Joe Louis Clark was the principal of Eastside High School (EHS) located in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Mr. Clark’s leadership style as principal of EHS, and to investigate from the point of view of Mr. Clark’s former students, teachers, and administrators what, if any effect, his leadership style had at EHS, as well as on his students, teachers, and administrators’ lives during and subsequent to their time at EHS. I conducted this investigation by giving voice to my classmates, teachers, administrators and myself. I graduated from EHS during Mr. Clark’s tenure and I am a member of his first graduating class in 1986. When Mr. Clark arrived as principal, EHS was characterized by large numbers of students living at or below the poverty line, overcrowded classrooms, and outdated resources. Additionally, there were issues such as: high dropout rates, drugs, teenage pregnancy, violence towards students and teachers. In an attempt to raise the students’ Minimum Basic Skills Test scores and eliminate the violence at EHS, Mr. Clark was hired as the principal. Through face-to-face and telephone semi-structured, open ended in-depth interviews with twenty-two participants, I uncovered personal views of Mr. Clark’s leadership style. Mr. Clark used a leadership style that was characterized by the informants as autocratic, directive, charismatic and caring. The voices of his students, teachers, and administrators speak volumes about the strategies he developed that made an impact on their lives in addition to reforming EHS.

This document explores the performance of taboo on the stage. The exploration is focused around the establishment of my personal aesthetic, which was developed through my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Starting with my first trip to Broadway, my journey goes through the class work that I did at VCU and the two plays that I did on the Shafer Street Alliance Laboratory Theatre stage: my performance and use of latex costumes in Funnyhouse of a Negro, and my direction and the troubles with producing Killer Joe. The exploration concludes with a look at the theatre in parts of Virginia and the ability to pursue an acting career with an aesthetic that pushes boundaries.

[pt] Esta dissertação faz uma leitura do terror na obra do cineasta José Mojica Marins. A condição - instável - e a trajetória - incomum - deste cineasta maldito na história do cinema nacional passa por uma lógica de esfumaçamento compulsório, onde o diretor se viu obrigado a investir em novos campos: o texto, a televisão, o rádio e, mais recentemente, a Internet, para poder continuar insistindo/investindo na árdua tarefa de roteirizar, produzir e lançar seus mais de 30 filmes. A intenção é entender porque sua história se deu desta forma. Que semelhanças e diferenças guarda com os clássicos de terror? Até que ponto pode ser considerado um descendente do teatro francês do Grand Guignol? Muito mais do que desfiar conceitos fechados sobre a literatura do fantástico abordando os ingredientes das ficções, a idéia é fazer uma análise do terror em seus aspectos contemporâneos e culturais, traçando um paralelo com a biografia do diretor. / [en] This dissertation reads the horror in the film maker s José Mojica Marins work. The unstable condition and the uncommon career of this dammed film maker in the history of the Brazilian movie industry passes as a compulsory evanescence logic, where the director was forced to explore new fields: text, television, radio and, more recently, the Internet, in order to keep on insisting/investing in the arduous task of making scripts, producing and releasing his more than 30 films. The intention is to understand why his history happened this way. What similarities and differences does it keep with the classics? To what extent can he be considered as a descendent of the French theatre of the Grand Guignol? Much more than analyse narrow concepts about the fantastic literature approaching fictions ingredients, the idea is to make an analysis of the horror in its contemporary and cultural aspects relating it to the director s biography.

[pt] Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar como a crise do subprime impactou a estrutura de dependência entre os mercados emergentes e desenvolvidos, utilizando como proxy para esses mercados os índices MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International). A metodologia proposta é baseada na construção de distribuições bivariadas através de cópulas condicionais. A distribuição marginal de cada um dos índices é obtida via ajuste de modelos GARCH univariados e a modelagem de dependência é realizada através das cópulas normal, normal GAS (Generalised Autoregressive Score) e Joe- Clayton simétrica, considerando os parâmetros fixos (forma estática) ou variantes no tempo (forma dinâmica). Diante dos resultados obtidos, a cópula normal GAS (variantes no tempo) com quebra estrutural se mostrou a mais adequada para capturar a dependência entre os retornos dos mercados emergentes e desenvolvidos. Através do arcabouço utilizado pode-se verificar que as medidas de correlação e de dependência de cauda entre os mercados emergentes e desenvolvidos aumentaram significativamente no período da crise do suprime. Por fim, avaliou-se o ajuste das diversas cópulas aqui propostas via VaR (Value at Risk), verificando-se que a cópula normal GAS apresentou o melhor ajuste. / [en] The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how the subprime crisis impacted the dependence structure among the emerging and developed markets by using the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) market index as proxy for each of these markets. The proposed methodology is based on the construction of bivariate distributions via conditional copulas. The marginal distribution for each of the indexes makes use of univariate GARCH models and model dependence is captured via the following copulas: normal, normal GAS (Generalised Autoregressive Score) and Joe-Clayton symmetric considering both fixed parameters (static framework) and time varying parameters (dynamic framework). Our results show that the normal GAS copula with structural break was the most adequate to capture dependence between the returns of emerging and developed markets. Throughout the proposed framework it was possible to infer that correlation and tail dependence measures between these markets sharply increased during the subprime crisis. Finally VaR (Value at Risk) coverage was used as goodness of fit measure, and on this metric the normal GAS copula has also outperformed the others.

Joe Louis Clark was the principal of Eastside High School (EHS) located in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Mr. Clark’s leadership style as principal of EHS, and to investigate from the point of view of Mr. Clark’s former students, teachers, and administrators what, if any effect, his leadership style had at EHS, as well as on his students, teachers, and administrators’ lives during and subsequent to their time at EHS. I conducted this investigation by giving voice to my classmates, teachers, administrators and myself. I graduated from EHS during Mr. Clark’s tenure and I am a member of his first graduating class in 1986. When Mr. Clark arrived as principal, EHS was characterized by large numbers of students living at or below the poverty line, overcrowded classrooms, and outdated resources. Additionally, there were issues such as: high dropout rates, drugs, teenage pregnancy, violence towards students and teachers. In an attempt to raise the students’ Minimum Basic Skills Test scores and eliminate the violence at EHS, Mr. Clark was hired as the principal. Through face-to-face and telephone semi-structured, open ended in-depth interviews with twenty-two participants, I uncovered personal views of Mr. Clark’s leadership style. Mr. Clark used a leadership style that was characterized by the informants as autocratic, directive, charismatic and caring. The voices of his students, teachers, and administrators speak volumes about the strategies he developed that made an impact on their lives in addition to reforming EHS.

Dans le cadre de ce mémoire, nous entendons démontrer, par le biais d'une étude comparative, la résonance raciale et politique des carrières de Jack Johnson (1908-1915) et Joe Louis (1937-1949). Ces deux hommes furent non seulement les deux premiers athlètes afro-américains à transcender la barrière raciale dans la boxe pour s'élever au titre convoité de champion du monde des poids lourds, ils influencèrent aussi l'avènement d'un symbolisme identitaire directement lié au sport. À travers l'image raciale stimulée par ces deux athlètes, nous voulons analyser le processus de politisation qui a accompagné leur présence sur la scène publique et le rôle prépondérant qu'il a joué dans le contrôle de leur représentativité au sein de la société, plus particulièrement auprès des Noirs américains. Cette notion de représentativité, qui occupera une place importante tout au long de ce mémoire, vise d'abord et avant tout à mettre en lumière l'influence directe des deux athlètes sur la population noire et sur le déroulement des relations raciales américaines. Ainsi, à travers le concept de politisation, la présente recherche vise d'abord et avant tout à souligner le rôle marquant de certaines instances gouvernementales et législatives qui, sous le couvert d'une rhétorique à la fois moraliste et propagandiste, ont directement interféré dans le conditionnement de l'image raciale des deux athlètes. En ce sens, notre recherche superpose au cadre purement sportif une approche interprétative qui englobe les différents facteurs contextuels qui ont joué un rôle décisif dans l'émergence de l'image véhiculée par les protagonistes à l'étude. Si la carrière sportive des deux athlètes est bien détaillée dans l'historiographie, en revanche, peu d'études ont démontré le lien direct entre l'image que ceux-ci véhiculaient à l'extérieur du domaine sportif et l'ambivalence qui a entouré la répression et la récupération du symbolisme racial des deux hommes à des fins de propagande et de contrôle social. Par ailleurs, la dichotomie qui s'est opérée dans le conditionnement politique et racial de leur image respective est un aspect qui a été largement négligé par la littérature existante. En ce sens, à défaut d'être purement descriptive, cette recherche propose un regard nouveau sur les différents éléments ayant pu conduire ou influencer la construction du paradigme représentatif des deux athlètes au sein même du système sportif, mais aussi en dehors de celui-ci. De ce fait, nous soutenons que Johnson et Louis, malgré leur séparation chronologique dans le temps, sont interreliés par des facteurs qui ont eu une incidence directe sur la projection de leur identité singulière. Le présent mémoire vise aussi à analyser le rôle de la conduite sociale adoptée par Johnson et Louis pour expliquer les motifs qui ont stimulé l'édification du processus de politisation extra-sportif dont ils furent l'objet. D'autre part, parallèlement à l'importance prépondérante de l'image raciale projetée par les deux hommes, nous soutenons qu'à travers l'internationalisation progressive du sport comme vecteur d'une nouvelle représentativité nationale, se trouve une composante primordiale quant à l'explication des divergences ayant entouré le symbolisme sportif des deux athlètes. Ainsi, la relation intime entre la boxe et l'identité nationale, relation qui s'est forgée au gré du renforcement évolutif de la globalisation du sport comme culture de masse au cours des années 1930, permet d'établir, du moins en partie, une compréhension plus profonde de l'impact national des deux athlètes. Bref, à travers les différents moyens utilisés par le gouvernement américain pour contrôler la répression de l'image de Jack Johnson et pour favoriser la promotion de celle de Joe Louis à des fins de propagande raciale, nous voulons mettre en perspective la rupture qui s'est opérée dans le modelage de leur valeur représentative. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Boxe, Suprématie raciale, Répression, Propagande, Identité raciale, Identité nationale.

This study aims to observe linguistic disparities in the distribution of the conversational dominance strategies interruptions, amount of talk, and questions in the first U.S. 2020 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Subsequently, these findings establish the evaluation of how the interactive phenomena relate to the masculinity conceptualizations of hegemonic masculinity and subordination. To examine the study objective, the methodology conducted was a discourse analysis of the debate transcript. Hence, the method intended to measure to which extent Biden and Trump employed interruptions, amount of talk, and questions during the debate. The outcome of the review established the discursive dominance framework used to discuss how the presidential candidates demonstrated adherence to diverse masculinities’ conceptualizations. The discourse analysis outcome revealed an asymmetrical distribution of the interactive phenomena across all variables measured in favor of Donald Trump. These results suggest that Trump’s discursive performance signaled adherence to hegemonic masculinity norms to a greater extent than Biden through employing more conversational dominance strategies during the debate. Consequently, Biden’s discursive performance indicated closer relations to masculine subordination than Trump’s performance.

We all know the great impact religion has had on the western civilization throughout an exceptional amount of time. It has been prevalent in a lot of fields and the political field is to no exception. Though The United States of America was founded on secular governmental terms, religion has come to have an immense impact on the field. In this dissertation, the two latest presidents of the country, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be studied in the context of their speeches at the annual “National Prayer Breakfast”. The method used is that the transcripts of their speeches have been analyzed through three concepts: reality, utopia, and strategy they have then separately been linked to the domain religion.

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Acoustic Voice Placement has been in use in the United States choral ensembles since the mid-twentieth century, yet research on the topic is limited. Beyond the techniques of Weston Noble (1922-2016), who championed the practice in the United States from 1948 until his death in 2016, there is little known about methods of Acoustic Voice Placement. The purpose of this research is not only to deepen the information available for the reader, but to create a pathway for future research and debate which expands the knowledge about and the practices within the field of Acoustic Voice Placement. Drawn from multiple source types, an empirical analysis of the approaches, methods, and techniques of Acoustic Voice Placement used by three prominent North American choral conductors was conducted. The methods of Weston Noble, James Bass, and Joe Miller were observed and analyzed intent on capturing exemplary practices and detailed methodologies. When compared to Weston Noble's foundational techniques, modern Acoustic Voice Placement techniques showed both convergent and divergent trends.