The paper examines how human inner properties and the interpretation of the external worldare explained and presented in Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998). Aspects as the relationship between the body and soul/consciousness, body snatching, memory transferences and dystopian cities are analyzed. The field of study is compared to a general science-fiction film perspective regarding the aspects. Dark City contains an alien race with a common mind, but who lacks soul and individuality. They represent what humanity can become if the scientific development goes too far. They conduct research about the human soul to save their own race. They fail to reach the soul trough scientific experiments, which include memory transferences. The only remaining explanation is that the soul has an immaterial origin. This is against the common materialistic view in the current science-fiction genre; the inner aspects are to a large extent explained from a cognitive/neural perspective. This means that Dark City implicit criticize movies and theories which states that we may be able to understand and create copies of the human consciousness.

Bohuslav Maritnů¡¦s Oboe Concerto, H. 353 is one of the most important oboe works in the twentieth century. This Concerto is composed in 1995, in Maritnů¡¦s later life period. There are numerous mistakes and controversies over the final published version. This has resulted various interpretation of the same piece by many performers throughout the decades. The main topic of this research concerns with the differences of the published editions and six recordings. This thesis is consisted of introduction, conclusion, and other three main chapters. The introduction includes research motivation, purpose, literature review and components definition. The first chapter is the introduction of Maritnů¡¦s life and music. Also, the important features of Oboe Concerto, H. 353 are briefly described in this chapter. The second chapter detailed described and the analyzed the Oboe Concerto, H. 353. The essential materials used in this piece are analyzed and organized in table charts. Nevertheless, for giving the instructions for practicing this piece, the play-skills and teaching-materials are suggested along with the difficult parts of the whole composition. Chapter three is the most important part of this thesis. This chapter mainly focuses on the comparison between scores and sound recordings, and discusses the accuracy of these versions. The scores including the piano version and the orchestra versions and those are expounded in the section one. Furthermore, according to the literatures, the correctness of musical notes and articulation are arranged in this section. I also mark the mistakes of each movement of Oboe Concerto, H. 353 in appendix for readers¡¦ references. Section two in chapter three is the comparison of different sound recordings of this piece. The six important and accomplished oboists¡¦ recordings are discussed in order to let readers realize these great oboists¡¦ music style and their characteristics. These most influential performers are Jiři Tancibudeck, Ingo Goritzki, Heinz Holliger, Lajos Lencsés, Thomas Indermühle, and Alex Klein. The last part is the conclusion of this thesis which concluded and analyzed the whole thesis.

This thesis explores the impact of democratic institutions amongst the Asian developing countries. There has been debate about the successful economic rise of these seven countries; however, questions remain over the differing levels of economic performance. Institutional literature has paid scant attention to the role of democracy, and how this has influenced economic development throughout Asia. This thesis explores the relationships between four democratic institutions - cabinets, party-systems, electoral systems and bicameralism - and economic performance across six developing democracies, in addition to Japan. Using current democratic institutional literature derived from OECD countries, this thesis expands the scope to include new countries. The analysis employs both statistical methods and case studies to assess the relationships between four democratic institutions and seven socio-economic indicators between 1986 and 2005. The linear regressions provided evidence that coalition cabinets are correlated with lower levels of inflation and unemployment, but large multi-party legislatures are not. This thesis also found correlations between strong second legislative chambers and higher FDI, lower tariffs and higher income inequality. Although this is an exploratory thesis, I suggest that democratic institutional analysis within Asia does warrant further examination; an assessment of the specific institutions may provide us with clearer notions regarding economic development.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48).

From Introduction: Thus for the black South African, the act of creative writing is inescapably a form of political action, and unless he turns his back on the reality which confronts him and retreats into a private imaginary world, it is also a form of social action, Yet Ezekiel Mphahlele has rightly cautioned that "creating an imaginary world" can never be an effective substitute for social act ion . Composing fictions about social and political problems is an indubitably oblique way of seeking a solution to them, and even the tendentious recreation of reality is only a metaphor for its actual transformation. Protest writing in South Africa is paradoxically a form of social action which is also only a parasitical imitation of social action, and therefore its avoidance . The freedom of literary creation described above is ambiguously not only a freedom to express reality, but also a freedom from the constraints of reality. And this suggests why the outlaw was such an important symbol to an earlier generation of rather more self-conscious writers.

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La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la teoría del fisicalismo cromático kripkeano en respuesta al problema del color. Para ello, dividiré el trabajo en tres capítulos. En el primer capítulo, explicaré el problema del color basado en dos intuiciones: el realismo del color y la variación perceptual. Mientras el primero afirmaba que los colores son propiedades de los objetos, el segundo afirma que dos observadores pueden ver correctamente el mismo objeto de diferentes colores. Veremos que las dos intuiciones son inconsistentes, lo cual presenta el problema del color. En el segundo capítulo, explicaré la tesis central del fisicalismo cromático kripkeano, la cual divide el color en sí mismo (referente) de la sensación de color (la fijación de la referencia). Asimismo, extenderé su propuesta basándome en dos autores: Alex Byrne y David R. Hilbert. Finalmente, explicaré cómo el fisicalismo cromático kripkeano responde exitosamente al problema del color. Por último, en el tercer capítulo, explicaré dos posibles objeciones al fisicalismo cromático kripkeano. La primera es la deuda explicativa del contenido representacional y la segunda la violación a la disponibilidad de los colores

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Rocha Beserra.pdf: 2786377 bytes, checksum: 26a28c7027589a0654a534f25d7d07f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present dissertation aimed to understand the subjective responses of students, catalyzed by a set of works by visionary artist Alex Grey. Was realized the exposure of some selected works of the artist in a Data Show device to fifteen students, between 18 and 29 years of PUC-SP. After exposure of the works, was asked to research participants to tell a story about the works presented and a semi-structured interview was conducted. The data were organized by the Collective Subject Speech (DSC) and interpreted using the approaches of Jung's complex psychology and aesthetics of reception. It was observed that the works have the potential to profoundly stimulate the unconscious. Subjective responses were marked by intense emotional experiences, whether welfare or malaise, mobilizing projections and psychodynamic contents of the participants. Some themes became salient in the experience of the participants who interacted with the works, such as dualities, death, finitude, the strange, religion and spirituality, the body and the relationship between everyday life and unconventional experiences. The dissertation has enabled an understanding of the subjective responses of students, encouraged by selected works of artist Alex Grey / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo compreender as respostas subjetivas de estudantes, catalisadas por um conjunto de obras do artista visionário Alex Grey. Foi realizada a exposição de algumas obras selecionadas do artista, em aparelho Data Show, a quinze estudantes, entre 18 e 29 anos, da PUC-SP. Após a exposição das obras, foi solicitado aos participantes da pesquisa que contassem uma estória sobre as obras apresentadas e foi realizada uma entrevista semiestruturada. Os dados foram sistematizados por meio do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) e interpretados com a utilização das abordagens da psicologia complexa junguiana e da estética da recepção. Observou-se que as obras têm o potencial de estimular profundamente o inconsciente. As respostas subjetivas foram marcadas por experiências emocionais intensas, seja de bem ou mal-estar, mobilizando projeções e conteúdos psicodinâmicos dos participantes. Alguns temas tornaram-se marcantes na experiência dos participantes que interagiram com as obras, como as dualidades, a morte, a finitude, o estranho, a religião e a espiritualidade, o corpo e a relação entre a vida cotidiana e experiências não convencionais. A dissertação possibilitou uma compreensão das respostas subjetivas de estudantes, estimuladas pelo conjunto escolhido de obras do artista Alex Grey