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Miller, Anthony James. "Man Thinking in the Great Community." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1414.
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This thesis is a reading of the role of the individual in the social philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Dewey. It seeks to reconstruct both philosophers as putting forth a philosophy of social individualism by putting the two in conversation with one another through the method of Hegelian dialectic. The line of influence from Emerson to Dewey is touched upon, and some time is spent comparing the two scholars in terms of how their philosophies are unique reactions to their experience of America and as Americans. A large part of the thesis is spent in defense of Emerson from contemporary readings that are found to not fully address the complexity of the philosopher, especially how he was reacting to his particular cultural situation.
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Swanson, Nathan William. "Hezbollah's Nasrallah the "great man" of the Levant /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Hjelm, Niklas, and Tobias Karlsson. ""With great power comes great responsibility" : En studie av teknik och biologi i superhjältefilmer." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Linköping University, Linköping University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19039.
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Vår tids syn på teknik ser vi tydliga spår av i dagens filmer, och kanske framförallt superhjältefilmer. Där använder sig både hjältar och skurkar av avancerad teknik i sin kamp mot varandra. Men även synen på biologi avspeglas i dessa filmer, och det mest intressanta är när dessa ställs mot varandra. Vi har jämfört två av vår tids största hjältar, en som använder sig av teknik och en som har biologiska krafter, för att se vilka likheter och skillnader som finns. Hjältarna det rör sig om är Spider-Man och Batman.
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Townsend, Simon. "Nietzsche's monster of energy : the self-creation of the great man." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3605.
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In this thesis I develop an account of Nietzsche’s great man framed around the idea that he is a ‘monster of energy.’ In the first part I establish that Nietzsche developed a criterion to assess the value of values, centred on whether they express abundance or exhaustion. Cultivating an abundance of energy is the key to how we should approach the problem of suffering, how we master ressentiment, and ultimately, how we experience authentic joy. We should thus use energy expenditure as the standard to evaluate the different narratives that we use to interpret ourselves and our existence. In the second part I use this criterion to establish the types of narratives most conducive to creating oneself as the monster of energy. I argue that the great man should desire to determine his own will, should cultivate strength of character, believe in the freedom of his will, and take responsibility for the self that he has created. Finally, I examine the attitude the great man should adopt towards his past, and argue that we should reject the idea that the eternal return plays an important role in the process of becoming a great man, since this process should emphasise the necessity of self-mastery, asceticism, and the cultivation of a unified and volitional self.
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Stone, Thomas. "Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/489746.
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This dissertation is a survey of postmodern historical fiction in 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature. It has diverse manifestations, but the defining characteristic of this kind of historical fiction is a rejection of any rigid distinction between historical and fictional discourse. This is a descriptive rather than a normative study: it examines how eight different authors use the techniques of postmodern historical fiction to develop implicit critiques of the “great man” theory of history. The Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle popularized this theory in the 1800s, and it asserts that biography is the proper model for history, namely, the biography of prominent individuals – “great men.” It treats these people as the source of history. Opposing this historiographic ideology, many authors of postmodern historical fiction see such figures as subjects that can be “written” and “re-written”; they are not the source of history, but the product of historical discourse. I conduct close readings of nine primary texts to elucidate how they challenge the “great man” historiography of four significant figures from Spanish American history: Montezuma, Simón Bolívar, Christopher Columbus, and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. I conclude that the historiographic critiques in these texts converge around three common strategies in their critiques: an extension of character from the domain of fiction to the domain of history, the subversion of the literary genres of biography and autobiography, and a commitment to rewriting the traditional narratives of specific historical events.
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Miller, Stephen David. "'The fools have stumbled on their best man by accident' : an analysis of the 1957 and 1963 Conservative Party leadership selections." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1999. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/5962/.
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This thesis assesses the outcomes of the 1957 and 1963 Conservative Party Leadership Selections of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home. It analyses the two selections using an original analytical framework, that demonstrates the importance of both individual and situational criteria in determining the outcomes of leadership selections. The individual criteria are the party status of the candidates, and their actions and conduct during the selections. The situational criteria are the situation and circumstances surrounding the selections, the formal and informal aspects of the selection procedure used, and the candidates fulfilment of acceptability, electability, and governability. Acceptability, (the need to retain or maintain party unity), electability, (the need to be electable), and governability, (the ability to govern), are the three core situational criteria on which the candidates are judged. This framework was developed to offer a full and inclusive explanation of the outcomes of the two leadership selections, because the existing analyses of leadership selections has a restrictive approach, and does not offer a conclusive and systematic analysis. The thesis demonstrates that the outcomes of the 1957 and 1963 leadership selections have clear parallels and distinctions in their outcomes. Both selections produced a stop-gap leader in a time of crisis for the Conservative Party. However, the situations were clearly distinct, and this was influential in the outcome. The 1957 selection occurred following a crisis over foreign policy, while the 1963 selection occurred during a deep-seated period of domestic crisis and upheaval. In January 1957, the Conservatives had three years before a general election had to be held, while in October 1963, a general election was imminent within twelve months. The selection procedure was influential in both selections. The informal aspects of the procedure were more influential in 1957, while the procedure had become more formalised in 1963, and this prepared the way for the establishment of formal leadership elections in the Conservative Party in 1965. The choice of Macmillan and Home was made because of the circumstances in which the selections occurred, and because they fulfilled the three core criteria more conclusively than the other candidates. In both outcomes, acceptability was clearly the most important core criteria because the selections occurred at a time of severe disunity in the party, and this deemed party unity as the crucial task of the new leader. In 1957, Macmillan was selected as he fulfilled the requirements of the situation better than R. A. Butler, the other candidate. In 1963, Home became leader because of the weaknesses apparent in the other candidates, and was the compromise candidate to retain party unity. This thesis concludes that the wider individual and situational criteria set the terms of reference on which the core situational criteria of acceptability, electability, and governability are judged. The most important wider criteria were the candidates' actions during the selection, the selection procedure, and the situation that the selection occurred in. This demonstrates the utility of the analytical framework developed in the study.
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Harris, Scott H. ""The Great Unappreciated Man": A Political Profile of Alexander H H Stuart of Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625475.
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Wheeler, Carol Ellen. "Every man crying out : Elizabethan anti-Catholic pamphlets and the birth of English anti-Papism." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3959.
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To the Englishmen of the sixteenth century the structure of the universe seemed clear and logical. God had created and ordered it in such a way that everyone and everything had a specific, permanent place which carried with it appropriate duties and responsibilities. Primary among these requirements was obedience to one's betters, up the Chain of Being, to God. Unity demanded uniformity; obedience held the universe together. Within this context, the excommunication of Elizabeth Tudor in 1570 both redefined and intensified the strain between the crown and the various religious groups in the realm. Catholics had become traitors, or at least potential traitors, with the stroke of a papal pen.
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Smith, Charlotte H. F. "The house enshrined : great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24545.
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Hoy, Michael. "Isaac Barrow : builder of foundations for a modern nation : the church, education and society in the Isle of Man, 1660-1800." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2010267/.
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This thesis examines the contribution made to the political, ecclesiastical and social development of the Isle of Man by Isaac Barrow, bishop of Sodor and Man (1663-71) and governor (1664-69). The condition of the Island and its people after the civil wars and interregnum is described and the nature and scope of the challenges faced by Barrow are assessed. Barrow’s vision for the people in his care and the pastoral and educational strategies he adopted to better their moral, spiritual and social condition are described, and his motives in introducing his wide-ranging reforms are considered. The civil legislation enacted during his administration and the ecclesiastical legislation which he initiated are analysed, and the immediate and longer term effects of his reforms are evaluated. Barrow identified two key targets for reform: improved education and conditions for the parish clergy; and the provision of English elementary schools for every boy and girl, with grammar and academic schools for the most able. Barrow’s skill in exploiting four different sources of funds and setting up well-constructed endowment instruments to ensure effective investment management is considered, and the quality and consistency of the oversight of schools and other aspects of pastoral and social care provided by the clergy and the courts are also evaluated. The thesis then reflects on Barrow’s continuing interest in and contribution to the development of education in the Isle of Man during his episcopate in St Asaph (1670-80), and considers reasons for his relative lack of success in addressing comparable social challenges in north-east Wales. The impact of variations to the conditions of the academic endowments which Barrow made in his will (1680) is also assessed. At the centre of the thesis is a reflection on Barrow’s life before 1663. The contrast between his high church, royalist convictions and academic career in Cambridge, Oxford and Eton on the one hand, and the liberal credentials of his reforms on the other, is considered. The thesis questions the extent to which the influence of former friends and colleagues, and the strengths and weaknesses of his self-sufficient, authoritarian character may have contributed to his ideas and the success of their implementation. The thesis evaluates the long-term effectiveness of Barrow’s reforms, notably in education, by analysing evidence for the progress of literacy in reading and writing in the Isle of Man through the eighteenth century. It assesses particularly the efficacy of schooling in English in an isolated community where only Manx Gaelic, a vernacular without a written orthography, was spoken, and considers similar challenges in the teaching and acquisition of reading skills in Wales. Comparisons are then drawn with contemporary developments in the dioceses of Chester (Cheshire and south Lancashire) and St Asaph (Denbigh, Flint and Montgomery) and in the wider context of the progress of literacy in England and Wales. In conclusion the continuing contribution of Barrow’s ideas and endowments today is summarised.
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Lützhöft, Margareta. "“The technology is great when it works” : Maritime Technology and Human Integration on the Ship’s Bridge." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell arbetsvetenskap, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5017.
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Several recent maritime accidents suggest that modern technology sometimes can make it difficult for mariners to navigate safely. A review of the literature also indicates that the technological remedies designed to prevent maritime accidents at times can be ineffective or counterproductive. To understand why, problem-oriented ethnography was used to collect and analyse data on how mariners understand their work and their tools. Over 4 years, 15 ships were visited; the ship types studied were small and large archipelago passenger ships and cargo ships. Mariners and others who work in the maritime industry were interviewed. What I found onboard were numerous examples of what I now call integration work. Integration is about co-ordination, co-operation and compromise. When humans and technology have to work together, the human (mostly) has to co-ordinate resources, co-operate with devices and compromise between means and ends. What mariners have to integrate to get work done include representations of data and information; rules, regulations and practice; human and machine work; and learning and practice. Mariners largely have to perform integration work themselves because machines cannot communicate in ways mariners see as useful. What developers and manufacturers choose to integrate into screens or systems is not always what the mariners would choose. There are other kinds of ‘mistakes’ mariners have to adapt to. Basically, they arise from conflicts between global rationality (rules, regulations and legislation) and local rationality (what gets defined as good seamanship at a particular time and place). When technology is used to replace human work this is not necessarily a straightforward or successful process. What it often means is that mariners have to work, sometimes very hard, to ‘construct’ a cooperational human-machine system. Even when technology works ‘as intended’ work of this kind is still required. Even in most ostensibly integrated systems, human operators still must perform integration work. In short, technology alone cannot solve the problems that technology created. Further, trying to fix ‘human error’ by incremental ‘improvements’ in technology or procedure tends to be largely ineffective due to the adaptive compensation by users. A systems view is necessary to make changes to a workplace. Finally, this research illustrates the value problem-oriented ethnography can have when it comes to collecting information on what users ‘mean’ and ‘really do’ and what designers ‘need’ to make technology easier and safer to use.
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Simpson, Julian M. "South Asian doctors and the development of general practice in Great Britain (c.1948-c.1983)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:180175.
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Smith, Charlotte H. F., and n/a. "The house enshrined: the great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia." University of Canberra. Resource, Environment & Heritage Sciences, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050701.140057.
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This thesis is a study of the origins and rationale of two categories of house
museum - here named "Great Man" and "Social History" - in the United States
and Australia. An examination of cultural, social and historical change provides
the context for the genres' evolution.
The Great Man genre was born in mid nineteenth-century America when two
houses associated with George Washington - Hasbrouck House and Mount
Vernon - were preserved and translated to museum status. Mount Vernon quickly
became the exemplar for house museums.
Civil religion, a secular nationalism that adopted the forms and rituals of church
religion, focusing on hero worship, pilgrimage and contemplation of transcendent
collective purpose, provided the ideology that sustained the new museum type.
Great Man house museums became the shrines at which such rituals could be
practiced.
In the early twentieth-century the specialization of heritage organizations
encouraged a new breed of heritage professional. Largely fabric focused, these
"new museum men" influenced philosophy, management and conservation
practice at house museums throughout the century.
Social history made its impact upon house museums in the latter decades of the
twentieth century. The paradigm encouraged the creation of a new category of
house museum. Existing Great Man house museums adopted some of its
characteristics though never lost their hero worship foundations. In fact, I posit
that the idea of hero worship was transferred to the new genre.
The birth and evolution of the two categories of house museum is demonstrated
through four biographical studies: Vaucluse House in Sydney; Monticello in
Charlottesville VA; the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City;
and Susannah Place Museum in Sydney. I believe the findings demonstrate an
argument that applies at hundreds of house museums in the United States and
Australia.
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Travers, Daniel. "The 'Churchillian paradigm' and the 'other British Isles' : an examination of Second World War remembrance in Man, Orkney, and Jersey." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17519/.
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This dissertation studies Second World War ‘sites of memory’ in the islands of Jersey, Orkney and the Isle of Man, to determine if each island celebrates the war’s events as Britain does, or if they have charted their own mnemonic course. It builds on the work of Angus Calder, Malcolm Smith, and Mark Connelly, who have explored how popular conception of the Second World War in Britain has been structured around a certain set of commemorative motifs, most of which centre on Winston Churchill and the events of 1940. The British war narrative is now commonly referred to as the ‘Churchillian paradigm’ or ‘finest-hour myth’, and continues to be the driving force in commemoration and memorialization on the British mainland. The three islands in this study are culturally and historically distinct from Britain, and each has strong notions of its own ‘island identity’. Each also possesses a tangential and divisive domestic experience of war, one which is often minimized in the iconography of the Churchillian paradigm. Jersey was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Orkney was home to several thousand Italian POWs who built important infrastructure in the island, and the Isle of Man was home to 14,000 German, Finnish, Japanese, and Italian internees in what one critic has called ‘a bespattered page’ in the nation’s history. By examining ‘sites of memory’— museums, heritage sites, commemorations, celebrations, philately, and use of public space—this dissertation shows that each island simultaneously accepts and rejects elements of the finest-hour myth in their collective memory. Each island displays its unique (though often quite negative) heritage in order to differentiate itself from Britain, while at the same time allowing them, at certain events, to participate in celebration of Britain’s ‘greatest victory’. In this way, islands’ use ‘Britishness’ pragmatically, by basking in traditionally ‘British’ commemorative tropes, while at the same time deepening their own cultural and historical sovereignty.
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Gray, Marianne. "'Man is a dining animal' : the archaeology of the English at table, c.1750-1900." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/1366/.
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This study investigates the role of gender and, within that, class in changing English dining styles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The period c.1750-1900 has been chosen to cover a major period for dining change, as it is during this time that service à la Russe superseded service à la Française as the dominant formal dining style. This change has been much discussed by food historians and sociologists, but the materiality of change has not hitherto been placed within an archaeologically-informed framework. Equally, while the artefacts of dining are among the most frequently recorded finds in domestic contexts in the historical period, archaeologists have rarely considered them in the context of long-term dining development. Drawing on data from country houses, collections, and published material on middle class and elite settings, this thesis investigates the hypothesis that dining change was driven by women, specifically middle class wives; and that dining-related ephemera must therefore be understood in its relationship with women. It also proposes a narrative of stylistic change using historical archaeological paradigms, introducing the concept of a third, clearly identifiable stage between à la Française and à la Russe. After introducing the data sets and giving a background to dining in the historical period, the first part of the study uses table plans and etiquette, together with depictions of dishes, food moulds and experimental archaeology in the form of historic cookery, to demonstrate the way in which the process of change was driven by middle class women. It argues that à la Russe suited gender and class-specific needs and that, far from being emulative, as has hitherto been assumed, the adaption of à la Russe broke with aristocratic habits. It proposes that a transitional stage in dining style should be recognised, and interprets food design and serving style in the light of this intermediate phase. The setting of dining is explored next, with data on dining décor, plates and physical location interpreted to support the conclusions of the previous section. Following this, the impact of change on food preparation will be used to demonstrate that à la Russe was the result of changes in underlying mentalities which also affected household structure and organisation. The ways women used the materiality of food, including cookbooks, to negotiate status will be demonstrated. A final section will broaden the discussion of gender, class and food. Tea has been chosen as a case study for the further testing of the conclusions drawn from the study of dinner for two reasons: firstly it was, from its introduction, immediately associated with women; and, secondly, tea-related artefacts are among the commonest of archaeological finds, but are rarely understood as engendered and active objects in a domestic context.
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Wise, Nathan History & Philosophy Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "A working man???s hell: working class men's experiences with work in the Australian imperial force during the Great War." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History and Philosophy, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32462.
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Historical analyses of soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the Great War have focused overwhelming on combat experiences and the environment of the trenches. By contrast, little consideration has been made of the non-combat experiences of these individuals, or of the time they spent behind the front lines. Far from military experiences revolving around combat and trench warfare, the letters, diaries, and memoirs of working class men suggest that daily life for the rank and file actually revolved around work, and in particular manual labour. Through a focus on working class men???s experiences in the AIF during the Great War, this dissertation seeks to discover more about these experiences with work in an attempt to understand the broader aspects of life in the military. In this environment of daily work, many working class men also came to approach military service as a job of work, and they carried over the mentalities of the civilian workplace into their daily life in the military. This dissertation thus seeks to understand how workplace cultures were transferred from civilian workplaces into the military. It explores working class men???s approaches towards daily work in two different theatres of war, Gallipoli and the Western Front, in order to highlight the significance of work within military life. Furthermore, it evaluates aspects of this workplace culture, such as relations with employers, the use of workplace skills, and the implementation of industrial relations methods, to understand the continuities between the lives of civilians and soldiers. Finally, this dissertation is not a military history: it adopts a culturalist approach towards the lives of people in the AIF, and in the environment of the Great War, in an effort to place the military experiences of these working class men within the context of their broader civilian lives.
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Girton, Jeffrey M. "United I Stand: An Investigation of Power Distance Value and Endorsement of the Great Man Theory Through American Social Identities." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1571322381565998.
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Strimpel, Zoe. "The matchmaking industry and singles culture in Britain, 1970-2000." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71609/.
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Stewart, William Frederick. "'Every inch a fighting man' : a new perspective on the military career of a controversial Canadian, Sir Richard Turner." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3389/.
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Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ernest William Turner served Canada admirably in two wars and played an instrumental role in unifying veterans’ groups in the post-war period. His experience was unique in the Canadian Expeditionary Force; in that, it included senior command in both the combat and administrative aspects of the Canadian war effort. This thesis, based on new primary research and interpretations, revises the prevalent view of Turner. The thesis recasts five key criticisms of Turner and presents a more balanced and informed assessment of Turner. His appointments were not the result of his political affiliation but because of his courage and capability. Rather than an incompetent field commander, Turner developed from a middling combat general to an effective division commander by late 1916. His transfer to England was the result of the need for a proficient field commander to reform the administration. Turner proved to be an excellent administrator, a strong nationalist, and was crucially responsible for improvements in administration and training in England. Finally, the conflict with Sir Arthur Currie, the commander of the Canadian Corps, rather than being motivated by obstructionist jealousy was the outcome of competing institutional imperatives and Currie’s challenging personality.
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Adams, Alissa R. "French depictions of Napoleon I's resurrection (1821-1848)." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3236.
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Despite the inherently multivalent nature of images of Napoleon Bonaparte created during the middle of the nineteenth century, scholars often employ only one lens to interpret them: the political context of the age in which they were created. In doing so, they effectively separate these images from the wider art historical narrative. A second—and equally fraught—effect of this tendency is the perpetuation of dominant assumptions that the popularity of his image was due to his status as a “Great Man.” This dissertation examines a subset of mid-century Napoleonic imagery that demonstrates the flawed nature of neglecting other approaches to interpreting these works: depictions of the Emperor’s resurrection. These images frequently portray the Emperor as an inherently democratic, republican, or Populist force that derives its power not from Napoleon’s identity, but from the creativity, commemorative work, or critical thinking of the audience and the French people. This dissertation closely examines these images in their artistic and cultural contexts, applying cultural art historical methodology and close iconographical analysis to works that are either absent from or marginalized in the art historical narrative. In doing so, it reveals Napoleonic resurrection imagery’s potential for commenting on changing social mores that privileged the cultural agency of the French people at mid-century. The underlying argument of this study is that Napoleon was a popular artistic subject not because of his status as a “Great Man,” but because of his endlessly mutable identity. This mutability facilitated the creation of new forms of art and knowledge while allowing the French people to reflect upon their place in the changing cultural and artistic milieu. By demonstrating that this admittedly narrow subset of Napoleonic representation is open to cultural analysis, this dissertation opens up new avenues of inquiry for scholars of the Napoleonic Revival.
The first chapter of this study is a largely theoretical examination of Napoleonic “ghosts” and their connection to the strained relationship between fine art and popular culture as well as the masses and “Great Men.” Chapter two analyzes several images in which academically trained artists use Christ-like Napoleonic imagery to engage with the rising cultural and creative agency of the lower classes. The third chapter examines the political implications of the Napoleonic Revival. However, unlike earlier studies, it does so through the lens of the ongoing conflict between cultural narratives passed down from a centralized authority and popular culture that challenges these narratives. In particular, it contrasts the July Monarchy regime’s marginalization of the “real” Napoleon with public enthusiasm for the image of his corpse. Finally, the dissertation considers Paul Delaroche’s Napoleonic series in the context of the shifting locus of artistic production during the period.
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Fee, Craig. "Causes of Burnout Among Church Leaders: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of Pastors." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5077.
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After 30 plus years of research, clergy burnout is an ongoing concern; as such, it is important to identify the causes of this phenomenon. Researchers have already demonstrated that internal factors such as personality types, personal mastery, or conflict management and external factors such as role conflict, excessive activities, or unrealistic expectations, can lead to burnout. The problem that led to this study was that more exploration is needed about clergy's perceptions on leadership and burnout within the church. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore clergy within the Wesleyan Church in the Midwest to discover their perceptions about leadership and burnout within the church. The conceptual framework was shaped by the great man theory of leadership and Maslach's burnout theory. The central research question for this study focused on clergy's perceptions about leadership and burnout within the church. Data were collected using face-to-face semistructured interviews with 23 pastors who are currently leading and experiencing burnout. Data collected included transcribed interviews, field notes, and observations. Data were hand-coded to find key concepts and themes. Two themes that emerged from the data were leadership is understood as hierarchical and leadership is understood as the work of solo actors, which were consistent with the great man theory of leadership. The results of this study may contribute to a better understanding of the factors that lead to clergy burnout. The results of this study will address a gap in literature and may result in positive social change for both the clergy and church congregants because the results can be used to come up with solutions for burnout. This study may also lead to new theories about clergy burnout.
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Mc, Inerney Timothy. "'The Better Sort' : ideas of Race and of Nobility in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain and Ireland." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030124/document.
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Durant des siècles, la noblesse britannique a défendu une hiérarchie fondée sur la lignée et la généalogie, qui s’inscrivait dans la tradition occidentale de l'ordre universel. En 1735, cependant, l'Homo sapiens de Linné marque le début d'un nouveau discours sur les hiérarchies humaines, désormais fondées sur la « variété » physique. Cette étude veut cerner l’influence de la tradition noble sur les conceptions de la race, en Grande-Bretagne et en Irlande, au cours du long XVIIIe siècle. Nous examinons un ensemble de textes de nature diverse, dans l'espoir de mettre en lumière la continuité des hiérarchies généalogiques à travers plusieurs disciplines et sur plusieurs centaines d'années. La première partie retrace l'histoire du privilège héréditaire comme « identité généalogique » à partir d’œuvres comme A British Compendium, or, Rudiments of Honour (1725-7) de Francis Nichols et l’Essay on Man (1734) d’Alexander Pope. La seconde partie réexamine ces mêmes traditions sous l'angle de la théorie de la race au XVIIIe siècle. Elle s'intéresse aux idées de la race et du breeding dans le roman anonyme, The Lady’s Drawing Room (1744), et à la rhétorique de la variété humaine dans plusieurs ouvrages d’histoire naturelle, dont A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774) d’Oliver Goldsmith. La troisième partie étudie l'influence des Lumières et de la Révolution française sur l’idée de « race noble » telle qu'elle apparaît dans les Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) d'Edmund Burke, ainsi que le rôle de la « noblesse naturelle » dans des œuvres abolitionnistes, notamment Slavery, or, the Times (1792) d’Anna Maria Mackenzie. Ainsi, cette étude entend démontrer que la tradition de la « race » noble a été, et demeure, une composante fondamentale dans la construction d'un concept de « race » humaine, qui fait de la pureté du sang, de la supériorité des mœurs et de l’anatomie des principes définitoires de la hiérarchie humaineFor centuries, British nobility promoted an elite hierarchy based on genealogical precedence within the greater Western tradition of universal order. In 1735, however, Carolus Linnaeus’s Homo sapiens signalled the beginning of an entirely new discourse of human hierarchy based on physical ‘variety’. This study aims to identify how noble tradition influenced conceptions of race in Great Britain and Ireland during the long eighteenth century. Tracing the persistence of a ‘pureblood’ model of human superiority in the West, it traverses a vast range of historical material in order to highlight the continuity of genealogical hierarchies across multiple disciplines and over hundreds of years. The first section reviews the history of hereditary privilege as a backdrop to noble culture in eighteenth-century Britain: examining works such as Francis Nichols’s British Compendium, or, Rudiments of Honour (1727-7) and Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man (1734), it considers how nobility as a genealogical identity was accommodated in the ‘Great Chain of Being’ understanding of human hierarchy. The second section considers these same traditions in terms of the eighteenth-century ‘race’ construct: it considers the notion of ‘breeding’ in works such as the anonymous The Lady’s Drawing Room (1744) and the rhetoric of human variety in naturalist texts such as Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774). The third and last section considers the influences of Enlightenment and the French Revolution on ideas of noble race in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), and the role of ‘natural’ nobility in abolitionist texts such as Anna Maria Mackenzie’s Slavery; or, the Times (1792). In short, this study demonstrates that the tradition of noble ‘race’ was, and is, a fundamental component of the human ‘race’ construct, asserting blood purity, anatomical superiority, and inimitable excellence as defining principles of human hierarchy
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Nibbe, Kevin Louis. "The greatest opportunity : American artists and the great war, 1917-1920 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Bernot, Randall Joseph. "Ecological consequences of Daphnia phenotypic plasticity in a Great Plains reservoir /." Search for this dissertation online, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Clarkin, Thomas. "The new trail and the great society : federal Indian policy during the Kennedy-Johnson administration /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Phelan, Sarah Mary. "Reconstructing a twentieth-century Scottish psychiatrist : Thomas Ferguson Rodger, 'wartime psychiatry', 'eclecticism', and 'mad dreaming'." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30740/.
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This PhD explores the contribution to psychiatry of Thomas Ferguson Rodger (1907–1978), first Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow (1948–1973) and consultant psychiatrist at several Glasgow hospitals. Rodger is a somewhat neglected figure in the history of Scottish psychiatry, yet his career spanned - and in some measure also shaped - an important period of transformation as traditional asylum-based psychiatry was challenged by emergent general hospital- and community-based psychiatry. Rodger’s personal archive, including lecture notes, patient case notes, correspondence and miscellaneous items, has recently been catalogued by the University of Glasgow Archives through funding from the Wellcome Trust. This study comprises a forensic reading/interpretation of this archive, alongside oral histories with individuals who remember him and his immediate legacy in/beyond the University. Adopting perspectives drawn from the history/geography of psychiatry and medical humanities, it reconstructs Rodger’s life, ideas and practices, set within the changing ‘spaces’ of mid-twentieth century psychiatric medicine. This thesis reads across Rodger’s papers as well as sources within other repositories, allowing themes to emerge and develop which form the basis for discrete case studies in twentieth-century psychiatry. Rodger’s career, as reconstructed from his archive, provides a compelling aperture into psychiatric developments of the interwar, Second World War and post-war periods respectively. Beginning in the Second World War, it elaborates upon the link between Rodger’s and his fellow military psychiatrists’ endeavours in personnel selection and the inception of the therapeutic community model at Northfield Military Hospital in Birmingham. Foregrounding how the therapeutic ideals of the psychiatrists were subordinated to military aims and tradition, it speculates upon Rodger’s post-war re-envisioning of psychiatry as at least in part a reaction to the limited application of their techniques during wartime. The thesis then moves to the changing post-war therapeutic landscape, situating Rodger’s eclectic psychiatry within the context of deinstitutionalisation and the therapeutic armamentarium of ostensibly divergent physical and psychological methods. It complicates eclectic psychiatry’s straightforward descent from Meyer’s and Henderson’s dynamic psychiatry by positioning it as a response to the challenge of deinstitutionalisation in balancing between contrasting treatment methods, and additionally as a critical acknowledgement of the uncertainty afflicting understandings of mental disorder, especially with respect to the efficacy of physical therapies. Finally, the thesis returns to the earliest phase of Rodger’s career for which archival evidence exists: his times as Deputy Superintendent at Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in the 1930s, when he was experimentally examining the resonances of psychoanalytic theories in his own work framed by the psychiatric pessimism of the time. Through discussion of dream analytic sessions, it elucidates Rodger’s dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis’ failure to account for environmental difficulties and stresses Rodger’s adoption of a more pragmatic ‘common-sense’ therapeutic attitude. Collectively, the thesis underlines Rodger’s self-critical stance towards his profession and his developing conviction about the significance of social/environmental and cultural factors in the causation and cure of mental distress.
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Rodrick, Anne Baltz. "Artisans of civilization : self-improvement, citizenship, and municipal reform in Victorian Birmingham /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Gaudenzi, Cosetta. "Appropriations of Dante : XVIII and early XIX century translations of the Divine comedy in Great Britain /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Lovata, Troy Randall. "An exploration of archaeological representation : people and the domestic dog on the Great Plains of North America /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Carano, Carol Lorraine Phegley Jennifer. "Mad lords and Irishmen : representations of Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde since 1967 /." Diss., UMK access, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of English and Dept. of HIstory. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008."A dissertation in English and history." Advisor: Jennifer Phegley. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-292). Online version of the print edition.
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Ducharme, Kevin C. "Prospects for temptation in Persia by "The Great Satan" United States engagement with Iran /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FDucharme.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Knopf, Jeffrey ; Kadhim, Abbas. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Middle East, Foreign Policy, United States, Engagement, Positive incentives, Negative incentives, Iranian arms control, International relations, Strategic Studies, Sanctions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-69). Also available in print.
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Morris, Christopher J. "Analysis of modern pollen data from the prairies of central North America." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15749.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Geography
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Fossil pollen assemblages are widely used in paleoenvironmental reconstruction of vegetation regimes and climate conditions. The modern analog technique (MAT) is a popular method used for analysis of these fossil pollen assemblages, but a large modern pollen dataset, such as the North American Pollen Database (NAPD), is needed to provide modern comparisons for interpretation of analog/no-analog situations. While many climate types are well represented within the NAPD, the climates of the southern and central Great Plains of North America are poorly represented. In this study, I collected 31 sediment samples containing pollen from these underrepresented climate types across the Great Plains in the U.S.A. Analysis of these 31 pollen assemblages, along with 504 samples classified as “prairie” from the NAPD and 24 pollen samples from the Flint Hills of Kansas, U.S.A. was conducted to determine if the three major prairie types (short grass, mixed grass, and tallgrass prairies) could be delineated from pollen records alone. Two different MAT dissimilarity metrics (Squared Chord Distance and Canberra Distance Metric) were assessed for their ability to delineate among prairie types and Squared Chord Distance (SCD) was found to a be the better prairie type classifier than Canberra Distance Metric (CDM). Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to assess the ability of each metric to identify similar pollen assemblages. It has been show in previous studies that two genera found in this region – Ambrosia and Artemisia –respond to temperature and moisture availability in different ways. Using the ratio of the proportions of Ambrosia and Artemisia pollen grains in a pollen assemblage it was found that tallgrass prairies are significantly different from the other two prairie types. The Ambrosia/Artemisia ratio is also useful in determining climatic conditions. This ratio provides paleoenvironmental researchers with a simple quantitative tool to quickly assess general climatic conditions and prairie type.
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Allgood, John William. "Britain's final decade in South Arabia : Aden, the Federation and the struggle against Arab nationalism /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Lai, Jonathan Ping Wah. "A study of the main character's speech transformation in the Cantonese movie : the Great lover." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1995. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/38.
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Doyle, Gillian. "The economics and regulation of concentrations of media ownership in the UK." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2180.
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Since the early 1990s, regulators in the UK and in many other countries have faced increasing pressure from media industry participants to liberalise media and cross-media ownership restrictions. Many countries, including the UK, have responded to this pressure by amending their domestic legislative frameworks in such ways as to remove at least some restrictions which had previously been established in order to protect pluralism. The main aim for this study has been to assess the 'economic' case in favour of de-regulating media and cross-media ownership in the UK. The principal method of investigation has been to analyse the relationship between, on the one hand, the size and vertical or diagonal structure of a selection of UK media firms and, on the other, their recent economic performance. Findings suggest that, although factors other than size will affect performance, there is generally a strong and positive correlation between the market share and the operating profitability of firms who are involved in either television or radio broadcasting, or national newspaper publishing. This correlation reflects efficiency gains through economies of scale and scope and, also, revenue advantages arising from increased market power. On the other hand, there is little evidence that previous monomedia ownership restrictions represented a threat to the economic viability of the industry or that developments in the late 1990s have introduced significant 'new' gains for enlarged monomedia enterprises. Nor is there evidence that de-regulation of monomedia restrictions would have any positive impact on the exports performance of traditional UK media firms. With regard to diagonal expansion, there is no evidence that cross-ownership between radio and television or between television and national newspapers yields important economic benefits. This thesis would argue that, taken as a whole, the de-regulation of UK media ownership in 1996 has delivered relatively few enhancements to the economic efficiency or prospects of the UK media industry while, at the same time, has engendered a considerable welfare loss through lower safeguards for pluralism. This outcome reflects serious systemic problems at the national UK level in the policymaking mechanism which is supposed to curb the political influence of media owners. This study finds that the scope - via a shift in responsibility for policy-formulation to the transnational European level - for overcoming such problems will be limited, not least because the protection of pluralism remains outside the official competence of the European Commission.
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Pike, Stephanie N. "BATTLING AMBIGUITY: A PUBLIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE GREAT ¿¿¿¿HOCKEY STICK¿¿¿¿ DEBATE." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335245672.
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Silverman, Jonathan Todd. "Success in the margins : how African Americans, immigrant Jews, and women used cultural production to negotiate prejudice and the American dream from World War I to the Great Depression /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Barnes, Robin Benson. "Prehistoric caches in an intermittent wetlands environment : an analysis of the Nicolarsen Cave collection, Washoe County, Nevada /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Vaughan, David Roger. "The economic benefits of visitor spending for local communities in Great Britain : an examination of the development, application and main findings of proportional multiplier analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27020.
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Kouamelan, Alain-Nicaise. "Géochronologie et Géochimie des Formations Archéennes et Protérozoïques de la Dorsale de Man en Côte d'Ivoire. Implications pour la Transition Archéen-Protéozoïque." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1996. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00653760.
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L'Ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire se caractérise par la juxtaposition d'un domaine Archéen (Kenema-Man) et d'un domaine Protérozoique (Baoulé-Mossi), respectivement situés à l'Ouest et à l'Est de la faille du Sassandra. Elle offre donc l'opportunité d'une étude de la transition entre l'Archéen et le Paléoprotérozoique. Dans le domaine Archéen, les roches se différencient du manteau entre 3,3 et 3,5 Ga (âge modèle Nd). Les formations granulitiques les plus anciennes sont datées à 3050 ± 10 Ma (âge monozircon). Des zircons hérités dans des paragneiss indiquent un héritage continental, au minimum à 3,2 Ga. Ce domaine est marqué, comme l'ensemble de l'Archéen de la dorsale de Man, par l'événement magmatique et métamorphique majeur qu'est le Libérien (Camil, 1984; Kouarnelan et al., 1994, 1995). La datation des assemblages de minéraux a permis de mettre en évidence un recyclage important des formations archéennes durant l'événement Birimien. Ce recyclage s'effectue dans des conditions de ra assez élevées (700 à 800°C), vu la remise à zéro partielle ou totale des géochronomètres U-Pb et Sm-Nd. Il est essentiellement localisée au Sud de la faille de Man-Danané où prédominent des gneiss migmatitiques à biotite. Une étape pré90ce survient vers 2250 ± 30 Ma. L'influence majeure a lieu vers 2100 ± 40 Ma avec (1) la décompression preSCIu'isotherrne des granulites archéennes de haute pression (850 ± 30°C et 10 ± 1 kbar) vers des conditions de plus basse pression (720°C ± 30 et 7 ± 1 kbar) et (2) la fusion de sédiments pour donner des gneiss migmatitiques à biotite (monazite à 2074 ± 7 Ma). L'âge modèle Nd à 3,2 Ga-et la présence de coeurs hérités dans les zircons montrent l'origine archéenne de ces formations. Ces deux étapes correspondent à l'histoire de l'évolution de la croûte birimienne reconnue dans le domaine Protérozoique (s.l.). Le domaine Protérozoïque de la Côte d'Ivoire est constitué d'ensembles plutonovolcaniques et sédimentaires juvéniles ( Abouchami et al., 1990, Boher et al., 1992). L'histoire précoce de ces ensembles débute vers 2220 ± 8 Ma (âge monozircon). La phase majeure d'accrétion magmatique se situe à 2094 ± 6 Ma (âge monazite) avec la formation de nombreux massifs de leucogranite. Une phase intermédiaire, de migmatisation, à 2150 ± 10 Ma (âge monozircon) semble caractériser le socle granito-gneissique. Le domaine situé entre la faille du Sassandra et la longitude 6°W, que nous dénommons zone de transition, montre des évidences de contamination de croûte archéenne (âge modèle Nd intermédiaire et zircon hérité). Au Sud de ce domaine (domaine SASCA), nous avons mis en évidence l'existence d'un segment de croûte archéen (3,15 Ga), dont les caractères géochimiques indiquent qu'elle a été très peu remobilisée. La décompression isotherme des formations archéennes au Birimien et la contamination des magmas d'âge Birimien par la croûte archéenne permet d'envisager soit un modèle de collision, soit un modèle de rifting. Un modèle de collision ne semble pas correspondre car si une rétrogradation est évidente dans le domaine Archéen, aucune évidence de progradation n'est par contre observée dans la zone de transition. Aussi, J'existence de nappe de chevauchement, dans l'Archéen, est incertaine (Delor et al., 1994). De plus, les linéations minérales observées sur les bordures est et sud-est du massif granulitique de Man indiquent un mouvement en faille normale. Le modèle de rifting semble s'appliquer beaucoup mieux à cette région de la dorsale de Man. A un amincissement d'un continent archéen au Paléoprotérozoique, succède l'océanisation et la formation du domaine Baoulé-Mossi par underplating eVou transpression d'un magma de composition globalement intermédiaire. La présence de la granodiorite de Toulépleu, intrusive en plein domaine archéen à 2100 ± 10 Ma est une manifestation de la fragilisation de l'Archéen.
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Bardo, Ameline. "Manipulation abilities among hominids : a multidisciplinary study with behavior, morphology and modelling." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB079/document.
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Au sein du règne animal, les humains sont considérés comme possédant des capacités manuelles uniques. Cependant, nous ne savons toujours pas quelles sont les réelles capacités manuelles des primates, ni comment elles ont évolué. Les humains sont-ils réellement uniques ? Cette thèse vise à étudier les capacités de manipulation chez des Hominidés en lien avec l’anatomie et la fonction de leur main, en utilisant une approche interdisciplinaire combinant différentes approches : comportementale, morphologique, fonctionnelle et biomécanique. Pour quantifier les stratégies comportementales et les capacités de manipulation chez des Hominidés, j’ai mené une étude éthologique sur différents grands singes captifs et sur les humains au cours d’une même tâche complexe d'utilisation d'outils. J’ai utilisé des approches comparatives de morphométrie géométrique 3D sur le complexe trapézio-métacarpien combiné avec un modèle musculo-squelettique pour mieux interpréter les résultats comportementaux et pour tester le lien entre la morphométrie de la main et les contraintes biomécaniques durant l’utilisation d’outils chez les Hominidés. Les résultats de cette thèse montrent que les grands singes manifestent des capacités dynamiques de manipulation, mais que chaque espèce a ses propres spécificités. Plus de capacités dynamiques complexes, comme les mouvements intra-manuels, sont observés pour les bonobos et les gorilles que pour les orangs-outans. Les différents modes de vie des espèces peuvent expliquer cette variabilité. En outre, au cours de la tâche complexe d’utilisation d’outils, les humains montrent une meilleure performance que les grands singes et montrent des spécificités. Cette nouvelle approche intégrative montre clairement aussi que les différentes capacités de manipulation des Hominidés ne peuvent pas seulement être une conséquence des différentes morphologies de l’articulation trapézio-métacarpienne, mais aussi des différentes contraintes mécaniques liées à la morphométrie globale de la main. Ces résultats mettent en évidence la difficulté de déduire les capacités manuelles d’espèces fossiles à partir de certaines informations provenant de la forme de l'os, sans tenir compte de la morphométrie globale de la main et de son lien possible avec les contraintes biomécaniques. Cette thèse fournit de nouvelles informations sur les capacités manuelles des Hominidés, sur les différentes contraintes entourant ces capacités, et de nouvelles informations afin de mieux comprendre l'évolution des capacités manuelles chez les primatesHumans are considered to have unique manual abilities in the animal kingdom. However, we still do not know what the real manual abilities of primates are, nor how they evolved. Are humans really unique? This dissertation aims to investigate the manipulative abilities in Hominids related to their hand anatomy and function, using an interdisciplinary framework combining behavioral, morphological, functional, and biomechanical approaches. To quantify the behavioral strategies and manipulative abilities in Hominids, I have conducted an ethological study on different captive great apes and on humans during the same complex tool use task. I used 3D geometric morphometrics and comparative approaches on the trapeziometacarpal complex combined with a musculo-skeletal model to better interpret the behavioral results and to test the link between hand morphometric and biomechanical constraints during tool use in Hominids. The results of this PhD show that great apes demonstrate dynamic manipulative abilities but that each species has its own specificities. More complex dynamic abilities, such as in-hand movements, are observed for bonobos and gorillas than for orangutans. The different lifestyles of the species may explain this variability. Moreover, during the complex tool use task, humans perform better than great apes and show specificities. The new integrative approach also clearly shows that the different manipulative abilities of Hominids cannot only be a consequence of the different morphologies of the trapeziometacarpal joint but also of the different mechanical constraints related to the overall hand morphometric. These results highlight the difficulty to infer manual abilities in fossils from some bone shape information, without taking into account the overall morphometric of the hand and its possible link with biomechanical constraints. This PhD thesis provides new information on the manual abilities of Hominids, on the different constraints surrounding these abilities, and new information to better understand the evolution of manual abilities in primates
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Cousin, Justine. "Extra-European Seamen employed by British Imperial Shipping Companies (1860-1960)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL135.
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Cette thèse étudie les marins non-européens travaillant sur les navires à vapeur des compagnies maritimes britanniques desservant l’empire de la Grande-Bretagne, à partir d’archives métropolitaines et coloniales, mais aussi de témoignages oraux. Ces sources sont étudiées avec une approche d’histoire impériale, maritime, sociale et du travail. Les marins extra-européens viennent des Caraïbes, du sous-continent indien, de la péninsule arabique, d’Afrique de l’Est et de l’Ouest. Ils occupent des postes peu ou pas qualifiés dans les trois départements du bord, justifiés par des caractéristiques pseudo-scientifiques établissant une hiérarchie des origines. Leur recrutement est justifié leur faible coût salarial et de leurs horaires de travail étendus en comparaison de leurs collègues britanniques. Les postes de commandement étant réservés aux Blancs, les marins de couleur sont confinés à un rôle de subordonnés. Ces derniers subissent une ségrégation touchant leur logement et leur avitaillement, mais aussi leurs uniformes, contribuant à les mettre à part sur les navires à vapeur. Le recrutement des marins extra-européens se développe massivement à partir de 1849 avant de connaitre des restrictions à partir de 1905 et surtout de l’entre-deux-guerres. Certains s’installent dans les quartiers portuaires dans des environnement multi-ethniques, souvent dégradés et à l’écart du reste de la ville. Ils restent alors dans des pensions qui servent d’entre-deux culturel ou bien sont pris en charge par les missionnaires locaux. Certains s’installent dans leur propre logement et établissent des relations avec les femmes blanches, ce qui suscite périodiquement l’hostilité des hommes locauxThis dissertation studies extra-European seamen who worked on steamships of the British shipping companies throughout the British Empire, by using metropolitan and colonial archives as well as oral history testimonies. These sources are studied with an imperial, maritime, labour and social history approaches. Extra-European seamen came from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian peninsula, Eastern and Western Africa. They were hired for unskilled or low-skilled positions in the three shipboard departments, based on pseudoscientific characteristics which created racial hierarchies. They were chosen over their British counterparts, as they cost less and worked more hours aboard. Tbey were subordinated to white officers, as non-white seamen could not get a senior position. Their accommodation and food rations both reflected work division and racial segregation, as they had specific and lower living quarters and food. They were also set apart with their dedicated uniforms. Extra-European seamen are massively recruited from 1849 onwards until further restrictions from 1905 and the interwar years especially. Some of them settled in interracial dockside areas, which were often run-down, overpopulated and physically segregated from the rest of the city. They may stay in boarding-houses that acted as buffers between native and metropolitan cultures or be taken in charge by the local missionaries. Some of them settled in their own houses and began interracial relationships with local white women, which periocally arouse hostility from the local white men
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Ali, Ibrahim. "Esclaves, engagés et travailleurs libres à la Grande Comore et au Mozambique pendant le sultanat de Saïd Ali ben Saïd Omar (1883-1910)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040028.
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Cette thèse étudie du trafic des esclaves au départ de l’Afrique orientale (Mozambique) vers les Comores où des planteurs étrangers venaient les acheter comme engagés libres. Le sultanat de Saïd Ali né en 1883, a bénéficié de la protection de de la France en 1886. Malgré ce protectorat, l’esclavage n’est aboli qu’en 1904. Pour maintenir la main-d’œuvre coloniale, l’État protecteur a retardé cette abolition. Face aux hésitations, le sultanat est rattaché à Magascar en 1908, le sultan abdique en 1910, avant que la Grande Comore devienne colonie française en 1912This Thesis studies the slaves trade starting from East Africa to Comoros where foreign growers came to buy them as free Endentured servant. The Sultanat of Saïd Ali born in 1883 benefited of French protection in 1886. Even thought this protectorate, the slavery is abolished in 1904. To maintain the colonialworkforce, The Protecting State has delayed this abolition. In front of theses hesitations, the Sultan is attached to Madagascar in 1908, the sultan abdicated in 1910, before that the Great Comoro become a French colony in 1912
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Rees, Marc Ryan. "The great man." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10097.
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The topic of greatness in people is not one which has received much direct attention in philosophical
literature. This paper aims to provide insight into the nature of greatness for humans by looking at how
the concept of greatness is structured, how it relates to the concepts of (moral) goodness and of
admiration, and by examining theories on what greatness is. Greatness is found to be aspectual in that
something is great qua a certain aspect of it, and that greatness is a compound higher-order value.
Greatness is discovered to be that which ought to be admired, where the “ought” is a special ought of
propriety. Greatness is shown to be other than merely a superlative form of moral goodness, although
extreme goodness can make for greatness. The means by which specific virtues produce greatness in
people is also examined. Special rights and duties between great people and lesser ones are explored,
based on matters of respect. Three theories of greatness are rejected: that greatness is (moral)
goodness; greatness is perfection; greatness is reality (in a special Nozickian sense). Finally, I develop
and tentatively accept a theory that greatness is an ennobling transcendence of a thing from its type.
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Miao-Ling, Chien, and 簡妙玲. "Behold a Great Man with Awe." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41701330781966513307.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
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Creations result from life experience and joy of childhood, which leave pleasing mark in the memory; in addition, they reorganize the happy moments during our growing years. By using the technique of Chinese painting called "Ruled-Line Painting ", painters are able to transform the above sensation into personal painting language, and express inner emotions. Through constant creation, painters therefore feel the beauty of life, and the mystery of the universe. This thesis is divided into five parts. Chapter One -- Sudden broken string: the introduction on all factors that trigger my creative motivation. Chapter Two -- Search for the broken string: Memories of the childhood and confrontation of the true feelings. Chapter Three -- The architectural blueprint transforming to painting: By means of the "boundary painting" technique of Chinese painting, a painter convert the blueprint of the life memory into a personal painting language. Chapter Four -- Material and techniques : Explain the materials and techniques of expression. Conclusion ：Through the process of the creation, a painter feels the pulse of life, and thus pursue more possibilities.
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Durham, Gabe. "Every Mostly Great Man in the State." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/538.
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Lian, Jinyi, and 連晉逸. "High body-Experience Interactive Great Man Biography - The Story of Matsu." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46550765235409480750.
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碩士嶺東科技大學
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From ancient times , the rendering of celebrity biographies roughly divided into three phases: the period of type plate printing, graphic printing period and the "e-books" period.In the past, celebrity biographies are mostly produced in the form of a paper presentation. The first celebrity biography is based on the type plate printings whilst modern celebrity biography gradually evolved along with the ongoing progress in printing. The best example would be the form of illustrated text followed by the movable type printing presentations of strong performance, and contemporary celebrity biography with the human reading in different ways. The evolution into digital reading (eBook), celebrity biographies has digitalised compared to the traditional celebrity biography and has yet added more Interactive multimedia , new performing elements. As moving as it may be, these are only limited to keyboards and mouses, still unable to provide users with a realistic and profound experience. The following creative themes for high somatosensory celebrity biographies, will be expanded to import celebrity biography of the reality described in the era of celebrity / great growth story for the subject for the first time. Which in this example would be the goddess of the sea, Mazu. The story describes Mazu before her enlightenment in the spiritual path, with a total of eight chapters encompassing : Mazu's birthday, to learn tirelessly, seeking great mentors, apocalyptic disasters, the torments through great grieves, yielding of the demons, parting with the loved ones and her final soaring enlightenment at the Mei mountain. All these chapters presented through augmented reality to give the viewers a brand new visual experience. And a detailed note of recorded production steps and processes, which encompasses: designing the characters, clothing scene exploration , contextual designing and storyboarding. The 3D model animations and cross-platform rendering synthesis in the creative processes using 3dsMax, UnifeyeSDK Unfold 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other softwares tools for users to reference from.
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Chaktsiris, Mary Georgina. "The Varsity Man: Manhood, the University of Toronto and the Great War." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18091.
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This research examines the relationship between masculinity and recruitment at the University of Toronto during the Great War. Through a gendered framework established by historians such as Judith Butler, masculinity is approached as a constructed process that encompasses a variety of complex relationships between the individual subject and social processes. The following questions are explored: What motivated the administration the University to instate policies that first encouraged, and then forced, male students to enter active service? How did dominant discourses of masculinity influence recruitment efforts and the subsequent movement towards mandatory military training? The research reveals that gendered understandings of war and recruitment on campus presented active service as the defining moment of manhood. Enlisting, then, was understood as more than a willingness to take up arms; it publicly signified that a man was committed to the defense of democracy and to securing the freedom of generations to come.
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REN, WEI-LIAN, and 任維廉. "A grouping of the descriptors of the "Great Man"(Chun-tzu)and "Small Man"(Hsiao-jen)in the confucian analects:with a discussion of the premises behind modern application of the approaches to categorizing persons set forth in ancient chinese classics." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57288372517189284305.
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Emrence, Cem. "The great divergence in the Ottoman Middle East, 1820-1908." 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/binghamton/main.
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