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A Phenomenological Case Study of a Principal Leadership: The Influence of Mr. Clark's Leadership on Students, Teachers and Administrators at Eastside High SchoolMiller, Olandha Pinky 11 August 2011 (has links)
Joe Louis Clark was the principal of Eastside High School (EHS) located in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Mr. Clark’s leadership style as principal of EHS, and to investigate from the point of view of Mr. Clark’s former students, teachers, and administrators what, if any effect, his leadership style had at EHS, as well as on his students, teachers, and administrators’ lives during and subsequent to their time at EHS. I conducted this investigation by giving voice to my classmates, teachers, administrators and myself. I graduated from EHS during Mr. Clark’s tenure and I am a member of his first graduating class in 1986.
When Mr. Clark arrived as principal, EHS was characterized by large numbers of students living at or below the poverty line, overcrowded classrooms, and outdated resources. Additionally, there were issues such as: high dropout rates, drugs, teenage pregnancy, violence towards students and teachers. In an attempt to raise the students’ Minimum Basic Skills Test scores and eliminate the violence at EHS, Mr. Clark was hired as the principal.
Through face-to-face and telephone semi-structured, open ended in-depth interviews with twenty-two participants, I uncovered personal views of Mr. Clark’s leadership style. Mr. Clark used a leadership style that was characterized by the informants as autocratic, directive, charismatic and caring. The voices of his students, teachers, and administrators speak volumes about the strategies he developed that made an impact on their lives in addition to reforming EHS.
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Performing Taboo: The Creation of an Aesthetic through the Exploration of Censorship in Theatre and the Challenges of Directing Killer JoeZimmerman, David Todd 30 November 2012 (has links)
This document explores the performance of taboo on the stage. The exploration is focused around the establishment of my personal aesthetic, which was developed through my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Starting with my first trip to Broadway, my journey goes through the class work that I did at VCU and the two plays that I did on the Shafer Street Alliance Laboratory Theatre stage: my performance and use of latex costumes in Funnyhouse of a Negro, and my direction and the troubles with producing Killer Joe. The exploration concludes with a look at the theatre in parts of Virginia and the ability to pursue an acting career with an aesthetic that pushes boundaries.
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[en] BLOOD, GUTS, CHARACTERS AND MOVIE: A GLANCE AT JOSÉ MOJICA MARINS TERROR / [pt] SANGUE, TRIPAS, LETRAS E PELÍCULA: UM OLHAR SOBRE O TERROR EM JOSÉ MOJICA MARINSANNA CAROLINA CABRAL DE ANDRADE DA MATTA MACHADO 05 December 2003 (has links)
[pt] Esta dissertação faz uma leitura do terror na obra do
cineasta José Mojica Marins. A condição - instável - e a
trajetória - incomum - deste cineasta maldito na história
do cinema nacional passa por uma lógica de esfumaçamento
compulsório, onde o diretor se viu obrigado a investir em
novos campos: o texto, a televisão, o rádio e, mais
recentemente, a Internet, para poder continuar
insistindo/investindo na árdua tarefa de roteirizar,
produzir e lançar seus mais de 30 filmes. A intenção é
entender porque sua história se deu desta forma. Que
semelhanças e diferenças guarda com os clássicos de terror?
Até que ponto pode ser considerado um descendente do teatro
francês do Grand Guignol? Muito mais do que desfiar
conceitos fechados sobre a literatura do fantástico
abordando os ingredientes das ficções, a idéia é fazer uma
análise do terror em seus aspectos contemporâneos e
culturais, traçando um paralelo com a biografia do diretor. / [en] This dissertation reads the horror in the film maker s José
Mojica Marins work. The unstable condition and the
uncommon career of this dammed film maker in the history of
the Brazilian movie industry passes as a compulsory
evanescence logic, where the director was forced to explore
new fields: text, television, radio and, more recently, the
Internet, in order to keep on insisting/investing in the
arduous task of making scripts, producing and releasing
his more than 30 films. The intention is to understand why
his history happened this way. What similarities and
differences does it keep with the classics? To what
extent can he be considered as a descendent of the French
theatre of the Grand Guignol? Much more than analyse narrow
concepts about the fantastic literature approaching
fictions ingredients, the idea is to make an analysis of
the horror in its contemporary and cultural aspects
relating it to the director s biography.
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[en] VAR EVALUATION OF EMERGING AND DEVELOPED MARKETS VIA DYNAMIC COPULA MODELS / [pt] AVALIAÇÃO DE VAR DE MERCADOS EMERGENTES E DESENVOLVIDOS VIA MODELOS DE CÓPULAS DINÂMICASFLAVIO LUCIO DE OLIVEIRA COELHO 30 August 2013 (has links)
[pt] Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar como a crise do subprime
impactou a estrutura de dependência entre os mercados emergentes e
desenvolvidos, utilizando como proxy para esses mercados os índices MSCI
(Morgan Stanley Capital International). A metodologia proposta é baseada na
construção de distribuições bivariadas através de cópulas condicionais. A
distribuição marginal de cada um dos índices é obtida via ajuste de modelos
GARCH univariados e a modelagem de dependência é realizada através das
cópulas normal, normal GAS (Generalised Autoregressive Score) e Joe-
Clayton simétrica, considerando os parâmetros fixos (forma estática) ou
variantes no tempo (forma dinâmica). Diante dos resultados obtidos, a cópula
normal GAS (variantes no tempo) com quebra estrutural se mostrou a mais
adequada para capturar a dependência entre os retornos dos mercados
emergentes e desenvolvidos. Através do arcabouço utilizado pode-se verificar
que as medidas de correlação e de dependência de cauda entre os mercados
emergentes e desenvolvidos aumentaram significativamente no período da crise
do suprime. Por fim, avaliou-se o ajuste das diversas cópulas aqui propostas via
VaR (Value at Risk), verificando-se que a cópula normal GAS apresentou o
melhor ajuste. / [en] The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how the subprime crisis impacted
the dependence structure among the emerging and developed markets by using
the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) market index as proxy for each
of these markets. The proposed methodology is based on the construction of
bivariate distributions via conditional copulas. The marginal distribution for each
of the indexes makes use of univariate GARCH models and model dependence
is captured via the following copulas: normal, normal GAS (Generalised
Autoregressive Score) and Joe-Clayton symmetric considering both fixed
parameters (static framework) and time varying parameters (dynamic
framework). Our results show that the normal GAS copula with structural break
was the most adequate to capture dependence between the returns of emerging
and developed markets. Throughout the proposed framework it was possible to
infer that correlation and tail dependence measures between these markets
sharply increased during the subprime crisis. Finally VaR (Value at Risk)
coverage was used as goodness of fit measure, and on this metric the normal
GAS copula has also outperformed the others.
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A Phenomenological Case Study of a Principal Leadership: The Influence of Mr. Clark's Leadership on Students, Teachers and Administrators at Eastside High SchoolMiller, Olandha Pinky 11 August 2011 (has links)
Joe Louis Clark was the principal of Eastside High School (EHS) located in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Mr. Clark’s leadership style as principal of EHS, and to investigate from the point of view of Mr. Clark’s former students, teachers, and administrators what, if any effect, his leadership style had at EHS, as well as on his students, teachers, and administrators’ lives during and subsequent to their time at EHS. I conducted this investigation by giving voice to my classmates, teachers, administrators and myself. I graduated from EHS during Mr. Clark’s tenure and I am a member of his first graduating class in 1986.
When Mr. Clark arrived as principal, EHS was characterized by large numbers of students living at or below the poverty line, overcrowded classrooms, and outdated resources. Additionally, there were issues such as: high dropout rates, drugs, teenage pregnancy, violence towards students and teachers. In an attempt to raise the students’ Minimum Basic Skills Test scores and eliminate the violence at EHS, Mr. Clark was hired as the principal.
Through face-to-face and telephone semi-structured, open ended in-depth interviews with twenty-two participants, I uncovered personal views of Mr. Clark’s leadership style. Mr. Clark used a leadership style that was characterized by the informants as autocratic, directive, charismatic and caring. The voices of his students, teachers, and administrators speak volumes about the strategies he developed that made an impact on their lives in addition to reforming EHS.
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Champions noirs dans une Amérique blanche : la politisation de l'image raciale de Jack Johnson et Joe LouisPilon, Guillaume January 2008 (has links) (PDF)
Dans le cadre de ce mémoire, nous entendons démontrer, par le biais d'une étude comparative, la résonance raciale et politique des carrières de Jack Johnson (1908-1915) et Joe Louis (1937-1949). Ces deux hommes furent non seulement les deux premiers athlètes afro-américains à transcender la barrière raciale dans la boxe pour s'élever au titre convoité de champion du monde des poids lourds, ils influencèrent aussi l'avènement d'un symbolisme identitaire directement lié au sport. À travers l'image raciale stimulée par ces deux athlètes, nous voulons analyser le processus de politisation qui a accompagné leur présence sur la scène publique et le rôle prépondérant qu'il a joué dans le contrôle de leur représentativité au sein de la société, plus particulièrement auprès des Noirs américains. Cette notion de représentativité, qui occupera une place importante tout au long de ce mémoire, vise d'abord et avant tout à mettre en lumière l'influence directe des deux athlètes sur la population noire et sur le déroulement des relations raciales américaines. Ainsi, à travers le concept de politisation, la présente recherche vise d'abord et avant tout à souligner le rôle marquant de certaines instances gouvernementales et législatives qui, sous le couvert d'une rhétorique à la fois moraliste et propagandiste, ont directement interféré dans le conditionnement de l'image raciale des deux athlètes. En ce sens, notre recherche superpose au cadre purement sportif une approche interprétative qui englobe les différents facteurs contextuels qui ont joué un rôle décisif dans l'émergence de l'image véhiculée par les protagonistes à l'étude. Si la carrière sportive des deux athlètes est bien détaillée dans l'historiographie, en revanche, peu d'études ont démontré le lien direct entre l'image que ceux-ci véhiculaient à l'extérieur du domaine sportif et l'ambivalence qui a entouré la répression et la récupération du symbolisme racial des deux hommes à des fins de propagande et de contrôle social. Par ailleurs, la dichotomie qui s'est opérée dans le conditionnement politique et racial de leur image respective est un aspect qui a été largement négligé par la littérature existante. En ce sens, à défaut d'être purement descriptive, cette recherche propose un regard nouveau sur les différents éléments ayant pu conduire ou influencer la construction du paradigme représentatif des deux athlètes au sein même du système sportif, mais aussi en dehors de celui-ci. De ce fait, nous soutenons que Johnson et Louis, malgré leur séparation chronologique dans le temps, sont interreliés par des facteurs qui ont eu une incidence directe sur la projection de leur identité singulière. Le présent mémoire vise aussi à analyser le rôle de la conduite sociale adoptée par Johnson et Louis pour expliquer les motifs qui ont stimulé l'édification du processus de politisation extra-sportif dont ils furent l'objet. D'autre part, parallèlement à l'importance prépondérante de l'image raciale projetée par les deux hommes, nous soutenons qu'à travers l'internationalisation progressive du sport comme vecteur d'une nouvelle représentativité nationale, se trouve une composante primordiale quant à l'explication des divergences ayant entouré le symbolisme sportif des deux athlètes. Ainsi, la relation intime entre la boxe et l'identité nationale, relation qui s'est forgée au gré du renforcement évolutif de la globalisation du sport comme culture de masse au cours des années 1930, permet d'établir, du moins en partie, une compréhension plus profonde de l'impact national des deux athlètes. Bref, à travers les différents moyens utilisés par le gouvernement américain pour contrôler la répression de l'image de Jack Johnson et pour favoriser la promotion de celle de Joe Louis à des fins de propagande raciale, nous voulons mettre en perspective la rupture qui s'est opérée dans le modelage de leur valeur représentative. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Boxe, Suprématie raciale, Répression, Propagande, Identité raciale, Identité nationale.
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Presidential Manifestation of Verbal Dominance : A discourse analysis of conversational dominance strategies employed by Joe Biden and Donald TrumpAlafifi, Markus January 2021 (has links)
This study aims to observe linguistic disparities in the distribution of the conversational dominance strategies interruptions, amount of talk, and questions in the first U.S. 2020 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Subsequently, these findings establish the evaluation of how the interactive phenomena relate to the masculinity conceptualizations of hegemonic masculinity and subordination. To examine the study objective, the methodology conducted was a discourse analysis of the debate transcript. Hence, the method intended to measure to which extent Biden and Trump employed interruptions, amount of talk, and questions during the debate. The outcome of the review established the discursive dominance framework used to discuss how the presidential candidates demonstrated adherence to diverse masculinities’ conceptualizations. The discourse analysis outcome revealed an asymmetrical distribution of the interactive phenomena across all variables measured in favor of Donald Trump. These results suggest that Trump’s discursive performance signaled adherence to hegemonic masculinity norms to a greater extent than Biden through employing more conversational dominance strategies during the debate. Consequently, Biden’s discursive performance indicated closer relations to masculine subordination than Trump’s performance.
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Donald Trump, Joe Biden och det religiösa USA : Analys av tal från Donald Trump och Joe Biden ur en religiös kontext. / Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the religious USA : Analysis of speeches from Donald Trump and Joe Biden out of a religious context.Ladenstedt, Felicia January 2023 (has links)
We all know the great impact religion has had on the western civilization throughout an exceptional amount of time. It has been prevalent in a lot of fields and the political field is to no exception. Though The United States of America was founded on secular governmental terms, religion has come to have an immense impact on the field. In this dissertation, the two latest presidents of the country, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be studied in the context of their speeches at the annual “National Prayer Breakfast”. The method used is that the transcripts of their speeches have been analyzed through three concepts: reality, utopia, and strategy they have then separately been linked to the domain religion.
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THE MODELS OF EMPOWERED FEMININITY WE OFFER YOUNG BOYS: AMERICAN ANIMATED ACTION TEAMS AND THE TOKEN FEMALEDiebler, Matthew David 28 March 2007 (has links)
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“The United States stands with the people of Israel.” : A Political Discourse Analysis of Joe Biden's Posts from the Platform XLundberg, Felicia January 2024 (has links)
Through recent years social media has become a useful platform for politicians to share their political ideologies with their followers. An example of such a platform is X(formerly Twitter) where politicians regularly post statements for their followers. Donald Trump, the former American president, particularly stands out for his memorable “fake news” statements. Numerous studies have been done on the correlation between X and political discourse. This study will further this research by looking at the political discourse of American President Joe Biden on his official X account, @POTUS. This study will look at posts from Joe Biden regarding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The study aims to gain a better understanding of how Biden represents himself and The United States through his discourse. The analytical tools for this analysis will be speech acts per the Speech Act Theory, as defined by John Searle and George Yule, and personal deixis. 116 posts were saved from Biden ́s account, where 73 posts containing only text were chosen for analysis. The results from the analysis showed a tendency to use assertive, commissive, and expressive strategies and a high frequency in personal deixis wherein the pronouns “I” and “we” were used the most. The results showed that Biden ́s discourse helped represent himself and The United States as proactive, empathetic, and engaged actors in the war. Biden conveyed a strong stance in support of Israel while also expressing concern for Palestinian civilians.
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