Esta tese é sobre a globalização e o impacto da ancestral capoeira angola na moderna e cosmopolita cidade de Nova York. A capoeira angola é ume estilo tradicional que se refere à ancestralidade africana. É uma antiga arte marcial afro-brasileira ensinada por um velho capoeirista da Bahia chamado João Grande. Ele possui uma escola na Rua 14, em Manhattan, e já recebeu diversas homenagens nos Estados Unidos. Mestre João Grande chegou em Nova York em 1990 e permanece ensinando seu conhecimento antigo para alunos de toda parte do mundo, pessoas atraídas pela multicultural Nova York. Sua história de vida é o foco dessa tese. Neste sentido, a pesquisa é uma tentativa de entender a importância das tradições em nossa vertiginosa sociedade moderna. Mais do que isso, tenta refletir sobre o papel da capoeira no processo histórico brasileiro, diante dos conflitos entre a ancestralidade africana e a construção da identidade nacional. / This thesis is about the globalization anda impact of ancient Capoeira Angola techniques in the modern and huge New York City. Capoeira angola is a traditional style of capoeira that remains to the African ancestry. It is an ancient Afro-Brazilian martial art taught by an elderly capoeirista from Bahia, called João Grande. His school is at 14th Street, in Union Square. He has received numerous awards in the United States, including a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1995. In September 2001, he was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is one of the most prestigious awards for practitioners of traditional arts in the US. Mestre João Grande arrived in New York in 1990 and still teaches his ancient knowledge to students from all around the world, people who comprise the multicultural New York City. His life history is the focus of the thesis. In this way, the research is an effort to understand the importance and survive of traditions in the midst of globalization in our modern society. More than that, it tries to understand the role of capoeira in the Brazilian historic process, before the conflicts between the African ancestry and the building of a national identity.

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La présente thèse de doctorat consiste en une enquête sur la construction du paysage nocturne par la publicité lumineuse, spécifique aux métropoles occidentales depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Elle s’est appuyée en particulier sur trois études de cas, New York, Londres et Paris, et a cherché à éclairer les circulations d’idées, de techniques et de design qui ont animé ces espaces. Elle interroge notamment la pertinence de la notion de « modèle américain » et souligne les échanges et les apports réciproques entre l’Europe et les États-Unis. Le propos est organisé en trois grandes parties, subdivisées en trois chapitres chacune et il s’y ajoute une série d’annexes. Le livre premier, intitulé « de l’incandescence en publicité : le temps des pionniers » porte sur le premier grand dispositif technique de la publicité lumineuse, celui de la lampe à incandescence, qui s’imposa de la fin du XIXe siècle à la fin des années 1920. Le second livre a pour titre « l’ère du néon : au cœur de la culture populaire ». Il se concentre sur la mise au point et la diffusion des tubes luminescents. Il montre comment la culture populaire s’appropria le néon, à la fois par la fréquentation des hauts-lieux de la publicité lumineuse et par son intégration dans l’art. Enfin, le troisième livre invite à « repenser la publicité, des années 1970 à nos jours », et met en évidence les changements à l’œuvre avec la montée des préoccupations écologiques et énergétiques et le renouvellement des acteurs de publicité lumineuse. Trois évolutions majeures marquent cette période : l’accélération du phénomène de mondialisation ; l’essor de la politique institutionnelle du logo ; la multiplication des écrans vidéo. / The subject of this doctoral thesis is a study of the construction of the nocturnal landscape using illuminating advertising, specific to large Western cities since the end of the XIXth century. It is supported in particular by three case studies: New York, London and Paris and will examine the circulation of ideas, techniques and design used in these locations. The relevance of the concept of the “American model” will be examined, with particular reference to the exchanges and mutual contributions between Europe and the United States. This thesis will be divided into three main sections, each sub-divided into three chapters and supplemented with appendices. The first section, titled “Incandescence in advertising: the pioneers” will examine the first significant technical device used in illuminating advertising, i.e. the incandescent lightbulb, used principally from the end of the XIXth century to the end of the 1920s. The second section, titled “The neon era – at the heart of popular culture” will concentrate on the development and deployment of fluorescent tubes. It will be demonstrated how popular culture appropriated neon lighting, both in its use in the high spots of lighted advertisements and by its inclusion in arts. Finally, the third section titled “Re-thinking advertising from the 1970s to today” will concentrate on changes brought about by the rise of sensitivity to ecological and energy concerns as well as changes in the people involved in the use of lighted advertising. Three major developments mark this period: acceleration of the global phenomenon, the rise of institutional policies involving logos and lastly, the multiplication of video screens.

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Almost 10 years after the attack on World Trade Center Sept. 11 2001, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed on May 2 2011 in Pakistan. How was this event framed by the media with regards to the global war on terror? This study compares two different American newspapers – the New York Times and the New York Daily News – and how they framed the war on terrorism in the Middle East from May 2 to May 15 2011. By analyzing the framing in a perspective of the four functions of framing theory: define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgments and suggest remedies, we found considerable differences in each papers frames. Through a qualitative text analysis of the opinion pages in these two newspapers, using three themes as a base, we found a number of differences. While the New York Times contained a form of open discussion about problems and remedies, New York Daily News takes an emotional and moral approach. These differences in content may affect the opinions of the readers. We speculate that the more open and suggestive nature of the New York Times, also opens the minds of the readers enabling them to form opinions in a liberated sense. Thus the more closed, emotional and moral nature of the New York Daily News may have greater impact on an individual’s ability to form its own opinions and moral values.

The New York State politicians, notably members of Congress such as Irving Ives, Herbert Lehman, Samuel Dickstein, Emanuel Celler and Jacob Javits, were very involved in the immigration debates for the period from 1945 to 1953. By their interventions, they emerged as fiery supporters of a liberalization of American immigration policy. A willingness to satisfy a multiethnic electorate largely explains their position. But these individuals, mostly defenders of President Truman's foreign policy, also believed in this cold war context that an attenuation of restrictionism in immigration would provide numerous advantages to the nation. If their attitude seems dictated by considerations that were both pragmatic and idealistic, it generated non-negligible results. Thus, the granting of a quota to India in 1946, the act on the war brides in 1945, as well as the legislation affecting the refugees in 1950, were among the measures mainly ascribable to the activities of these politicians.

The purpose of this study was to explore changes that occurred in physical education since the introduction of the New York State Standards in 1996 and ways teacher educators perceive related changes in both school and Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs. With the release of State and National Standards (NASPE, 1995), associated educational reform, assessment, and accountability have become important in physical education. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with six participants considered experts in state standards. Cote, Salmela, and Russell's (1995) guidelines were used to inductively analyze and interpret the qualitative data. The results of the analysis yielded three categories: (a) reasoning behind standards, which included rationales, developments, and comparisons, (b) impacts of standards, which involved PE effects, PETE reactions, and negative responses, and (c) actions resulting from standards which focused on implementation, leadership, assessments and accountability, and forward directions. Relationships between the properties within each category produced four areas of greatest interest/importance: implementation, PE effects, rationales, and forward directions. The result of this study is a focused look at standards-based reforms in New York State upon which teachers, administrators, PETE professionals, and educational policy makers may reflect.