<p>In this essay, I want to achieve an accessible and applicable entrance to Alexander Technique as a method for learning to use the body in such a way as to allow emotional expression in music. It is necessary to see the real need of Alexander Technique for the active musician, and therefore important components of music-making will be presented. These components are presented from an Alexander-perspective in order to produce a clear picture of the method of application.The prerequisite for emotional expression in music is musicians and music listeners with the ability to generate, and respond after emotional impressions. Alexander Technique provides an approach to make it easier for musicians, especially guitarists, to express emotions in a performance situation.After years of practice and obtaining musical knowledge and practical skills at the instrument, it is common that muscle tension and ingrained patterns contribute to limited expression. Muscle tensions arising from pressured situations such as auditions, competitions and concerts. Repetitive movements contribute to this, and lays the foundation for an insufficient technique. It is clear that traditional learning methods need to be complemented with an approach that treats body awareness as an essential part of musical performances. The notion that the use of the body affects mental states is now a truism, and one can see an opening towards new approaches that facilitate learning as well as performance of musical works. The emotional expression is in focus here, and this study deals with musical production based on the philosophy that music should be driven by decisions involving emotional expression.</p>

The Glacier Creek volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit is hosted within Late Triassic, oceanic back-arc or intra-arc, rift-related, bimodal volcanic rocks (Hyd or Tats Group) of the allochthonous Alexander terrane known as the Alexander Triassic Metallogenic Belt (ATMB). The deposit presently consists of four tabular massive sulfide lenses with a resource of 4.75 Mt. at 1.84% Cu, 4.57% Zn, 0.15% Pb, 0.28 g/t Au and 29.07 g/t Ag. A deposit-scale thrust fault offsets stratigraphy along the axial surface of a deposit-scale anticline. The massive sulfide lenses are barite-rich and are divided into 6 main ore-types based on mineral assemblages. There is a large range of sphalerite compositions, with low-Fe sphalerite dominant throughout the lenses and high-Fe sphalerite at the top and bottom of the lenses in pyrrhotite-rich zones. Lenses contain anomalous Sb, Hg and Tl. Gangue minerals include barite, quartz, barian-muscovite, calcite, albite, highly subordinate chlorite and locally hyalophane and celsian. Overlying massive sulfide is a tuffaceous hydrothermal sediment with anomalous REE patterns and local hyalophane. The general footwall to all four lenses is a thick unit of coherent to volcaniclastic feldspar-phyric basalt containing extensive lateral alteration. Four alteration facies are recognized based on mineral assemblages. Mass balance calculations for the footwall indicate general gains of S, Fe, Si and K with coincident loss of Ca, Na and Mg, along with trace element gains of Tl, Sb, Hg, Ba, Zn, Cu, As and loss of Sr with increased alteration intensity. Short wavelength infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy shows a general decrease in Na, K and Al content of muscovite and increase of Fe+Mg and Ba content towards ore. Integrated petrographic, mineral, chemical and sulfur-isotope data suggest a transition during deposit formation, from high-temperature, acidic, reduced hydrothermal fluids mixing with oxidized, SO4-rich seawater, to later cooler, low fO2-fS2 conditions of formation and a lack of SO4 in seawater.

This thesis analyzes one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies from the perspective of its costumes, and chronicles the start-to-finish process of the costume design for the April 2012 production of Othello held at Pomona College. Incorporating the Pre-Raphaelite art movement with high fashion’s late Alexander McQueen, this thesis brings to light Othello’s predominant themes of race and honesty by means of luxurious textiles and distinct silhouettes.

Ce mémoire porte sur trois défilés de mode au cours desquels furent présentées les créations du duo Viktor & Rolf, d'Alexander McQueen et de John Galliano. Il s'agit d'une étude sémiotique du défilé de mode comme « événement », comme présentation spectaculaire dans le sens théâtral du terme. Le concept d'événement est ici de prime importance, car il reconduit l'idée que le défilé est une présentation hors du commun, originale et unique des créations. Cette problématique du défilé comme événement commande une analyse minutieuse et systématisée de tous les aspects de la présentation et de tous les intervenants impliqués dans sa mise en forme, cela en tenant compte que chaque défilé se déroule dans des circonstances spatiales et temporelles spécifiques mais a toujours pour but de créer des atmosphères aptes à séduire un public bien particulier trié sur le volet par les organisateurs. Au chapitre premier, une description formelle de chacun des trois défilés de mode est développée selon trois axes définissant chacune des présentations, soit l'environnement, les vêtements et les mannequins. Ces trois pôles sont développés suivant la chronologie des événements et mettent en lumière les principaux éléments qui seront repris en profondeur au cours des analyses. Le chapitre second présente les théories d'Anne Ubersfeld publiées dans deux de ses ouvrages majeurs Lire le théâtre I et II qui traitent du modèle actantiel développé en regard du théâtre. Ce modèle, fondé sur la théorie sémiotique de Greimas, tient compte des rôles actantiels tenus par le destinateur, le sujet, le destinataire, l'objet, l'adjuvant et l'opposant, et ce sont ces paradigmes qui sont ici retenus dans le but de faire ressortir les interrelations qui se tissent au sein de chacun des défilés de mode selon des circonstances spatio-temporelles spécifiques. Le troisième chapitre, qui est essentiellement celui des analyses de cas, met le modèle actantiel en pratique mais tient également compte de trois aspects particuliers du défilé de mode: le récit, au sens théâtral du terme, les enjeux financiers et les artifices de création. Ces adaptations du modèle actantiel aux cas d'analyse conduisent, dans une certaine mesure, à la construction d'un nouveau gabarit analytique. En conclusion à ce mémoire et relativement à l'aspect séducteur du défilé de mode, ce sont les hypothèses développées par Jean Baudrillard qui servent d'assises théoriques. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Défilé, Mode, Événement, Théâtre, Spectacle, Sémiologie, Viktor & Rolf, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano.

“Irony, Finitude and The Good Life,” examines the notion that Socrates, as he is portrayed in the Platonic dialogues, ought to be viewed and interpreted as a teacher. If this assertion is correct, then it is both appropriate and useful to look to the dialogues for instruction on how to live a philosophical life. This thesis will argue that to look at Socrates as a teacher, a figure who imparts knowledge to those around him on how to live a philosophical life, misses the very conception of the good life that Plato sought to personify when he created the character of Socrates. The proceeding discussion draws upon the work of Alexander Nehamas and Drew Hyland, offering an alternate interpretation of the Symposium. This interpretation argues that viewing Socrates as a teacher falsely idealizes the philosophical life, in turn neglecting Plato’s greater legacy for his character—a legacy in which true virtue lies in exposing the creative possibility inherent in living a philosophical life and prompting one’s own expression of a life inspired by the legacy of Socrates.

Designmönster är beprövade och återanvändbara designlösningar på återkommande designproblem inom en viss kontext. Designmönster handlar om att inte behöva uppfinna hjulet om och om igen. Designmönster fångar lösningar och kunskap inom mjukvaruutveckling. Vi har försökt beskriva och förstå hur IFS och Intentia tar sig an arbetet som omfattas i våra frågeställningar. Våra frågeställningar har varit hur designmönster kan hittas, dokumenteras och katalogiseras samt hur designmönster kan spridas till medarbetare. Vi har i denna undersökning anslutit oss till de tankegångar som finns inom hermeneutiken och vi har därför valt att använda oss av en kvalitativ metodteori, vars drag ligger mer åt det hermeneutiska perspektivet. Vi har genomfört intervjuer med representanter från ovan nämnda företag. Undersökningen har visat att bägge företagen har grupper med erfarna utvecklare som finner nya designmönster. IFS dokumenterar inte sina mönster medan Intentia gör det, men dock inte enligt någon standard. Dokumenten katalogiseras på ett intranät. IFS katalogiserar inte sina mönster, men de kanske kommer att kategoriseras utifrån sin funktionella tillhörighet. Intentia kategoriserar sina designmönster utifrån vilken typ av designmönster det är fråga om. Varje designmönster hör till en viss grupp av designmönster. De katalogiserar ett designmönster där liknande designmönster finns. När det gäller spridningen av designmönster till medarbetarna inom företagen så hävdar IFS att själva kunskapsöverföringen i deras utvecklingsmiljö. Intentia menar att de erfarna utvecklarna i gruppen som hittar nya mönster även är skickliga på att förmedla designmönster till andra utvecklare i organisationen.

Dissertation--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität Trier, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 261-269.

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This project explicates the ways in which writers from different cultural groups (Anglo American, American Indian, and Mexican American) used literature to defend the land claims of increasingly marginalized peoples within the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. Each of the writers I discuss (Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Alexander Posey, Charles Lummis, and Helen Hunt Jackson) constructs and manipulates racial hierarchies in order to assert the comparative virtues of the cultural group for whom they advocate. I explore each writer's perceptions of proper land use and legitimate land claims and how these perceptions are informed by disparate cultural inheritances. By looking at authors from different backgrounds, writing from different regions in the United States, I am able to establish the frequency with which racialist assumptions guided popular opinion and U.S. law around the turn of the twentieth century--specifically in regards to land claims. I situate my reading of literary works within the historical context that made competitions for land particularly fierce during this period.

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