Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 480-508). Also available on microfiche.

<p>The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two novels by focusing</p><p>on leadership and group dynamics. First, I explain some general terms like</p><p>primary and secondary groups, leader and leadership, and five different</p><p>leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, task-motivated and</p><p>relationship-motivated leader), and then I apply the terms to the novels. In the</p><p>analysis I examine how some followers and group constellations react to different</p><p>kinds of leadership, and how the three leaders choose to approach their roles and</p><p>why they become successful or not.</p><p>The effect the democratic leadership has on both leaders and followers differs</p><p>between the novels. Homer in Tomorrow, When the War Began trusts his leadership</p><p>skills and gets appreciation from the primary group of friends he leads, while</p><p>Ralph in Lord of the Flies is disobeyed and challenged by his secondary group.</p><p>The group of teenagers grows stronger together, while the island boys disband as a</p><p>result of the power struggle between Ralph and Jack. The latter trusts his charisma</p><p>and threatens and punishes the boys in order to keep them under control. Jack</p><p>seems successful as an autocratic leader, since his followers carry out his orders</p><p>and let him be the unquestioned leader, but he is in the final analysis unsuccessful</p><p>since he fails to put the needs of his followers before his own strong desire for</p><p>power. Both Homer and Jack are strong leaders of their own primary group, and</p><p>one argument why they are more successful than Ralph is the loyalty they receive</p><p>from their followers. However, the reason for their faithfulness differs. In</p><p>Homer’s case it is friendship, and in Jack’s case it is fear of what he will do to</p><p>them if they defy him.</p>

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two novels by focusing on leadership and group dynamics. First, I explain some general terms like primary and secondary groups, leader and leadership, and five different leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, task-motivated and relationship-motivated leader), and then I apply the terms to the novels. In the analysis I examine how some followers and group constellations react to different kinds of leadership, and how the three leaders choose to approach their roles and why they become successful or not. The effect the democratic leadership has on both leaders and followers differs between the novels. Homer in Tomorrow, When the War Began trusts his leadership skills and gets appreciation from the primary group of friends he leads, while Ralph in Lord of the Flies is disobeyed and challenged by his secondary group. The group of teenagers grows stronger together, while the island boys disband as a result of the power struggle between Ralph and Jack. The latter trusts his charisma and threatens and punishes the boys in order to keep them under control. Jack seems successful as an autocratic leader, since his followers carry out his orders and let him be the unquestioned leader, but he is in the final analysis unsuccessful since he fails to put the needs of his followers before his own strong desire for power. Both Homer and Jack are strong leaders of their own primary group, and one argument why they are more successful than Ralph is the loyalty they receive from their followers. However, the reason for their faithfulness differs. In Homer’s case it is friendship, and in Jack’s case it is fear of what he will do to them if they defy him.

In a small attempt to expand the knowledge of Latin American plays and the biographical information of Jorge Diaz Gutierrez (1930-2007), I present one of his first plays La vispera del deguello, also known by El genesis fue maNana (1967). This project will inspire and benefit scholars, future translators, the theater community, and literature students to obtain a new perspective on Latin-American theatre. La vispera del deguello deals with existentialism; we enter the world of three remaining human beings on the planet: Custodio, Hosanna, y la loca (the mad woman). The structure of this project includes: the playwright's biography with the focus on his style rooted in the European literary tradition- and my translation of the play. Translating vispera del deguello is just the beginning of this project: future plans include producing, designing, and publishing the play. My contribution will be beneficial for a transatlantic dialogue among disciplines such as theatre, modem languages, and social sciences, among others. This project will expand the knowledge of the style of Latin-American theatre and recognize one of the best Spanish playwrights of the 20th century, Jorge Diaz Gutierrez.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 16, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Joe Donaldson. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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This thesis explores the nexus between 'urban expressionism' and the potentiality of 'Asian urbanism(s)' by exploring ways that different planning paradigms have been located/dislocated in the case of New Songdo City, South Korea. By investigating four expressions of New Songdo City - as an 'Eco-City', a 'Smart City', an 'International City', and as the 'City of the Future' - this thesis argues that urban expressionism can make important contributions to the aims of Asian urbanism(s). Ultimately, this research demonstrates the ways that urban expressionism can be used to destabilize hegemonic Western-centric urban knowledge and city-building practices, and further point to new geographies of theory from which important contributions to urban research can be made. Urban expressions are made evident by various entwined urban rhetorics and worlding practices that operationalize multiple mediums of communication. Consequently, New Songdo City is, first and foremost, a city of simultaneity. To investigate this simultaneity, this research utilizes an exploratory case study approach and multiple qualitative methods that include semi-structured interviewing, focus groups, and surveys to gather insights from residents of Songdo, local experts, public and private sector actors, and other key stakeholder groups. Visual analysis is also used to explore mixed-mediums of data, including promotional videos, images, exhibition displays, magazines, and advertisements. The methods used to undertake this thesis provide a glimpse in to the development of New Songdo City and capture different urban expressions that are articulated by the city through various examples of urban rhetoric and worlding practices. The urban expressions presented in the New Songdo City case are analysed through the lens of Asian urbanism(s) and investigate the ways that hegemonic Western and Euro-centric conceptualizations of 'the urban' and 'the city' have been deployed, articulated, experienced, challenged, and complicated. By extension, this thesis also contributes to a more nuanced conceptualization of Asian urbanism(s) as well as the relevance of New Songdo City for urban theory in South Korean, Asian, and more generalizable contexts.

The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze how different professions in elderly care perceive the need for change and how they respond to challenges the elderly care is facing with an increasing heterogeneous generation of elderly in need of care. Further the study wants to describe and analyze differences between the professions perception of needs for change. Through this the study can contribute to increase knowledge in the area of an increasing heterogeneous generation of elderly people and its response to the needs of care. The empirical material has been collected through five semi-structured qualitative interviews where different employee positions in elderly care have been represented. One focus group has also been conducted. The empirical material from these interviews has thereafter been analyzed through the concept of salutogenic approach, forty talists and the third age. The result and conclusions shows that there are similar opinions about the importance of the quality of healthcare in the elderly care. The different employes work with the specific needs of the elderly in different ways and have overall similar goals. The results and conclusions confirm how communication lacks differently in the cooperation with each other. The employes believe that their interaction and cooperation with each other is important for the prospective work with future elderly care.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-03-27T12:48:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 guilhermenogueirarangone.pdf: 2375589 bytes, checksum: 6829bf1bcfd4735727351c834bb1b1e3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-09T19:20:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 guilhermenogueirarangone.pdf: 2375589 bytes, checksum: 6829bf1bcfd4735727351c834bb1b1e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T19:20:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 guilhermenogueirarangone.pdf: 2375589 bytes, checksum: 6829bf1bcfd4735727351c834bb1b1e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-22 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Passado o século XX, nota-se uma mudança considerável no que cerne aos museus ao redor do mundo, hoje, grandes museus em áreas renovadas de centros urbanos degradados, junto à realização de eventos de caráter internacional têm sido transformadas em produtos para promoção das cidades que se projetam globalizadas. Assim, a audiência converte-se em um papel importante no sucesso das instituições e é questão central no reconhecimento dos museus como agregadores de valor na malha urbana, gerando funções que até então não se observavam. A pesquisa elucida a questão sobre quais são as funções dos museus contemporâneos e como elas se relacionam, tendo como hipótese de trabalho, que as funções básicas são as de colecionar, conservar, estudar, interpretar e expor. Este trabalho compreendeu a relação entre museus e funções, e quais e como os desdobramentos funcionais se fazem presentes nessa tipologia arquitetônica. Através de uma pesquisa exploratória, com metodologia dividida em uma fase de revisão de literatura e, uma fase empírica. Tomou-se o Museu do Amanhã, no Rio de Janeiro, e o Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói como casos exemplares, visando à verificação de como as funções se manifestam nesses museus, ampliando a coleta de dados para além daqueles encontrados no referencial teórico. Ao final, com a explicitação das funções dos museus contemporâneos, ratifica-se e amplia-se a hipótese inicial da pesquisa. Somam-se a ela, outros desdobramentos funcionais que possuem maior relevância no recorte proposto do que as funções apontadas inicialmente, como as funções teóricas, simbólicas e estéticas. Conclui-se assim, que os museus contemporâneos são objetos polifuncionais e que suas funções extrapolam as funções práticas exercidas nele, tendo nos dias de hoje um papel simbólico fundamental para os centros urbanos. / Since the twentieth century, there has been a considerable change in museums around the world, today, large museums in renovated areas of degraded urban centers, along with international events have been transformed into products for the promotion of cities which are globalized. Thus, the audience becomes an important role in the success of the institutions and is a central question in the recognition of the museums as value aggregators in the urban network, generating functions that until then were not observed. The research elucidates the question of what are the functions of contemporary museums and how they relate, based on a working hypothesis, that the basic functions are to collect, to preserve, to study, to interpret and to expose. This work understood the relation between museums and functions, and what and how the functional unfoldings are present in this architectural typology. Through an exploratory research, with methodology divided in a documentary phase with the literature review, and an empirical phase with the accomplishment of studies in exemplary cases. The Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói were chosen, aiming at verifying how functions manifest themselves, in addition to expanding the results beyond the theoretical framework. At the end, with the explication of the functions of contemporary museums, the initial hypothesis of the research is ratified and expanded. Added to it are other functional unfoldings that have more relevance in the proposed cut than the functions initially pointed out, such as theoretical, symbolic and aesthetic functions. We conclude that contemporary museums are multi-functional objects and that their functions extrapolate the practical functions exercised in it, having today a fundamental symbolic role for urban centers

Dans ce mémoire, nous étudions les thématiques de la résistance et de la résilience. Doria, l’héroïne principale se retrouve du jour au lendemain sans son père, parti à la recherche d’un héritier dans son pays natal, le Maroc. Elle doit affronter les vicissitudes de la vie avec le seul parent qui lui reste désormais, sa mère, analphabète, démunie et sans d’autres ressources que les seules aides de l’État. Pourtant, d’une épreuve à l’autre et au fur à mesure que les jours passent, Doria et sa mère franchissent les obstacles qui se dressent sur leur parcours et réussissent à atteindre l’objet de leur désir : s’affranchir et s’épanouir. L’analyse structurale du récit à la lumière des théories sociologiques et psychologiques, principalement, nous a permis d’élucider l’importance de la résistance et de la résilience dans le roman étudié. Plusieurs sujets ont ainsi été abordés comme la pauvreté, le rejet des institutions ou encore la révolte positive et la passion pour la poésie et la littérature qui ont notamment servi de moteur à Doria pour se libérer de ses souffrances et délivrer sa mère. Les deux femmes s’affirment à la fin du roman grâce à la transformation de leur destin qu’elles ont décidé de prendre en main à travers moult combats qui représentent, encore dans notre société, de véritables entraves à l’épanouissement de nombreuses femmes. / In this essay, the themes of resistance and resilience are studied. The main heroine Doria suddenly finds herself without her father, who has gone to his native country Morocco in search of a son and a heir. She has to face the vicissitudes of life with only one parent, her illiterate and poor mother, who has no other resources except for Government subsidies. However, as they experience one trial after the other and as the days go by, Doria and her mother overcome the obstacles standing in their way and succeed in realizing the object of their desire; to be free and to flourish. The structural analysis of the story is carried out using sociological and psychological theories, and these have been helpful in shedding light on the importance of the themes or resistance and resilience in the studied novel. The subjects addressed in the essay include poverty, the rejection of institutions as well as positive revolt, and the passion for poetry and literature which particularly serves as a vehicle for Doria to liberate herself from her sufferings and to save her mother. The two women assert themselves at the end of the novel owing to the transformation of their destiny which they decided to take into their own hands through the many battles which, still in our society, represent real obstacles that hinder the emancipation of many women.