6. Since the course English 6 syllabus is new some aspects different from previous course syllabus English B are mentioned by way of comparison. In order to develop the arguments for using the novel, different perspectives of reading and the learning process are discussed and how they match the curriculum Gy 11. Some points about how Morrison has managed to voice the former unspoken experiences of African American society are made to make it clear why reading The Bluest Eye is such a superb text in relation to the learning goals that are outlined in Gy11.The essay focuses mainly on mother - daughter relationships because most pupils will easily relate to this theme since they have experiences of this relation themselves, and therefore they will find it easy to find issues to discuss after reading the novel.
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Lindberg, Linnea. "How Narrative Devices Convey the Theme of Love in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-37508.
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This essay focuses on the way in which three narrative devices expand upon three types of love depicted in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. The three narrative devices examined in this essay are narrator, paratext and the irony of the Breedlove family name. These devices all serve the purpose of conveying different types of love in Morrison’s novel and how these types of love affect the characters of the novel, especially the protagonist Pecola Breedlove. Narrator plays an important role because the narrative voice changes throughout the novel, shifting between Claudia MacTeer and a third-person omniscient narrator. This shifting perspective shows the reader how the types of love affect Pecola both through a child’s perspective and as well as through third-person narration. The Dick and Jane paratext contrasts the Breedlove family to white American ideals of familial love and happiness. Finally, the lack of familial love within the Breedlove family truly shows the irony of the Breedlove family name. The lack of love forces Pecola to internalize her self-hatred while the destructive, distant and judgmental relationship between Mrs. Breedlove and Pecola causes both characters to become delusional and dissatisfied with their sense of self. Friendship is the only place where Pecola finds love, shown to her by Claudia and Frieda; however, Pecola has already descended too far into madness for their love to help her. Although Pecola should find solace in the three types of love that are presented through the novel’s narrative devices, they all contribute to her disillusionment and, ultimately, her descent into madness.
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Lopes, Mirna Leisi Coelho. "À MARGEM EM THE BLUEST EYE, DE TONI MORRISON: NEGRITUDE, IDENTIDADE E CRÍTICA SOCIAL." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2009. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9807.
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The contemporary North American fiction (African American) presents concerns regarding the identity of African-Americans. There is a need, through the literary text,
to establish a dialogue with the myths and historical models for the legacy tradition of slaves from Africa. The aim of this study is to analyze how, through the composition of the characters and through the eyes of the witness-narrator, the questions about the construction of an African-American identity are presented and discussed, and how it is possible to perceive in the novel The Eye Bluest, (1970), the resumption about the discussion about the concept of blackness. One of the interests in this
analysis is to investigate the way oppression is imposed on a black community, established in the north of the US. Both blackness and Afro-American identity are represented in Morrison´s fiction through the voice of the witness-narrator that builds a critical point of view on the white north american society and on the black community, which in many ways, reduplicates the prejudiced look launched on itself and on its members. The criticism is also established through the representation of the main character, Pecola. The research is based on analysis of the novel of the American writer Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye is the first novel published by the author and constitutes itself as a report of the witness-narrator ´s experiences, and as the social and cultural representation of a certain community in a very precise socio-historical moment. To perform the analysis, it was necessary to establish the concepts of cultural identity, blackness, subjectivity and (Afro) American history, taking into account the fictional discourse.A ficção contemporânea norte-americana (Afro-americana) apresenta preocupações referentes à identidade dos Afro-americanos. Há uma necessidade de, através do texto literário, estabelecer um diálogo com os mitos históricos e modelos legados pela tradição dos escravos vindos de África. O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar de que maneira, através da composição das personagens e através do olhar da narradora-testemunha, são apresentados e discutidos questionamentos acerca da construção de uma identidade Afro-americana, e como se percebe, no romance The Bluest Eye, (1970), a retomada da discussão acerca da noção de negritude . Um dos interesses nesta análise foi o de perceber como a opressão é exercida sobre uma comunidade negra estabelecida no norte dos E.U.A. As questões de negritude e identidade Afro-americanas são estabelecidas na ficção morrisoniana através da voz da narradora-testemunha que constrói um ponto de vista crítico sobre a sociedade branca norte-americana e sobre a própria comunidade negra, que em muitos sentidos, passa a reduplicar o olhar preconceituoso lançado sobre si mesma e sobre seus membros. E também, através da caracterização da personagem principal, Pecola. The Bluest Eye é o primeiro romance publicado por Toni Morrison e constitui-se como um relato de vivências de Claudia, a narradora-testemunha, e como a representação social e cultural de uma dada comunidade, em um dado momento sócio-histórico. Para efetuar a análise, fez-se necessário estabelecer conceitos de identidade cultural, negritude, subjetividade e história (Afro) americana, levando em consideração a ficcionalidade e o discurso.
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Hayes, Martina Louise. "Legacy of Shame: A Psychoanalytic History of Trauma in The Bluest Eye." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1450374298.
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De, Freitas Sandra. "A Psychoanalytical Study on the Importance of Skin Tone in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30521.
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Abdalla, Fardosa. "Resistance of Female Stereotypes in The Bluest Eye : Destroying Images of Black Womanhood and Motherhood." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24581.
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Stereotypes and myths are created by media to simplify and mystify reality. The two are used to form negative stereotypical images that are used as tools of social oppression in today’s white patriarchy. This essay will focus on how Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye depicts black womanhood and motherhood and resists the reductive images of black women through the narrative technique. In the text we find the stereotypical images of the Mammy and the Matriarch in the character Pauline "Polly" Breedlove, both simplifying and mystifying black motherhood but also condescending towards African-American family constellations. The text resists these images by making readers inhabit Polly who at first fits in to the two archetypes, only to then give us additional information and use an engaging narrative technique that invites the reader to decide if Polly really is the Mammy and the Matriarch.
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Ball, Hilary. ""Blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux" : reading the blush in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and A Pair of Blue Eyes." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62772.
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The two primary aims of this thesis are to position Thomas Hardy in a history of nineteenth-century literary blushing that has not, as of yet, included him, and to consider the extent to which his representations of blushing correspond with contemporaneous discussions of the embodied mind. Hardy’s longstanding interest in the extent to which external signs can communicate internal states and in the limitations of self-knowledge intersect with many of the questions about consciousness, bodies, and social environment central to nineteenth-century literary and scientific explorations of the blush. The 1870s in particular saw an exacerbation of interest in and conversation about the blush, related, in part, to the publication of Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals on 26 November 1872 — four months after Hardy started writing A Pair of Blue Eyes, and seven months before he began seriously working on Far from the Madding Crowd. By tracing representations of blushing throughout these two novels, my thesis reveals Hardy’s growing distrust of the blush’s revelatory capacity and his more pronounced emphasis on the biological mechanism as an object of investigation and anxiety. My chapter on A Pair of Blue Eyes considers what or how much a blush can say about interiority, drawing primarily on the literary tradition, while my chapter on Far from the Madding Crowd considers what the blush can say about the body, suggesting that Hardy engages more self-consciously here with the physiology of blushing and the sexual politics of observation and exposure. The representations of blushing in both novels, however, incorporate both literary and scientific traditions as they explore how bodies absorb and reproduce discourses and narratives that repress or exploit them and how they resist such coercions, proving uncooperative or unreadable.Arts, Faculty of
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Tomić, Lidija. "Studies on Retinal Circulation in Experimental Animals, Healthy Human Eyes and Eyes with Diabetic Retinopathy." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för neurovetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9396.
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The retina is a highly metabolically active tissue with large demands on the supply of nutrients. Disorders affecting the retina often include some vasculopathy with an impact on retinal circulation. Studies of retinal haemodynamics could thus help to detect, differentiate and diagnose diseases, to monitor changes in disease as well as progression and efficiency of the therapy. The present studies were an attempt to validate and determine the clinical usefulness of a newly developed technique for studying the retinal circulation in human eyes. We used different techniques to evaluate different parameters of retinal circulation. We examined how leukocyte velocity determined with Blue Field Simulation and transit times, mean transite time (MTT) and arterio-venous passage (AVP), and vessel diameter, determined from fluorescein angiograms, together reflects the retinal circulation. MTT was determined with a method based on an Impulse-Response technique, MTTIR. In a study on monkeys we compared our method, together with two conventional methods, with an absolute measurement of retinal blood flow (RBF) determined with labelled microspheres. There was a weak, but not statistically significant, correlation between retinal blood flow and MTTIR (r2 = -0.60, p = 0.06), but no useful correlation between retinal blood flow and either of the other two measures of transit times. In a study on healthy eyes we determined the effect of a physiological provocation, changes in arterial blood gases, on retinal circulation. Breathing pure oxygen or increased level of carbon dioxide in inspired air had no effect on MTT, but oxygen reduced leukocyte velocity and vessel diameter and carbon dioxide increased leukocyte velocity significantly. We concluded that unchanged transit time trough the retinal tissue was not due to a lack of effect of the gas provocation but a result due to concomitant changes in volume and flow. In a study on eyes of patients with diabetic retinopathy we investigated the relation between the extent of retinal circulation changes and the severity of the diabetes retinopathy (DRP). Transit times were relatively unaffected until proliferative DRP (PDRP) developed. In eyes with PDRP both MTTIR and AVP were increased. After panretinal photocoagulation treatment MTTIR returned to normal levels and vessel diameters tended to decrease while leukocyte velocity and AVP remained unchanged. We concluded that the increase in MTTIR in eyes with PDRP is at least partly explained by vessel dilation, causing an increased volume of the retinal vascular bed.
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Sultan, Hazar. "Att bära historien i sin kropp : Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome i Toni Morrisons roman The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34591.
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To Carry History in One’s Body – Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome in Toni Morrison’s Novel The Bluest Eye. The world in which we live in is dominated by ideology. This essay will explore the ideology of racism and investigates how it operated during and after the slave trade in the USA. The main focus is how the racist ideology has affected the black community in the USA during the first decades of the twentieth century. When the traumatic events of the slave trade ended the black community never got the chance to heal from the several hundred years long trauma. Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye depicts a community in pain due to the racist society that surrounds them. It is set in a time after the First World War when black families aimed to establish a stable life but were hindered due to various reasons. Therefore, this essay uses Joy DeGruy’s thoughts on the matter of trauma in the black community in the USA. By using her book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury and Healing along with Frantz Fanon’s iconic text Black Skin, White Masks this essay investigates how the legacy of slavery has affected the black community after the slave trade. This essay looks into the following behavioral patterns, formulated by DeGruy: Vacant Esteem, Ever Present Anger and Racist Socialization.Världen domineras av ideologier. Denna uppsats utforskar rasismens ideologi både under och efter slavhandeln i USA. Uppsatsens huvudfokus är hur den rasistiska ideologin har påverkat den svarta befolkningen i USA under nittonhundratalets första årtionden. När slaveriets trauma tog slut fick det svarta samhället aldrig chansen att bearbeta och läka det flera hundra år långa traumat. Toni Morrisons roman The Bluest Eye skildrar ett samhälle som präglas av smärta till följd av en rasistisk omgivning. Romanen utspelar sig efter första världskriget, en tid då svarta familjer ämnade etablera ett stabilt liv men som av olika anledningar hindrades. Denna uppsats använder Joy DeGruys tankar om trauma hos det svarta samhället i USA. Hennes bok Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury and Healing tillsammans med Frantz Fanons nyckeltext Black Skin, White Masks används i denna uppsats för att undersöka hur slaveriet påverkat det svarta samhället efter dess avskaffande. Uppsatsen tittar närmare på följande beteendemönster, som formulerats av DeGruy: Vacant Esteem, Ever Present Anger och Racist Socialization.
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Anthony, Sandra Patricia. "Black-eyed Susan, Blue-eyed schools : academically-oriented Black girls in Toronto schools." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/NQ41394.pdf.
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Ranström, Ingrid. "Black Community in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5206.
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Using the novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon, the purpose of this essay is to examine Toni Morrison’s characters in the setting of the black community with emphasis on gender, participation in society and the class differences which exist within the black collective. All of the characters in the narratives exist in communities which are defined by the racial barriers formed by the surrounding white societies. Due to her concern with the inter-relatedness of race, gender and class as they are lived by the individuals, Morrison gives her characters physical and psychological qualities which enhance their chances for survival and fulfillment, thus leading to the survival of the black community. Through her characters in The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison portrays the black community with reference to blackness and the inner struggles of the individual as well as the class differences and social structures within the collective. It can be concluded that the black community is an important part of today’s society as the contemporary individual must embrace his/her culture and heritage, which is found in the unity of the collective.
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Fulton, Lara. "An unblinking gaze, readerly response-ability and racial reconstructions in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Beloved." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24377.pdf.
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Jackson, Veda Kimber. "It's all about color: an analysis of color symbolism in Toni Morrison's Sula and the bluest eye." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/204.
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This study examines Toni Morrison’s use of symbolism in Sula and The Bluest Eye, especially archetypal and color symbolism, in an effort to recover the culture that has been lost to Diasporic Africans. Moreover, the color symbolism and symbolic archetypes that Morrison employs in both novels, but to a greater extent Sula, are a direct reflection of her awareness of the African ancestral heritage and spirituality associated with those colors and archetypes. A vast majority of the literary critiques of Sula have focused on either Sula as a scapegoat for the community, Morrison’s use of race, gender, and sexual themes, or the characterizations throughout the novel. The literary criticism of The Bluest Eye has mainly focused on issues of race, class, and gender and the effects that these issues have upon black and white societies in America. Although these themes warrant the attention that has been given them, little or no focus has been given to the prevalence of color symbolism that Morrison employs in both novels. Therefore, this paper will attempt to provide a focus on color symbolism that has not been explored in other literary reviews.
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Fernandes, Alessandra Coutinho. "Mother-daughter relationships and the search for identity in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/111349.
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Parry, Glyn. "Behind blue eyes a memoir of childhood, who am I? : a collection of essays /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0006.html.
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Thesis ( Ph.D.)--Edith Cowan University, 2006.Submitted to the Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences. [Incorrectly stated as Faculty of Community Services, Education and the Arts]. Includes bibliographical references.
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Rep, Marco. "Blue Eyes, Lacanian Real : A psychoanalytic reading of Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för musikvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385623.
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Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (first published 1887) feature as their only character a miserable wayfarer who laments his unrequited love for someone and who, in spite of all his beautiful pastoral surroundings, cannot help but feel deep unhappiness. Using Lacan’s three orders (Imaginary, Symbolic and Real) and further developments of his theory by Slavoj Žižek in The Sublime Object of Ideology, I argue that the eyes of the wayfarer’s beloved are the Lacanian Real that disrupts his symbolic network and thus are the origin of his traumatic existence. His misery becomes an immanent part of his identity and he can therefore only exist through this feeling. Furthermore I suggest that, although he laments the situation, he subconsciously desires the unhappy love affair as a way of guaranteeing his own existence as a wayfarer, in accordance with Freud’s concept of Repetition compulsion.
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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.
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Mathis, Rondrea Danielle. "'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5737.
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‘She Shall Not Be Moved’: Black Women’s Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home argues that from The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s debut novel, to her 2012 novel, Home, Morrison brings her female characters to voice, autonomy, and personal divinity through unconventional spiritual work. The project addresses the history of Black women’s activist and spiritual work, Toni Morrison’s engagement with unconventional spiritual practice, and closes with a personal interrogation of the author’s connection to Black women’s spiritual practice.
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Alphonse, Vanessa Dawn. "Injury Biomechanics of the Human Eye During Blunt and Blast Loading." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31642.
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The research presented in this thesis investigates eye injuries caused by blunt impacts and blast overpressure. This research represents part of an ongoing investigation to accurately quantify and predict eye injuries and injury mechanisms for various loading schemes. It has been shown that blunt trauma can cause severe eye injuries but it remains undecided whether blast overpressure alone can cause eye injury. Presented herein are four experimental studies that quantify eye injuries and implement a technique for predicting injury risk. Isolated porcine or human eyes were subjected to various loading conditions consisting of blunt projectiles, water streams, remote control helicopter blades, and blast overpressure. All eyes were prepared in a similar manner that required the insertion of a miniature pressure sensor into the globe through the optic nerve. This sensor measured intraocular pressure throughout each event. Using previously published injury risk curves, this intraocular pressure data was used to predict the injury risk for four eye injuries: hyphema, lens damage, retinal damage, and globe rupture. Injuries sustained were quantified upon direct inspection of the globe following testing. No serious eye injuries were observed for any of the tests and all tests resulted in low predicted injury risks consistent with the lack of observed injury. The research presented in this thesis provides a robust low injury level dataset for eye injuries. This data could be useful for designing and validating computational models and anthropomorphic test device eyes, and serves as a basis for future work with more dangerous projectiles and higher pressure levels.Master of Science
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Torsell, Starud Alexandra. "Shopping for an I : Consumer identities in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79563.
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This thesis investigates to role consumerism plays when young, black, underclass characters try to build their identities in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017). Through implementing intersectional analysis and postcolonial theory this essay discusses how social positions are read and understood in a mass culture that heavily favours the visual. In this culture we are all judged by our appearance and I will argue that for the poor, black, female characters in the novels, that means being the underdogs of consumer culture. Although the two novels are published half a century apart, both relate to consumer culture and how it affects the African-American community. In addition, each of the novels are produced during a wave of black uprising and strong civil rights movements. In Morrison’s novel the characters are left longing for the looks and lifestyle of white Americans, emphasising the need of the social movement’s claim ‘Black is Beautiful’. In Thomas’ novel there are a multitude of consumer objects that are coded black, such as Jordan sneakers and hip hop-music. Yet, the police shooting of young Khalil cannot be avoided by the success ‘Black is Beautiful’ brought in terms of commercialising blackness. The shooting instead brings attention to 2017’s great campaign ‘Black Lives Matter’. What is similar in both novels is that the characters, who find themselves othered in Western discourse, strive to become someone recognised as a subject, a Self. In the quest to move beyond the stereotypes ascribed to them, almost all the characters long for goods that signal their social position as someone who has succeeded, living the American Dream. Yet, in Morrison’s novel there is a critique against capitalism and consumerism, an idea that you cannot consume a subject position in a racist society. That kind of critique against capitalism is absent in Thomas’ novel.
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Fadel, Lina. "An exploration into the semiotic rationale for gender shifts in English-Arabic literary translation : the case of Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2975.
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The present doctoral thesis is an investigation into the underlying semiotic and socio-cultural connotations of gender shifts in literary translation from English into Arabic, thereby simultaneously addressing the research question of whether these shifts are norm-governed, optional, or obligatory, that is, dictated by the rules of Arabic. Drawing on research into translational shifts, descriptive approaches to translation, as well as semiotics and sociology, the research employs a comparative and analytical methodology, which is based mainly on van Leuven-Zwart’s shift model, for the analysis of the primary corpus which incorporates Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and its two Arabic translations. It also utilizes a confirmatory corpus-based approach for the understanding of how norms and rules of gender are manifested in the Arabic literary tradition(s). Different patterns of shift are identified as regards the gender preferences or obligations on the part of the translator which contribute to his gender choices, which both demonstrate the problematic nature of gender relations in Arabic as well as highlight the translator’s active role in the act of translation. This project aims to make a useful contribution to existing research in the areas of descriptive translation studies and shifts analysis, as well as corpus-based approaches to translational shifts in general and gender shifts in particular. The analysis reveals the challenges facing translators when gender issues are concerned and suggests that gender shifts are more affected by norms and idiosyncrasies than grammatical rules.
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Spottke, Nicole. "Coffins, Closets, Kitchens, and Convents: Women Writing Of Home In Gendered Spaces." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003233.
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Weatherford, Jessica A. "A hard kick between his blue blue eyes the decolonizing potential of indigenous rage in Sherman Alexie's "The business of fancydancing" and "Indian killer" /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1250789641.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, August, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until September 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-99)
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Weatherford, Jessica A. "A Hard Kick between His Blue Blue Eyes: The Decolonizing Potential of Indigenous Rage in Sherman Alexie’s “The Business of Fancydancing” and “Indian Killer”." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250789641.
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Harrington, Thomas. "Decoding NOPD's Thin Blue Line." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2378.
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The New Orleans Police Department history dates back to the 1800’s. Since its inception, the department has been pledged by misconduct, low morale, and low public opinion. This research used Akers Social Structure, and Social learning theory or SSSL to understand the socialization process of the department and determine if the process could attribute for misconduct, the blue wall of silence, and the thin blue line.
A case study was conducted in which twenty former NOPD officers on the department from 1979 to 2004 were interviewed. They were only identified by race, gender, and the number of years on the police department. The interviews were transcribed coded and two themes emerged: “Journey to Blue” and “Cop’s Eyes.”
Journey to Blue, was the transformation process to become a police officer. The steps involved the hiring process, the police academy, field training officers (FTO), mentors, and the early years on the department. Cop’s Eyes was the process of seeing the world as a police officer. It was determined training, experience, and social integrity were integral parts of being able to see the world as a cop. Cop’s Eyes became the way an officer sees the world both on and off-duty, they were not able to turn it on or off.
Further, it was determined, socialization changes throughout decades, socialization influences policy violations, and officers rarely if ever see corruption. The academy was the beginning of the development of cop’s eyes, and field training officers were the primary source of socialization both good and bad. Future research would involve duplicating and comparative analysis of twenty former NOPD officers who were involved in misconduct.
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Cobley, Norman. "Aspects of the population dynamics of Antarctic blue-eyed shags Phalacrocorax atriceps king." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6267/.
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Blue-eyed shag chicks have been ringed in almost every year since 1969 at two colonies on Signy Island. In this study, over 40% of breeders (801 pairs in 1987) were ringed and of known age, and during the breeding season adults were readily recaptured. Annual adult survival rates during the study averaged 0.86, although the mean annual survival rate between the early 1980's and 1987 was lower, averaging 0.76. There was no difference in the annual survival rate in relation to sex or breeding experience, but birds older than 11 years showed evidence of decreased survival rates, of about 0.04 annually. The first year survival rate averaged 0.36 but varied widely between 0.03 (in 1979) and 0.69 (in 1984). Low first year survival rates occurred about every four years. Only mean monthly temperature in April and the duration of sea ice were selected as explaining variation in first year survival rates and together they accounted for over two-thirds of the variation. Post-fledging survival rates were independent of hatching order, although only a few last-hatched chicks survived the nestling period. Although movements to and from neighbouring colonies could not be monitored thoroughly, no ringed birds were seen during searches of the two nearest colonies, and the rate of colony exchange between the two Signy colonies suggested that established breeders exhibited a high degree of faithfulness to their colony, only 0.1% moving each year. Recruits tended to return to their natal colony, and only 2.4% moved away between the two Signy colonies. Blue-eyed shags showed deferred breeding and whilst a few individuals began breeding at two years, most waited until their third and fourth year and some delayed breeding until six years old. The modal age of first breeding varied between years being earliest in 1987 (3 years) when recruitment was also high. Over the age range at which most birds recruited, there was no difference between the sexes in the age of first breeding. Prior to the year in which they first bred, young shags visited the colony to which they subsequently recruited and the number of visits per bird increased with age. Older pre-breeding birds also made visits earlier in the season. Low mate fidelity was normal, only 39% retained the same mate in the following breeding season. Of those which changed mate, divorce accounted for 46%, and the annual rate of divorce declined in relation to increasing age and breeding experience. A comparison of the divorce rates of similar aged birds with different breeding experience showed that recruits were more likely to divorce, suggesting that breeding experience was more important in divorce than age alone. Pairs which divorced in the current year had had lower mean clutches, broods and fledged fewer chicks in the previous year compared with those which kept the same mate. However, pair stability during the previous year had no effect on the breeding performance in the current year. Divorce was associated with further divorce in the following year. Both sexes showed a high tendency to re-nest within 12 m of the previous year's nest, although this was less marked in females. Re-use of the previous year's nest was low. A high proportion of pairs had partners of similar age, 46% being of equal age and 70% differing by a maximum of one year. Nearly twice as many equal aged pairs arose compared with the number expected if mating was random with respect to age, and the proportion of equal aged pairs declined among older birds. With respect to breeding experience and pair stability, experienced pairs and those which changed mates did not form more equal aged partnerships than expected by chance, and only for recruits did more equal aged pairs form than expected. Breeding experience was weakly related to breeding performance and the effect was stronger in 1987 than in 1986. Younger males built poorer quality nests than older birds, but it was not possible to resolve the effects of age and nest quality independently on breeding success.
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Brownlee, Jonathan J. "Being and Otherness: Conceptualizing Embodiment in Africana Existentialist Discourse (The Bluest Eye, The Fire Next Time, and Black Skin, White Masks)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1594134915974717.
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Schwitzer, Nora. "Habitat use, activity patterns and parasite status of blue-eyed black lemurs (Eulemur flavifrons) in differently degraded forest fragments." Münster Schüling, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1001111621/04.
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Lowry, Mark Douglas. "Blue is in the Eye of the Beholder: a Cross Cultural Study on Color Perception and Memory." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5360.
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According the linguistic relativity hypothesis, the language one speaks affects how one thinks. Because languages differ in how they categorize color, linguistic relativity has often been tested by conducting experiments on color perception and memory. This study examines the linguistic relativity hypothesis using ecologically valid stimuli: pictures of eyes. Because Russian-speakers are more likely to describe blue/grey eyes as grey, whereas English speakers are more likely to describe them as blue, English and Russian participants were asked to match the overall color of blue eyes to a color scale. There were three conditions. In the first condition (perception), participants saw the color scale and an eye picture simultaneously and then chose the color that best matched the picture. In the second condition (memory), participants matched the color of an eye to the color scale from memory. The third condition (label) was similar to the second, except participants labeled the eye orally before matching the color from memory. A 3 (condition) x 2 (language) ANCOVA and Bayesian analysis were used to analyze the data. Overall, the ANCOVA and Bayesian analysis indicated that there was a main effect of language. Russian-speaking participants were more likely to rate the eyes as greyer than English-speaking participants. The Bayesian analysis also suggested that there may also have been an interaction, with Russian and English-speaking participants rating the eyes similarly in the perception condition, but not the memory or labeling conditions. Overall, the findings provide novel evidence for the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
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Newell, Felicity L. "A Bird’s Eye View of the Forest: How Does Canopy Openness Affect Canopy Songbirds?" The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276875484.
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Berg, Paul D. "Measurement of the spectral and spatial responses of the human eye's blue sensitive system and the effects of lateral inhibition by the red and green sensitive systems /." Online version of thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8840.
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Storey, Helen Caroline. "Gris-gris : a novel ; and, Contextualising research : crafting the rape scene: an exploration of how Toni Morrison and Isabel Allende write rape scenes in The Bluest Eye and The House of Spirits and how their approaches influence the crafting of those in Gris-gris." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2015. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/6567/.
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The creative component of this thesis, the novel Gris-gris, explores how a mother's betrayal of her daughter and the resulting rape of that daughter is reiterated through three following generations of women within the same family. In the contextualizing component, I explore approaches to effectively crafting the pivotal rape scenes in Gris-gris to avoid reducing the novel, in the reader's mind, to being primarily one "about rape". I did not want the scenes to be pornographic or voyeuristic, metaphorical or ambiguous. I wanted them to be honest and truly affecting - but not hijack the novel's central narrative, which is how one mother's betrayal reverberates through following generations. Two popular, literary novels with plots that hinge on rape scenes are Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits. The architecture and positioning of the rape scenes in these works has much to do with each novel's unique narrative power. My original contribution to knowledge, therefore, is a study -- from the point of view of a practicing creative writer -- of 1) how these two writers craft rape scenes in these novels and 2) how, in the writing of Gris-gris, I situate and develop my own practice in terms of craft, while responding to personal and social considerations. This study will inform the creative writer who is assessing how to modulate scenes of rape in literature as one novelist's considered approach to the delicate balances involved in crafting such scenes.
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Körber, Nicole. "Ein neuer therapeutischer Ansatz zur vorbeugenden Behandlung der pathologischen Myopie - Einfluss des skleralen Riboflavin/Blaulicht Cross-Linkings auf das Augenwachstum junger Kaninchen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220353.
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Die Arbeit umreißt das Krankheitsbild der Myopie (Kurzsichtigkeit) und deren unterschiedliche Ausprägungen, im Speziellen der progressiven und pathologischen Myopie. Hierbei wird ein Einblick in die Symptomatik, die anatomischen Ursachen und die heutigen medizinischen Interventionen gegeben. Hierdurch wird die Problematik einer zu „weichen“ Sklera (Lederhaut des Auges) und des damit einhergehenden fortschreitenden Augenwachstums deutlich. Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht ein neuer therapeutischer Ansatz zur vorbeugenden Behandlung der pathologischen Myopie; das Riboflavin/Blaulicht Cross-Linking der Sklera des Kaninchenauges.
Dessen Wirkungsweise ermöglicht die biomechanische Versteifung von kollagenem Gewebe. Aus diesem Sachverhalt ergibt sich die Fragestellung der Arbeit: Ist das sklerale Riboflavin/Blaulicht Cross Linking geeignet das Augenwachstum im Tiermodell (junge Kaninchen) verträglich zu hemmen?
Operationsbeeinflussende Parameter wie die Riboflavin-Durchdringungsdauer der Sklera und die sklerale Lichtdurchlässigkeit werden untersucht und für die Optimierung der Operationsmethode herangezogen und diskutiert. Zur Einschätzung des Versuchsansatzes werden die im Methodikteil dargelegten Anwendungen an adulten und jungen Kaninchen/Kaninchenaugen durchgeführt. In Tierversuchen wird die Schadensschwelle in Abhängigkeit der Blaulichtintensität, des Alters und der Pigmentierung untersucht, wobei histologische, immunhistochemische und elektronenmikroskopische Verfahren angewendet werden. Der inhibitorische Einfluss des Riboflavin/Blaulicht Cross-Linkings auf das Augenwachstum kann im Jungtiermodell durch verschiedene metrische Verfahren und MRT-Untersuchungen belegt werden.
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Štěpánek, Jaroslav. "Fotobiologická bezpečnost svítidel a světelných zdrojů." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-432468.
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This doctoral thesis called “Photobiological safety of luminaires and light sources” has focused on an optical radiation and its relation to human body. The thesis describes possible consequences on living tissue during excessive exposure to optical radiation. Among others the work deals with the light source, lamp and optical devices evaluation in dependence of photobiological safety. There is created a method of light source evaluation procedure for photobiological safety in accordance with ČSN EN 62471. The meaning of this procedure is based on its hazard calculation from measured values of irradiation to different photometric distances. Validity of procedure is verified by light source measuring, in which visual angle and photometric distance have been changed. There we can also find an application of this procedure in the UV source evaluation, which helps to determine a safe distance away from UV sources not to create any danger. The evaluated UV sources include a UVA luminaire with a dominant wavelength of 365 nm or an arc of an electric welder. The thesis also describes a method of evaluating light sources for blue light hazard for an aphakic and pseudophakic eye. This method can also help to determine the hazard for the eye without lens or with some implanted lens. Furthermore, there was developed the method of the blue light hazard assessment depending on the age of an exposed person. In terms of the work there was also created a computer programme evaluating photobiological safety resulting from the spectral data having been stored in the library programme or from spectroradiometric measurement data. The work also marginally deals with the topic of circadian rhythms, which are closely related to photobiological manifestation in an human body. Above all the work compares light sources for which equivalent illuminances are calculated, consequently light sources have the same effect on suppressing the melatonin hormone production.
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Watson, Khalilah Tyri. "Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/50.
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From fourteenth century medieval literature to contemporary American and African American literature, researchers have singled out and analyzed writing from every genre that is prophetic in nature, predicting or warning about events, both revolutionary and dire, to come. One twentieth-century American whose work embodies the essence of warning and foretelling through history-laden literature is Toni Morrison. This modern-day literary prophet reinterprets eras gone by through what she calls “re-memory” in order to guide her readers, and her society, to a greater understanding of the consequences of slavery and racism in America and to prompt both races to escape the pernicious effects of this heritage. Several critics have recognized and written about Morrison’s unique style of prophetic prose. These critics, however, have either taken a general cursory analysis of her complete body of works or they are only focused on one of her texts as a site of evidence. Despite the many critical essays and journal articles that have been written about Morrison as literary prophet, no critic has extensively investigated Morrison’s major works by way of textual analysis under this subject, to discuss Morrison prophetic prose, her motivation for engaging in a form of prophetic writing, and the context of this writing in a wider general, as well as an African-American, tradition. This dissertation takes on a more comprehensive, cross-sectional analysis of her works that has been previously employed, concentrating on five of Morrison’s major novels: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, in an order to assess how Morrison develops and infuses warnings and admonitions of biblical proportions. This investigation seeks to reveal Morrison’s motivation to prophecy to Americans, black and white, the context in which she engages with her historical and contemporary subjects, and the nature of the admonitions to present and future action she offers to what she sees as a contemporary generation of socially and historically oblivious African Americans, using literary prophecy as the tool by which to accomplish her objectives. This dissertation also demonstrates—by way of textual analysis and literary theory—the evolution through five novels of Morrison’s development as a literary prophet.
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Štěpánek, Jaroslav. "Fotobiologická bezpečnost světelných zdrojů a osvětlovacích soustav." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-220697.
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The thesis deals with the problems of the photobiological lamp and lamps systems safety. It is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part touches the basic knowledge concerning the eye and vision, eye and skin diseases caused by excessive exposure to non-ionizing radiation. And besides that there are described the sources of light causing the possible exposure and further more it includes the methodology of measurement and evaluation of photobiological safety. The practical part investigates a measurement of the spectrum of light sources. The measured data are evaluated according to the methods mentioned in the theoretical part.
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Elliott, Lewis Roland. "Physical activity in natural environments : importance of environmental quality, landscape type and promotional materials." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22411.
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Physical inactivity and disconnection from natural environments threatens human health. However, research has demonstrated that natural environments potentially support health-enhancing physical activity which could confer greater physical and mental health benefits than physical activity in other types of environment. This thesis approached the study of physical activity in natural environments through three related pieces of research. Firstly, an experimental study was carried out to explore how the presence of litter in beach environments affected psychophysiological responses to exercise. Responses to exercise did not differ in littered and clean conditions but there was evidence that order effects influenced findings. Visual attention to the two scenes differed, but did not mediate differences in psychophysiological responses. Secondly, analysis of a national dataset was undertaken to explore the form and quantity of physical activity conducted within natural environments in England. A series of linear regressions revealed that higher-intensity physical activities occurred in countryside environments, but more total energy expenditure occurred in coastal environments. Thirdly, a quantitative content analysis of brochures which promote recreational walking in natural environments was conducted which investigated their use of persuasive behavioural messages. These brochures omitted behavioural techniques which may be effective at motivating inactive individuals to walk. Extending this, an online survey tested whether improving brochure content heightened intentions to walk in natural environments. By designing content based on the theory of planned behaviour, the intentions of inactive individuals to undertake walking in natural environments were increased. The findings from this thesis demonstrate that the protection of natural environments is vital for preserving and promoting active recreation and could contribute to population-level increases in physical activity with theory-based promotion in the future.
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Marek, Veronika. "Impact de la lumière bleue sur la surface oculaire et la nociception." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUS512.
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Dans le monde moderne fortement éclairé par la lumière artificielle, la sensibilité accrue à l’illumination bleue semble affecter de plus en plus de personnes. L’association de composantes à la fois inflammatoire et neurologique dans les pathologies de la surface oculaire, au premier rang desquelles figure la sécheresse, est désormais largement reconnue ; le rôle de la lumière bleue et les mécanismes impliqués dans la phototoxicité au niveau de la surface oculaire méritent ainsi aujourd’hui d’être mieux expliqués. Le but de ce travail était d'étudier de potentiels effets nocifs de l'exposition à la lumière bleue dans le cadre de la sécheresse oculaire et en relation avec la nociception et la photophobie. Ainsi, nous rapportons in vitro l'effet toxique de la lumière bleue sur les cellules épithéliales de la cornée et de la conjonctive et sur les cellules neuronales et gliales du ganglion trijumeau. In vivo, l'aversion à la lumière bleue chez la souris était accompagnée par des processus inflammatoires spécifiques au niveau de la surface oculaire et le long des voies trigéminées. En outre, le rôle inédit des photorécepteurs non-visuels dans les voies nociceptives a été évoqué, plus spécifiquement via l’implication de la mélanopsine et de la neuropsine. Ces résultats fondamentaux corroborent de fréquents symptômes rencontrés en pratique clinique et liés à l'augmentation de la photosensibilité face aux écrans et dans les salles illuminées par les éclairages dont le spectre a une riche composante bleue. Ainsi, ce travail pourrait ouvrir de nouvelles voies pour la prévention et le traitement de la phototoxicité au niveau de la surface oculaire et de la photophobieIn our modern highly-illuminated world, symptoms of greater sensitivity to blue light increasingly appear. The impact of blue illumination on the ocular surface, the first barrier between the visual system and the external environment, is of particular interest. Since the crucial involvement of neurologic processes in ocular surface diseases such as dry eye is now widely recognized, the role of phototoxicity in neuro-ocular disorders is of great significance. The aim of this work was to investigate the potential harmful role of blue light in the context of dry eye and in relation to ocular nociception and light aversion. We demonstrated in vitro the phototoxic impact of blue light in human epithelial cells of the cornea and conjunctiva, and in neural and neuroglial cells from mouse trigeminal ganglia. In vivo, we reported that the significant aversion to blue light in mouse was accompanied by inflammation in the ocular surface and trigeminal pathways. We gave some insights into the ocular nociceptive pathways involved in photophobic mechanisms, together with the role of specific non-visual photoreceptors, melanopsin and neuropsin. This work sought to explain and corroborate frequent complaints about daily living increased photosensitivity in front of displays or under lightings rich in blue spectrum. Obtained results may therefore open new avenues for prevention and treatment of light-related ocular disorders and light aversion
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Silva, Luis Manuel Prata Dias Teixeira da. "Re-inserting Africa into African American : the roots of Toni Morrison's narrative technique in the Bluest Eye." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/744.
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Dan, Han-tzu, and 但漢慈. "Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye : A Platonic Reading." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46567929987295055613.
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In these technology-intensive modern times, those so called “higher”, or “better” value standards, or images are not neutral any more, but are actually molded and popularized by the dominant power system through different kinds of mass media, including newspapers, magazines, commercial advertisement, or even education at school. While in the process of ideological construction done by the ruling power, the weaker part is instructed at the same time the idea of self-denial and self-hatred. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, which was written in 1979, the most poignant victims in probably all of her works, Pecola Breedlove and her family, blindly accept all the dominant ideals of beauty and goodness, deny their own black background, and finally come to destruction in their end. This thesis aims to take Plato’s famous “Allegory of the Cave” as a reading method, by elaborating the relationship between the four elements: the cave, shadows, prisoners, and the puppeteers, to demonstrate how the dominant power system, or the western standard of goodness confines the black women in the novel. And at the same time, the thesis recognizes another black girl, Claudia, as one to escape successfully from the cave, and reminds the reader that one can still regain his identity or autonomy with the support from family and the community. Therefore, in Chapter One, there is a brief discussion over Plato’s Allegory of The Cave, and a connection between the allegory and The Bluest Eye. Then the first section in Chapter Two utilizes the important element from the allegory—the cave, to explain how the dominant power confines its prisoner geographically and psychologically within the novel. . And in this chapter also, we try to connect the “shadows” projected on the wall of the cave with the ideological symbols presented in the novel to examine how those artificial images structure the female characters’ value system. In Chapter Three, one can recognize some characters from The Bluest Eye as the “prisoners” of Plato’s cave, and can try to explain why these characters fail to escape from the imprisonment. Besides that, Chapter Three inevitably tries to explore the existence and identity of the puppeteers in the cave or that “mysterious all-knowing master” in the novel which brings the horrible misery to those black women. Poignantly but still promisingly, Chapter Four focuses on some characters that provide all the prisoners with hope and courage under the perpetual and unceasing darkness and imprisonment. And the conclusive chapter still focuses on the conception about imprisoning and escaping, to acknowledge Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a reminder which not only notifies her black people to value their own culture and identity, but also suggests to her every reader a re-thinking of all those too-easily-attainable images provided by all kinds of mass media.
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林侑青. "On The Translations of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30650366463860038665.
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Translation is not done in a vacuum, but rather influenced by varied factors. By studying the factors that manipulate the translated text we can examine how a translation comes into being. In the veins of cultural translation approach, the thesis examines mainly two translations of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye published in China and Taiwan. The main body of the thesis will be divided into three sections by three important factors noted by André Lefevere, namely patronage, ideology, and poetics. Chapter One will be an overview on Toni Morrison and her major works, and delineate the translating history of The Bluest Eye in the Chinese world. A brief translation commentary on Chen Su-dong’s and Ceng Zhen-zhen’s Chinese versions will be provided as well. Chapter Two will discuss the influence of patronage, which affects and shapes the final image of the translated text. Patronage also plays a significant role in the delay of translating Morrison’s works into Chinese and helps to establish her image through the academic circle. Chapter Three then will analyze how the translator’s (sub)conscious ideology influences his/her translation strategies, particularly focusing on Ceng Zhen-zhen’s intension of applying Taiwanese to translate Black English. The next chapter compares Chen’s and Ceng’s translations to see how the translators represent the Black America in Morrison’s novel or her idiosyncratic language and style. The aesthetic effect of Ceng’s attempt of fusing modern Chinese with Twaiwanese will be further investigated. Chapter Five will be the conclusion.
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Lin, Chieh-Ju, and 林潔茹. "Capitalism and Cultural Politics: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18417686803638785683.
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In The Bluest Eye, in addition to exposing sexual and racial tribulationsAfro-Americans encounter, more significantly, Toni Morrison also reveals that black suffering from sexism and racism is closely related to capitalism whichplays an important role in the process of the shaping of black-white powerrelations. In this dissertation, Marxist analysis of class society is appropriated to explain the forming of sexism and racism.
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Basbinar, Melike, and 梅莉可. "Pecola’s Impossible Dream in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46181621604645296221.
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Abstract In this thesis the author focuses on the role of the African-American character Pecola in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye, and in particularly on her dream of having blue eyes so that she can be both white and beautiful, and thus be accepted by the dominant white society in a small city in Ohio in 1941. Pecola’s obsession with being white is also set, in novel and in the thesis, in the context of Pecola’s problematic relationship with both her mother and father, who themselves often argue and, due to their own sense of being discriminated against, apparently give neither Pecola nor her brother the love they need. In fact, in a shocking scene late in the novel the father rapes his daughter out of love, hatred, anger and guilt. Pecola’s case is analyzed in the thesis in relation to the dominant white “Barbie doll” beauty standards that prevail in Middle America in the early 1940s, and her concern about her own face, her own self-image, is also discussed in the context of Lacan’s theory of the mirror stage, at which point an infant first realizes that he/she IS also that “other person” in the mirror, a stage followed by the imaginary stage in which the child has a sense of his/her imaginary and ideal “I”—where now we might think of the latter in relation to Pecola’s split (black-and-white) identity. The thesis then discusses at length the psychology and history of racism and slavery in Europe and particularly in the USA, which includes Marx’s capitalist explanation of the slave trade and the terrible treatment of black slaves—the ancestors of Morrison and Pecola—by white plantation owners in the southeastern USA in the 17th-19th centuries. The psychological feeling of extreme humiliation that African-Americans bring with them out of their past is then related to the gender-based issues of American black women’s mistreatment at the hands of both black and white men in the late 20th century and to some extent still today, and the issue of African-American women’s rights. Pecola’s rape by her own father, Cholly, is discussed in Chapter 2 and then looked at again in Chapter 5, which focuses on Morrison’s description of Cholly’s freewheeling and “chaotic” character in terms of the freedom and improvisation of jazz music and the blues, both of which were created by African Americans. This chapter then also looks briefly at Morrison’s own use of an “open” or “discordant” style that has been called jazz-like in many of her novels, and even in her first one, The Bluest Eye. Perhaps, it is suggested, this “bluest” catches the meaning of “feeling blue” as well as that of “beautiful blue eyes.”
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Lin, Jie-Ru, and 林潔茹. "Capitalism and Cultural Politics: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35605185233121623494.
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