A space cadet wakes up by the rattle of his spaceship leaving the atmosphere of the earth. He is faced with the glowing sphere of his destination, the Moon, ahead of him. As he approaches the point where he is supposed to launch the rocket for course trajectory, he ponders his life, his village, and his education. But he needs to maintain his focus - if he launches the rocket too late, he will have passed the gravity field of the moon, and will be lost in space forever. / [I examensarbetet ingår utställningen "There is Plenty of Misery for Everyone":] Lentikulärbilder med 3d effekt samt animation av groteska motiv som har kopplingar till holländskt 1600tals måleri Material: Lentikulärbilder i plastram. Teknik: Foto/video. / <p>Examensarbetet består av 9 bilder samt en essä</p>

The video is an example of motivation, inspiration and record long-term cooperation on the animation, we are creating together with Katarina Hládeková. That cooperation had many stops and mezzanines, for example, when creating a non-existent trailer animation, when creating LOM and Strait installations and at an exhibition Great light first, then a huge blow! At the lecture The bread on both sides of the wind cunning too. It had everything but their predecessor, and has its successor in my Videoscatches sensed that I stack with each other and blend both visually and acoustically in new stories. This video is no animation or image does not pretend to be a film. On the contrary.

This thesis is about the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and the television news industry. My goal was to record the experiences of my fellow co-workers at WWL-TV, which was the only local television station to remain on the air throughout the hurricane. I also wanted to perform a review of the news industry up until the point of the storm, in order to analyze any affects the hurricane may have had on news coverage in general.

Syftet med denna studie var att få en insikt i och kunskaper om vad som gömmer sig bakom uttalanden som att man måste ha en blick och en fallenhet för det. I studien har två manliga lastbilsförare med lång erfarenhet av lastbilsföraryrket intervjuats om deras sätt att se på vilka kunskaper som behövs för att ses som en kompetent och yrkesskicklig lastbilsförare. Kunskaperna som lastbilsförarna lyfter fram är att ha en blick och en fallenhet för yrket. Studien visade att lastbilsförarna hade svårt att sätta ord på vad de menar med att ha en blick och en fallenhet för yrket. Resultatet i studien visade att det som lastbilsförarna pratar om när det gäller att ha en blick och en fallenhet för yrket bottnar i Aristoteles kunskapsbegrepp techne som ses som färdighetskunskap och fronesis som ses som förtrogenhetskunskap. Inom färdighetskunskapen ryms att ha en fallenhet för något, du har förmågan att utföra en handling. Denna förmåga utvecklas genom övning och erfarenhet, och det går inte att förutsäga hur långt en enskild förmåga kan utvecklas. Inom förtrogenhetskunskapen ryms att ha en blick för något, man kan se mönster eller beteenden som man kan tolka och se utgången av. Men, man kan inte ha en blick för något som man inte har upplevt innan. Båda kunskaperna bygger på att du har samlat på dig erfarenhet över tid. De samverkar med varandra i olika grad, beroende på personliga egenskaper, och den specifika situation de ställs inför. / The purpose of the study was to get an insight into what it is that hides behind the statement to have an eye for something and an aptitude for something. In this study i have been in contact with two male truck drivers who have a long experience from truck driving.In the study they told me what knowledge they see as needed to be seen as a competent and skilled truck driver. The knowledge that the truck drivers brings out is to have an eye and an aptitude for the profession. The study showed that truck drivers had a hard time putting into words what they mean by having an eye and an aptitude for the profession.   The results of the study showed that when it comes to having an eye and an aptitude for the profession that stems from Aristotle's concept of knowledge, techne seen as skill knowledge and phronesis seen as familiarity or intimate knowledge.Within skill knowledge fit to have an aptitude for something, you have the ability to perform an action. This ability develops with practice and experience, and it is not possible to predict how long an individual's ability can develop. Within familiarity knowledge fit to have an eye for something, you can see patterns or behaviors that can be interpreted.   But, you can´t have a look for something you have not experienced before. The knowledge is based upon what you have accumulated over time. The knowledge interacts with each other to different degrees depending on personal characteristics, and the specific situation they face.

Personality is one of the most broad and complex areas in psychology. This has led to many researchers attempting to reduce this complexity by focusing solely on how habitual personality differs between each individual (inter-individual differences). This is important to study, but it has been focused on so heavily that research into how each individual personality varies within the person (intra-individual differences) has been neglected in comparison. Recent research has started to examine intra-individual variation in personality more thoroughly. One research aim of this programme was to establish the nature of several different types of within person variability including inter-item variation (variation within the test responses for a personality trait), and cross-contextual variation in personality (variation according to context), to see whether these types of variability are associated with psychological outcomes. Three research questions were examined to this end: 1) What is the extent of meaningful variability in personality trait test responding? 2) What are the predictors of intra-individual variability in personality? 3) What is the relative importance of the person and situational factors in personality variability? The first question was developed to try and determine whether the individual can display meaningful inter-item variation in ratings of specific behaviours within personality trait measures. Trait questionnaires are usually only analysed at the between subject level, and within subject variation in inter-item ratings have not been extensively examined in relation to meaningful psychological outcomes. The second and third questions were developed to look into the nature of cross-contextual personality, and establish whether within person personality differences are influenced more strongly by the person or situation. The studies conducted towards answering these questions demonstrated a person-based capacity to display intra-individual variability. A second aim of the research programme was to see whether the capacity to display these types of variability can be utilised in behaviour change. The fourth research question was developed to try and understand how a person can display intra-individual variability, yet still be resistant to changing negative habits: 4) How do the different aspects in personality variability help explain why some people are resistant to change, especially with regard to behaviours that are bad for them? This question was answered by theoretically discussing the findings from the three previous studies which proposed that positive or problematic behaviour could be interpreted with a simple path to understand the process of behavioural action: The individual receives feedback from a behaviour response which either validates or invalidates their action in the situation context (does or does not receive a desired outcome). Reinforcement of the behaviour happens if it is validated by positive feedback. Alternately reconstruction of the situation happens if the behaviour is invalidated. This allows for two types of intra-individual variability. One is flexibility in behaviour responses to different situations under the individual’s control. The other is change according to the situation, where the behaviour is invalidated and an alternative is attempted. A problematic behaviour may have benefit in stopping something invalidating, but if repeated it may become a habit needed for psychological functioning. As part of the second research aim a behaviour change strategy was developed and piloted to try and bring the individual closer to their construct of the ideal self. Instructions were provided for the individual to experiment with that differed from their disposition. The programmes had varied degrees of success depending on the participant. The implications for personality research and behaviour change are discussed.

本論文旨在探討約瑟夫.海勒 (Joseph Heller) 第二本小說 <<懼變>>中自我辯証的策略及牽涉在其中自戀的主題. 基本上, <<懼變>>乃為一第一人稱敘述之作品. 身兼小說中的主人翁及敘述者, Slocum 憑藉其在敘述中對語言文字支配的 "優勢," 企圖由文字飄浮的意符中重新建構自我的意指, 以凸顯 / 再塑自我的主體性. 換言之, 經由 "說" 和 "寫" 等自我辯証的手段, Slocum 嘗試建立自我的權力中心, 肯定自我的自發及實體存在. 而本論文的根本論述即在於 Slocum 自我肯定的 "需要" 源起於其病態自戀的人格. 在這一點上, 我將援用 Freud, Lacan,Alford 等人自戀的理論, 指出自戀慾力雖然是自我形成的原始動力, 病態自戀人格卻表現於對自我價值的懷疑和無休止的自我追尋. 在小說 中, Slocum 必須藉著不斷的自我表演來肯定自我, 他的自我追尋正足以彰顯他自我的匱乏和對外界肯定的依賴.本論文分為五章. 首章涵蓋自我問題, 自戀理論及病態自戀三部份,就本論文的理論基礎加以申論. 次章以 Slocum 的追尋 (Quest) 和反追尋 (Anti-Quest) 為主題, 了解Slocum 以第一人稱敘述者對其敘述的控制. 第三章探討自戀人格二元性的論點, 指出潛藏在 Slocum 自我權力爭取之後重返嬰兒前鏡像期 (Pre-Mirror Stage) 的慾望. 第四章引用 Christopher Lasch 文化批判的觀點, 分析美國二次戰後消費社會裡經濟和文化的生態, 以圖找出自戀人格崛起的文化背景. 末章總結全文論述,並以 "自戀敘述" 的概念, 闡明<<懼變>>一書結構上自戀的特質. / The purpose of this thesis is to explore Something Happened, the second novel written by Joseph Heller, in light of the contemporary theories of self, especially the research made on narcissism. Through an analysis of Solcum’s self-politics, I intend to clarify the power-relations between self and other, narrator and his audience, speaker and language, as well as the individual and the culture revealed in the novel. Not only does Slocum embody the self who attempts to exercise self-power by means of self-performance in his narrative but this self-performance, instead of consolidating Solcum’s subjectivity, ironically reduces his self to be an object controlled by the outer world of consumption. Besides summarizing the whole research, the final chapter refers to the concept of the “narcissistic narrative.” Through an analysis of the narcissistic essence in Slocum’s writing, I reconfirm the value of Something Happened in modern literary creation.

The purpose of this study was to explore the processes of hope in informal caregivers of palliative patients. Interviews were conducted with caregivers who were living with and currently providing care to a palliative patient at home. Saturation was reached with 10 caregivers, five females and five males, from 2 cities in Saskatchewan, Canada. <p>The design of this qualitative study was Glasers (2001) grounded theory. Broad, unstructured face to face audio taped interviews were conducted in the participants homes. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using constant-comparative method of analysis in order to identify the main concern of the participants related to hope, and the basic social processes used to resolve that concern. <p>Eroding hope was the main concern relating to hope during caregiving for a palliative patient. Eroding hope was a result of bad days, negative messages, and experiences with the health care system. The participants deal with eroding hope by using the basic social process of hanging on to hope. Hanging on to hope has 4 sub-processes: a)doing what you have to do, b)living in the moment, c)staying positive, and d)writing your own story. The support of friends, family, and health care professionals and connecting with something bigger and stronger were sub-processes of hanging on to hope that together directly affect the other sub-processes.<p>The findings of this study have direct application for the care and support of informal caregivers providing palliative care at home, as a basis for assessment and interventions that will assist caregivers to hang on to hope. Nurses and other health care professionals need to recognize and value the experience of hope for caregivers by addressing, teaching, and reinforcing the sub-processes and ways of hanging on to hope into their practice.

The purpose of this study was to explore the processes of hope in informal caregivers of palliative patients. Interviews were conducted with caregivers who were living with and currently providing care to a palliative patient at home. Saturation was reached with 10 caregivers, five females and five males, from 2 cities in Saskatchewan, Canada. <p>The design of this qualitative study was Glasers (2001) grounded theory. Broad, unstructured face to face audio taped interviews were conducted in the participants homes. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using constant-comparative method of analysis in order to identify the main concern of the participants related to hope, and the basic social processes used to resolve that concern. <p>Eroding hope was the main concern relating to hope during caregiving for a palliative patient. Eroding hope was a result of bad days, negative messages, and experiences with the health care system. The participants deal with eroding hope by using the basic social process of hanging on to hope. Hanging on to hope has 4 sub-processes: a)doing what you have to do, b)living in the moment, c)staying positive, and d)writing your own story. The support of friends, family, and health care professionals and connecting with something bigger and stronger were sub-processes of hanging on to hope that together directly affect the other sub-processes.<p>The findings of this study have direct application for the care and support of informal caregivers providing palliative care at home, as a basis for assessment and interventions that will assist caregivers to hang on to hope. Nurses and other health care professionals need to recognize and value the experience of hope for caregivers by addressing, teaching, and reinforcing the sub-processes and ways of hanging on to hope into their practice.

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Presenting and applying an ideal developmental model for the classical existential hero, or main character, provides a functional paradigm for discrimination between essentialist and existential texts. In particular it allows for degrees of fine existential differentiation amongst the hero's acts of any literary work. The paradigm does so by making it possible clearly to discern and describe the "recuperation" that a reader must do to render an "impaired" text intelligible. The paradigm covers four phases of transformational activity by the hero, more or less successfully negotiated, depending on the given work under analysis; vacillation/bad faith; crisis/arrest; abrogation/nothingness; and nihilation/project choice. Only one of the three novels so analyzed, Camus' The Stranger, contains a hero, Meursault, who is able to engage this paradigm successfully. The other two novels, not generally associated with existentialism, Heller's Something Happened and Chopin's The Awakening, reveal important and explicable variations of the model, but neither finally gives an exemplary authentic hero. The value of this paradigm is the way it functions as a dynamic heuristics, as a template, to isolate and render meaningful the dimensions of the career of each main character of these works as an "existential murderer." After an introduction of the paradigm, the thesis analyzes the tragic suicide of Mrs. Edna Pontellier, the comic infanticide of Bob Slocum, and the tragicomic homicide of Meursault.