The Reeve’s Prologue in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales represents one of the most prominent medieval narratives of old age. In his bitter tirade the Reeve emphasizes the topics of impotence, sexuality, power and voice through a series of metaphors involving horses, leeks, coals, and medlar fruit. Though the Prologue itself has been extensively discussed, little of the discussion has been in the context of age studies. Nor have scholars paid much attention to the medlar, called by its colloquial name “open-ers.” The Reeve chooses to describe himself and other older men through this unmistakably sexualized and repulsive term, raising paradoxical issues of rottenness and ripeness. He uses the medlar to resist fourteenth-century age culture and reconfigure his identity into a submissive, open one. Where impotence has removed agency and voice, this new identity enables a feminized voice, a claim to desire, and an ability to quyte the Miller for what the Reeve perceived as an ageist story meant to mock him. However, a Lacanian reading suggests that in grappling with his impotence, the Reeve has come to realize the futility of signifying and the difficulties of expressing desire. The Reeve’s Prologue thus exposes the breakdown of desire in the Reeve’s Tale and raises larger questions about the influence of older age on tale-telling, especially in a masculine register. / text

MENESES, Paulo de Oliveira. Teorema de Pick e teorema espacial tipo-Pick: demonstrações e aplicações no ensino médio. 2016. 84 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Matemática em Rede Nacional) – Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2016. / Submitted by Rocilda Sales (rocilda@ufc.br) on 2016-06-27T13:14:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_pomeneses.pdf: 8880492 bytes, checksum: 2116f6152464950d6130404a0eb876d9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rocilda Sales (rocilda@ufc.br) on 2016-06-27T13:15:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_pomeneses.pdf: 8880492 bytes, checksum: 2116f6152464950d6130404a0eb876d9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-27T13:15:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_pomeneses.pdf: 8880492 bytes, checksum: 2116f6152464950d6130404a0eb876d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Studies show that the performance of students in Mathematics is not satisfactory, since only a small portion of these students has the knowledge needed to pursue studies. The present work aims to create tools that can assist and improve classroom practices, more precisely in the studies of Geometry. We will present by counting Pick's Theorem, which calculates the area of a simple polygon by counting the points of the boundary and of the interior of the figure on a fixed lattice, making it a powerful tool of simple use for the understanding of the study of areas. Then we will present Reeve's Theorem that, similarly to Pick's, calculates the volume of a convex polyhedron by counting their lattice points, working on a secondary lattice of points Z3n, making a link between Geometry and counting. / Estudos mostram que o desempenho do aluno em Matemática não é satisfatório, pois apenas uma pequena parcela desses alunos tem os conhecimentos necessários para prosseguir nos estudos. O presente trabalho visa criar ferramentas que possam auxiliar e melhorar as práticas em sala de aula, mais precisamente nos estudos de Geometria. Apresentaremos o Teorema de Pick, que visa calcular a área de um polígono simples usando contagem, analisando os pontos do bordo e do interior da figura em uma rede fixada, tornando-se uma ferramenta de uso simples e poderosa para a compreensão do estudo de áreas. Logo em seguida, mostraremos o Teorema de Reeve que, de modo análogo a Pick, calcula o volume de um poliedro convexo contando os seus pontos de rede, trabalhando em uma rede secundária de pontos Z3n, realizando um elo entre Geometria e contagem.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Estudos mostram que o desempenho do aluno em MatemÃtica nÃo à satisfatÃrio, pois apenas uma pequena parcela desses alunos tem os conhecimentos necessÃrios para prosseguir nos estudos. O presente trabalho visa criar ferramentas que possam auxiliar e melhorar as prÃticas em sala de aula, mais precisamente nos estudos de Geometria. Apresentaremos o Teorema de Pick, que visa calcular a Ãrea de um polÃgono simples usando contagem, analisando os pontos do bordo e do interior da figura em uma rede fixada, tornando-se uma ferramenta de uso simples e poderosa para a compreensÃo do estudo de Ãreas. Logo em seguida, mostraremos o Teorema de Reeve que, de modo anÃlogo a Pick, calcula o volume de um poliedro convexo contando os seus pontos de rede, trabalhando em uma rede secundÃria de pontos Z3n, realizando um elo entre Geometria e contagem. / Studies show that the performance of students in Mathematics is not satisfactory, since only a small portion of these students has the knowledge needed to pursue studies. The present work aims to create tools that can assist and improve classroom practices, more precisely in the studies of Geometry. We will present by counting Pick's Theorem, which calculates the area of a simple polygon by counting the points of the boundary and of the interior of the figure on a fixed lattice, making it a powerful tool of simple use for the understanding of the study of areas. Then we will present Reeve's Theorem that, similarly to Pick's, calculates the volume of a convex polyhedron by counting their lattice points, working on a secondary lattice of points Z3n, making a link between Geometry and counting.

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The theses called Volby do městské rady v Soběslavi v první polovině 18. století is daeling with a city administration in Soběslav of schwarzenberg nobility in the first half of 18th century. In the first part of my theses I introduce a form of the city administration with an emphasis on its most important institutions as a city council, a group of municipal older and a reeve. In the next chapter I describe a way of a councillor election, a group of municipal older election and a reeve election in which the city community participated. I use unique survived lists originated from elections that registered votes. In the third part of my theses I focus on a ceremony of ending activity of city institutions and replacing free places with successors. The Master theses comes from sources placed in the city archive Tábor in the fund of Archive of the city Soběslav and in the archive Třeboň in the fund of Large estate Třeboň.

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