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11	The effect of dietary alterations on growth, productivity, behaviour and preference of broiler breeder females. Morrissey, Krysta 10 September 2012 (has links) This thesis is an investigation of dietary alterations, including the addition of fibre and an appetite suppressant (alternative diet) and the use of a skip-a-day (SAD) feeding regime, which may reduce hunger. Broiler breeders are severely feed restricted to limit growth, leading to symptoms of chronic hunger. We used behavioural indices, feather condition scoring and preference tests were used to compare satiating properties of the diets. Alternative diets reduced symptoms of hunger such as feather, object and aggressive pecking and resulted in better feather condition. Although SAD birds feather pecked more during feeding bouts, SAD birds still had better feather condition than daily birds. Preference testing revealed no differences in dietary preference, implying a lack of preference, or a methodological flaw. However, no aversion to the alternative diet was evident. Alternative diets, regardless of feeding frequency, may be the best option for bettering the welfare of growing broiler breeders. / Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, OMAFRA, Canadian Poultry Research Council
12	From a Xicanadyke Imagination: An Examination of Queer Xicanidad, Citizenship and National Identity through The L Word, The Hungry Woman, and Mosquita y Mari Myers, Antoinette L. 01 January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines the ways in which popular media forms explore ideas of national identity, citizenship, and the politics of representation with regards to queer Xicana women, especially those residing in Los Angeles. Specifically, through an analysis of the television show The L Word, Cherrie Moraga’s play The Hungry Woman and Aurora Guerrero’s film Mosquita y Mari, this thesis argues that the queer Xicana experience is best represented in popular culture by queer Xicanas themselves. thesis xicana queer sexuality The L Word Mosquita y Mari The Hungry Woman American Popular Culture Chicano Studies Other Political Science
13	The silent weapon in war and peace : the power of patriarchy De Bruin, Louise January 2012 (has links) History has proved that too much power, in any form, is detrimental to the greater good of the society concerned. People at the hands of the power-hungry face discrimination and are often subjected to extreme violence and abuse. Society has undergone several changes and progressions through time, including economic, political and social changes. One thing that has remained unchanged however, is man‟s power over woman. Patriarchal power is present in all sectors and scenarios of society, from the home to the international legal system. My study focuses on the notion that an abundance of power leads to fear, violence and total disarray at the micro and macro levels of society. I argue that the essential problem in the relationship between man and woman is not a man‟s abuse of power, but rather that he has too much power in the first place. A culture of entitlement breeds among men, enabling them to treat women as inferior, sub-human objects. Definitions of male and female prove to be concreted into specific roles and gendered identities within the home and the greater society. People fall automatically into these roles, blindly and unquestioningly. It is for this reason that I maintain all members of society ensure the survival of patriarchy – even if they do so unconsciously. While the difference in the understanding of rape and sexual intercourse should be stark, it is blurred because they are defined according to male terms. Man‟s entitlement allows him to think it his right to take sex from a woman, even if she does not offer it willingly. Culture and tradition serve as major obstacles in any possibility of society‟s progression. Culture has proved such an undisputed order in society that it even trumps the international legal system of human rights. Culture justifies, or at least trivialises, the abuse of women. The social stigmatisation of sexual abuse silences women, providing further endorsement for men to continue asserting their power. A woman‟s life, as determined by male hierarchy, gender bias, culture and social stigmas, is therefore fated. It is with this in mind that I strongly question the progression of society into a true form of liberality and equality. In order for society to attain such a transcended state, it will have to disregard everything that it knows and deconstruct everything that has defined it up to that point. Until this is achieved, women will continue to live their lives in fear of the silent weapon in war and peace. / Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / gm2014 / Centre for Human Rights / unrestricted Progressions through time Economic, political and social changes Extreme violence and abuse Human rights Culture Tradition Power-hungry Patriarchal power UCTD
14	Ill at ease in our translated world ecocriticism, language, and the natural environment in the fiction of Michael Ondaatje, Amitav Ghosh, David Malouf and Wilma Stockenström Johnson, Eleanore January 2011 (has links) This thesis explores the thematic desire to establish an ecological human bond with nature in four contemporary novels: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh, An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, and The Expedition to The Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström. These authors share a concern with the influence that language has on human perception, and one of the most significant ways they attempt to connect with the natural world is through somehow escaping, or transcending, what they perceive to be the divisive tendencies of language. They all suggest that human perception is not steered entirely by a disembodied mind, which constructs reality through linguistic and cultural lenses, but is equally influenced by physical circumstances and embodied experiences. They explore the potential of corporeal reciprocity and empathy as that which enables understanding across cultural barriers, and a sense of ecologically intertwined kinship with nature. They all struggle to reconcile their awareness of the potential danger of relating to nature exclusively through language, with a desire to speak for the natural world in literature. I have examined whether they succeed in doing so, or whether they contradict their thematic suspicion of language with their literary medium. I have prioritised a close ecocritical reading of the novels and loosely situated the authors’ approach to nature and language within the broad theoretical frameworks of radical ecology, structuralism and poststructuralism. I suggest that these novels are best analysed in the context of an ecocritical mediation between poststructuralist conceptions of nature as inaccessible cultural construct, and the naïve conception of unmediated, pre-reflective interaction with the natural world. I draw especially on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose insistence that perception is always both embodied and culturally mediated truly renders culture and nature irreducible, intertwined categories. By challenging historical dualisms like mind/body and culture/nature, the selected novels suggest a more fluid and discursive understanding of the perceived conflict between language and nature, whilst problematizing the perception of language as merely a cultural artefact. Moreover, they are examples of the kind of literature that has the potential to positively influence our human conception of nature, and adapt us better to our ecological context on a planet struggling for survival. Ghosh, Amitav. The hungry tide Malouf, David, 1934- An imaginary life Ecocriticism Human ecology in literature Nature in literature
15	Outside looking in stand-up comedy, rebellion, and Jewish identity in early post-World War II America / Taylor, John Matthew. January 2010 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010. / Title from screen (viewed on February 26, 2010). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jason M. Kelly, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Monroe H. Little. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-125).
16	"Der Funke Leben". Darstellungen des Konzentrationslagers in Erich Maria Remarques Roman / "Der Funke Leben". Aspects of an concentration camp in Erich Maria Remarques novel. JANDOVÁ, Tereza January 2012 (has links) My thesis describes a fictional concentration camp Mellern, that lies in Germany, and that made up and described E.M.Remarque. He donated this novel to his sister Elfriede, who was killed by Nazis. I wanted to show how the concentration camp looked like during the World War Two, in which parts it was divided and how it was divided. Then I describe and interpret the main characters of the novel. I occupy with the prisoners? feelings. The most important feeling is the hope. The prisoners would probably not have survived without the hope. The hope that keeps them alive and gives them courage and self-confidence to fight and not to give up.
17	Outside Looking In: Stand-Up Comedy, Rebellion, and Jewish Identity in Early Post-World War II America Taylor, John Matthew January 2010 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Before the “sick” comedians arrived onto the comedy landscape political and culturally based humor was considered taboo, but the 1950s witnessed a dramatic transformation to the art of stand-up comedy. The young comedians, including Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, became critical of American Cold War policies and the McCarthyistic culture that loomed over the nation’s society. The new stand-up comics tapped into a growing subculture of beatniks and the younger generation at large that rebelled against the conservative ideals that dominated the early post-war decade by performing politically and socially laced commentary on stage in venues that these groups frequented. The two comedians that best represent this comedic era are Jewish comics Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce. Their comedy was more politically oriented than the other “sick” comics, and they started an entertainment revolution with their new style. They became legendary by challenging the status quo during a historically conservative time, and inspired numerous comics to take the stage and question basic Cold War assumptions about race, gender, and communism. Post-War Jewish Identity Sahl, Mort Bruce, Lenny Jews -- Identity Jewish comedians Stand-up comedy Comedy Politics, Practical -- United States Cold War
18	Les écritures de la faim : éléments pour une ontologie de la faim / The writings of hunger : elements for an ontology of hunger / As escrituras da fome : elementos para uma ontologia da fome Lucereau, Jérôme 13 December 2016 (has links) Le thème de la faim est récurrent dans les littératures du monde entier. primordial, originel, ce thème, dont le champ lexical est souvent convoqué pour attester de l'importance des pulsions humaines, ne fait pourtant l'objet, jusqu'à présent, que de peu d'intérêts de la part des spécialistes de la littérature générale comparée tout comme, d'ailleurs, de la part des philosophes. il s'agit donc d'établir un corpus représentatif des typologies d'écriture de la faim, de proposer une ou plusieurs taxinomie(s) pour, ensuite, approfondir l'analyse critique des différents discours de la faim par plusieurs topiques portant sur l'identité des affamés, les mythes de la faim, la mystique,le jeûne, l'humour de la faim ou bien encore les conséquences particulières de la faim lorsqu'elle est instrumentalisée par un pouvoir politique. cette large analyse critique des différents discours de (et sur) la faim doit permettre d'envisager la crédibilité et les éléments structurants de ce qui pourrait être désigné comme une ‘ontologie de la faim' au sens d'une refondation des rapports de l'homme et de son environnement. le corpus d'œuvres n'est pas restreint à une époque ou à une zone géographique particulière. il s'agit de puiser tout autant dans les littératures anciennes, classiques, modernes, postmodernes que contemporaines dans la mesure où la faim n'est pas l'apanage d'un temps ou d'une civilisation particuliers mais une donnée brute, première et native de l'humain. / The theme of hunger is recurrent in the literatures of the entire world. Primordial, original, this theme, which the lexical field is often summoned to attest to the importance of human impulses, is not yet a subject of great interest on the part of literary scholars General and compared, as well as from the philosophers. The purpose of this work is therefore to establish a representative pattern of writings of the hunger, to define typologies of hunger, to provide one or more taxonomy (s) to then deepen the critical analysis of various speeches from hunger by several topics as the identity of the hungry man, hunger myths, mysticism and fasting, the humour of the hunger, the particular consequences of hunger when it is manipulated by a political power, the ethics of starvation, etc. This broad critical analysis of the different discourses of hunger should allow to consider the credibility and the structuring elements of what could be called an "ontology of hunger" in the sense of a radical reform and rebuilding of the reports of the man and his environment. The references used in this work are not restricted to a time or a particular geographical area. We’ll tap as much in ancient literatures, classical, modern, postmodern, contemporary as well as technical studies because hunger is not the prerogative of a time or a particular civilization but raw, first and original data of the human being. / O tema da fome é quase sistemático nas literaturas do mundo inteiro. Primordial, original, esse assunto (cuja léxico é bastante utilizado como campo metafórico para descrever as pulsões humanas, (amor, paixão, ódio, etc.)foi, portanto, pouco examinado e são poucas as estudas que se focalizam sobre este tema, seja literárias ou filosóficas.O alcance da tese é descrever essa "terra desconhecida" e propor uma taxinomia dos famintos assim que, depois de pesquisar a identidade dos famintos, os mitos da fome, a mística dela, o humor e as consequências sobre a política, o poder e os aspectos jurídicos, elaborar um ontologia da fome ou, pelo menos, os primeiros elementos desse ontologia que poderia liderar uma mudança importante sobre a origem do sentido ética da fome. Affamé Aliment Anorexie. Besoins Boulimie Concept de faim Dévoration Digestion Exil Excrétion Faim Famine Grève de la faim Humour Honte Identité des affamés Ingestion Isolement Jeûne Manque Mystique Mythe Nourriture Ontologie Origine Politique Repas Révolte Taxinomie Typologie de la faim Violence Anorexia Bulimia Concept of hunger Devouring Digestion Exile Fasting Food. Humour Hunger Hunger strike Hungry Identity Ingestion Isolation Lack Meal Mystical Needs Ontology Origin Politic Powder Revolt Shame Starvation. Taxonomy Typology Violence Fome Faminto Politica da fome Seca Estetica da fome Violencia da fome Retirantes Fome zero Mitologia da fome Escritura da fome

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