Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank C. Tracz / This document is comprised of research and analysis of the comprehensive examination of the graduate conducting recital of Shawn Michael Knopp. This recital was performed by the Smoky Valley High School Concert Band, on February 27, 2009, at the Century II Concert Hall in Wichita, Kansas. The examined repertoire for the recital includes Dance Sinfonia, by Dennis W. Fisher, Linden Lea, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, arranged by John W. Stout, Strawflower, by Ralph Hermann, Emperata Overture by Claude T. Smith, and Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March by John Philip Sousa, edited by Daniel Dorff. This document contains theoretical and historical analysis and outlines the method of planning and preparing a graduate conducting recital according to the Blocher, Miles and Tracz formats.

The thesis, The testimony of the people who survived the Holocaust, is based on the authentic testimony of the Jews who were sent to concentration camps during the 2nd World War, their lifes before the war and after the war are also presented in this thesis.Furthemore, the thesis discribes the impact of this experience on their present lives.

[I] A opressão política das mulheres ou a desigualdade de gênero configura-se como um problema social e histórico de graves consequências objetivas e subjetivas. É gerador de uma modalidade de sofrimento coletivamente compartilhado: a humilhação social, um sofrimento ancestral e repetido. Nesta pesquisa pretendeu-se analisar estratégias de enfrentamento da humilhação social, alcançadas e praticadas por mulheres que participam de um movimento social feminista: a Marcha Mundial das Mulheres. [II] Tivemos como hipóteses que: 1) O enfrentamento da humilhação social vivida por mulheres pode ganhar três formas: (1a) o enfrentamento solitário, sentido como mais ou menos impotente; (1b) o recurso cotidiano a parceiras com quem dividir e interpretar angústias, capaz de revigorar pessoas, mas não de alterar estruturas; (1c) o incurso em formas igualitárias de convivência, colaboração e luta, verificado como capaz de conquistar direitos e alterar instituições. Encontramos o primeiro e segundo tipos de enfrentamento nas trajetórias de mulheres antes de sua inserção na Marcha e o terceiro tipo depois da inserção. 2) As mulheres que ouvimos alcançariam identidade que contrasta com aquela trazida antes de sua inserção na Marcha e, portanto, numa forma política de enfrentamento de humilhação social; a nova identidade teria dependido da participação em lutas coletivas contra opressões de gênero e, em muitos casos, contra opressões de raça e de classe. Aferimos dois resultados que acompanharam a participação: (2a) as mulheres ganharam ou firmaram consciência de que opressões de gênero, classe e raça pessoalmente sofridas são modalidades de opressões coletivamente sofridas; (2b) uma consciência assim tornou-se consistente e viva, não automática e gregária, quando a participação em lutas coletivas correspondeu a uma experiência pela qual a militante sabe responder de modo muito pessoal. [III] Trajetórias de sete mulheres foram registradas por meio de convivência e colaboração e por meio de suas lembranças. Foi realizada ainda observação participante em núcleos e atividades da Marcha Mundial das Mulheres em São Paulo (SP). Foram realizadas análises de textos e documentos produzidos por este movimento social. Os dados recolhidos dessas diferentes fontes foram organizados e analisados de maneira independente e cruzada. A investigação mostrou que a participação na Marcha insere-se em um contexto de vivências de relações de dominação-exploração de gênero, raça e classe; assim como de uma trajetória de participação política e enfrentamentos. Assim, as transformações pessoais acontecidas e impulsionadas ali não se dão de forma mecânica. São sempre inseridas em um processo ligado a uma história pessoal e coletiva. Buscamos relacionar as transformações trazidas pela participação política às novas formas de enfrentamento aos sofrimentos psicológicos e políticos. Da análise de histórias de vida das depoentes emergiram as seguintes categorias que sintetizam a importância da participação política no movimento social feminista: a valorização da pluralidade; o exercício de participação igualitária; a possibilidade de falar e ser escutada; o favorecimento de um processo de avanço de consciência política sobre as relações sociais de gênero, classe e raça; o estímulo à aparição; a configuração como um espaço de praticar o cuidar-nos entre nós; a recuperação teórica de uma história coletiva e de uma ancestralidade pessoal (expressando duas formas de ligação com o passado); o exercício do potencial de criação e da possibilidade de sonhar (expressando uma mediação com o futuro) / [I] The political oppression of women or gender inequality is a social and historical problem of serious objective and subjective consequences. It generates a collectively shared mode of suffering: social humiliation, an ancestral and repeated suffering. This research intended to analyze strategies of coping with social humiliation, reached and practiced by women who participate in a feminist social movement: World March of Women. [II] We had the hypotheses: 1) Coping with the social humiliation experienced by women can take three forms: (1a) solitary confrontation, felt as more or less impotent; (1b) the daily resource to partners with whom to share and interpret anguish, capable of invigorating people, but not of changing structures; (1c) the intervention in egalitarian forms of coexistence, collaboration and struggle, verified as capable of conquering rights and changing institutions. We found the first and second types of coping in women\'s trajectories before participating in the March and the third type after the insertion in this social movement. 2) The women we want to hear will have reached an identity that contrasts with that brought before their insertion in the March and, therefore, in a political form of confrontation of social humiliation; the new identity will have depended on participation in collective struggles against gender oppression and, in many cases, against race and class oppression. We observed two results that have accompanied the participation: (2a) women have gained or have become aware that gender-based oppression suffered personally is a mode of collective oppression suffered; (2b) such a consciousness became consistent and alive, non-automatic and gregarious, when participation in collective struggles corresponded to an experience for which the militant knows how to respond in a very personal way. [III] Trajectories of seven women were recorded through coexistence and collaboration and through their memories. Participant observation was performed in nuclei and activities of the World March of Women in São Paulo (SP). We analyzed texts and documents produced by this social movement. The data collected from these different sources was organized and analyzed in an independent and cross-cutting manner. Research has shown that participation in the March is inserted in a context of experiences of relations of domination-exploration of gender, race and social class; as well as in a trajectory of political participation and confrontations. Thus, the personal transformations that happened there did not happen mechanically. They are always inserted in a process linked to a personal history and to a collective history. We seeked to relate the transformations experienced by women after their political participation with the new ways of coping psychological and political suffering. The analysis of womens life histories generated the following categories which summarize the importance of political participation in the feminist social movement: the appreciation of the plurality; the attempt of equal participation; the possibility of speaking and being listened to; a process of advance of political consciousness about social relations of gender, class and race; the stimulus to the apparition; the configuration as an space where its possible to practice the taking care of herself and of each other; the theoretical recovery of a collective history and of a personal ancestry (which express two ways of connecting with the past); the incentive to exercise the creative potential and the possibility of hoping (which express a connection with the future)

Trata-se de mostrar que Rousseau formula, ao longo de seus escritos, em especial no conjunto de seus Discursos, no Contrato Social e no Emílio, uma filosofia da história onde figura um movimento dialético e a ideia de um sentido último para o desenrolar dos eventos humanos. A sucessão de eventos que liga a natureza humana intocada pelos males sociais a seu destino - a qual Rousseau quer chamar de história - traria em seu bojo a possibilidade do progresso moral, consubstanciada na volta ao ordenamento natural. Assim como, frente ao espetáculo e as aparências de seu tempo, Rousseau retrocede ao homem natural, constrói a expectativa de que os tempos vindouros tragam a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo e com a natureza, tendo o Estado, nos termos em que é proposto pelo Contrato Social, um papel fundamental para esse acontecimento. Por fim, pretende-se desenvolver a ideia de que, a partir de uma noção de história como marcha da natureza, que engendra os meios para emancipação humana, Rousseau aproxima-se do pensamento religioso, produzindo, a partir de sua filosofia da história, uma teodicéia. / This essay aims to show that Rousseau formulates, through his writings, specially in his Discourses, Social Contract and Emile, a Philosophy of History, depicting a dialectic movement and the idea of an ultimate goal or sense for the unraveling of humanity\'s events. The succession of all the events that binds an untouched by social iniquities human nature to its destiny - that Rousseau wants to name history - would bring in its bowels the possibility of moral progress, con-substantiated on the return of a natural order. As in which, facing the spectacle and appearances of his time, Rousseau leans back to this natural man; he also builds an expectation for a reconciliation for man with itself and with nature, playing the State, in the terms laid by the Social Contract, a fundamental role for this to happen. Finally, it is intended to develop the idea that, from a notion of history as a march of nature, engendering the means for human emancipation, Rousseau leans towards the religious thinking, producing in his philosophy of history, a theodicy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:21:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ISAC FERREIRA.pdf: 11190492 bytes, checksum: 5ef817e733833baf20ad2c6021d1e2a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-13 / In order to people, occupy such spaces empty and promoting the inclusion of small property was created in 1941, the colony of Goiás National Agricultural (CANG), during the Estado Novo, on St Patrick Forest region. The CANG was inserted in the context of March to the West and represented not only unique features of state investments so far not seen in the region, but above all because of the intense migration south center of the state, which provided population and economic growth. The search aims to discuss the process of occupation and construction of the Cologne National Agricultural Goiás, in the period from 1941 to 1959, reflecting on the use of space and its relationship with the social representations and the construction of the cultural scene regional. Os procedures methodological were based on bibliographic research, field work, oral interviews and documentary research with a survey of official data on population dynamics, to service institutions and the productive infrastructure. The study of the territorial formation shows that the processes and actions are key components of the production of space, but no change in the socio-spatial framework of a settlement is made without conflict. In addition, these changes are the cause fruits also move to an external location, assuming the insert in different networks and the laying of interest and logic different scales. / Durante o Estado Novo, com o objetivo de povoar, ocupar os espaços considerados vazios e promover a inserção da pequena propriedade foi criada em 1941, a Colônia Agrícola Nacional de Goiás (CANG) na região da Mata do São Patrício. A CANG estava inserida no contexto da Marcha para o Oeste e representou não somente características singulares de investimentos estatais até então não vistos na região, mas, sobretudo, por conta da migração intensa centro sul do estado, que proporcionou crescimento populacional e econômico. O estudo tem como objetivo a discussão do processo de ocupação e construção da Colônia Agrícola Nacional de Goiás, no período de 1941 a 1959, refletindo sobre a ocupação do espaço e sua relação com as representações sociais e na construção do cenário cultural regional. Os procedimentos metodológicos foram baseados em pesquisa bibliográfica, trabalho de campo, entrevistas orais e pesquisa documental com levantamento de dados oficiais referentes à dinâmica populacional, às instituições de serviços e à infraestrutura produtiva. O estudo sobre a formação territorial mostra que os processos e as ações são componentes fundamentais da produção do espaço, mas nenhuma mudança no quadro socioespacial de uma localidade é feita sem conflitos. Além disso, as causas dessas mudanças também são desdobramentos de um movimento externo no local, pressupondo a inserção em distintas redes e a imposição de interesses e lógicas de diferentes escalas.

Este trabalho propõe um estudo sobre o processo de construção de identidades, no MST. A pesquisa de campo acompanhou o dia-a-dia da Marcha à Brasília, realizada em 2005. O texto é composto por uma apresentação de oito narrativas, seguidas de uma descrição do trabalho de campo. Na segunda parte, apresenta-se uma explicação teórica e metodológica conceitos como, experiência, memória, narrativa e identidade, sempre tentando explicar como esses conceitos são relacionados com o fazer da história oral. No interior das discussões surgem os embates em torno da construção das identidades dos membros do Movimento e a visão identitária gestada por suas lideranças. / The purpose of this research is to look at the process of construction of identities inside the biggest social movement in the contemporary Brazilian society: the MST. The field work accompanied the day-by-day live of the March to Brasília (Brazil\'s capital), that happened in 2005. The theses text is composed by a presentation of eight live stories, followed by a description of the field word. The second part presents theorical and methodological approach on questions as: experience, memory, narrative and identity, always trying to explain how these procedures are related with the labor in oral history. In the core of the narrative\'s interpretation is raised a debate involving the identities construction of Movement\'s members and the identity created by its leaderships.

The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp boundaries, and this makes such predicates susceptible to soritical reasoning, i.e. reasoning that leads to some version of the notorious sorites paradox. This essay is concerned with a certain kind of theory of vagueness, according to which the symptoms and puzzles of vagueness should be accounted for in terms of a particular species of context sensitivity exhibited by vague expressions. The basic idea is that the extensions of vague predicates vary with certain contextual factors, and that this fact can explain why they appear to lack sharp boundaries. This kind of view is referred to as contextualism about vagueness. A detailed characterisation of contextualism about vagueness is given in chapter two and three. In chapter two, a generic version of contextualism about vagueness is developed, and some alternative forms of context sensitivity are introduced. In chapter three, the specific contextual factors appealed to by different contextualists are discussed. In chapter four, different contextualist diagnoses of the sorites paradox are considered, and found to be problematic in various ways. It is argued that contrary to what some of its proponents have claimed, contextualism about vagueness is not superior to other comparable theories of vagueness when it comes to explaining the appeal of soritical reasoning. In chapter five, a certain version of the sorites paradox, known as the forced march sorites, is discussed. It is argued that “data” about how speakers would behave in the forced march cannot lend any firm support to contextualism about vagueness. In chapter six, some problems concerning the instability of the contextual factors are considered. One problem is that contextualist diagnoses of the sorites which locate a fallacy of equivocation in the reasoning seem to render non-soritical reasoning fallacious as well. A model for treating this problem is suggested, but on closer consideration, it turns out to be problematic. Moreover, this model is of no help in solving the more general problem that even if classical logic remains valid for vague language on some contextualist views, the instability of the extensions of vague predicates makes it difficult to know when a certain piece of reasoning instantiates a valid argument form. Other difficulties arise with respect to speech reports and belief contents. Chapter seven concludes with a summary and some methodological remarks.

This dissertation will examine the formation of the myth that William T. Sherman laid waste to the state of Georgia in 1864, and almost single-handedly invented the concept of “total war.” It will also examine how Sherman’s reputation has evolved over the years from accusations of being a Southern sympathizer and traitor at the end of the Civil War to the modern image of Sherman as the destroyer of the old South. William Tecumseh Sherman was the most controversial general of the American Civil War. The modern image of Sherman is either a destructive monster who violated the laws of civilized warfare or a strategic genius who invented modern warfare. Both of these images have evolved over the years. In large part, they have been the product of Lost Cause writers trying to reinterpret the history of the war, but also the product of Union generals and politicians attempting to glorify their own place in the history of the war, men with personal grudges against the general and modern historians using Sherman to make their own arguments about contemporary society. The sources used for this dissertation were the journals, letters and memoirs of the participants. The Official Records of both the Union and Confederacy were examined as well as nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers and magazines. This dissertation will show that the modern conception of General Sherman is not the same as the historical fact, but rather a post-war creation. Individuals’ agendas have created and sustained the myth of Sherman to explain defeat in the Civil War, justify later military strategy, condemn later conflicts and for personal gain. It is not enough to know that historical events as commonly understood are inaccurate; it is important to understand how and why these inaccuracies came about.

This thesis analyzes the historical decision made by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on March 1, 2003. On this date Turkey made the decision not to accept the United States&rsquo / offer of monetary compensation in exchange for the use of Turkish Air Force bases and the right to move troops through South Eastern Turkey into Northern Iraq. The aim of this work is to give the reader historical background of the strategic alliance these two countries have shared since World War II, and in the events leading up to the Iraq War. The main focus of the paper is to understand, through historical context, the reasons why Turkey said &ldquo / no.&rdquo / This thesis posits three main reasons for the failure of this motion.

Militärmarsch auf die Melodie "Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter" zur Schlacht bei Belgrad 1717, die erhalten ist in "Musikalische Rüstkammer auf die Harffe", Leipzig, begonnen 1719, aber dort ein NACHTRAG blind geschätzt 1800, und einer nicht total identischen Doublette davon als Einzelblatt unbekannter Herkunft des Heeresgeschichtlichen Museums, Wien. Die musikalische Verarbeitung folgt NICHT der preussisch-deutschen Tradition, sondern steht in der k.u.k. österreichisch-ungarischen Tradition der sogenannten "(Musik-) Militärbanda" und besitzt eine gewisse "Italienita". Das Werk wurde von der Abteilung Militärmusik beim Österreichischen Bundesheer angenommen. Weitere Papierausgaben mit Einzelstimmen befinden sich in der National Szechenyi Library, Budapest und in der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Wegen des Content-Schutzes fehlt das Einzelstimmenpaket. / On the melody of "Prince Eugene, the wright honourable knight" in the Battle of Belgrad 1717 as preserved in "Musikalische Rüstkammer auf die Harffe", Lipsiae, started in 1719, but there an APPENDIX from estimated only around 1800, a doublette of which as single sheet of unknown origin is in Museum for Army History, Vienna. Musical treatment is NOT following Prussian-German traditions - but "k.u.k. Austrian-Hungarian" traditions of socalled "(Military) Banda" with some "Italienita" in it. This work has been accepted by today Austrian Army, Military Music Branch and complete paper-editions are additionally avaiable in National Szechenyi Library, Budapest and in German National Library. For the reason of content-protection, single voices pack is missing here.