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The Giant Dream Chamber is an underworld figure chanting Aperspectival intuition, the image arrives. Matter undresses, interiority silhouetted. / Master of Architecture

Warren Benson's The Dream Net for alto saxophone and string quartet (1975) is often overlooked in the chamber music repertoire. Benson aims to blend the differing timbres of the saxophone with a string quartet through the use of extended techniques and non-standard notation in the parts of all ensemble members. As composers have sought to utilize the full timbral potential of the saxophone, they have found the need to invent notation markings for the performer to interpret as a means of achieving the desired effect. The Dream Net is a perfect example of this, and visually the score can be quite difficult to read. The purpose of this document is to serve as a guide for any saxophonists and string quartets that wish to perform the work. Included in this document is a performance guide of The Dream Net as well as an analysis of Benson's use of extended techniques.

The thesis overviews a variety of approaches to understanding of dreams, covering the historical perspectives as well as the perspectives of modern psychologists and psychological schools. It presents information on quantitative analysis of dream content and possibilities of the use of statistical methods in dream research. It introduces the results of the research into the dream content in 100 Czech female psychology students, using the method developed by Hall and Van de Castle. The comparison of these results with a similar group of US female students revealed several differences: The Czech students reported slightly more Aggresion/Friendliness Percent, significantly more unknown environments and moderately more dreams containing aggression and efforts. Compliance with the American sample was shown mainly by percentages regarding the type of characters, negative emotions ratio and the percentage of physical aggression compared to non-physical. Correlation analysis applied to data revealed a moderate relationship between variables suggesting possible explanations of dream content. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The thesis provides a comparative analysis of the American Dream's concept in the two essential pieces of American literature: Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Norman Mailer's An American Dream. The theoretical part of the text focuses on the general definition of the American Dream and its development throughout the history of the United States. It aims at exposing the close relationship of the idea of the American Dream and the American national consciousness in terms of self-reliance, individualism and freedom. The analytical part concentrates on isolating the individual literary motifs of each novel that can be regarded as related to the notion of the American Dream. It discusses the central characters as well as dramatic aspects of The Great Gatsby and An American Dream in order to prove the American Dream to represent an essential theme in their literary frameworks. As a conclusion the thesis presents the opinion that each author elaborates this theme differently. Both novels, however, expose the individual version of the American Dream as being defeated in a struggle against the collective nature of the 20th century American society restricting the efforts of an individual for his or her self-realization. Keywords: Norman Mailer, An American Dream, Francis Scott Fitzgerald,...

A pesquisa teve como objetivo central investigar se os furacões do Oceano Atlântico Tropical Norte são capazes de influenciar a América do Sul (AS), principalmente no que se refere aos padrões de precipitação e circulação atmosférica. No entanto, como os furacões possuem uma gama de variedades de trajetórias, gêneses e decaimento, a pesquisa se restringiu apenas a avaliação dos furacões que poderiam causar maiores impactos na atmosfera da AS, sobretudo no norte do continente. Nesse sentido duas hipóteses foram estabelecidas concernente a trajetória e intensidades dos furacões. Para a trajetória a hipótese era de que quanto mais próximo da AS os furacões transitassem maior seria seu grau de interação com o continente ao passo que os furacões que atingissem a categoria 5 na escala de intensidade Saffir-Simpson também poderiam exercer maiores influências. Assim, através desses critérios, 6 furacões foram selecionados entre os anos de 1988-2017 e estes foram avaliados com base nos dados do CHIRPS e da reanálise ERA Interim, além de simulações numéricas com o modelo dinâmico GCM DREAM. Os resultados mostraram que, de fato, os furacões conseguiam impactar a atmosfera da AS uma vez que nos baixos níveis da troposfera foram observados modificações nos alísios, interferência na posição da Zona de Convergência Intertropical (ZCIT) e influência na nebulosidade, pressão, temperatura e umidade do norte da AS. Além disso, foram constatadas interações entre os furacões e a Alta Subtropical do Atlântico Sul (ASAS), onde essa última canalizava parte dos seus escoamentos para os furacões que, por sua vez, se intensificavam. Já para os altos níveis da troposfera, foram observados o surgimento de um anticiclone no Noroeste (NO) da AS como resposta a existência dos furacões, sendo que após formado esse anticiclone sugere uma possível interação com os furacões uma vez que ele se deslocava segundo o movimento dos mesmos. Além dessas duas abordagens a pesquisa também se utilizou das Funções dos Modos Normais no sentido de reconstituir o campo de vento horizontal através da contribuição individual de cada onda atmosférica excitada a partir de um furacão. Nessa etapa escolheu-se um dos furacões selecionados e os resultados indicaram que as principais ondas envolvidas nas características observadas nos baixos níveis da troposfera como, por exemplo, ciclones ou sistemas frontais, vinham das ondas de Rossby e Gravidade-Inercial (GI). Já para os altos níveis as ondas atmosféricas envolvidas no processo de formação do anticiclone no NO da AS foram as ondas de Rossby, GI e as ondas Mistas de Rossby-Gravidade (MRG), sendo que essa última indicava justamente uma comunicação entre os dois hemisférios. No que se refere as ondas de Rossby elas se sobressaíram em todos nos níveis atmosféricos devido a relação delas com a geostrofia ao passo que as ondas GI ficaram restritas em mostrar apenas processos de divergência, logo elas foram úteis para identificar regiões ligadas a precipitação. Com relação aos resultados para os padrões de precipitação foram observadas durante a passagem dos furacões anomalias positivas no norte da AS e anomalias negativas no Brasil Central, sendo que esse resultado foi interpretado como sendo um reflexo do aumento das concentrações de momento e umidade na região norte da AS por onde os furacões transitavam. Por fim, foi avaliado o caso do furacão Irma que teve uma trajetória distante da AS. Esse furacão foi avaliado no sentindo de testar as hipóteses feitas anteriormente e os resultados mostraram que esse furacão não conseguiu exercer impacto na atmosfera da AS. Desse modo, concluiu-se que os furacões do Oceano Atlântico conseguem impactar a atmosfera da AS como indicou os resultados, porém que isso só ocorrerá se eles descreverem uma trajetória muito próxima ao continente sul-americano. / The main objective of this research is to investigate whether hurricanes from the North Tropical Atlantic Ocean can influence the South Americans atmosphere, especially in terms of circulation and precipitation patterns. However, since hurricanes have a great range of trajectories, genesis and decay this research only focused the study of hurricanes that may impact the South American, particularly in the northern continental region. In this sense, two hypotheses were established about the trajectory and intensities of hurricanes. For the trajectory, the hypothesis is that the closer the hurricanes pass by South America the greater would be their degree of interaction with the South American atmosphere variability. Also, the higher the Hurricanes classification, for instance, category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, the influence could be increased. Following this criteria 6 hurricanes were selected between the years 1988-2017 and they were evaluated based on ERA Interim reanalysis and CHIRPS data, as well as numerical simulations using the dynamic GCM DREAM model. The results showed that these hurricanes really impacted the atmosphere of the South America. At lower levels of the troposphere, the passage of hurricanes caused trade winds deformation, interference in the Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZ) position, besides of the influence on the cloudiness, pressure, temperature and moist in the north of the continent. In addition, it was detected interactions between hurricanes and the South Atlantic Subtropical High (SASH), where the SASH sustained the wind flows towards the hurricanes, supporting their intensification. Regarding the results for the upper levels of the troposphere it was observed the development of an anticyclone in the Northwest of South America as a response to the hurricane presence. It was noticed that this anticyclone interacts with the hurricanes once it moves according to their movement. In addition to these two approaches, it was also used the Normal Mode Functions in order to reconstruct the horizontal wind field through the individual contribution of each atmospheric waves excited from a hurricane. One of the selected hurricanes was chosen and the results indicated the main waves related to the characteristics observed at lower levels of the troposphere are the Rossby and Gravity-Inertial (GI) waves. For the upper levels, the atmospheric waves related with the formation of the anticyclone in northwestern South Americas were the Rossby, GI and the Mixed Rossby-Gravity (MRG) modes, where the MRG waves clearly show the interaction between the two hemispheres. The Rossby waves excelled at all atmospheric levels due to their relationship to the geostrophic approach, while the GI waves only showed divergence processes, being useful to identify regions linked to precipitation. The precipitation patterns during the hurricanes passage generates positive anomalies in the north of the South America and negative anomalies in central Brazil. This result was interpreted as an increase of momentum and moist concentrations in the South Americas northern region due to the interaction with the hurricanes. As a case study the hurricane Irma was investigated. This hurricane was intense but its track was distant of the South America being evaluated in the order to test the hypotheses previously assumed. The results indicated that the hurricane Irma did not have any impact in the South Americans atmosphere, where not interations with SASH, temperature or moist were observed. In summary, it was observed that North Atlantic Ocean hurricanes can influence the South Americas atmosphere when their trajectories are close to the South American continent.

<p>"I Have Dreamed a Dream..." is an analysis of the three short stories "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland", "The Door in the Wall" and "A Dream of Armageddon" by H.G. Wells. The essay makes a comparison of the three short stories from the perspectives of the dreamland, the inner struggle of the protagonist and the message of the story. The purpose is to show that the three seemingly similar short stories have different outcomes and deliver different messages to the reader. The essay finally presents a theory of how these messages coincide despite their differences.</p> / <p>"Jag har drömt en dröm..." är en analys av de tre novellerna "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland", "The Door in the Wall" och "A Dream of Armageddon" av H.G. Wells. Uppsatsen gör en jämförelse av de tre novellerna utifrån tre perspektiv: drömvärlden, huvudpersonens inre kamp och historiens budskap. Syftet är att visa hur de tre till synes lika novellerna har olika resultat och presenterar olika budskap till läsaren. Uppsatsen framför slutligen en teori för hur dessa budskap överensstämmer trots sina olikheter.</p>