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Financial Management II : FIM20P1
No full textExamination on Financial Management II, FIM20P1, June 201
Public Human Resource III: PHR3114
No full textExamination on Public Human Resource III: PHR3114, June 201
Public Information Service I : PIS11B1
No full textExamination on Public Information Service I : PIS11B1, June 201
Public Information Service I: PIS11B1
No full textExamination on Public Information Service I: PIS11B1, June 201
Nudus amor formam non amat artificem : representations of gender in elegiac discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the representation of gender, desire, and identity in elegiac discourse. It does so
through the lens of post‐structural and psychoanalytic theory, referring to the works of Michel
Foucault, Judith Butler, Jessica Benjamin, and Laura Mulvey in their analyses of power, gender
performativity, and subjectivity. Within this thesis, these concepts are applied primarily to the works
of Tibullus, Propertius, and Sulpicia, ultimately demonstrating that the three love elegists seek, in
their poetry, to construct subversive discourses which destabilise the categories by which gender
and identity were determined in Augustan Rome. This discussion is supplemented by the
investigation of Ovid’s use of elegiac discourse in Book 10 of his Metamorphoses, and the way in
which it both comments upon Augustan love elegy and demonstrates a number of parallels with its
thematic content. This thesis focuses especially on the representation of power relations within
elegiac discourse, the various levels on which such relations operate and, finally, the possibilities for
the contestation of and resistance to power, in addition to the motivations that might lie behind the
poet‐lover’s frequent attraction and submission to i
Exploring the relationship between an "English-only" language-in-education policy and bilingual practices in secondary schools in Zanzibar
No full textThis thesis reports on the relationship between an English-only language-ineducation
policy and bilingual practices in secondary schools in Zanzibar. The
focus is on language use in the classroom against the backdrop of a top-down
and English-only language-in-education policy. The main purpose has been to
gain an in-depth understanding of the relationship between the stipulations of
the policy which was imposed from above and the judicious bilingual practices
which are a commonly accepted as the norm in secondary schools in Zanzibar.
The study employed a mixed method approach (QUAL+quant) and embraced
elements of ethnography. The data for this study was gathered from two
secondary schools which were purposively selected on the basis of parameters
that were set in this study. Among other things, these include the secondary
schools which have both ‘Ordinary level’ and ‘Advance level’, and the schools
which teach the same subject using Kiswahili as the language of learning and
teaching at one level, and English as the language of learning and teaching at
another level. Data were obtained from multiple sources. On the one hand,
through ethnography, classroom observations, semi-structured interviews and
focus group discussions with teachers and students, and interviews with key
actors were conducted. On the other hand, students’ test scripts, and students’
test and examination results (scores) were analysed. Both purposive and
random sampling were used to get the participants. Drawing from Ruiz’s (1984)
seminal tripartite orientations of language planning (language as right, language
as problem, and language as resource) thematic analysis, content analysis, and
the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) were used to analyse data.
The findings reveal that the use of bilingual (English and Kiswahili) in English
medium subjects is a resource rather than a deficit since an overwhelming
majority of students and some teachers cannot function positively in the topdown
English-only language-in-education policy. Most significantly, teachers
use Kiswahili in English medium subjects as a strategy for teaching
terminologies, abstract concepts, and unfamiliar topics, as well as for clarification of ideas and for comprehension check. The study further indicates
that the examinations and tests of English medium subjects do not assess what
is exactly intended to be assessed (subject matter), but instead they assess
English language. In addition, empirical evidence shows that language is a factor
for students’ achievements in that students performed considerably better
when the subjects were assessed in Kiswahili compared to the same subjects
assessed in English. The findings further reveal that Kiswahili is suitable to be
used as a sole language of learning and teaching in secondary schools of
Zanzibar.
Based on these findings, the study recommends that the use of Kiswahili in
English medium subjects should be officially recognised and students should be
given options of the language of assessment as an urgent step. Furthermore,
given the urgency of the need for improving students’ performance, it is now
high time to introduce Kiswahili medium of instruction secondary schools in
Zanzibar which should co-exist with English medium of instruction secondary
schools
Nonlinear optical studies of phthalocyanines and their conjugates with nanomaterials
No full textA number of metallophthalocyanines (MPcs) and metal-free phthalocyanines (H₂Pcs) have been synthesized and characterized using various characterization tools such as ¹H-NMR, TOF mass spectrometry, FT-IR, UV-visible spectrophotometry and CHNS elemental analysis. Some of the MPcs were covalently linked to nanomaterials such as silica nanoparticles (SiNPs), single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) and quantum dots (QDs), or embedded in polymer thin-films using poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) as the polymer sources. The phthalocyanine-nanomaterial composites (Pc-NMCs) were characterized with FT-IR, UV-visible spectrophotometry, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetry analysis and X-ray diffractometry.
The nonlinear optical (NLO) properties (using the open-aperture Z-scan technique) of the MPcs and the Pc-NMCs were investigated. In general, most of the investigated MPcs showed good optical limiting behaviors, except for a few, like the non-peripherally-substituted 2-pyridyloxy phthalocyanines, which showed inhibited NLO response as a result of the ring-strain effects. The absence of a metal center was found to greatly reduce the inherent high nonlinearities expected of some of the phthalocyanine complexes. The octaphenoxy derivatives (61a – 61e) were found to exhibit reverse saturable absorption (RSA) that depends on the singlet-singlet transitions, hence making them less reliable optical limiters. The optical limiting properties of the MPcs were improved in the presence of nanomaterials such as the QDs, MNPs and SWCNTs, with MPc-QDs showing the best optical limiting behavior of the three. SiNPs have no significant effect on the optical limiting behavior of the MPcs. The optical limiting properties of the MPcs were greatly enhanced in the presence of PMMA or PAA polymers. The PAA polymer showed better optical limiting behavior compared to PMM
Financial Information Systems I : FIS1011
No full textExamination on Financial Information Systems I : FIS1011, May-June 201
'Becoming animal': motifs of hybridity and liminality in fairy tales and selected contemporary artworks
No full text‘Becoming Animal’: Motifs of Hybridity and Liminality in Fairy Tales and Selected Contemporary Artworks serves as a theoretical examination of the concept of the hybrid. My research unpacks the liminal aspect of hybridity, locating the hybrid in the imaginative world of popular fairy tales, folk lore and mythology. In my accompanying MFA exhibition, Becoming(s), I explore these motifs through an installation of mixed-media sculptures which are based on the hybrid creatures that populated the fantasy world of my childhood.
The written component of my MFA submission will relate directly to my professional art practise, developing it further and situating it within a relevant context. In my mini-thesis I will consider the liminal in relation to the ‘animal turn’ in contemporary art, with a particular focus on relevant artists working with the motifs of hybridity, such as Nandipha Mntambo, Jane Alexander and Kiki Smith. The ‘animal turn’ is a term used by Kari Weil (2010: 3) to describe a contemporary interest in issues of the nonhuman, and in the ways that the relationship between humans and nonhumans is marked by “difference, otherness and power”.
Of key concern to my research will be Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming animal’. Rather than describing a transition from one stable state to another, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a radical dissolution of boundaries – not just between species (such as ‘human’ and ‘animal’) but between any essentialising binaries. As such, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a conception of identity as being fluid and mutable, rather than stable and fixed