Ever since it was published in 1982, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has been celebrated for giving African-American women a voice and for challenging patriarchal structures in society, but it has also been criticised for being stereo-typical in its portrayal of African-American men and women. In this essay I claim that the novel in fact supports patriarchal American society. I discuss this by first looking at the parts of the novel that can be seen as challenging towards patriarchal structures, moving on to a more critical standpoint showing that the resistance towards patriarchal structures in the novel is not at all as strong as it may seem at first.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There have and continue to inspire many adaptations since their publication. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the treatment of the narrative, characters and dialogue of Alice in different forms of media. I will be looking at Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Nick Willing’s Alice, American McGee’s Alice, and Madness Returns.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 1983. / Summary in English and German. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There have and continue to inspire many adaptations since their publication. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the treatment of the narrative, characters and dialogue of Alice in different forms of media. I will be looking at Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Nick Willing’s Alice, American McGee’s Alice, and Madness Returns.

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 95).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 1983. / Summary in English and German. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.

Climate change poses a major environmental challenge, due to its adverse effects on human settlement patterns and food security. The global phenomenon upsets seasonal shifts, leading to changes in planting dates and weather patterns. This unpredictability has severe and adverse effects on farmers and rural communities, as variable environmental factors govern activities related to daily sustenance and food availability. The kind of rapid and intense climate change that South African rural spaces are experiencing now, increase the likelihood of extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and floods. There are growing concerns that the rural poor will be unable to adapt. Rural livelihoods are therefore facing overwhelming and extensive environmental threats, while rural dwellers are finding it difficult to adapt and cope. As a result, climate change can thus be described as one of the most complex and dangerous environmental problems challenging rural livelihoods today. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of climate change on rural poverty at Binfield village in the Eastern Cape and to identify the livelihood activities practiced. Furthermore, the research was conducted to ascertain how rural livelihood activities are affected by climate change and identify and assess the effectiveness of adaption strategies employed by the households. The research also aimed to explore and establish further adaptation strategies. This study made use of a qualitative research method. Babooa (2008) argues that qualitative research is concerned with stories and accounts including subjective understandings, feelings, opinions and beliefs. The study used both primary and secondary data for data. The researcher adopted interviews and field observation for primary data whilst secondary data was sourced from journals, articles and internet sources. O‘ Leary (2004) describes the interview as a method of collecting data where the interviewer asks the Interviewee open-ended questions. The questions were based on the key areas of interest. Qualitative research methods are aimed at understanding the rich, complex characteristic nature of human phenomena. Qualitative methods are concerned with understanding human behaviour from the participant‘s own frame of reference.

Un cross-over entre la matière nucléaire ordinaire et le plasma de quarks et gluons (PQG) est prédit par la QCD sur réseau à bas PB et haute température. Expérimentalement les collisions d'ions lourds ultrarelativistes sont utilisées pour étudier cet état dense et chaud. Produits lors d'un processus dur en début de collision, un parton de grande énergie en perd dans le milieu avant de fragmenter en une gerbe de hadrons appelée jet. Une étude de la modification de la structure et de la fragmentation du jet dans le milieu par rapport au vide permet d'améliorer notre connaissance du PQG. Les fonctions de fragmentation (FF) d'un jet décrivent les distributions en impulsion des hadrons dans ce dernier. Dans les collisions proton-proton (pp), leur mesure est importante pour comprendre les mécanismes de fragmentation de partons. Dans les collisions noyau-noyau, elle permet d'étudier les mécanismes de perte d'énergie. Cependant, la présence d'un important bruit de fond qui fluctue rend la mesure complexe. Il a alors été suggéré de mesurer les moments des FF qui y seraient moins sensibles. Le détecteur ALICE au LHC a des capacités de trajectométrie uniques permettant la mesure des particules chargées jusqu'à des impulsions de 150 MeV/c rendant possible une étude fine de la structure du jet et de ses FF. Les calorimètres électromagnétiques (EMCal et DCal) peuvent aussi être utilisés pour améliorer la mesure de l'énergie du jet. Nous présentons les mesures des FF des jets chargés et les premières études des moments des FF dans les collisions pp à .s=2.76 TeV dans ALICE. Une partie du travail est aussi dédiée à l'implémentation de la géométrie de DCal dans le logiciel d'analyse. / A cross-over between ordinary nuclear matter and a state of deconfined quarks and gluons, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), is predicted by lattice QCD at low PB and high temperature. Experimentally, ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are used to produce and to study the hot and dense QGP medium. Produced in a hard scattering at the early stage of the collision a highly energetic parton is expected to lose energy in the medium before fragmenting into a spray of hadrons called jet. A study of the modification of the jet structure and of its fragmentation pattern in medium compared to the vacuum case should provide insights into the QGP properties. The jet fragmentation functions (FF) describe the momentum distribution of hadrons inside a jet. In proton-proton (pp) collisions their measurement is important for understanding the mechanisms of parton fragmentation while it can shed light on the energy loss mechanisms in nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions. However, the presence of a large fluctuating background in AA makes the measurement a challenging task. The use of FF moments has been proposed to overcome this difficulty. The ALICE detector at the LHC has unique tracking capabilities enabling to measure charged particles down to transverse momenta of 150 MeV/c. This allows assessing possible modifications of the jet structure and FF. The electromagnetic calorimeters (EMCal and DCal) can also be used to improve the measurement of the jet energy. We present the measurements of charged-jet FF and the first studies of FF moments in pp collisions at .s=2.76 TeV in ALICE. Part of the work is also dedicated to the implementation of the DCal geometry in the ALICE offline software.