Excerpt: Ralph Peer’s 1927 Bristol Sessions were revolutionary in their influence, but the Johnson City Sessions recordings, overseen by Columbia’s pioneering A&R scout Frank B. Walker, reflect Walker’s more eclectic tastes and keener sense of humor. Indeed, the recordings from the Johnson City Sessions provide a distinctly different portrayal of Appalachian music.

L'environnement dans lequel oeuvre l'entreprise a évolué au cours des dernières décennies. Partant des années 1930 vers le début des années 1980, l'entreprise évoluait selon l'idéologie du modèle de loyauté réciproque, ou plus communément désigné comme concept de stakeholder. Selon ce modèle, les dirigeants ont la responsabilité de conserver dans leur gestion un sain équilibre entre les intérêts de leurs employés, des actionnaires, des clients et de la société en général ou toute autre partie prenante pertinente. La sécurité d'emploi est garantie au personnel qui en retour, assure loyauté et fidélité à l'entreprise qui l'embauche. Plusieurs évènements se sont combinés et sont ainsi venus perturber la dynamique du modèle de loyauté réciproque vers le début des années 1980. Ces évènements peuvent être catégorisés sous trois principaux marchés. Le premier de ces marchés concerne les produits et services qui a subi les contre coups des vagues de déréglementation et de l'ouverture des marchés à l'international. Viennent ensuite les pressions en provenance des marchés financiers qui ont considérablement modifié l'ordre d'importance des parties prenantes, au cours des années 1980, reléguant ainsi l'employé et la communauté aux derniers rangs pour faire place à l'actionnaire comme principal acteur disciple de la maximisation de la valeur. La récession de 1981-1982 est un point tournant de la répudiation de l'entreprise du principe d'emploi à vie. La croissance de la mobilité poussa alors l'employé à rechercher la maximisation de sa valeur marchande, causant ainsi l'émergence d'un marché secondaire du talent. Ce mémoire porte sur l'analyse de ces facteurs de changements. L'objectif est de déterminer que certaines entreprises conservent des éléments caractéristiques du modèle de loyauté réciproque dans un monde où le modèle de marché est prédominant. Le cas de l'entreprise Johnson & Johnson de l'industrie pharmaceutique américaine est utilisé afin de démontrer cet état de fait.

The metaphor has been among us since a very long time, but despite over 1.000 years of reflection it is still uncertain how one should understand the concept. There are few, if any, doubts how to understand the definition of metaphor, but is it possible to find a real distinction between the metaphorical and the non-metaphorical? In this essay I seek an answer to when a metaphor is a metaphor or when it is instead a generally accepted concept of how something actually is. I will use previous research on the topic from Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ricoeur and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. These persons have given me a wide perspective and approach to the metaphor – and when a word should be considered as a metaphor or not. Through deep discussion on these theories I work out my own view on the issue: It is not the words themselves that are metaphors; it is we, in combination with the context, discourse and expressions that determines the metaphor and when it shall be considered as a metaphor. / Metaforen har funnits ibland oss under en lång tid, men trots över 1 000 år av begrundan är det fortfarande ovisst hur man bör förstå begreppet. Själva definitionen i sig råder det inga större tvivel om, men kan vi finna en riktig distinktion mellan det metaforiska och det ickemetaforiska? I uppsatsen undersöks när en metafor är en metafor eller när det istället är ett allmänt vedertaget begrepp om hur något faktiskt förhåller sig. Tidigare forskning kring ämnet som jag valt att använda mig av har jag hämtat från Aristoteles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ricoeur och George Lakoff och Mark Johnson. Dessa personer har givit mig olika perspektiv och synsätt på metaforen – och när ett ord bör betraktas som metafor eller inte. Genom djupgående diskussion kring dessa teorier arbetar jag fram min egen uppfattning angående frågan: Det är inte orden i sig som är metaforer, det är vi, i kombination med sammanhang, diskurs och uttryckssätt som avgör metaforen och när den skall betraktas som just metafor.

Lyndon Johnson, the thirty-sixth President, had a profound affect on the Democratic Party in America. Johnson was contradictory, supportive, and harmful to the Democratic Party during the middle decades of the twentieth century. In a new interpretation of Johnson the politician, this dissertation explores Johnson's early partisan development and ascent as Democratic Leader in the United States Senate. Furthermore this dissertation evaluates the reasons for Johnson's ambiguous relationship with the Democratic Party. Johnson's first teacher in the art of Democratic politics was his father, Sam Ealy Johnson. This revisionist study of Johnson emphasizes for the first time how Sam Ealy Johnson taught his son about the art of pragmatic political behavior. However, his father's lessons and Johnson's early application of political knowledge was in the context of the Democratic one-party world of Texas politics. Johnson took his understanding of politics in a hegemonic Democratic system and soon applied it to a series of positions first as a Congressional Secretary, then as a New Deal administrator, and later as Congressman and Senator. By the end of his first senate term, Johnson's vision of what it meant to be a Democrat had changed little. Yet his focus on achieving consensus put him in opposition to the political objective of other Democrats. The partisan problems Johnson encountered after six years only increased later in his Senate career and as President. / text

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Dr. Samuel Johnson noted in his "Preface to Shakespeare" that ". . . human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty never becomes infallible . . . ." This observation is the central concern which unifies the diversity of thought and form in Johnson's work, a central unity which this thesis has illustrated chiefly with examples from The Rambler.The first of six chapters chronologically surveys the scholarship which is related to this topic, noting first that the criticism generally has overlooked Johnson's concern with questions about the nature of perception, judgment, comprehension, and understanding. Instead typical evaluations of Johnson's work have described it as attitude or prejudice rendered in grandiloquent style--content contained within static form--a flat conception which either ignores or misunderstands Johnson's process of building into his work questions concerning the perceptions embodied there. This chapter begins by documenting an initial barrier to anunderstanding of Johnson's work: the interference of his personality. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, biographies of Johnson overshadowed his own work, largely deflecting serious critical attention from that work. However, the survey further notes that there were critics during these centuries who observed this problem and argued for a redirected scholarly attention to the work itself. The survey then concludes by noting that these arguments were picked up in the twentieth century and translated into serious textual criticism of Johnson's work, particularly his periodical essays.Chapter two argues that for a full understanding of Johnson's work, it must be viewed against the backdrop of a shaping concern. The chapter identifies this concern as Johnson's desire to connect experience with its meaning or consequence. Although we automatically assume that monumental or panoramic happenings have meaning, Johnson desired to make clear that these larger meanings were merely the accumulation of less significant meanings. Consequently, the concern which shapes and directs his work is his effort to illuminate a connection between the seemingly insignificant events of everyday life and the larger human meaning of which they are a part.Using citations from Johnson's Dictionary, Rasselas, and the Rambler, chapter three documents Johnson's additional perception that the human condition is a state of "universal uncertainty." In Johnson's view, uncertainty is a universally experienced characteristic of the human condition. Indeed, uncertainty is not simply one part of our condition; it comprises human experience.This uncertain condition results in Johnson's frequently expressed reservations about the reliability of human judgment. Chapter four analyzes Johnson's assertion that individual perception is inferior to the accumulating mass of a collective human understanding.Johnson's alternative response to the demands of uncertainty is described in chapter five. To counteract the egocentricity of individual perception, Johnson argues that judgment must be the product of moral reflection rather than intellectual ratiocination.This assertion then is embodied in a writing process which constantly attempts to outmaneuver the ability of the human intelligence to defeat its own best interests--a tendency which is largely the product of solipsistic shortsightedness. Chapter six provides examples of this writing process as it occurs in particular essays. Explications of these essays then demonstrate the active vision which is the paper's major subject.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University, Dept. of Graduate Studies in Religious Instruction.

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala universitet, 1984. / Summary in English. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 157-164.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University, Dept. of Graduate Studies in Religious Instruction. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.