... emphasis on certain aspects of the "sign". By drawing from specific areas of these approaches, it becomes obvious, however, that semiotics is an inseparable and integral part of performance. Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who has been hailed the "founder not only of linguistics but also...semiotics"#, based his theory on a linguistic model that has been employed by most structuralists. ... composed of "signifiers" and "signifieds", is an effective tool in approaching performance analytically. Saussure placed specific emphasis on the role of language as the most effective form of...

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... a alcanzar, para além da criazao das estruturas de parceria definidas na Resoluzao do Conselho de Ministros (Conselhos Locais de Aczao Social e ComissÕes Sociais de Freguesia), a elaborazao de um modelo de organizazao e articulazao das parcerias locais, a criazao de um sistema de informazao e a produzao de um diagnostico bem como de um plano de desenvolvimento social local. 3. Impactos Esperados do Programa A Rede ... devem nem podem limitar-se a identificar necessidades. Eles devem apoiar-se nas forzas e recursos endogenos existentes e, nesse sentido, devem focalizar-se na utilizazao d...

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... in constructing reality through ideological representations. All these approaches, it is observed, fail to enable students to generate their own meanings and evaluate the given information in the text and develop a critical understanding of the world outside their classroom. These approaches being teacher centered view literature as a species of knowledge. Teachers take it as their ... responsibility to impart information regarding literary genres, specific socio-cultural context of the text and interpretations of selected critics. As a result students become a storehouse of the informat...

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... , but in common sequences focused both on partisan heroism and in social problems, such as the contrast of political parties, the inflation and the increasing unemployment. Directed by Vittorio de Sica and adapted by Cesare Zavattini, Bicycle Thieves presents all the characteristics just shown above: there are non-professional actors, who better show at the screen real attitudes and experiences ... , symbolically, all the drama of the film starts when Antonio attaches Rita Hayworth's poster to the wall. Consequently I do not believe that realism is purely a matter of style, since De Sica'...

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... of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat interested in an involvement in politics and looking to find democratic answers to France's main social and political issues, regarded the American system as an incredibly ... signes d'un grandeur et d'une supériorité incontestables, sont sans cesse ramenés vers leur proper raison comme vers la source la plus visible et la plus proche de la verité"7...

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... Australia?: Media Systems and Cultural coordinates in: J. Curran & M-J Park (Eds.), "De-westernising Media Studies". London and New York: Routledge, pp 237-248. What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment ... and/or modernism? As far as you can, link your response to themes developed by significant Enlightenment thinkers mentioned in this subject. The Cunningham and Flew article, De-westernising Australia?, printed in 2000 is written from a post modern perspective, given the date of publication, and the continuing the...

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... the 18th century were subject to, Manley's novel employs a more subtle approach in highlighting the contradictory foundation upon which 18th-century concepts of femininity and female sexuality were based. The text presents a society in which the stringent regulations of femininity and sexual chastity were upheld, and in so doing, traces the logical consequence of a belief in and implementation of arbitrary societal ... for a woman who doesn't fit into the proposed mold of "femininity", simply because she happened to be on the receiving end of a series of unfortunate events. Manley's text...

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... next portion of which involved the attainment of John's axis mundi, personified by his newfound love Alejandra. The posse's journey south was discontinued after the discovery of the Hacienda de Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, a ranch owned by the aristocrat Don Hector, where they find work as cowboys. The first glimpse of John Grady's axis mundi was through sheer hazard: as ... ...

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... which the formation of these connections can challenge the perceptions of a society. A good example of the former concept however, is found within Holly Goldberg Sloan's 'Counting by 7s', a fictional text depicting an orphan genius girl, twelve years of age, whose surrogate parents are killed in a car accident. Through the varying exploration of varying personal, social and cultural barriers to belonging ... which create one's individuality. This is made especially difficult when the connection shared is familial in nature. The depiction of Anh's relationship with his father within...

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... as a whole, as well as, campuses versus workplace, and mandatory versus voluntary. Also, the studies provided will show improvements in regards to this dilemma. This paper discusses gaps in the text and provides suggestions for future research on diversity training. Diversity Training As diversity increases among citizens and employees, human resource practitioners in the community segment have come to sight diversity ... forms, shapes, and combinations of diversity training in terms of its design elements. While programs with a wide-ranging focal point were less common, authors sight t...

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... focus on identified risks and take enhanced measures in situations according to the level of the risks. The implementation of the risk-based approaches helps in avoiding consequences of inappropriate de-risking characters. In the current papers, we will defines and identify best practices of a risk-based approach, analyze the framework of a risk-based approach, discuss the measurement of a risk-based ... ...

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... focus on identified risks and take enhanced measures in situations according to the level of the risks. The implementation of the risk-based approaches helps in avoiding consequences of inappropriate de-risking characters. In the current papers, we will defines and identify best practices of a risk-based approach, analyze the framework of a risk-based approach, discuss the measurement of a risk-based ... ...

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... , theorists suggested a range of typologies of the alliances. Yoshino and Rangan (1995) suggested three key types of alliances, namely joint ventures, minority equity alliances and nontraditional contracts. Lorange and Van de ven (1992) suggested four types of alliances, namely consortium, ad hoc pool and project-based joint ventures. Other types of alliances were proposed by Dussuage and Garette (1995), who identified ... ...

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... income inequality in less developed countries. Many development aids are not used for their destined projects as they are usually diverted to other non-productive programs an act which Van de Walle (2012) and other scholars have termed as fungibility of aid. Sometimes the aid ends up in bank accounts of the few high ranking civil servants and politicians. In a nutshell ... ...

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... controversial due to the instability of the environment, with climate change comes different debates on how natural disasters has affected the geological aspect of the earth's crust, geoscientists from Universite de Perres showed a link between the intense climate change and tectonic plate movement which caused the Earth's axis to shift by several inches. Everything is unstable and now scientists can only ... ...

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... of this lab report is to determine whether there are differences in temporal resolution along the horizontal and vertical meridians, and to replicate the earlier findings by Cass and Van De Burg (2014) that contextual flicker interferes with temporal order judgement. Participants included six undergraduate psychology students completing the experiment as part of their course requirement in order to gain credit ... ...

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... parent-child relationship were goals, while minimizing the emphasis on undesirable behaviours (Belini, 2014). This approach in particular takes into account the cognitive difficulties experienced by those with CD by de-emphasizing bad actions and behaviours. This is important because individuals with conduct disorder are less able to change and adapt their behaviours according to environment and social cues (Matthys et ... ...

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... pokes fun at the nobility's lifestyle by offering us a caricature of how they are perceived by the public. The exaggerated lengths of their full titles ("Marquess of Vanburgh, Earl Vanburgh de Brendon, Baron Brendon") is clearly a parody of the aristocracy's perceived self-importance and vanity. Moreover, the silliness of the titles themselves ("Hereditary Grand Falconer") suggests that Waugh is also poking ... ...

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... and appreciates the narrator's wife's piano skills as he smiles and departs from the household. From "Stardust" the wife moves onto the "Chopin nocturnes", "Claire de Lune" and "Papa Haydn's dead and gone, gently down the stream." Observing the pieces she plays that she is an intermediate level piano player as all the ... ...

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... insisted that the wall is no more than a temporary shield against terrorist attacks its critics claim that it is a major illegal geopolitical project that cuts into Palestinian lands and that de facto annexes larges parts of the, bringing unjustifiable devastation to the Palestinians living along its route and to their environment (Sorkin 2). According the United Nations report, which examined the humanitarian ... ...

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... has dispersed throughout the trade routes. The plague was one of the most devastating epidemics ever to occur and people who have been victims of it have suffered tremendously. Jean de Venette explains the severity of the plague in detail in his records in the "Chronicle." Quoting from the narrative he writes, "People lay ill little more than two ... ...

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... a control group or an intervention group that included the construction of a detailed action plan, consultation with the employee's supervisors and personnel managers, and if needed, a referral to a physician or psychologist (De Boer et al. 2004). The action plan focused on aspects that should be changed in order to enable the employee to remain working. An occupational physician conferred with the employee ... ...

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... to biodiversity. The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (which is of great global importance for biodiversity) , the Maya Biosphere Reserve (located in the Peten , Guatemala), Tepuyes natural monument formations ( Venezuela ) , the Sierra de la Macarena national park ( Colombia ) , Cuyabeno reserve ( Ecuador ) , some tree species such as mahogany in Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia and Brazil, the last forests of the Andes and secondary forests in ... ...

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... to strategic planning. Strategic planning requires organization leaders to consider the implications certain business factors will have on their organizations effectiveness, and ultimately, the organizations sustainability (Gelfand, Leslie, Keller, and de Dreu, 2012). Educational Enterprises (a pseudonym) is one organization that must assess its effectiveness for sustainability. To gain insight into the culture and climate of the organization, the author interviewed three ... ...

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... French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he ... ...

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