Paraíso, Caída y Regeneración en tres novelas chicanas is a detailed literary analysis of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de Aztlán. The approach is the utilization of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern as a means to study the three stages of the principal characters' development. By identifying and characterizing this process within each of these novels, this writer acquires a better understanding as to what constitutes the characters' self-perception as well as their relation to the reality around them. This fictitious representation of Chicano life in turn sheds light on the three novelists' perceptions of what Chicano reality is and how it is reflected in their works. Pocho is a clear manifestation of the "fall" from Mexican traditional culture. The old characters* geographic and spiritual removal from what they consider the paradisal state and the slow eroding process of their cultural system is what the novel is about. Although the characters make a vain attempt at the preservation of these values, the defeat is clearly manifested in their children's acculturation, especially in the protagonist, Richard. At the end of the novel there is no indication that the characters attain some sort of regeneration. On the contrary, there is only chaos, a disintegrated marriage, and a psychologically disoriented protagonist. Bless Me, Ultima offers a much broader view of the "paradise-fall-regeneration” pattern and appears on various planes. Culture, from the protagonist's point of view, is not seen as conflict or as a fall but as an affirmation of cultural roots. Paradisal remnants of the New Mexican heritage are still manifest in contemporary life; thus, the fall is no more than the protagonist's coming of age. This fallen state is temporary and at the end of the novel the protagonist gathers all the knowledge acquired through his life experience and builds a positive world view. This new stage in life is what represents regeneration. Moreover, the incursion into the ancestral roots of New Mexican culture and the knowledge acquired in the writing of the novel is in itself an act of regeneration for the author. In this manner, the regenerative state in Bless Me, Ultima is also represented outside its fictitious boundaries. Peregrinos de Aztlán is by far the most complex of the three novels. It also represents the extreme "fall" of man. There is no paradise for the characters but a continuous degeneration of humanity on every conceivable plane. For the characters there is no salvation and human life can well be considered hell. Paradise is characterized by dreams and illusions which serve to help tolerate the dehumanizing existence of the characters. The regenerative state, consequently, is non-existent within the world of Peregrinos de Aztlán. Nevertheless, the work itself is an act of regeneration for the author and for the Chicano Movement because it is an act of rebellion. Méndez exposes a realistic condition of the two societies in which Chicanos live and offers the Chicano perspective of himself and his circumstance. His novel's importance is as great as Rudy Acuña's Occupied America in the area of the history of Chicanos in the Southwest. This dissertation has been written entirely in Spanish.

In this interdisciplinary study, narrative portraiture is used as a methodology to depict three visual artists who draw on their lived experience, traditions and values to engage viewers, through their artwork, about issues of landscape and identity. I argue for an educative paradigm applied to art practice that seeks individual and social/cultural transformation within and across communities through pedagogical processes that recognize diverse audiences. Questions guiding this study are: How do the artists' ideas and practices relate to living in British Columbia and the representation of the land? What are their motivations and strategies for expressing those ideas? How are the roles of these artists and the roles of teachers linked? The study considers the ways in which Jin-me Yoon, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Marian Penner Bancroft foreground landscape in British Columbia as a complex phenomenon and as a powerful icon in Canadian culture. Through interviews and analysis of artwork, this study examines how these artist/pedagogues challenge artistic conventions, myths and historical narratives that have framed Western culture and influenced their experience. By employing and disrupting conventions of representations of the land, they construct new narratives concerned with issues of identity, the environment, Native land claims, and urban history. This research portrait of artists who attempt to inscribe a place for themselves and their communities within the life of the province, is also a portrait of 'place', or the complex interrelationship of people and the environment. As role models and spokespersons who link knowledge and culture, the artists share a desire'to foster understanding through postmodern art practices and dialogic pedagogical processes. This study acknowledges their dual role as artist and teacher, involving models of practice that aim to effect social change and environmental care. It examines how their work integrating art and education, reflects and attempts to shape the social, cultural and political landscape within shifting conditions of society today. This study aims to provide a greater understanding of artist/pedagogues and calls for an increased focus on a pedagogical role for artists in museums, schools and other community-based sites, particularly with respect to multicultural and environmental art education.

Abstract not available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1998.

The Columbian Exposition of 1893 held in Chicago, Illinois has been the most influential World’s Fair held within the United States. It social, cultural, and architectural impact advanced America on a worldwide scale. There are only four buildings that still remain from this Exposition today: the Palace of Fine Arts, Dutch House, Norway Building, and Maine State Building. This thesis focuses on the Norway and Maine State Buildings since these are the only two that still remain with a majority of the original building materials still intact. An expanded history of both these buildings are explained, including their design, construction, impact at the Chicago World’s Fair, relocation(s), changes in ownership, what has happened to the buildings since the Fair, and what they are used for today. Further analysis includes why these buildings were saved and the importance of their historical inclusion in the 1893 Columbian Exposition / The Norway Building -- The Maine State Building -- Analysis & conclusion. / Department of Architecture

Being able to generate predictions about what is going to happen next while observing other people’s actions plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Different theoretical explanations for the underlying processes of humans’ action prediction abilities have been suggested. Whereas an embodied account posits that predictive gaze relies on embodied simulations in the observer’s motor system, other accounts do not assume a causal role of the motor system for action prediction. The general aim of this thesis was to augment current knowledge about the functional mechanisms behind humans’ action prediction abilities. In particular, the present thesis outlines and tests an embodied account of action prediction. The second aim of this thesis was to extend prior action prediction studies by exploring infants’ online gaze during observation of social interactions. The thesis reports 3 eye-tracking studies that were designed to measure adults’ and infants’ predictive eye movements during observation of different manual and social actions. The first two studies used point-light displays of manual reaching actions as stimuli to isolate human motion information. Additionally, Study II used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to directly modify motor cortex activity. Study I showed that kinematic information from biological motion can be used to anticipate the goal of other people’s point-light actions and that the presence of biological motion is sufficient for anticipation to occur. Study II demonstrated that TMS-induced temporary lesions in the primary motor cortex selectively affected observers’ gaze latencies. Study III examined 12-month-olds’ online gaze during observation of a give-and-take interaction between two individuals. The third study showed that already at one year of age infants shift their gaze from a passing hand to a receiving hand faster when the receiving hand forms a give-me gesture compared to an inverted hand shape. The reported results from this thesis make two major contributions. First, Studies I and II provide evidence for an embodied account of action prediction by demonstrating a direct connection between anticipatory eye movements and motor cortex activity. These findings support the interpretation that predictive eye movements are driven by a recruitment of the observer’s own motor system. Second, Study III implicates that properties of social action goals influence infants’ online gaze during action observation. It further suggests that at one year of age infants begin to show sensitivity to social goals within the context of give-and-take interactions while observing from a third-party perspective.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010. / A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, History of Art, Design and Visual Culture, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta. "Spring 2010." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on April 27, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010. / A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, History of Art, Design and Visual Culture, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta. "Spring 2010." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on April 27, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

A presente dissertação tem a preocupação de demonstrar a relevância não só psicológica como também social da adoção tardia mergulhando em temas como o abandono familiar, a falta de perspectivas e de planos futuros que isso acarreta. É desconhecida em pesquisas a abordagem do tema adoção tardia, mas pela visão do contexto social capitalista em que a sociedade está inserida nos levou a supor sob a ótica marxista que o modelo capitalista seja fator causador do abandono de crianças. A proposta dessa dissertação é analisar o programa social denominado UM LAR PARA MIM, desenvolvido e aplicado através da Lei Estadual numero 3.499 de 08 de dezembro de 2000, pelo Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Este instrumento legal, através de incentivos, possibilita aos servidores estaduais adotarem crianças com mais de cinco anos de idade, dando-lhes a oportunidade de terem uma família, um lar e perspectivas de futuro. O objetivo geral foi o de realizar um estudo empírico acerca da adoção tardia, a partir de uma abordagem histórica sociológica, tendo como exemplo de fato e de direito a política pública adotada no Estado do Rio de Janeiro e analisar a eficácia do Programa e seu impacto na sociedade carioca. O que o estudo da discussão sobre a adoção tardia nos revelou é que a maioria dos autores aborda-o sob uma perspectiva psicológica. / This dissertation is concerned to demonstrate the relevance not only psychological but also social diving in the late adoption issues such as family abandonment, lack of prospects and future plans that entails. It is unknown in the research approach to the subject late adoption, but the vision of the social context in which capitalist society is part led us to assume the perspective of Marxism, according to which the capitalist model is the factor causing the abandonment of children. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social program called A HOME FOR ME, undertaken by the State Law number 3499 of 08 December 2000, the State Government of Rio de Janeiro. This legal instrument, through incentives, allows state officials to adopt children over the age of five, giving them the opportunity to have a family, a home and future prospects. The overall objective was to perform an empirical study about the late adoption, from a historical sociological approach, taking as an example of fact and law, public policy adopted in the State of Rio de Janeiro and analyze the effectiveness of the program and its impact in Rio society. What the study's discussion of late adoption is revealed that most authors address it in a psychological perspective.

Master of Music / Music, Theatre, and Dance / Steve Maxwell / This master’s report focuses on the history, brief analysis, and pedagogy of the four works performed on February 15, 2016 for the author’s Master’s Recital. The first chapter explains the work Pantomime by Philip Sparke. It contains a short biography of Philip Sparke, an in-depth background on the composition of the work, and a theoretical and pedagogical look at the piece. The second chapter centers on Fantasia by Gordon Jacob. This brief biography will explore Jacob’s compositional output and legacy, and the theoretical analysis will focus on his use of chromatics and the interplay between the piano and the euphonium. The pedagogical analysis will focus on performance techniques and practice. The third chapter is devoted to Blue Lake Fantasies, an unaccompanied work for solo euphonium by David Gillingham. The biography will focus on Gillingham’s contribution to euphonium repertoire, specifically and the history of where and why this work was written. There will be a concise theoretical analysis followed by a heavily pedagogical analysis, which will break down the performance techniques used in each of the five movements. The final chapter of the report is about David Werden’s euphonium arrangement for two euphoniums and piano of Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Simone Mantia. This chapter will present a short biography of Mantia explaining his historical significance, a brief theoretical analysis, and a pedagogical analysis that focuses on the duet aspect of this piece.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseRRGP.pdf: 3041523 bytes, checksum: f8585bab1f9c1565717516794f4e8831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / This study analyses the relationships between synthesis routes and physical properties of the composite system 67.5(PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3) +32.5(PbTiO3), or simply PMN-PT, as ferroelectric phase and BaFe12O19, or BaM, as magnetic phase. The choice of phases was based on the exceptional properties that both PMN-PT and BaM possess: solid solutions of the complex perovskite PMN-PT in both monocrystalline and polycrystalline forms, particularly those whose composition lies within the region of morphotropic boundary phases, have the largest known piezoelectric coefficients. BaM, or barium hexaferrite, presents relatively high property anisotropy due to its hexagonal crystal structure (expressed in particles that grow in nonequiaxed format) and easy magnetization along the c-Crystallographic axis. Thus, the main objective of this work was to obtain and characterize magnetoelectric composites (either volumetric or as two-dimensional nanostructures) textured from PMN-PT/BaM, by exploiting the quasi-piezomagnectic characteristics and the microstructural, crystallographic and magnetic anisotropyof the BaM phase. With a molar ratio of 80/20 between the ferroelectric and magnetic phases, different routes of synthesis and processing were used for the production of threedimensional ceramic composites with 0-3 connectivity, or thin films with 0-3 and 2-2 connectivity.The Pechini, sol-gel, co-precipitation,and solid state reaction techniques were applied for the synthesis of powders and/or solutions; the pressure-assisted sintering method was used for the densification of three-dimensional bodies; and the spin-coating technique was employed for the deposition of films. Physical, electrical, magnetic and magnetoelectric characterizations were performed in order to clarify the influence of the BaM phase upon composites of different configurations. In a prospective yet not exhaustive manner, relations were assessed among the experimental parameters of the various synthesis routes (with greater focus on the barium hexaferrite phase) and the production of ceramic composites of PMNPT/ BaM system. It was found that the final characteristics of the prepared materials, particularly the hysteresis behavior of the magnetoelectric coefficient as a function of applied magnetic field, were highly susceptible to variations in the morphology, size and orientation of barium hexaferrite grains, which, in turn, depended on the synthesis and sintering routes applied. / Realizaram-se estudos de síntese e de caracterização das propriedades físicas do sistema compósito 67,5(PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3) +32,5(PbTiO3), ou simplesmente PMN-PT, como fase ferroelétrica, e da BaFe12O19, ou BaM, como fase magnética. A escolha dessas fases baseou-se nas propriedades excepcionais que ambas apresentam. A perovskita complexa PMN-PT, tanto na forma monocristalina como policristalina, apresenta soluções sólidas com os maiores coeficientes piezoelétricos conhecidos, particularmente as de composição na região do contorno morfotrópico de fases, como é o caso da 32,5%mol de PT. A fase BaM, ou hexaferrita de bário, apresenta relativamente alta anisotropia de propriedades magnéticas devido à sua estrutura cristalográfica hexagonal (refletida em partículas que crescem em formato não equiaxial) e fácil magnetização ao longo do eixo cristalográfico-c. O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi a obtenção e a caracterização de compósitos magnetoelétricos (volumétricos ou como nanoestruturas bidimensionais) texturados de PMN-PT/BaM, explorando-se as características quasi-piezomagnéticas e a anisotropia microestrutural/cristalográfica/magnética da fase BaM. Com uma proporção molar de 80/20 entre a fase ferroelétrica e a magnética, foram utilizadas diferentes rotas de síntese e de processamento de materiais para a produção de compósitos com conectividade 0-3, quando no caso de corpos cerâmicos volumétricos; ou 0-3 e 2-2, quando no caso de filmes finos. Os métodos Pechini, sol-gel, de copreciptação e de reação no estado sólido foram utilizadas na síntese dos pós e/ou soluções; o método de sinterização assistida por pressão, para a densificação dos corpos volumétricos, e a técnica “spin-coating”, para a deposição dos filmes. As caracterizações físicas, elétricas, magnéticas e magnetoelétricas buscaram evidenciar a influência das propriedades da fase BaM nas diferentes configurações de compósitos. De forma prospectiva e ainda não exaustiva, foram avaliadas as relações entre os parâmetros experimentais das diversas rotas de síntese (com maior foco na fase hexaferrita de bário) e a produção de compósitos cerâmicos do sistema PMN-PT/BaM. Encontrou-se que as características finais dos materiais preparados, em especial o comportamento histerético do coeficiente magnetoelétrico em função do campo magnético aplicado, foram altamente susceptíveis às variações da morfologia, tamanho e orientação dos grãos da hexaferrita de bário, que, por sua vez, dependem das rotas de síntese e de sinterização aplicadas.