Children like it simple, powerful and compelling, don't they? The "spirit" of this book makes the art of thanksgiving for children a simple, powerful yet compelling force. I Did It! I Said Thank You is a collection of short and simple thanksgiving notes for children during this month of thanksgiving and all throughout the year. Through the eyes and heart of a five-year old, we have captured and compiled short focused notes about the true essence of "why" and "what" children are thankful for. We have attempted to organize and compile it into daily reasons for thanksgiving for a whole month to preserve this all important "trigger" for children all around the world. "THANK YOU" is an "eight-letter word" so simple, yet so powerful and profound. Children are taught to include the art of thanksgiving in their quiver of manners and vocabulary. Children can and will learn about the valuable gift of thanksgiving through vivid visual illustrations and the compelling simple thanksgiving notes. This book is written for all children in every nation and every continent who want to simply say THANK YOU to the eternal source of all things precious and for the gift of life. Join us as we explore the world of thanksgiving through the eyes and heart of a kid. Enjoy! / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1081/thumbnail.jpg

Le Remerciement dans le Monde de Shakespeare : Contextes et Etudes de CasDans cette thèse nous explorons ce que le remerciement signifie à l’époque élisabéthaine et comment il se manifeste. Aussi nous analysons le remerciement tel qu’il est défini dans les dictionnaires d’e l’époque. Nous examinons également les textes religieux, les manuels de courtoisie, les traités de rhétorique qui mentionnent l’acte de remerciement. Après analysé ce contexte, nous abordons le remerciement comme acte de langage à la lumière de la pragmatique.On définit l’existence réelle du mot à partir de son degré d’influence sur le monde réel. Une simple combinaison de mots a le potentiel d’altérer une situation, n’importe laquelle. L’étude du pouvoir de la parole s’est inscrite dans le cadre théorique de ce que l’on appelle « la pragmatique ». Plus précisément, le concept « d’acte de langage » a été exploré non seulement dans la pragmatique mais aussi dans diverses disciplines ; telles que la philosophie du langage et aussi les études littéraires et théâtrales.Catherine Kerbrat Orecchioni (1984) a établi une distinction entre trois types de pragmatique : « énonciative », « illocutoire » et « conversationnelle » . Nous nous proposons d’étudier la seconde théorie qui est la pragmatique illocutoire où les valeurs illocutoires d’un énoncé sont parfaitement exploitées. Dans notre propos, les contextes d’énonciation que nous avons sélectionnés ne sont pas ordinaires. Car notre étude porte sur des fragments théâtraux tirés de Shakespeare avec leur complexité et leur particularité. Le théâtre est bien un lieu où dire est par excellence faire. Donc la parole dramatique est mise au service de l’action. Promettre dans un contexte réel peut s’accomplir différemment sur scène. En prenant l’hypothèse que le langage sert à faire avancer l’action, nous allons nous intéresser au « thank you » qui signifie «merci » en français dans les pièces de Shakespeare tout en étudiant les contextes d’énonciation du remercîment au cours de la période élisabéthaine. Notre objectif est de voir comment les différents concepts de la pragmatique élaborés permettent de dévoiler certains aspects pertinents du remerciement typiquement shakespearien. Cette forme d’analyse alimentera notre réflexion afin d’éclaircir la fonction du remerciement au théâtre. Il est aussi indispensable d’observer les modes de réalisation du remerciement de ces différentes scènes ainsi que le ton et le contexte. Dans un premier temps, l’élucidation de notre concept principal est primordiale. Que veut donc dire « remercier » ou de quoi s’agit-il quand on parle d’un acte de remerciement ?D’après l’Oxford English Dictionary (OED ), « thanks » veut dire : « to express gratitude or obligation to »; « to give the thanks or credit for something to consider or hold responsible »; « ironical use to blame »; « thank you for nothing an ironical expression indicating that the speaker thinks he has been offered nothing worth thanks ». On a aussi le « thank offering » qui a été utilisé en 1536 qui est expliqué « in the Levitical law, an offering presented as an expression of thankfulness or gratitude to god; hence an offering or gift made by way of thanks or acknowledgement ». Dans les textes de Shakespeare le terme « thank » a été employé sous plusieurs formes. Nous citons « thank, thankful, tank, dank, thanks ». On trouve bien aussi « gramercy » qui veut dire « grand merci ». Selon the Harvard Concordance le mot « thank » a été employé trois cent quarante-six fois et « thanks » deux cent deux fois. Citons comme example « Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss » (TMP, 2.1.124), « I thank god and my cold blood” (ADO, 1.1.130). “I am even poor in thanks but I thank you (HAM, 2.2.273). On trouve aussi le le terme Allemand « dank » qui a aussi été utilisé pour remercier dans « by gar, me dank you for dat » (WIV, 2.3.90). / Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s World examines how Shakespeare makes of the word “thanks” and the expression “thank you” a dramatic art of thanking in his plays. Through this research, thanking scenes are selected according to the frequency of the word “thanks”. However, the occurrence of the word solely does not define a scene of thanking. Shakespeare’s plays incorporate verbal and non-verbal thanking. Verbal thanking occurs as a speech act or a polite answer to acknowledge or praise a benefit received, while a non-verbal thanking is sometimes presented under forms of social rituals and practices such as gift giving, sacrifice, prayer and religious songs. This thesis’ corpus is composed of history plays, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Well, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, and The Winter’s Tale. This selection is based on some criteria considered by the researcher, such as the frequency of the word in the scene or the play and its role in the plot or characters’ state of mind. Shakespeare artfully makes thanking an iconic code on the stage, creating conventionalised forms, expressions and contexts for it to be uttered.

This thesis is concerned with the Czech doctor's campaign "Thanks, we are leaving" on the background of the health care system in the Czech Republic. The campaign started in 2010 by the Czech doctors trying to focus on the working conditions, salary conditions, educational system and some failures of the health care system with the aim to improve it. The campaign resulted in February 2011 in a compromise between doctors and Ministry of Health. This thesis focuses especially on media and on the interest group LOK (Medical union trade club) which set the agenda. The perception of the campaign is ambiguous both for the public and for the doctors themselves. The individual milestones of campaign are explained by the theory of punctuated equilibrium from the authors Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner. Using many helpful methods such as content analysis of media messages, semi- structured interviews with particular actors, analysis of secondary sources, stakeholder analysis or analysis of selected events in health policy I explained the core events and actors who participated in this campaign. The theoretical concepts used in this thesis are: public policy in its multidisciplinary meaning, health policy and health care system, punctuated equilibrium theory, theories concerned with interest groups...

This Master Thesis is the research done in the country of Rwanda. The project leads to study the climate of this country in order to establish whether this climate could be used to produce energy from air and to implement the first wind turbine for serving the nation.   After an introduction about the historical background of wind power, the thesis work deals with assessment of wind energy potential of Rwanda in focusing of the most suitable place for wind power plants. The best location with annual mean wind speed, the rate of use of turbine with hub height for an annual production per year, the mean wind speeds for 6 sites of Rwanda based on ECMWF for climatic data for one year at relief of altitude of 100m and coordinates are reported too.   The result of energy produced and calculations were done based on power hitting wind turbine generator in order to calculate Kinetic energy and power available at the best location to the measurement over the period of 12 months, that could be hoped for long term.   With help of logarithmic law, where wind speed usually increases with increasing in elevation and the desired wind speeds at all 6 sites were used. The annual energy production was taken into account at the best site with desired wind speed at the initial cost of turbine as well as the cost of energy (COE).However, with comparison of the tariff of EWSA, the price of Wind designed in this Research per kWh is cheaper and suitable for people of Rwanda. / <p><em>Rwanda has considerable opportunities development energy from hydro sources, methane gas, solar and peat deposits. Most of these energy sources have not been fully exploited, such as solar, wind and geothermal. As such wood is still being the major source of energy for 94 per cent of the population and imported petroleum products consume more than 40 per cent of foreign exchange. Energy is a key component of the Rwandan economy. It is thus recognized that the current inadequate and expensive energy supply constitutes a limiting factor to sustainable development. Rwanda’s Vision 2020 emphasizes the need for economic growth, private investment and economic transformation supported by a reliable and affordable energy supply as a key factor for the development process. To achieve this transformation, the country will need to increase energy production and diversify into alternative energy sources. Rwandan nations don’t have small-scale solar, wind, and geothermal devices in operation providing energy to urban and rural areas. These types of energy production are especially useful in remote locations because of the excessive cost of transporting electricity from large-scale power plants. The application of renewable energy technology has the potential to alleviate many of the problems that face the people of Rwanda every day, especially if done so in a sustainable manner that prioritizes human rights.</em></p>