Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'William Surrey'

This thesis is a survey of the work in poetry and prose of William Livingston or Uilleam Mac Dhunl`eibhe, the Islay bard (1808-70). The version of his English surname without final `e' has been preferred because it is used in the definitive, 1882 edition of his poems and throughout the text (but not in the title) of the section of his own clan in the Vindication. The first chapter, `Biography and Background', gathers the available information on the poet's life, and attempts to set him in the context of the cultural, social and economic situation of Islay during the century preceding his birth. The second chapter, `The Intellectual Background', investigates Livingston's reading and his knowledge and use of historical and antiquarian texts. His familiarity with the traditionary version of the origins of the Scottish monarchy, elaborated by patriotic historians before the Union, is especially interesting. Chapter Three, `Polemicist and Historian', looks in detail at a work Livingston edited for publication, MacNichol's remarks on Dr Johnson's account of his journey through Gaelic Scotland, before turning to the poet's longest prose work, the Vindication of the Celtic Character. His shorter pamphlets and the incomplete History of Scotland are also examined. The fourth and fifth chapters explore Livingston's attitude to James Macpherson and to the Gaelic version of his Ossian, and attempt to decide to what extent and in what way he was influenced by the earlier poet. Explicit references to Macpherson in the poetry and prose are surveyed before the triangular relationship between Livingston the poet, Macpherson's work, and ballad material of various degrees of genuineness is discussed. The next two chapters offer close readings of the two major battle poems, `Na Lochalannaich an Ile' and `Bl`ar Shunadail', while Chapters Eight and Nine look at the shorter battle poems, ranging from Mons Graupius, in the first century of the Christian era, to the battle at Gruinard Bay on Islay, which took place just before the union of the crowns, and the battles of Alma and Balaclava in the Crimean War. Chapter Ten is devoted to Livingston's poetry of the Clearances. Its two main focuses are `Cuimhneachan Bhraid-Alba' and `Fios thun a' Bh`aird', and the thesis ends with a close reading of this, perhaps his most famous poem.

This thesis is concerned with one key aspect of the reception of the vernacular poetry of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), namely translations and imitations of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Rvf) and Triumphi in English. It aims to provide a more comprehensive survey of the vernacular Petrarch’s legacy to English literature than is currently available, with a particular focus on some hitherto critically neglected texts and authors. It also seeks to ascertain to what degree the socio-historical phenomena of religion, politics, and culture have influenced the translations and imitations in question. The approach has been both chronological and comparative. This strategy will demonstrate with greater clarity the monumental effect of the Elizabethan Reformation on the English reception of Petrarch. It proposes a solution to the problem of the long gap between Geoffrey Chaucer’s re-writing of Rvf 132 and the imitations of Wyatt and Surrey framed in the context of Chaucer’s sophisticated imitative strategy (Chapter I). A fresh reading of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella is offered which highlights the author’s misgivings about the dangers of textual misinterpretation, a concern he shared with Petrarch (Chapter II). The analysis of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion in the same chapter reveals a hitherto undetected Ovidian subtext to Petrarch’s Rvf 190. Chapter III deals with two English versions of the Triumphi: I propose a date for Lord Morley’s translation which suggests it may be the first post- Chaucerian English engagement with Petrarch; new evidence is brought to light which identifies the edition of Petrarch used by William Fowler as the source text for his Triumphs of Petrarcke. The fourth chapter constitutes the most extensive investigation to date of J. M. Synge’s engagement with the Rvf, and deals with the question of translation as subversion. On the theoretical front, it demonstrates how Synge’s use of “folk-speech” challenges Venuti’s binary foreignising/domesticating system of translation categorisation.

Master of Music
Department of Music, Theater, and Dance
Craig Weston
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, and Paul Hindemith, three prolific composers of the 20th century, wrote for the medium of the mass ordinary in different ways. This report comprises a survey of those composers’ styles using the Kyrie movement of the mass ordinary as the main vehicle of compositional exploration. The results of this compositional survey examine the form and various techniques the composers employ to garner the same emotional response from the listeners of the Kyrie text. The final portion of the report explores the author’s personal compositional contribution to the mass ordinary.

This dissertation explores how colonial administrators on each side of the Atlantic used the British Survey of North America to serve their governments’ as well as their personal objectives. Specifically, it connects the execution and oversight of the General Survey in the northern and southern theatres, along with the intelligence it provided, with the actions of key decision-makers and influencers, including the Presidents of the Board of Trade (latterly, the Secretaries of the American Department) and key provincial governors. Having abandoned their posture of ‘Salutary Neglect’ towards colonial affairs in favour of one that proactively and more centrally sought ways to develop and exploit their North American assets following the Severn Years’ War, the British needed better geographic information to guide their decision making. Thus, the General Survey of British North America, under the umbrella of the Board of Trade, was conceived. Officially sponsored from 1764-1775, the programme aimed to survey and analyse the attributes and economic potential of Britain’s newly acquired regions in North America, leading to an accurate general map of their North American empire when joined to other regional mapping programmes. The onset of the American Revolution brought an inevitable end to the General Survey before a connected map could be completed. Under the excellent leadership of Samuel Holland, the surveyor general of the Northern District, however, the British administration received surveys and reports that were of great relevance to high-level administration. In the Southern District, Holland’s counterpart, the mercurial William Gerard De Brahm, while producing reports of high quality, was less able to juggle the often conflicting priorities of provincial and London-based stakeholders. Consequently, results were less successful. De Brahm was recalled in 1771, leaving others to complete the work.

abstract: This research paper will examine William Bolcom’s compositional style and performance challenges related to Three Popular Rags (1967-1968), Knockout: A Rag (2008), Estela: Rag Latino (2010), and Contentment - A Rag (2015). The aim is to reveal some of his contributions to the revival and expansion of ragtime. The paper includes a brief background on William Bolcom and a history of ragtime music. Differences between the compositional styles of Scott Joplin and Bolcom are discussed through descriptive analysis, focusing on musical forms, rhythms, harmonies, and textures. The performance suggestions include elements of dynamics, articulation, extended piano techniques, and pedal use. The author hopes that this stylistic analysis and performance guide will further interest in Bolcom’s piano ragtime music.
Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Music 2020

Since the inception of the first modern Canadian carceral structure in 1835, the prison library has existed. The condition of the prison libraries in Canadian federal institutions, as well as the diversity and quantity of their content has changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern-day federal prison library mirrors, in many ways, its “outside” Canadian public library counterpart. This thesis does not attempt to dispute or affirm the likeness between the Canadian prison and public library. Instead, in this thesis, I examine the evolution of the library from a space that reinforced hegemonic carceral control to a space where inmates could seek refuge and sanctuary. The first half of the thesis charts the emergence of the library as a, what I have termed, space mercy. This conceptualization of the library is inspired by Douglas Hay’s concept of mercy, in criminal law, as an ideological tool to reinforce hegemony. In the second half of the thesis I present a case study of the William Head Institution on Vancouver Island. Through the consulting of inmate publications, interviews, questionnaires, and other primary source material I posit that the prison library has evolved into a site of sanctuary. This term is taken from Laura Madokoro’s public history project Sites of Sanctuary. The site of sanctuary differs from the space of mercy in a number of ways and marked a distinct shift in the function and use of the prison library, by inmates, in Canada’s federal carceral institutions.
Graduate
2021-07-20

In 1887, following the completion of the CPR to the Pacific, William Stewart Drewry took part in the Topographical Survey of Canada's first experiment with photographic surveying, which he applied to the Rocky Mountain Railway Belt. He then surveyed the rich mining districts of BC during the Kootenay hardrock mining boom (1893-1909). In 1909, he became BC's first and only Chief Water Commissioner and, in 1911, he returned to surveying as BC's Inspector of Surveys. From 1913 until his retirement in 1929, he surveyed for government and in private practice. Throughout his career, Drewry operated between two land systems: first, a system based on customary rights and local obligations; and, second, a system based on private property and market exchange. Drewry implemented the latter capitalist system, attempting to empower the settlement society, which had the effect of ensuring corporate dominance and, to Drewry's dismay, monopolization of the BC landscape.

碩士
大葉大學
設計暨藝術學院碩士班
98
Corporate social responsibility on the cognitive and practical ,After such a wide range from narrow to the process of evolution. In Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries, the concept of corporate social citizenship has become a consensus However, in Taiwan, the company the concept of social responsibility is still in its infancy , When abroad, corporate social responsibility on the cognitive development of constantly changing the time of Taiwan's enterprises still remain in the charity and setup a foundation level. With global warming and global climate change issues into clear focus the world on the importance of green civilization construction and environmental protection are growing in the related increase in full, whether it is conducive to the development of environmentally friendly green industrial policy, taxation policy, or strengthening of environmental protection legislation and sound management system to promote natural harmony and coexistence, but also has all become an important current and future policy directions, so that the new government is actively reviewing the overall economic direction and to promote a new wave of tax reform, enterprises must actively practice their own sustainable development and sustainable product development and design. It is for this reason enterprises for product development and design of sustainable demand is coming, but the development of sustainable design in the process of enterprises vis-à-vis the general situation of sustainable product development the wishes of HE is still in a state of passive, active attitude or action to the weak, and as a result of laws and regulations subject to the restrictions on products made in the design of sustainable development and the course of the early to the more complex. Sustainable product development model countermeasures will help address enterprise in the development of sustainable products encountered in the course of repetitive complexity of problems can not enter for the sustainable development of enterprises of general understanding and suggested that in order to carry out sustainable design and development and to increase profit after R & D and development of green . In this study, the use of expert interviews and a questionnaire survey of corporate social responsibility with the view to explore the development of sustainable product design trends and the implementation of research and development in the design of the market influence, and to give more detailed and accurate analysis and effective to assess the decision-making factors, including trends in sustainable product development and sustainable product development model in response to countermeasures, including the Survey of sustainable product development, for sustainable development in the situation of the implementation of the next, from social welfare, environmental protection, sustainable other aspects of ... do explore, and control enterprises under the corporate social responsibility in business in sustainable product development the wishes of the assessment given by the factor analysis to the development of sustainable extraction and sustainable development of the will of the factor analysis, obtaining given the values of the indicators to assess the design of sustainable product development measures, and interviews with product development and business continuity will to make use of the data analysis to explore the level, combined with the trend of sustainable product development, product development and the establishment of a sustainable model in response to countermeasures so that products can be more stable sustainable development and the establishment of a complete model of the development of countermeasures, a thorough implementation of corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainable development to enhance product design.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
獸醫學研究所
91
In view of the willing of owners for dogs’ health and medical care is increasing. But in Taiwan, the canine heartworm disease (CHWD) is still an epidemic disease which is harmful and preventable. Compared with some countries-Europe and America, the CHWD epidemic rate is still high. Probably the owners’ willing for the CHWD disease medical treatment in Taiwan is lower than other countries. The research was designed to analysis three groups. First group, comparing with the willing to treat the CHWD in two groups of owners during quarantine period (quarantine subgroup) and the patient dogs treated in National Taiwan University Animal Hospital (NTU subgroup). Second group, comparing with the willing to treat the CHWD in three subgroups of owner who carried the dogs treated in National Taiwan University Animal Hospital (NTU subgroup) and the animal hospital of Tao-yuan county (Tao-yuan subgroup) as well as the students who raise dogs in National Taiwan University（student subgroup）. Third group, comparing with the willing to treat the CHWD in breeder’s importers (import subgroup) and native dogs’ brokers (native subgroup). In results of the first group, revealed that the ratio of considering the medical payment in NTU subgroup is two times than quarantine subgroup and over 90% owners have heard about the CHWD disease. The ratios of having the CHWD test, treating with positive result and never preventing are 58%, 100% and 58% respectively in NTU subgroup and 67%, 100% and 38% respectively in quarantine subgroup. The major reason why the NTU owners do not prevent with the CHWD is that they think indoor dogs will never be bit by mosquitoes. The willing to treat mild infection is lower in NTU owners and there are significant differences in owners’ education level, income per year and routine health examination (p<0.001) between two subgroups. The quarantine subgroup have tendency (p<0.001) to take prevention, test before prevention and pay preventive fees. Investigation revealed that both NTU and quarantine subgroups have high willing to treat and prevent the CHWD（> 80%）. In results of the second group, revealed that the ratios of considering the medical payment in Tao-yuan and student subgroups are two times than NTU subgroup. Only 65% and 79% owners have heard about the CHWD disease in student and Tao-yuan subgroups. The ratios of having the CHWD test, treating with positive result and never preventing are 69%, 100% and 68% respectively in student subgroup and 67%, 100% and 75% respectively in Tao-yuan subgroup. The ratios who had taken prevention and tests in NTU subgroup are more than in the other subgroups. The willing to treat sub-clinical and mild infection is lower in Tao-yuan owners and there are significant differences in owners’ income per year, dog’s age, the periods of owners to raise dogs, owners ever heard about the CHWD and routine health examination (p<0.001) between three subgroups. In results of the third group, revealed that the ratio of considering the medical payment in native subgroup is two times than import subgroup and 100% breeders in both subgroups have heard about the CHWD disease. The ratios of having the CHWD test, treating with positive result and never preventing are 71%, 50% and 41.7% respectively in native subgroup and 56%, 63.6% and 67% respectively in import subgroup. The major reason why the native and import subgroups do not prevent with the CHWD is that they consider do nothing is the best way. The willing to treat sub-clinical, mild and severe infection is lower in native subgroup. Investigation revealed that native subgroup have lower willing to treat and prevent the CHWD. The result of this study revealed that the government needs to emphasis the importance of the CHWD prevention and propagate the owners and breeders to treat and prevent CHWD. During quarantine, propagating both quarantine owners and import breeders to take prevention of CHWD is also important.

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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Argues that pain or discomfort so widely experienced in "normal" populations cannot, in all cases, have a pathological basis and that, therefore, there must be a non pathological cause. As well, a possible aetiology is suggested for other activity-related conditions which have not yet received generally accepted explanations such as Fibromyalgia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Surgery, RAH, 1996

Text in English with abstracts in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa
British forces captured the Cape of Good Hope from the Batavian Government in 1806. The archaeological investigation into the Battle of Blaauwberg aims to identify the strategic use of the landscape by both sides focusing on specific geographic areas. Metal detector surveys and the mapping of archaeological material clarified the various battle positions within the reconstructed historical environment. Analysis of the artefacts provided insight into their use and the strategies followed by both armies. Altogether the evidence illuminated the use of the landscape and its influence on the course of the battle. This unique multi-pronged study of a South African battlefield and its material cultural record sheds new light on the 1806 battle, thereby complementing and refining prevailing historical interpretations. It explores methodological issues and approaches that are critical to the domain of battlefield archaeology in South Africa, where a large number of battle sites still await archaeological investigation.
Britse magte het die Kaap die Goeie Hoop in 1806 van die Bataafse Regering verower. Die argeologiese ondersoek na die Slag van Blaauwberg is gerig op die identifikasie van die strategiese gebruik van die landskap deur beide kante met die fokus op spesifieke geografiese areas. Metaalverklikkeropnames en die kartering van argeologiese materiaal het die onderskeie gevegsposisies in die gerekonstrueerde geskiedkundige omgewing opgeklaar. ’n Ontleding van die artefakte het insig gebied in hul gebruik en die strategieë wat beide gevegsmagte gevolg het. In die geheel gesien, belig die getuienis die gebruik van die landskap en hoe dit die verloop van die geveg beïnvloed het. Hierdie unieke meervlakkige studie van ’n Suid-Afrikaanse slagveld en sy materiële kultuurrekord werp nuwe lig op die 1806-veldslag en sodoende word bestaande historiese interpretasies aangevul en verfyn. Dit verken metodologiese kwessies en benaderings wat kritiek is vir die domein van slagveldargeologie in Suid-Afrika waar ’n groot aantal gevegsterreine nog argeologies ondersoek moet word.
Imikhosi yaseBhritane yayihlutha iKoloni Yethemba eyayibizwa ngokuba yiCape of Good Hope, iyihlutha kurhulumente waseBatavia ngonyaka we-1806. Uphando lwezixhobo zakudala zexesha ledabi iBattle of Blaauwberg lujolise ekuqwalaseleni ubuchule bokusetyenziswa kobume belizwe ngala macala mabini, lugxininisa kwiindawo ezithile. Isifundo sembali senza uqikelelo lobunjani bedabi, kwaqhutywa iintlolo zimvo ezisebenzisa izixhobo zesinyithi nokuphengululwa kwezixhobo ezifumaneke kwizakhiwo zakudala nezacacisa iindawo ezahlukeneyo zedabi. Izixhobo zokusebenza ezafunyaniswayo zatyhila ulwazi lwendlela ezazisetyenziswa ngayo namacebo obulumko awayesetyenziswa yimikhosi yamacala omabini. Ubungqina bacacisa ukusetyenziswa kobume belizwe nefuthe lobo bume ekuqhubekeni kwedabi. Le ndlela ikhethekileyo, nenobuchule obuziindidi ezahlukeneyo, yokufunda indawo yedabi laseMzantsi Afrika, nengxelo yezinto zenkcubeko, inika ulwazi olutsha ngeli dabi lowe-1806, kwaye yongeza ikwacolisisa indlela yokutolika imbali yeli dabi. Kuphandwa imibandela yeendlela zokwenza namacebo abaluleke kakhulu kwicandelo lophando lwezixhobo zakudala zamadabi eMzantsi Afrika, apho iziza zamadabi eziliqela zisalinde ukuba kuphandwe ngazo.
Anthropology and Archaeology
M.A. (Archaeology)