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Bullard, Deanna Barcelona. "Academic Capitalism in the Social Sciences: Faculty Responses to the Entrepreneurial University." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001887.
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Su, Christopher (Christopher Thomas). "An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65525.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2011.Page 6 missing. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58).
Introduction: Alice Nakamura, a senior of the Class of 1943 at Rohwer Center High School in Arkansas, read these words at the conclusion to her graduation speech. Substantively, it sounds like any other reflection on self-identity by a second-generation immigrant. In reality, Alice's speech stands out because it was delivered from a school located behind barbed wire, where the United States government had detained her because of her Japanese ancestry. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government removed more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry residing on the west coast to remote relocation centers located in the barren mountainous states of the American west. Deprived of their freedom, these internees found themselves faced with the challenge of carrying on their everyday lives while surrounded by barbed wire. Parents concerned about the educational prospects of their children pushed for the development of primary and secondary schools, which the administrations provided. Adults seeking to occupy their time after work and alleviate boredom initiated education programs taught by internees who possessed relevant technical abilities and academic credentials. Despite the limited freedom and control the internees had over their squalid living conditions, educational programs emerged as one area in which they were able to establish a voice for themselves and collaborate with camp authorities. Due to the wartime shortage of teachers, many young Japanese teachers staffed the primary and secondary schools. The internees completely ran the Adult Education program with only perfunctory oversight from the camp administrations. In return for this degree of autonomy, the WRA requested the establishment of Americanization classes in all levels of camp schooling. These classes focused on the dissemination of American values and preparation for life after the war. Internees had mixed reactions to these government-mandated requirements but many valuable lessons came out of these classes. Primary and secondary students had an intensely personal experience learning about democracy inside barbed wire. As these students went on to attend colleges and find jobs after internment, they took these experiences with them and crafted new and deeply personal definitions of being an American citizen. The Adult Education programs gave internees English skills and new cultural knowledge that they used in their post-war communities and to communicate with their own children. Despite the horrid conditions that the Japanese experienced in the internment camps, the education program created relatively positive interactions between the internees and the camp authorities. Although suffering from supply shortages and a high variance in teaching quality, the educational programs challenged internees to think about democracy and what it means to live in America. Japanese internees provided staffing for these programs and worked with the camp administrators to implementing the curriculums, which allowed a degree of self-governance, an uneasy feat in government-controlled wartime internment centers. The Japanese-American internment process began on February 19, 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to create special areas within the United States from which "any and all" persons may be excluded. The exclusion order applied to both citizens and aliens, meaning that the government intended to remove both Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans. The former are issei, a term meaning "first-generation" in Japanese, and the latter are nisei, "second-generation." Throughout the internment process, more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese-ancestry were excluded from the zones of exclusion, often forced to sell their belongings, and relocated to barren camps established in the interior of the United States. The internment process had no pretenses of kindness - following Pearl Harbor, propaganda posters depicting Japanese as apes and other savage animals were widely distributed, and racist sentiments were openly published and distributed through the press. A selection from a San Francisco newspaper derided the Japanese during the onset of the internment process: "Herd 'em up, pack 'em off and give 'em the inside room in the badlands. [...] Let us have no patience with the enemy or with anyone whose veins carry his blood [...] I hate the Japanese." A propaganda poster distributed in 1943 titled, "How to Spot a Jap," described a Japanese as having "buck teeth" and being unable to smile because he "expect[s] to be shot...and is very unhappy about the whole thing." Even Americans from the interior expressed hostility. ...
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James, Alden(Alden T. ). "Feeding Rome : innovation in the economy of the Roman grain supply." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131005.
Анотація:
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History Section, May, 2020Cataloged from the official PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [56]-[57]).
by Alden James.
S.B.
S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History Section
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Huang, Billy. "The first educational exodus : a narrative of 1965." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81036.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in History)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-71).
Histories of Boston's school desegregation crisis have focused on the legal and political struggles that preceded the Garrity decision, which, in 1974, enforced citywide school integration. It is necessary to discern and evaluate the viewpoints of black and white parents in the greater Boston area in the years before court-mandated integration. This thesis examines the black community's efforts to assure higher quality education for their children through public protests and self-help actions. It also explores the responses of urban and suburban white residents to this rising civil rights challenge. Black parents created Operation Exodus, a grassroots movement aimed at enrolling Roxbury children in other Boston schools, in response to the Boston School Committee's reluctance to build better schools and integrate existing schools. Led by a group of prominent black activists, Exodus members found allies within and beyond Roxbury. From 1965-1970, Exodus rallied the black community to not only demand better education, but also to develop more effective social agencies in Roxbury. The movement eventually inspired similar programs, such as METCO, in the suburbs. Although the Exodus movement was eventually superseded by national efforts to integrate Boston's schools, it played a key role in shaping public opinion about school desegregation and publicizing the failures of the Boston school system.
by Billy Huang.
S.B.in History
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Army, Priscilla W. "Background music : National Socialist propaganda and the reinforcement of German virtue." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59514.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences [SHASS], History Section, June 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-69).
This thesis examines the implementation of official propaganda issued by the National Socialist regime during the years following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 up through 1945. By analyzing two very different mediums of propaganda used by the National Socialist party, film and advertising in a middle-class German periodical, I compare subtle and overt propaganda methods, as well as the differing approaches the Reich Ministry for Propaganda took when targeting varying audiences. My first chapter is an in depth analysis of the German Film industry under the Third Reich. I looked at three Nazi propaganda films: Triumph des Willens (1934), a film created in order to establish Hitler's role as the leader of the Third Reich, der ewige Jude (1940), a crude, documentary style, anti-Semitic film, and Jud Siij3 (1940), a feature length entertainment film. A comparison of the content of these films and their respective box office results point out the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to propaganda films. In my second chapter I explore women's advertisements in the popular German periodical die Gartenlaube. By looking at the evolving depiction of women in advertisements for products such as Nivea-Creme and Nur Blond (a women's hair product), and the imagery of women on the covers of the magazine, I attempt to show the ways in which the National Socialist party attempted to connect the standards of beauty to political and ideological goals, thereby redefining them. The political and ideological propaganda of the party was the "background music" to everyday life, regardless of whether its German viewers were political supporters of the Nazi Party. I argue that the goal of the Reich Ministry for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment was never to transform or mold the minds of the masses, but to reiterate and reinforce pervasive beliefs and to encourage passive acceptance of, or even just minimize opposition to, Nazi ideology and legislation.
by Priscilla W. Army.
S.B.
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Hall, Alexandria C. (Alexandria Caitlin). "Between gods and men : analyzing the Aztec deification of the Spanish Conquistadores and reassessing its significance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76571.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in History)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58).
Immediately following the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in 1521, accounts arose claiming the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods. This tale of Spanish deification has sparked heated debate among scholars for centuries as they have been asking, "Did the Aztecs truly believe the Spaniards to be gods?" This question naturally results in two lines of argument, those who think the Aztecs did believe the Spaniards to be gods and those that do not. The scholars arguing for the Aztec deification of the Spaniards rely on known Aztec beliefs, the importance of time to the Aztecs, and the historical works that clearly state the Aztecs though the Spaniards to be divine. The scholars against this argument instead argue the Spaniards created this account of European apotheosis, based on historical precedents and strikingly similar accounts of European apotheosis after the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Both of these arguments are not, however, free of criticism, revealing the inability to ever answer this question decisively. Instead, this intriguing narrative of the conquest should be reassessed using new questions that could provide new insight on the relations of Spaniards and their conquered subjects, on cultural clashes more generally, and on historical work and interests over time.
by Alexandria C. Hall.
S.B.in History
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Butler, Katonio A. (Katonio Arthella). "The lost revolution : capitalism, democracy and black citizenship in early twentieth-century America's biggest race conflicts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59488.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences [SHASS], History Section, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89).
This new racial conflict over the future of blacks' social, political and economic self determination became an inescapable "trial by fire" for American democracy. Throughout the United States, W.E.B. Du Bois' "New Negroes," molded on the battlefields of Western Europe and the shop floors of the American mill, were determined to assert their claims to equal American citizenship. During the period of racial tumult following the end of World War I, three riots that were notable for their scale and significance to both American race relations and black political activism occurred in the United States: the Chicago Riot of 1919, the Elaine Riot of 1919 and the Tulsa Riot of 1921. All three riots involved armed, organized mobs of hundreds to thousands of whites fully mobilized against armed black communities that were resolute in the defense of their lives, property and rights as citizens. The three riots were additionally notable for the character of the black communities involved; although only Chicago's South Side escaped total destruction, armed and organized elements of blacks in each locale attempted to repel attacks by whites. All three riots saw the intervention of armed troops, though not necessarily in a bid to restore order. Once the troops arrived, only the black communities were occupied. Only in Chicago, where the black community enjoyed the most protection of their civil rights, did the government troops actually mobilize to protect the black population. At best, the troops did not actively move against the white mobs, allowing further bloodshed to occur (Chicago). At worst, they were implicit in the white mob violence that claimed hundreds of black lives and millions in property (Elaine and Tulsa). In each case, when the dust settled, the predominant racial caste system was still intact. In none of these communities were the mass of white rioters ever brought to justice for their atrocities. Many blacks, however, were detained and formally prosecuted for numerous offenses stemming from the violence ...
by Katonio A. Butler.
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Hollander, Samuel S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Chaos and Cossacks, two fatal vendettas : the invasions of Russia in 1708 and 1812." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50105.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-98).
Introduction: There were two invasions of Russia by foreign powers in the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Charles XII of Sweden entered Russia in 1708 and was destroyed in battle outside Poltava in 1709. Napoleon invaded in 1812 and was back in France before the end of that year, having suffered defeat and having lost all but a few remnants of the once-proud Grand Army. Both of these men were at the height of their power and feared by their enemies up to the time of their attacks against Russia. However, the Duke of Wellington understood the way of conquerors and commented on their fate. "A conqueror is like a cannon-ball. He cannot stop of his own accord. He must go on until he runs down or hits something." These men captured the imagination of their European contemporaries. Voltaire would later describe this attention: Conquerors are a species between good Kings and Tyrants, but partake most of the latter, and have a glaring reputation. We are eager to know the most minute circumstances of their lives. Such is the ... weakness of mankind, that they look with admiration upon persons glorious for mischief, and are better pleased to be talking of the destroyer, than the founder of an Empire. Charles XII and Napoleon were both the preeminent generals of their age. But unlike the French emperor, Charles is a relatively unknown figure today. He was the last of the Northern Vikings, the last Nordic warrior king to lead his men into battle, and a halo still surrounds his memory. Never was a man more thoroughly suited to inspire Swedish troops than Charles XII. Noble, just, self-denying, and brave, he seemed to them almost a supernatural being. Every victory he won made his soldiers more confident in him. Every danger he shared with them spurred them on to further exertions. Every age has its own heroes, men who embody the prevailing characteristics of their epoch. Charles was that man while he lived at the start of the eighteenth century. The very mention of his name and exploits still causes the heart of every Swede to beat quicker. It is a name renowned throughout his world, and associated with a career so extraordinary, that both the man and the career have formed a subject of greatly varied criticism. Perhaps his great descendant, King Gustavus III, summed up the life of Charles most accurately: Charles XII was rather extraordinary than great. He certainly had not the true conquering temperament which simply aims at acquisition of territory. Charles took dominions with one hand only to give them away with the other. Superior to Alexander, with whom it were [sic] an injustice to compare him, he was as much inferior to his rival Peter in the qualities which make a great ruler, as he excelled him in those qualities which go to make a great hero.4 Unfortunately for Sweden, Charles was also ideally placed in history to demonstrate the fragility of her empire; much as Napoleon would doom the French empire a hundred years later with his own ambitions.
by Samuel Hollander.
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Schwob, Anneke (Anneke Ellen). "Epistemologies of intention : uncertainty and translation in Bertolt Brecht's life of Galileo and Michael Frayn's Copenhagen." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58292.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70).
Introduction: Translating science as dramatic tradition Scientific and literary traditions are curious bedfellows. Popular perception views contemporary scientists - especially those interested in mathematics or physics - and their occupation as fundamentally other and unknowable to a nonscientific audience. This viewpoint has led to a bizarre treatment of science and its practitioners in literary and dramatic works as most depictions of science in print are restricted to the realm of speculative science fiction geographically and chronologically removed from the author's own time. Those authors or playwrights who do take historical or contemporary science as their subject must present it in such a way that the science is made accessible to a diverse audience. This presentation is particularly important in the theatrical medium. Playwrights have integrated science with drama in a host of different ways, whether as a plot device or thematic concern. I will study plays that entertain broad thematic questions about the nature of truth and morality while still maintaining their focus on the scientific community and its scientific concerns, especially as these concerns intersect with those of society at large. My analysis will focus on two plays that use science more than rhetorically: Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo (editions published in 1937; 1945; 1953) and Michael Frayn's Copenhagen (1998). Although these two plays were written and produced more than fifty years apart and the historical events that they examine are over two hundred years removed from each other, both explore paradigm-shattering moments within physics research. I will argue that both plays use physics to examine, broadly, the responsibility that a scientist has to involve himself with the non-scientific community. Characters in both Life of Galileo and Copenhagen make a case that part of the scientist's responsibility lies in presenting science to the laity, both inside and outside the world of the play. The semantic shift involved in making scientific concepts both understandable and relevant within a dramatic context involves a movement on the part of the playwright and his characters that is, I shall suggest, similar to an act of translation. Translation is generally conceived of as purely linguistic, which might be described as an attempt at transmitting meanings across language barriers or a linguistic shift seeking to conserve the sense of a written text in a second language. In his seminal work "The Task of the Translator," Walter Benjamin sees translation as something more than a direct word-by-word transposition from one language to another. Instead, Benjamin posits that the translator endeavors to elevate his project beyond changing signifiers between tongues. A true translation moves past linguistic accuracy as an end point; instead, it identifies a higher meaning that the original text points to and creates a new text from that original. Benjamin's theoretical re-assessment of the task of the translator as one of unlocking meanings extends its boundaries to include the translation of different kinds of discourse into literary or dramatic forms. The plurality of central characters from Life of Galileo and Copenhagen belong to a scientific, not literary tradition. Although they conceive of their investigations philosophically, even this attitude requires a shift in thinking from an empirical or theoretical viewpoint to a more poetic one. Theorists and even non-academics have noted that the language of science involves a distinct set of signifiers that is highly metaphoric and symbolic. Mathematical formulae rely on a scientist's ability to perceive the inner workings of the world as numerical and then to further abstract from those numbers to abstract signifiers, the Greek pis and sigmas and the well-known "x" that appears in even the most fundamental of algebraic problems. This kind of abstraction is itself a translation that moves the scientist from observation to description and then understanding. Undertaking an act of translation requires a unique kind of mind - which I will refer to in shorthand as a "scientific mind" - which involves being able to conceive of the world around it in a more purely scientific way. The translation involved in viewing things scientifically is implicit within those of Brecht's and Frayn's characters who are presented to the audience as fully formed and educated scientists. For characters like Brecht's Andrea, however, that transition - from curious bystander to member of the scientific community - actually occurs onstage. The scientific mind, therefore, as seen within Brecht's and Frayn's plays, requires the ability to translate understanding from observations of the natural world to a scientific or mathematical understanding of those phenomena. I argue, therefore, that truly responsible science requires something more than the ability to translate into scientific understanding; it demands too a route from esoteric scientific knowledge back into a vernacular. As Benjamin intended, translation becomes a way of unpacking meanings deeper than either original form; it can illuminate questions of essential human nature. In each of the plays examined here, translation mediates the scientist's interactions with society. Galileo presents it as a way for scientific tools and thoughts to be used to benefit to common people; in Copenhagen for example, it is Heisenberg's inability to translate and therefore understand his equations that narrowly prevents him from potentially creating a deadly nuclear weapon for Hitler. The two plays focus on very distinct moments in physics - empirical observations of the planets versus theoretical models of a subatomic universe - and so the physicists' modes of translation are also unique. While Brecht's Galileo relies on explanation bolstered by visual proofs, Frayn's Bohr emphasizes the use of "plain language" as a way of parsing the implications of abstract equations. The plays are undeniably vastly different when it comes to both the scope of their science and dramatic form; the reason for this difference can be located in authorial intention. Brecht, a life-long committed Communist and social radical, is remembered for advancing the technique of epic or dialectical theatre, a style that sought to counter the melodramatic realism pioneered by the actor and director Constantin Stanislavski. Epic theatre is the theatre of the people, appealing to their reason while advancing the cause of social change. Life of Galileo uses the techniques of this epic dramaturgy; its goals are social, political and didactic in nature. Copenhagen is, by contrast, less informed by ideology than by the idea of intention itself: Frayn frames the play as an exploration into his historical character's motivations at a mysterious meeting in Copenhagen during World War II - the meeting itself is historical fact, although what transpired remains a mystery. The play begins by asking a simple question: why did Heisenberg come to Copenhagen in 1941? Through the drama, however, Frayn expands his investigations into a full study of how intentions are manifested through acts of scientific study; through an act of thematic mimesis, the more the audience attempts to unravel the characters' intentions, the more those intentions become unclear. Copenhagen's dramaturgy makes this complication explicit through its use of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a structuring metaphor. In parsing intent, Frayn's audience and Brecht's find themselves in a similar position: perhaps due to the numerous revisions Brecht made of the play, Galileo's character embodies a slippery position with respect to his translation and the audience. Unlike Frayn, however, Brecht makes his intended readings of the character clear, creating uncertainty and tension between the audience's reading of the character and the playwright's intentions.
by Anneke Schwob.
S.B.in Literature
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Gao, Dora Y. "The Shadow of the comet : divine patronage in the rise of Augustus by Dora Y. Gao." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65524.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in Ancient and Medieval Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82).
This thesis explores the appearance alleged by ancient sources of a comet over Rome in 44 B.C. and its role in the use and abuse of divine patronage in the rise of the young Octavian between 44 and 27 B.C. The comet was concluded to have actually occurred through an analysis involving Poisson statistics, basic calculations of orbital dynamics, and historical context. The physical manifestation of this comet over Rome granted Octavian the opportunity to begin asserting himself as a legitimate political competitor in the wake of Julius Caesar's death and his adoption in Caesar's will. With the comet as a symbol of his father's deification, Octavian's new status as divi filius portrayed him as a pious young man dedicated to the traditions of the Roman Republic and won him the early support of the people, the legions, and the Senate. This image persisted through the 30s and became far preferable to that of the drunk and eastern Marc Antony when Octavian began to associate himself with the very Roman and republican figure of Apollo. Together, Julius Caesar and Apollo became two key divine patrons behind Octavian, with the generous Julius Caesar representing the more public aspects of Octavian's plan for Rome, and Apollo portraying the more personal side of Octavian's character and his dedication to the harmony of the Republic.
S.B.in Ancient and Medieval Studies
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McEvilly, Christine A. (Christine Ann). "Catechisms and cataclysms : communication in the Reformation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59489.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences [SHASS], History Section, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).
How does belief shape lived experience? This is a central question of existence that all people confront, be they philosophers or farmers. It is not simply a matter of religious belief but a problem that stems from the very core of what it means to be human. Who could decide how to spend their lives without defining priorities? Yet such profound choices are necessarily based on implicit beliefs, valuations of worth and existence. The Reformation period in early modem Europe shines a particularly bright light upon these fundamental questions. Once Martin Luther nailed his Thesis to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517, and in the religious turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that followed, no one could avoid considering basic questions about their faith, even if only to defend what had been the status quo. Furthermore, the personal beliefs of Martin Luther and his German princes became a subject that could change the political course of nations. It was in Martin Luther's crucible of religious turmoil that personal belief and government began to shape each other in drastic and visible ways, an interaction which not only emphasizes the importance of belief, but also highlights the problem of popular beliefs, which are difficult to discern in times of religious quietude. But why examine belief? Are there not other more visible expressions of historical change? Ultimately, history is about individuals. One can examine the great political and economic trends of nations, but they only have meaning as they relate to individual existence. What is a modern nation state, if not a collection of its citizens and of how they live, work, interact, and think? Examining the religious beliefs of a society allows one to look at thought and actions in those who were far removed from "high" intellectual culture; for the thoughts of those who composed the massive majority of European society cannot be ignored simply because they were not always expressed in easily retrieved written discourses. Luckily, since theologians, politicians, and activists tried to influence popular belief, their records can be examined. The methods used to influence belief and practice, suggest not only what was in fact believed, but also what topics were of central concern to society's dialogue on religious change. Belief can have power over forces and institutions far larger than any single believing individual. Indeed, the very idea that religion is an issue of concern to individuals and not defined at the level of a city or nation was a novel one in the early modem era. Not surprisingly, and such a fundamental change in the concept of the individual had widespread consequences. This work examines the transmission of reformation ideas from scholars and theologians to lay parishioners in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions. It considers how large scale revolutions in religious thought affected the lives, piety, and religious practice of ordinary individuals. Yet the examination of this theme of transmission and communication is ultimately just a small part of one of the questions that historians have debated: Can the Reformation period be seen as offering up a true division into two different religions, or should it be seen as a moment during which both Catholic and Protestant traditions modernized in parallel to each other? Of course, both views contain some elements of truth; both churches managed to modernize, but nevertheless had fundamental differences in both theology and practice. However, an equally vital question is, perhaps, whether the churches' interactions with society were characterized by the differences between them or by the similar, modern forms both churches shared. This work ultimately suggests that the differences that had developed between Catholic and Protestant traditions by the mid seventeenth century are dwarfed by the changes in both that converted medieval practice to a more modem system. These modem religious traditions would come to co-exist with modern nation states, evolving economic practice, re-defined communities, and the secularization of Europe. Similarities in Protestant and Catholic communication of new theology and reformed practice can be identified and traced, lending support to the theory of parallel reform with similar outcomes, particularly in terms of community and state, even if their respective theologies contained real differences. Communication provides a useful lens for examining this question of difference and modernization since it involves many elements of the two reformed traditions. The choice of what information was to be transmitted, suggests which new theologies the churches thought significant and which were important to the contentious dialogues of the period. The forms of communication speak to the regular functioning of the church as an organization, and suggest how authority figures interacted with their laity. The composition of the audience suggests the new community definitions of each church. This essay will examine three mediums for communicating the agenda of reform in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: architecture and visual art, education, and discipline and charity, insofar as they defined community ...
by Christine A. McEvilly.
S.B.
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McCamy, Tania m. "The Role of Youth Arts: Providing Opportunity and Intervention for At-Risk Populations." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/211.
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The Role of Youth Arts: Providing Opportunity and Intervention for At-Risk Populations considers the positive outcomes of arts experiences during childhood and adolescence. The benefits of arts education include cognitive, social, and emotional growth. The arts are also seen to improve student learning, achievement, and engagement on many levels. Childhood arts participation directly affects adult arts engagement in which individuals gain the cultural capital that allows for social ascent. As well as being a means for opportunity, art can be used as a means of intervention for at-risk youth populations. Through art, children and teens find meaning, belonging, and success that they lack in other areas. This work will discuss my role developing an activity for an at-risk youth program called PATROL, that partners Johnson City police officers with children from local housing authorities. The programs teaches positive actions and decision making while offering support and mentorship for the youth participants.
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Benitezsantiago, Angela Stefanie. "Using Video Feedback to Improve Martial-Arts Performance." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3006.
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Video feedback has great potential to enhance performance in many settings. The following study used video feedback to enhance the martial arts performance of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that utilizes acrobatic movements (revesado, au de costa, and macaco). A multiple baseline across behaviors was used for 5 participants where baseline conditions consisted of standard coaching consisting of instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback and continued throughout the study. The intervention consisted of video feedback, in which the participants were filmed attempting a movement and immediately viewed the video afterwards, while receiving positive and corrective feedback from the instructor, using the pause, slow motion, and replay controls. The participant was filmed at least a total of three times per session and each attempt was scored. The target behaviors were scored on a 15-item checklist, resulting in a percentage correct. A second video feedback condition similar to the first was also introduced to some participants, in which participants were able to practice the movements with live feedback before being filmed again. Results show gradual increases in baseline and a more rapid acquisition of the skills during the video feedback conditions.
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Walker, Angel Sisan. "Parent-Child Interactions in the Presence of Risk for ADHD with and without Language Impairment." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2199.
Анотація:
The purpose of this research was to analyze how parent-child interactions differ in discourse structure, communicative function and linguistic behaviors between children who are at high-risk for developing a behavioral disorder such as ADHD, and those who are at high-risk for developing a behavioral disorder with a co-occurring language impairment. Participants consisted of 20 children ages three to five years old and their parents. A five-minute parent-child interaction was video recorded and analyzed using an adapted version of the “Coding parent/child interaction as a clinical outcome: a research note” designed by Law, Barnett, and Kot (1999).
Results revealed slight differences in each communication parameter amongst the two groups, however, statistical results of parametric and non-parametric tests determined that there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups, with the exception of increased verbal initiations (p=.040) in children with no language impairment when compared to those with a language impairment as was expected.
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Horta, Azeredo Monica. "A representação do feminino heroico na literatura e no cinema : uma análise das obras Quarto de Despejo, diário de uma favelada (Carolina Maria de Jesus), Estamira e Estamira para Todos e para Ninguém (Marcos Prado), De Salto Alto e Tudo sobre Minha Mãe (Pedro Almodóvar)." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00745051.
Анотація:
L'objectif de ce travail est d'analyser la représentation de la figure de l'héroïne en cinq oeuvres littéraires et cinématographiques: Talons Aiguilles (1991) et Tout sur Ma Mère (1999), films espagnols de fiction dirigés par Pedro Almodóvar; Estamira (2004) et Estamira para Todos e para Ninguém (2004), documentaires brésiliens en long-métrage et moyen métrage, respectivement, dirigés par Marcos Prado; et Le Dépotoir (19602), livre brésilien écrit par Carolina Maria de Jesus et édité par Audálio Dantas.Je propose d'analyser, entre autres, comment ces textes littéraires et cinématographiques façonnent et présentent ses respectives protagonistes le long de toute le récit: Rebeca (Talons Aiguilles), Manuela (Tout sur Ma Mère), Estamira (Estamira et Estamira para Todos e para Ninguém) et Carolina (Le Dépotoir).Le travail est développé en quatre chapitres. Le premier : traite des théories de représentation, de la conceptualisation et représentation de l'être héroïque, des particularités pertinentes de chaque genre (mélodrame, documentaire, journal autobiographique), et de la question d'intertextualité où chaque oeuvre s'entremêle avec d'autres types d'art. Le secondchapitre se consacre à l'analyse des questions identitaires pertinentes dans l'univers des personnages principaux, considérant son constant dialogue avec le lecteur/spectateur. Le troisième et quatrième chapitres décrivent les stratégies d'éloignement et d'approximation des héroïnes par rapport au lecteur/spectateur, observées dans les textes filmiques et littéraires.Talons Aiguilles raconte la vie de deux femmes - mère et fille - qui vivent des moments différents. La mère, la chanteuse et actrice fameuse Becky Del Páramo (Marisa Paredes), revient à Madrid, sa ville natale, où elle prétend passer ses derniers jours. Elle retrouve sa fille Rebeca (Victoria Abril) aprés quinze ans de séparation. La jeune fille n'a jamais pu surmonter le désir d'imiter sa mère.Tout sur Ma Mère représente la souffrance de Manuela (Cecília Roth), qui perd son fils unique, Estéban (Eloy Azorín) peu avant de lui raconter toute la vérité sur son père. Elle décide alors de revenir à Barcelone pour retrouver son ex-mari Estéban (Toni Cantó). Celui-ci, peu avant de l'enfanter, avait décidé de devenir le travesti Lola.Estamira et Estamira para Todos e para Ninguém, racontent l'histoire d'Estamira Gomes de Souza (1939-2011), une brésilienne qui souffre de troubles mentaux et durant près de deux décennies vit et travaille au dépotoir d'ordure du Jardim Gramacho, à Rio de Janeiro, dans de terribles conditions de vie.Le Dépotoir raconte les confidences quotidiennes de Carolina Maria de Jesus entre 1955 et 1960. L'édition a été faite par Audálio Dantas, qui lut les vingt cahiers contenant les récits de l'auteur. Dans ce livre, Carolina décrit sa routine comme favelada au côté de ses trois enfants et d'autres qui, comme elle, lutent pour survivre à la misère dans le bidonville duCanindé, à São Paulo, aujourd'hui démoli. Pour dévoiler les intentions implicites des films, j'utilise comme méthodologie, l'analyse des commentaires des personnages et l'observation des autres composants littéraires ou filmiques, comme la gestuelle, le dialogue, le scénario, les figurines, le lieu, l'atmosphère, le montage. En proposant cette analyse je me base sur des théoriciens tels que MichelFoucault, Stuart Hall, Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Kathryn Woodward, Antonio Candido et Anatol Rosenfeld
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." full-text, 2009. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2006/1/Dzavid_Haveric.pdf.
Анотація:
This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process. Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community. The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2. The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony. Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Rodriguez, Jennifer Marie. "Evaluating the Use of Task Clarification, Self-Monitoring and Performance Feedback." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3317.
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The effects of self-monitoring, task clarification, and performance feedback on the performance of critical tasks by assembly group supervisors in a manufacturing company were examined. This intervention involved the training of a supervisor to use task clarification, self-monitoring, and performance feedback to improve the work performance of the participating group leaders. A multiple baseline across participants and tasks design was used to examine the effects of the intervention. Measures included: generalization of group leader performance to another work period, procedural fidelity for training the supervisor, intervention integrity of the supervisor's training of the group leaders, treatment acceptability, and social validity. Results showed that the intervention was successful in increasing the overall task completion for both participating group leaders in multiple work intervals and that the intervention was implemented with fidelity and integrity.
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Abiwon, Titilayo O. "College level mentoring for underrepresented populations: Enhancing the transition into the corporate world." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/368.
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This research paper examines existing mentoring services at a regional southeastern university with major emphasis on mentoring services mainly available to underrepresented populations at the institution. The investigation aims to define the importance of and the need for such programs and the impact the absence of said programs might have on the university population with emphasis on the underrepresented. For the purpose of this research, mentoring is considered in terms of employment preparation and transition into the corporate world. Mentoring services awareness and employment preparedness from the student perspectives are surveyed.
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Piton-Foucault, Emilie. "La fenêtre condamnée : Transparence et opacité de la représentation dans Les Rougon-Macquart d'Émile Zola." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00718628.
Анотація:
La fenêtre transparente d'une oeuvre ouverte sur le monde a été érigée comme un modèle de la représentation zolienne par une critique qui, tout en dénonçant la transitivité comme une utopie littéraire naïve, n'en a pas moins validé la pertinence pour comprendre la démarche de Zola. La fenêtre condamnée interroge le passage de ce motif en un symbole métadiscursif validant la théorie de la transitivité, au regard de son actualisation dans le cycle romanesque des Rougon-Macquart. Celle-ci plaide contre toute attente pour un dysfonctionnement de ce " technème " de la description, et donc pour une esthétique beaucoup moins tournée vers la transparence qu'elle ne le prétend elle-même bien souvent. De cette idée naît l'examen d'une possible esthétique de l'opacité de la représentation zolienne, se plaisant à perturber tous lesrelais usuels de la fiction romanesque réaliste (miroirs, enquêteurs et autres artistes réalistes...). Le naturalisme zolien semble ainsi davantage commandé par le modèle de la perversion voyeuriste, consciente de l'inaccessibilité de son désir (rendre compte du réel), qu'elle entretiendrait afin d'en cacher la fatale déception. Cette réalité inatteignable illustréepar le cycle des Rougon-Macquart conforterait dès lors l'assimilation de l'oeuvre zolienne à des théories en apparence bien éloignées de l'image caricaturale du naturalisme, celle d'un réel conçu comme une illusion chez Taine et Schopenhauer, ou encore celle d'une oeuvre fétiche nécessairement subordonnée à l'artifice, refermée sur la projection subjective de l'artiste, dans une préfiguration étonnante des recherches de la poétique mallarméenne et despremiers tenants de l'abstraction picturale.
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Lorillot, Veronique. "L'enseignement des Sciences Physiques en série Arts Appliqués. Etude curriculaire et analyse de rapports aux savoirs d'enseignants d'Arts Appliqués et de Sciences Physiques. Contribution à l'étude de la construction des identités professionnelles." Phd thesis, Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00359141.
Анотація:
L'évolution des Sciences et Techniques et les problématiques qu'elles engendrent influencent parfois de manière concrète le Design contemporain. Comment cela est-il transmis dans la formation en ArtsAppliqués qui conduit aux métiers du Design ? Á travers l'exemple du baccalauréat Sciences et Technologies industrielles spécialité Arts Appliqués, la thèse interroge les rapports aux savoirs scientifiques transmis par l'école. Par ailleurs, notre questionnement sur les enseignants nous conduits à poser la question de leurs identités professionnelles et de leur aspect contextuel. Ainsi, la recherche
propose une approche de ces identités à partir des rapports aux savoirs scolaires des enseignants, ici les savoirs scientifiques. L'étude curriculaire montre comment les savoirs scientifiques et les rapports
aux savoirs scientifiques transmis restent disciplinaires dans une formation qui pourtant est transversale. Elle conduit à s'interroger sur la place occupée par une discipline dans un cursus scolaire qui fait varier les rapports que les enseignants comme les élèves peuvent établir avec elle. Par ailleurs,
les identités professionnelles interviennent dans la pratique quotidienne de l'enseignant, lui-même porteur de ses propres références et agissent dans le sens qu'il donne à son enseignement.
L'enseignement prend ainsi son sens dans un contexte précis, se pose alors la question du rapport aux savoirs des enseignants et de celui véhiculé par les programmes. La dimension identitaire du rapport
aux savoirs permet de comprendre les différences entre les identités professionnelles des enseignants leur donnant ainsi un aspect moins disciplinaire. Nous interrogeons cette question à travers deux
corpus d'enseignants, des enseignants de Sciences Physiques et des enseignants d'Arts Appliqués.
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Rodal, Jocelyn (Jocelyn Aurora Frampton). ""One world, one life" : the politics of personal connection in Virginia Woolf's The waves." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35703.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70).
Introduction: "I hear a sound," said Rhoda, "cheep, chirp; cheep, chirp; going up and down" (9). Thus Virginia Woolf introduces Rhoda in her opening to The Waves. But almost immediately, this sound is transformed: " 'The birds sang in chorus first,' said Rhoda. 'Now the scullery door is unbarred. Off they fly. Off they fly like a fling of seed. But one sings by the bedroom window alone' " (10-11). While the birds were originally a unified, collective sound, "going up and down" as one, now they fly away as many, spreading like seeds that will eventually grow individually to create separate new lives. Rhoda implies that they sang as one only because they had no other choice - the door was barred, and they were jailed together. However, the single bird remaining by the window deep in song is a noteworthy figure. Like Rhoda, and human consciousness itself, it might be lonely or free, proudly individual or vulnerable in its solitude.
by Jocelyn Rodal.
S.B.in Literature
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Taft, Ann. "At the Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis of Visionary Art & Artists." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2896.
Анотація:
In this thesis I focus on an art form alternately described as "naive," "visionary," "environmental," "singular," "individual," or "grassroots." Not easily placed within established academic or popular art categories, such art usually lands by default in the folk art pile and is quickly cast to the peripheries of that genre. In this thesis, I am not concerned with inventing another label for these artists and their work. Instead, I explore the possibility that visionary art may be a separate genre, but one to which folklore analysis may usefully be brought to bear.
Chapter One is a historical and bibliographical analysis of visionary art. Beginning with an overview of the literature on the subject, I review the development of the definitional debate in the United States as well as in Europe and trace the gradual evolution of this art form into a loosely separate category.
Chapter Two consists of an analysis of visionary art. I construct a "behaviorist" model which draws not only upon the usual criteria of building styles or materials used but also examines such subjects as the artist's motivations, personal visions, life history and community role.
In Chapter Three I test this model using the work of Valenty Zaharek, an Arizona woodcarver and ceramicist. Zaharek's previously undocumented work, "Pecos West," is a three-dimensional carved depiction of Western scenes. It is aesthetically magnificent and falls along the borders of a variety of art forms --folk, visionary, popular.
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Gulde, Stellan. "Hermitage : Att leva i obygda territorium." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160100.
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Nowak, Ann-Sophie. "Let them believe : En semiotisk analys av kristen tematik i Andrei Tarkovskijs film Stalker." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71134.
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The purpose of this paper has been to analyze the Christian religious thematic in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. Stalker, both as film and protagonist, is the primary material for the purpose of this paper. The research issues that here are conducted is: What are the Christian religious elements in the film Stalker, in what respects can the character Stalker be likened to a Christ figure, and how does the answers to the above questions relate to contemporary theories of religious elements in film. For this I use a semiotic method, where I analyze Christian religious symbols, connotations, transcendent elements and how the protagonist Stalker can be likened to a Christ figure. Together with semiotics as a method, representation is used as theory, to analyze the above named religious elements in the film. My conclusions show that film and religion have a highly current place in our time. The inference made here is that film and theology belong together and these relate well to contemporary theories on the subject. Stalker can be likened to a Christ figure, the connotations are many and the protagonist fulfills the criteria that are set in the theory. There are connotations to Christian symbols and Christian religious themes in the film. There is also, to a great extent, a connection to contemporary theories on the subject. There is a religious interpretation pattern in people's media consumption and contemporary culture with films and where film is the genre within popular culture in which religion has received a great resurgence.
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Albemo, Rebecca, Nils Wilhelmsson, and Leo Forsberg. "Sanning eller sensation? : En kvalitativ jämförelse av SVT Nyheter och Aftonbladets rapportering av mordfall." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67594.
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Den här studiens syfte är att undersöka hur rapportering av mordfall skiljer sig i SVT Nyheter och Aftonbladets webbrapportering. För att besvara vår frågeställning har vi utfört en kvalitativ textanalys med inslag av kritisk diskursanalys och gestaltningsteori, på två artiklar från vardera nyhetstjänst. Artiklarnas texter har undersökts med fokus på ordval och språkliga handlingar. Vi har analyserat textens underliggande meningar, hur värdeladdade ord används och hur offer, förövare och eventuella sekundära aktörer har gestaltats i rapporteringen. Vi har valt Kim Wall-fallet som vårt empiriska material. Det innehåller åtskilliga spektakulära detaljer och både förövaren samt offret är sedan tidigare kända för allmänheten. Detta bidrar till att rapporteringen kan formas på ett flertal olika sätt och gör därmed vår undersökning särskilt intressant. Tidigare forskning visar på att journalistik tenderar att bli allt mer underhållande och dramatiserad, detta genom att sensationsjournalistiken fått en framträdande roll inom journalistik. Samtidigt anses brott och journalistik vara ett oskiljaktigt par som tillsammans utgör ett eget bevakningsområde inom journalistik. Resultatet från vår analys visar att det finns tydliga skillnader i rapporteringen mellan public service och kommersiell kvällspress. SVT Nyheter är mer sakliga i sin rapportering och förhåller sig enbart till fakta, medan Aftonbladet bygger upp sina artiklar mer som en berättelse med kopplingar till populärkultur. Analysen antyder även att de båda nyhetstjänsterna tilldelar förövaren ett betydligt större fokus än offret.The purpose of this study is to investigate how reporting of murder cases differs from SVT Nyheter and Aftonbladet's web reporting. To answer our question, we have conducted a qualitative text analysis with elements of critical discourse analysis and framing theory, on two articles from each news service. The texts of the articles have been examined with focus on word choice and linguistic actions. We have analyzed the underlying meanings of the text, how emotive words are used and how victims, perpetrators and potential secondary actors have been framed in the reporting. We have chosen the Kim Wall case as our empirical material. It contains several spectacular details, and both the perpetrator and the victim are known in the past. This helps the reporting to be formed in a variety of ways, making our research particularly interesting. Previous research shows that journalism tends to become more entertaining and dramatized, because sensationalism has a prominent role in journalism. At the same time, crime and journalism are considered to be an inseparable couple, which together form a separate area of coverage in journalism. The result of our analysis shows that there are clear differences in the reporting between public service and commercial evening paper. SVT Nyheter is more factual in their reporting, and relates only to facts, while Aftonbladet builds their articles more like a story with connections to popular culture. The analysis also suggests that both news services assign a significantly greater focus to the perpetrator than the victim.
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Eliasen, Viktor. "Musik i litteraturundervisningen: Går det an? : En litteraturanalys och didaktisk reflexion av Frida Hyvönens Kvinnor och barn." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40701.
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Nold, Andrea. ""Remoulded, remodelled and re-narrated" : - Narrative acts of 'making the refugee' and liquid stories in the asylum hearing." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152292.
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Menchini, Evelina. "Geografisk identitet, är det relevant för IT-företag? : En kvalitativ studie om användningen av City of origin för varumärkesprofilering." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78105.
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Ramkumar, Shravni. "The Definition of Leadership in the Indian Entertainment Industry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1621.
Анотація:
The Indian entertainment industry has firmly cemented its place on the global map of cinema. With more than 1000 multilingual films being produced every year, it has had great impact upon the world of fashion, music and dance. The Indian entertainment industry is in a favorable phase right now driven by ground-breaking changes such as the advent of new leaders, increased usage of technology, new ways of storytelling and new stories being told. Though it started out by being dominated by a handful of people, it has evolved to allow the growth of leaders who shaped its progress. This paper analyses the transformation of leadership styles within the industry and explores how the change in audiences’ tastes and expectations, nepotism, the role of fashion designers, the role of women and the Indian diaspora have produced leaders through the years and how this has resulted in the continuous transformation of its definition of leadership and leadership.
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Blomkvist, Patricia, and Anna Grimbe. "Utemiljöns betydelse för barns lek i förskolan : En jämförande studie mellan två förskolegårdar." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141855.
Анотація:
Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur olika miljöer skapar olika förutsättningar för barns lek. Det är en jämförande studie av hur två förskolegårdar med olika slags utomhusmiljöer, en med naturinslag och en där naturen är frånvarande, skapar möjligheter och förutsättningar för barns lek. Det är en kvalitativ etnografisk inspirerad studie där barnperspektivet lyfts fram. Studien utgår från ett posthumanistiskt perspektiv och resultatet visar på kopplingar mellan miljö,material och barns lek och hur dessa på olika sätt intra-agerar på de båda förskolegårdarna. Resultatet visar även på hur de olika förskolegårdarna skiljer sig från varandra,i förhållande till barns lekmöjligheter och vilka likheter som fanns, trots miljöernas olikheter. I diskussionen problematiseras hur olika diskurser påverkar förhållanden mellan miljö, material och barns lek. Diskussionen lyfter vidare bland annat fram frågorna; Erbjuder naturen barnen större fantasiutrymme än en planerad miljö? Och har det någon betydelse om materialet som transformeras i leken är en spade eller pinne? Slutsatsen visar att miljö och material blir medskapare i leken på olika sätt, oavsett om naturen är närvarande eller inte. Ytterligare en slutsats är att pedagogers reglering av material har stor påverkan på barns lekmöjligheter.
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Jimenez, Stephanie. "Social Constructions of Teen Pregnancy: Implications for Policy and Prevention Efforts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/50.
Анотація:
Over the past few decades, teen pregnancy has been framed as one of society’s most pressing ills. It has been understood as a “crisis” by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and a number of other cultural, religious, and governmental institutions. In this thesis, I analyze three constructions of teen pregnancy: 1) the construction of teen mothers as social “burdens” 2) the construction of teens as “unfit” to be parents 3) the construction of teen mothers as collectively “rational” actors reacting to contexts of structural inequality. While the first and second constructions draw upon the conception of teen pregnancy as a costly, national epidemic often reproduced by the irresponsible and “deviant” behavior of teens, the last construction rejects this discourse, and posits adolescents as “rational” actors that make “rational” decisions given a context of structurally-produced inequality. In that early childbearing may serve as a “collective adaptive” strategy in contexts of poverty, this construction of teen pregnancy has attempted to deconstruct the notion that teens become pregnant due to their “irrationality,” or their inability or unwillingness to recognize the harsh repercussions of early childbearing.4 In that this third construction favors “empowerment” policies that provide women with the “knowledge and means to exercise reproductive freedom,” it does not narrowly promote prevention policy as a single approach to teen pregnancy, and escapes the promotion of punitive approaches that seek to scare and discipline teens into abstaining from non-marital sex.
4 Arline T. Geronimus, “Teenage Childbearing and Social Disadvantage: Unprotected Discourse,” Family Relations (April 1992): 245.
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Ziino, Jabe (Jabe S. ). "Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65330.
Анотація:
Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-66).
Introduction: Last Fall semester I had only a very vague idea of a thesis topic: with a broad interest in the conflict between romantic love and religion inspired in part by a summertime reading of Brideshead Revisited, I spent a few evenings sharing company with St. Augustine, Abelard and Eloise, and Julian of Norwich. My interest in serious religion was quickly satisfied. Soon after choosing to focus on twentieth century British Catholic novelists-Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Evelyn Waugh-I realized the extent to which my enjoyment of Waugh greatly surpassed that of all my other readings. Jabe, I told myself, if you are going to spend a year of your precious young time on a literature thesis, you had damn well better have fun. Evelyn Waugh it was. His work is often noted for its contradictory nature. A devout Catholic, he was also somewhat of a misanthrope; across and within works he mixes bitter, hilarious satire with authentic, often quiet, human concern to a powerful effect that proves remarkably difficult to analyze. The distant narrator of many of his works and the romantic narrator of others both seem at odds with the public Waugh, a crotchety, outspoken conservative to whom critics often refer. Thus it was somewhat with the interest of finding a "new voice" in Waugh that I began my project. I did not find the voice I expected, but eight months, countless hours of reading and discussion, and many drafts later, my interest in the complex workings of Waugh's work has only deepened, surely the sign of a successful topic choice. While there have been numerous biographies of Evelyn Waugh in recent years, with another due to be published in several months, there has been a notable dearth of full-length, or indeed even article-length, critical texts on Waugh's work. This phenomenon can perhaps be explained in part by the seemingly autobiographical nature of his best-known novel, Brideshead Revisited, which was adapted in 1981 into an enduringly popular BBC miniseries and in 2008 into a full-length feature film. However, it is not only the popular imagination that seems to be captivated by Waugh's life; numerous critics of Waugh attempt to understand his work through the lens of his biography, using details such as his conversion to Catholicism early in his career or his political writings and public statements to inform their readings of his novels. The themes and qualities of Waugh's novels are not easily unified across his career; the cynical work of his early career seem very much at odds with the sentimentality and overtly religious concerns of much of his later writings, of which Brideshead Revisited is the best-known example. Accordingly, Waugh's career is often divided into two sections. The first section begins in 1928 with the publication of his first novel Decline and Fall and ends before the publication of Brideshead Revisited in 1945, while the second section begins with Brideshead Revisited and continues to the end of Waugh's career, encompassing the historico-religious novel Helena and the Catholic war novels of the Sword of Honour trilogy. Attempts at reconciling these "two Waughs" recur throughout the criticism; many studies of Waugh as an author either read the later novels as representing Waugh's "true concerns" and attempt to fit the early satires into this model, or dispense altogether with trying to unify the concerns of Waugh's early and later works. According to James Carens, "in Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh turned from the nihilistic rejection of his early satires to an affirmative commitment; to satisfy the other impulse of the artist-rebel, as Albert Camus has described him, Waugh affirmed a vision which he believed gave unity to life." According to Frederick L. Beaty's reading of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh's "affirmative commitment" is a belief in God and Catholicism: The chaos that surrounds [Waugh] becomes not only tolerable but meaningful as he views from a radically changed perspective a universe he once saw in ironic terms. Relativism, paradox, and indeterminacy give way before the conviction that an immanent, transcendent Deity is the ultimate reality. Waugh's enunciation of this positive credo marks a conscious turning away from philosophical irony-with its essentially skeptical vision-as the underlying world view for his fiction. The conclusion of Brideshead Revisited thus functions as an articulation of Waugh's religious beliefs and a rejection of his earlier secular works; Beaty secures meaning in Waugh's writing by aligning each novel with Waugh's presumed personal philosophy. In contrast, non-biographical criticism of Waugh often fails to find consistent themes or concerns across the novels. Michael Gorra articulates this phenomenon well in the following argument, which begins with criticism of to Jeffrey Heath's The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing: Like most of the explicitly Catholic criticism of Waugh, [Heath's book] places too much weight upon his comic prefigurations of his later beliefs. Most treatments of Waugh as a satirist tend, similarly, to read his career backwards.. .A useful corrective to accounts of Waugh as either Catholic apologist or satirist is David Lodge's argument in Evelyn Waugh that his early novels in particular contain "a mosaic of local comic and satiric effects rather than a consistent message." In this paper, I propose a different reading of Waugh: one that finds neither dogmatic affirmation nor disparate ingenious effects but finds rather the performance of a complex expression of the insecurity and energy of the modern world that disintegrates the traditional interpretation of Waugh's work as strict ironic satire.
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Barker, Morgan, Emily Clark, Rebecca M. A. Altschuler, and Julia Ph D. Dodd. "Association Between Time Trying to Conceive and Self-Perceptions of Female Infertility." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/87.
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Female infertility is a prevalent global health concern. Social class has been examined in relation to interpretations of formal infertility diagnoses. However, this study sought to investigate subjective self-definitions of infertility experiences. This study compared reported length of time trying to conceive and self-perceptions of infertility status, which created four groups: women who met the medical definition of infertility and considered themselves to be experiencing infertility, women who met the medical definition and did not consider themselves to be experiencing infertility, women who did not meet the medical definition but did consider themselves to be experiencing infertility, and women who did not meet the medical definition of infertility and did not consider themselves to be experiencing infertility. We were interested in examining subjective socioeconomic status as a predictor of group membership, operating on the idea that women who perceive themselves as lower SES might be less likely to acknowledge a subjective infertility status due to more limited resources for treatment. Female participants (N = 1233) were recruited from the social networking site Reddit to complete online self-report surveys created via the REDCap survey platform. A subset of female participants (n = 548) who reported they were currently trying to conceive was utilized for this study’s sample. A chi-square test of independence was conducted to examine the relationship between reported length of time trying to conceive and self-perceptions of infertility status. Results indicated a significant association between these variables, χ2 (1, N = 594) = 239.08, p < .001, indicating that women’s self-perception of whether or not they were experiencing infertility was largely in line with the medical definition of infertility. We intended to conduct logistic regression analysis to examine subjective socioeconomic status as a predictor of group membership, specifically for women who met the medical definition of infertility but did not perceive themselves as experiencing infertility. However, logistic regression was not performed due to a lack of statistical power for this group (n = 14). Future research should expand upon this rationale to inclusively investigate factors contributing to self-identification of infertility experiences. Understanding the role of psychosocial factors involved in infertility status perceptions could facilitate specific interventions to promote infertility treatment-seeking behaviors.
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Hester, ElizaBeth. "Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2491.
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This study focuses on Vadie Conner Williams, an individual folk artist, and the drawnwork she has created throughout her lifetime. Included is a description of her rural farm background, her needlework skills and her creative process. The study also examines the significance of drawnwork to Williams and determines how she has adapted her work to satisfy her personal needs as well as the needs of her customers. Based on tape recorded interviews and a close examination of her work, the study concludes that drawnwork is an integral part of Williams's everyday life; it is an indicator of her beliefs and a source of identity within her community.
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Butler, Jade. "As you cannot hear the sound of losing researching the gambling environment through performance /." Full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1970/1/JadeButler_MastersThesis.pdf.
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This project is an investigation of various gambling environments. I wish to consider how these strategically designed, immersive and seductive sites seem to have an effect on the visitor. Typically the gaming environment offers an adult utopia and an other-worldly experience that is far removed from the everyday. I was attracted to researching the extreme, hyperreal gambling environments analysed by Jean Baudrillard as well as the common, suburban sites examined by Charles Livingstone. Although at first glance the styles of these two environments seem vastly different, what they have in common is they provide a simulacrum of reality where people can engage in the act of gambling. Whether the site is extraordinary or less extreme in style, the misery caused by gambling is a common experience. The performance As you cannot hear the sound of losing grew from this research, into an exploration of the melancholy that can be felt by the individual as a result of engaging with gambling environments. You cannot hear the sound of losing in these places; the reality of losing does not exist there. Within these sites we are likely to hear the cheers of a winner celebrating but, never the misery that can be caused by gambling. By exploring the gambling environment through performance, I intend to present how it works to affect those who visit it.
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Decosimo, C. Alexis. "The Evaluation of a Psychosocial Expressive Arts Program in Liberia During the Ebola Epidemic." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3255.
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Disaster, community-wide trauma, and epidemics can have devastating effects on a child’s emotional and psychological wellbeing (Wethington, Hahn, Fuqua-Whitley et al., 2008). The 2014-2015 Liberian Ebola epidemic was detrimental to a country still recovering from a 14-year war. In Liberia alone there were 10,678 confirmed cases and 4,810 Ebola deaths (CDC, 2016). The physical, emotional, and psychological toll of this epidemic was extraordinary. An United States non-profit, Playing to Live (PTL), worked alongside the Liberian government, ministries and local and international organizations to find an innovative solution to the psychological and emotional healing of children and families most affected. This solution used best practices in expressive arts therapy, mental health, and train the trainer models. The purposes of these studies were to evaluate the process of the PTL programming, the outcome effects based on pre-and posttests of child participants psychological stress symptoms (PSS), and explore lessons learned and implications for future programming. Process evaluation results indicated positive reactions to programming from both facilitators and child participants. Results also brought forth considerations for future programming. Outcome data from the pre-and post PSS symptoms showed a significant decrease for both 5-months and 3-months of PTL programming. In addition, a significant difference on pre-and post-symptoms for the 5-month and 3-month treatment groups was found, indicating that longer treatment yields greater results. A review of best practices and lessons learned was discussed for future implications for PTL and similar programs.
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Lindström, Nikita, and Hamzah Suleiman. "Idrott - en väg in i samhället : En fallstudie om utrikes födda personers integrering genom basket." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35723.
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This study highlights how people born outside of Sweden experience that their participation in a basketball association contributed to integration into the Swedish society and in which ways it occurred. Furthermore, we study how possibilities and limitations are created for the participants to use sports as a platform for integration for the purpose of becoming a part the society. Through a case study we have interview people from a basketball association. The theories we used in this essay is the intersectional perspective and the theory of integration processes to find out how the individual’s ability to integrate can be affected by different social structures. Six themes were created to become the basis of the analysis: Focus on competition – a barrier for integration?, sports as a tool for language development, community as an inclusive factor, basketball - a sport for immigrant women, a social network creates the conditions for integration, and economic benefits of basketball. With the support of the theories we found that all themes have a significance on the individual ability to integrate and that the basketball association has been a platform for out participants to become a part of the community and to develop knowledge of the Swedish language.
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Guillemin, Alain. "Jeux chamaniques, jeux marionnettiques : Aux sources d'une culture théâtrale." Phd thesis, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00863950.
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Autour du shaman ou du montreur de marionnettes des liens se tissent pour faire face au désordre grâce à une parole en mouvement. A une représentation humaine ou animale, à un objet animé rituel ils insuflent une vie crédible car simulée et porteuse de l'énergie paradoxale des morts-vivants. La Chine porte la marque profonde de la culture des shamans : on amène un esprit dans la figure pour "jouer les dieux". Voyage initiatique en Thaïlande, Malaisie, Indonésie où l'on confortera cette idée. Mythes et rites se réduisent à des règles formelles... ou retrouvent vie et prise sur l'actualité. Le personnage de bois ou de terre apparaît, dans les mythes africains, comme un secret rapporté du monde des morts ou des esprits. Chez les Papous, en Afrique, en Europe, l'épouvantail, le mannequin, l'effigie permettent de contourner, symboliquement, la reproduction sexuée. Au Moyen Age, en Europe, le marmouset (marionnette, idole, fantôme, épouvantail) et son théâtre, se cachent derrière une chantefable, dans les fabliaux, aux origines de la farce et du castelet. Entre le shamanisme des origines grec et celui des Barbares se resitue l'apport de Platon dans sa définition de l'âme. Comment se définit le "je" chez les Papous, chez le poète Fernando Pessoa, dans le mythe moderne de Pinocchio, chez le marionnettiste qui vit "plusieurs vies" ? L'art dramatique du XIXe siècle se meurt, épuisé par l'ego des comédiens ou écrasés par le réalisme naïf des marionnettes et la Grande Guerre amène à découvrir la prothèse, la vie simulée, l'acteur mécanique, l'effigie. Entre l'absence de conscience du mannequin et la conscience infinie du dieu, dirait Kleist, on agit dans les règles du jeu
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Carpenter, Rachel K., Alyssa P. Gretak, Lydia L. Eisenbrandt, Rebecca H. Gilley, and Jill D. PhD Stinson. "Domestic Violence Survivor-Offender Relationship is Related to Type of Abuse Sustained." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/158.
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In the past decade, the increasing prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence (DV) on college and university campuses has been given considerable attention. This abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional, and coercive control, often leads to impairment in victims (Ross, 2017; Straus, Gelles & Steinmetz). While the overall rates of IPV and DV have been relatively well-studied on college campuses, the differential impact of survivor-offender relationship on type of abuse has not been fully examined. As a result, there may be important correlates between survivor-offender relationship and the nature of abusive acts.
Data for this project were obtained from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s online incident-based reporting system. Reported incidents of DV/IPV in 2017 were examined in the current analysis with variables divided by survivor-offender relationship and type of abuse. Survivor- offender relationship included intimate, acquaintance, stranger, and family, while types of abuse included kidnapping, incest, forcible rape and statutory rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, murder, intimidation stalking, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling.
A preliminary χ2 16 x 4 contingency table illustrated a significant difference between survivor-offender relationship and type of abuse χ2(33) = 185.43, p <.001, with a significant difference between relationship and offense types. Further analyses indicated higher rates of simple assault in intimate relationships compared to acquaintances and forcible rape proving more evident in acquaintances compared to intimate relationships. Interestingly, intimidation was higher in African Americans acquaintances compared to Caucasian individuals’ where intimidation was more evident in intimate relationships. Further analyses will investigate specific racial and ethnic breakdowns, gender considerations, and the influence and possession of a firearm. To our knowledge, this area of research on college campuses has not examined the lethality and influence of a firearm, types of injury, and the survivor-offender relationship.
Few have theorized regarding DV/IPV and survivor-offender relationship and type of abuse, but the current findings are similar to research regarding characteristics of sexual assault survivors who present to the emergency room. For example, Logan, Cole and Capillo (2007) discovered that there is a difference in injury patterns depending on the survivor-offender relationship. With domestic violence being insidiously pervasive, this topic necessitates investigation due to research suggesting there are differences in mental health outcomes based on injuries sustained, and certain assault characteristics depending on the survivor-offender relationship (Culbertson & Dehle, 2001). Implications of the current study will be further discussed.
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Parrish, Loni, Alyson Jo Chroust, Brandi Eveland-Sayer, Kara Boynewicz, and Andrew Dotterweich. "Serial Spatial Memory Performance and Physical Activity in Children 5-11 Years Old." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/126.
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Visuospatial memory supports cognitive functioning and guides one’s navigation through the environment. Spatial processing allows individuals to remember procedural sequence of steps to achieve a certain goal. It plays a vital role in learning, reasoning, problem solving and language comprehension. Additionally, aerobic fitness enhances cognitive functions such that children that have higher levels of aerobic fitness and motor skills also have better attention, spatial memory, and school achievement. The current study measured spatial memory in children (2nd – 5th grade) to assess developmental differences. Moreover, the study investigated whether spatial memory and running speed were related. It was hypothesized that the data will reconstruct the classic serial position effect and there will be developmental differences in spatial memory performance. Furthermore, participants’ running speed will be negatively associated with their performance on the spatial memory task. That is, the faster their running time, the higher their spatial memory score. Two tasks were presented to children as part of a larger project. The first was a visual-spatial memory task that was presented on a computer using an eye-tracker. The second was a 100-ft shuttle run. Fifty-one children (M age = 104 months, SD = 25.05; 27 female) were introduced to the spatial memory task with a story about a dog walker who lost a puppy. The task had three periods: presentation, retention, and recall. During the presentation period, participants saw the puppy appear in five spatial positions. Next, participants had the opportunity to see all of the positions the puppy visited as teal boxes reappeared in the same locations and remained on the screen for ten seconds. Lastly, during the recall period, participants were asked to recall the order that the puppy visited the five positions. The percentage of correctly recalled items was the dependent measure. A mixed analysis of variance was conducted on percent correct with item position (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) as a within-subject factor and participant grade (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) as a between-participant factor. There were main effects of sequential position, F(4, 188) = 10.46, p< .001, h2 = .18 and grade, F(1, 47) = 5.32, p= .003, h2 = .25. The extent of serial position effect was comparable across grade levels, with no sign of floor or ceiling effect in any group. Overall, older participants had a higher percentage correct recall than younger participants. Additionally, across grade-levels, first-item primacy and last-item recency effects were apparent. Furthermore, there was a significant association between running speed and spatial memory performance, r= -0.396, p= .004. In summary, the results of the current study suggest that the serial position effect is present by 5-years of age and that children’s memory for spatial locations improves with age. Moreover, children with higher percentages of recalled items on the spatial memory task had faster times on the shuttle run. Future research should consider other measurements of physical activity (e.g., strength, agility, coordination) to see whether physical activity, more broadly, relates to spatial memory performance in children.
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Özden-Schilling, Thomas Charles. "Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35704.
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Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2006.Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The infantrymen of the Great War experienced the unimaginable. Soldiers in the trenches internalized images of confusion and gore, and returned to a society unwilling and often unable to comprehend their sacrifices. For nearly 65,000 of these soldiers, their experiences on the front brought on hysteria, mental breakdown, muteness, paralysis, and other bizarre physical maladies (ER, 189). The medical description of the mental conditions that precipitated so many of these symptoms underwent a dramatic evolution as more and more cases were reported. These conditions were first collected under the terse assignation of "shell-shock," linking the range of maladies to the psychological influence of heavy artillery as well as referring tacitly to ontological theories of physical lesions in cerebral tissue. Such diagnostic projections were assisted by patients who, upon solicitation, readily supplied anecdotal evidence of mortar blasts. As the war progressed, however, the appearance of cases not directly linked to close-proximity explosions prompted the search for a non-physical term; "neuroses" was put into use, and an epistemological link to madness was established. Finally, in the search for a more scientific label, physicians decided upon "neurasthenia," a psychiatric condition linked to exhaustion and memory loss. These three terms - shell-shock, neurasthenia, and neuroses - were used interchangeably in public, political, and military discourse throughout the war, but most of the physicians who worked in Great Britain's mental wards were less careless. Each term bore a distinct epistemological weight: shell-shock clearly implied both physical causality and temporariness, neurasthenia referred to a specific mental condition, and neuroses hinted at a psychological disease "entity." Every subsequent war since the medical "discovery" of shell-shock has occasioned another evolution in terminology, and each new term has since fought to position its particular insight alongside an epistemological backlog that accrued new facets more often than it changed form in totality. Disassembling such networks of discourse thus requires historicizing conflicting definitions. The theories of psychoanalysis put forth by Sigmund Freud loomed large for many of the figures in these debates, both as an inspiration for cerebral therapeutics and as a challenge to the conventionalism and psychological materialism of the pre-war medical establishment. In subtly adapting Freud's insights, however, the practitioners of post-Freudian psychoanalysis pushed the official discourse on shell-shock in a different direction, leading to a more sophisticated understanding that was less accepting of paradigmatic and ideological identifications of Britishness with courage, character, and mental fortitude ...
by Thomas C. Schilling.
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Gallego, Escudero Gicela. "The workplace as an agent of diversity, inclusiveness, social integration, and social relations : A qualitative study in a multinational company." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162201.
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This qualitative study aims to investigate how a multinational company works to promote workforce diversity and inclusiveness, how native and immigrant employees and managers experience social integration and social relations in the workplace, and how the managers work to contribute to social integration and social relations in the workplace. Interviews have been made with thirteen participants working in the same company. Among the participants there are natives and immigrants, and there are managers and employees. The theoretical framework is based on habitus, on capital, and on symbolic interactionism theory. The previous research is based on workforce diversity and inclusiveness, on social integration, and on social relations in workplaces. The findings indicate that the managers involve in different initiatives to promote diversity and inclusiveness inside and outside the company. Most participants have positive attitudes towards the position of the company in its work with diversity and inclusiveness. The findings also indicate that social integration and social relations in the workplace are of extreme importance for the employees and the managers. Most participants have good experiences of social integration in their workplace as they have feelings of inclusion, belonging, and community. Social relations in the workplace seem to be extremely significant for meaning, job satisfaction, well-being, and job performance. In addition, the findings indicate that the managers work with multiple initiatives to contribute to social integration and social relations in the workplace.
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Souladie, Catherine. "La performance dans les arts plastiques aujourd'hui : tatouages et piercings." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00757198.
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Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur la pertinence d'un " art -action " actuel, à partir d'une analyse d'actes pour l'art, caractérisés comme " hors limites ", à travers une utilisation de la présence physique comme essence et support de l'art plastique, entreprise dès les années 1920 par Marcel Duchamp, et déclinée durant tout le vingtième siècle avec des mouvements artistiques tels Dada, le Happening, l'Actionnisme Viennois, ou l'Art Corporel.Nous étudions ici, aidés d'artistes performers choisis autour de quelques pratiques singulières de Albrecht Becker, Ron Athey et Lukas Zpira, les possibles limites d'actes artistiques, mettant en scène de façon extrême, à travers des performances jugées choquantes, agressives, incluant piercings, tatouages, osant parfois un art du malaise, se jouant des conventions, des tabous et des codes sociaux et culturels en place. Ainsi nous voyons s'il y a lieu, aujourd'hui, de parler encore d'actes artistiques politiques, militants, après l'âge d'or des années soixante-dix, parmi des nouvelles esthétiques du corps humain, celui-ci successivement " héros, sujet, matériau, objet, victime, écran " de cet art-action transgressif. Notre volonté est de saisir l'ambiguïté contenue dans la représentation, et toute la symbolique donnée à voir, par rapport à une première intention qui est une certaine déstructuration à la fois thématique et formelle dans les arts plastiques. La discussion est donc engagée sur l'authenticité et la pérennité de ces pratiques artistiques extrémistes, transgressives, manipulant le concept d'identité ou même la génétique, discussion aussi sur leur statut avant-gardiste dans l'histoire de " l'art pour l'art ", concept porté par la modernité.Ce " hacking " du corps nous amène-t-il-alors vers un devenir post-humain virtuel, une seule existence dans les univers numériques ? Le corps est-il en perdition ou, paradoxalement l'ultime recours, sauvé par ces modifications douloureuses et radicales ?
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Östman, Sara-Pia. "Musiken som sätter ton på oss : En sociologisk studie av musikens sociala betydelse på bröllopet." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-40095.
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Människans relation till musik går att spåra ända tillbaka till forntiden då den har varit en viktig del i ritualer och ceremonier. I modern tid efter 1900-talets musikexplosion har musiken förknippats allt mer med den privata användningen och forskning visar att ens musiksmak kan ha en stark koppling till sin känsla av en identitet. Forskningen belyser även hur musiken kan fungera som en känsloregulator och att den kan fylla en funktion i sociala interaktioner människor emellan. I den här uppsatsen ligger fokusen på musikens sociala betydelse där brudpars val av musik till bröllopet undersöks. Med målet att få en fördjupad förståelse för musiken som ett socialt fenomen utfördes fem fenomenologiska intervjuer med personer som själva valt icke-traditionell musik till sitt bröllop. Resultatet visade att musiken på bröllopet har fungerat som en social identitetsmarkör för både brudparet och för den egna individen. Musiken har även haft en koppling till brudparets sociala historia med varandra men också till en social historia mellan de och deras gäster. Slutligen har musiken även hjälpt till att påverka den sociala stämningen på bröllopet i form av att tona ner den kristna stämningen vilket har skapat en mer lättsam och festlig stämning.
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Gill, Peter. "The Everyday Lives of Men: An Ethnographic Investigation of Young Adult Male Identity." full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2052/1/The_everyday_lives_of_men.pdf.
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There has been increasing social debate in recent times surrounding men’s identities, men’s health and wellbeing, and men’s place within contemporary western society. The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to new knowledge of these issues through an ethnographic exploration of two small sub-cultures of young adults. Utilising participant observation the researcher described in detail the ways in which masculinities were constructed in everyday life. The researcher spent over 2 years as a participant observer of a small group of men from a gymnasium in Melbourne, which followed a briefer but still illuminating period spent with a group of men from a small community in Australia. An ethnographic approach and a non-clinical and nondeviant sample were used to build in-depth knowledge from a neutral lens that did not assume an existing male deficit or crisis. The major findings revolved around the complexity of the male social networks, including the men’s need for belonging and in particular same sex friendships, the implicit and explicit rules of engagement, rational reflective discussion, and male engagement in their social worlds. In addition this thesis illuminated the salient masculine discourses for constructing and negotiating identities, which included heterosexual attraction, competition and social comparison, and biological predispositions and simplicity. This thesis also presents a dynamic psychosocial theory of male identity, and illustrates the relevance of this theory to the everyday lives of men. The men were shown to both collectively and individually negotiate and construct their identities by utilising the key processes of identification, sublimation, and reflection. By combining both phenomenological and discursive research methods the researcher was able to illustrate in everyday life the dialectic between the social and subjective elements of identity. The researcher also discusses the challenges he faced as an ethnographic fieldworker, and contributes to the development of improved understandings of the practical requirements of fieldwork, such as time, support, and flexibility.
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Gutto, Bassett Priscilla Pambana. "Handcraft and Environmental Knowledge: Mapuche Women Weavers." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/146.
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Beginning in a small informal collective of Mapuche women weavers in Puerto Saavedra, Chile, I explore how ecological knowledge has survived through textile handcraft, passed down from mother to daughter . Through analysis of interviews and observations with the women as weavers , I reflect on the importance of centering Indigenous women's knowledge, systematically excluded from the environmental cannon. The weavers maintain and shape traditions that have survived colonization and its disruption of Indigenous access to land and ways of living. They produce and transmit environmental knowledge on which they depend for subsistence and cultural expression. Using ecofeminism as a framework, I argue that the Mapuche women weavers' knowledge is counternarrative and expert knowledge. Through these stories told by hand and through oral story-telling it becomes clear that it is not enough to simply celebrate their beautiful craft and sustainable ways of interacting with the more-than-human environment; it is essential, also, to engage in activist work towards environmental and social justice.
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Balbian, Iriana. "NAVIGATING THE SHADOWS: INTERSECTING THE UNDOCUMENTED AND UNDOCUQUEER IDENTITIES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/941.
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This project analyzes the navigation of social experiences of Undocumented and Queer individuals amidst broad anti-queer and anti-immigration sentiment prevalent throughout American society. To achieve this goal, this project seeks to resolve three questions. First, what are the social services that Undocuqueer and Undocumented adults need? Second, are their needs fundamentally distinct? Finally, to what extent have they been able to access those services? Crenshaw’s (1994) theory of intersectionality will serve as the overarching theoretical framework of this project, in order to better understand the multifaceted marginalization that Undocumented and Undocuqueer individuals face with everyday institutions.
In this research, I utilized activist research methods. I obtained the full support of a undocumented student center at a university in Southern California and worked with the center to obtain participants for my research. In addition to its scholarly contribution to the fields of undocumented and Undocuqueer studies, the findings of this project will serve as a resource for the undocumented student center to improve its services for the student body. I interviewed a total of seventeen individuals drawn from both the Undocuqueer and undocumented populations. To facilitate my research, the center allowed me to place flyers in their center and the majority of my participants were frequent visitors to the center. Out of my 17 participants, one was the coordinator of the undocumented student center; 3 identified themselves as Undocuqueer; and, 13 identified themselves as undocumented students.
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Fälton, Emelie. "The Social Construction of Swedish Nature as a Touristic Attraction." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130538.
Анотація:
Sweden is a country with a lot of tourism that is dependent on nature as a touristic resource. Nature itself is a complex concept with different interpretations. In this thesis, the social construction of the Swedish nature as a touristic attraction is scrutinized. A total of 671 visual images with belonging descriptive texts has been collected from an online image bank where information about Sweden is available for foreign marketers. The material was analysed in order to answer questions about how the Swedish nature and the touristic approach to it are presented, how nature features are assigned to it and how the relationship between nature and humans is presented. The composition and portraiture of the images and prominent themes and patterns in the textual descriptions have been identified as well. The theoretical framework is based on discourse theory, while the methodological framework is based on inspiration from both discourse analysis and content analysis. The result revealed that Swedish nature is presented as part of the rural Sweden with mountains, forests and littoral areas as the main elements. Swedish nature is foremost portrayed as wild and authentic, but also as sublime and pristine to a lesser extent. It is also portrayed as a place for touristic activities with a focus on the outdoors and physical activity. The relation between nature and humans differ, but the Swedish people are portrayed as more connected to nature than tourists
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Esra, Kazem. "BEYOND THE STATED FUNCTION: Showcasing, through everyday objects, social obstacles imposed on Qatari female youth." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3141.
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This critical design project showcases obstacles that the Qatari culture and society impose on their female youth, hindering them from becoming independent individuals. It critiques the society and its social pressures. The project stimulates people to think by challenging their assumptions and perceptions, specifically social perception and judgment, family authority, and gender favoritism. This is achieved through hybridized accessories that are embedded with a meta-meaning that arouses curiosity, invites questions, and stimulates thoughts. Through the design of these appealing, high quality, and functionally viable everyday accessories, the project aims to communicate the social and cultural forces which impede Qatari female youths’ becoming individuals who dream, achieve, and thrive.
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Button, Lee. "German Foreign Policy & Diplomacy 1890-1906." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2206.
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From 1871 to 1914, Germany experienced its first taste of world power and the failure of controlling and retaining that power. German power after 1871 had sought only a dominance of continental politics and a maintenance of a status quo in Europe favorable to Germany. Following 1890, however, the German course deviated to include a vision of world power. German foreign policy until 1890 was based on two things: hegemonic control of the heart of Europe and the force of will of one man, Otto von Bismarck. Yet despite relative control of the European situation and a cautious and able statesman at the helm, Germany was quickly intoxicated by its new power as much as reacting against the almost oppressive control of Bismarck. By all measures, the German appetite for power was growing faster than ordinary diplomatic conquests could satisfy it. The need for instant gratification caused a recklessness in foreign policy and diplomacy best characterized by Krisepolitik, or crisis diplomacy. This dilemma not only resulted from a growing appetite for power, but also from a lack of understanding of international politics. The European reaction to the new German aggressiveness and to the lack of direction in German policy was one of suspicion. With the cancellation of the Reinsurance Treaty with Russian in 1890, every German move was viewed by increasingly hostile eyes. Axes of power began to form which much threatened the growing world power of Germany, a Germany which saw the need to contest the powers on as many points as possible, while avoiding war, to retain its power in the 1890s and the first years of the twentieth century.