Music participation, specifically in an ensemble setting, is known to promote learning and social skills and to contribute to a well-rounded overall education. With this in mind, this qualitative, constructivist grounded theory study explored the impacts that participating in chorus, band, or orchestra has on students’ overall experience in middle school, with a focus on joy and identity development. The researcher interviewed fifteen students about their personal experiences and feelings about their lives as middle schoolers and musicians. The findings, shared in six theoretical concepts tied to the research question, reveal important facets of these students’ experiences that shed light on the value of music education and ensemble opportunities at the middle school level. The discourse shared by the participants communicates to educators and other stakeholders how critical music is to their individual and school lives, and how different the experience might be without it.

The Joys of Gardening is a virtual experience in which the viewers are invited to roam and explore a garden maze scattered with features including a greenhouse, a fountain, a gazebo, and a variety of personal gardening videos. One of the main attractions includes an opportunity to interact with a tomato plant and observe different stages of its growth. These elements combined are essential to the piece's purpose: to spread the passion and joys of gardening. There are many therapeutic effects to gardening such as: the sun helps people be happy, working with the soil allows a sense of giving life, and watching a plant grow can inspire the joy of gardening and the joy of discovery. As the viewer inhabits the space, they are engulfed into a world of butterflies, birds chirping, and serene lighting. This experience has a set aesthetic, narrative, and user interaction. By utilizing these elements, they are able to enjoy a relaxing stroll through the maze. This paper will discuss the influence behind the experience, stylistic choices, and user interactions. This experience continues to explore the potentials of blending the physical landscape and the digital landscape. / Master of Fine Arts / The Joys of Gardening is a virtual experience that provides the viewer an opportunity to explore a garden maze. The maze is filled with different elements with which they can interact. These include videos of my personal garden, a greenhouse with an interactive tomato plant, and a gazebo and a pond filled with koi fish. The project offers a digital space for viewers to escape into a world filled with butterflies, flowers, and the sounds of birds chirping. The purpose of this piece is to inspire and spread the joys of gardening to anyone and everyone. This paper will discuss the style, audio, and interaction choices to create the full project.

Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

This essay starts out in the world of art science looking out through the glasses of Anne D’Allevas analysis of performance and videoart, digital art and Roland Bathes Semiotics. By using Meta narratives and Popular culture we will examine how one music video and one video artwork lives in the same sphere. The point of this essay is to raise awareness of how popular culture is viewed both within, but also outside of the academic world. This essays will thoroughly analyze and discuss the differences that can be discovered when comparing music videos to video art. By connecting these findings to meta narratives we will uncover cultural and time specific traits, temporalities and narrative-structures.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur relationen mellan människa och djur framställs i den samtida realistiska litteraturen för att diskutera motsägelsefulla etiska aspekter av djursynen i den industrialiserade delen av världen. Genom att i analysen av romanen Vi är alla helt utom oss av Karen Joy Fowler utgå från djurstudier är ambitionen att synliggöra och ifrågasätta rådande normer kring djursyn. Fowler illustrerar hur en nära relation till ett annat djur kan skapa medkänsla för andra levande varelser, påverka livsval och förändra sättet vi agerar på. Genom att minska distanseringen arterna emellan och leva med andra djur kan människan få en mer empatisk djursyn och förlegade idéer om att utnyttja djur kan ifrågasättas. Fowlers roman visar att olikheterna mellan arter snarare handlar om uppträdande än om beteckning, vilket öppnar för en diskussion kring multiarter. Det framgår också att språket saknar förmågan att spegla verklighetens rikedom och komplexitet när det rör sig om identitet. / The purpose of the thesis is to examine how the relation between human and animal is depicted in the contemporary realistic literature and to discuss contradictory ethical aspects of the Western view of animals. Using Animal Studies, the analysis of the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler questions the prevailing norms around the view of animals in our society. Fowler’s novel illustrates how a close relationship with another animal can create compassion for other living beings, influence the choices we make and may change the way we act. By reducing the distance between species, humans can develop a stronger understanding for animals and start to question norms and outdated ideas about exploiting animals. Fowler’s novel shows that the differences between species concerns behavior rather than designation, which opens up for a discussion about multi-species. It is clear that language lacks the ability to reflect the richness and complexity of reality when it comes to identity.

In this thesis, the author explores what trans joy can be, and how it manifests in trans people’s everyday lives. Sara Ahmed’s theoretical framework Queer Phenomenology (2006) along with B Lee Aultman’s Trans Phenomenology (2018) directs the analysis towards an epistemological understanding of transness and trans joy. The limits and possibilities of trans joy are understood through its interaction with, and deviation from hegemonic binary gender norms that marginalize trans folks. Together with Jack Halberstam’s concept of The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Ace Lehner’s trans-focused concept Trans Failure (2022), the study shows how failing to accomplish the cisnormative script is in fact something positive. Embracing one's true gender identity becomes a liberating experience.

Thesis(PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2012 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theories of lexical semantics have undergone an evolutionary development for centuries. Geeraerts (2010) has traced their development from the historical-philological era (circa 1880) until the early 21st century. The current situation finds two basic approaches to lexical studies, with scholars positioned on a continuum from a minimalist position to a maximalist position. The former makes a demarcation between linguistics and pragmatics, relegating word meaning to pragmatics and a separation of word knowledge from world knowledge. The latter argues that there can be no separation made between lexical meaning and contextual meaning (word knowledge and world knowledge). The study is based on insights from the maximalist perspective. Second, it proposes that it is necessary to approach semantical studies with a composite approach taking into consideration frames, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, prototype, Idealized Cognitive Models, grammar and figurative uses of language (including non-verbal expressions and symbolic gestures) in order to have a full understanding of the concept a word or expression symbolizes. Third, all of the occurrences of a word or expression that appear in a corpus are analyzed in order to determine a possible range of polysemy as it is expressed in actual language usage. Finally, the context of the research is Bible Translation. One question asked in the investigation is, what information gleaned from the composite model can be appropriately presented in a specialist bilingual lexicon based on a frame model? The results of the research using the eclectic model provided a very broad understanding of some of the lexemes associated with JOY in biblical Hebrew. It was determined that these lexemes were associated with a concept of JOY that was very similar to the five-stage EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor proposed by Kövecses (2010) for emotions in English. Second, the investigation was able to verify the core features of JOY—volition, desire, determination and satisfaction—and to indicate how different construal operations activated specific features of the meaning potential in each linguistic frame. Third, the differences and similarities of each of the specific lexemes that were studied were determined and described. Fourth, it was demonstrated how the appropriate information needed by translators could be described and suggested for entry into a bilingual (biblical Hebrew-English) lexicon designed specifically for Bible Translators. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Teoriee van leksikale semantiek het deur die eeue ‘n evolusionere proses deurloop. Geeraerts (2010) het hierdie ontwikkeling vanaf die histories-filologiese era (ongeveer 1880) tot vroeg in die 21ste eeu nagespoor. Huidiglik kan leksikale studies in twee kampe verdeel word, en geleerdes bevind hulle tipies op ‘n kontinuum tussen ‘n minimalistiese en maksimalisties posisie. Eersgenoemde maak ‘n duidelike onderskeid tussen linguistiek en pragmatiek en religeer woordbetekenis tot pragmatiek en onderskei kennis van ‘n woord van kennis van die wereld. Laasgenoemde argumenteer dat daar geen onderskeid gemaak kan word tussen leksikale betekenis en kontekstuele betekenis nie (woordkennis en kennis van die wêreld). Hierdie studie berus op insigte van die maksimalistiese perspektief. Tweedens, dit stel voor dat dit nodig is om semantiese studies te benader met ‘n meervoudig saamgestelde benadering. So ‘n benadering neem in ag die raamwerk (“frame”), konseptuele metafoor en metonomie, prototipe, “Idealized Cognitive Models”, grammatika en figuurlike gebruike van taal (insluitend nie-verbale uitdrukkings en simboliese gebare) sodat by ‘n deeglike verstaan van die konsep wat ‘n woord of uitdrukking simboliseer, gekom kan word. Derdens, al die gebruike van ‘n woord of uitdrukking wat in ‘n korpus voorkom, word ontleed om te bepaal of ‘n polisemiese verband gepostuleer kan word tussen die uitdrukkings soos dit gebruik word. Ten slotte, die konteks van hierdie studie is Bybelvertaling. Een vraag wat konsekwent in die ondersoek gevra is, is welke informasie wat verkry is deur die meervoudig saamgestelde benadering kan op ‘n gepaste manier aangebied word in ‘n tweetalige leksikon wat rus op ‘n raamwerkmodel (“frame model”). Die resultate van die navorsing waarin die eklektiese model gebruik is, het tot ’n bree verstaan van die konseptualisering van VREUGDE in Bybelse Hebreeus gelei. Daar is vasgestel dat die emosie VREUGDE in Bybelse Hebreeus ooreenstem met die vyf-fase GEBEURTENIS-STRUKTUUR metafoor wat deur Kovecses (2010) voorgestel is vir emosies in Engels. Tweedens, die ondersoek was in staat om die kern-eienskappe van vreugde te verifieer—wil, begeerte, determinasie and satisfaksie—asook om aan te dui hoe verskillende konstruerende (“construal”) operasies aspekte van die betekenispotensiaal in spesifieke raamwerke aktiveer. Derdens, die verskille en die ooreenkomste van elke spesifieke lekseem wat na vreugde verwys, is vasgestel en beskryf. Vierdens is daar gedemonstreer hoe inligting wat ter sake is vir vertalers, beskryf kan word.

Adaptations of works have the potential to bring their subject matter to a new audience. This thesis explores the adaptation of Russian fairy tales into novels by authors Orson Scott Card and Joy Preble by looking at how they present Russian fairy tales, folkloric figures, and fairy tale structure to an American audience.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valdivino Souza Ribeiro.pdf: 567901 bytes, checksum: 69a69fd9cb68efe7eeb2b277f019d190 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-12-10 / One can perceive very clearly how the historical development of Brasil is permeated by the history of mankind. Religion especially marks the struggles for survival, the conquest of the land, and better conditions for life. Indigenous people show how the relationship to the land is profound and logical like the relationship to the Creator. The African Negroes procured divine attunement and return to roots. The Canudos movement is a search for faithfulness to God's law in contrast to Satan's. In the land struggle and the equitable distribution of income, the CPT (Pastoral Land Commission) and the MST (Landless Peasant Movement) endeavour to make use of this mysticism. Religious motivation is always present in the movements of land resistance and conquest. Deut 26, 5-11 is a Biblical text that forms part of a larger whole: the feast of the first fruits, and signalizes that, even in an accumulative process, there exists a counter reaction. Such was the case with Hezechias and, especially, Josiah in their opposition to political and religious concentration. The Biblical text shows that the State didn't totally win the battle, for there are references to resistance that survive in the political-religious reform ceremony. In the modern era it is very opportune to read Deut 26,5-11 and sing popular community liberation hymns seeing that land and income continue to be monopolized. Liberation Hymns invite all to resist and take possession of the land. The struggle is all encompassing as should joy. / No processo histórico do Brasil, percebe-se de maneira muito clara como a religiosidade permeia a história da humanidade. A religião marca, principalmente, as lutas por resistência e conquista da terra e melhores condições de vida. Os nativos mostram que a relação com a terra é profunda e lógica, como a relação com o Criador. Os negros africanos buscam a harmonia da divindade e o retorno à liberdade, segundo as origens. O movimento de Canudos é a busca da fidelidade à lei de Deus e não à do cão. Na luta pela terra e distribuição da terra e da renda, a CPT e o MST se empenham em fazer valer a mística. A motivação religiosa está sempre presente nos movimentos de resistência e conquista da terra. O texto de Dt 26,5-11 na Bíblia, faz parte de um conjunto: a festa das primícias, e sinaliza que, mesmo em um processo concentrador, existe reação à centralização políticoreligiosa promovida por Ezequias e, sobretudo, por Josias. O texto mostra que o Estado não venceu totalmente, pois há referência a expressões resistentes que permanecem dentro de uma cerimônia da reforma político-religiosa. Nos tempos atuais, quando a terra e a renda continuam sendo concentradas, é oportuno ler Dt 26,5-11 e cantar o Baião das Comunidades. O canto convida todos/as à resistência e conquista da terra. A luta é ampla como também ampla deve ser a alegria.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:13:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Toledo Macedo.pdf: 1548980 bytes, checksum: 53aa2e66ecab573490544ac134e9f03b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-09 / This research analyzes the elements of the discourse of the magazine NEW / Cosmopolitan. The analysis focuses on the participation of the superego in the statements of the magazine , considering how this instance of the psychic apparatus , which is articulated in conjunction with the feelings of drive (mostly death ) and " Rules" relentless search for pleasure - agreed by Lacan as an imperative jouissance - is present in contemporary society, orchestrating various discourses of consumption, where the slogan is " be happy " and " consume " . We examined the construction of statements of publication, targeted for the theme of happiness (directly or indirectly ) within the parameters of Positive Psychology . The aim was to study how the text is constructed to not only entice readers , but to order and direct the enjoyment through consumption. The corpus consists of the issues from January 2005 to April 2013 of the magazine. The methodology used in the analysis is qualitative , exploratory and descriptive confronting theories about the consumer society , the construction of the individual in this picture and thinking how their fragmentation can influence the meaning of goods, made possible from the discourse of Positive Psychology . The authors underlying the study are : João Freire Filho , Algirdas J. Greimas , Sigmund Freud, Gilles Lipovetsky , Zymunt Bauman , Michel Foucault and Guy Debord , among others . The main concepts in the development of the research are : happiness, the imperative of enjoyment in the society of the spectacle and consumption, being articulated in a way that allow performing reflections about the identity of the brand NEW / Cosmopolitan as an authority recognized by your target audience, placed the role of holding the " know" that leads the reader to happiness ( and enjoyment ) . The starting point is the ephemeral nature of postmodern society as a basis for the construction of this editorial product as discursive device / Esta pesquisa analisa os elementos do discurso da revista NOVA/Cosmopolitan. A análise foca a participação do supereu nos enunciados da revista, considerando como essa instância do aparelho psíquico, que se articula em conjunção com os sentimentos de pulsão (principalmente de morte) e ordena a busca incansável pelo prazer convencionado por Lacan como imperativo do gozo se faz presente na sociedade contemporânea, orquestrando variados discursos do consumo, em que a palavra de ordem é seja feliz e consuma . Foi examinada a construção dos enunciados da publicação, direcionados pela temática da felicidade (direta ou indiretamente) dentro dos parâmetros da Psicologia Positiva. O intuito foi estudar como o texto é construído para não apenas seduzir as leitoras, mas para ordenar e direcionar o gozo através do consumo. O corpus é constituído pelas edições de janeiro de 2005 a abril de 2013 da revista. A metodologia empregada na análise tem caráter qualitativo, descritivo e exploratório, confrontando as teorias sobre a sociedade de consumo, a construção do indivíduo neste panorama e pensando como sua fragmentação pode influenciar na significação das mercadorias, possibilitado a partir do discurso da Psicologia Positiva. Os autores que fundamentam o estudo são: João Freire Filho, Algirdas J. Greimas, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Lipovetsky, Zymunt Bauman, Michel Foucault e Guy Debord, dentre outros. Os principais conceitos presentes no desenvolvimento da pesquisa são: a felicidade, o imperativo do gozo na sociedade do espetáculo e o consumo, sendo articulados de maneira que possibilitem realizar reflexões sobre a identidade da marca NOVA/ Cosmopolitan como autoridade reconhecida por seu público-alvo, colocada no papel de detentora do saber que leva a leitora à felicidade (e ao gozo). O ponto de partida é a efemeridade da sociedade pós-moderna como base para a construção deste produto editorial como dispositivo discursivo