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Coffey, Bysshe Inigo. "Broken worlds : Shelley's fractured materiality." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34242.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley is often seen to exhibit a linear intellectual development. He moves, allegedly, from a thoroughgoing materialism in his early years to embrace, with varying levels of enthusiasm, a diametrically opposed idealism. Yet, if we are attentive to even an early, supposedly naïvely ‘materialist’ work like Alastor (1816), we discover a much more complex reality. Here, Shelley’s materialism concerns not only the sonorous and physiological elements of existence, but also the gaps, vacancies, silences and interstices of thought. These too, after all, comprise part of our lived experience, and deserve to be designated material. But materialism has struggled, by definition, to explain the real but not-manifest phenomena of human experience. Shelley’s poetry actuates diverse kinds of intermittence and disjunction, and engages with philosophical contexts not previously associated with the poet. He did not seek to resolve the relation between the material and immaterial world of the soul (a quite impossible task anyway), but enact the dynamic between sensuous reality and the gaps and pauses that punctuate it. We see this not only through the incidents that his verse describes; importantly, Shelley also enacts this through performance: through the way in which we recite his poetry into existence, through the pauses and ‘fainting periods’ that our own voice describes. The need to take into account this vocal, performative element of Shelley’s verse belies the notion that he was ever a simple, unreconstructed idealist. Where the recent turn toward materialism has hitherto been somewhat narrowly conceived as a return to objects, things and their thing-ness, Shelley’s sensuousness permits us to ask further: to ask into the nature of the relations between objects, and the ways in which they come into being. His ‘intermitted song’, a poetry of radical pauses, is not only a resonant example of how prosody intersects with, and achieves, philosophically significant thinking, it is also a stinging critique of any account of life or matter that is offered solely in terms of motion, fullness, functionality, and continuity. His achievement is not only of relevance to the Romantic Period and the history of philosophy, or an answer to vital materialism, Shelley’s poetry and prose offer a remarkable reassessment of the notion of a continuing life.
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Lando, Jennifer Rose. "Living In/Between Two Worlds: Narratives of Latina Cultural Brokers in Higher Education." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1431001259.
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Bidgood, Lee. "The Broken Circle Breakdown and Belgian Bluegrass." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3248.
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Katzarova, Elitza. "The World Is Broken: The Social Construction of a Global Corruption Problem." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367983.
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This thesis examines the social construction of a global corruption problem by introducing a methodological framework from the field of sociology and adapting it to International Relations (IR). It provides an alternative explanation for the adoption of anti-corruption instruments in the period 1994-1997 and the international institutionalization of anti-corruption reforms. It challenges conventional views that point to the rise of non-state actors, such as Transparency International, and the end of the Cold War. By tracing the trajectory of the corruption problem, it shows that the dynamics of the 1990s can only be fully understood within the legacy of the 1970s and, in particular, the failed talks at the United Nations. The institutionalization of the global corruption problem in the 1990s was a product largely of historical contingency and state intentionality. While it appeared that a new issue has taken international organizations by storm, it was largely key state agents that were creating this change by building coalitions and maneuvering between venues. The thesis employs methods of discourse and practice analysis from sociological research for the empirical study of claims. The analysis makes use of archival data to open up the pre-negotiation talks on illicit/corrupt payments at the OECD and the UN and study the process of claims-making, as well as document discursive strategies such as controversy management and feasibility. By taking a step back from the study of norms to look at the social construction of problems, the thesis introduces new methodological tools into constructivist IR. It also provides for the integration of state agency in constructivist approaches by showing how state actors engage in ontological warfare over the definition and institutionalization of new problems. Studying the social construction of problems through the process of claims-making elucidates the power relations that inform the established definitions and the spectrum of legitimate solutions; it helps us better understand the makings of international reality.
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Katzarova, Elitza. "The World Is Broken: The Social Construction of a Global Corruption Problem." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2015. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1526/1/Thesis_Katzarova.pdf.
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This thesis examines the social construction of a global corruption problem by introducing a methodological framework from the field of sociology and adapting it to International Relations (IR). It provides an alternative explanation for the adoption of anti-corruption instruments in the period 1994-1997 and the international institutionalization of anti-corruption reforms. It challenges conventional views that point to the rise of non-state actors, such as Transparency International, and the end of the Cold War. By tracing the trajectory of the corruption problem, it shows that the dynamics of the 1990s can only be fully understood within the legacy of the 1970s and, in particular, the failed talks at the United Nations. The institutionalization of the global corruption problem in the 1990s was a product largely of historical contingency and state intentionality. While it appeared that a new issue has taken international organizations by storm, it was largely key state agents that were creating this change by building coalitions and maneuvering between venues. The thesis employs methods of discourse and practice analysis from sociological research for the empirical study of claims. The analysis makes use of archival data to open up the pre-negotiation talks on illicit/corrupt payments at the OECD and the UN and study the process of claims-making, as well as document discursive strategies such as controversy management and feasibility. By taking a step back from the study of norms to look at the social construction of problems, the thesis introduces new methodological tools into constructivist IR. It also provides for the integration of state agency in constructivist approaches by showing how state actors engage in ontological warfare over the definition and institutionalization of new problems. Studying the social construction of problems through the process of claims-making elucidates the power relations that inform the established definitions and the spectrum of legitimate solutions; it helps us better understand the makings of international reality.
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Riggirozzi, María Pía. "The World Bank as a norm-broker : knowledge, funds and power in governance reforms in Argentina." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58326/.
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This study explores the role of the World Bank in the promotion of two governance reforms in Argentina, judicial reform and anti-corruption policies. It argues that when the World Bank is able to draw on both its financial and knowledge power to build and consolidate 'pro-reform networks' with local actors it is more likely to ensure the implementation of governance reforms in its client countries. This argument is built on the premise that whatever the leverage of the World Bank as a financial institution or as a Knowledge Bank, and despite this leverage, it cannot implement programmes by itself in developing countries. A loan and its conditions may be negotiated and approved with government officials, yet the materialisation of projects into policies and institutions is embedded in complex policy process in which the interplay between Bank staff and local actors (beyond government officials) can favour or inhibit policy change. In this context, it is argued that the dominance of a particular actor or paradigm vis-a-vis other contending actors or ideas is not reinforced simply by the coercive position of the lender over the borrower, but rather by its capacity to integrate contesting impulses into broader consensus for policy change. In this capacity, the World Bank is defined as a 'normbroker'. Through a framework that combines critical perspectives in International Political Economy and institutional analysis, this thesis explores different patterns of intervention of World Bank units that acted either as a mere 'conveyor' in the transfer of funds and knowledge or as a 'broker' by integrating the normative agenda grounded in Bank's knowledge with country-based knowledge for the design, negotiation and implementation of governance reforms in Argentina. The theoretical and empirical study of judicial reform and anti-corruption in Argentina contribute to the understanding of reform implementation in which the Bank only succeeds in achieving effective institutionalisation when it engages with local actors, in particular with local experts, in pro-reform networks. By analysing different patterns of involvement of Bank units, this thesis also identifies knowledge/policy dynamics as a critical aspect of policy-making. From this perspective, this thesis departs from traditional studies that focus on one-way coercive leverage of lending institutions and offers a critical approach to the analysis of power, knowledge and policy change in developing countries. It also sheds light on the complexities of international organisations as they expand their roles towards new areas of involvement that fall into the domain of domestic policy-making.
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Ordway, Gregory A., Attila Szebeni, Michelle J. Chandley, Craig A. Stockmeier, Jessica Crawford, and Katalin Szebeni. "Norepinephrine: A Broken Spoke on the Wheel of Depression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8600.
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Ordway, Gregory A., Attila Szebeni, Michelle J. Chandley, Craig A. Stockmeier, Jessica D. Crawford, and Katalin Szebeni. "Norepinephrine: A Broken Spoke on the Wheel of Depression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8633.
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Ordway, Gregory A. "Norepinephrine: A Broken Spoke on the Wheel of Depression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8671.
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Estrada, Dutrieux Christine. "La génération de la convention de compromis par l'organisation pluraliste à partir de la capacité d'absorption : le cas d'un établissement de formation en travail social." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Aix-Marseille, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021AIXM0426.
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Notre thèse interroge la capacité d’un Établissement de Formation en Travail Social (EFTS) considéré comme pluraliste, à pouvoir adopter une convention de compromis entre des « mondes » au cours d’une démarche d’absorption de connaissances externes, pour répondre à sa mission d’intérêt général. Elle propose de comprendre comment une convention de compromis est mise en œuvre à partir des capacités d’absorption de connaissances. Notre revue de littérature nous permet d’établir un modèle d’analyse qui précise l’action du processus d’absorption de connaissances sur l’adoption de la convention de compromis par le courtier de connaissances. Pour étudier ce processus, nous nous appuyons sur une étude de cas enchâssée avec deux groupes-projets au sein d’un EFTS. Les entretiens menés montrent pour l’un des deux groupes, le rôle majeur du courtier de connaissances évoluant vers une fonction de courtier de mondes. Son action parvient durant le processus d’absorption à générer une convention de compromis. Le deuxième groupe présente une expérience dissemblable : la figure d’accord produite est l’arrangement qui n’engage pas la convention de compromis. Lors du passage à l’organisation, l’étude empirique met en évidence qu’aucun des deux groupes ne parvient à faire adopter la convention de compromis dans l’EFTS. La discussion de nos résultats porte sur les leviers favorables à l’adoption d’une convention de compromis par une organisation pluraliste pour répondre à une mission d’intérêt général : 1) le rôle majeur du courtier de mondes ; 2) le fonctionnement en communauté de pratique pilotée à bien commun ; 3) la dimension réflexive exercée au sein de l'organisationOur thesis looks at the capacity of a social work training institution that is considered pluralist to adopt a compromise agreement between “worlds” during a process of absorbing external knowledge so that it can fulfil its public interest mission. The thesis investigates how a compromise agreement is drawn up and delivered based on knowledge absorptive capacity. Furthermore, based on our literature review, we can establish an analytical model that clarifies the action of the knowledge absorption process on the adoption of the compromise agreement by the knowledge broker. To review this process, we look at an embedded case study with two project groups in a social work training institution. For one of the two groups, the interviews that were conducted demonstrate, the major role of the knowledge broker as it develops towards a function of a broker of worlds. His action manages to generate a compromise agreement during the absorption process. The experience of the second group is dissimilar: the agreement figure produced is the arrangement that does not commit the compromise agreement. During the transition to the organisation, the empirical study highlights the fact that neither of the two groups succeeds in having the compromise agreement adopted in the training institute. The discussion of our results focuses on the levers that promote the adoption of a compromise agreement within a pluralist organisation to fulfil a public interest mission: (1) the major role of the broker of worlds ; (2) the functioning in a managed community of practice with common good; and (3) the reflexive dimension exercised inside the organisation
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Broken Promises: An Autoethnography of Psychological Contract Breach and Organizational Exit." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/793.
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Horton, Tonia Lanette. "The Freedom of a Broken Law: The Liminal World of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625290.
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Gunn, Meagan. "Women's Circles Broken| The Disruption of Sisterhood in Three Nineteenth-Century Works." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10264176.
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women are three works which focus on communities of women. Since women had such limited opportunities available to them in the nineteenth century, marriage was the most viable option for survival. An interesting connection found, though, among the literature written by women at the time is the way in which women thrive together in communities with each other—up until the men enter the scene. Once the men, or more commonly, one man who is also the future husband, disrupt these women-centered communities, the close bond among women is severed. These three authors envisioned a better option than marriage—a supportive sisterhood—safe, loving, and uninterrupted. How and why did women thrive together in these three fictional nineteenth-century communities? How did they communicate? In what spaces did these communities exist? In what ways did men disrupt these communities, and was it possible for women to regain a similar level of closeness with each other after the disruption of men (i.e. marriage)? This thesis looks at the various viewpoints and treatments each author brought to women’s communities, their importance, formation, and men’s intrusions upon them.
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Olson, Ted. "'Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia': Stephen Vincent Benet’s Appalachian Poem 'The Mountain Whippoorwill'." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1215.
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Collett, Stephen Richard. "Monitoring broiler breeder flocks for Mycoplasma gallisepticum Infection after vaccination with ts-11." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22870.
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Mycoplasma control in any poultry company requires an integrated approach involving diligent biosecurity, animal husbandry and disease surveillance. Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) infection is very costly to the broiler industry as it predisposes birds to a variety of primary and secondary respiratory diseases thus reducing production efficiency and profitability. Since the primary disease is rather insidious, relatively difficult to confirm (especially in vaccinated flocks), prone to becoming quiescent and vertically transmitted, control measures must begin at the breeder level and involve conscientious flock surveillance. While disease eradication is the best approach to MG control the economic pressures of modern broiler production often preclude such drastic measures. Vaccination programmes are often introduced to reduce the economic impact of the disease in breeder flocks and to minimize, or hopefully prevent vertical transmission. To prevent vertical transmission and lateral spread of field strain MG infection, early diagnosis is critical. Flock testing needs to be done every 2-4 weeks (depending on prevailing risk), on 90 birds (for an average flock of 7 000 birds) to satisfy statistical requirements for the detection of a 5% infection-rate with 99% confidence. The RSPA test provides an inexpensive, reliable and rapid means of evaluating the serological response to ts-11 strain vaccination during the rearing phase. A floor pen trial confirmed that, three to ten weeks after ts-11 vaccination at 10 weeks of age, the RSPA test reactor rate is between 30% and 60%. PCR was used to confirm the absence of field challenge. A retrospective analysis of 4 years of RSPA test data from broiler breeder flocks immunized with the live ts-11 strain MG vaccine indicated that traditional RSPA test monitoring protocols were unreliable as a means of differentiating ts-11 vaccination from field strain MG infection. Non-infected (PCR negative) vaccinated flocks reached sero-positive agglutination rates of 100% making the differentiation of vaccine response and field infection impossible during the lay cycle. RSPA monitoring of broiler breeders during the pullet rearing stage (0-20 weeks) was in contrast still very effective. While previously reported trials indicated that the introduction and subsequent serological monitoring of in-contact non-vaccinated sentinels may enhance the efficacy of the RSPA monitoring procedure this trial indicated that it does not. The ts-11 strain MG spread to in-contact sentinels so rapidly under field conditions that the serum agglutination pattern of these birds mimics that of the vaccinated pullets. The potential for ts-11 strain MG to spread from bird to bird is a reality and even spread from pen to pen (within the same house) may be possible if biosecurity is inadequate. The decision to vaccinate should include consideration as to the consequence of ts-11 strain MG spread to surrounding susceptible flocks. The use of molecular diagnostic techniques on pooled tracheal swabs taken from representative flock birds is a potentially cost effective and reliable means of differentiating ts-11 vaccine strain from field strain MG. PCR amplification of DNA from tracheal swab samples and strain identification based on amplicon size was shown to be a reliable and sensitive means of detecting ts-11 strain following vaccination. The proprietary PCR primer used in this trial was specifically designed to identify the ts-11 strain by amplifying a 229 bp fragment that is characteristic and distinguishable from all other MG field strain isolates based on amplicon size. This technique provides the opportunity to differentiate field strain infection from vaccine strain MG, provided strain specific PCR primers are available. It is recommended that the RSPA assay is used to differentiate effective vaccination from field exposure during pullet rearing and PCR assay is used to monitor broiler breeder flocks for MG challenge during the laying cycle and confirm that point-of-lay broiler breeder pullets are free of field strain MG infection. Where possible flocks with a confirmed field strain challenge should be eliminated and all hatching eggs removed from the hatchery and destroyed.Dissertation (MMedVet (Altil.))--University of Pretoria, 2004.
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Sacramento, Junior Luiz Claudio Ferreira. "More than words: broader information sharing and access to the formal credit market." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18293.
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This paper shows how information sharing mechanisms might enable Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) to increase their access to formal credit markets. Using a unique dataset provided by the Brazilian Central Bank and Ministry of Labor, a change is applied in the threshold of loans that must be reported and shared by all active financial institutions as a gradual increase in the available information on MSEs. Results suggest that borrowers that benefited by this change obtained more loans and smaller interest rates, and by building a good client pool ended up receiving smaller maturities. Firms were also less likely to delay repayments and present smaller loan losses. This evidence sheds light on information asymmetry and literature on financial inclusion by showing that information sharing mechanisms can improve the decision to offer credit, and MSEs can become less dependent of relationship lending to obtain loans.
Esse estudo mostra como mecanismos de compartilhamento de informação podem permitir Micro e Pequenas Empresas (MPEs) podem melhorar seu acesso a mercados de crédito formais. Utilizando uma base de dados única obtida junto ao Banco Central do Brasil e Ministério do Trabalho, uma mudança é aplicada no limite do valor de empréstimos que precisam ser reportados e compartilhados por todas as instituições financeiras ativas como uma mudança gradual na informação disponível sobre MPEs. Os resultados indicam que tomadores de empréstimo que se beneficiaram dessa mudança obtiveram mais empréstimos e menores taxas de juros, e por constituir um bom grupo de clientes acabam por receber menores vencimentos. As empresas são ainda menos prováveis de atrasar seus pagamentos e apresentam menores perdas aos bancos. As consequências desse estudo lançam luz sobre a literatura de assimetria de informação e inclusão financeira ao mostrar que mecanismos de compartilhamento de informação podem auxiliar na decisão de oferecer crédito e MPEs podem se tornar menos dependentes de empréstimos de relacionamento para obter empréstimos.
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Madiya, Arlette Tupela. "Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of dried bakery products as feed for small-scale broiler production." Diss., Electronic thesis, 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03232005-130034/.
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Blomqvist, Henrik. "Forever England : Nationalism and the War Poetry of Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-216164.
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Gill, Sharman Tullis. "Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams's Finding Beauty in a Broken World." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5945.
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Terry Tempest Williams, in Finding Beauty in a Broken World employs literary techniques that suggest dislocations and relocations of the human subject in ethical modes of being. Through narrative techniques, multidisciplinary language, and themes of conversation, gift-exchange, listening and response, Williams reflects ecological humanist mosaics, suggesting cooperative regeneration—an intersection of material beings facilitated by an ethical human imagination that listens, receives, and gives toward patterns of beauty, including, but not limited to, being human in a collective world. This eco-critical analysis of Williams’s work affirms the human being in post-humanist philosophy and repositions relational Romanticism for the 21st century.
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Byström, Mikael. "En broder, gäst och parasit : Uppfattningar och föreställningar om utlänningar, flyktingar och flyktingpolitik i svensk offentlig debatt 1942-1947." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1227.
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Earlier studies have proposed that Swedish refugee policy started to change around 1942, when a restrictive refugee policy became more generous and humanitarian. From a quantitative point of view this statement is true: there were about ten thousand refugees in 1941, compared to almost two hundred thousand by the end of the war. However, this does not tell us whether the well-known discourses of Swedish inter-war anti-Semitism, nationalism and xenophobia underwent the same changes. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the public debate concerning foreigners, refugees and refugee policy in 1942–1947. The dissertation puts forward the hypothesis of The Nordic prerogative. In brief, this prerogative meant that Sweden primarily held itself obliged to accept ethnical Northeners as refugees, and looked upon this obligation as more important than other considerations, such as the refugee’s ideological views, need of protection or humanitarian needs. Symptomatically, the groups which could not be entirely encompassed within the idea of a Nordic prerogative, particularly the Balts and the Danish Jews, were perceived as the most problematical refugee groups, both on a general level of the debates, and in specific issues. The idea of a Nordic prerogative did not derive from a sense of ethnical fraternity and humanitarian considerations alone, however. Several undertakings were also brought about by pragmatic considerations. Sweden sought goodwill, and reception of refugees was seen as one way of winning it. The dissertation also shows that the idea of a Nordic prerogative seems to become less important when the refugee comes closer to the everyday life of Sweden, where the Nordic refugees too were referred to as ”foreigners”, ”aliens” etc. As such, they had to put up with being spoken of in negatively loaded expressions, in the same way as other foreigners.
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Garraway, James. "Processes and patterns of responsiveness to the world of work in higher education institutions." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3721_1256884982.
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The thesis took the general question of responsive curriculum development which meets both the needs of work and those of the academy as its starting point. The rationale for the topic flows out of education policy and societal pressures worldwide which are calling for an ever greater responsiveness from higher education to the workplace in the twenty-first century. Responsiveness to work requires collaborative and integrative work between communities of academic and non-academic practitioners. Differences between knowledge and practices at work and within the academy are broadly acknowledged in the literature, yet the ensuing nature and complexity of interactions between these two communities in curriculum design on the ground is poorly understood. A key point is to recognize that integration as such cannot be the goal
the differences remain, but have to turned into productive collaboration and joint development, for example, of a curriculum.
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Barnard, Phillip Alan. ""If your brother becomes poor ..." : a critical synthesis on the aetiology of poverty based on Christopher J.H. Wright, the World Bank and contemporary scholarship." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/if-your-brother-becomes-poor(7ff9bbd8-f64c-4d17-8652-941c9aee4c83).html.
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In September 2000, the United Nations adopted their Millennium Declaration: a commitment to improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. Of the eight Millennium Goals declared, the foremost one was to ‘Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger’, with a target to halve the proportion of people whose income is less than US $1 per day. Many have attempted to address this problem, yet debate rages as to why some communities remain in poverty whilst others progress rapidly out. Dr Christopher Wright, a Church of England minister, contends that the root causes of poverty are indeed identifiable from Old Testament texts: natural disasters, laziness and oppression. While Wright presented a brief overview of this biblical approach, he did not elaborate on how it relates to contemporary theories of economic development, or whether it reflects the experience of poor people. This study therefore seeks to critically synthesize Wright’s model with contemporary scholarship and field research. We first evaluate Wright’s assessment of the biblical texts and propose a small number of revisions that might be beneficial. We secondly assess four leading secular paradigms that provide an understanding of poverty causation – the monetary approach, capability approach, social exclusion and participatory methods – and critique them through the lens of a biblical anthropology. Using a Framework Synthesis, we then compare Wright’s model against qualitative, participatory data obtained from participants in three Brazilian cities and gathered for the 1999 Brazilian National Report, a section of the 2000/01 World Development Report [World Bank] on poverty. The results of our synthesis show that in many ways, the biblical aetiology is reflected in the spectrum of secular theories and the experiences of the interviewees. However, we saw that the model needs to be redrawn: ‘natural causes’ needed to be rephrased as ‘disasters’; ‘laziness’ needs to be rephrased as ‘failure’; and ‘oppression’ needed a larger emphasis on the onset of poverty caused when leaders desert sections of a community. We propose that this model is an appropriate critical synthesis on the aetiology of poverty based on Wright, the World Bank and contemporary scholarship.
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Mouat, Jeremy. "Mining in the settler dominions : a comparative study of the industry in three communities from the 1880s to the First World War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29037.
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This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adopting a case study approach, it describes the establishment and growth of mining in Rossland, British Columbia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; and Waihi, New Zealand.
Separate chapters trace developments in each area, focussing on the emergence of organised labour, the growth of mining companies and the sophistication of mining operations. These underline the need to consider diverse themes, maintaining that the mining industry's pattern of growth can be understood only by adopting such a broad approach. Following the three case studies, the final chapters of the dissertation offer a comparative analysis of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill. The study emphasises the similarities of these three communities, especially the cycle of growth, and identifies a crucial common denominator.
Despite differences in climate, in the type and nature of the ore deposit and in the scale of mining activity, all three areas experienced a common trajectory of initial boom followed by subsequent retrenchment. The changing character of the resource base forced this fundamental alteration of productive relations. In each region, the mineral content of the ore declined as the mines went deeper. In addition, with depth the ore tended to become more difficult to treat. Faced with a decline in the value of the product of their mines, companies had to adopt sweeping changes in order to maintain profitable operations. This re-structuring was accomplished in a variety of ways, but the most significant factors, common to Rossland, Broken Hill and Waihi, were the heightened importance of applied science and economies of scale. Both developments underlined the growing importance of the mining engineer and technological innovations, principally in milling and smelting operations. In addition, new non-selective extractive techniques reduced the significance of skilled underground labour.
The re-structuring of the industry not only had similar causes but also had a similar effect. The comparative chapter on labour relations, for example, argues that these managerial initiatives were closely associated with militant episodes in each community. While the leading companies in Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill successfully reduced their working costs, they all faced the same ultimate end. Their long-term success or failure reflected the skill with which they coped with the inevitable depletion of their ore body.
The common experience of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill demonstrates the importance of placing colonial development within a larger context. Regional historians should make greater use of the comparative approach, rather than continuing to focus on the unique and the particular.Arts, Faculty of
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Gilbert, Elizabeth R. "Dietary and Developmental Regulation of Nutrient Transporter Gene Expression in the Small Intestine of Two Lines of Broilers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28795.
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To better understand the digestive and absorptive capacities of the chick intestine so that we may feed diets that better meet the nutritional needs of the chick, it is important to understand how expression of nutrient transporter genes changes in response to various factors. A series of feeding trials were conducted to evaluate the dietary and developmental regulation of nutrient transporter mRNA abundance in the small intestine of two lines of broilers selected on corn-based (Line A) or wheat-based (Line B) diets. Abundance of mRNA was quantified in all experiments using real time PCR and the absolute quantification method. The objective of the first study was to investigate intestinal nutrient transporter and enzyme mRNA in Line A and B broilers at embryo day 18 and 20, day of hatch, and d 1, 3, 7, and 14 posthatch. Genes evaluated included the peptide transporter, PepT1, 10 AA transporters (rBAT, bo,+AT, ATBo,+, CAT1, CAT2, LAT1, y+LAT1, y+LAT2, BoAT and EAAT3), four sugar transporters (SGLT1, SGLT5, GLUT5, and GLUT2), and a digestive enzyme, APN. For PepT1, Line B had greater quantities of mRNA compared with Line A (P = 0.001), suggesting a greater capacity for absorption of AA as peptides. Levels of PepT1 mRNA were greatest in the duodenum (P < 0.05), whereas the abundances of SGLT1, GLUT5 and GLUT2 mRNA were greatest in the jejunum (P < 0.05). Abundances of EAAT3, bo,+AT, rBAT, BoAT, LAT1, CAT2, SGLT5 and APN mRNA were greatest in the ileum (P < 0.05). Quantities of PepT1, EAAT3, BoAT, SGLT1, GLUT5, and GLUT2 mRNA increased linearly (P < 0.01), while CAT1, CAT2, y+LAT1, and LAT1 mRNA decreased linearly (P < 0.05) with age. The objective of the second study was to evaluate the effect of dietary protein quality on intestinal peptide, AA, and glucose transporter, and digestive enzyme mRNA abundance in Line A and B broilers. At day of hatch (doh), chicks from both lines were randomly assigned to corn-based diets containing 24% crude protein (CP) with either soybean meal (SBM) or corn gluten meal (CGM) as the supplemental protein source, ad libitum. Groups of chicks from both lines were also assigned to the SBM diet at a quantity restricted to that consumed by the CGM group (SBM-RT). Abundance of PepT1, EAAT3, and GLUT2 mRNA was greater in Line B (P < 0.03), while APN and SGLT1 were greater in Line A (P < 0.04). When feed intake was equal (CGM vs restricted SBM), a greater abundance of PepT1 and bo,+AT mRNA was associated with the higher quality SBM (P < 0.04), while a greater abundance of EAAT3 and GLUT2 mRNA was associated with the lower quality CGM (P < 0.01). When feed intake was restricted (SBM vs SBM-RT), a greater abundance of PepT1 mRNA was associated with the restricted intake (P < 0.04). The objective of the third study was to determine the effect of dietary protein composition on mRNA abundance of peptide and AA transporters, and a digestive enzyme. From day 8 to day 15 posthatch, Line A and B broilers were fed equal amounts of 1 of 3 diets (24% CP). Dietary protein sources included whey protein concentrate (whey), a partial whey hydrolysate (hydro), or a mixture of free amino acids (AA) similar to the composition of whey. Intestine was collected at days 8, 9, 11, 13, and 15. Expression of all genes except LAT1 was greater (P < 0.05) in Line B compared with A. Abundance of PepT1, EAAT3, y+LAT2, CAT1, bo,+AT, and APN mRNA varied little across diets in Line A but for CAT1 mRNA was greatest (P = 0.005) in Line A birds that consumed the AA diet. Expression of these genes was greatest (P < 0.006) in Line B birds consuming the hydro diet. A greater (P < 0.05) age response of bo,+AT, EAAT3, CAT1, and APN mRNA was observed in birds consuming the hydro or AA diets relative to the whey diet. Results from these studies collectively demonstrate that nutrient transporter gene expression is responsive to a variety of factors, including developmental stage, dietary manipulation, and genetic selection. Information from these studies can be used to improve dietary formulation so that nutrient utilization is enhanced, resulting in improved growth of the broiler.Ph. D.
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Mureddu, Nicola. "A barrier to be broken : change and continuity in the transition between Bronze and Iron Age Aegean, from the observation of burial contexts and grave goods." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7093/.
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This work discusses change and continuities taking place in the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Ages in Greece. The geographical range will cover the eastern mainland (including Euboea), Naxos and Knossos, in a period starting from the final palatial culture of LH IIIB2/13th century and ending with the Proto-Geometric/10th century burial evidence. In order to collect and observe the archaeological evidence several tombs assemblages have been researched from both original reports and visits to relevant Greek museums. Finds have been tabulated, and continuities, innovations and losses have been identified. The major categories of material evidence analysed included pottery, metalwork and jewellery but also the form of the tombs and the manner of the burials were considered. The final analysis of these categories of evidence refutes theories of major and or abrupt change, whether caused by invasion or natural phenomena. It rather indicates social modifications following the loss of the palatial centres and their administration and culminating in their gradual replacement by new forms of social structure. Although not directly demonstrable from the existing evidence, a possible scenario is proposed to explain the frequent indications of influence from SE and Central Europe during this transition.
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Shope, Dan. "Shattered glass and broken dreams utilizing the works of Michel de Certeau to analyze coping mechanisms and overt forms of resistance among glass workers in Huntington, West Virginia /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182544263.
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Shope, Dan R. "Shattered Glass and Broken Dreams: Utilizing the Works of Michel De Certeau to Analyze Coping Mechanisms and Overt Forms of Resistance Among Glass Workers in Huntington, West Virginia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182544263.
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Bartkowiak-Higgo, Antje. "A survey of post-evisceration contamination of broiler carcasses and ready-to-sell livers and intestines (mala) with Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in a high throughput South African poultry abattoir." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02272006-101843/.
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Caboverde, Enrique III. "A Graduate Guitar Recital Consisting of Works by Leo Brouwer and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with Extended Program Notes." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/640.
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This thesis presents extended program notes for a recorded graduate classical guitar recital consisting of the following works for solo guitar with string quartet and chamber orchestra: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Quintet for Guitar and Strings, Op. 143; Leo Brouwer: Concerto No. 3 (“Elegiaco”). Both works are pioneering and invaluable contributions to guitar literature. Tedesco’s Quintet for Guitar and Strings, Op. 143 is the first quintet ever composed to properly showcase the virtuosity of the guitar within a chamber setting. Concerto “Elegiaco” demonstrates the refinement of Leo Brouwer’s use of post-modern tonality and minimalism within classical form, and showcases his unique compositional style.
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Fazlic, Selma, and Matilda Lavén. "Fastighetsmäklarens lojala kundbank : Hur en fastighetsmäklare uppfattar och skapar kundlojalitet." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71413.
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Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats var att undersöka hur aktivt arbetande fastighetsmäklare uppfattar och skapar kundlojalitet under en fastighetsförsäljning. Eftersom det enligt forskning inte finns någon samstämmig definition av kundlojalitet eller ett ramverk för att skapa det så bör fenomenet undersökas branschvis, i detta fall inom fastighetsbranschen. Detta gjordes för att försöka klargöra osäkerheterna kring det lojalitetsskapande arbetet. Det teoretiska ramverket bestod av forskning kring fenomenets innebörd samt vilka egenskaper som en tjänsteförmedlare bör besitta. Metoden som användes var kvalitativa intervjuer som utfördes på åtta fastighetsmäklare från olika marknader i Sverige. Teorin och empirin visar sambandet mellan kundlojalitet, kundnöjdhet och image - ett samband som skulle kunna undersökas ytterligare i fortsatt forskning med denna studies resultat som grund. De lojalitetsbyggande egenskaperna som värderades högst var kontinuerlig kommunikation, engagemang, lyhördhet och anpassning efter kunden. Eftersom mäklartjänsten alltid i grunden innehåller detsamma så var det enligt respondenterna viktigt att mäklaren utmärker sig på ett personligt plan för att ha chansen till en bred och lojal kundbank. Inför framtida forskning kan denna studie användas för att fortsätta skapa en större insikt i hur andra fastighetsförmedlare eller tjänsteleverantörer uppfattar och skapar kundlojalitet. Ytterligare avgränsningar och fler resurser skulle kunna skapa en mer omfattande studie kring ämnet.The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to investigate how active-working real estate brokers’ interpret and creates customer loyalty during a property sale. According to research there is no unanimous definition of customer loyalty or a framework for creating it. Therefore the phenomenon should be investigated in various industries, in this case within the real estate industry. This was done to try to clarify the uncertainties about the loyalty-creating work. The theoretical framework consisted of research on the meaning of the phenomenon and what characteristics a service broker should possess. The method used was qualitative interviews conducted on eight real estate brokers’ from different markets in Sweden. Theory and empirics showed the relationship between customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and image - a connection that can be further investigated in future research with the results of this study as a foundation. The most highly valued loyalty-building qualities were continuous communication, dedication, responsiveness and customization to the customer. As the brokerage service always contains the same, it was according to the respondents important that the broker distinguish in a personal way to get the chance of a broad and loyal clientele. For future research, this study can be used to continue to create a broader insight into how other real estate brokers’ or service providers’ interpret and creates customer loyalty. Further delimitations and more resources could create a more comprehensive study on the subject.
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Olsson, Carl. "The Poet as Hero : A Study of the Clash Between the Hero and the First World War in British Trench Poetry, and Its Use in the Swedish School System Within the Subject of English." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76592.
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This thesis studies the clash between the hero and the First World War in the works of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It explores the impact on their poetry and attitude towards the concept of the hero as it applied to them as people and poets. The study shows that over prolonged contact with the horrors of the First World War, it is evident in both literary sources and their poetry that both Sassoon and Owen changed their attitudes negatively towards both the idea of heroes and heroism, as well as the War as a just and glorious cause. However, the myth of the hero was still a core belief of their society, and in order to not be branded cowards and discarded along with their warnings, they had to become heroes in the eyes of their society, to openly attack the concept and the war it fueled. This thesis then studies how and why First World War poetry and literature should be utilized within the subject of English in the Swedish School System, as a means to provide a multicultural and critical education.
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Adjobi, Vast-Amour Dingui. "L’espérance comme expérience ontologique chez Gabriel Marcel." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN1S057/document.
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L'espérance se présente comme l'expérience d'un avenir qui n'a pas été encore vécu et qui se donne comme inobjectivable. Cette intuition a commandé la problématique de cette recherche, qui met au jour les conditions de possibilité d'une espérance véritable dans un monde – le nôtre – où elle ne trouve pas immédiatement sa place. Ce monde ''cassé'', comme l'appelle Gabriel Marcel, est sous l'emprise de la technique. C'est un monde où prime l'exigence du faire et où les questions existentielles sont réduites elles-mêmes à des ''problèmes'' qui doivent trouver leur ''solution'' comme n'importe quel problème relevant de l'ordre de l'avoir. Il y a, en ce sens, un ''problème de l'espérance ». Il se développe dans une philosophie qui s'émancipe de la foi et dont on trouve des illustrations notamment dans le probabilisme de Hume et dans le matérialisme de Bloch. Or Gabriel Marcel fait le pari, par la méthode dite de la ''réflexion seconde'', de placer l'espérance sous le sceau du ''mystère''. Il s'agit alors de comprendre que l'espérance, pensée sur le plan de l'être et non plus de l'avoir, relève d'une expérience qui est toujours en cours de formation, et qui ouvre le chemin que suit une personne que définissent sa capacité d'agir, ses relations avec les autres personnes et son aptitude à la responsabilité. Nous soutenons dans ce sens, avec l'appui de Ricœur, que l'identité du sujet de l'espérance est essentiellement intersubjective et ouverte, selon une exigence de fidélité créatrice. Nous trouvons plus précisément dans le nous familial, comme l'appelle Marcel, la condition de possibilité d'une expérience concrète de l'espérance, comprise alors comme patience d'un présent éprouvant et confiance en un avenir incertain. Renvoyant dos à dos, pour ce faire, les conceptions essentialiste et constructiviste de la famille, nous appelons vœu créateur ce qui, au sein même de la famille, dont nous proposons une conception élargie, est jaillissement du nouveau et promesse de vie. Ainsi nous affirmons que l'espérance, pour invérifiable qu'elle soit, est, mais selon des formes authentiques ou inauthentiques. L'enjeu de ce travail, en reconnaissant cette différence au cœur même de l'espérance, est de comprendre comment celle-ci, plus que comme un ensemble de moyens, se présente fondamentalement comme une mise en route qui se reçoit d'un appel de ou à l'autre, et qui est constitutive de toute action vouée au temps. La présence de cet autre déborde toute tentative d'objectivation. Elle est le lieu intérieur où se vit in fine l'attente active qu'est l'espérance comme expérience ontologiqueHope appears as the experience of a future which was not still lived yet and which is given as inobjectivable. This intuition has commanded the problematic of this research, which brings to light the conditions of possibility of a true hope in a world – ours – where it does not immediately find its place. This « broken » world, as Gabriel Marcel calls it, is under the influence of technic. It's a world in which prevail the need to do things, and also where existential questions are reduced to ''problems'' which must find their ''solution'' as any other problem come under the order of the possession. In this way, there is a ''problem of hope''. A philosophy is growing which emancipate itself from faith and which illustrations are found in particular in Hume's probabilism and Bloch's materialism. But Gabriel Marcel, by the method said about ''second reflection », bet to place hope under the seal of ''mystery''. It's all about understanding that hope, thought on the plan of ''the being'' and no more of ''the having'' is an experience still on training and which opens the way that follows a person defined by its ability to act, its relations to others and its aptitude to responsibility. In this sense, we support, with Ricoeur's support, that the subject identity of hope is essentially intersubjective and opened, according to a requirement of creative fidelity. We find more exactly in the « I and you familial» as Marcel calls it, the condition of possibility of a concrete experience of hope, understood as patience of a trying present and trust in an uncertain future. Referring back to back, the essentialist and constructivist conceptions of the family, we call creative vow, what within the family, of which we propose an enlarged conception is springing forth for the new and promise of life. So we assert that hope, however unverifiable as it may be, is, but according to authentic and inauthentic forms. The challenge of this work, recognizing this difference at the very heart of hope, is to understand how it, more than as a set of means, is fundamentally a start-up that is received from a call. From one to other, and which is constitutive of all action devoted to time. The presence of this other overflows any attempt at objectification. It is the inner place where the active expectation of hope as an ontological experience is lived
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Dvorská, Michaela. "Transformace realitního odvětví v postkrizovém období." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225536.
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Main subject of this diploma thesis is real estate sector, his basic principles, structure and factors of influence. Diploma thesis is analysing actual post - crisis trends in real estate sector, origins and causes of these trends. Special attention is concentrated into the specific development and surroundings of real estate sector in Czech republic. The analysis of the sector transformation intensity is used for searching of future potential of real estate sector, future trends and appropriate measures for healthy growth of real estate sector and long - term sustainability of real estate sector projects. The next one of the main baselines of the thesis is research of behavioral changes of real estate market demand because of cyclicality of real estate market. The research shows context between real estate cycle and business cycle and analyses typical behavioral reaction of demand in various phases of real estate sector cycle.
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Causey, Tara D. "Broken World: New Perspectives on American Women Regionalists." 2015. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/154.
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This dissertation considers how American women writers responded to the changing perceptions about feminine nature, to an increasingly modern society, and to the shifting religious landscape in nineteenth-century America. The complex relationship between nineteenth-century women and religion is firmly illustrated in the works of three writers who were widely read during their time and yet have a very limited readership today: Mary Hallock Foote, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Gertrude Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Ša. Each figure held a prominent position in the high-literary establishment of the late nineteenth century, and I show how each experimented with regional and sentimental literary conventions in order to entertain and appeal to a readership largely dominated by urban, upper-middle-class women. I argue that each of these writers constructed shared regional spaces and articulated spiritual values of place in order to dramatize differences between rural and urban cultures, to reflect concerns about America’s increasingly industrial, materialistic, and cosmopolitan mainstream society, and to create an anti-modern argument for a society grounded in Christian beliefs and practices. Despite the variety of their religious backgrounds and experiences, these writers all depict nuanced versions of Protestant tradition that both reflect the malleability of cultural religious constructions and re-assert Christian values of love, equality, family, and community. Moreover, through their descriptions of place—of the beauty, grandeur, isolation, and inherent risk of the natural world—these writers reveal phenomenological experiences and illuminate intricate connections between religion, place, and culture that contemporary scholars of religion and geography have only recently begun to explore.
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CHAO, SHENG-JIUE, and 趙聖爵. "Research on the innovative business model of music brokers : Music World Multimedia." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qm3a6h.
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In Wen Shi Ren’s book ”The Future Business Opportunity” (2004),he pointed out that releasing personal albums is a big market in the future. The music world service provides people to release their personal albums, and how this service can develop a huge business market. This study is focusing on how to make a good use of their own music pieces to develop the huge market; using the theory of sharing economy、creating platform economics and digital economy in music management; how to utilize music management to develop new innovative business service models with the original scores; how music management could integrate with digital technologies and applications. The study uses case study, investigate the innovative business services of music brokerage and its cross-domain innovation application, create digital music product service and its platform economy, digital economic operation value, explore the research, and conduct music broker innovation business service system testing, research, analysis, and verification of case research and development plans through the experimental field. By means of digital technology research and development of music industry service innovation , solved Taiwan's original music facing the Greater China music market and music brokers. To avoid substituted by mainland China It also creates a diversified application of music, innovative business service models and exemplary cases of cross-domain innovation applications. The study discovered that through integrating music management innovative service model with economic activities could develop a platform and database, by using this new theoretical model of economic activities in the digital age, it develops a platform of global digital economy and international markets.The model also help Taiwan to spread out its unique culture around Chinese society to hatch a unicorn
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Chen, Ya-Hui, and 陳雅惠. "On the Self-Identity About the Role in Marcel’s Plays:《The Broken World》." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76056105348697683374.
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Jhan, Jhuang-Syuan, and 詹莊軒. "The Broken Reality A Study of Jhuang Syuan Jhan’s Works." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2tyxsb.
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Chou, Yi-Chun, and 周奕君. "A Comparative Study of Insurance Agents and Brokers Professional Liability Insurance Among the Major Countries of the World." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64102526473368565162.
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Already many insurance companies have entrusted the business domestically with full intermediary, the system separated with production and marketing reduces the personnel cost, innovate the pluralistic insurance goods with all strength; And consumer is it take the place of into marketing thorough fare of system to pass, can choose many of goods of insurance company, obtain the service of the professional consultant. Even if insurance agent and broker has professional competency and take an examination to be licensed, when there are negligent acts , errors or omissions, so, insurance agents and brokers professional liability insurance is depositted while giving cover for insurance agent and broker in the business of carrying out in its meaning, because negligent acts, errors or omissions cause the compensation responsibility which the third person damages. This research is except that introduce to insurance agent and broker theoretical foundation briefly, also analyze the content of insurance agents and brokers professional liability insurance, the collating and stipulating of the clause and rate thoroughly; In addition, for intermediary system, manage to law surface, education and training surface and business deal in surface make a self-criticism also; Moreover, in order to understand the policies of United States, Great Britain, Japan, and carry on comparative analysis with the policy of our country; Finally, synthesize above-mentioned conclusions, propose 21 concrete suggestions, is it ask relevant unit consider in light of actual conditions to support, in order to make of our country insurance agents and brokers professional liability insurance more perfect.
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CHEN, MEI-RONG, and 陳眉蓉. "The Influence of Perceived Risk, Word-of-Mouth, Perceived Value of Internet Purchasing Broker on Purchase Intention." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c839rc.
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E-commerce services has gained the popularity of online transactions and completely changed our consuming habits. It is easy for consumers to browse and purchase foreign products that cannot acquire in their own country through the Internet Purchasing Broker. Via this new consumption pattern, people are able to purchase goods to fulfill their desire. However, consumers need to consider the security issues and the risks of online shopping. Therefore, this study explored the impact of perceived risk, word-of-mouth and perceived value on the purchase intention. The sample was collected from the Internet Purchasing Broker in the Taichung area. The questionnaire was collected by Snowball sampling survey. A total of 460 interviews were collected and 406 valid questionnaires were collected with a recovery rate of about 92%. In this study, narrative statistical analysis, factor analysis, regression analysis, t-tests and one way ANOVA were used to test the hypothesis. The results showed that:(1)The perceived risk of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant positive effect on word-of-mouth.(2)The word-of-mouth of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant positive effect on perceived value.(3)The perceived risk of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant negative effect on perceived value.(4)The perceived value of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant positive effect on purchase intention.(5) The word-of-mouth of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant positive effect on purchase intention.(6) The perceived risk of Internet Purchasing Broker had a significant negative effect on purchase intention.(7)There are partial significant differences on perceived risk, word-of-mouth, perceived value and purchase intention of Internet Purchasing Broker with demographic variables.
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CHEN, WEI-JEN, and 陳緯仁. "A study of Kinmen's Cross-border Underground Economic Behavior After Mini Three Links－Currency Brokers Hold Up A World." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4a7trq.
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After 2000, based on the “Island Construction Regulations”, Taiwan officially opened the port of Kinmen, Matsu, and Peng-hu to become mini three links port. As the number of people entering and leaving the mainland for Taiwan increased year by year, Taiwan gradually replaced the original cross-strait transshipment status of Hong Kong and Macao. The informal economic behavior is also growing vigorously in the Kinmen area. The access convenience between the two places also caused the blurred boundary. Originally, the Kinmen County was part of the Fujian Province and the people of the two places were the same nationality and even had close kinship, which made the relationship between the two places closer. Nowadays, mainland China has become the second largest trade body in the world. Compared with Kinmen, the mainland is an economic behemoth which is close at hand and which has been influencing and magnetizing the economic behavior of Kinmen. Among them, informal exchange brokers play an important role in the inflows and outflows of capital in mainland China. This study attempts to start from the informal exchange of cross-straits so as to find out the existence of underground economic behavior by means of the informal exchange in the Kinmen area. It is planned to conduct research and in-depth interviews and hopes to understand the factors which influence the people to decide to exchange in an informal channel. On the other hand, as for people who use the informal exchange channel for large-scale exchange of funds and those who engage in informal exchanges in Xiamen and Kinmen, in-depth interviews are used to find out why the people and exchange companies are willing to take the risk of trust to engage in this type of exchange and to conclude the evolutionary contexts. The results show that in the past ten years, the opening of the t mini three links in the Kinmen area has indeed led to the flow of cross-strait Financial Flows through the port of the mini three links. The business of docking the US dollar and the HK dollar with the RMB has gradually shifted its focus to the Kinmen area, and its main exchange currency has also changed from the US dollar to the RMB to the NT dollar. Exchange RMB. With the deepening of cross-strait exchanges, informal exchange has gradually gained an important position in Financial Flows exchange.
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Soltau, Noah. "Broken mirror of the world language crisis and reflection. Fragment and experience as instruments of truth in Benjamin, Hofmannsthal, and Rilke /." 2009. http://etd.utk.edu/2009/May2009Theses/SoltauNoahP.pdf.
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D'Angelo, James Frank. "A broader concept of World Englishes for educational contexts: applying the "WE enterprise" to Japanese Higher Education Curricula." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/17014.
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This study investigates the application of the world Englishes (WE) paradigm to English language teaching (ELT) in the higher education context of Japan, as well as the possible application of competing paradigms that also work within a pluricentric view of English: English as an International Language (EIL) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The Chukyo University Department of World Englishes (DWE), within the College of World Englishes, serves as the primary site of inquiry. A main focus of the study is to explore the development of a broader concept of World Englishes for educational contexts.
A literature review of work in the three fields of WE, EIL, and ELF was conducted, as well as a literature review of leading work in the field of English language curriculum design. The literature reviews establish a baseline of what is currently known in these fields. To provide additional answers to the research questions for this study, three sets of qualitative data were obtained and analyzed: a survey of graduates of the DWE since 2006, a survey of teachers in the DWE, and a series of observations of actual classes within the DWE. A coding scheme was designed for each of the two survey instruments to facilitate their analysis, which was used to report on and analyze the survey data, as well as incorporating actual excerpts from the raw data, to better illustrate and support particular trends or commonalities expressed in the data. The classroom observations were written up in the form of ‘vignettes’ from which further analysis could be made and triangulated with the data from the two surveys.
These results were then interpreted to report the findings of the study, and a series of themes were identified that showed potential areas to focus on for curriculum enhancements. These include: the overcoming of shyness in Japanese students, the insufficiency of communicative language teaching (CLT) within a 4-skills curriculum, the applicability of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in Japanese higher education, the need for more academic and business/professional education, the concept of world mindedness, the overall relevance of the WE/EIL/ELF paradigms, and the concept of ‘Educated English’ (Kachru 2003, Bamgbose 1982), as an objective for the Expanding Circle. The concept of Educated English in particular, has heretofore been underexplored in Expanding Circle WE research.
The study concludes that based on the needs of students in the DWE, and more widely in Japan and across other Expanding Circle contexts, a broader concept of WE is necessary to better inform ELT curricular and pedagogical practices. The goal of working towards educated Japanese English as an outcome is more realistic for higher proficiency, highly motivated students, and the study concludes that ELT pedagogy to realize this goal is better suited to creation of an honors track, and general track, in the DWE and other institutions. Ultimately, the thesis contributes new insights into creating a broader concept of WE, drawing on research from competing paradigms, and posits a more suitable model of English pedagogy for Expanding Circle users of English.
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Paton, Hazel. "The missing years of Georges Simenon as man, author and protagonist(s)." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1429938.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis comprises an historical novel, with an accompanying appendix of notes and a glossary, and a scholarly exegesis. It introduces a new way to interrogate the works of Belgian-born author Georges Simenon by responding to his trifold oeuvre, which includes his novels of the famed Commissaire Jules Maigret, his often overlooked noir novels and his multiple autobiographies. A major focus of the research has been an exploration of the author’s relationship with his younger brother Christian and how he addresses his complex feelings towards him in four discrete works referred to here as the “brother novels”. The novel, The Missing Years, which is at the heart of the present thesis, mirrors Simenon’s output by taking the form of a triptych in which three fictional brothers are all representative of varying aspects of the author himself. The imaginative work involved in this novel, along with the notes and glossary, and the exegesis and bibliography that complete the creative archive, represents a comprehensive study of the author that is not merely biographical but that also becomes in effect a creative archive. The nexus of the creative and critical elements allows a previously unattempted reconstruction of the life of the author. The focus of the novel aspect of the thesis is an interval of five years from the invasion of France by the German forces at the end of the drôle de guerre until towards the end of 1945. By having one persona in Paris and a second in La Rochelle, disparities of life under occupation can be contrasted to show different realities of war and occupation. In reality, Christian Simenon was charged with war crimes towards the end of the war and met his death in 1947, but the imaginative reconstruction has cathected both events within the Occupation period. The reason for choosing this timeframe is to address two aspects receiving attention from scholars, namely the charge that Simenon ignored World War Two in his writings and that his most famous protagonist, in novels spanning some four decades, does not experience the Occupation. It will be demonstrated that while the author attempted to redress the first charge by several novels written from 1947 to 1961, studies show that he tackled the subject of war and conflict in many of his novels through an indirect approach. While he may have had many reasons for keeping Maigret out of the war, this creative archive explores what a detective in that era and under those circumstances would have been able to achieve.
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YANG, CHIH-JUNG, and 楊智榮. "The Research on the Performance of Integrated Marketing Communications and Event Marketing—The Case Study in the Guinness World Record-Broken Event of the Largest Display of Taoist Statues, 2016." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38168841627173984372.
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碩士國立金門大學
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【ABTRACT】 This study is to explored the whole processes of planning and execution of a Guinness World Records campaign—The Largest Display of Taoist Statues, 2016, and to dig into those models adopted in the event marketing, and those tools used for performance measurement, etc., with the purpose to mapping the media coverages in a specific recording-broken campaign. The major research methods adopted in this research include: Observational Method, Document Analysis, Interview Method, and Content analysis; and all data and evidence were verified repeatedly in order to collect the related information. Totally eleven questions were presented in the research. All questions were analyzed and answered properly. The findings of this research are as follows: 1)All regulations and procedures related to the Guinness World Records campaign were collected properly. 2)Totally nine different Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) tools were adopted by the organiser--SINYING TAIZIH TEMPLE. That’s the all tools known to the IMC field. 3) According to this research, in all performance appraisals, the IMC synergy has already achieved in this campaign. Taoist specialists, humanists, and local opinion leaders all considered the total IMC performances and event marketing benefit were achieved. The News practitioners comment total exposures, popularity, and participation increased during promotion, all these IMC results were considered as positive and effective. 4)The research found that during the campaign, there were seventy-four media coverages, and “SINYING TAIZIH TEMPLE” were mentioned two hundred and ninety times within these stories. Further more, the research found that 99.52% of all media coverages were positive or neutral reports. And the Equivalent Advertising Value (EVA) reached NT$ 4,709,594. 5) The research found that the Return On Investment (ROI) in this campaign was 392%. This high ROI proved that the Guinness World Records campaign could deliver a better value for money. 6)According to this research, those high ranking executives in SINYING TAIZIH TEMPLE were satisfied with the results of this campaign. They thought and believed that the combination of ritual event and Guinness World Records campaign were a positive strategy. When cross analyzed the interviewee’s responses, the research found that mostly those Taoist specialists, humanists, and local opinion leader were satisfied with this campaign in the followings aspects: promotion of Tainan city, increasing of participation, raising of status of specific religion, enhancing of the reputation, enhancing of internal or external group cohesion, changing of attitude, and meeting the expectation of community. Besides, this campaign also garnered positive comments from all media workers interviewed in this research. The research found that, as an example of event marketing, this Guinness World Records campaign has been proven to be cost effective. 7) In order to rate the leverage of strategy application, this research adopted a strategic consistency test in media issues, and found that this campaign got 87.78% positive responses (include “agree” or “strongly agree”). 8)According to this research, both the exposure amounts with “Guinness World Records” mentioned and the media coverage values in 2016, were magnificently higher than the corresponded time period in 2015 . 9)This research proved that the models and hypothesizes of Event Marketing Communication and Internal Event Marketing were true. And this research also proved that the campaign can be executed by a third party who might become a mediator. This explains that the leadership of an event and ownership of an issue could actually be different. This also explains more clearly the role played by sponsors. 10) In this campaign, all exposures were linked among seventy-six different platforms and all of them actually were composed of and came from traditional mainstream media. Therefore, a Media Communication Mapping Model was created in this research and the model was proved to be practically effective. In the future, with the communication linkages among different media platforms, the exposures could be predicted. 11) Comparing between two different campaigns—the Most People in a Centipede Procession in 2011 (“Centipede Procession”), and the Largest Display of Taoist Statues in 2016 (“Taoist Statues“), this research found that both the media coverages and the EAV of “Centipede Procession” were higher than that of “Taoist Statues” and the difference ratios reached both about 163%. The ROI of “Centipede Procession” was 307% and ROI of “Taoist Statues” was 392%. The research found that the Guinness World Records is effective in IMC campaign and a lower input might produce a higher output.
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Přívozníková, Pavla. "Postmoderní romány Alessandra Baricca." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-304256.
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Tato diplomová práce zmapuje románovou tvorbu současného italského spisovatele Alessandra Baricca. Úvodem bude představen autor v kontextu současné italské prózy. V další části práce nastíníme charakteristiku postmoderního románu, zejména pokud jde o tříštění či dekompozici prostoru, času, příběhu a s tím související žánrovou heterogennost textu. V centrální části práce rozebereme jednotlivá díla, přičemž se budeme soustředit jak na příběh, jeho hlavní motivy a témata, tak na jeho kompozici a strukturu. Ve čtvrté kapitole využijeme dílčích analýz jako východiska ke komparativnímu přístupu k textům a pokusíme se najít společné i odlišné konstrukční principy jejich výstavby a návratná témata či motivické konstanty Bariccových próz. Závěrem zhodnotíme přínos tvorby Alessandra Baricca pro současnou italskou prózu.
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Munsamy, Verne R. "Representing the 'ouens' : an investigation into the construction of performed identities on stage in KwaZulu-Natal, in the works of Quincy Fynn (Walking like an African, 2004) and Kaseran Pillay (My cousin brother, 2003)." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1534.
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'The core of the theatre is an encounter. The [character) who makes an act of self revelation is, so to speak, one who establishes contact with himself. That is to say, an extreme confrontation, sincere, disciplined, precise and total - not merely a confrontation with his thoughts, but one involving his whole being from instinct and his unconscious right up to his most lucid state'. (Jerzy Grotowski, in Catron, 2000:19) This dissertation investigates the construction of the marginalised self, an identity, and the impact that context, pre and post-apartheid South Africa, may have on that constructed masculine identity. This examination of the self is mediated through the medium of theatre. It is this 'encounter', which theatre offers, that becomes an important instrument through which the self, society and social issues may be examined and critiqued; and it is through this critique that change may be sparked and brought about. This investigation of the self, the construction of a masculine identity, is looked at through the writings of, amongst others, Stuart Hall (1996 (a) & 1996 (b); 1997), Lawrence Grossberg (1996), Judith Butler (1993, 1999), Robert Connell (1987; 2002) and Robert Morrell (1998, 2001(a) & 2001 (b)). Further discussions around the construction of identity and its relationship to context (a multicultural and multiracial context) is examined via the writings of Richard Schechner (1991) and Patrice Pavis (1992). The theatrical forms of self-standing monologues and stand-up comedy are useful forms through which 'protest' against the status quo may be engaged. These forms are utilised by Quincy Fynn (self-standing monologues) and Kaseran Pillay (stand-up comedy); and it is through their performance works Walking like an African (2004) and My Cousin brother (2003), respectively, that this dissertation looks at their challenges to hegemonic forms of masculinity.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.
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Kaiser, Elizabeth Hendrica. "`n Sosiaal-wetenskaplike benadering tot die eerste-eeuse mediterreense persoonlikheid van Jesus soos gevind in die Johannesevangelie." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1069.
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This study deals with the character of Jesus in the Gospel of John and follows the social-scientific approach and aims to correct the traditional views regarding the personality of Jesus. The aim is not a personality analysis but to situate Jesus as a typical person who was a part of and functioned in the first Mediterranean world.
The pivotal values of the ancient world such as honor/shame; collectivistic/dyadic personality; family and group orientation; kinship; the patronage system with the patron/broker/client relationship and the purity system are applied to reach the aim of my thesis. It is found that Jesus was a collectivistic/dyadic personality. He functioned in this family orientated as well as in a group orientated community and socially structured patronage system as a broker, totally the contrary to contemporary personality drawings of Jesus found in modern literature.In hierdie studie, wat 'n skripsie van beperkte omvang is, word nie gepoog om 'n persoonlikheidsanalise van Jesus te doen nie. Die studie wil die probleem van die toepassings en interpretasies van Jesus in populere literatuur aanspreek. Jesus word deur moderne mense en teoloe in prentjies en idees van 'n moderne mens met moderne kategoriee, denke en perspektiewe, waardes en oordele beskryf, geteken en geinterpreteer, en dit is nie 'n werklike getroue en realistiese weergawe van Jesus as historiese mens nie. Jesus word in populere literatuur as 'n individualis geteken; sy persoon en emosies word alleenlik in moderne denke en kategoriee geinterpreteer en dit word slegs op grond van moderne individuele ervaring gedoen. Hierdie interpretasies is nie tipies van die kollektiwistiese, groep-georienteerde eerste-eeuse mediterreense persoon nie. Afsydigheid en terughoudendheid (4:9, 10; 13:36-38) is kenmerkend van persone in hierdie samelewing waar warmte in verhoudings ontbreek het (2:16; 9:16)'. Emosies soos 'liefde' wat Jesus toon, is nie 'n emosionele konnotasie wat in die moderne samelewing dui op die gevoelslewe van die mens nie. In hierdie antieke samelewing het 'liefde' gedui op lojaliteit, solidariteit en groepgebondenheid en as Jesus die blinde man sy sig teruggee (9:7), herstel hy nie hier die geneesde man se plek as individu in terme van die moderne samelewing nie, maar hy herstel die sieke in sy regmatige, groep-georienteerde sosiale plek in die antieke samelewing waarin hy - weens sy siekte - as 'buitestaander' geetiketteer is en dus geen deel in die groep gehad het nie. In hierdie antieke eerste-eeuse mediterreense samelewing het ander spilpuntwaardes as in ons moderne samelewing gegeld. In hierdie kollektiwistiese en groepgebonde kultuur het persone gedeel in 'n gemeenskap met die spilpuntwaardes, norme en ingestelde sosiale reels van hierdie spesifieke kultuur en aspekte wat vormend op hulle ingewerk het. Jesus se persoon en optrede moet nagevors word in hierdie sosiale sisteem waar mag deur simbole daargestel is, en waar mense, dinge en gebeure elkeen 'n simboliese werklikheid verteenwoordig het.
New Testament
M. A. (Biblical Studies)