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ELIAS, IVI VASCONCELOS. "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS: THE MEDIATION OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PROCESS AND THE SIGNATURE OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15382@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A presente dissertação faz uso do instrumental teórico da Resolução de Conflitos a fim de analisar o gerenciamento do conflito que opõe os grupos nacionalista católico e unionista protestante na Irlanda do Norte. Tal processo culminou com a assinatura do Acordo de Sexta Feira Santa em 10 de abril de 1998. A estratégia aplicada nas negociações previa a atuação simultânea em duas frentes: na elaboração de um acordo que estabelecia o compartilhamento de instituições políticas e na construção da confiança entre as partes concentrada na questão da deposição de armas pelos grupos paramilitares. Essa dissertação busca problematizar a mediação como um processo de resolução de conflitos de natureza elitista que encara o conflito como um problema essencialmente de barganha. Compreende-se que a mediação não encoraja a reconciliação entre as comunidades antagônicas e a geração de uma cultura de cooperação política, falhando em promover a confiança entre as partes e ocasionando impasses na implementação do acordo de paz. Embora a mediação tenha sido fundamental para oferecer uma alternativa política para as partes beligerantes, o conflito na região permaneceu latente com a escalada da violência em momentos cruciais de progresso das negociações. Este estudo conclui que a concretização do acordo deveu-se muito ao esgotamento da sociedade civil e ao reconhecimento das partes da impossibilidade de vencer o conflito pela via armada. Essa conclusão aponta a necessidade de se complementar a abordagem elitista com iniciativas de resolução de conflitos constituídas no seio da sociedade civil para explicar a evolução do processo de paz na Irlanda do Norte rumo à transformação do conflito e à construção de uma paz positiva.
This dissertation analyzes from a Conflict Resolution perspective the process of conflict management between catholic nationalists and protestant unionists in Northern Ireland. This process ended with the signature of the Good Friday Agreement in April of 1998. The strategy employed in the negotiations presupposed a twin track approach: the elaboration of a power sharing political arrangement and the implementation of confidence building measures for the decommissioning of arms by paramilitary groups. This dissertation aims to problematize mediation as an elitist conflict resolution process that considers conflict essentially in terms of a bargaining problem. Mediation is understood as a process that does not encourage the reconciliation of antagonist communities and the generation of a culture of cooperation, failing to promote confidence between the parties and imposing setbacks in the implementation of the peace agreement. Although mediation was able to offer to the belligerents parties a political alternative, the conflict in the region remained latent, with the escalation of violence during crucial moments when the negotiations were moving forward. This study concludes that the peace agreement was achieved much due to the disengagement of civil society in the conflict and the recognition of the parties that they would not win the conflict by forceful means. This conclusion points to the necessity of complementing the elitist approach with civil society conflict resolution initiatives in order to explain the evolution of the peace process in Northern Ireland towards conflict transformation and positive peace.
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Ballard, Lauren. "Albert Camus: A Conscientious Witness." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/458.

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This essay examines The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Rebel (1951). I have chosen these three works in an effort to triangulate Camus' intellectual development, his persistent interest in literature, and the historical background against which these take place. Sisyphus and The Rebel are Camus' two major philosophical essays. The former belongs to Camus' "First Cycle" of writing, in which he focused on the concept of "the Absurd"; the latter belongs to Camus' "Second Cycle", in which he focused on the theme of "revolt." Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus during the Nazi occupation of Paris, an event which he witnessed and experienced and which also served as the inspiration for his novel The Plague. Though the two books are connected by this event, thematically The Plague belongs to Camus' Second Cycle. For this reason, it serves as an illuminating work, demonstrating the importance of fiction to Camus' intellectual process and his particular way of thinking. From Sisyphus to The Rebel, Camus' argument for fiction comes down to the opportunity it offers to describe life rather than explain it. In his opinion, the best novelists exhibit the very philosophy that should generally govern human behavior. These novelists limit themselves to what they can be sure of – namely, their personal experiences; they patiently explore what it is like to live on this earth – how human beings deal with each other, manage their environments, and cope with the often tremendous complexities of life. Not co-incidentally, Camus' fiction took special interest in death of all kinds – from murder to sickness to suicide – in order to remind his readers that life is finite. According to Camus, writing fiction is a way to keep the reader conscious of the human condition, because good fiction plainly exhibits life as it is and death as our common fate. By reflecting on good literature, readers may form their own life ethic.
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Fiedler, Randy M. "Possibilities for Humanism in a Contemporary Setting: Camus' Absurd Humanism." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1165600212.

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Bastian, Aeneas. "Le mythe littéraire de Sisyphe." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040020.

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La présente thèse est consacrée au mythe de Sisyphe dans la littérature européenne et américaine. En suivant une démarche comparatiste, elle retrace son évolution diachronique de ses origines dans les poésies homériques jusqu'à nos jours. L'étude des nombreuses versions du mythe met en évidence son développement à travers les époques en présentant ses principales constantes et variantes. La thèse analyse les fondements du mythe dans la littérature grecque et latine aussi bien que les relectures qu'il connaît dès le Moyen Age, et notamment au XIXe et au XXe siècle. Ce travail montre la fécondité et l'adaptabilité du mythe de Sisyphe, personnage considéré comme astucieux et démesuré dans les Lettres de l'Antiquité. Le châtié sert de comparant dans les contextes les plus divers : il représente la souffrance de l'amoureux malheureux, la vanité de l'ambition et l'inutilité de certains types de travail. Rattaché à l'absurde par Albert Camus, le mythe est souvent politisé dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle
This thesis aims at studying the myth of Sisyphus in European and American literature. Adopting a comparative approach, the thesis retraces its chronological evolution from its origins in Homeric poetry to the present day. The investigation of the numerous versions of the myth sheds light on its development throughout the ages and gives an account of its principal constant and varying elements. The thesis analyses the foundation of the myth in Greek and Latin literature as well as its reinterpretations since the Middle Ages, especially in the nineteenth and in the twentieth century. This study shows the fertility and the adaptability of the myth of Sisyphus, a person considered to be crafty and immoderate in ancient literature. The punished serves as a term of comparison in a diversity of contexts: he represents the suffering of the unfortunate lover, the vanity of ambition and the futility of certain types of labour. Linked to the absurd by Albert Camus, the myth is frequently politicised in the second half of the twentieth century
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Gardner, Kai. "Into the Fray : Norman Jacobson, the Free Speech Movement and the Clash of Commitments." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1432128501.

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Anderson, Ardis. "Sisyphus rests, an exploration into the justification of equality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ57212.pdf.

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Sullivan, Eric David. "Being Sisyphus: A writing pedagogy for at-risk students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2450.

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This thesis discussess the limitations of the standards-based movement and suggests that some schools, especially those whose mission it is to work exclusively with at-risk students, need to be allowed to set local behavioral standards before any consideration can be given to setting and teaching academic standards. It mainly focuses on Phoenix High School, a community day school in the Corona-Norco Unified School District, and discusses how the standards based movement is not suited to meet the needs of its students.
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Smith, S. Andrew (Stuart Andrew) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. ""Renovating" Sisyphus: Vietnam's peasant-state dialogue of revolution and resistance." Ottawa, 1994.

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Audin, Marie-Louise. "Pour une sémiotique du Mythe de Sisyphe de Camus thèmes et métaphores au service de l'absurde." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37594465q.

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Audin, Marie-Louise. "Pour une sémiotique du "Mythe de Sisyphe" de Camus : Thèmes et métaphores au service de l'absurde." Nancy 2, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985NAN21012.

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Yu, Sin. "Ikarus, Dädalus, Sisyphus : drei mythische Modelle des Widerstands bei Wolf Biermann." Berlin wvb, Wiss. Verl. Berlin, 2005. http://www.wvberlin.de/data/inhalt/yoo.htm.

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Vernon, K. "The Stone of Sisyphus : Numerical taxonomy and the taxonomists' search for respectability." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383922.

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Hafner, Sonja J. "Sisyphus und Machiavelli bei der Arbeit ganzheitliche Produktionssysteme zwischen Mythen und Realitäten." München Mering Hampp, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992791065/04.

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Roma, Jennifer. "Zadie Smith as the postcolonial Sisyphus a neo-postcolonial examination of On Beauty /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/441854030/viewonline.

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Krueger, September Zoller Christine. "Nascent Myth." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2673.

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Dorman, Daniel. "Creation Myth." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1493918336967034.

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Livornese, Karen Elizabeth. "Unfinished myth." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53292.

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I have always claimed that places are stronger than people, the fixed scene stronger than the transitory succession of events. This is the theoretical basis not of my Architecture, but of Architecture itself.
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De, Kytspotter Vincent. "Le renseignement dans les opérations de maintien de la paix des Nations Unies ou le mythe de Sisyphe des Casques bleus." Thesis, Paris 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA020017.

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Alors que le renseignement et l’ONU apparaissent encore comme un oxymore du fait d’une vieille méfiance remontant à la guerre froide et de tentatives clandestines d’instrumentalisation des Nations Unies par ses Etats membres, le renseignement d’intérêt militaire est désormais peu à peu devenu un facteur essentiel d’efficacité opérationnelle des déploiements des Casques bleus. L’analyse de plusieurs cas d’OMP depuis une vingtaine d’années démontre qu’elles sont considérées comme impliquant des missions de renseignement dont l’activité principale est la recherche de l’information par l’observation, en totale conformité avec les principes du maintien de la paix. La multiplication des OMP dans des contextes fortement dégradés et soumis à des menaces asymétriques, rend les OMP dépendantes du renseignement d’intérêt militaire qui est désormais un formidable multiplicateur d’effets et de forces. Ce phénomène induit aussi une augmentation exponentielle des informations recueillies ainsi que la nécessité de mieux les exploiter et les stocker, tant au niveau opératif que stratégique. L’émergence du concept de protection des civils, placé au cœur de chaque mandat d’OMP, rend la détention d’une capacité autonome de renseignement incontournable afin de permettre aux autorités de l’ONU de disposer de l’ensemble des informations pour décider d’agir en toute connaissance de cause. Certes la nature même du renseignement n’est pas compatible avec l’état de multilatéralité car il repose sur une relation de confiance approfondie entre les différents producteurs et consommateurs du renseignement. Acquérir une capacité autonome de recueil et d’analyse nécessite donc de développer un corpus doctrinal adapté aux Nations Unies et de formaliser les actions de renseignement afin de rassurer ses Etats membres
While Intelligence and the UN still appear as an oxymoron because of an old mistrust that goes back to the Cold war era and secret attempts of instrumentalization of the United Nations by its member States, Military Intelligence has been gradually considered as an essential factor of operational efficiency of peacekeepers deployments. The analysis of former PKOs shows that they are valued as intelligence missions, of which the main activity is the collection through information by observation, in total conformity with peacekeeping principles. The multiplication of the PKOs in strongly deteriorated contexts, and additionally subjected to asymmetric threats, makes PKOs strongly dependent on Military Intelligence, which is henceforth widely considered as a great multiplier of effects and strengths. This phenomenon also leads to an exponential increase of gathered information as well as the necessity of better exploiting them and of storing them, just as well at the operational level, as at the strategic one. The emergence of the concept of protection of the civilians, placed at the core of each and every PKO mandate, makes inescapable the holding of an autonomous Intelligence capacity, in order to allow the senior UN authorities to decide and to act with full awareness. Indeed the nature of Intelligence is hardly compatible with the state of multilateralism, for it relies on a deep relationship of trust between the various producers and consumers of Intelligence. Acquiring an autonomous capacity of collection and analysis thus requires to develop a doctrinal corpus adapted to the United Nations and to formalize the actions of Intelligence in order to reassure its member States
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Englert, Barbara [Verfasser], Gerhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Rempe, and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Fierlinger. "Sisyphus-Kühlung von polyatomaren Molekülen / Barbara Englert. Gutachter: Peter Fierlinger ; Gerhard Rempe. Betreuer: Gerhard Rempe." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1047185369/34.

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Vcislo, Mark Vance. "Sartre's creation myth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0016/MQ27551.pdf.

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Miller, Lucasta. "The Bronte myth." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439846.

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Hanks, Jennifer R. "Myth Protagonist X." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2158.

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Oliveri, Christopher J. "The Untethered Myth." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428652540.

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Vasiliadou, Xanthippi. "Myth, Myth-Making and the Formation of Cultural Identity in Greece." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514220.

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This research addresses the place of myth in the constitution of the nation and the construction of cultural identities in Greece. Considering the ever-changing nature of identity in postmodern analyses, it focuses attention on Greek museums and their potential as loci for the formation of new identities within the contemporary socio-cultural context. Furthermore, it concerns the ways they can work together with schools by reinforcing their educational role both as learning and cultural centres. In present times, with homogenization and continuity being challenged under the pressure of internal and external changes and the emerging quest for cultural diversity, collective identities need to be redefined. Therefore, I suggest that myths offer a negotiable cultural context connected with the museums' and schools' identity work embracing both the preservation of traditions and cultural innovation. I consequently introduce a project with the intention of exploring the dynamics of this relationship by way of a pilot study across museums and secondary schools working with myths in Greece. Through it, and by analysis of its consequences and implications, I hope to make a contribution to the development of culturally inclusive approaches in the museum
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Siani-Davies, Peter John. "The Romanian revolution of 1989 : myth and reality - myth or reality?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338645.

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Augustus, Brent C. "Man and myth studying the power myth and folklore has over man /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Zimmerman, Erin. "MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/710.

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Making Myth Matter analyzes the influence of classical myths and their adaptations on cultural values and offers a prescription for how the adaptation process may be improved for cultural sensitivity. My concern is to address the troubling treatment and interpretation of acquaintance rape in three Greek myths: Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela. I see the treatment of the rape in these myths' adaptations from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Timberlake Wertenbaker and Joanna Laurens as creating metanarratives that shame rape survivors and demean the violence of the rape act. I begin the scholarly portion of the dissertation by examining the difference between narrative: the events of a story, and metanarrative: the discursive function of the story. I address the contemporary Western understanding of rape and survivors' experiences, which reflect how influential metanarratives are in survivors' healing process. I further explain the care that is necessary in adapting myths involving rape because of those myths' strong influence on attitudes cultural attitudes about rape. I analyze the variety of adaptations of the three myths and how disempowering most have been. I use Neil LaBute's bash as an example of care in adaptation being a play that asks questions of the audience but does not provide answers. I see LaBute as engaging the tradition of catharsis without offering its comforting closure, creating a contemporary response to classical work that engages the values of the culture to which it is addressed. I finally provide a set of terms I believe necessary to follow in order to create considered adaptations. In my creative response, which forms the second half of the dissertation, I adapt the myths of Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela to create metanarratives that empower survivors and engage cultural prejudices against them and their experiences. Through the writing process, I find my own understanding of the survivor experience challenged and explore the idea of adaptation an action of catharsis in itself.
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Woloshyn, Cameron. "Myth, image, dianoia: Situating the myth of Er on the Divided Line." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28117.

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Perennially, investigations into Plato's use of myths have hinged on a distinction between muthos and logos, from which logos is privileged as philosophical discourse, while muthoi are relegated to tools of persuasion for the non-philosophical. Focussing exclusively on the Republic, this thesis argues that Plato's myths can constitute a necessary, although not a sufficient component of Plato's philosophical discourse. In his discussion of the section of dianoiu in the Divided Line, Plato writes: "the soul, using as images the things that were imitated before, is forced to investigate from hypotheses, proceeding not to a first principle but to a conclusion (510b4-6)." Elaborating on this passage, I shall demonstrate how dianoetic understandings rely on the collaboration of both images and argument. I argue that Plato presents the Myth of Er as a dianoetic image, on which Plato's arguments concerning the justice rely.
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Scott, Emma. "The nature of myth." Click here to view, 2010. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/socssp/15/.

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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2010.
Project advisor: Stacey Rucas. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Apr. 20, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Plum, Guclu Emily Lupita. "The myth of gravity." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.

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Saunders, George A. "The myth of cyberfaith." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230604.

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This study used random sample survey data from the Middletown Area Survey of 2000 to examine the use of the Internet for religious purposes. The survey data was supplemented by follow-up phone interviews with survey respondents who identified themselves as frequent users of the Internet for religious purposes. Two hypotheses were tested: the Church Dissatisfaction Hypothesis - that religious use of the Internet is positively correlated with church dissatisfaction, and the Conservative Religiosity Hypothesis - that religious use of the Internet is positively correlated with conservative religiosity. This study found no evidence for the Church Dissatisfaction Hypothesis, but did find evidence for the Conservative Religiosity Hypothesis. In fact, 80% of those who used the Internet for religious purposes fit the study's definition of conservative religiosity.
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Crichton, Michele Gaynor. "The myth of inclusion?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6500.

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The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action (UNESCO 1994) embedded the idea of inclusive education and its guiding principles were the motivational forces behind the UK policy document Excellence for All Children (DfES 1997). Yet since that time, there has been a range of outcomes for schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parent/carers. To help explain these outcomes, the thesis has sought to draw parallels between inclusion and myth. The research question asks, to what extent can inclusion be considered to be a myth? A discourse analysis was carried out on eight selections from key documents used to implement and perpetuate an inclusion agenda. Four questions were used to 'search for patterns', consider differences or similarities and to consider the 'participants orientation'. This was in terms of the effects and outcomes inclusion has had for the 'participants' within it, namely, schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parents/carers. An extensive literature analysis was also used to consider six dimensions of myth across four themes of inclusion. These six dimensions were myth as the popularised notion of a widely held but mistaken notion, the narrative qualities of myth, myth's complex nature, its relevance to some and not other, the quality myth has of perpetuating over time, and myth's ability to move people and have an inspirational quality. The four themes of inclusion were defining inclusion, implementing inclusion in consideration of schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parent/carers. To draw a conclusion to the research question a criterion was used to view the extent each dimension matched with myth. The thesis considered that although there was mixed evidence, inclusion appears to have many of the characteristics of myth, with myth is a widely held but false notion and its narrative qualities matching most substantially.
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Wilkinson, Alexia A. (Alexia Anne) Carleton University Dissertation Journalism. "Journalism, myth and metaphor." Ottawa, 1993.

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Hargreaves, Julian. "Islamophobia : reality or myth?" Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80451/.

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This thesis examines the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ using statistical data from available large-scale social surveys. The primary aim of the presented research is to determine the extent to which available statistical data support or challenge assertions and conclusions concerning ‘Islamophobia’ found within recent scholarly and policy literature. It uses five large social survey datasets containing data collected and made available between 2006 and 2011. In total, these data relate to the reported attitudes and experiences of over 15,000 Muslim respondents in respect of crime victimization, discrimination and attitudes towards British society and the British state, and the reported attitudes of over 300,000 non-Muslim respondents towards Muslims and Islam. The central contention of this thesis is that available statistics challenge the scholarly literature in that they suggest a more nuanced and complex picture of Muslim victimization and discrimination than the one offered by the various conceptualizations of ‘Islamophobia’ within the literature. Although there is an expansive and expanding body of published research concerning British Muslim communities, ‘Islamophobia’, anti-Muslim discrimination and anti-Islamic sentiment, recent studies have been dominated largely by political, rhetorical or polemical writing, and by qualitative research designs that have used only small samples. This study of nationally representative survey data aims to make a contribution towards criminology and the social sciences by offering a large-scale quantitative study of ‘Islamophobia’ and British Muslim communities and the foundation of an evidence base for future research in this area.
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Atwood, Sandra Bartlett. "Understanding myth and myth as understanding| An interdisciplinary approach to mytho-logic narration." Thesis, Utah State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586765.

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I wanted to see if there were points of overlap between the various accounts of creation found in folklore, philosophy and physics. In order to justify such a project, I initially considered literature from each of these disciplines regarding the necessity of interdisciplinary dialogue generally and specifically the need for both intuition and logic when considering how anything actually exists. Through my research and casual observation, I hypothesized that opposition seemed to be a universal characteristic of nature. I then looked at how each discipline has described fundamentally opposing pairs and created a list of primary features that those accounts had in common. Finally, I demonstrated (in my study The Symmetry of God) the utility of an interdisciplinary approach to myth by showing how science and philosophy can improve our understanding of myth and conversely how folklore (myth in particular) may suggest meaningful and potentially revolutionary relationships not yet considered by science.

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Formby, Zoë. "The myth of 9/11." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11900/.

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Conceptualisations of modern literary history are premised upon a series of dynastic successions, whereby one is able to trace, albeit simplistically, the evolution of the novel through its realist, modernist and postmodernist manifestations. Considered in this linear manner, the emergence of altered cultural movements is ordinarily attributed to a crisis within the former mood; as society ruptures and alters, existing modes of representation prove inadequate to reflect, or else engage with, the emergent structure of feeling. As an event with far-reaching implications, many critics and cultural commentators have attributed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 with the inception of an altered global mood. Moreover, in the days and weeks following 9/11, the publication of a number of articles penned by authors emphasised the extent to which the event had precipitated a profound crisis in representation. As an ever greater number of articles and studies emerged proclaiming the final death knell of postmodernism and the emergence of a more anxious global mood, so the myth of 9/11 quickly developed. The thesis rests upon a very simple question: to what extent has 9/11 precipitated a change in the novel? Through examining a wide range of fictions published largely within Britain in the last fifteen years, the study explores and ultimately dispels the assumptions of the myth. Rather than examining the fictional representation of 9/11, the study’s focus is on assessing the significance of the novel after the event, and moreover on interrogating the manner in which the terrorist attacks might have engendered a shift in the contemporary mood that is reflected in the subsequent novels published. Through emphasising the novelistic concerns and themes that transcend the assumed cultural rift, the thesis proposes that the ‘post-9/11 mood’ might more usefully be interpreted as an exacerbation of an already existing structure of feeling that responds to the banal superficiality of the postmodern condition.
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McNeill, William Edgar Sainsbury. "The myth of the hidden." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/17259/.

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Traditionally, it has been supposed that both minds and mental states are unobservable. If the mind and its contents are hidden in this way, our knowledge of others' mental lives would have to be indirect. In this thesis, I argue that it is not plausible to suppose that all of our knowledge, of others mental lives is indirect. It is more plausible to suppose that sometimes, we can perceive others' mental states. Thereby, we can sometimes come to have direct, perceptual knowledge of when another is in some mental state. The hypothesis that we can sometimes perceive each others' mental states is plausible because it is possible, and because if it were true, it would best explain our knowledge of others' mental states. It is possible to perceive others' mental states, because others' behaviours need not conceal those states. Rather, what behaviour sometimes does is to reveal another's mental state. When behaviour acts this way, knowledge of another's mental state need not rest on any beliefs about their behaviour. If others' behaviour could inform us of their mental states only in so far as it could be our evidence of their mental states, then the evidence it would provide could not be sufficient to secure all the knowledge we take ourselves to have about others’ mental states. If so, the claim that all we have to go on in discovering how others think or feel is the evidence of their behaviour could not hope to explain that knowledge. So, only if it were true that others' behaviour sometimes enabled us to perceive their mental states could we adequately explain all our knowledge of their mental states. For these reasons, I claim that the hiddenness of the mental is a myth.
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Lai, Hoi-yan, and 黎藹欣. "Beauty myth in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B21375525.

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(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Beauty Myth in Hong Kong submitted by Lai Hoi Van for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in February 2000 After the first and second waves of feminism, women in Western societies have the right to vote and work in public. However, in late capitalism, many scholars proclaim images of female beauty are used as a new political weapon against women's advancement. This weapon is the beauty myth. The general popularity of feminine culture of beauty and the abundance of related beauty consumption can be observed in Hong Kong. In order to find out how the beauty myth is operating in Hong Kong and whether women are the victims being hindered from social advancement because of the beauty myth, the case of Hong Kong is investigated. There are two parts of the research. The first part makes use of secondary and primary data on the positions of women in Hong Kong to construct the dominant standard of beauty. It is found that the positions of women in Hong Kong are not as advanced as women in Western developed countries in terms of work, education and family. In addition, the existence of a dominant standard of beauty can also be found in Hong Kong from analysis of beauty parlors, magazines and beauty guidebook contents. The second part of the research is an ethnography of 13 respondents who are supposed to be the victims of the beauty myth. It is discovered that they generally accept the dominant standard of beauty but negotiations and personal politics are detected in their daily encounters with the myth. They are not "cultural dopes" but express certain degrees of agency. They actively make choices under the circumstances not of their own making. In their beauty practices, they find the specific women's community and knowledge, in which pleasure is intertwined. Combining the macroscopic and the microscopic parts of research, women's pursuits of beauty should not be narrowed down to a totalitarian statement. For the advancement of women in Hong Kong, the present forms of beauty need not be abandoned. More perspectives and options in terms of beauty and other aspects of life such as work and education, have to be provided for women, as well as for men. The positions of women in education, work and family can only be advanced with the general political awareness of women and the struggle to change the structure. To advance the structure, the present ideologies of femininity and masculinity based on dualism have to be changed. Education, mass media and the present feminine communities of beauty can be viewed as the sites promoting a new political awareness.
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Lindenmeyer, Antje. "Autobiography as myth of origin." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4031/.

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The following PhD thesis will explore the connection between autobiography and myth of origin: On the one hand, I am concerned with the ways in which women autobiographers rewrite classical myths of origin; on the other hand, I contend that autobiography itself is a myth of origin, a recreation of the forces that created the narrator. Throughout this thesis, I will develop two main themes: the first is the use of myth as a framework for autobiographical writing. This is possible because of myth's characteristic double focus on the universal and on the particular version, the historical context. Myth allows feminist autobiographers to connect themselves to universal truths from which they are barred by patriarchal tradition and to carve out their own, highly personal version. The second theme is that the autobiographers depict the origin as the core of the self and utterly Other. First, the narrator has to rely on the stories of other people, or a 'family memory'. Second, the past can be seen as connected to or leaving traces in the present; at the same time, it can be completely Other and incompehensible. Third, the autobiographical I is often cut off from her origins, and a constructive return that integrates the past and the present self is only possible through a deliberate act of mythmaking: It is mythmaking and storytelling that provides a connection between self and Other. I hope to make a contribution to feminist theory of autobiography as well as to feminist theory. Reading autobiography as myth of origin approaches the persistent problem of the relationship between the historical author and the autobiographical self. Moreover, I will explore the the specific relation between women and origins, and address the necessity for feminist theory to develop a framework where self and Other are intimately connected.
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Fawcett, Jacob. "Corporate ideology and legal myth." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3420.

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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.
Vita: p. 105. Thesis director: Denise Albanese. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-104). Also issued in print.
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DeSantis, Gary G. "Penn State: Symbol and Myth." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002889.

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Mueller, Johanna. "Creature alterations, myth & transformations." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4568.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 72. Thesis director: Helen Frederick. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Technology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71). Also issued in print.
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Gale, Monica R. "Myth and poetry in Lucretius /." Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357278268.

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Fürstenow-Khositashvili, Lily. "Anselm Kiefer – myth versus history." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16637.

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Eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Kunst ist es, unser kulturelles Gedächtnis zu aktivieren, zu errinnern was ist vergessen oder absichtlich in die Vergessenheit gezwungen wurde, selbst wenn das alte Wunde bluten lasst und traumatisch erscheint. Jedes Mal ist das Element der Kritik die ausschlaggebende Komponente der künstlerischen Arbeit, sie charakterisiert nicht nur den Künstler, und die Zeit in der er/sie lebt, sondern auch den Zuschauer, genauer: wie weit ist der Künstler bereit zu gehen und wie weit sind die Zuschauer bereit ihm zu folgen, im Rückblick manchmal mehr ersteres als letzteres. In meiner Arbeit analysiere ich die Aspekte von Mythologie, Geschichte und deren sozio-politische Relevanz in den Arbeiten von Anselm Kiefer, der Künstler der mit seinen Werken unsere Wahrnehmung der Geschichte, vor allem der deutschen Geschichte, beeinflust und in Frage gestellt hat.
It is one of the major tasks of art to revive our cultural memory and to sharpen our senses, to remind whatever has been forgotten or is being purposefully given to oblivion and to predict whatever the future might have in store even if it causes old wounds bleed anew. Each time the element of critique, being one of the crucial components of artistic work, characterises not only the artist, the time he/she lives in, but also the spectator: precisely, how far the artist is prepared to go and how much the spectator is prepared to accept, in retrospect more the latter than the former. My work analyses the problems of mythology, history and their socio-political relevance on the examples of works by Anselm Kiefer, the artist whose work is irrevocably related to history, German history in the first place, the artistic means of remembrance as well as the role of mythology in our collective memory.
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Mongold, Neal J. (Neal Joseph). "Community architecture : myth and reality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78981.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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This thesis examines the origins and the claims of the community architecture movement. Community architecture, which has recently attracted considerable professional attention in the U.K., is a movement that argues for the importance of user involvement in the design, construction. and management of the environment. Many theoreticians see the movement as a reaction to the disastrous failures of modern architecture and planning schemes. The important lesson that community architects claim to have learned from these failures is that participation is a better process than anticipation with regard to the users and their environmental needs. Definitions of community architecture are often vaguely delimited, and can encompass other activities such as community planning, community development. community technical aid, and community landscaping. This study presents a summary of the "new" techniques used by community architects, and then explores the nature of the claims that such practitioners have made. Using five well-publicized case studies of community architecture. the following three fundamental claims are evaluated: a) User participation leads to greater user satisfaction. b) User participation is more economical, at least in the long-term. c) User participation produces psychological and sociological benefits. There is a lack of definitive proof as to the superiority of the community architecture method, although the experience thus far suggest that the p~rticipatory approach produces environments of equal merit as the results of a high quality nonparticipatory process. Since it seems that the objective benefits of community architecture may not, by themselves, justify the extra initial cost of the practice, the question of political implications and appeal is explored. Concern for the survival and growth of the movement has led some advocates to claim that community architecture is apolitcial. but this myth is refuted here. Finally, an attempt is made to understand what elements of community architecture are applicable to the context of the United States, and what changes would be necessary for housing groups to allow for user participation in design.
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Loke, Wei Sue. "The myth of 'semantic ambiguity'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621109.

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Havers, R. P. W. "Changi : from myth to history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272826.

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Ostovich, Marta E. "Masada: excavation of a myth." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27736.

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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Sousa, Marco António Couto. "Star Wars: escape to myth." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/9734.

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Esta tese propõe-se a procurar explicações para a popularidade da saga de filmes levando em linha de conta o contexto cultural e histórico no qual A Guerra das Estrelas encontrou a sua génese. Desde os primeiros anos de vida do mentor da saga, George Lucas, fontes de inspiração para a série de filmes são exploradas, e ligações são estabelecidas com outros objectos culturais previamente existentes ou posteriores à saga. Premissa central a esta tese é a de que A Guerra das Estrelas veicula, por parte do seu autor uma leitura alternativa à história recente dos Estados Unidos, particularmente à participação norte-americana na guerra do Vietnam. O caminho proposto foi o do Mito como fator regenerador. Seguindo a uma abordagem teórica relativa ao contributo de diferentes disciplinas para o estudo do Mito tais como antropologia, história, psicologia, religião, semiologia ou sociologia; é abordada a forma como são endereçadas política e ideologia na saga de filmes. Uma análise relativa ao género cinematográfico, tendo em consideração a fluidez do conceito, ajuda a identificar a saga de filmes como transcendendo género, englobando elementos relativos à ficção-científica, ao Western ou mesmo à telenovela. O derradeiro capítulo discrimina personagens arquetípicas (heróis, vilões e mentores) que fortalecem o argumento de que a saga de filmes alcançou o estatuto de mito na sociedade contemporânea.
This thesis aims to search for explanations for the popularity of the saga of films taking into consideration the cultural and historical background in which Star Wars had its genesis. From the early years in the life of its creator, George Lucas, sources of inspiration for the space opera are explored, and connections to other previously exiting or posterior cultural objects are made. Central to this thesis is also the idea that Star Wars elicits on behalf of its creator an alternative reading of recent American history, particularly of the Vietnam War. The route proposed was that of Myth as a significant healing factor. Following a theoretical approach to the contribution of different subjects to the study of Myth such as anthropology, history, psychology, religion, semiology or sociology; the way ideology and politics are addressed in the Star Wars saga are the focus of attention and study. An analysis of film genre, bearing in mind the fluidity of the concept, helps to identify this saga of films as transcending genre, encompassing elements from science-fiction, to the Western or even soap opera. The final chapter discriminates archetypal characters (heroes, villains, mentors) who are consistent with the argument that the saga of films has itself achieved the status of influential myth in contemporary society.
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Tanous, Helen Stone. "Myth, Logic, and the Monster." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243016152.

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