The topic of this thesis is to use descant recorders (hereinafter recorder) as a therapeutic agent in children with behavioral difficulties. The main aim of the study is to analyze the impact of activities with the recorder on the problem phenomena in the behavior of selected individuals and further explore the views of preschool teachers of their own readiness to manage problem behavior in their classrooms. The theoretical part is mainly engaged in the therapeutic use of recorders and characteristics of problematic behavior. Considerable space is devoted to the review of options to promote desirable behavior in pre school children and areas of music therapy. With regard to the desired objectives mixed research is chosen in the practical part. Using a questionnaire opinions of preschool teachers on the issue of educational difficulties in children are collected and also the possibility to use the recorder for therapeutic purposes. The case studies demonstrate the impact of the recorder on the manifestations of problematic behavior. The conclusion summarizes the findings of the study. KEYWORDS descant recorder, manifestations of problematic behavior, behavior disorders, promoting the desired behavior, music therapy, supporting procedures, morning circle, therapeutic - formative methods

This Master's Thesis deals with the Morning Letter from the program Step by Step as a possible tool for developing reading literacy. The theoretical part deals with the definition of reading literacy, the individual components and its anchoring in the Framework Education Program for Elementary Education. Thesis compares the key competences set out in the Framework Education Program for Elementary Education with reading literacy and explains their relationship and the importance of their equal development. It also describes one of the key program in this area, the program Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking, and its methods of developing reading literacy. It also deals with program Step by Step and the development of reading literacy as its component. Thesis focuses mainly on the Morning Letter as a possible reading strategy. The practical part is based on observations and interviews with teachers from the program Step by Step and their experience with Morning Letters and which forms of them are confirmed to be useful and how is perceived its overlap in reading literacy. It also includes a set of Morning Letters applied in mainstream class and their analysis and reflection in terms of reading literacy. Based on this analysis thesis it also contains a few designs of Morning Letters emerging...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:37:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Christina Junger.pdf: 2116125 bytes, checksum: a838fb12301a6580f6dc47358feed2c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-24 / The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of the soil humidity in the field capacity in the tensions of 0,006 MPa (FC1), 0,010 MPa (FC2) and 0,033 MPa (FC3) and of different levels of water deficits (WD 0%, WD 33% and WD 67%) in the initial growth of the coffee plant conilon and in the leaf water potential measured in the anti-morning, in a Red-Yellow Oxisol (OR) and Red-Yellow Ultisol (URY). The experiment was let vegetation home, being cultivated the plants in vases of 12 liters during 255 days. The adopted experimental design was randomized entirely, mounted in outline of subdivided portions, with three repetitions for each soil. The growth evaluations were achieved each 60 days and the analyzed data by the surface technique of answering. The tenor of soil humidity in the field capacity varies with the adopted tension in its determination. The growth of the coffee plant conilon in WD 0% was higher to the obtained in the water deficits of 33% and 67% of OR and URY. The largest growth of the culture was observed in FC2 of OR and in FC1 of URY. The smallest growth was obtained in the water deficits of the certain field capacity in the tension of 0,033 MPa (FC3) of OR and URY, what unfeasible its adoption in the estimate of the irrigation sheet, being used the camera of pressure of Richards. The x leaf water potential anti-morning (Ψam) showed to be a good indicator of the degree of hydration of the plants. The largest hydration to foliate was observed in WD 0%, being in CC2 for OR (Ψam = -0,17 MPa), being the water kept by the soil to a potential matric (Ψm) of -0,010 MPa and in CC1 for URY (Ψam = -0,33 MPa), which Ψm was the -0,006 MPa. To smallest hydration happened in WD 67% and in the FC3, also for OR (Ψam = -0,68 MPa) as for URY (Ψam = -1,3 MPa), being the water kept of Ψm of -0,20 MPa, for both soils. In WD 33% and WD 67% in the levels of the capacity of field of OR and URY, they were verified a reduction in the values leaf area, height and diameter of the stem of the plants. The accumulation of total dry matter and leaf water potential anti-morning observed in OR were superior to the of URY, in all of the levels of the field capacity and water deficits, resulting in the larger initial growth of the coffee plant conilon in this soil. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência da umidade do solo na capacidade de campo determinada nas tensões de 0,006 MPa (CC1), 0,010 MPa (CC2) e 0,033 MPa (CC3) e de diferentes níveis de déficits hídricos (DH 0%, DH 33% e DH 67%), no crescimento inicial do cafeeiro conilon e no potencial hídrico foliar medido na antemanhã, em um Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo (LV) e Argissolo Vermelho-Amarelo (PVA). O experimento foi conduzido em casa de vegetação, cultivando-se as plantas em vasos de 12 litros durante 255 dias. O delineamento experimental adotado foi inteiramente casualizado, distribuído em esquema de parcelas subdivididas, com três repetições para cada solo. As avaliações de crescimento foram realizadas a cada 60 dias e os dados analisados pela técnica de superfície de resposta. O teor de umidade do solo na capacidade de campo varia com a tensão adotada em sua determinação. O crescimento do cafeeiro conilon em DH 0% foi superior aos obtidos nos déficits hídricos de 33% e 67% do LV e do PVA. O maior crescimento da cultura foi observado na CC2 do LV e na CC1 do PVA. O menor crescimento foi obtido nos déficits hídricos da capacidade de campo determinada na tensão de 0,003 MPa (CC3) do LV e do PVA, o que inviabiliza a sua viii adoção na estimativa da lâmina de irrigação, utilizando-se a câmara de pressão de Richards. O potencial hídrico foliar antemanhã (Ψam) mostrou-se bom indicador do grau de hidratação das plantas. A maior hidratação foliar foi observada em DH 0%, sendo para o LV na CC2 (Ψam= -0,17 MPa), estando a água retida pelo solo a um potencial matricial (Ψm) de -0,010 MPa, e para o PVA na CC1 (Ψam = -0,33 MPa), cujo Ψm foi de -0,006 MPa. A menor hidratação ocorreu em DH 67% na CC3 tanto para o LV (Ψam = -0,68 MPa) como para o PVA (Ψam = -1,30 MPa), estando a água retida a um Ψm de -0,20 MPa, para ambos os solos. Em DH 33% e DH 67% nos níveis de capacidade de campo do LV e do PVA, foram verificadas reduções nos valores da área foliar, altura e diâmetro do caule das plantas. O acúmulo de matéria seca total e potencial hídrico foliar antemanhã observados no LV foram superiores aos do PVA, em todos os níveis de capacidade de campo e déficits hídricos, resultando em maior crescimento inicial do cafeeiro conilon, neste solo.

Les défis démographiques actuels impliquant le vieillissement de la population en raison de l'allongement de l'espérance de vie posent le besoin d'explorer plus tôt dans la vie les maladies qui entraînent un handicap, une fonctionnalité et une perte d'autonomie chez les personnes âgées. Les événements cardiovasculaires continuent d'être la principale cause de décès dans le monde et l'hypertension artérielle est le plus grand facteur de risque modifiable pour leur développement. De plus, d'un point de vue vasculaire, la rigidité artérielle est un élément clé pour catalyser les effets de l'hypertension artérielle en dommages aux organes cibles. Bien qu'il existe une littérature considérable suggérant que l'hypertension et la rigidité artérielle sont associées au développement du déclin cognitif plus tard dans la vie, il y a encore des vides sur la façon dont ces processus s'interconnectent. De plus, des interventions non pharmacologiques comme celles ciblant l'activité physique pourraient aider à atténuer ou à réduire les effets néfastes de l'hypertension artérielle et de la rigidité artérielle sur les organs cibles. Néanmoins, pour que les interventions d'activité physique soient efficaces, nous devons encore comprendre quelles sont les bonnes quantités et l'intensité d’activité physique pour obtenir des bénéfices cognitifs dans certains groupes comme les personnes âgées. Cette thèse explore ces lacunes dans la littérature et propose une feuille de route sur les prochaines étapes pour élargir notre compréhension des interactions entre les maladies cardiovasculaires, la cognition et l'activité physique. Dans une première étude, des charges de pression artérielle diurnes plus élevées étaient associées à de moins bonnes performances cognitives chez les patients hypertendus prenant un traitement antihypertenseur et avec une pression artérielle contrôlée. Cette découverte suggère que les personnes âgées hypertendues, même lorsqu'elles parviennent à un contrôle global de la pression artérielle sous traitement pharmacologique, pourraient toujours avoir des performances inférieures à celles de leurs homologues normotendus à des niveaux plus élevés de pression artérielle diurne. En examinant plus attentivement les variations circadiennes des personnes âgées, une deuxième étude a révélé qu'une différence élevée entre la pression artérielle du matin et celle du soir hypertendues traitées et avec une pression artérielle contôllée était associée à une diminution du débit sanguin cérébral dans la matière grise. De plus, des niveaux de débit sanguin cérébral plus faibles dans la matière grise étaient associés à de meilleures performances de mémoire de travail et épisodique chez les personnes âgées hypertendues contrôlées. Ces résultats suggèrent que chez les hypertendus traités, un niveau plus élevé de pression artérielle le matin par rapport aux heures du soir pourrait être associé à des niveaux plus faibles de débit sanguin cérébral. Une troisième étude, grâce à un suivi longitudinal de 4 ans, a révélé que les femmes et les hommes prenant des antagonistes des récepteurs de l'angiotensine II en monothérapie ou en thérapie combinée obtenaient des scores cognitifs globaux plus élevés que leurs homologues du même âge prenant d'autres types d'antihypertenseurs. De plus, les femmes prenant 2 ou 3 antihypertenseurs avaient les scores cognitifs globaux les plus élevés tandis que les hommes prenant plus de 2 antihypertenseurs avaient les plus bas. Cela a démontré que différentes approches interventionnelles sont nécessaires lorsque l'on considère l'interaction entre les médicaments antihypertenseurs et la cognition chez les hommes et les femmes. Enfin, une quatrième étude a révélé que l'âge et la rigidité artérielle modèrent l'interaction entre l'activité physique et la cognition globale dans un groupe de personnes âgées en bonne santé. Un temps plus élevé consacré à l'activité physique a eu un impact positif sur la cognition globale chez les personnes âgées plus jeunes (< 68,5 ans) avec une rigidité artérielle élevée (vitesse de l'onde de pouls carotide-fémorale > 8,5 m/s) ou chez les personnes âgées (> 68,5 ans) avec une faible rigidité artérielle (vitesse de l'onde de pouls carotide-fémorale < 8,5 m/s), mais pas chez les personnes âgées présentant une rigidité artérielle élevée. Cela suggère que le bénéfice cognitif des interventions d'activité physique pourrait avoir un plafond englobé par des comorbidités additives où d'autres interventions comme pharmacologiques sont nécessaires. / Current demographic challenges involving population aging due to longer life expectancy pose the need to further explore diseases that lead to older life disability, functionality, and loss of autonomy. Cardiovascular events continue to be the leading cause of death worldwide, and arterial hypertension is the largest modifiable risk factor for their development. Furthermore, from a vascular perspective, arterial stiffness is a key element in catalyzing the effects of arterial hypertension into end-organ damage. While there is considerable literature suggesting that arterial hypertension and arterial stiffness are key links in the development of cognitive decline in later life, there are still voids on how these processes interconnect. Moreover, non-pharmacological interventions like those targeting physical activity could help attenuate or reduce the harmful effects of arterial hypertension and arterial stiffness. Nevertheless, for physical activity interventions to be effective we still need to understand what is the right amount and intensity in specific groups like older adults. This thesis explores these gaps in the literature and proposes a roadmap on what are the next steps to expand our comprehension of the interactions between cardiovascular diseases, cognition, and physical activity. In a first study, higher daytime blood pressure loads were associated with poorer cognitive performances in hypertensive patients taking antihypertensive treatment and with controlled blood pressure. This finding suggests that hypertensive older adults even when achieving overall blood pressure control under pharmacological treatment, could still have lower performances than their normotensive counterparts at higher levels of daytime blood pressure. Further examining treated hypertensives, a second study, found that a higher morning-evening difference in blood pressure was associated with lower cerebral blood flow in gray matter. Moreover, lower cerebral blood flow levels in gray matter were associated with better performances in working and episodic memory in controlled hypertensive older adults. These findings suggest that in treated hypertensives, a higher level of blood pressure in the morning as compared to evening hours is associated with lower levels of cerebral blood flow. A third study, through a 4-year longitudinal follow-up, found that women and men taking angiotensin II receptor blockers in monotherapy or combination therapy achieved higher global cognition scores than their age-matched counterparts taking other types of antihypertensives. Moreover, women taking 2 or 3 antihypertensives had the highest global cognition scores while men taking more than 2 antihypertensives had the lowest. This demonstrated that different interventional approaches are necessary when considering the interaction between antihypertensive medications and cognition in men and women. Finally, a fourth study, found that age and arterial stiffness moderate the interaction between physical activity and global cognition in a group of healthy older adults. Higher time devoted to physical activity had a positive impact on global cognition in younger elderly adults (< 68.5 years) with high arterial stiffness (carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity >8.5 m/s) or in elderly adults (>68.5 years) with low arterial stiffness (carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity <8.5 m/s), but not in elderly adults with high arterial stiffness. This suggests that the cognitive benefit from physical activity interventions might have a ceiling encompassed by additive comorbidities where other interventions like pharmacological are necessary.

Le Chemoné Esré, ou prière des dix-huit bénédictions, est la principale prière juive, aussi nommée Téfila, ou prière par excellence. L’objet de cette thèse est de mettre en évidence sa structure, c'est-à-dire la logique de son organisation, en rappelant les données de sa genèse et de sa fixation durable. Partant d’une étude des sources (du Pentateuque, des prophètes, de la Michna et du Talmud, puis des livres de prières), l’auteur retrace les étapes de sa mise en forme, ce qui permet de suivre l’évolution du judaïsme lui-même. Ses aspects sont méthodiquement envisagés : son caractère de mitsva, de devoir religieux, le sens de chaque bénédiction et sa fonction dans la liturgie depuis la destruction du Temple de Jérusalem, sa place dans le vécu des orants, la manière dont la prière doit être dite et avec quelle kavana, ou intention, dans quel cadre, en respectant quelle gestuelle, en mobilisant quelles ressources intérieures de la part des orants. Ses enjeux théosophiques et moraux, le système de représentations auquel elle se rattache, dans la perspective de la mystique kabbalistique du AriZal et du Hassidisme du XIXème siècle (rapport avec les séfirot, ou niveaux d’émanation de la Substance, et inversement les klippoth, obstacles à la kedoucha, ou sainteté, font l’objet d’une étude qui porte d’une part sur la présentation des doctrines et d’autre part sur les buts qui sont assignés au Chemoné Esré en fonction des possibilités qu’elle est censée offrir, à ceux qui la prononcent et à ceux pour lesquels elle est dite. / The Shemone Esre or the Eighteen Blessings Prayer, sometimes simply known as Tefila, is the quintessential Jewish prayer. The purpose of this dissertation is to delineate the structure of the Shemone Esre through an exploration of its evolving structure from its genesis to its lasting fixation. Beginning with a study of the ground texts (Pentateuch, Prophets, Michna and Talmud, up to the modern prayer book), the author examines the successive stages of its formatting. Through this exploration emerges a view of the broader evolution of Judaism, the main characters of which are formally analysed: the mitsva (religious prescription), the meaning of each blessing and its liturgical function after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, how people consider this prayer, how they say it, with what kavana (intention), in what place, with what gesture and attitude. Going further, the moral and theosophical aspects of Jewish prayer, as well as the allegorical system to which it belongs are also envisaged, from the perspectives of Lurianic and Hassidic mysticism. More specifically, the sefirot (emanating spheres of the Being) and their opposites, the klippoth (viewed as obstacles to kedousha or sanctity), are studied from the dual perspective of the doctrinal content, and of the purposes devolved to the Shemone Esre.

<div>Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing enables the fabrication of metal parts with complex geometry and elaborates internal features, the simplication of the assembly process, and the reduction of development time. However, the lack of consis-tent quality hinders its tremendous potential for widespread application in industry. This limits its ability as a viable manufacturing process particularly in the aerospace and medical industries where high quality and repeatability are critical. A variety of defects, which may be initiated during the powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing process, compromise the repeatability, precision, and resulting mechanical properties of the final part. The literature review shows that a non-uniform temperature distribution throughout fabricated layers is a signicant source of the majority of thermal defects. Therefore, the work introduces an online thermography methodology to study temperature distribution, thermal evolution, and thermal specications of the fabricated layers in powder-bed fusion process or any other thermal inherent AM process. This methodology utilizes infrared technique and segmentation image processing to extract the required data about temperature distribution and HAZs of the layer under fabrication. We conducted some primary experiments in the FDM process to leverage the thermography technique and achieve a certain insight to be able to propose a technique to generate a more uniform temperature distribution. These experiments lead to proposing an innovative chessboard scanning strategy called tessellation algorithm, which can generate more uniform temperature distribution and diminish the layer warpage consequently especially throughout the layers with either geometry that is more complex or poses relatively longer dimensions. In the next step, this work develops a new technique in ABAQUS to verify the proposed scanning strategy. This technique simulates temperature distribution throughout a layer printed by chessboard printing patterns in powder-bed fusion process in a fraction of the time taken by current methods in the literature. This technique compares the temperature distribution throughout a designed layer printed by three presented chessboard-scanning patterns, namely, rastering pattern, helical pattern, and tessellation pattern. The results conrm that the tessellation pattern generates more uniform temperature distribution compared with the other two patterns. Further research is in progress to leverage the thermography methodology to verify the simulation technique. It is also pursuing a hybrid closed-loop online monitoring (OM) and control methodology, which bases on the introduced tessellation algorithm and online thermography in this work and Articial Neural Networking (ANN) to generate the most possible uniform temperature distribution within a safe temperature range layer-by-layer.</div>

<p>At the centre of this study lies the question of how research-related media texts contribute to the social construction of sex and gender conceptions when they use research, either as a main source, or to support or comment on specific issues and statements, from the political arena, for example. The principal aim of the study has been to analyze and problematize the ways in which different types of newspapers, genres and editorial sections reproduce, or contribute to change, in existing gender discourses. </p><p> The material was collected from two Swedish newspapers during the year 2001: the national morning paper Dagens Nyheter (DN), and the national evening paper Aftonbladet. </p><p>The theories of discourse, agenda-setting and -framing in this study are related to the questions: what kinds of knowledge on women and men, and biological, physiological, psychological, social and cultural perspectives on sex/gender are represented; how are they described; and how do content and form contribute to the (re)production of, or change in, gender discourses? The main analytical perspectives are those about gender discourse (re)production, genres as ideological forms, and the epistemologies of journalism. </p><p> A combination of analytical strategies and methods was used: content and thematic analysis, and qualitative analysis of text and language with methodological tools from different traditions of discourse analysis. </p><p> In my study, I can see an interplay between research traditions and genre conventions in the (re)production of gender discourses. Since the news sections repeatedly choose to publish research as empiric and in the form of results, and then within that, primarily findings from medicine and the social sciences, these areas are reproduced as important and relevant, and as producers of objective, true knowledge that can be presented as simple facts. Research-related texts in culture journalism, on the other hand, follow the tradition of primarily treating research within the humanities, and nowadays also gender and queer theoretical perspectives within different disciplines. Through the genre conventions of culture journalism, this research is reproduced as something that you can reflect upon, problematize, criticize, form an opinion of, and judge.</p><p> The study also gives reason to argue that media logic and institutionalized genre conventions contribute to the reproduction of science and research as different worlds and cultures, in which the natural sciences and the humanities are found in different media spaces, and different forms of knowledge about sex/gender are given space on different conditions and in different forms. </p>

<p>Abstract</p><p>This paper is about the philosophies created by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). The purpose is to show the high degree of similarities between Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s philosphy.</p><p>At first glance, it seems far-fetched to suggest an affinity between them; the differences in style and choice of subjects, have most certainly contributed to the fact that very few comparisons so far have been made. There is no evidence that one experienced any influence over the other, neither writer seems to have been aware of the other. Also their different areas of use during the 20th century, may have influenced the almost total lack of search for affinity. Thoreau’s philosphy has often been used by environmentalist movements, while Nietzsche has been connected to a wide range of various strivings, such as totalitarian regimes, individualistic artists and post-modern thinkers.</p><p>But if one disregard these facts, look beyond the differences, and break down their texts in search for their most fundamental opinions, one will see that Nietzsche and Thoreau shared a number of concerns. They were both ciritical to many aspects of the modern civilisation, espacially the way of life it encouraged. It was a life style, deep rooted in an obstructive tradition, that did not take the very essential conditions of life into consideration. This was both Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s opinion, and their philosophies represent a willingness to re-establish a way of life that ignores all traditions hostile to life.</p><p>Both of them criticize the religion and its moral of work, the modern science, and many institutions of the modern society – the schools and the prisons for example. But they also praise things, things they claim to have a value in contrast to the modern way of life – the simple things. Both Thoreau and Nietzsche praise the solitude life style, the silent walking in the wilderness, the simple but healthy food, as well as some intellectual stimulus, especially good litterature and music. All these simple things contribute to Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s opinion of life; it should be looked upon with the eyes of a child. Life should be like a play.</p><p>The title of this paper is Philosphers of the Rooster and the Morning. The title suggests the similarities I have found between Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies. They both announce an awakening. For them, a new morning has broken, and this paper shows the similar circumstances they give credit for their awakening.</p>

At the centre of this study lies the question of how research-related media texts contribute to the social construction of sex and gender conceptions when they use research, either as a main source, or to support or comment on specific issues and statements, from the political arena, for example. The principal aim of the study has been to analyze and problematize the ways in which different types of newspapers, genres and editorial sections reproduce, or contribute to change, in existing gender discourses. The material was collected from two Swedish newspapers during the year 2001: the national morning paper Dagens Nyheter (DN), and the national evening paper Aftonbladet. The theories of discourse, agenda-setting and -framing in this study are related to the questions: what kinds of knowledge on women and men, and biological, physiological, psychological, social and cultural perspectives on sex/gender are represented; how are they described; and how do content and form contribute to the (re)production of, or change in, gender discourses? The main analytical perspectives are those about gender discourse (re)production, genres as ideological forms, and the epistemologies of journalism. A combination of analytical strategies and methods was used: content and thematic analysis, and qualitative analysis of text and language with methodological tools from different traditions of discourse analysis. In my study, I can see an interplay between research traditions and genre conventions in the (re)production of gender discourses. Since the news sections repeatedly choose to publish research as empiric and in the form of results, and then within that, primarily findings from medicine and the social sciences, these areas are reproduced as important and relevant, and as producers of objective, true knowledge that can be presented as simple facts. Research-related texts in culture journalism, on the other hand, follow the tradition of primarily treating research within the humanities, and nowadays also gender and queer theoretical perspectives within different disciplines. Through the genre conventions of culture journalism, this research is reproduced as something that you can reflect upon, problematize, criticize, form an opinion of, and judge. The study also gives reason to argue that media logic and institutionalized genre conventions contribute to the reproduction of science and research as different worlds and cultures, in which the natural sciences and the humanities are found in different media spaces, and different forms of knowledge about sex/gender are given space on different conditions and in different forms.

Abstract This paper is about the philosophies created by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). The purpose is to show the high degree of similarities between Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s philosphy. At first glance, it seems far-fetched to suggest an affinity between them; the differences in style and choice of subjects, have most certainly contributed to the fact that very few comparisons so far have been made. There is no evidence that one experienced any influence over the other, neither writer seems to have been aware of the other. Also their different areas of use during the 20th century, may have influenced the almost total lack of search for affinity. Thoreau’s philosphy has often been used by environmentalist movements, while Nietzsche has been connected to a wide range of various strivings, such as totalitarian regimes, individualistic artists and post-modern thinkers. But if one disregard these facts, look beyond the differences, and break down their texts in search for their most fundamental opinions, one will see that Nietzsche and Thoreau shared a number of concerns. They were both ciritical to many aspects of the modern civilisation, espacially the way of life it encouraged. It was a life style, deep rooted in an obstructive tradition, that did not take the very essential conditions of life into consideration. This was both Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s opinion, and their philosophies represent a willingness to re-establish a way of life that ignores all traditions hostile to life. Both of them criticize the religion and its moral of work, the modern science, and many institutions of the modern society – the schools and the prisons for example. But they also praise things, things they claim to have a value in contrast to the modern way of life – the simple things. Both Thoreau and Nietzsche praise the solitude life style, the silent walking in the wilderness, the simple but healthy food, as well as some intellectual stimulus, especially good litterature and music. All these simple things contribute to Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s opinion of life; it should be looked upon with the eyes of a child. Life should be like a play. The title of this paper is Philosphers of the Rooster and the Morning. The title suggests the similarities I have found between Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies. They both announce an awakening. For them, a new morning has broken, and this paper shows the similar circumstances they give credit for their awakening.