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This study is a historical examination of the attitude and behavior of Mark Twain (also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in his relationship with his household servants during the Gilded Age (1870-1900) in Hartford, Connecticut. "Gilded Age" was coined by Twain in a satirical expose of the corrupt greed in business and politics. Twain suggested dishonesty was disguised beneath a thin golden veil of American propaganda. This period of self-elevation and lavish wealth was contrasted against a poor unskilled working class. Twain, who evolved from lower rungs of society to fortuned heights, makes an ideal study for hypocrisy. Serving as a symbol of the times, this investigation explores his ability to rise above or to succumb to the predisposed mentality of the day. Further, the same biases of class, race, and gender continue to be unresolved issues today in an inviolate hypocritical system of privilege, gilded by wording in a duplicitous Constitution.

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In my master design studio, I was asked to imagine what I would say, what would be my story, if I was a door.This is the poem I wrote as an answer to this query: IF I WAS A DOOR Come closer; Let me tell you how painful my loneliness is. Behind this coarse body, stories are hidden. Come closer; Tear the threshold curtains Let me tell you of the woman with henna colored hair Who sat beside me days and years, cried and waited for her son Who went to war years ago. I wonder if she is still there. Dusty alleys of our parish, Children of the street whose voice’s tingles Swept me to far places; to flying Pelican of Golshan garden in Tabas, Alborz Mountains, smell of rain, smell of earth Come closer; let me tell you how beautiful the other side of the world is with these little windows on my skin. Could I be green, like the pines of our garden, Could I have had a platform for every tired traveler to rest and tell me of his journey. Could I have had a doorkeeper to tell these secrets to: Scent of satin, hanging sweetbrier from my brow, secret melody of swallows… Would they not replace me with another: There, that house, that parish is all my memory. This thesis is about the doorway; it is also about threshold, transition, and the in-between. It aims to encourage a more engaged interaction between people and the spaces around them.

In my master design studio, I was asked to imagine what I would say, what would be my story, if I was a door.This is the poem I wrote as an answer to this query: IF I WAS A DOOR Come closer; Let me tell you how painful my loneliness is. Behind this coarse body, stories are hidden. Come closer; Tear the threshold curtains Let me tell you of the woman with henna colored hair Who sat beside me days and years, cried and waited for her son Who went to war years ago. I wonder if she is still there. Dusty alleys of our parish, Children of the street whose voice’s tingles Swept me to far places; to flying Pelican of Golshan garden in Tabas, Alborz Mountains, smell of rain, smell of earth Come closer; let me tell you how beautiful the other side of the world is with these little windows on my skin. Could I be green, like the pines of our garden, Could I have had a platform for every tired traveler to rest and tell me of his journey. Could I have had a doorkeeper to tell these secrets to: Scent of satin, hanging sweetbrier from my brow, secret melody of swallows… Would they not replace me with another: There, that house, that parish is all my memory. This thesis is about the doorway; it is also about threshold, transition, and the in-between. It aims to encourage a more engaged interaction between people and the spaces around them.

<p>The use of out-door pedagogy in the school has been frequently high-lighted during recent years. To which extent out-door education was practised in the school depends on the opinions among the active teachers. The aim of this study was to examine the opinions on out-door pedagogy among teachers in classes 4-6 of the elementary school and to find out to which extent the teacher used out-door teaching. The study was based on qualitatively structured interviews with 4 teachers having different lenght of teaching experience. The results of the interviews showed that the teachers had different opinions on the definition of out-door pedagogy. They claimed that out-door pedagogy was a way to explore nature, to link the out-door environment to theoretical subjects and to give the children an increased understanding on nature. In daily teaching, out-door pedagogy was practiced to a varying extent depending on weather, season, schedule and the teacher´s own experience of out-door teaching. The teachers stressed that out-door pedagogy was an interdisciplinary teaching method that offered a possibility to integrate different subjects.</p>

The use of out-door pedagogy in the school has been frequently high-lighted during recent years. To which extent out-door education was practised in the school depends on the opinions among the active teachers. The aim of this study was to examine the opinions on out-door pedagogy among teachers in classes 4-6 of the elementary school and to find out to which extent the teacher used out-door teaching. The study was based on qualitatively structured interviews with 4 teachers having different lenght of teaching experience. The results of the interviews showed that the teachers had different opinions on the definition of out-door pedagogy. They claimed that out-door pedagogy was a way to explore nature, to link the out-door environment to theoretical subjects and to give the children an increased understanding on nature. In daily teaching, out-door pedagogy was practiced to a varying extent depending on weather, season, schedule and the teacher´s own experience of out-door teaching. The teachers stressed that out-door pedagogy was an interdisciplinary teaching method that offered a possibility to integrate different subjects.

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Abstract For recent years, enterprises in Taiwan face the challenges of global competition. Most of Taiwan companies cannot compete with international companies on capital or scale. Thus cooperation with competitors or formation of strategic alliance become one of the best policy of reducing management and sales cost of entering new market and business risks. For the small-and-medium size enterprises which own unique skills but are lack of resources and new technologies, it could be the niche of entering global market to obtain transfer of technologies and management skill from superior internationalized enterprises. Door lock manufacturing industry is an absolute conservative industry. From the ancient year, due to security concern, it was a family inherited business. Through technology breakthrough and industrial revolution, it gradually turns into a mass production industry. Like most of the other industry, in recent years, Taiwan was developed to be an important manufacturing base of the global door lock industry. This thesis adopted the exploring methodology. It conducted its study based on the industrial analysis. It analyzes the door lock industry through horizontal analysis ¡V competitor analysis and vertical analysis ¡V supply chain analysis. It further create the following assumptions based on the resources interdependence theory, transaction cost theory and Porter¡¦s five forces analysis: 1. The motivation of strategic alliance is based on the resources interdependence theory. 2. The selection of partner in the strategic alliance is based on the transaction cost theory. 3. The objectives of strategic alliance are based on Porter¡¦s five forces analysis. Based on the above assumptions, this study conducted analysis on the strategic alliance project in between Taiwan Fu Hsing Industrial Co. Ltd. and Ingersoll Rand Group of companies. Through in-depth interviews with management executives from both companies, this study build up a model confirming the above assumptions. Further more, this thesis also present a series of recommendations to both companies in hope of leading this strategic alliance project into a win-win situation. Key words: Strategic alliance, Door lock industry

The ultimate threshold state of a human life is the time preceding death. Hospice care provides a gateway environment for many people for their transition to the other side. Societies throughout history have had rituals and traditions to support the dying and their loved ones, but for modern society, few of these rituals remain. Death has become a topic to avoid "no one wants to look at it or speak about it. This taboo treatment of death often results in the isolation of people at the end of their lives. It also has a major impact on those who are losing their loved ones, as well as the caregivers that deal with death on a daily basis. Through the lens of hospice, this thesis will explore spaces of transition in architecture - the idea of thresholds, both physical and emotional. It seeks to develop a design that considers all of its users and their experience of death and dying. / Master of Architecture