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Thumm, Sarah Reynard. "Swift's Vexed Satire of Hobbes and Lucretius." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626122.
Full textMartins, Thais Lima Fernandes. "The cost of reproduction of swifts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314908.
Full textConnolly, Creighton Paul. "A landscape political ecology of 'swiftlet farming' in Malaysian cities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-landscape-political-ecology-of-swiftlet-farming-in-malaysian-cities(c44a80de-103d-4f0a-9e83-c62b40d5ac3b).html.
Full textTrapp, Jaime A. "The Reader's Reflection in Swift's "A Voyage to Laputa"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625742.
Full textThomas, Fabrice. "Calibrages et études applicatives de la technologie SWIFTS." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAT136.
Full textSWIFTS (Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer) is a new innovative technology of spectrometry that allows a drastic reduction of the size of Fourier transform spectrometers, while maintaining, and even improving their performance. With advances in integrated optics and nanotechnology, SWIFTS is based on an original method of optical detection, without any moving part, where metallic nanodots directly sample the evanescent field of a standing wave in a waveguide.In this thesis, we propose to present the complete process that led, starting from the original concept, to the development and the applications of the technology. The document illustrates the optical characterizations, the technological choices and the optimizations made for the realization of functional spectrometers in the visible and near-infrared range. Innovative and complementary procedures of calibrations, based on frequency multiplexing and low coherence interferometry, have been developed to accurately determine the various irregularities of the manufacturing and of the behavior of the integrated device. The calibrated spectrometers allow to address various applications in industry and research, such as high performance characterization of lasers, interrogation of fiber Bragg gratings sensors, Raman and LIBS spectrometry, optical coherence tomography OCT, and sciences of the Universe (geophysics, astrophysics).SWIFTS is a breakthrough innovation in spectrometry, without trade-off between miniaturization and high performance, that opens the way for product development based on the most demanding applications currently performed in research laboratories
Salvucci, James Gerard. "Gulliver's travels and constructs of the primitive in Swift's time." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49887.pdf.
Full textEilon, D. "Private spirit : A moral and political theme in Swift's prose." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373671.
Full textBurrow, R. W. "Rhetoric and philosophy in Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub'." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1986. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/09ab9d80-56ce-4141-b952-d7c47d5e6d6b/1/.
Full textSchrock, Laura Russell Richard Rankin. ""The waters return" myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5224.
Full textKoon, Lim Chan. "Sustainable harvesting and conservation of the edible nest swiftlets (Aerodramus spp.) of Sarawak." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298159.
Full textHe, Xiyao. "The doubting deanJonathan Swift's Critique of reason in the age of enlightenment." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/291.
Full textMenzel, Lorenzo P. "Aspects of the Innate Immune System in the Caribbean Octocoral Swiftia exserta." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1025.
Full textHiggins, Ian. "The sentiments of a Church-of-England man : a study of Swift's politics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1989. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4210/.
Full textJones, David Francis. "Swift's use of the literature of travel in the composition of "Gulliver's travels"." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4211/.
Full textWeiger, Rebecca. "Imaginary Specters, Imagined Listeners: The Undecidable in Graham Swift's Tomorrow and Mothering Sunday." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42950.
Full textFerrand, Jérôme. "Etude et réalisation d'un spectromètre intégré à transformée de Fourier (SWIFTS)." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00554948.
Full textBolaños, Fernando. "Acceso a justicia laboral en Centroamérica." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116664.
Full textEsta ponencia nos presenta una reflexión de carácter general sobre los valores y principios más importantes que subyacen a un sistema de acceso a la justicia laboral democrático, eficiente y justo. El trabajo pretende además establecer una vinculación sistemática entre los conceptos de institucionalidady de acceso a la justicia, refiriéndose a la interrelación entre ambas nociones y entre los valores que alimentan el uno y el otro. A los propósitos del trabajo se mencionan y analizan entonces cuatro grandes subtemas: la transparencia, el equilibrio de las partes en el proceso laboral, el problema de la justicia pronta, y el principio de tutela judicial efectiva. Todo lo anterior con referencias a la legislación centroamericana y de República Dominicana y la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.
Just, Melanie Maria. "Jonathan Swift's "On poetry : a rapsody" : a critical edition with a historical introduction and commentary /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39265551p.
Full textWalker, Mark David. "An investigation into the host-parasite interrelationship between Common Swifts and Hippoboscid Louse-Flies." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/14064/.
Full textBundschuh, Julia. "Molecular studies in gorgonian alloimmunity : search for gene homologs of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily in Swiftia exserta." FIU Digital Commons, 1991. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1942.
Full textHodson, Katrin C. "The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106.
Full textBicak, Ivana. "Roman satiric modes in English verse satire, 1660-1740, with special reference to Swift's Horace and Pope's Juvenal." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10736/.
Full textMengin, Fondragon Mikhael de. "Etude d'un spéctromètre intégré SWIFTS pour réaliser des capteurs optiques fibrés pour les sciences de l'observation." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENT085/document.
Full textSWIFTS, or Stationary-Wave Integrated Fourier-Transform Spectrometer, is an extremely integrated very high resolution spectrometer. This spectroscopy technology represents a major advance in the field and will be used here as a Fiber Bragg Gratings interrogator. Combining such a spectrometer with very sensitive Bragg sensors, like grating Fabry-Perot cavity (GFPC) as long as 20 mm, will allow to measure high precision temperature or strain variation. Applications of Bragg sensors are numerous, especially in structure monitoring and nuclear power plants safety. Despite promising capabilities, Bragg sensors never reached the desired sensibility for earth-science observation purposes. Present applications are restricted to civil-engineering strain-gauge sensors with microstrain sensitivity. However, the ability to detect and record signals of the order of a few tens of nanostrain is of great interest to monitor and model the volcanic and seismological processes. I demonstrate in this thesis the first use of a Fourier-Transform spectrometer combined with Fiber Bragg Sensors in a field configuration to achieve extremely high precision measurement on earth's crustal deformation. Precisions of thirty nanostrains on a very short base were achieved in the Low-Noise Underground Laboratory (LSBB) at Rustrel. Crustal monitoring opens the way for numerous applications especially in geophysics. A second study presented in this thesis aims at benchmarking several strain sensors based on optical fiber Bragg grating. For this purpose, two reinforced concrete beams have been tested in three points bending up to ultimate limit state
Cowan, Thomas C. S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Network control in a globalized world : how Visa and Swift's founding structures serve their stakeholders on the International stage." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112017.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-55).
The Visa credit card network and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) network both provide a backbone for financial interchange across the world. Visa's network connects consumers, merchants, banks, and processors to ease the purchases of millions of consumer-facing products worldwide. Swift's interbank network connects banks, corporates, and other financial institutions to ease the flow of high-value, highly-secure international financial transactions. Both networks grew to become industry incumbents in the second half of the 20th century, connecting nearly every country on earth. However, the globalized networks differ in their organizational structures: Visa utilizes a centralized, U.S. focused, hub-and-spoke model; Swift uses a decentralized, transaction-volume neutral, point-to-point network. Although Visa's centralized network fosters innovation, standardization, and security, its U.S.-centered hub pulls the organization from global neutrality and aligns it with the United States on global issues. Meanwhile, although Swift's decentralized network nurtures technological localization-at the expense of technological standardizationits transaction-based global governing structure promotes a relative international neutrality among global organizations. This contrast between Visa and Swift-both networks that balance local and global, centralized and decentralized, and technical and non-technical tensions across the world-reveals the structural effects of worldwide networks, and how network system design impacts global stakeholders in the societies that they touch.
by Thomas C. Cowan.
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Guinn, Dana M. "Proloquo2Go or SwiftKey Symbols: Which Leads to Better Acquisition of Targeted Phrases for a Student with Intellectual Disability and Articulation Concerns?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3196.
Full textWard, James Gearard. "Reading Swift and Ireland, 1720-1729 : constituences, contexts and constructions of identity in Jonathan Swift's occasional writings of the 1720s." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/388/.
Full textCavalier, Paul. "Echantillonnage direct de franges lumineuses avec des nanodétecteurs supraconducteurs dans un interféromètre en optique intégrée : application à la conception et la réalisation d'un micro-spectromètre SWIFTS." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00622518.
Full textLockard, Amber. "The Library, the labyrinth, and "things invisible" a comparative study of Jonathan Swift's A tale of a tub and Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Full textLombard, Johanna Christina. "A pangalactic gargle blaster of Lilliputian proportions: A comparative analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62647.
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Bouraoui, Jihene. "The power of negativity and its functioning in the metafictional text through five works : vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, John Barth’s Coming Soon!!!, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party and Don DeLillo’s White Noise." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100139.
Full textThe dissertation addresses the challenge to think the power of negativity and its ultimate constructive objective. It launches an enterprise, both at the textual and extratexual levels, that requires the individual to destroy and create at once, without any pretention to establish an everlasting system that dictates the encoding and decoding of thoughts and perception and management of cognitive, bodily and everyday life needs. Such an enterprise is based on the consideration of a literary assemblage of five novels: Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, John Barth’s Coming Soon!!!, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party and Don Delillo’s White Noise. It demonstrates that the text is governed by an economy that does not embark on « negative » nihilism; it is rather an economy that transforms the unproductive forms (abyss, loss, spectre, madness, excess, death) into a capacity for resistance and a creative departure. It is an economy that sustains the text and prevents it from collapsing, through a set of ethical imperatives, a poetics of self-creation and a politics whose objective is not to resolve the paradoxes underlying the text. Throughout the three part of the dissertation, there is a continuous struggle to unveil the constructs and to explain the rationale behind our unavoidable need for them to keep going
Morand, A. "Apport de la modélisation à base d'une décomposition modale ou harmonique dans le domaine de la photonique." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01067424.
Full textBigot, Rodolphe. "L'indemnisation par l'assurance de responsabilité civile professionnelle : L'exemple des professions du chiffre et du droit." Thesis, Tours, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR1006.
Full textIn the field of the civil liability of law and accounting practitioners, the compensation of victims is entirely carried out by a private insurer. There is, therefore, in this respect, a plain difference between compensation in the field of medical liability and compensation in the area addressed in this research. Nevertheless, the economic stakes would be rather higher. An optimal mutuality is often done by law and accounting professional bodies. They have entered into collective insurance contracts created and proposed as from the nineteenth century by a sole insurer, today in an almost situation of de facto monopoly. From 2001 to 2010, more than 100 000 claims have been declared by law and accounting professions together with the dominant insurer. A detailed sampling has enabled us to notice that the compensation does not have its entire hoped efficiency, itself being thwarted by the insurance system’s action of professional defense federated around concerted management committees. This system has therefore taken control of the compensation process, in a way to conceive a form of crushing of the prejudices entitled to compensation, mainly through amicable settlements. At the same time, the abovementioned system is not always in a position to fully protect this incredible mutuality that it has however carried out with success. The impairment which affects the responsibilization of insured practitioners could be at the same time the cause and the consequence of this important sum of claims for which the self-disciplined methods used by insurance seem to have faded, to the detriment of compensation
Chen, Fay, and 陳慧琴. "Nomadism in Graham Swift’s Waterland." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38821373596186770320.
Full text國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
94
Nomadism in Graham Swift’s Waterland Abstract Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in A Thousand Plateau (1980), a book which theorizes difference, multiplicity, and becoming, describe nomadism as the process of “the war machine” creating and propagating “nomad space.” The philosophers use the metaphor of nomad resistance to suggest a way of escaping from social boundaries and restrictions to liberate primordial desire energies. Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), as a historiographic novel in its critique of the Enlightenment, also suggests a nomadic—“land reclamation”—process of storytelling as a way to cope with terrible events in life. This thesis applies several of Deleuze and Guattari’s key concepts to generate further dialogue on Waterland. To cope with his mid-life crisis, Tom Crick abandons traditional history lessons to reconstruct a reality that is rhizomatic nature. In the process, he retrieves the Fenlands water and landscape, people and ghosts, history and mysteries from his past. Tom’s narrative exemplifies a type of “war machine” in its collage form, defamiliarizing strategies, disrupted chronology, and sensory activation. In providing multiple “entryways” and “exits,” Tom’s stories invite multiple interpretations from his audience. Tom, while realizing the impossibility of ever telling “the complete and final version” of his stories, gradually finds a “line of flight” in “becoming-eel” and “becoming-nomad” as he allows himself to be guided by an instinctual desire to return to his past in order to tell more stories. The novel not only discusses what storytelling means to Tom, but values the nomadic process of continuous storytelling to learn how to live. Keywords: nomad thought, rhizome, storytelling, becoming, desire
Hsu, Tsai-ling, and 許采齡. "The Figuring of Cannibalism in Swift’s Time." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78069619832887814280.
Full text國立清華大學
外國語文學系
93
Abstract This thesis examines the figuration of cannibalism in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) in relation to works in his time, including George Psalmanazar’s Description of Formosa (1704-1705), Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1689). The historical formation of cannibalism in Swift’s works illustrates that Swift may have not only been indebted to the long tradition of the figuration of cannibalism since Christopher Columbus and Michel de Montaigne but also owed much to the rhetorical concepts of cannibalism in the works of his contemporaries. This thesis highlights these issues in Swift’s works: How is the representation of cannibals significant in the construction of the other in his time? What are the differences between Swift’s and his contemporaries’ view on cannibals? How does Swift complicate and politicize this subject in Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal? Hayden White’s idea of “historical discourse” will frame my exploration of the figuration of cannibalism in Swift’s works. The thesis would be divided into two major parts: Each probes cannibalism as a historical discourse under modern interpretation in relation to Swift and his contemporaries. I aim to clarify how Swift complicates and politicizes the cannibalistic figure in his works. The Introduction concentrates on the beginning of modern cannibalism since Columbus and Montaigne, investigating how the figures of cannibalism are applied to several uses. The tradition of the figures of man-eating can be traced back to Greek myth, Homer, and Herodotus’s Histories. The cannibalistic figures were presented either as an indication of deep hatred to an enemy or a sign of cultural difference. The practice of cannibalism was looked upon with no moral judgment. Modern concepts of cannibalism began in Columbus’s naming the Caribbean anthropophagi “cannibals.” The figuration of cannibalism has been turned into a form of a “historical discourse” since 1492 when Columbus famously categorized Amerindian savages as man-eating cannibals and associated the figures of cannibalism with an indication of extreme barbarity and a cultural trope that denotes a group of people who are in need of conversion and colonial civilization. Montaigne’s seminal essay “Of Cannibals” (1580) led cannibalism to another direction—that is, it functioned as a weapon for self-criticism, which spoke out the fact that the civilized Europeans could be much crueler than the cannibals. For Montainge, cannibals were still those naked savages, but Europeans might be worse than these people if they continued performing brutal acts. Chapter Two focuses on the images of cannibals in works by Psalmanazar, Defoe, and Behn to figure out the general concepts of cannibalism in Swift’s age. Later in Swift’s time, the two main concepts of cannibalism from Columbus and Montaigne were applied in travel accounts and other literary works about the savage other. Psalmanazar’s Description of Formosa succeeded the tradition of the stereotypes of the exotic other, reinforcing his fake identity as a native Formosan by eating raw meat and telling sensational stories about the cannibalistic practice in Formosa. The images of cannibals in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe are presented according to the stereotypes of the savage other at that time, which justify European domination and colonization. Behn’s Oroonoko, on the other hand, follows Montaigne’s tradition, criticizing Europeans’ brutality by comparing them with savages. My main concern in Chapter Three is how Swift criticizes his contemporaries’ ideas of cannibalism in Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal. Basically, Swift agreed that Europeans were no better than the bloodthirsty cannibals, but his attitude toward the savage other was not sympathetic, either. The figuration of cannibalism in both Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal forms a particular historical discourse, under which both Europeans and the savage other victimize the other and are victimized by each other. This thesis concludes that Swift’s idea of cannibalism broadens modern meanings of the cannibalistic figure.
Shojania, Mohtaram Gharib. "The gospel according to Gulliver : Swift's unorthodox Christian apologetics." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/29495.
Full textWang, Tzu-yun, and 王慈韻. "The Fictionality of Historical Narrative in Graham Swift’s Waterland." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91594026950479268484.
Full text國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
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Historiographic metafiction, a type of postmodern novels defined by Linda Hutcheon, refuses to clarify the distinction between history and fiction, emphasizing that history is never the mirroring of the real past itself but the textualized remains based on people’s subject imagination and interpretation. Due to its elaborate meditation on the nature of history, Graham Swift’s Waterland serves a great example of this kind of postmodern metafiction. Tom Crick, the narrator of the novel, is a history teacher who bears the burden to pass down the historical knowledge to the next generations. Faced with his personal crisis, Tom starts to tell his personal and family history in the middle of teaching the French Revolution. Intertwined with Tom’s narrative is his discussion of the nature of history and the close relationship between history and story-telling. This thesis aims to examine the fictionality of history that is explored by Swift in Waterland. With his self-reflexive narrative, Tom shows that the causality and meanings that are found in historical events are not found but constructed by people. By juxtaposing multiple versions of explanations of the events of the Fens, Tom makes an implication of the elusiveness and indeterminacy of historical truth. In addition, by illustrating many inevitable retreats and regressions that human history and human nature have displayed throughout generations, Tom’s exposure of a circular human history undermines the credibility of the Idea of Progress that was thought to be the truth since the Enlightenment age. In the process of drawing attention to history as a human fabrication, Tom reminds the students and readers to always be skeptical when learning history and to always look at one thing from different angles rather than just hold on to one single and totalizing perspective.
Lee, I.-Ting, and 李宜庭. "Swift’s Travels beyond Children’s Literature: A Generic Study of Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22087380089955945417.
Full text中興大學
外國語文學系所
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This thesis is a generic study of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It aims to point out that Gulliver’s Travels is a unique example of Swift’s swift shift from children’s literature to satire, that is, from a children’s genre to an adults’ genre. In the introductory chapter, Swift’s life and works are briefly mentioned. Noted particularly are the facts, among others, that Swift seems to lack a memorable childhood, that he traveled constantly between Ireland and England and got involved in the political and religious affairs of the two nations, and that his greatest achievement lies in his writing, especially in his prose satire as seen in Gulliver’s Travels. The second chapter defines children’s literature, discusses its subgenres, and enumerates its characteristics, besides defining satire, discussing its types, and considering its characteristic contrasts with children’s literature. Based on the greatest contrasts, that is, the fanciful content and the playful tone of children’s literature versus the factual content and the painful tone of satire, the third chapter provides a detailed discussion of Gulliver’s four voyages to the “wonderlands.” In the fourth chapter, then, the focus is on how Swift “travels” beyond children’s literature. Four adaptations of Swift’s original Gulliver’s Travels are introduced: the Longman Edition, the Macmillan/Bookman Edition, the Oxford Edition, and the Penguin Edition. Such adaptations are all simplified and abridged versions intended for children. They reveal Swift’s potential for children’s literature. They also show Swift’s swift shift from the potential to his talented genre, satire. The thesis concludes in the fifth chapter that Gulliver’s Travels demonstrates Swift’s uniqueness in the postmodern tendency towards “hibridity”: he succeeds in making Gulliver’s Travels a great hybrid, combining the fantastic and amusing in children’s literature with the factual and instructive in adults’ literature. That is why the work is more popular than Robinson Crusoe and Candide.
Lin, Yen Sanmr, and 林沿杉. "ACTING WITH SWIFTNESS AND ACCURACY ~ THE STUDY OF A FENCING COACH’S LIFE HISTORY." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53125163092813038529.
Full text國立臺北教育大學
體育學系碩士班
97
This is the story of a fencing coach who has been involved in the fencing sport for over three decades. The text is used to describe fencing master’s experience in the fencing sport and his involvement in the promotion thereof. What is his vision of development during the period of fencing promotion? How does he promote the fencing sport? How does he expand his business horizon of fencing into schools, as well as inter-school and societal sport? This study utilizes the evolving systems approach proposed by Gruber and Wallace as the theoretical framework seeking to construct the fencing master’s path of promoting the fencing sport through in-depth interviews and the collection of relevant literature. It is the finding of this study that the fencing master converts the inability to participate in overseas matches during his high-school years and the disappointment of the broken dream contesting in the Olympics into his ultimate objective to promote the fencing sport. The time, monetary resources and manpower that have been poured in allow the fencing master to occupy a space in the arena of the fencing sport, yet a shred of imperfection still exists due to the lack of extraordinary results out of international matches that continues driving him to promote the fencing sport – the fencing master’s life of fencing sport is thus constructed with the said involvement and imperfect sense of achievement. It is with such imperfect sense of achievement lacking for extraordinary results in international matches that the fencing master promotes the fencing sport with swiftness and accuracy.
Wu, Tzu-Yen, and 吳姿燕. "A Comparative Study on Two Chinese Versions of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87547016670851023832.
Full text長榮大學
翻譯學系碩士在職專班
101
This research paper is aimed to investigate and compare the two translated Chinese versions of Gulliver’s Travels by employing the translation theory of foreignization and domestication by Lawrence Venuti. The two Chinese versions are “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by Lingking Publishing in 2004 and the “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by SITAK Group in 2000. This research paper is categorized into 5 chapters. Chapter 3 is dedicated to studying the translation strategies and Chapter 4 the translation techniques. Each of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are followed by two sub-chapters. Each of chapter 3 and Chapter 4 contains 5 sub-categories, including the tone of speaking, domestication, foreignization, amplification, context, false translation, omission, order of words, and professional phrases, total of 10 sub-categories in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. The purpose is to study in-depth the process of translation, the intervention of translators, the influence of different translation strategies adopted, and the translation techniques employed. By studying in depth the two Chinese versions, it is hoped that this research paper will make a contribution to probe the complexity of the Chinese translated texts of Gulliver’s Travels for future studies.
Lin, Cheng-Fu, and 林正福. "The Cognitive Process of Satire Comprehension in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72921514991129282882.
Full text國立政治大學
英國語文研究所
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This thesis aims to design a cognitive process of how the reader comprehends Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” as a satire. This cognitive process includes two steps: (A) to infer that the author is satirical, (B) to infer that the author intends to satirize some real person. This thesis is cut into three parts to tackle (A) and (B). The first part (Chapters 2-5) is on (A), and (A) is subdivided into: (a) to judge that AMP1 seems to be false, (b) to infer that the author intends it to be false, (c) to infer that the author intends the reader to find it false. However, (a) impedes (b) and the sequential (c), because AMP is seemingly false, not normatively false, in the eyes of the reader. The reader thus has the difficulty to eventually interpret AMP as a satire. However, when the reader feels extremely amused after reading AMP, he will more easily fulfill (b) and (c), because he will infer that the author is joking. The second part (Chapters 6-7) aims to design a cognitive theory of amusement and that of humor. I define amusement as an emotion, caused by the cognitive appraisal of the humor as pleasant. And I define humor as basically a reaction to incongruity. Humor can be: (1) the perception of incongruity, (2) the perception of incongruity and its resolution, or (3) the perception of incongruity and its resolution with comprehension. The third part (Chapter 8) is on the cognitive process from (A) to (B). The reader in this stage comprehends that the fictional speaker in AMP is a metaphor of some bigwig in reality who proposes an outrageous solution to the Irish problems. Throughout this thesis, I try to demolish the author’s AMP (that it is a satire) and restructure it with the reader’s interpretations (that AMP is a good plan, a hypocritical lie, etc.). Sometimes, the author is dead and his identity is unrecognizable. At the end, I will apply this interpretative instability (to AMP) to the dissension over the Taiwan 319 (gunshot) incident in 2004. ------------ 1 Herein Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” will be referred to as AMP.
Cunha, André Gonçalves Falcão e. "Rehabilitation of Swifts. Apus apus and Apus pallidus Morphometric Parameters Analysis." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/9229.
Full textA conservação da fauna selvagem ocorre a diversos níveis, um dos quais é o trabalho realizado nos centros de recuperação de fauna selvagem. Estes são responsáveis não só pela reabilitação de espécies animais selvagens autóctones, mas também pela sensibilização e educação da população para estas mesmas espécies. O andorinhão preto (Apus apus) e o andorinhão pálido (Apus pallidus) são duas espécies de aves que todos os anos são recebidas nos centros de reabilitação portugueses por diversos motivos. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é o estudo das características morfológicas destas duas espécies no momento de devolução ao seu habitat natural, e a subsequente comparação com valores referenciados de forma a detetar diferenças que poderão ter impacto na sua sobrevivência após a sua libertação. Também se pretende analisar as taxas de sucesso e as causas de ingresso com a finalidade de identificar fatores de risco. Para tal foi elaborada uma base de dados com os dados de ingresso e libertação, e as biometrias de 312 andorinhões recebidos no CERVAS (Centro de Ecologia, Recuperação e Vigilância de Animais Selvagens) em Gouveia. Neste estudo observámos que o ingresso destas aves é máximo em Julho, e que as entradas no centro devem-se principalmente a traumas e quedas do ninho. Os casos de trauma têm taxas de libertação (41.1%) menores devido às elevadas taxas de eutanásia (45.2%). As quedas de ninho têm uma elevada taxa de devolução à Natureza (73.3%). O peso de andorinhões no ingresso é maior em aves que são libertadas. Observámos também que as aves juvenis requerem um tempo de reabilitação (13.2 dias em andorinhões pretos e 14.2 dias em andorinhões pálidos) mais longo que adultos (1.4 dias em andorinhões pretos e 3.9 dias em andorinhões pálidos). O ganho de peso nestes animais está correlacionado com o período de reabilitação (r=0.492). Observámos ainda que o comprimento da asa de um andorinhão juvenil (160.74 milímetros em andorinhões pretos e 168.43 milímetros em andorinhões pálidos) é menor que o de um andorinhão adulto (160.84 milímetros em andorinhões pretos e 170.64 milímetros em andorinhões pálidos), nas duas espécies.Podemos concluir que o estudo das características morfológicas permite delimitar valores padrão para andorinhões recuperados, o que poderá ser desenvolvido de forma a melhorar o processo de recuperação de forma a atingir valores biométricos previamente definidos, garantindo um desenvolvimento mais perto do natural, e aumentar a taxa de sobrevivência de animais libertados. A análise da causa de ingresso poderá permitir que o centro de reabilitação dirija melhor os seus esforços e recursos para otimizar o seu funcionamento e taxa de sucesso.
The conservation of the wildlife occurs at various levels, one of which is the work which takes place in wildlife rehabilitation centres. These are responsible not only for the rehabilitation of autochthonous wild animals, but also the sensibilization and education of the population for these same species. The common swift (Apus apus) and the pallid swift (Apus pallidus) are two bird species that every year are received in the Portuguese rehabilitation centres for several reasons. The main objective of this work is the study of the morphologic characteristics of these two species at the moment of reintroduction in their natural habitat, and the subsequent comparison to referenced values in order to detect differences which might impact their survival post release. We also intend to analyse the rates and the causes of ingress with the purpose of identifying risk factors. For this purpose, a data base was developed with the admission and release data, and the biometrics of 312 swifts received in CERVAS (Centro de Ecologia, Recuperação e Vigilância de Animais Selvagens) in Gouveia. In this study we observed that the ingress of these birds is maximum in July and the admissions in the centre are mainly from traumas and nest falls. The cases of trauma have lower release rates (41.1%) due to the high euthanasia rates (45.2%). The falls from the nest have high reintroduction rates (73.3%). The weight of ingress of swifts is larger in birds that are released. We also observed that juvenile birds require a longer rehabilitation period (13.2 days for common swifts and 14.2 days for pallid swifts) than adults (1.4 days for common swifts and 3.9 days for pallid swifts). The weight gain of these animals is correlated to the rehabilitation period (r=0.492). We observed as well that the wing length of a juvenile swift (160.74 millimetres in common swifts and 160.8 millimetres in pallid swifts) is smaller than the one of an adult swift (168.43 millimetres in common swifts e 170.64 millimetres in pallid swifts), for both species. We can conclude that the study of the morphological characteristics allows the delineation of pattern values for rehabilitated swifts, which can be developed in order to improve the rehabilitation process by reaching biometric values previously defined, ensuring a development closer to natural and increasing the survival rate of released animals. The analysis of the admission cause may allow the centre to better use their efforts and resources to optimize its operations and success rate.
CHEN, SHI-ZHE, and 陳世哲. ""This isthmus of a middle state":Johathan Swift's concept of man in Gulliver's travels." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47961018992682700845.
Full textWong, Margaret. ""The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16792.
Full textGroeneveld, Cheryl A. "“Foreigners in their own country”: The Struldbruggs and the changing language of aging in Swift's world." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275769.
Full textChang, Shu-ling, and 張淑玲. "A Study on Teenagers’ Reading Reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85120186607047833664.
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英語學系
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Abstract This study aims to explore teenagers’ reading reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and to apply children’s literature to English teaching for EFL students in a junior high school classroom setting in central Taiwan. The study consists of six chapters. Chapter One includes five sections, which are motivation and background, purpose and significance of the study, major research questions, literature review, and organization of the study. The literature review section explores the benefits of children’s literature and the use of it in EFL classroom, and investigates content-based instruction and its application to language teaching. The three models proposed by Carter and Long (1991) are also employed in this study. The criteria of choosing appropriate children’s literature and the suitability of Gulliver's Travels as teaching material is also analyzed. In Chapter Two, the biography of Jonathan Swift and a brief illustration of Gulliver's Travels are first presented. In the brief examination of Gulliver's Travels section, the first voyage to Lilliput, the second voyage to Brobdingnag, the third voyage to Laputa and other Islands, and the fourth voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms are illustrated. Finally, the last section of this chapter discusses the elements of satire in Gulliver's Travels. Chapter Three examines the feature and value of various literary passages and language elements in Gulliver's Travels. Consideration of their application to teaching is also presented. In Chapter Four, the details of the main study are presented, including the participants, the instruments, the data collection procedures, and the teaching procedures. In Chapter Five, comparative analysis of the responses in students’ pre-instructional and post-instructional questionnaires is included. Then, the results of the pre-test and the post-test for the comprehension of the reading texts are also presented. Finally, Chapter Six concludes the findings of this teaching experiment. In this final section, major findings of the study, recommendations and pedagogical implications, limitations of the study, and suggestions for further studies are discussed. Key words: children's literature, satire, Gulliver's Travels
Lee, Wan-lun, and 李宛倫. ""Between Tick and Tock": Bridging the Gap between Story and Reality in Graham Swift's "Waterland" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41838509289353553011.
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Living "in the middest," in a world which is not our own, our sense of crisis produces in us an overwhelming itch for telling stories or hearing stories in order to make sense of the world, to look for beginnings, middles, and ends in concord, and to impose some kind of order and design on "the contingencies of reality." The problem, however, is that things in life usually "just happen," without displaying the kind of formal attributes or the kind of coherence and sequence that our stories possess. It seems that our inherited ways of storytelling do not accord with the nature of reality, that we just impose our preferred versions of life on a past that cannot resist us. In order to reconcile such dissonance between the form of story and the nature of reality, our postmodernist novelist-storytellers, such as Graham Swift and Michael Ondaatje, move further away from conventional narrative sequences and try to establish a new paradigmatic form of storytelling, or of fiction-making, which can reconcile the conflict between our desire for the form of story and our need to mime contingent reality. Swift's Waterland and Ondaatje's The English Patient, through their use of postmodern narrative techniques, not only make us confront the ways in which we make sense of the world and how we organize our knowledge of reality, but also offer us prime examples of how to bring story and reality together. Far from finding a coherent, structured, meaningful story as in conventional fiction, readers of such postmodernist texts are likely to get lost in strange, non-sequential, unstable orders of reading. However, the fragmentary, indefinite, and unfinished quality of postmodern fiction also challenges readers to piece all the fragments together, word by word, page by page, for themselves and to re-establish an order which the text itself does not entirely give them. The first chapter of this thesis discusses the importance of storytelling in human life and the shapelessness of reality. It then moves to a brief introduction of Frank Kermode's richly suggestive exposition of the dilemma between story and reality and the achievement and predicament of modern writers in their dealing with such a problem. In order to give an account of postmodernist anxieties and an examination of the relation between story and reality, the second chapter is concerned with Graham Swift's Waterland, analyzing how such a novel, cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, can find a way to establish a new contact with reality. The third chapter examines a second example of the tension between story and reality in a late-twentieth-century postmodern fiction, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. This novel proceeds in a much more fragmented, discontinuous, and cyclical narrative pattern than Swift's Waterland but leaves its readers with an even clearer and more understandable story through its "unique qualities of connection and coherence." The fourth chapter arrives at the conclusion that, though we cannot break free of the forms of story, we must change them to make them go on working. Just like the repeated, endless process of land reclamation or desert exploration, the efforts of our postmodern novelist-storytellers to discover new ways of storytelling or fiction-making, of "filling the interval between the tick and tock," have to be continued to "reclaim the world by revealing it as it is."
貝業明. "Utopian Speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22732011519596789978.
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This thesis aims to explore western utopian speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Both these novels survey the possibilities of realizing utopia and the predicaments that utopists have to face. The other objective is to apply utopian issues in Gulliver’s Travels to the EFL classroom in junior high school in Taiwan. The whole thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One explains that now it is more suitable than before to teach literature in junior high school and that utopian speculation is worth introducing to junior high students, because exploring this issue can make them more concern about their society and country, and help them cultivate their citizenship. The born aspiration for better life crystallizes into different ideal phases that reveal the diversified social problems of the time. The types of ideal life evolve from simple to complex, from the satisfaction of desires to the fulfillment of ideal social structure, such as good institutions, just laws, preferable customs and even egalitarianism. Chapter Two discusses the differences between utopia and other types of ideal life. Utopia is not like the Golden Age and Millenarianism that are bestowed by God. It is usually achieved by human design and effort, intends to revolutionize the social, economic, political or religious systems. But its reforming plans are often one-dimensional and naïve. As a result, utopian literature is just for consoling. Gulliver’s Travels and A Connecticut Yankee both inherit these features from Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, but they have differences in terms of the following points: Gulliver’s Travels expresses explicit and positive attitude toward utopia, while A Connecticut Yankee, ambiguous one toward utopia; the former praises technologically primitive utopia, while the latter prefers technologically advanced utopia; and the former longs for the past simpler and more natural England, while the latter intends to civilize and modernize Arthurian England. Chapter Three explains satire, which is the most conspicuous feature of utopian literature. Satire and utopia are nearly born with each other: utopia aims to establish a norm, a standard of excellence, against which folly and vice are judged; satire attacks folly and vice. Chapter Three shows its use in Gulliver’s Travels and in A Connecticut Yankee, and the device of inversion to achieve satire. Chapter Four provides the analysis of the application of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to English teaching, including appropriateness of Gulliver’s Travels as a teaching material and its research design. Questionnaires were used in order to investigate their opinions on applying the novel and its utopian issues to English teaching. Chapter Five is concerned about the results and discussion of the teaching experiment. The results show that the participants are interested in the utopian speculation and consider that studying fictional work indeed promotes their English learning. In general speaking, Gulliver’s Travels is appropriate for students’ learning in terms of language and content. It is beneficial for students in cultural enrichment, language learning, and personal growth. Major finding, limitation of the study, and suggestions for further study are also proposed here.
Hedderman, Simon Peter. "Developments for a Swept Wing Airfoil to Study the Effects of Step and Gap Excrescences on Boundary Layer Transition." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149269.
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