This report documents an internship that was served at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana from 16 January 1989 through 7 April 1989. The purpose of the internship was to observe the administration of the internship organization in order to perform a managerial analysis. Another goal was to engage in administrative tasks in order to gain practical experience at a managerial level. The Aquarium of the Americas is a department of the Audubon Institute, which, in turn, is supervised by the Audubon Park Commission. As a result, those organizations are also included as subjects for analysis. The internship is a requirement of the graduate program in Arts Administration at the University of New Orleans.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Robert A. Divine and Michael B. Stoff. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

abstract: This dissertation addresses the issue of sexuality in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as the Mormon Church, on both the institutional and individual levels. It traces the ways that the LDS Church's early persecution over polygamy, and the enduring effects of this history - both within and outside the Church - have helped to shape contemporary Mormon policies and public actions related to sexuality and marriage. Despite its relative success in achieving assimilation with the larger American society, the LDS Church continues to be associated with the practice of polygamy, creating a need for the Church to prove its adherence to traditional marriage and sexual norms. This work analyzes Mormon involvement in recent political campaigns against same-sex marriage, especially the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California. This political participation has provided LDS leaders with significant opportunities to reshape their Church's public image, to improve relationships between Mormons and other conservative Christian communities, and to position the Church in a particular way in the American religious landscape. The dissertation also examines official LDS policies related to homosexuality and homosexual persons, and individual accounts of gay and lesbian Mormons and former Mormons (and those that do not identify as gay but experience same-sex attraction), found in personal blogs, Youtube videos, and published volumes. Elements of Mormon theology related to marriage, gender, premortality, and revelation, combined with aspects of LDS Church history, structure, and culture, make the experiences of these individuals unique among those of gays and lesbian in conservative Christian communities. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Religious Studies 2014

The migration of humans to the New World took place in the late Pleistocene epoch. There are three prevailing theories that describe how the first Americans entered the continents of the Western Hemisphere. One theory describes a route by foot across the Bering Land Bridge while the other two theories describe a maritime voyage closely following the coast. The maritime entry has gained credibility recently with closer examination of the geological and archaeological evidence. Some of these from coastal locations along both coasts of the Americas. One of these sites is located in an unexpected place, Chile. Archaeological data from Monte Verde in South America indicates a presence of humans at 14,600 B.P. This early date, earlier than most North American sites, fuels a hypothesis that the first people to settle Monte Verde came from the west, across the South Pacific Ocean as a possible fourth scenario of how people arrived in the Americas.

<p>The artists and writers of my dissertation -- Robert Smithson, Ed Roberson, Rodolfo Kusch, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nancy Holt, Lygia Clark, and Clarice Lispector -- teach us to feel the ground on which we stand as an earth that quakes, and this feeling implies a radical reconfiguration of our relation to the world, one which makes perception, language, art, and world otherwise. Against an aesthetics of representation, predicated on a regime of pleasurable feeling and form which neutralizes the world into an empty space filled with objects, and which I argue lingers as the hegemonic framework for the study of American literature, they offer an understanding art and literature as an embodied engagement with the weight of a world that presses in and pulls down. I call this feeling an aeisthesis of ground and offer it as a way to rethink the ethics of our relation to the world. From this trembling ground, these artists and writers struggle to make the world and our relation to it otherwise. In so doing, they contribute to the project of decolonizing the aesthetic imaginary of the Americas. They propose a different point of departure for the study of American literature, one which allows us to cultivate unlikely lines of kinship between authors and texts on both sides of the Rio Grande. Engaging the work of these authors and artists contributes to current work in the humanities which has turned to aesthetics as a way to rethink our human relation to the world in the face of our global ecological crisis. It, however, also radically departs from these efforts precisely in its point of departure, remaking this relation from the more unsteady ground of American art, letters, and life that these artists help us unfold.</p> / Dissertation

<p>This dissertation focuses on the large-scale distribution of imagery from the Southern Netherlands across Europe and the Americas, particularly on the large number of paintings exported from Antwerp-Mechelen to Spain and the Americas during the seventeenth century. To analyze this profitable long-distance art trade and the artistic implications of the exchanges that took place through market mechanisms, this research relies on the archival and visual sources left by one of the most successful seventeenth-century Antwerp international art dealers with Spain and the Americas, Guilliam Forchondt (1608-1678). He established a productive painting workshop and a successful commercial firm that concentrated on Spanish Habsburg territories. This dissertation examines his workshop practices, the type of paintings he directed to Spain and the Americas, and the mechanisms he established for artistic and information exchanges between Flemish, Spanish and colonial Spanish contemporaries because Forchondt dealt in the transatlantic trade through a commercial network of merchants and agents in Europe and the New World. This research also investigates local conditions and responses in Spain, Mexico and Peru to the imported Flemish paintings.</p> / Dissertation

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences / Department of Government and Public Administration

Circulation and associated variability in the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) are examined using observations and numerical models. Vertically integrated transport variations through the Yucatan Channel in the model are found to be related to the intrusion of the Loop Current into the Gulf of Mexico. We argue that the transport variations are part of a “compensation effect” by which transport variations through the Yucatan Channel are at least partly compensated by flow around Cuba. Numerical experiments show that the transport variations result from the interaction between the density anomalies associated with the Loop Current intrusion and the variable bottom topography. The compensation effect is found to be associated with baroclinic (2-layer) flow through the Yucatan Channel at timescales longer than a month, while at shorter timescales (less than a month) the vertical structure of the flow is barotropic. An index, that can be computed from satellite data, is proposed for measuring the impact of the Loop Current intrusion on the transport variability through the Yucatan Channel. This index is shown to be significantly correlated at low frequencies (cutoff 120 days) with the cable estimates of transport between Florida and the Bahamas. We argue that it is the geometric connectivity between the Yucatan Channel and the Straits of Florida between Florida and the Bahamas that accounts for the relationship. A three-dimensional, data-assimilative, ocean circulation model is developed in order to simulate circulation, hydrography and associated variability in the IAS from 1999 to 2002. The model performance is assessed by comparing model results with various observations made in the IAS during this period. Model results are used to study the role played by Caribbean eddies in the dynamics of monthly to seasonal (with timescales of 30-120 days) circulation variability in the IAS. It is shown that the variations in vertically integrated transport between Nicaragua and Jamaica are linked to the interaction of Caribbean eddies with the Nicaraguan Rise. The mechanism can be explained in terms of the form drag effect acting across the Nicaraguan Rise.

Orientador: Eduardo Roberto Junqueira Guimarães / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T00:49:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nogueira_Luciana_M.pdf: 979191 bytes, checksum: 13a4265749f250a50fbfddaf9c7c7598 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação fizemos um estudo semântico da designação das palavras integração e progresso a partir de suas enunciações nos documentos que propõem a constituição da ALCA (Área de Livre Comércio das Américas). Trabalhamos numa perspectiva semântico-enunciativa que leva em conta a relação língua, história e sujeito. Nesta medida estabelecemos uma relação com a teoria da análise do discurso francesa. O conceito de enunciação como acontecimento e o conceito de designação foram fundamentais para nossas análises. O modo pelo qual procedemos as nossas análises foi através da leitura dos procedimentos de reescrituração e mais ainda dos procedimentos de articulação para se chegar ao domínio semântico de determinação (DSD) das palavras em questão. Analisamos ainda integração enquanto enunciado nominalizado e com isso pudemos trabalhar um pouco a questão da memória. Saber os sentidos dessas palavras nestes textos é um modo de procurar compreender o que a designação dessas palavras traz a propósito das relações políticas estabelecidas na ALCA. A partir da análise das palavras, tratamos da relação de litígio enunciativo estabelecido entre a ALCA e a ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para a América Latina e o Caribe). Este é um litígio político caracterizado como confronto e como conflito entre a normatividade de um dizer e um outro dizer que se lhe contrapõe / Abstract: In this master's thesis we have proceeded with a semantic study of the designation (designação, in Portuguese) of the words integration and progress from the enunciations contained in the documents which propose the constitution of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). We have worked in the semantic-enunciative perspective that takes the relationship amongst language, history and subject for granted. This way, we could establish a relationship with the theory of the French Discourse Analysis. The concept of enunciation as an event, as well as the concept of designation, was fundamental to our analyses. The mode by which we have conducted our analyses was through the reading of the procedures of rewriting, and, furthermore, through the procedures of articulation in order to get to the semantics domains of determination (domínios semânticos de determinação, in Portuguese) of the word being put into question. We have still analysed the word integration as a nominalised enunciation, and, through this, we were able to worka bit with the issue of the memory. Knowing the senses of such words in these texts represents a mode of trying to understand what the designation of these words brings to the purpose of the public relations settled at the FTAA. From the analysis of these words, we have discussed about the relationship of enunciative litigation between the FTAA and the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and Caribbean (ALBA, in Spanish). This is a political litigation characterised as a confrontation and a conflict between a normativity of a statement and another one that fits it as its counterpart / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística