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Fay M. Jackson : the sociopolitical narrative of a pioneering African American female journalist /Hughes-Watkins, Lael I. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Youngstown State University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83). Also available via the World Wide Web in PDF format.
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AComparison of Methods for Estimating State Subgroup Performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress:Bamat, David January 2021 (has links)
Thesis advisor: Henry Braun / The State NAEP program only reports the mean achievement estimate of a subgroup within a given state if it samples at least 62 students who identify with the subgroup. Since some subgroups of students constitute small proportions of certain states’ general student populations, these low-incidence groups of students are seldom sufficiently sampled to meet this rule-of-62 requirement. As a result, education researchers and policymakers are frequently left without a full understanding of how states are supporting the learning and achievement of different subgroups of students.Using grade 8 mathematics results in 2015, this dissertation addresses the problem by comparing the performance of three different techniques in predicting mean subgroup achievement on NAEP. The methodology involves simulating scenarios in which subgroup samples greater or equal to 62 are treated as not available for calculating mean achievement estimates. These techniques comprise an adaptation of Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE), a common form of Small Area Estimation known as the Fay-Herriot model (FH), and a Cross-Survey analysis approach that emphasizes flexibility in model specification, referred to as Flexible Cross-Survey Analysis (FLEX CS) in this study. Data used for the prediction study include public-use state-level estimates of mean subgroup achievement on NAEP, restricted-use student-level achievement data on NAEP, public-use state-level administrative data from Education Week, the Common Core of Data, the U.S. Census Bureau, and public-use district-level achievement data in NAEP-referenced units from the Stanford Education Data Archive.
To evaluate the accuracy of the techniques, a weighted measure of Mean Absolute Error and a coverage indicator quantify differences between predicted and target values. To evaluate whether a technique could be recommended for use in practice, accuracy measures for each technique are compared to benchmark values established as markers of successful prediction based on results from a simulation analysis with example NAEP data.
Results indicate that both the FH and FLEX CS techniques may be suitable for use in practice and that the FH technique is particularly appealing. However, before definitive recommendations are made, the analyses from this dissertation should be conducted employing math achievement data from other years, as well as data from NAEP Reading. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation.
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The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on the Geomorphic Evolution of Bolivar Peninsula, TXHales, Billy 2012 May 1900 (has links)
Annually, tropical cyclones do tremendous damage and are agents of long-term coastal change. To test this idea of different tropical cyclones delivering consistent coastal change, a landform with such evolution is needed. One such landform is a spit. What contributions do tropical cyclones give toward the evolution of a spit, and do tropical cyclones give the same kinds of impacts? To determine if tropical cyclones have similar impacts, shoreline and volumetric change from four storms impacting Bolivar Peninsula are considered. Being a southwest-trended spit at a length of 33.5 kilometers, storm impacts are measured in the form of one dimensional shoreline and two dimensional volumetric change. These impacts are abstracted into shoreline change and volumetric change patterns. These patterns are identified and compared for differences between each storm and similarity among all storms.
Results indicate that shoreline accretionary zones vary alongshore. Results from Hurricane Ike indicate an accretionary zone ten kilometers from the distal end. Shoreline change patterns for Hurricane Rita show an unstable accretionary zone at four kilometers from the distal end. Results for Tropical Storm Fay indicate an unstable accretionary zone that begins at the distal end and continues to the middle of the spit. In terms of similarity for shoreline change, all patterns from storms demonstrated erosion near Rollover Fish Pass.
One dimensional volumetric change patterns were entirely erosive for Hurricanes Rita and Ike, and Tropical Storm Fay had by small zones of accretion near the distal portion of the spit. Tropical Storm Josephine demonstrated an accretion zone between the middle and distal portion of the spit. Results from two dimensional volumetric change patterns suggest a threshold for inland penetration. Tropical Storm Fay showed a ten to twenty meter wide pattern of erosion around five kilometers from the distal end and near the proximal end of the spit, and Hurricane Rita demonstrated a twenty meter wide pattern of erosion near the distal end. Hurricane Ike had erosive penetration of up to 200 meters around fifteen kilometers from the distal end. Results suggest that certain storms reinforce the standard spit growth model, and others work against it.
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Which witch?: Morgan Le Fay as shape-shifter and English perceptions of magic reflected in Arthurian legendUnknown Date (has links)
Descended from Celtic goddesses and the fairies of folklore, the literary character
of Morgan le Fay has been most commonly perceived as a witch and a one-dimensional
villainess who plagues King Arthur and his court, rather than recognized as the legendary
King’s enchanted healer and otherworldly guardian. Too often the complexity of Morgan
le Fay and her supernatural abilities are lost, her character neglected as peripheral. As a
literary figure of imaginative design this thesis explores Morgan le Fay as a unique
“window” into the medieval mindset, whereby one can recover both medieval
understandings of magic and female magicians. By analyzing her role in key sources
from the twelfth to fifteenth century, this thesis uses Morgan le Fay to recover nuanced
perceptions of the supernatural in medieval England that embraced the ambiguity of a
pagan past and remained insulated from continental constructions of demonic witchcraft. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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1968 : juventude e política no jornal Correio do Povo – Porto AlegrePrietto, Bernard Goulart January 2017 (has links)
A presente dissertação tem o objetivo de analisar como o Correio do Povo construiu discursivamente o movimento estudantil no Brasil, que se colocava em franca oposição ao governo militar. Como o jornal figurou seus princípios de sociedade e de comportamento social e político projetados em um ideal de juventude determinada? Busca-se, portanto, entender os significados produzidos no jornal Correio do Povo, acerca da juventude em ebulição no ano de 1968, e deste modo, estabelecer a lógica dos posicionamentos político-ideológicos que o jornal partilhava, e assim compreender o posicionamento do periódico acerca da participação dos jovens na política. Para isso desenvolveu-se uma análise de discurso dos textos editoriais e das crônicas de Fay de Azevedo e Gustavo Corção. Dessa forma, o trabalho também procura entender como se dá a ação dos meios de comunicação na sociedade e qual foi o papel do Correio do Povo na conjuntura da época. Ao se desenvolver uma análise do discurso dos editoriais e de artigos de opinião, percebeu-se que o discurso político ideológico do jornal e de seus cronistas determina papeis diferenciados e limites de participação política aos jovens. / This dissertation aims to analyse how Correio do Povo discoursely built Brazil’s Student Movement which placed itself against the military government. How did the news paper constructed its political and social behaviour’s society principles projected in a relentless youth ideal? Therefore, it seeks to understand the meanings produced by the Correio do Povo newspaper, concerning they out the turmoil in 1968, so to stablish the logic behind the ideological and political standings the journal shared, in order to comprehend the periodical’s position about they own gone’s political engagement. To accomplish that, it was developed a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and chronicles from Fay de Azevedo and Gustavo Corção. In this way, this work aims to understand how the mass media acts on society and what was Correio do Povo’s role by the time’s context. By developing a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and opinion articles, it was realized that the journal’s ideological and political discourse, as well as their article writers, determine different roles and limits to the political engagement to the youth.
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An examination of the life and thought of Zina Fay Peirce, an American reformer and feministAtkinson, Norma P. January 1984 (has links)
Zina ray Peirce (1336-1923), the first wife of Cnarles S. Peirce, America’s great philosopher, was a woman who devoted her life to cause of improving the position of women in America. This study examines her specific accomplishments as a reformer; attitudes about women in nineteenth-century America and the effect such attitudes had on a woman of strong intellect and character; and the influence that she and her husband had on each other.Her early and conditioned interest was to promote the idea of freeing women from domestic drudgery so that they could pursue their own talents and make themselves economically and politically independent. Although not a suffragist or a believer in the equality of the sexes, she believed that women had their own spheres of abilities and interests, as men did. Therefore, she promoted the concepts of cooperative housekeeping and of women voting for other women to represent them in a separate legislative body. The first of these ideas led to the establishment of a cooperative laundry in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1870; the second, to her participation in a Woman’s Parliament which met in New York City in 1869. Both of these endeavors are examined at length, as are her views on abolition, marriage, immigration, education, and sexual mores.The sources of information include numerous letters which she wrote; letters written by others about her; and her published works, which include a novel, pamphlets, and journal and newspaper articles.
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Puffball and The handmaid's tale : the influence of pregnancy on the construction of female identityBetts, Lenore 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses an analysis of Fay Weldon's Puffball and Margaret Atwood's The
Handmaid's Tale to explore the construction of identity, particularly female identity.
It takes into consideration the influence of both biology and culture on identity and
explores how, within the context of the patriarchal societies depicted by the novels,
female identity is closely linked to reproductive function. It examines how the
construction of female identity based on reproductive function further objectifies the
female body in society, and how it can aid patriarchal domination and oppression of
women. The analysis of the novels draws on both essentialist and social
constructionist feminist approaches to oppression and female identity. The essentialist
approach views female biological difference (reproductive function) as responsible
for the way in which women are oppressed. The social constructionist view argues
that female oppression stems from the social construction of female identity around
concepts of motherhood and femininity. The thesis takes both approaches into account
as it seeks to explain how patriarchy oppresses women through the construction of
female identity.
The thesis also explores how control over the female body and identity can be
exercised through reproductive technology. An examination of the role reproductive
technology plays in contributing to patriarchal dominance, suggests that new
technologies may compel women to conform to stereotypes of femininity based on
pregnancy and motherhood. The thesis considers the impact infertility and the choice
not to have children have on female identity and takes into account the options
available to these women. The main focus, with regard to infertility and choice, is on
the relationship between women who have children and those who do not. This thesis
refutes the notion that there is solidarity between women based on shared childbearing
experience, and focuses on the conflict that occurs between fertile and childless
women. It finds that the conflict that occurs is a result of the socialisation of women
into viewing motherhood as an essential aspect of 'normal' femininity. The thesis also
considers what causes the desire to have children and finds that, as in the case of the
conflict between women, it is as a result of socialisation and an innate/instinctual
biological drive. The thesis investigates options available to women in order for them to avoid
constructing their identities solely around their reproductive function. It considers the
alternatives women are presented with when constructing their identity and how these
may contribute to or liberate them from patriarchal oppression. If they choose to
identify themselves using patriarchal norms, then they are contributing to their
objectification; but if they choose to construct their identity on their own terms, and
offer some resistance to patriarchal constructions, they will be more liberated than
women who conform to stereotypes. Evidence of such resistance can be seen in both
novels in the narrative structure the respective authors have chosen: just as the main
characters subvert traditional stereotypes through the construction of their own
identity, embracing female experience on their own terms, so do both authors subvert
traditional narratives. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is gegrond op die analisering van die novelle Puffball deur Fay Weldon
en The Handmaid's Tale deur Margaret Atwood ter ondersoek van die konstruksie
van identiteit, naamlik die vroulike identiteit. Die analise neem beide die biologiese
en kulturele invloed van identiteit in ag, veral binne die konteks van die patriargale
samelewing wat in novelles voorkom.Die wisselwerking tussen vroulike identiteit en
die funksie van reproduksie word aangeraak. Die tesis ondersoek die wyse waarop die
konstruksie van die vroulike identiteit gebasseer op die reproduksie funksie, verder
die vroulike liggaam binne samelewingskonteks tipeer en hoe dit indirek patriargale
dominansie ondersteun sowel as die onderdrukking van die vrou.
Die analise van die novelles steun sterk op beide die essensialistiese en sosiale
konstruksialistiese feministiese benaderings ten opsigte van onderdrukking en
vroulike identiteit. Die essensialistiese benadering blameer die vroulike biologiese
verskil, met verwysing na die reproduksie funksie, vir die wyse waarop die vrou
onderdruk word. In kontras hiermee, argumenteer die sosiale konstruksialistiese
seining dat vroulike onderdrukking voortspruit uit die sosiale konstruksie van vroulike
identiteit binne die konsep van moederskap en vroulikheid. Die tesis neem beide
standpunte in ag daar dit hom ten doel stelom te verduidelik waarom patriargie die
vrou onderdruk deur die konstruksie van die vroulike identiteit.
Die tesis fokus ook op die wyse waarop kontrole oor die vroulike liggaam en identiteit
uitgeoefen kan word deur die reproduktiewe tegnologie. 'n Ondersoek na die rol wat
reproduktiewe tegnologie speel ter ondersteuning van patriargale dominansie,
argumenteer dat nuwe tegnologieë "Toue kan verplig tot die konformering van
stereotipes van vroulikheid gebasseer op swangerskap en moederskap. Die analise
neem ook die impak wat onvrugbaarheid op die vroulike identiteit het, in ag , sowel as
die besluit om nie kinders te hê nie. Verder neem dit ook die verskeie opsies wat
beskikbaar is vir die vrou wat daarteen besluit om kinders te hê, in ag, sover dit die
konstruksie van identiteit raak. Die hooffokus met betrekking tot onvrugbaarheid en
keuse, is gebasseer op die verhouding tussen vroue wat wel kinders het en diegene wat kinderloos is. Die tesis weerlê die idee dat daar solidariteit is tussen vroue
gebasseer op gedeelde ervarings en gemeenskaplike doelwitte en begeertes en fokus
op die konflik wat ontstaan tussen kinderlose en vrugbare vroue.
Die ondersoek ondervind dat die konflik wat onstaan, 'n produk is van die
sosialisering van vroue met die idee van moederskap as 'n essensiële aspek van
"normale" vroulikheid. Die tesis ondersoek ook die oorsake van die begeerte om
kinders te hê en ondervind dat, soos ook die geval met konflik, dit die produk is van
sosialisering en instinktiefbiologies gedrewe is.
Die tesis ondersoek die opsies beskikbaar vir die vrou ten einde haar te verhoed om
die konstruksie van haar identiteit te grond alleenlik op die reproduktiewe funksie.
Die analise neem die alternatiewe waarmee die vrou gekonfronteer word tydens die
konstruksieproses, in aanmerking, en bevraagteken die wyse waarop hierdie
alternatiewe kan bydra tot , of die bevryding van, die patriargale onderdrukking.
Indien die vrou verkies om haarself te identifiseer deur patriargale norme te gebruik
sal sy bydra tot haar objektivering binne die tradisionele patriargale konteks; maar
indien sy kies om haar eie identiteit te konstruktueer volgens haar eie norme en
terselfdertyd patriargale konstruksie teenstaan, sal sy meer geëmansipeerd wees as
haar eweknie wat tot die stereotipe gekonformeer het.
Deel van die weerstand wat voorkom in beide novelles, kan opgemerk word in die
naratiewe struktuur gekies deur die skrywer. Paralelle word aangetref tussen
enersyds, die wyse waarop die hoofkarakters hulself aan die tradisionele stereotipes
ondermyn deur die konstruksie van hul eie identiteit, terselfdertyd deur die koestering
van vroulike ervarings, en andersyds die wyse waarop beide skrywers hulself aan
tradisionele naratiewe onderwerp.
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1968 : juventude e política no jornal Correio do Povo – Porto AlegrePrietto, Bernard Goulart January 2017 (has links)
A presente dissertação tem o objetivo de analisar como o Correio do Povo construiu discursivamente o movimento estudantil no Brasil, que se colocava em franca oposição ao governo militar. Como o jornal figurou seus princípios de sociedade e de comportamento social e político projetados em um ideal de juventude determinada? Busca-se, portanto, entender os significados produzidos no jornal Correio do Povo, acerca da juventude em ebulição no ano de 1968, e deste modo, estabelecer a lógica dos posicionamentos político-ideológicos que o jornal partilhava, e assim compreender o posicionamento do periódico acerca da participação dos jovens na política. Para isso desenvolveu-se uma análise de discurso dos textos editoriais e das crônicas de Fay de Azevedo e Gustavo Corção. Dessa forma, o trabalho também procura entender como se dá a ação dos meios de comunicação na sociedade e qual foi o papel do Correio do Povo na conjuntura da época. Ao se desenvolver uma análise do discurso dos editoriais e de artigos de opinião, percebeu-se que o discurso político ideológico do jornal e de seus cronistas determina papeis diferenciados e limites de participação política aos jovens. / This dissertation aims to analyse how Correio do Povo discoursely built Brazil’s Student Movement which placed itself against the military government. How did the news paper constructed its political and social behaviour’s society principles projected in a relentless youth ideal? Therefore, it seeks to understand the meanings produced by the Correio do Povo newspaper, concerning they out the turmoil in 1968, so to stablish the logic behind the ideological and political standings the journal shared, in order to comprehend the periodical’s position about they own gone’s political engagement. To accomplish that, it was developed a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and chronicles from Fay de Azevedo and Gustavo Corção. In this way, this work aims to understand how the mass media acts on society and what was Correio do Povo’s role by the time’s context. By developing a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and opinion articles, it was realized that the journal’s ideological and political discourse, as well as their article writers, determine different roles and limits to the political engagement to the youth.
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1968 : juventude e política no jornal Correio do Povo – Porto AlegrePrietto, Bernard Goulart January 2017 (has links)
A presente dissertação tem o objetivo de analisar como o Correio do Povo construiu discursivamente o movimento estudantil no Brasil, que se colocava em franca oposição ao governo militar. Como o jornal figurou seus princípios de sociedade e de comportamento social e político projetados em um ideal de juventude determinada? Busca-se, portanto, entender os significados produzidos no jornal Correio do Povo, acerca da juventude em ebulição no ano de 1968, e deste modo, estabelecer a lógica dos posicionamentos político-ideológicos que o jornal partilhava, e assim compreender o posicionamento do periódico acerca da participação dos jovens na política. Para isso desenvolveu-se uma análise de discurso dos textos editoriais e das crônicas de Fay de Azevedo e Gustavo Corção. Dessa forma, o trabalho também procura entender como se dá a ação dos meios de comunicação na sociedade e qual foi o papel do Correio do Povo na conjuntura da época. Ao se desenvolver uma análise do discurso dos editoriais e de artigos de opinião, percebeu-se que o discurso político ideológico do jornal e de seus cronistas determina papeis diferenciados e limites de participação política aos jovens. / This dissertation aims to analyse how Correio do Povo discoursely built Brazil’s Student Movement which placed itself against the military government. How did the news paper constructed its political and social behaviour’s society principles projected in a relentless youth ideal? Therefore, it seeks to understand the meanings produced by the Correio do Povo newspaper, concerning they out the turmoil in 1968, so to stablish the logic behind the ideological and political standings the journal shared, in order to comprehend the periodical’s position about they own gone’s political engagement. To accomplish that, it was developed a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and chronicles from Fay de Azevedo and Gustavo Corção. In this way, this work aims to understand how the mass media acts on society and what was Correio do Povo’s role by the time’s context. By developing a discourse analysis from the editorials texts and opinion articles, it was realized that the journal’s ideological and political discourse, as well as their article writers, determine different roles and limits to the political engagement to the youth.
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Subversive narrative and thematic strategies : a critical appraisal of Fay Weldon's FictionDowling, Finuala Rachel 06 1900 (has links)
Fay Weldon is a popular, prolific author whose oeuvre stretches from 1967 to the present
and includes 20 novels, three collections of short stories and numerous stage, radio and
television plays, scripts and adaptations. This thesis limits itself to her fiction and follows
the chronological course of Weldon's writing career in five chapters.
Fay Weldon's fiction, situated at the intersection of postmodemism and feminism, is
doubly subversive. It both overturns 'reasonable' narrative conventions and wittily
deconstructs the specious terminology used to define women. Weldon's disobedient female
protagonists - madwomen, criminals, outcasts and she-devils - assert the power of the Other.
Gynocentric themes - single parenthood, sisterhood, reproduction, motherhood, sex and
marriage - are transformed by Weldon into uproarious feminist revenge comedy. This she
achieves through an intertextuality which often involves unorthodox typography, genreswopping
and metafictional devices. Moreover, a unique ventriloquism enables her
omniscient first-person narrators to mimic 'Fay Weldon' herself.
Since her narrators are rebels and iconoclasts, Weldon has always been viewed as a
subversive individual worthy of media attention, especially interviews. For this reason, and
because she is a woman writer who struggled initially against social and domestic odds, the
thesis incorporates in its argument the author's biography and public personae.
Chapter One explores the connections between Weldon's first novels - notably Down
Among the Women (1971) - and early liberationist and anthropological feminism. In Chapter
Two, Bakhtin's dialogic imagination and Derrida's differance provide the basis for a
discussion of multiplicity in Weldon's novels of the late 1970s, particularly Praxis (1979),
shortlisted for the Booker prize. Chapter Three tests the limits of a psychoanalytical model
in accounting for Weldon's novels of (m)Otherhood, including The Life and Loves of a SheDevil
(1983).
Theories of humour and carnival inform Chapter Four's analysis of how Weldon's wit
- at its tendentious best in The Heart of the Country (1987) - declines into innocence.
Finally, Chapter Five sees Weldon's flagging literary reputation as the symptom of authorial
exhaustion and retreat from a feminist agenda. This concluding chapter is, however,
ultimately optimistic that the mercurial author's undeniable talents may reassert themselves / English Studies / D.Litt. et Phil. (English)
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