From introduction: In the following essay an emphasis has been placed on manipulated photographic images. Although this implies a whole variety of ways in which these images can be manipulated e.g. in collage, silkscreen etc., the emphasis here is on images that have a fabricated or deliberate manipulation of subject matter to make up the photograph.

This study represents an exploration of White's concept of transcendence in The Tree of Man and Voss by means of a detailed account of some of the key patterns of imagery deployed in these novels. White's imagery is a key mode of expression in his work, not simply manifesting in overarching religious symbols and framing structures but figuring in constantly modulated tropes continuous with the narrative, as well as in minor, but no less significant images occasionally susceptible to etymological or onomastic reading. While no attempt is made to provide an exhaustive exploration of the tropes at work in these novels, a sufficient range of material is covered, and its metaphoric density adequately penetrated, to highlight and explore a fundamental concern in White's work with a paradoxical unity underlying the dualities inherent in temporal existence. A useful way of approaching his fiction is to view the perpetual modulations of his imagery as the dramatisation of an enantiodromia or play of opposites, in which the conflicts of duality are elaborated and paradoxically - though typically only momentarily - resolved. This resolution or coincidence of opposites is a significant feature of his notion of transcendence as well as his depictions of illuminatory experience, and in this respect White's metaphysics share an essential characteristic, not only of Christianity, but a range of religious and mythological systems concerned with expressing a transcendent reality. Despite these analogies, however, the novels at hand are not so tightly bound to Christian, or any other, meaning-making systems so as to constitute sustained allegories, and hence this study does not aim to chart a series of correspondences between White's images and biblical or mythological symbols. Indeed, a criticism often levelled at White - with The Tree of Man and Voss typically figuring in support of this claim - is that he too rigidly imposes religious frameworks on his work. An extension of this view is formulated in the Jungian critique of White's corpus offered by David Tacey, who argues that White's conception of transcendence is consistently challenged by the archetypal significance of the images he employs, which point to a contrary process of psycho-spiritual regression in his protagonists. In a fundamentally text-based approach, this study explores White's use of imagery while taking biblical resonances and archetypal interpretations into account, and suggests that, though White's images are highly allusive, they are not merely agents of imported Christian, or other traditional symbolic values. Nor do they undermine the authenticity of his depiction of the spirituality of his protagonists, or obtrude on the fabric of the narrative. Instead, the range of his images are - though often ambivalent - integral to a network of mercurial tropes which articulate and constantly evaluate a notion of transcendence through inflections and oscillations rather than equations of meaning.

Cette étude vise à reconstituer les paysages et les paléoclimats holocènes des marges désertiques de la Tunisie méridionale. Elle se fonde sur les données de la pluie pollinique actuelle et les données polliniques holocènes de la Sebkha Boujmel et de Bahiret el Bibane, complétées par des datations 14C et l’analyse de la fraction argileuse du sédiment. La relation pollen/végétation/climat est élaborée à partir d’échantillons de surface au sol recueillis le long du réseau hydrographique et à la surface de la Sebkha Boujmel et de Bahiret el Bibane. Les résultats obtenus indiquent une bonne représentation des écosystèmes régionaux à la surface de ces réceptacles. La variabilité spatiale des spectres polliniques traduit bien les gradients d’humidité climatique et édaphique selon deux axes nord-sud et est-ouest. L’étude de l’influence des événements d’inondations sur la concentration et la composition des spectres polliniques, à partir d’une carotte couvrant le dernier siècle (BL12-10), ne révèle pas des modifications majeures des spectres polliniques guidés par les évènements d’inondation. Les données paléoécologiques sont obtenues à partir de l’analyse pollinique de deux carottes, BJM2 dans la Sebkha Boujmel et BL12-7 dans la Bahiret el Bibane. La séquence BJM2 couvrant les 8 deniers millénaires est complétée par l’analyse de la composition de la fraction argileuse du sédiment modulé par les dynamiques de mobilisation des sables désertiques. L’ensemble des données est intégré dans un modèle âge-profondeur issu de 11 datations 14 C AMS. La tendance climatique millénaire en Tunisie méridionale au cours de l’Holocène moyen et supérieur indique une aridification croissante à partir de 5,7 ka, en accord avec les changements des paramètres orbitaux et de l’insolation et l’épisode d’aridité enregistré au sud de la Méditerranée à la fin de la Période Humide Africaine. Cette aridification s’achève vers 3 ka avec la mise en place des écosystèmes végétaux prédésertiques et des événements climatiques rapides désormais synchrones des événements de refroidissement Nord Atlantique. La biogéographie régionale montre la présence d’une végétation arborée méditerranéenne sur le relief et une steppe graminéenne sur les piedmonts et dans la plaine au cours des phases humides de l’Holocène moyen. Les changements de la végétation jusqu’à 3ka sont largement modulés par l’aridification climatique et l’impact anthropique demeure limité. A partir du 3ème siècle BC, l’enregistrement d’Olea et de Vitis marque l’intensification de l’impact anthropique, à travers l’agriculture, qui se superpose à celui des sociétés pastorales au cours des périodes Punique et Romaine. L’impact anthropique s’observe ensuite par phases récurrentes d’intensification engendrant des modifications dans les paysages végétaux, en particulier entre 850 AD et 1150 AD avec une augmentation des taux de l’armoise ainsi qu’au cours du 20ème siècle. Cette dernière période enregistre une importante dégradation des environnements locaux traduisant les changements socio-économiques des sociétés avec la sédentarisation et les développements du pastoralisme et de l’agriculture. / This study aims at reconstructing the Holocene landscapes and palaeoclimates of the desert margins of southern Tunisia. It is based on the study of modern pollen rain and Holocene pollen data from Sebkha Boujmel and Bahiret el Bibane, supplemented by 14C dates and sediment clay mineralogy. The pollen/vegetation/climate relationship is based on soil surface samples collected along the hydrographic network and on the surface of Sebkha Boujmel and Bahiret el Bibane. The obtained results indicate a good representation of the regional ecosystems on the surface of the Sebkha and the lagoon. The spatial variability of pollen spectra clearly reflects climatic and edaphic humidity gradients along two north-south and east-west axes. The study of the influence of flood events on the concentration and composition of pollen spectra from a core spanning the last century (BL12-10) does not reveal major changes in pollen spectra triggered by these flooding events. Paleoecological data are obtained from the pollen analysis of two cores, BJM2 in Sebkha Boujmel and BL12-7 in Bahiret el Bibane. The BJM2 sequence spanning the last 8 millennium is supplemented by clay mineralogical analysis of the sediment related to the dynamics of desert sand mobilization and by the integration of the data in an age-depth model based on 11 14C AMS dates. During the Middle and Upper Holocene, the millennial climate trend in Southern Tunisia indicates increased aridity from 5.7 ka, in accordance with changes in orbital and insolation parameters and increased aridity recorded in the southern Mediterranean after the African Humid Period. This aridity trends ends at ca 3 ka with the establishment of pre-desert plant ecosystems and Rapid Climate Changes henceforth synchronous of North Atlantic cooling events. Regional biogeography shows the presence of Mediterranean vegetation on the mountains and a grassy steppe on the piedmonts and the plain during the humid phases of the Middle Holocene. Changes in vegetation up to 3ka are largely modulated by climatic aridification while the anthropogenic impact remains limited. From the 3rd century BC, the record of Olea and Vitis indicates an intensification of the anthropogenic impact through agriculture, which is superimposed on that of the pastoral societies during the Punic and Roman periods. The anthropogenic impact thus marks phases of intensification that cause changes in plant landscapes especially between 850 AD and 1150 AD with an increase in wormwood, and during the 20th century. The latter period shows a significant degradation of local environments reflecting the socio-economic changes of local societies with sedentism and intensive pastoralism and agriculture.

The theoretical part of the thesis is concerned with topics related to project teaching,creativity,framework educational program in field of Man and the world of work and property of nature. The practical part consists of 11 project using products of nature. The end of the practical part deals with verification of created projects and evaluation of implemented projects.

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138f. / Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-22T17:20:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Kleber Simoesseg.pdf: 800442 bytes, checksum: 7cb69d6fd90cd9547f3fa3e48d8bb99b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-05-24T11:35:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Kleber Simoesseg.pdf: 800442 bytes, checksum: 7cb69d6fd90cd9547f3fa3e48d8bb99b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T11:35:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Kleber Simoesseg.pdf: 800442 bytes, checksum: 7cb69d6fd90cd9547f3fa3e48d8bb99b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Os anos iniciais da República brasileira constituem o momento de redefinição dos espaços e das relações de poder, que provocaram a redistribuição de forças sociais no âmbito nacional e local, promovendo conflitos entre os mais diversos setores sociais, servindo então para o aparecimento de novas sensibilidades e vivência entre os indivíduos, que vão redundar na formação de tipologias diferenciadas de comportamentos masculinos. Ao promover mudanças na organização da vida social da Princesa do Sertão, a incipiente modernização, provocou significativas transformações na cultura sexual vigente que teve como principal objetivo a redefinição dos papéis sexuais estimulando, assim, o aparecimento de novas identidades masculinas e femininas. Com o intuito de compreender esses processos, o escopo desse trabalho consiste em analisar as estratégias elaboradas por determinados grupos sociais para dar forma a um comportamento masculino que se pretendia homogêneo e hegemônico, assim como o mapeamento dos discursos que versam sobre a experiência do ser masculino em Feira de Santana entre 1918 e 1938. A relevância social dos estudos de gênero para compreender a masculinidade enquanto componente central dos códigos de sociabilidade da população dá-se num contexto de justificação que está atrelado a existência de normas que regulamentam as relações entre os indivíduos, sendo imprescindível o desenvolvimento de pesquisas que aprofundem a investigação histórica da estruturação do poder num dos principais centros econômicos e políticos do Estado Bahia. Por isso, o estudo da identidade masculina do homem moderno é fundamental para a compreensão do exercício do domínio masculino na sociedade. A fim de reforçar a assimetria social, estimulando a valorização do lugar simbólico representado pela identidade masculina do homem moderno, um conjunto de dispositivos lingüísticos foram elaborados com o objetivo de atestar a submissão de todos aqueles que estão fora da esfera dessa representação: os avessos do masculino, por exemplo. É nesse contexto que a definição de uma figura masculina hegemônica na sociedade de Feira de Santana se dará num processo de disputa que colocou grupos vinculados a ideários distintos em posições antagônicas, dando margem a uma série de representações sociais do que foi o masculino no início do século XX na Princesa do Sertão. / Salvador

MONTEIRO, Nívia Marques. Joaquim Catunda e a recepção do debate evolutivo na segunda metade do século XIX. 2014. 175f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em História, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-09-22T12:59:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_nmmonteiro.pdf: 2540908 bytes, checksum: 788dfe9e44561ad041f8f12a8fd4acb3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-09-22T17:38:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_nmmonteiro.pdf: 2540908 bytes, checksum: 788dfe9e44561ad041f8f12a8fd4acb3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-22T17:38:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_nmmonteiro.pdf: 2540908 bytes, checksum: 788dfe9e44561ad041f8f12a8fd4acb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / This present paper attempts to analyze the scientific conceptions of Joaquim Catunda (1834 - 1907) with the aim of understanding the reception of evolutionary ideas and racialist in the second half of the nineteenth century, like Darwinism and other evolutionary theories. Intellectual and political, Catunda was born in Ceará, author of Estudos de História do Ceará (1886), one of the founders of the Historical Institute of Ceará and Senator. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the evolutionary debate addressed issues such as the origin of man and the debates between science and religion. By analyzing the writings of Catunda, specifically Estudos de História do Ceará, we identified a clear evidence of the interest of Catunda by studies of these issues, including the antiquity of American man, the chances of peopling of America, supported by evolutionary assumptions and other theories sought to explain the emergence and development of man. In this sense, the focus of our discussion are the theoretical matrices of Catunda, analyzed through their intellectual production of historiographical nature, in order to problematize the appropriation of these ideas by the author and understand how evolutionary ideas allied to the historiographical discourse were interpreted while studied its political and intellectual trajectory. / O presente trabalho procura analisar as concepções científicas de Joaquim Catunda (1834 - 1907) com o objetivo de compreender a recepção de ideias evolucionistas e racialistas na segunda metade do século XIX, como o darwinismo e outras teorias evolutivas. Catunda foi intelectual e político nascido no Ceará, autor do livro Estudos de História do Ceará (1886), um dos fundadores do Instituto Histórico do Ceará e senador da República. Ao longo da segunda metade do século XIX, o debate evolutivo ensejava questões sobre a origem do homem e a discussão entre ciência e religião. Ao analisar os escritos de Catunda, especificamente Estudos de História do Ceará, identificamos uma clara evidência do interesse de Catunda pelos estudos dessas questões, inclusive a antiguidade do homem americano, as hipóteses de povoamento da América, apoiado em pressupostos evolucionistas e em outras teorias que procuravam explicar o surgimento e o desenvolvimento do homem. Nesse sentido, o foco de nossa discussão são as matrizes teóricas de Catunda, analisadas através de sua produção intelectual de cunho historiográfico, tendo em vista problematizar as apropriações dessas ideias pelo autor e compreender como as ideias evolutivas aliadas ao discurso historiográfico foram interpretadas ao passo que estudamos sua trajetória político-intelectual.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de montrer le déclin de la figure du superhéros dans les films américains après le 11 Septembre. Les films de superhéros n?ont jamais été si nombreux. Jamais le moral du superhéros n'a été si bas. Ce paradoxe trouve sa meilleure illustration dans l'image double de Batman relégué au ras du sol, alors que le symbole commercial de la chauve-souris brille au firmament de Gotham City. La marchandise culturelle transcenderait donc un superhéros considérablement amoindri. Ce travail se concentre sur trois domaines en particulier : la perte de masculinité du superhéros à la fin du siècle dernier, qui amène à une confrontation symbolique entre le quarterback et la majorette, ou entre Superman et un hypothétique Everyman, et la réémergence d'un monomythe réactionnaire après 2005 ; les errances d'un Surmoi freudien affaibli, et sa relation fluctuante avec un Ça très séduisant, incarné par le superméchant du vingt-et-unième siècle ; la toile de fond sociopolitique contemporaine hostile aux exploits du superhéros, pour qui l'isothymie fukuyamienne omniprésente constitue une injuste condamnation de son action salvatrice. Icône d'une démocratie libérale qui règne désormais sur notre planète, le superhéros postmoderne semble singulièrement désadapté à la culture qui l'a vu naître. / The main topic of this doctoral thesis is the study of the decline of the superhero icon in American films after 9/11. Superhero productions are at an all-time high, and yet, the superhero's morale is at an all-time low. This paradox is best illustrated with the dual image of Batman stuck at Ground Zero, staring up at the projection of his chevron looming large in the sky of Gotham City. The glowing merchandise transcends an otherwise sullied character. This dissertation focuses on three main realms: the superhero's loss of masculinity at the end of the twentieth century, leading to the formal opposition between the figures of the quarterback and the cheerleader, or between Superman and Everyman, and the reactionary, warpath revival which started in 2005; the travails of the flailing Superego and its shifting relationship to the almighty Id, represented by the twenty-first century glorified supervillain; and, finally, the inimical sociopolitical backdrop for the superhero's prowess, in which Fukuyama's prevalent isothymia eventually denies the superhero his just laurels. The postmodern superhero thus appears as a national misfit, also because this cultural commodity now reaches far beyond the traditional boundaries of the « American Way », to embrace an increasingly globalized market.

The aim of the study was to determine the influence/effect of discourses on love and marriage in the lives of people from their childhood uptil this day. Twelve people participated in the study. These participants were defined as being "white, Afrikaans speaking, married couples between 30 and 50 years of age, with or without children and belonging to a church in the RSA of the Reformed tradition". The study sought to discover how people respond to dominent and marginalised discourses on love and marriage and how they portray this in their marital relationship. A further objective was to reflect on some modernistic descriptions of discourses on love and marriage and the deconstruction thereof. Factors such as the marital relationship of the parents, peer groups, church dogma and theological interpretation, sex education at the time they grew up, culture, customs, etc. were related by each participant and contextualised within each life story. Interviews were conducted with each participant / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy)

Social reasoning and norms of a group of individuals that share a set of cultural traits are largely fashioned by those traits. We explored a few predominant sociological, cultural traits and developed a methodology for parametrically adjusting them. This exploratory study shows promise toward a capability to deliberately tune cultural group traits in order to produce desired group behavior. In order to validate our methodology, we implemented a prototypical agent based simulated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance scenario. In this simulation, a group of simulated agents traverse a hostile territory while a user adjusts cultural group trait values. The group and individual utilities are dynamically observed against values of selected cultural traits. Uncertainty avoidance index and individualism are the cultural traits we explored in depth. Upon user's training of the correspondence between cultural values and system utilities, the user is able to deliberately produce desired system utilities by issuing changes to trait values. Appropriateness of specific cultural values is not universal but determined by the domain and scenarios. This work heralds a path for control of large systems via parametric cultural adjustments.