Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African wine industry has a history of super-exploitation. Wine farm labour practices such as paternalism, tied housing, tied employment and the tot system have maintained farm worker communities in a trapped and dependent position. Within these trapped farm worker communities social pathologies such as alcohol abuse, a highly unstable family life, illegitimacy and illiteracy are common. On an individual level, members of these communities are predominantly low in selfconfidence, self-esteem, self-reliance etc. On a communal level, domestic violence, child battering, drunken brawls, knife stabbings etc. are common in farm worker communities. In response to these conditions in wine farm worker communities, a number of initiatives have been launched within the South African wine industry. This research study focuses on one of these initiatives, called the New Beginnings project. As one of the first projects of its kind, it succeeded in releasing a farm worker community from its trapped and dependent position. This was the outcome since the project succeeded as a community development process. The community development process is essentially about building or increasing social capacity. The building of social capacity refers to a process whereby both agency and solidarity are increased within a community. Agency or capacity building has to do with the building of values, attitudes, knowledge, skills and personal qualities, e.g. self-esteem and self-reliance, of individual community members, while solidarity has to do with the building of cohesion, trustful relationships and connectivity among various community members. The New Beginnings project illustrates that community development practice that abide by guiding principles that aim to achieve both agency and solidarity building within a community, would eventually result in the sustainability of the project. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Suid-Afrikaanse wynbedryf het ‘n geskiedenis van super-eksploitasie. Arbeidspraktyke soos paternalisme, gebonde behuising, gebonde indiensneming asook die dopstelsel het verseker dat plaaswerker-gemeenskappe in ‘n gevange en afhanklike posisie gehou word. Die gevolg is dat sosiale euwels soos alkoholmisbruik, ‘n hoogs onstabiele gesinslewe, onwettigheid asook ongeletterdheid algemeen voorkom in hierdie gevange plaaswerker-gemeenskappe. Op ‘n indiwiduele vlak, het die oorgrote meerderheid lede van hierdie gemeenskappe min selfvertroue en selfwaarde. Op ‘n gemeenskaplike vlak, kom gesinsgeweld, kindermishandeling, dronkmansbakleiery en messtekery algemeen voor in plaaswerker-gemeenskappe. As teenvoeter vir die bogenoemde toestande in plaaswerker-gemeenskappe, is verskeie inisiatiewe aan die gang gesit in die Suid-Afrikaanse wynbedryf. Hierdie navorsingstudie fokus op een van hierdie inisiatiewe, genaamd die ‘New Beginnings’ projek. As een van die eerste projekte van sy soort, het hierdie projek daarin geslaag om ‘n plaaswerker-gemeenskap vanuit sy gevange en afhanklike posisie te bevry. Die resultaat van die projek was juis moontlik omdat die projek as ‘n gemeenskapsontwikkelings- proses geslaag het. Die gemeenskaps-ontwikkelings-proses gaan hoofsaaklik oor die bou of vermeerdering van sosiale kapasiteit. Die bou van sosiale kapasiteit verwys na ‘n proses waartydens beide agentskap en solidariteit binne ‘n gemeenskap vermeerder word. Agentskap of kapasiteitsbou het te make met die skep van waardes, houdings, kennis, vaardighede asook persoonlike eienskappe, bv. selfwaarde en selfstandigheid, van indiwiduele gemeenskapslede, terwyl solidariteit te doen het met die bou of skep van samehorigheid, betroubare verhoudings en ‘n eenheidsgevoel tussen verskeie gemeenskapslede. Die ‘New Beginnings’ projek wys dat gemeenskapsontwikkelings- praktyk wat hou by die riglyne om beide agentskap en solidariteit binne ‘n gemeenskap te bou, uiteindelik tot die volhoubaarheid van die projek aanleiding sal gee.

Cette thèse propose une nouvelle édition critique de la seconde pentade de la Bibliothèque Historique, l’une des nombreuses parties de l’histoire universelle de Diodore de Sicile (Ier siècle avant J.-C.) qui nous est parvenue à l’état de fragments ; elle l’assortit d’une traduction et d’un commentaire, largement historique, mais aussi philologique, linguistique ou stylistique. La tradition indirecte qui, par sa compilation, permit la transmission d’extraits de l’œuvre originale, qui recouvrent ici une période allant de la fin de la période mythologique (livre VI) à la première médique (fin du livre X), est relativement homogène, et divisée en deux branches : d’un côté, les Excerpta Constantiniana, l’encyclopédie que Constantin VII Porphyrogénète entreprit au Xe siècle, compilent un nombre très important de fragments de Diodore, appréciés surtout pour la teneur morale de l’histoire qu’ils délivrent ; de l’autre côté, quelques auteurs chrétiens et byzantins citent Diodore dans leurs œuvres : ce sont pour la plupart des chroniqueurs intéressés par le récit de son histoire universelle. Les notices et les notes de commentaire tâchent de rétablir à chaque fois ces reliquiae dans leur contexte historique précis ainsi que dans le projet historiographique général de l’œuvre, afin de cerner, dans la mesure du possible, la méthode employée par l’historien sicilien, et de cibler l’intérêt particulier que revêt son œuvre, au-delà d’une valeur documentaire indéniable que le lecteur moderne peut apprécier. / This thesis offers a new critical edition of the second pentade of the Library of History, one of the many parts of Diodorus of Sicily’s universal history (first century B.C.), which was transmitted to us in fragments; along with this study comes a translation and a mainly historical, but also philological, linguistic and stylistic commentary. The indirect tradition, thanks to its compilation work, made the transmission of some of the text’s original parts possible; these parts go, historically, from the end of the mythological period (book VI) to the first Persian war (end of book X). It is relatively homogeneous and divided into two separate parts: on the one hand, the Excerpta Constantiniana (an Encyclopedia that Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus wrote in the Xth century) includes a large number of Diodorus’ fragments, mainly used for the moral enlightening they provide with. On the other hand, a few Christian and Byzantine authors have quoted Diodorus in their work (mainly chroniclers interested in his view on universal history). All introductory notes and other notes included in this analysis try to always link these reliquiae with their precise original and historical context, as well as with the general historiographical project of Diodorus’ work, in order to understand the method used by the Sicilian historian and to underline the specific interest of his work, putting aside its unquestionable value as a documentary, which the modern reader will certainly be able to appreciate.

The introductory chapter of this Thesis describes the development of choir music in Bohemia, starting with unison singing, through polyphonic singing, proceeding to forming of literary societies, and, finally, the form of choir singing as we know it today. In the theoretical part, we use the most important historic and social moments of the Prague Hlahol Choir to illustrate almost 155 years of its existence. The following chapter reflects the most significant concerts, introduces the choir's repertoire and how it changed through times, mentions premieres of choir masterpieces, cooperation with other significant choirs and prominent musicians. In the practical part, we reprint the interviews with long-time choir members and personal experience of some of the artists who have cooperated with the Prague Hlahol Choir. To complete this Thesis, we used anniversary almanacs, annual reports, historic documents and photographs, etc. We also included personal views of the choir members, choir leaders and the prominent musicians who have cooperated with the choir. Based on the assembled data, we can evaluate the progress the choir has made, the changes it has undergone and also the impact it has made from the day it was established. The main contribution of this Thesis is that it brings the overview of the...

[pt] Esta tese visa a contribuir para a discussão sobre a clínica dos chamados casos-limite a partir de uma investigação sobre os elementos intersubjetivos que constituem os primórdios do psiquismo. O fio condutor consiste na experiência paradoxal de unidade dual, característica dos momentos iniciais de relacionabilidade, e que constitui, também, um ponto de partida para o trabalho analítico com pacientes muito regredidos. Para este fim, esta pesquisa será dividida em dois eixos temáticos. O primeiro eixo, composto pelos dois primeiros capítulos, consiste em uma investigação sobre os primórdios do psiquismo em condições suficientemente boas e, em seguida, sobre as falhas ambientais e suas vicissitudes para a etiologia dos casos-limite. O segundo eixo refere-se a uma discussão sobre a clínica dos casos-limite. Considera-se, inicialmente, uma articulação entre os principais elementos da experiência intersubjetiva precoce e o conceito de contratransferência. Em seguida, propõe-se o trabalho analítico com os chamados casos difíceis a partir de um Modelo Transformacional. Este ocorre no âmbito de uma ótica de campo, na qual os elementos psíquicos não simbolizados possam ser acolhidos, metabolizados e transformados dentro da díade analista/analisando, considerada como uma das vias do campo. / [en] This thesis aims to contribute to the discussion on the clinic of so-called borderline cases from an investigation into the intersubjective elements that constitute the beginnings of the psyche. The conductive thread consists of the paradoxical experience of dual unit, characteristic of the initial moments of relationability, and which also constitutes a starting point for analytical work with very regressed patients. To this end, this research will be divided into two thematic axes. The first axis, composed of the first two chapters, consists of an investigation into the beginnings of the psyche in sufficiently good conditions and then on environmental failures and their vicissitudes for the etiology of limit cases. The second axis refers to a discussion on the clinic of limit cases. Initially, an articulation of the main elements of early intersubjective experience with the concept of countertransference is considered. Then, the analytical work is proposed with the so-called difficult cases from a Transformational Model. This occurs within the scope of a field optician in which the non-symbolized psychic elements can be welcomed, metabolized and transformed within the analyst/analyzing dyade, considered as one of the pathways of this field.

This thesis deals with the depiction of racial and ethnic stereotypes in American animated cartoons particularly from the first half of the twentieth century. It studies the relationship between animation and American culture and examines how animation reflects and shapes American identity in terms of race and how it critiques and promotes American values and attitudes regarding race and ethnicity in particular. Considering the historical, political, legal and cultural background of the contemporary eras of American animation, the thesis analyses the portrayal of racial and ethnic features in animated cartoons from the 1920s to the 1960s. Such stereotypes represent, in my opinion, significant aspects of societal and cultural changes in American society of the examined eras of animation. The beginnings of the entertainment industry affected the booming era of animation by implementing commonly recognised literary stereotypes of the African-Americans into animated cartoons. This thesis strives to study the development of animated features of the racial stereotypes throughout the contemporary eras. It provides a brief systematic overview of the main eras that have significantly highlighted the start of animation as markers of race and ethnicity. Simultaneously, it discusses the problematic...

It all began in the village. We would wake up with the sun, we would rest our laboured bodies underneath the moon. Gli vecchi (old folks) often told us: “In the end, all that will remain is our story. Nothing else really matters.” This thesis “Awakening the Calabrian Story: The Diverse Manifestations of Acquiring Knowledge” will take you into the lives of ten Southern Italian women from Calabria. They will lure you back to their villages: their place of birth, their hearth, to the midst of the olive trees. Their stories will then migrate to Canada, as these women take their first steps on Pier 21. “In the end, all that matters is our stories.” This thesis will give voice to ten Southern Italian women who will tell the world what, to them, matters most. They will tell their tales and pass on the wisdom they have learned along the way. With each breath and each step, they are always growing, never remaining the same. They go along and live out their villages wherever the thread takes them. This thesis itinerary will begin in the village, follow a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to a life in Canada. Chapter One: (Introduction) will outline and describe the background, purpose and objectives, on this journey of awakening. Chapter Two: (Literature Review) will look at pedagogical perspectives in curriculum theory. Chapter Three: (Methodology) will focus on the research methodology applied throughout this thesis process. Chapter Four: (Stories as Data) will lure readers into the personal lives and experiences of participants. Chapter Five: (Interpretation of Stories) will reveal the analysis of acquired knowledge as reported by participants. This thesis itinerary will continue and conclude by the fireside with a collection of Calabrian folktales told by these participants, and translated from the Calabrian dialect into English. / PhD

This dissertation thesis is focused on the search for the presence of DIY (Do It Yourself) technologies in the practice of digital sculpting, from the beginnings of this progressive way of creation to the present. The work, through three thematic areas, answers the main research questions: What kind of technology is or has the DIY phenomenon been represented in digital sculpture? How have these technologies influenced and are influencing the development and direction of digital sculpture? Within the first thematic area, the presence of the DIY phenomenon in the beginnings of digital creation of a spatial work of art is mapped until the moment of constituting the concept of Digital Sculpture, as a designation of this new way of creation. The second area deals with specific technologies of digital sculpture, in terms of technical tools and their DIY alternatives. The development of these alternative technologies and their influence on the gradual democratization of digital sculpture tools is investigated. The third area examines the creative methods of DIY, which have been integrated into the practice of digital sculpture.

My graduation theses under the title "Past and present Elementary school of Jaroslav Jezek in the context of teaching Czech language" thesis deals with the early education and teaching of visually impaired children in the Private institution for blind children and sick eyes and further it describes the current characteristics and principles of teaching visually impaired children at the elementary school of Jaroslav Jezek. The graduation theses is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the history of education and teaching visually impaired children in the Czech lands. The second chapter summarizes the principles and specifics of teaching and further highlights the importance of touch and compensatory aids during the class. The third chapter follows the influence of reading and the spoken word for children with visual impairments. The fourth chapter deals with the current concept of teaching the Czech language. The fifth chapter is dedicated to competitions and cultural events, in which children at Elementary school of Jaroslav Jezek participate. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)