36 research outputs found
Mean value and correlation problems connected with the motion of small particles suspended in a turbulent fluid
No full textA theoretical treatment of diffusion as function of turbulence, by working out the dispersion of small particles in turbulent fluid. The method of Kolmogoroff is used to decribe the movement in a statistical waysHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
[[alternative]]A Study on E. Granados's Goyescas
No full text[[abstract]]The essay is arranged in five chapters. Chapter one introduces the importance of Granados’ Goyescas, states the ideas and purpose of the study, and explains the analytical way being used. Chapter two discusses the composer’s life and some important works that have influence on the work. Chapter three presents the analytical study on the music structure. Chapter four gathers further the special piano music vocabulary being used by Granados. Chapter five is the conclusion and a self-evaluation.
[[alternative]]A Study of Selected Preludes of Debussy
No full text[[abstract]]本文係德布西前奏曲集第一冊五首選曲，及第二冊三首選曲之詮釋報告，共分二個部分。
第一部分針對八首選曲進行詮釋，詮釋重點為表現作品之演奏技巧，及德布西本人的創作樂思。
第二部分以演奏角度，探討如何以觸鍵及踏板，表現出德布西作品中所需要的音色及音響。
Pachakutik! The Ecuadorian indigenous identity: decolonizing social and political Andean society
No full textThroughout nearly 500 years, the Andean highlands were dominated by three different Empires. Tahuantinsuyo, home of the Incan dynasty, was among the most organized and was able to expand its empire from as far south as the end of the Argentinean Andes to Southern Colombia. It was built upon different networks that helped sustain the Empire. Incan scholars that were able to document their history, such as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, offspring of noble Incan and Conquistador origin, were able to provide his depiction of the ‘peaceful’ transfers of power between the Incan Empire and former nations.
The subjugation of the Ecuadorian highland indigenous peoples initially began with the first Spanish colonization that inflicted a series of social and political shifts within society. The Viceroyalty of Peru thoroughly looked at a series of different adaptations to indigenous peoples, primarily from the Ecuadorian highlands, through various periods of epidemics that would decimate native populations, often eliminating entire villages. As the 19th century began.
Indigenous people were regarded as the “backward, miserable and disposable” race throughout much of the 19th century; with Ecuadorian conservative and liberal governments unraveling a series of economic and international disputes, the indigenous class was left to fend their lives in the hacienda system that remained from the Spanish colonization and utilized by the agricultural and Catholic elites to dominate their horrible and sadistic regulations amongst the Indian farmers.
The new Ecuadorian republic required all citizens to have ‘basic’ prerequisites in order to be considered for citizenship, as Indians were still deemed to be of the ‘other’ within the societal system, let alone ever to influence a white-dominated Ecuadorian political system. Why study the Ecuadorian highlands? Because it is filled with people with an untold story, it is a reason to continue the decolonization efforts to bring the history that has not been told. Today, indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian highlands continue to be oppressed but also continue to fight for their freedom, the very freedom their great-grandmothers had hoped for in their country.M.A.Includes bibliographical reference
Jack G. Shaheen 1935–2017
No full textPioneering author and media critic, Dr. Jack Shaheen devoted his life to identifying and contesting damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media and pop culture. Arabs and Muslims were offered up as cartoon caricatures—dagger wielding, evil, ridiculous, hypersexualized, inhumane and incompetent “others.” Dr. Shaheen quickly recognized their shared genealogy to the portrayals of other racialized groups including Jews, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and African Americans. Always in the spirit of engaged dialogue, he was outspoken in defense of any group that was wrongfully stereotyped and vilified.</jats:p
Manifest deception: interpreting Lenape land concessions: an analysis of the European colonialization and systemic erasure of the Indigenous people of New Jersey and surrounding areas
No full textSeumas MacManus once said in his Story of the Irish Race, “They are going! They are going! The Irish are going with a vengeance. Soon, a Celt will be as rare in Ireland as a Red Indian on the shores of Manhattan.” These words of the commoner colonizer between myself and the Ramapough Lenape people reveal a standard methodology for settlement that, through the forced removal and assimilation, has threatened an increasingly endangered people. Indigenous sovereignty in terms of land reclamation has recently become prevalent within the American landscape. Whether it is for federal recognition or resolving land concession during the colonial period, recent attention has been rightfully given to the way in which America was settled. Despite this, there is limited documented material that definitively proves the theft committed in the early colonies that paved the way for westward expansion. No greater atrocities were committed than those against the Lenape people of the Hudson and Delaware River Valleys. The land concessions made through trade, massacre, disease, and acculturation remain hidden over the dense legal verbiage of colonial land deeds and treaties. Although Indigenous oral tradition outlines the history of this extirpation, the Western legal instruments that lie in our nation’s repositories dominate the mythology of legal land transactions. By analyzing these documents and uncovering firsthand accounts of those whose narratives have been silenced, I hope to illuminate the injustice that lies behind the written word. Further insights hide in plain sight from the oral traditions of the Indigenous population, who have meticulously passed their stories on from generation to generation. No matter how extreme the differences might appear, the combination of colonial and Indigenous perspectives unveils a truth that the acceptance of the historical record has buried. The research that culminated in these pages reveals the deception that lies in both legal documents and the memory of the colonizer. Before the arrival of the Europeans, there was harmony between man and nature. This fragile existence was nourished by the cultures of the Indigenous populations and, like these people, such as the Lenape, can never be replaced.M.A.Includes bibliographical reference
