During the most active years of his life, Theodore Roosevelt lived in an age which was characterized by imperialism. From the time of his youth until the time of his retirement, the Great Powers of Europe were busily engaged extending their political domination over large areas of the world with a view of exploiting these areas economically and otherwise. The United States had been practicing a similar form of imperialism within the limits of North America as its frontier moved westwards. At the turn of the century the country turned from expansion on the American continent to expansion overseas. Roosevelt participated in this latter wave of American imperialism, and the terms of his presidency were wedged in between this and a minor wave of American imperialism in the Caribbean area which took place in the decades following his period. For this reason many people have come to regard Roosevelt as an imperialist and his presidency as an era of imperialism also. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that, although not untainted by the spirit of Manifest Destiny himself, as President of the United States, Roosevelt pursued a nationalist course in his relations with the other nations of the world. Roosevelt's aims in foreign affairs were basically simple. An ultra-nationalist and super-patriot, he believed that his country had a mission in life. This mission was to serve as the beacon of light of progressive civilization in a world of states struggling to better themselves and so reach the goal so happily attained by the United States. The methods he employed in foreign affairs were dominated by this belief. Thus he felt it not improper to use, at times, unethical means to achieve his idealistic ends. The main instrument he employed in this field was his 'big stick' which served him in as many ways as the occasion warranted. And since the 'stick' was used in defence of the 'honor', security and prestige of the United States, Roosevelt assumed that it was of little moment if heads were knocked within the area the 'big stick' was wielded. As a nationalist, and from a short-range and rather narrow point of view, Roosevelt's foreign policy was successful. But viewed from the standpoint of two generations later, his success was mediocre. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlaFFR_DISSERT.pdf: 572328 bytes, checksum: 49af4b3accc926fc4715e67401a6ad1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-18 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / One of the Psychology challenges, especially among the assessment and educational areas, is to understand and predict individual differences. In this context, this research aimed to verify the personality styles of students with high and low academic performance. The study included 236 university students from Petrolina-PE and Juazeiro-BA campus of the UNIVASF (Universidade Federal do Vale do S?o Francisco). They were uniformly distributed in four disciplines (medicine, psychology, administration and civil engineering), 10 students from each semester (five highest scores average students and five lowest scores average students) took place of the sample. The Millon Index Personality Styles (MIPS) was applied to analyze the personality/behavioral styles of the students. The MIPS is a 180 dichotomous (true/false) item scale. It was also developed and applied a questionnaire about the students characteristics and their academic information. Descriptive and central tendency statistics analysis (mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage) were done to provide sample information. Then we performed a Mann-Whitney test in the overall sample and in each course and a factorial ANOVA. The results suggest that the university population is heterogeneous and there are significant differences (p <0.05) between the personality styles of students with high and low academic performance, when analyzing the overall sample and in courses of different areas of knowledge. Students of Medicine who have higher performance as personality styles prevalent the conformism and compliance, while students with lower income in this course, the styles are: innovation and discrepancy. Psychology students with higher income are more systematic and lower income students to score significantly on accommodation. The civil engineering students of the two groups differed only in personality style intuition, being such a style more characteristic of higher income students. Students of Management with higher yield stand out more in the style of the doubt and lower yields in these styles: individual, reflection and discrepancy. This study is correlational, but had an exploratory nature because there are no studies about this relationship in Brazil. Therefore, it provided a better understanding of the action characteristics of students with high and low academic performance. Further studies using the Big Five Personality Factors instruments are required because it is the most used model in understanding the influence of personality on students performance. This way, the relation between personality and academic performance will be better discussed. Otherwise, it will be possible to compare with the existing studies in the area / Um dos desafios da Psicologia, principalmente para a ?rea de avalia??o psicol?gica e educacional, consiste em compreender e predizer as diferen?as individuais. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo verificar os estilos de personalidade de estudantes com maiores e menores ?ndices de rendimento acad?mico. Participaram deste estudo 236 estudantes universit?rios da UNIVASF (Universidade Federal do Vale do S?o Francisco) dos campi de Petrolina-PE e Juazeiro-BA, distribu?dos uniformemente em quatro cursos (Medicina, Psicologia, Administra??o e Engenharia Civil), sendo 10 alunos de cada semestre (cinco com as maiores notas e cinco com as menores notas m?dias). Para analisar os estilos de personalidade/caracter?sticas comportamentais, foi aplicado o Invent?rio Millon de Estilos de Personalidade (MIPS), que ? composto por 180 itens, respondidos atrav?s de uma escala dicot?mica de respostas (verdadeiro/falso). Foi elaborado e aplicado, tamb?m, um question?rio para melhor caracteriza??o da amostra e com informa??es sobre a vida acad?mica dos estudantes. Foram realizadas estat?sticas descritivas e de tend?ncia central para fornecer informa??es sobre a amostra. Em seguida, foi realizado o teste de Mann-Withney na amostra geral e em cada curso, al?m de uma ANOVA fatorial. Os resultados sugerem que a popula??o universit?ria ? heterog?nea e h? diferen?as significativas (p<0,05) entre os estilos de personalidade de estudantes com maior e menor rendimento acad?mico, quando se analisa a amostra geral e nos cursos das diferentes ?reas do conhecimento. Os estudantes de Medicina com maior rendimento possuem como estilos de personalidade preponderantes o conformismo e a concord?ncia e os estudantes de menor rendimento desse curso, os estilos inova??o e discrep?ncia. Os estudantes de Psicologia com maior rendimento s?o mais sistem?ticos e os de menor rendimento pontuam significativamente mais na acomoda??o. Os estudantes de Engenharia Civil dos dois grupos diferiram apenas no estilo de personalidade intui??o, sendo tal estilo mais caracter?stico dos estudantes de maior rendimento. Os alunos de Administra??o com maior rendimento se destacam mais no estilo d?vida e os de menor rendimento nos estilos individualismo, reflex?o e discrep?ncia. O estudo, embora correlacional teve um car?ter explorat?rio, uma vez que no Brasil ainda n?o h? estudos acerca dessa rela??o, al?m disso permitiu uma melhor compreens?o sobre as caracter?sticas de a??o de estudantes com alto e baixo rendimento acad?mico. ? necess?rio que novos estudos sejam realizados e que sejam utilizados tamb?m nesses estudos instrumentos no modelo dos Cinco Grandes Fatores de Personalidade, j? que este ? o modelo mais utilizado na compreens?o da influ?ncia da personalidade no desempenho de estudantes para que, assim, se possa discutir melhor tal rela??o, bem como estabelecer compara??es entre os estudos j? existentes na ?rea

This study refocuses the current critical discussion of determinism and character identity development in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, a predominantly "urban" novel, by juxtaposing the ways in which the natural world functions deterministically in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native and Theodore Dreiser's The Bulwark. First, a close reading of The Return of the Native suggests that characters' interactions with the natural world determine their identities by forcing shifts in perception and complicating their abilities to assert an identity apart from their environments. Then, a reading of The Bulwark—a novel in which Dreiser deals with the natural world quite directly—allows an exploration of how these same patterns of perception, understanding, and identity formation take shape in a text by Dreiser. The final chapter of this study synthesizes these readings of The Return of the Native and The Bulwark as a means of entry into an analysis of Sister Carrie's deterministic forces. Ultimately, attention to how the natural world influences characters through its timelessness and infinite size, as well as to how the natural world shapes a character's perspective and sense of self, adds to our understanding of the novel's determinism. / Department of English

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