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Shmulyar, Gréen Oksana. "Entrepreneurship in Russia Western ideas in Russian translation /." Göteborg : Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/21128.
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Ashby, Marlene. "Special Ideas." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1856.
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Special Ideas is a composite of practical strategies and techniques assembled for the primary-grade teacher’s use with the learning disabled student, slow learner and underachiever. The focal point of this material is the basic skills of reading, math, spelling, handwriting and general ideas on classroom management, behavior management and motivation. The purpose of the material is to provide the classroom teacher with practical ideas that may serve as a guide to help the teacher adapt and/or modify the curriculum, the materials, and the methods of instruction to the needs of the special child. The sources for these ideas include personal experiences, a variety of periodicals and other educational materials. Many of the ideas are written to help the child who learns best by using a specific mode such as visibility, auditorially or by tactile-kinesthetic methods.
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Lewis, Edward John. "Modes of representation of ideas, computers and learning styles in K-6 mathematics /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030813.112638/index.html.
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Lixian, Cheng. "A history of western ideas of social justice : a survey from the ethial viewpoint." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683167.
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Jackson, Jennie. "The Constructed Forest: Weaving Landscape, Pattern and Ideas in Contemporary Art." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367335.
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This research is relevant to the broader discussion of how culture and nature interact, by analysing and demonstrating how artworks can shed light on the ideas that contribute to longstanding and culturally deep-rooted attitudes to nature. The project questions if artworks can simultaneously trigger and blend ideas that are, in Western art, associated with either the natural or the cultural so as to erode categorical distinctions.
This exegesis examines the ways concepts of nature and culture have played out in artworks over time, focusing on the Western motif of the forest. It explores how contemporary Australian artists have offered platforms to explain aspects of the complex relationship between people and their environment. This research investigates how the visual language of artworks (in particular, motifs, aesthetic conventions, and scale) can clarify how cultural ideas and values have been overlaid on the natural environment of the forest. It examines how traditional ideas of culture and nature are organised into strands of meaning that act as connective threads, linking the past and present.
In contemporary artworks, these strands are woven together with new ideas to offer alternative ways of visualising the relationship between culture and nature. The resulting artworks give voice to ideas that transgress the traditional limits of culture and nature categories, thus shifting meanings and blurring boundaries.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Queensland College of Art
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Sun, Ying, and Bin Yu. "Images of China : An Empirical Study of Western Tourist Material." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4384.
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This thesis aims to explore and describe the images of China in the Western tourist material. There is much literature talking about images of China; however, among the existing scholarship so far few have investigated from the angle as we do. We use social constructivism and representation as main theories and combined with central concepts of the tourist gaze, stereotypes and the other, and post-colonialism and orientalism. Moreover, we conduct a case study by applying qualitative discourse analysis in order to find out the stereotypes and orientalist ideas of China depicted in the tourist material. The findings show that in the perspective of western tourist material, China is representative of the Orient. The analysis also concludes that China is seen as a country with 5,000-year civilization whose people have lots of virtues; a developing economic power; a not so democratic socialist country; a potential threat and a global actor with increasing influences. Our thesis contributes to the existing literature on China research and tourism research—marketing and political implications for its national image improvement and tourism development.
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Young, Amanda M. "Several interpretations of the Blue Mountains : a juxtaposition of ideas over two hundred years /." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030905.170842/index.html.
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Xiao, Xiaosui. "China encounters Western ideas (1895-1905) : a rhetorical analysis of Yan Fu, Tan Sitong, and Liang Qichao /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299533446.
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Lamm, Sarah Elaine. "Thirteenth-century exempla collections and the dissemination of ideas about Jews and Muslims in north-western Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252171.
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Grootjans, John, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and of Health Humanities and Social Ecology Faculty. "Both ways and beyond : in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker education." THESIS_FHHSE_SEL_Grootjans_J.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/445.
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During 1987 my essential beliefs about the nature of the world were challenged by a chance event which led to my arrival in Arnhemland. Working with Aboriginal people allowed me to see first hand the failings of Western ideas in Aboriginal education and health. This is how a 12 year collaboration with Aboriginal people began. The aim was to search for answers to the question, 'Why so many ideas that had been successfully used in the Western world, fail to meet the needs of aboriginal people? My experiences prior to 1995 had led me to believe that Both Ways, an education pedagogy developed in teacher education, was the best approach for empowering Aboriginal Health Workers. I believed Both Ways gave Aboriginal Health Workers a means to develop solutions to aboriginal health issues which valued and respected their aboriginal knowledge. I needed to describe and evaluate the practice of both ways with Aboriginal Health workers for the purpose of proving the benefit of this pedagogy for other educators in this field. This thesis describes how I came to think Both Ways was a good idea; how I defined Both ways; and how I put it into practice. It also provides a description of the issues raised in my critique of Both Ways and in my attempts to provide answers to these issues. Several years of collecting data, including records from action research group discussions, participant observation, interviews with peers and students, and formal evaluations left me with many concerns about Both Ways. As educators follow my journey of discovery I hope that they will recognise experiences and insights that they themselves have shared. The descriptions and discussions in this thesis will add significantly to the overall discourse about health worker education. Similarly, the exploration of ideas beyond Both Ways will add significantly to the overall body knowledge about the power relationships involved in teaching in a cross cultural settingDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Greitens, Eric R. "Children first : ideas and the dynamics of aid in Western voluntary assistance programs for war-affected children abroad." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365669.
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Lewis, Edward John. "Modes of representation of ideas, computers and learning styles in K-6 mathematics." Thesis, View thesis, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/81.
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Constructivist theories of mathematics learning suggest that learners personally negotiate meaning by creating different mental representations of mathematical knowledge. They may then progress towards relational understandings of mathematical ideas by making connections between the different modes of representation. Partnerships between concrete materials and computer software offer a way of enhancing the value of both approaches and have benefits in making learning more powerful by the integration of concrete, pictorial and symbolic modes of representation. This thesis investigates the use of the computer as a transition device in linking different modes of representation of mathematical knowledge. A particular software package was chosen and three teaching treatments were devised, corresponding to three different modes of representation of knowledge. Computers were used to provide a pictorial treatment, Dienes' Base 10 Arithmetic Blocks were used to provide a treatment which was predominantly concrete, and teacher exposition provided a treatment which conformed to symbolic instruction. Quantitative analysis of the data collected found no significant statistical differences in achievement outcomes of any treatment groups. The findings of this investigation do not support the contentions that the computer is a necessary link between concrete and symbolic modes of representation of knowledge, or that programs in which teaching style is matched to the preferred learning style of students lead to increased attainment by students
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Young, Amanda M. "Several interpretations of the Blue Mountains : a juxtaposition of ideas over two hundred years." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/607.
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In 1815 the Blue Mountains were first identified as a unique landscape when Governor Macquarie took a tour over them and located the nineteenth century principles of the Sublime and Picturesque within its' landscape. Until this time the Blue Mountains were considered to be a hostile impenetrable barrier to the West. This paper examines some of the ways the Blue Mountains has been represented in the past, and has been identified as a tourist destination through interpretations imposed on the landscape by the tourist industry since that time. The areas covered deal with the heritage of British Colonialism as a way of forming opinions about the Australian landscape. Then, the theories of the Picturesque and Sublime are examined when applied to the Blue Mountains landscape. The final chapters in this paper deal with contemporary issues that have shaped the way the tourist industry is encouraged to encounter the Blue Mountains landscape
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Galuschek, Anita [Verfasser], and Jürg [Akademischer Betreuer] Wassmann. "Me, Myself and the Other. Melanesian and Western Ideas on Selfhood and Recognition / Anita Caroline Galuschek ; Betreuer: Jürg Wassmann." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1180396553/34.
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Reina, Rafael. "Karnatic rhythmical structures as a source for new thinking in Western music." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8204.
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This thesis addresses the issues of how rhythm could be taught differently in the West, how the new methodology described here could impact the performance of rhythmically complex contemporary music as well as becoming the starting point of a new creative approach for improvisers and composers. The three main goals of this research are to describe South Indian (Karnatic) rhythmical concepts which could be considered sufficiently universal to be integrated with western classical and jazz aesthetics, to show how these techniques can be utilised to analyse and perform western contemporary music with more understanding and accuracy, and to demonstrate how these concepts can be integrated within a western creative framework, be it improvised or composed.
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Scarparolo, Gemma E. "Character cars : How computer technology enhances learning in terms of arts ideas and arts skills and proceses in a year 7 male visual arts education program." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/662.
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'The possibilities that the technology can offer are seemingly endless and remain to be fully explored in [visual] art education." (Callow. 2001. p,43) The aim of this research is to investigate whether the integration of Visual Arts Technology Tools (TECH-TOOLS) into Traditional Visual Arts Programs (TRAD-['ROG) enhance the students' learning in terms of Arts Ideas (AI) and Arts Skills and Processes (ASP) and whether it is a cost effective option for Western Australian primary schools. To determine whether it is worth the inclusion of TECH-TOOLS in terms of enhancing learning. this research will statistically state whether the combination of TECH-TOOLS and Traditional Visual Arts Media (TRAD-MEDIA) enhance the expressive outcomes of Year Seven boys' artwork. The comparative case study method has been chosen as the most suitable method to enable the Researcher to establish the impact that combining TECH-TOOLS with TRAD-MEDIA have upon Year Seven boys' artwork. The Control group only used TRAD-MEDIA and the Experimental group used both TRAD-MEDIA and TECH-TOOLS to create a piece of artwork based on the chosen theme, Character Cars. There were 23 students in the Control group and 24 students in the Experimental group, however not all students attempted or completed the task for reasons which will be explained in Chapter Four. Each group was involved in three sequenced activities based on the chosen theme, with the second activity varying only according to the media used to complete the task. Combinations of quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in this research. To present quantitative data which provides insights into whether Visual Arts (VA) teachers should be combining TECH-TOOLS with TRAD-MEDIA in their Visual Arts Programs (VAP), each piece of artwork was assessed and analysed using descriptive analysis of the data. Each participant completed a written feedback form outlining their attitudes, feelings and thoughts about their artwork and the media that they used. The Researcher and an independent Visual Arts Education (V AE) expert also took anecdotal records during the VA activities with the aim of recording the participants' involvement and enjoyment of the activities. This study is significantly different from the current research in this area u!; it will: provide quantitative data which will demonstrate Whether the combination of TECH-TOOLS and TRAD-MEDlA enhances students' artwork; link the relevant literature and findings of this study to the Western Australian primary school context; provide links to the Western Australian Curriculum Council's Curriculum Framework; and comment on the influence of gender in VAE. All of these factors contribute to the uniqueness of this study.
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Zheng, Chuxuan. "The difference and complementarity of the liberal-democratic and moral-despotic traditions : a comparison between Western and Chinese political ideas." Thesis, Brunel University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331999.
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Campos, Humberto Miranda de. "Thelema em Aleister Crowley: Magick e Ciência da Religião." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/8011.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar Thelema de Aleister Crowley, tendo como ponto de partida o livro Magick Without Tears. Parte-se da hipótese de que, pelo fato de Aleister Crowley ter experiência com filosofias esotéricas ocidentais, e por ter recebido uma educação cristã, sua concepção e estruturação dos dogmas e doutrinas apresentem considerável viés judaico-cristão que podem não ter sido descartados e sim reconstruídos e relidos. Desta maneira, a investigação se focará em realizar uma pesquisa genealógica das leituras e dos símbolos trabalhados por Aleister Crowley. Como referencial teórico, adota-se Wouter J. Hanegraaff e sua metodologia denominada História das Ideias. Através deste paradigma, pretende-se identificar e analisar pontos de diálogo entre elementos do corpus de Thelema e as variadas influências esotéricas com as quais o autor trabalhou, e que são encontrados no livro escolhido. Além disso, tenta-se explicar como a mesma se desdobra num corpo de práticas denominadas Magick, resultando naquilo que Crowley definiu como Iluminismo Científico. Culminando assim, na resposta à pergunta: Thelema é uma Religião?
The aim of this research is to analyze Thelema of Aleister Crowley. Taking as a starting point the book Magick Without Tears. It is hypothesized that, based in Aleister Crowley’s experience with Western Esoteric philosophies, and in function of his christian education, his conception and structuring of dogmas and doctrines present considerable Judeo-Christian bias that may not have been discarded but reconstructed and reread. In this way, the research will focus on performing a genealogical investigation on the readings and symbols worked on by Aleister Crowley. As a theoretical reference, Wouter J. Hanegraaff and his methodology called History of ideas are adopted. Through this paradigm, we intend to identify and analyze points of dialogue between elements of the corpus of Thelema and the various esoteric influences with which the author worked, and which are found in the chosen book. In addition, it attempts to explain how it unfolds in a body of practices called Magick, resulting in what Crowley defined as Scientific Enlightenment. Culminating thus, in the answer to the question: Is Thelema a Religion?.
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Rigby, H. J. "History Matters: A Survey of Ideas about Evolution in Western Legal Theory from Antiquity to the Present Day in order to Propound a Theory of Evolutionary Jurisprudence." Thesis, Rigby, H.J. (2017) History Matters: A Survey of Ideas about Evolution in Western Legal Theory from Antiquity to the Present Day in order to Propound a Theory of Evolutionary Jurisprudence. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2017. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/36963/.
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Evolutionary jurisprudence (also known as evolutionary legal theory or legal evolutionary theory) is a relatively new concept in legal theory. Some jurisprudence textbooks cheerfully dedicate entire chapters to it, while others do not even mention it. Evolutionary jurisprudence has struggled to gain a place in the legal theory pantheon due to its association with misconceived notions of what ‘evolution’ means such as Social Darwinism. However, linking evolution with jurisprudence is understandable since ideas about evolution, had a significant influence on western legal, social, economic, and political theories long before Darwin. This thesis surveys ideas about evolution from pre-Socratic Ancient Greece to the present day in law, sociology, economics, politics, and science. In particular, this thesis examines the influence of evolutionary thought on schools of western legal theory including historical and anthropological jurisprudence, sociological jurisprudence, Marxist Jurisprudence, feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, and postmodernist jurisprudence. Finally, the author propounds, based on this survey and what he submits to be an appropriate conceptualisation of evolution in a law and legal systems context, a fully workable theory of evolutionary jurisprudence, not only in descriptive terms but also in normative terms.
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Ekman, Olivia. "Eclampsia the disease of a thousand theories : Cause and treatment of eclampsia in the western world between 1840- 1930." Thesis, Umeå University, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-33012.
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Grootjans, John. "Both ways and beyond : in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker education." Thesis, View thesis, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/445.
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During 1987 my essential beliefs about the nature of the world were challenged by a chance event which led to my arrival in Arnhemland. Working with Aboriginal people allowed me to see first hand the failings of Western ideas in Aboriginal education and health. This is how a 12 year collaboration with Aboriginal people began. The aim was to search for answers to the question, 'Why so many ideas that had been successfully used in the Western world, fail to meet the needs of aboriginal people? My experiences prior to 1995 had led me to believe that Both Ways, an education pedagogy developed in teacher education, was the best approach for empowering Aboriginal Health Workers. I believed Both Ways gave Aboriginal Health Workers a means to develop solutions to aboriginal health issues which valued and respected their aboriginal knowledge. I needed to describe and evaluate the practice of both ways with Aboriginal Health workers for the purpose of proving the benefit of this pedagogy for other educators in this field. This thesis describes how I came to think Both Ways was a good idea; how I defined Both ways; and how I put it into practice. It also provides a description of the issues raised in my critique of Both Ways and in my attempts to provide answers to these issues. Several years of collecting data, including records from action research group discussions, participant observation, interviews with peers and students, and formal evaluations left me with many concerns about Both Ways. As educators follow my journey of discovery I hope that they will recognise experiences and insights that they themselves have shared. The descriptions and discussions in this thesis will add significantly to the overall discourse about health worker education. Similarly, the exploration of ideas beyond Both Ways will add significantly to the overall body knowledge about the power relationships involved in teaching in a cross cultural setting
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Sousa, César Henrique Guazzelli e. "A Subversão da Fronteira: o spaghetti western como crítica ao ideal de progresso." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2014. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3319.
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Previous issue date: 2014-02-24The present work was made over the perspective that the spaghetti westerns, Italian western films produced for the popular cinemas between the 1960s and 1970s, represent the frontier myth on cinema as a parody, in a way that subvert the basic premises of the classical American western and, doing that, perform the frontier myth ironicaly, sustaining itself on a rhetoric that is a rebut to the ideal of progress. Instead of the formalist film analysis, we propose an interpretation of the films researched trough their appropriation by the public, concurring with the theoretical proposal of the reception theory and the parody theory. The spaghetti westerns are here analyzed as a carnivalized vision of its referent, refreshing it for the public, following the large number of social convulsions and crisis that emerge in the western world in the middle of the 1960s.
O presente trabalho se sustenta sobre a perspectiva de que os spaghetti westerns, filmes de faroeste italianos produzidos para os cinemas populares entre as décadas de 1960 e 1970, são uma representação paródica do mito da fronteira no cinema que subverte as premissas do western clássico americano e, ao fazê-lo, constroem uma representação da fronteira ao avesso, que se sustenta sobre uma retórica de crítica ao ideal de progresso. No lugar da análise fílmica de tradição formalista, propõe-se uma leitura dos filmes estudados por meio das dinâmicas que os relacionam com o público e a crítica, a partir das premissas da estética da recepção e da teoria da paródia. A partir daí, oferece-se uma leitura dos spaghetti westerns como narrativas que, através de uma visão carnavalizada do seu referente, o reatualizam para o público, em consonância com as alterações na cotidianidade dos espectadores decorrentes do conjunto de crises e convulsões sociais que emergem no mundo ocidental a partir da metade da década de 1960.
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Hombana, Mphumezi Asprilla. "Expository preaching : a means of restoring substance to Xhosa evangelical preaching in the Western Cape." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28827.
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The primary aim of this study is to attempt to provide a means of restoring evangelical preaching in Xhosa churches. I will attempt to answer the question, How can the evangelical preaching be restored in Xhosa churches in the Western Cape? From personal observation, it is clear that in contemporary Xhosa evangelicalism, preaching is totally misunderstood. To put more bluntly, there are no clear criteria from biblical theology for preaching in Xhosa churches. Indeed so much is happening in the name of preaching that offers no substance whatsoever. In the first two chapter’s of this study, the focus is on the problem that the Xhosa church is experiencing and how preaching is understood and practiced in this community. Chapter three examines the causes of the problem and how to deal with those causes. On a practical note, it is shown that sermon analyses are inevitable for further consideration of the problem. Moreover, the chapter examines various attempts that have been made in response to the problem. In Chapter four, an investigation of the views of biblical theology on the subject of preaching is carried out. The chapter dwells into what the Bible offers on the subject of preaching and this is meant to serve as a foundation for the restoration of evangelical preaching in Xhosa churches. In the light of Chapter four, Chapter five argues for expository preaching as a possible means of responding to the crisis which the Xhosa church is experiencing. At the same time chapter five seek to state the case for expository preaching. Finally, Chapter Six provides the most effective material for Xhosa preachers in the process of exploring and constructing expository sermons.Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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Marshall, Barbara Alexandra. "The idea of Europe in world literature from the Eastern and Western peripheries." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33736.
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While a vast range of works have been written on European identity from historical, cultural, political, sociological, and economic points of view, I am attempting to turn the discourse around and investigate the complex notion of European identity that forms the basis of personal, collective and societal identities represented in literature and a European space imagined and depicted differently by various writers. My thesis explores the diverse interpretations of Europe by creating and investigating a literary dialogue between some works in Hungarian and British contemporary literature and so, in a generalized sense, in some aspects between the Eastern and Western peripheries of Europe. The literary interpretation of Europe and European identity is a neglected research area, just as is the literary dialogue between the Western and the Eastern parts of the European Union. Due to this lack of exemplary methodological routes, the thesis’s comparative nature and the fact that it deals with the cultural positions and literary capitals of two very unequal countries, the methodological background is provided by world literary approaches. Widening the time-scale from the most recent works to ones published in the 1990’s and some even before the fall of the Iron Curtain presented the opportunity for analysing the dynamic character of British and Hungarian perceptions and the changing focus on prevalent themes. Imre Kertész (1929-2016) was primarily concerned by the formulation and articulation of new ethical and philosophical values for Europe emerging on the ethical zero ground of the Holocaust and focused on a detached, theoretical observation of the individual. Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) was more interested in the active and often contradictory aspects of identity and the practical moral dilemmas after the Wars in twentieth-century Europe. Marina Lewycka’s (1946-) novels deal with the European aspects of migration concerning the different generations and the gender dimensions of the Europe concept. László Végel (1941-) writes about the utopia of Europe as a multi-ethnic unity and explores the minority identity in relation to the migrant existence. Tim Parks (1954-) approaches the issues of fate and destiny, and their relevance to European politics and personal choices, while also investigating the possibility of linguistic schizophrenia. Gábor Németh’s (1956-) novels investigate the symbolism inherent in European Jewish identity and cosmopolitanism and the current attitudes on populism and anti-immigration. The perspective and the focus from which the novels are analysed have been influenced by present events, and the political, social and cultural atmosphere of both countries and the EU. I have been trying to spot signs which might have forecast the disillusionment and hostility felt towards the European dream by the majority of both populations. The disappointment over the dissolving vision of a united Europe has emerged as an overall theme connecting the writers’ works; however, the pressing want of free-spirits, the Nietzschean Good Europeans, has also been persistent.
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Lee, Taek-Gwang. "An aesthetic between utopia and reality : the idea of realism in Western Marxism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14867/.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the idea of realism in Western Marxism through the comparative approaches of Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre and Fredric Jameson in relation to non-Marxist theorists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. The issue of realism suffers from the controversial terminology of realism and reality. This is the reason why realism can be better viewed by Marxist perspectives that are firmly based on the category of the subject-object dialectic. This Marxian principle, thereby pertaining to the reality existing outside of subjectivity, substantiates the issue of realism as a continuing social and aesthetic project. By focusing on the category of reality in relation to the idea of realism in Western Marxist debates, this study explores the way in which the Marxist theorists understand the relationship between culture and society, and respond to the change of socio-economic conditions in each historical moment. These various discourses revolving around the issue of realism produce a similar agenda to explain the place of the artwork in the realm of culture. Such a similarity arises from their attempt to retain the idea of realism, even when they argue for an aesthetic of anti-realism. In this respect, my thesis questions the distinction between realism and modernism in Western Marxist discourses, and argues that such differentiation had been articulated by a political intention to sever Western Marxism from Stalinism. Their idea of realism is paradoxical in the sense that their formulations of realism aspire to a utopian project. This is the very way in which their idea of realism can be grasped as another facet of their political programme.
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Reza, Syed Muhammod Ali. "Translation of Western Ideals in a Developing Country: A Critical Ethnography of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Bangladesh." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65965.
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Relying on institutional theory, both from organizational and postcolonial perspectives, this study has investigated the local effects of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of Western multinational companies (MNCs) in Bangladesh. The focus was on how local suppliers understand and cope with the demands from their multinational contractors to implement localised CSR policies. Using critical ethnography, this study has conducted a qualitative investigation with MNCs suppliers in the garment industry in Bangladesh.
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Spiteri, Melanie. "Sentencing circles for Aboriginal offenders in Canada, furthering the idea of Aboriginal justice within a Western justice framework." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62288.pdf.
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Rogers, Anthony William. "W.P. Weston, educator and artist : the development of British ideas in the art curriculum of B.C. public schools." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27519.
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Using the biographical approach, this thesis examines the transfer of British art education methodology to B.C. schools. Early chapters make a close study of the school art curriculum in Britain and its comprehensive restructuring between 1890 and 1910. Later chapters analyse the transfer of these British ideas to B.C., showing how they eventually formed the basis of the British Columbia art curriculum.
As a British immigrant in 1909, William Percy Weston belonged to the dominant ethnic and cultural group then settling in B.C.. With British training and teaching experience, he brought with him the belief, fundamental to British art education, that natural form was the basis of design and beauty. Never abandoning this notion, he spread his ideas well beyond the Provincial Normal School, where he was Art Master from 1914 to 1946. Apart from playing a major role in the art training of teachers he was largely responsible for writing the official provincial art text in 1924 and completely responsible for its 1933 revision. He dominated the 1936 rewriting of elementary and secondary art programmes which became a part of the province's complete overhaul of curricula.
Weston also became a prominent artist. Among the first to develop a new vision of the western Canadian landscape, he was an important member of the local artistic community. He finally received national recognition, becoming a charter member of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933 and the first B.C. Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1936. Throughout the nineteen-thirties he exhibited extensively in national exhibitions and his work was chosen to represent Canada abroad.
This thesis shows how British educational ideas were sustained in B.C. by the predominantly British educational establishment long after they were rejected in Britain. Investigating reasons, often unforeseen, for curricular change, the thesis raises important questions about the inadequacy of much curriculum history with its emphasis on official policy and disregard for classroom practice.
In elucidating Weston's thought and practice contextually, the thesis points out the conditions which allowed Weston to have such wide influence, contrasting his educational conservatism with his artistic experimentation. Furthermore, it offers an explanation for the way in which school art education policy developed in B.C. and underscores the complex of reasons which encourages, or impedes, change in educational practice. Although ultimately Weston's predominance may have held up educational change in art within the province, he nevertheless brought a coherent and plausible philosophy of art education to B.C. schools, one that served the province well for three or more decades. His enthusiastic and able championing of that philosophy did much to encourage teaching of the subject.Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
Graduate
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Warren, Cortney Soderlind. "Does culture moderate the relationship between awareness and internalization of Western ideals and the development of body dissatisfaction in women?" Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/168.
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The sociocultural model of eating disorders suggests that awareness of a thin physical ideal directly affects internalization of that ideal, which in turn, directly affects body dissatisfaction. The current study evaluated the general accuracy of the sociocultural model and examined the potential for ethnicity to protect against eating disorder symptomatology by moderating the relationships between awareness and internalization and between internalization and body dissatisfaction. Spanish (n = 100), Mexican American (n = 100), and Euro-American (n = 100) female participants completed various questionnaires measuring sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and body dissatisfaction. Analysis of covariance with tests of homogeneity of slope and path analysis using maximum likelihood with robust standard errors tested the two relationships by ethnic group. Results supported the sociocultural model: there was strong evidence for the mediational effect of internalization on the relationship between awareness and body dissatisfaction. Furthermore, ethnicity moderated the relationships such that both relationships were significantly stronger for Euro-American women than for Mexican American or Spanish women. Within the Mexican American group level of acculturation also moderated these relationships. Taken together, the results of this study highlight how ethnicity can protect against the development of eating disorder symptoms. Denouncing the thin ideal, minimizing appearance as an indicator of female value, and emphasizing personal traits other than appearance as determinants of worth are important in protecting against the development of body dissatisfaction and more severe eating pathology.
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Yeung, Hin-Kei. "Chen Yi and Her Choral Music: A Study of the Composer's Ideal of Fusing Chinese Music and Modern Western Choral Traditions." Thesis, connect to online resource. Access restricted to the University of North Texas campus, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/Dec2006/Restricted/yeung_hin-kei/index.htm.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 22, 2003, Apr. 27, 2003, Oct. 7, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
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Powell, Lisa Susanne. "A comparative study of the perspectives of African and Euro-Western educators on the idea and practice of sustainable development." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0008/MQ29169.pdf.
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Meunier, Renee Monique. "War in the South Atlantic : the mythology of the Monroe Doctrine and the Western Hemisphere idea : the Falkland Islands : a case study /." View abstract, 1999. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1535.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999.Thesis advisor: Dr. Alfred C. Richard Jr. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science International Studies." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).
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Elaalem, Mukhtar. "The application of land evaluation techniques in Jeffara Plain in Libya using fuzzy methods." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8918.
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This research compares three approaches to land suitability evaluation, Boolean, Fuzzy AHP and Ideal Point, for barley, wheat and maize crops in the north-western region of Jeffara Plain in Libya. A number of soil and landscape criteria were identified to accommodate the three cash crops under irrigation conditions and their weights specified as a result of discussions with local experts. The findings emphasised that soil factors represented the most sensitive criteria affecting all the crops considered. In contrast, erosion and slope were found to be less important in the study area. Using Boolean logic the results indicated only four suitability classes (highly suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and currently not suitable) for all crops. In contrast, the results obtained by adopting the Fuzzy AHP and Ideal Point approaches revealed that the area of study has a greater degree of subdivision in land suitability classes. Overall, the results of the three approaches indicated that the area under consideration has a good potential to produce barley, wheat and maize under irrigation provided that the water and drainage requirements are met. Comparing the three models showed that each suitability class derived from the Boolean approach is associated with low and high values for joint membership functions when derived from Fuzzy AHP and Ideal Point approaches respectively. In other words, the two fuzzy approaches have shown their ability to explore the uncertainties associated with describing the land properties. The richer overall picture provides an alternative type of land suitability evaluation to Boolean approaches and allows subtle variations in land suitability to be explored. The Fuzzy AHP approach was found to be better than the Ideal Point approach; the latter was biased towards positive and negative ideal values. In the future, field trial plots will be needed to evaluate and validate the results further.
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Aras, Esra. "The Question Of The West In The Ideology Of Revivalism: Perspectives From Mawlana Abu." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610272/index.pdf.
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This thesis surveys the response of the ideology of 20th century Islamic revival to the West and the Western-inspired regimes at home. Based on J.S. Mill&rsquos &ldquo
method of difference, it compares the ideological perspectives of the prominent figures of Islamic revival: Mawlana Abu&rsquo
l-A&lsquo
la Mawdudi in Indio-Pakistan, Sayyid Qutb in Egypt and Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran. In this context, it analyzes the appraisal of Islam as a total way of life in order to refute the Western tradition and refuse its interference into the socio-politics of the Islamic world in the ideal order proposed by those ideologues. The question of the West is the dependent variable of the comparison and is searched through two independent variables: (1) ontology/epistemology of the ideal Islamic order which necessitates a socio-political transformation from &ldquo
jahiliyya&rdquo
to &ldquo
hakimiyya&rdquo
and (2) the methodology to attain the ideal order which is based on activism. In this perspective, it questions the revivalist proposal of &ldquo
Occidentalism&rdquo
as a reaction to the Western-originated system of governance. To this end, the thesis firstly explores the characteristics of the independent variables &ndash
the epistemology/ontology and methodology- of Islamic revival from a historical point of view. Then, it continues with comparing how Mawdudi, Qutb and Khomeini respectively regard the West in the theory of ideal Islamic order which reads a process from &ldquo
jahiliyya&rdquo
to &ldquo
hakimiyya&rdquo
through activism.
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Shephard, Sonia Lee. "The Sociocultural Model of Eating Disorders in New Zealand Women: Family Food-Related Experiences and Self-Compassion as Moderators." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7261.
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Eating disorders are debilitating psychiatric conditions which often result in severe impairment in many life domains. The sociocultural model specifies mechanisms through which sociocultural pressure leads to eating pathology among young women (Stice, 1994) and posits that exposure to the Western cultural thin ideal, internalization of the ideal and experience of a difference between self and ideal leads to body dissatisfaction, which is a well validated precursor to eating pathology. The current research examined whether the relationships between awareness of Western appearance ideals, internalization of such ideals, and body dissatisfaction
were moderated by family food-related experiences and self-compassion. The current paper also investigated whether the strength of relationships between awareness of Western appearance ideals, internalization of such ideals, and body dissatisfaction are affected by certain types of family food-related experiences. Female university students (N = 106) completed self-report questionnaires. Results indicated that mindfulness, a constituent of self-compassion, moderated
the relationship between internalization of cultural thinness standards and body dissatisfaction. In addition, self-compassion, each component of self-compassion and women’s perception of negative maternal family food-related experiences predicted internalization of Western societal
norms of thinness, as well as body dissatisfaction. Moreover, women’s perception of negative paternal family food-related experiences predicted body dissatisfaction. Women’s perception of negative maternal commentary predicted internalization of Western beauty standards and body
dissatisfaction. Finally, women’s perception of negative paternal commentary and paternal modelling of eating difficulties and body image concerns predicted internalization of those values. Future research should attempt to clarify causal relationships among self-compassion and family food-related experiences within the sociocultural model of eating disorders.
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Chuang, Yu-Cheng. "Cross-currents in the work of Yu-Cheng Chuang : an examination of the Chinese principle of Jingjie and Western idea of the picturesque as parallel influences on site-specificity in land art." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408342.
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This combined studio practice/text thesis analyses links among the Chinese concept of jingjie, the archetypal patterns of sacred places, the picturesque movement in European aesthetics, and site-specificity in 1960s Land Art. In addition to examining site-specificity and the theoretical aspects of my studio practice, I explore the relationship between my ethnicity and my work in the context of contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese art environments. Guided by the principle that "practice and theory inform each other," I restate the significance of jingjie in contemporary art, especially its connection with the physical and psychological patterns found in archetypal "sacred places." Jingjie was fundamental to the spatial fluidity found in Chinese landscape arts, especially garden design. After demonstrating how Chinese gardens influenced English landscape garden principles and the 18th-century European picturesque movement, I argue that similar East-West connections served as direct and indirect influences on the site-specific work of middle and late 20th-century Land Art artists. I then describe how picturesque depictions of the relationship between man and nature influenced 19th-century landscape architecture in North America and 20th-century Land Art throughout the West. Finally, jingjie and Chinese gardens are used to explore archetypal sacred place patterns and their influences on the Western tradition of the picturesque. These parallel East-West connections served as the foundation for later interest in site-specificity, and were essential in establishing a historical context for understanding cross-cultural currents and their influences on Land Art artists. Using jingjie as my focus, I examine aspects of contemporary art that are not usually addressed by art critics, and reconsider the relevance of the Western picturesque tradition through a reciprocal model of cultural influences.
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Stewart, Brendon F. "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at." Thesis, [Richmond, N.S.W.] : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/250.
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The focus of this thesis is to emphasise the lived experience of being a migrant, and of living in a multicultural society, and to acknowledge the multi-dimensionality of these experiences. The author conducted interviews with people from ethno-specific community groups in the Sydney suburb of Auburn. These interviews explored the physical, emotional and spiritual aspect of coming to terms with a changing sense of what is home and what is foreign. The tenor of the thesis is strongly optimistic and explores the social ecology of multiculturalism in Australia in the late 1990's, using Auburn, with its strong immigrant population and large Turkish community, as a case study. The contributions by the people of Auburn are woven through the thesis as voices in their own right, rather than as quotations for a line of argument. Social ecology, as a project, works to open up dimensions of awareness and to acknowledge complexity by addressing the physical and sensory levels of individual experience as well as the broader political and social contexts which frame people's lives. The thesis acknowledges that the success of contemporary Australian multiculturalism has something to do with the broad based policies that implement this social phenomenon. More importantly, multiculturalism succeeds because it has become the culture scape in which the soul of the community wanders. This thesis acknowledges that there is something intellectually difficult about the word soul, but there is an ecological value in James Hillman's idea of the soul as not an elevated idea but rather one 'down in the earth'; soul in this sense is about place, finding and taking root in a new place.
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HARRISON, LYN MARGARET, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "(RE)PRODUCING POWER-KNOWLEDGE-DESIRE: YOUNG WOMEN AND DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY." Deakin University. School of Education, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20041214.103936.
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This study focuses on three young women in their final year of school using data gathered during a year-long process of individual conversational interviews, the contents of which were largely determined by their interests. Three themes arise from critical incidents during this year - the debutante ball, teenage pregnancy and dieting. These themes are used to focus wide ranging explorations of what it is to be a young woman at this particular time. The broader cultural production of discursive positions available to, and developed by, these young women as part of their identity formation is discussed. Methodological issues concerning power relationships between research participants are also the focus of critical attention.
It is considered that young women's bodies and bodily practices are central to understanding the processes involved in their identity formation. It is in this context that the focus turns to bodies that matter. In contemporary Western cultures 'adolescent bodies' could be said to matter 'too much' in the sense that they are increasingly the focus for disciplinary practices in institutions such as schooling, the church, the family, health care, health promotion and the media. This disciplining is legitimised because adolescence is socially constructed as a 'becoming'. In this case it is a matter of 'becoming woman'; a sort of apprenticeship which allows for knowledgeable others to provide not only guidance and nurturance, but discipline. Using insights gained from feminist poststructuralist theory and cultural feminism this thesis argues that the discourses and practices generated within and across institutions, which are normalised by their institutional base, are gender differentiated. The focus is on young women's embodied subjectivity and how the discourses and practices they engage with and in work to construct an ideal feminine body-subject.
The discursive production of a gendered identity has a considerable impact on young women's health and their health-related behaviours. This is explored specifically in the thesis in relation to sexuality and the cultural production of the 'ideal' female body. It is argued that health education and health promotion strategies which are designed to influence young women's health related behaviours, need to consider the forms of power, knowledge and desire produced through young women's active engagement with institutionalised discourses of identity if they are to have an ongoing impact
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Ezimoha, Stella. "Kunskapsbrist eller värderingstvist? : Den romantiska liberalismens frihetsideal i ett urval västerländska länders asylprövning då sexuell läggning eller könsidentitet åberopas som asylskäl." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412322.
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Då asylsökande åberopar sexuell läggning eller könsidentitet som asylskäl, är den egna berättelsen inte sällan den enda bevisning som finns att tillgå. Detta innebär att trovärdigheten i den asylsökandes framförande av sin berättelse tillmäts stor vikt. Tidigare forskning har funnit att trovärdighetsbedömningen i västerländska länders asylprövning påverkas av vilken handläggare som hanterar ärendet, och dennas stereotyper av sexuell läggning och könsidentitet. Förekomsten av stereotyper har härletts till kompetens- eller rutinbrist. Exempelvis har det anförts att asylprövande myndigheter och domstolar lider brist på normkritik och nyanserad kunskap i hbtq+-personers olika omständigheter och leverne. Denna studie erbjuder en annan hypotes, med utgångspunkt i etablerad politisk teori och samtida statsvetenskaplig forskning: Att ideologin romantisk liberalism präglar västerländska länders asylprövning. Det finns empiriskt stöd för att människor i västvärlden i allt större utsträckning värdesätter individuell frihet. Tidigare forskning har antagit att detta värdesättande leder till ökad tolerans och välkomnande av ökad mångfald. Ett sådant positivt förhållande ifrågasätts emellertid av flera statsvetare, däribland den svenska statsvetaren Gina Gustavsson. I en avhandling från 2014 presenterar Gustavsson en beskrivning av en romantisk gren inom liberalismen. Denna ideologi framhåller ett obevekligt, provokativt och kreativt uttryck för individens originalitet: både vad avser beskrivningar av vad människan är, och värderande utsagor om hur människan bör vara. En sådan syn, menar Gustavsson, är en förrädisk förståelse för frihet som kan urarta i intolerans, trots att den utges för det motsatta. Med ideologianalys prövas rätts- och myndighetsmaterial från ett urval västerländska länders asylprövning mot en idealtyp av den romantiska liberalismen. Resultatet är att den romantiska liberalismens frihetsideal i flera avseenden kommer till uttryck i urvalet västerländska länders asylprövning. Slutsatsen är att beslutsfattare och utredares upptagenhet av särskilda uttryck för den asylsökandes identitet, kan förstås som en manifestation av den romantiska liberalismens frihetsideal. Detta snarare än som uttryck främst för kompetens- och rutinbrist, såsom tidigare forskning konstaterat. Vidare förs en diskussion kring betydande spänningar mellan den romantiska liberalismen och mänskliga rättigheters universella anspråk. Detta särskilt avseende asylsökandes begränsade möjlighet eller avsikt att leva upp till romantiskt liberala frihetsideal.As asylum seekers invoke sexual orientation or gender identity as a reason for asylum, their own story is often the only evidence available. This means that the credibility of asylum seeker's presentation of their story, often is given great importance. Previous research shows that credibility assessments in Western countries can differ depending on the sexual orientation and gender identity stereotypes of the case officer who is handling the case. The existence of stereotypes has been related to lack of skills or routine. For example, it is in previous research stated that asylum reviewing authorities and courts suffer from a lack of norm criticism and nuanced knowledge of lgbtq+-persons' different circumstances and living. This study offers another hypothesis, based on established political theory and contemporary political science research: That the ideology romantic liberalism characterizes the asylum procedure in Western countries. There is empirical support for the fact that people in the Western world increasingly value individual freedom. Previous research has assumed that such values leads to increased tolerance and a welcoming of diversity. However, such a positive relationship is questioned by the Swedish political scientist Gina Gustavsson. In Gustavssons’ dissertation from 2014, a description of a romantic branch of liberalism is presented, which elevates a relentless, creative and provocative expression of the individual's originality: both in terms of descriptions of what an individual is, and evaluative statements about what an individual should be. Such a view, Gustavsson says, is a treacherous understanding of freedom that can degenerate into intolerance, even though it is issued to stand for the contrary. With ideology analysis, judicial and governmental material from a sample of Western countries' asylum procedures is tested against an ideal type of romantic liberalism. The results of the analysis show that the ideal of freedom of romanticism, in several respects, can be found in the asylum procedure in a sample of Western countries. The conclusion is that decision makers and investigators' preoccupation with specific expressions of the identity of the asylum seeker can be understood as a manifestation of the freedom ideals in the romantic liberalism. This rather than a lack of skills and routine, as previous research has found. Furthermore, a discussion is held regarding that there is considerable tension between romantic liberalism and the universal claims of human rights. This particularly regarding the asylum seekers' limited ability or intention to live up to the freedom ideals of the romantic liberalism.
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Kotova, Tetiana. "Rozvoj západní části města Kroměříže." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240853.
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The development of the site allows to connect different residential areas by pedestrian and biking routes; to remove the barrier created by the site, which destroys integral space of the town; and to create a communication axis with the hill Barbořina. At present the site is defined as an agricultural area for further development. As it is no longer used on purpose, it can be considered as brownfield. The proposal is to create a park area, which will become a part of the urban fabric, will create space for new activities and will solve communication problems, such as lack of pedestrian and bicycle connection between the town and Barbořina.
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"Imagination in Sino-Western comparative perspectives." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5887016.
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by Agnes Kwok Wai-fong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [109]-[115]).
Acknowledgement --- p.1-2
Abstract --- p.3
Preface --- p.4-7
Chapter Chapter 1 --- The Development of Imagination from the Medievals to The Romantics --- p.8-32
Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Chinese Concept of Shen and Liu Xie's Shen-si --- p.33-58
Chapter Chapter 3: --- Image-forming and Imagination in Sino-Western Perspectives --- p.59-87
Chapter Chapter 4: --- Different Functions of Imagination in Comprehending Nature China and the West --- p.88-108
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Culy, Anna M. "Clothing their identities : competing ideas of masculinity and identity in Meiji Japanese culture." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1721294.
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This is an in-depth analysis of competing cultural ideas at a pivotal time in Japanese history through study of masculinity and identity. Through diaries, newspaper articles, and illustrations found in popular periodicals of the Meiji period, it is evident that there were two major groups who espoused very different sets of ideals competing for the favor of the masses and the control of Japanese progress in the modern world. Manner of dress, comportment, hygiene, and various other parts of outward appearance signified the mentality and ideology of the person in question. One group espoused traditional Japanese ideas of masculinity and dress while another advocated embracing Western dress and culture. This, in turn, explained their opinions on the direction they believed Japan should take. Throughout the Meiji period (1868-1912), the two ideas grew and competed for supremacy until the late Meiji period when they merged to form a traditional-minded modernity.Department of History
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Procházka, Karel. "Evropská unie a přijetí Stabilizační a asociační dohody s Kosovem: role materiálních zájmů a sdílených idejí." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-384841.
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The thesis seeks to examine the underlying motivations behind the conclusion of the Stability and Association Agreement between European Union and Kosovo on the 27th of October 2015. To determine the role of material interests and shared ideas in the process of concluding the SAA the thesis discusses and applies rationalism and constructivism, both grand theories of international relations. To test the theories and their respective hypotheses identifying the role of the relevant concepts, the research employs a single case study method, using a congruence analysis approach. In conclusion, through the rationalist lens within the perspective of the EU, the thesis confirms the existence of material interest in the conclusion of the SAA, representing security, power and economic gains. To complement the analysis via a constructivist lens within the perspective of Kosovo, the thesis solely implies a limited role of identity and norms while it points out that such constructivist concepts rather impeded the reaching of the SAA, veiling the actual role of material interest.
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Darwish, Hasan. "Pluralism and the idea of balance in Eastern and Western philosophies." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20737.
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A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts, Applied Ethics for Professionals
Johannesburg, 2016Balance, in the broadest sense, can be taken to be a desirable intermediary point or state between two or more opposing points or states. This thesis demonstrates and argues that the idea of balance is ubiquitous — it appears in nature, the sciences, religions and common sense beliefs. Furthermore, it goes beyond this by attempting to extract this idea from prominent ethical theories — both those in the West and East, namely, Kantian Ethics, Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism and Buddhism. In the sciences and natural world, molecules, objects or plants are simply forced towards the trajectory of balance. This descriptively gives us some forms of balance. Ethically, many theories, as I show in the essay, strive towards balance and thus normatively prescribe balance as the index of choice, conduct and action. I draw some conclusion from this, which is that a balanced conduct and action lead to ethical action, whilst an imbalanced conduct and action result in an unethical action. Objections to this notion are discussed and addressed in various stages of the essay. At the end of the essay, I apply this reasoning to issues in applied ethics, namely, terrorism, wealth inequality and the environment
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Mabena, Sheena Busisiwe. "The Western ideal of the thin body as experienced by black female students." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10204.
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M.A. (Clinical Psychology)This study explores the Western ideal of the thin body as experienced by Black female students. This research was motivated by the limited number of empirical studies that employ a qualitative method to investigate Black South African females’ perception of the thin ideal, or what they perceive an ideal body to be. Three Black female students were recruited from the University of Johannesburg’s campus, to participate in the interviews. On campus, interaction is encouraged through an initiation process where everyone is invited to take part, and where diversity is celebrated. This setting was appropriate because the students found themselves in a socio-cultural flux between traditional values and values instilled by modern western society. Data collection and the analysis were guided by a phenomenological research design, namely, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) because it explores the participants’ experience of the Western thin ideal from their perspective, and acknowledges the researcher’s enmeshed interpretation of the participants’ worldview. The study resulted in the identification of four master themes: 1) Physical presentation, 2) The environments influence on my body image, 3) Sense of worth, and 4) Admiration versus animosity, which were discussed in relation to relevant literature. In the concluding chapter, the key strengths and limitations of this study are reviewed, and the implications of the findings for further investigation are discussed...
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CHEN, YEN-HUNG, and 陳彥宏. "On the Idea of Rule of Law from the Development of Western Legal Thoughts." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17880206991626217926.
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碩士國立臺北大學
法學系
94
The idea of rule of law had been a significant political ideal since ancient time in western society. Even nowadays no one would controvert it, but rule of law still be a controversial ideal. As most people believe rule of law can be a cure-all to solve the entire political problem, I convince it might be a wrong way to understand the fundamental function of rule of law. Rule of law contain two aspect, one is discussing about obey, like who should obey, obey to what, why to obey; the other aspect is concern to how to make sure that obey can rely. From the historical examination, we can easily notice that people rely on law to make life better. Therefore, even we should give up unlimited freedom, obey the rule of law still be only choice. But as the ideal of rule of law had been understand as a best way to sustain human civilization, we still face a strictly problem, that is how to make sure this ancient concept can work well in nowadays. In ancient time, rule of law seems to prevent arbitrary violation form others or government. People need law to know how to life, and how to protect themselves. After the medieval age, rule of law has a more precisely meaning and function, that is protect human right. Under this conviction, limited government, separation of power and other doctrine were bringing out. But as law must passively work out, the function of rule of law still has a gap to protect human right. For that reason, we need to figure out a new outlook of rule of law.
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Tanaskovic, Branko. "The Balkans unplugged (1991-2008) : Serbia, geopolitics, and the ideal of a Russian “New Byzantium”." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:67326.
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Is Serbia an ‘irrational’ actor in the geopolitics of the Balkans? Adopting a combination of Constructivist and Realist approach, the present thesis focuses on analysing Serbian geopolitics with respect to its relationship with Russia as “the New Byzantium”. Modern Russia is seen as a great power that has inherited the political and spiritual role of the former Byzantine Empire and is thus perceived as a brotherly Slavic nation and deliverer. The argument is made that the geopolitical instability in the Balkans was a result of external pressures carried out by powerful states under the aegis of the “Liberal World Order”. The Serbian reaction to this interference in siding with Russia has been identified by established international relations theories as ‘irrational’. However, this thesis makes the case that such a categorisation is problematic because it trivialises Serbian agency in the historical and geopolitical context.
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Wang, Yi-wen, and 王怡雯. "The Modernity of Chung-Hsin New Village －An Experience of the Western Ideal Town Planning in Taiwan." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18114185427755900503.
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碩士東海大學
建築學系
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This Study of the political settlement Chung-Hsin New Village (CHNV), analyzing the established documents and archives, the physical space structure, and the social spheres, contains an investigation on the process and the consequence of the transplantation of “Garden City” model from UK to Taiwan. It’s focused on the period of the 1950s to ‘60s which was around the time CHNV was built. The author argues that Chung-Hsin New Village, where the Administration District of Taiwan Province Government was located as a well-planned administrative and residential settlement, was a symbolic practice of the politic authority as well as an adaptation of the western Garden City model. That means, then, this settlement was not only a spatial outcome driven by political ideology in the specific context of post-war Taiwan, but also a transplantation of relevant orthodox planning theories from the West while the suburban area was encountered with a rising boom in Taiwan. To follow the model in the so-called First World, the spatial structure of CHNV mostly based on the principles of western planning theories, with only some small adjustments considering the local custom and the denser population. Unlike normal cities with the characteristic of mobilization and openness, CHNV, like other “New Villages” which the national government built for families of public servants and military, has become a “Collective Space”. This showed the modernity of post-war Taiwan was only experienced within particular area by government servants like those of CHNV, who were regarded as elites at that time. CHNV seemed like Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City model, whereas it was, from top to bottom, supported and maintained by the Government. On the other hand, the ideology embedded in the architecture in CHNV －the abstract modernist expression influenced by the principle of industrialization and functionalism－ was different from the Sinic Revival architecture in the Capital Taipei, which Chinese palace styles was adopted as the national emblem. The buildings in the provincial capital and national capital manifested two divergent political ideologies in ‘50s and ‘60s, and also distinguished the unequal authority power between the Province Government and the National Government, since their administrative divisions were about on a par.
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Haqqani, Shehnaz. "Gendered expectations, personal choice, and social compatibility in Western Muslim marriages." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22208.
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This study explores some major themes in relation to marriage among contemporary Western Muslims. These themes include gendered ideals and expectations of the potential spouse, generational differences, inter-religious marriages for Muslim women, and individual choice and parental authority in mate selection. It re-evaluates the Islamic notion of marital compatibility (kafa’a) and shows how this notion is understood and can be applied to contemporary Western Muslims. Due to little academic research on the problem particularly of unavailable spouses, the study relies primarily on blogs, online discussions of marriage among Muslims, and internet articles on Western Muslim marriages. The dilemma faced by Western Muslims, particularly females, is that there is a lack of compatible available husbands for them. The study finds that, according to marriage-minded women, this unavailability is largely due to traditional expectations of gender roles from potential husbands contrasted against the women’s unconventionally older ages, focus on education and career, and overall understanding of power dynamics in marriage. The study also explores changing methods of mate selection among Western Muslims, which include services offered by Islamic centers, Internet matchmaking, and marriage events—where the average male participant is younger than the average female participant. As the age of marriage-minded females increases, their individual choice is more recognized in their marriage while their options of suitable men decreases significantly. Many of them therefore turn to interfaith marriages, which are not recognized by Islamic law, although some religious authorities across the West them on the basis of necessity. Western Muslim women are in a unique but complicated space where they are struggling to maintain their personal ideals of education and careers and are seeking partners who share these ideals; yet, with the tension between men’s expectations of women and women’s of men during courtship, and the role of family in mate selection, the problem of marriage becomes more complex with the various axes contributing to it.text
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Whitton, Brian J. "Modern painters of primal vision : visionary art and the idea of the ars symbiosis in modern Western painting." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150368.
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