Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed June 11, 2007). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118).

In order to create landscapes able to adapt to the constantly shifting demands placed upon it by human and ecological processes, there is a need to incorporate the flux of these human and ecological processes into a physical and dynamic share of the built environment. This will require a perceptual shift in understanding this human/ecological relationship (on the part of both the designer and the user) as well as a change in the design/implementation/management strategies currently employed by designers and planners. Instead of designing landscapes expected to be maintained to look and act in a static manner, the built environment needs to be designed with flux in mind. This thesis' methodology begins with a position paper narrating the current body of knowledge regarding human experience and treatment of dynamic systems within the built environment, focusing specifically on the Outer Banks, a series of barrier islands located off the northern coast of North Carolina. It looks at this relationship through three languages: scientific (or geomorphologic), legislative and design. Next is a sampling of case studies aimed at emphasizing this dynamic relationship between humans and their surroundings. Finally, the design project incorporates the viewpoint developed in the position paper and applies it to a hypothetical site design located in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The site is currently slated for a Hilton hotel that will be finished by Spring 2006; however, the spirit of the design has the potential to be incorporated into many sites along the coast. / Master of Landscape Architecture

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This study is to probe into the sales promotion case of Uni-President convenience store ( 7-11), Hello Kitty. The method used in this study is qualitative research, especially the¡§In-depth Interview¡¨. Two of the senior managers of Uni-President convenience store were interviewed to gather more specific data and information. Furthermore, we combined together with the relevant secondary data to have more deeply analysis and research. The conclusions for this study are as below: A. The planning processes related to sales promotion strategy Sales promotions such as buy one get one free, coupons and free samples, are targeting and appealing to consumers across all demographics. B. The execution of the Hello Kitty promotion activities during the promotion period: The 7-11 uses various sales promotion events to attract the customers to buy and also to pay for the advertising expenditure during the promotion period. C. The results of 7-11 Hello Kitty sales promotion The promotion results indicate that the sales increased by 14.9% compared with the same period of last year.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004. / Title from title page screen (viewed Sept. 27, 2004). Thesis advisor: R.B. Richards. Document formatted into pages (xi, 83 p. : ill. (some col.)). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65).

The aim of this paper is to examine the didactic potential of the books: Kitty and The Witch Tree Symbol, Kitty and the Mystery of the Stolen Books, Yes, See Lotta and Dear Lotta. All these booksbelong to the B.Wahlström series of girls' books, a literary genre that has been looked down upon overtime and considered harmful to read because of the fact that they where too stereotypical. The reason forthis is that the characters are far too gender stereotypical and can have a negative impact on young girls.The essay intends to investigate how these books, despite being girls' books can be used as tools in theschool's value base work, especially regarding gender equality, equality, norms and stereotypes. It alsoexplores how the selected books can be used in the classroom to address gender and sex issues.To answer the aim of this paper, a qualitative method, close reading, has been used. During the closereading, there has been a specific focus on how the feminine characters, in particular how the femaleprotagonists' Kitty and Lotta, are portrayed. The theoretical approaches used to analyse the books aredidactic potential, defined by Malin Alkestrand, and the gender system, defined and explained byYvonne Hirdman. The result of the analysis was that there is a didactic potential in how Kitty and Lottaare being described since their characterization on several occasions can provide an opening fordiscussing fundamental values in school. The study also showed that the books selected for this analysishad scenes that may work as a tool in a classroom context to address and discuss the topic of sex andgender.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cecilia Palma Magalhaes.pdf: 13147076 bytes, checksum: fcbbb26a791fceab2ea81ed15c8c2ee5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-09 / This research aims at the deduction of an axiology of contemporary living expericences in consumption practices, specifically in the commerce of Sanrio s small gifts, imprinted with Hello Kitty character. This way, we seek to understand through it wide mediatic reach the means by which the brand funds social archetypes in the purchase and use of its products. As the theoretical and methodological background we propose discursive semiotics as a social action theory, offering subsidies related to the consumption study in capitalist societies. The research is guided by Greimas narrative semiotics postulations, in the same way as the advances that guide significance understanding as the sensitive experience of life practices. Simultaneously we approach Sanrio s manifestation through Floch s plastic and figurative semiotics as a bricolage an enunciation of the culturalized world. In order to better understand the consumption performances, Landowski s sociosemiotics is proposed as an analytical fundament of not only intersubjective relations, but sociabilities interactions and consumers modalizations as a form of taste and contemporary lifestyles. Progressively will be analyzed: (1) the brand s identity visibility and its symbolic repercussions; (2) Hello Kitty s presence as the brand s spokesperson and its manifestation in the product lines; (3) sensitive interactions promoted among consumers in the sharing of images and the brand s ownership, in the contemporary stage of social enactments, the digital space. In the construction of archetypes motivated by the purchase and hoarding that identifies and homologates identities we can catch a glimpse on the brand s visibilities as a social way of existing. Nourished by capitalist society, Sanrio elaborates new components of small contemporary mythologies / Esta pesquisa visa a depreensão de uma axiologia das vivências contemporâneas em práticas de consumo, especificamente no comércio dos pequenos presentes Sanrio, estampados com a personagem Hello Kitty. Busca-se, dessa forma, compreender, através do seu largo alcance mediático, como a marca funda, na aquisição e uso de seus produtos, arquétipos sociais. Propõe-se como respaldo teórico e metodológico a semiótica enquanto teoria da ação social, oferecendo subsídios pertinentes ao estudo do consumo nas sociedades capitalistas. A pesquisa é norteada pelas postulações de Greimas, em sua semiótica narrativa, assim como nos avanços da teoria que norteiam o entendimento da significação enquanto experiência sensível das práticas de vida. Concomitantemente, abordaremos a manifestação da Sanrio no viés da semiótica plástica flochiana, na construção figurativa e plástica da marca como bricolage, enquanto enunciado do mundo culturalizado. Para a compreensão das performances do consumo, a sociossemiótica de Landowski propõe-se como fundamentação de análise das relações não apenas intersubjetivas, mas das interações em vista de sociabilidades e modelizações dos consumidores em forma de gostos e de estilos de vida do contemporâneo. Serão analisados, progressivamente: (1) a visibilidade identitária da marca e suas reverberações simbólicas; (2) a presença da Hello Kitty no papel de porta-voz da marca, e sua manifestação em linha de produtos; (3) as interações sensíveis promovidas entre as consumidoras, no compartilhamento de imagens de uso e de posse da marca, no palco contemporâneo das encenações sociais, o espaço digital. Na construção de arquétipos motivados pela compra e pelo colecionismo que identifica e homologa identidades vislumbra-se nas visibilidades da marca um fazer ser social. Alimentada pela sociedade capitalista, a Sanrio elabora novos componentes das pequenas mitologias contemporâneas

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In 1843, an African-American woman known as Kitty Payne and her three children arrived in Adams County, Pennsylvania, newly manumitted by their mistress, Mary Maddox of Virginia. Two years later, in July of 1845, a gang of men burst into the Paynes’ home and kidnapped the family, dragging them back south to slavery. The story of Kitty Payne and her children echoed and replayed itself thousands of times in the years before the end of the Civil War. Between 1620 and 1860, a race-based system of slavery developed in America. Not all persons of African descent came to America as slaves, however, and slaves sometimes obtained freedom through manumission or escape. This created opportunities for corrupt individuals to kidnap free black Americans and sell them as slaves, regardless of their previous status. The abduction of free blacks into slavery is an extremely significant and far-reaching part of the antebellum African-American experience that many historians have previously overlooked.

Sammanfattning Hur kan bilderbokens ikonotext, med dess särpräglade uttryck och estetik ge uttryck för döden? Utifrån min läsning av Kitty Crowthers tre bilderböcker på temat döden; Moi et Rien (2000), La visite de petite mort (2004) och Annie du lac (2009) har jag studerat hur de dubbla läsplanen bild och text samverkar och skapar en estetisk upplevelse som förmedlar svårfångade psykologiska sammanhang, kulturella förhållningssätt och mänskliga erfarenheter. Genom sina bilderböcker ger Crowther uttryck för det osedda, svårgripbara och abstrakta begreppet döden och visar att när någon dör lär sig någon annan hur det är att leva. / Abstract The picture book is a literary form in which verbal and visual elements are inextricably linked, how can this special aesthetics express death? Out of my readings of Kitty Crowthers three picture books on the topic of death; Moi et Rien (2000), La visite de petite mort (2004) and Annie du lac (2009) I have examined how visual representation and text combined create an aesthetic experience which mediate complicated psychological context, cultural behaving and human experience. In her picture books Crowther in various representations shows the unseen, immaterial and abstract phenomenon of death – depictions which can teach us how to live.

<p>The aim of this study is to analyse how pornography is used in the American comics X-Men, published by Marvel under the authorship of Chris Claremont.</p><p>I have applied Butler and MacKinnons theories about pornography as a performative speech, to this special art form. I have also investigated how censorship has influenced the comics evolution and whether it has affected the way women and sexual and ethnical minorities are represented. To corroborate how these theories apply, I have analysed three main female fig-ures in The X-Men comics - Storm, Phoenix and Shadowcat - and I have tried to identify how they relate to existing stereotypes.</p><p>The conclusion of this essay is that the women characters in X-Men break the existing stereo-types and create new implications. This reinforces Butler’s theory about the possibility to re-verse hate speech and diminishes MacKinnons perspective of pornography as an imperative.</p>