Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [240]-248).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / Using the two volumes of the Helmes-Laski Correspondence, published by Harvard and edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe, as one of its principal sources, this dissertation examines the circumstances leading up to the publication of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' essay, Natural Law in the Harvard Law Review in November, 1918, when Harold J. Laski was its editor. From this focus several lines of inquiry expand, developing from the two major questions of the dissertation: 1) What is Natural Law? and 2) How significant, profound and pertinent were Holmes' and Laski's contribution to the theory of Natural Law, the validity of which they denied? A last chapter examines the co-fusions in Laski's connecting together the plural sovereignty with the personality of associations theories -- ideas he apparently gathered from Otto Gierke. Gierke's position is analyzed directly from his writings, with the conclusion that he was unclear in his own formulations, and that Laski was even more unclear in what he thought Gierke said. Reasons for the vitiation of Laski's work are analyzed, and in summary his frustrations are stressed, while Holmes' great accomplishment within the framework of his own creative inconsistencies is forcefully stated. The conclusion of the whole is that no matter what they said they believed both Holmes and Laski lived and worked as though they believed in Natural Law.

The diploma thesis "Who are the fans of the BBC series?" deals with the BBC TV

Le rayonnement de Sherlock Holmes dépasse de loin celui de son créateur (Arthur Conan Doyle) ou du roman qui l’a vu naître (Une étude en rouge, 1887) : ce personnage avalisé par ce que Cornelius Castoriadis appelle le « collectif anonyme » est ainsi devenu un mythe moderne. L’imaginaire collectif en fait l’incarnation même du détective et de l’Anglais : il habite Londres, voyage en hansom cab, prend le thé et porte son fameux deerstalker sur la tête. Son appartenance à l’identité nationale britannique est toutefois plus problématique qu’on ne serait spontanément porté à le croire. Effectivement, Conan Doyle s’est inspiré de deux personnages à la fois marginaux et représentatifs de l’identité nationale française pour imaginer son héros tout aussi marginal et représentatif de sa propre identité nationale : le chevalier Dupin d’Edgar Allan Poe (« Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue », 1841) et monsieur Lecoq d’Émile Gaboriau (L’Affaire Lerouge, 1863). Mais il y a plus. Sherlock Holmes est non seulement né grâce à la France, mais a à son tour donné naissance à des personnages français, dont le gentleman cambrioleur de Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin (« L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin », 1905), et le journaliste de Gaston Leroux, Joseph Rouletabille (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 1907). Tout se passe ici comme si la création de personnages incarnant l’identité nationale devait d’abord passer par la recherche de modèles paradoxaux liés à l’autre puissance nationale. Ancrés dans une période où chaque nation tente de définir son identité, les personnages du corpus incarnent le discours social de l’époque, tout en ayant été créés, paradoxalement, grâce à des personnages issus de la nation voisine. Balisée par le Second Empire et la Belle Époque, la présente thèse se divise en quatre chapitres, portant chacun sur un personnage français. La première partie, intitulée « En amont », se concentre sur Dupin et Lecoq, les deux figures françaises ayant mené Conan Doyle à créer son héros, alors que la seconde partie, « En aval », explore les personnages nés de l’influence de Sherlock Holmes, soit Lupin et Rouletabille. En adoptant une approche entre la socio et la mythocritique et en se basant sur l’herméneutique de la question et de la réponse proposée par Hans Robert Jauss, cette thèse cherche à objectiver les questionnements auxquels la société aurait trouvé des réponses au travers les corpus étudiés, permettant ainsi l’enracinement de Sherlock Holmes et d’Arsène Lupin dans l’imaginaire social et leur survie dans l’imaginaire collectif, et expliquant l’effacement progressif, voire l’oubli, des autres personnages.

In this thesis I analyze detective Sherlock Holmes method based on the semiotics of Ch. S. Peirce. I would like to show that although Holmes detective about his method claim that it is deductive, in-depth analysis shows that this method is far more complex and involves induction and abduction, and that each of these methods has its own importance in the detective's reasoning. The work is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the Sherlock Holmes detective in terms of logical methods. The second part is focused on methods of reasoning by Ch. S. Peirce emphasizing abduction, a hypothesis. The third part is practical and includes analysis of the process of detective Sherlock Holmes based on the thesis of Ch. S. Peirce, as outlined in the second part.`

Hazel Brannon Smith, a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights era was an avowed supporter of Jim Crow segregation for the first half of her career, until pressure from the white establishment and the changing political and social milieu of the 1950s and 1960s pushed her to become an ally of the black struggle for social justice. Smith's biography reveals how many historians have miscast white liberals of this period. Smith was considered a liberal by her peers, but her actions reveal the firm limits of white liberalism in the rural South during the Civil Rights era. While this dissertation undergirds scholarly research over the last twenty years which viewed the fight for civil rights from a grounds root level, it shows how Smith was unique. She never fully escaped her white paternalistic sentiments, yet she spoke out consistently against racial extremism in Mississippi in the 1960s. Based upon newspaper accounts, personal collections, oral histories and recent scholarly treatments, this work argues that the white response to the civil rights movement in Mississippi was far from uniform.

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Title: Service Quality GAP Model - Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl Goal: The aim of this thesis is using service quality GAP model to analyse the causes of the gaps in the process of providing services that Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl offers to its clients. Based on these analyses to make specific recommendations on how to minimize these gaps and improve the quality of services provided. Methods: Service quality GAP model was used as a method for the thesis. The gaps were analysed using a questionnaire survey among the management and employees, personal interviews with the management team and own observations. Results: The results of the analyses are presented by classification crosses, tables and graphs. Based on the analyses there are offered certain suggestions on how to eliminate eventual deficiencies, and thus improve the quality of services provided. The results revealed major shortcomings in the gap 4 (fulfilment of marketing promises marketing communications), and prioritizing the importance of sales at the expense of service quality. Keywords: fitness and wellness, services, sports services, service quality, service quality GAP model, Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Abstract The great detective Sherlock Holmes casts a long shadow on the previous research on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, where Mr. Holmes has been given the main attention. On the periphery, however, a woman named Irene Adler is recognizable. Adler makes her single entrance in the Sherlock Universe in “A Scandal in Bohemia” from 1891 when she outsmarts Mr. Holmes and makes him reconsider the entire female sex as a consequence. In the BBC adaptation Sherlock, the case is however different for the early feminist icon Adler. The portrayal of Adler in the episode “A Scandal in Belgravia” from 2012 is mainly focusing on her sexuality, nudity and seductive personality when meeting Holmes, which has resulted in this essay that aims to study the transformation of Adler from text to screen from a gender perspective. By conducting a comparative study based on gender theory and adaptation theory, the essay finds that there has been a sexualisation and diminishing of independence on behalf of Adler, which relates to common stereotypes in the portrayal of women in film. Through a successive degradation of the female character, it is possible to detect a form of reversed emancipation where the hundred year older predecessor shows greater feminist characteristics than the modern adaptation. / Sammanfattning Mästerdetektiven Sherlock Holmes kastar en lång skugga efter sig och har stått i centrum för majoriteten av forskningen om Sir Arthur Conan Doyles noveller. I periferin återfinns emellertid en kvinna vid namn Irene Adler som i ”A Scandal in Bohemia” från 1891 överlistar Holmes och får honom att omdefiniera hela sin syn på det kvinnliga könet på grund av Adlers intelligens och agens. I BBC:s filmatisering av den berömde detektiven i serien Sherlock har dock stora förändringar skett i transformationen av den feministiska förgrundsgestalten Adler. Porträtteringen av Adler i avsnittet ”A Scandal in Belgravia” från 2012 fokuserar till stor del på hennes sexualitet, avkläddhet och förföriska person i mötet med Holmes, vilket också föranlett denna uppsats vars syfte är att studera porträtteringen av Adler från text till filmduk ur ett genusperspektiv. Genom en komparativ metod grundad i genusteori och adaptionsteori finner uppsatsen att det skett en sexualisering och ett osjälvständiggörande av Adler som överensstämmer väl med många av de vanligt förekommande stereotypiska porträtteringarna av kvinnor på filmduken. Genom en successiv nedbrytning av den kvinnliga karaktären kan ett slags omvänd emancipation skönjas, där den hundra år äldre förlagan visar starkare feministiska förtecken än den moderna adaptionen.