title: Masculine Uncertainty and Male Homosociality in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Stories

contributor:
Granofsky, Ronald
English

abstract: James Matthew Barrie, a Scottish novelist and dramatist, created a large and successful body of work during his lifetime. While Barrie's oeuvre includes over fifty fictional works, his reputation as a writer is based almost entirely on his text Peter Pan. Recently there has been a vast interest in Peter Pan (1911), an interest that is reflected by the numerous fictional and cinematic adaptations that have appeared over the last few decades. These modem adaptations of Barrie's work consistently simplify Peter Pan by disregarding the homosocial aspects of the text and presenting the narrative with heterosexual denotations that are non-existent in the original. For example, P. J. Hogan's film Peter Pan (2003) exaggerates the Peter and Wendy plot to establish an archetypal-like romance. Hogan inserts a romantic plotline between Peter and Wendy that does not exist in Barrie's original text. Most modem adaptations also simplify the narrative by removing the issues ofheterosexual uncertainty and masculine insecurity, which are prevalent themes in Barrie's original. In Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), the male protagonists are presented as highly masculine individuals, particularly Peter who is given a deep voice and adult-like features. By ignoring the issues of masculinity and male homosociality, these modem adaptations fail to showcase Barrie's social criticism on the negative effects of Edwardian constructions of gender identity. Although the interest in Peter Pan narrative is also reflected by the recent increase in Barrie scholarship, many ofthese critics also heterosexualize Barrie's work and ignore the issues of masculinity that saturate the Peter Pan stories. Most critics focus entirely on the 1911 novel Peter Pan and ignore the significance of other Peter Pan stories such as, Sentimental Tommy (1896), Tommy and Grizel (1900), The Little White Bird (1901), and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1928). A study of Barrie's earlier Peter Pan stories demonstrates Barrie's social criticism of the nineteenth-century masculine identity.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Andrew Lang and The Fairy Tale

contributor:
Sigman, Joseph
English

abstract: This thesis concerns itself with identifying Andrew Lang's theories on the fairy tale and the ways in which he applied these theories to his collections and his own fairy tales. The first chapter will deal with the traditional tale, offering a sampling of the many contradictory opinions about its origin and definition, and attempting to illustrate the problems involved in a discusion of this genre.Then it provides a history of the traditional fairy tale and the attitudes in England towards it. The second chapter surveys Lang's fairy tale collections, The Twelve Colour Fairy Books, and explores the conception of the fairy tale reflected in the selection and editing of the tales and in the prefaces to the separate volumes. It will then offer a definition of the fairy tale that fits Lang's collections in the light of the several working definitions established in Chapter I. Chapter III will investigate the characteristics of this genre and Chapter IV will address itself specifically to Lang's own fairy stories and atempt to see them in relation to the traditional and the literary fairy tale.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens

contributor:
W., B. A.
English

subject:
English
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: This thesis is a close reading of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. It is probably one of the first attempts at analyzing every act and scene of the play. There is a particular focus on tracing the unities in the play, and in understanding how the play works dramatically.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THE MONSTER INSIDE US: THE MONSTROUS UNCANNY IN ESTA SPALDING'S ANCHORESS, ANNE CARSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, AND MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

contributor:
York, Lorraine
English and Cultural Studies

subject:
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: This thesis explores the concept of the monstrous in two contemporary Canadian poetry books, Esta Spalding's Anchoress (1997) and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red (1998), in relation to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Drawing from the idea that each person possesses monstrous qualities identifiable in the "other," I will focus on the monster as a literal and a symbolic double for the poem's characters that crosses multiple boundaries: life/death, creation/destruction, personal/political, feminine/masculine, and spirit/body. Spalding and Carson practice what Alicia Ostriker calls "revisionist mythmaking," questioning the ideological frameworks of classical myths such as Antigone and Herakles and complicating the political, social, and ethical issues already presented in the originals. Their narrative choices, in terms of chronology and viewpoint, for instance, reflect their interest in destabilizing popular portrayals of monstrosity and, by consequence, portrayals of humanity. In addition to Ostriker's theory of revisionist mythmaking, I also employ Sigmund Freud's theory of the uncanny and G.W.F. Hegel's master-slave dialectic in my exploration of the monster as a problematized double or doppelganger, and Jacques Lacan's theories of the imaginary and the symbolic order in my examination of how the monster troubles the self/other division. Finally, I use theories that examine the role of love in political change-such as Jacques Derrida's arguments on friendship and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's vision of the multitude-in my final assessment of the monster as a figure that can represent and incite productive political dialogue and action, and of love as a concept whose effects extend beyond the personal realm. Ultimately, the thesis supports the idea that love as a social network amongst various people has the potential to galvanize radical political change because it breaks the division between what is considered to be human and what is considered to be monstrous.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: International Organizations versus Developing Nations: The Case of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

contributor:
Winham, Gilbert R.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis examines the policy evolution of the General Agreement on Tariffs and trade (GATT) with the aim of finding out what policy changes the GATT has effected during 1948-67 to enable the GATT to contrihute more towards economic development in the developing nations.

The thesis attempts to evaluate the contrihution of the GATT to ascertain GATT's effectiveness in aiding economic development.

It also discusses the motivations that lead developed nations to give aid through the GATT to the developing nations.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Eclectic Vision: Symbolism in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

contributor:
Rosenblood, Norman
English

abstract:
That an explication of symbolism in Under the Volcano is crucial to an understanding of Malcolm Lowry's masterwork remains uncontested. Although the conviction that the novel is founded upon an enormous variety of symbols drawn from an extensive and diverse list of literary sources and traditions is the subject of a consensus of critical opinion, the available critical work has tended to give but cursory attention to the detailed analysis and the relating of the many symbols.

In the examination of Lowry's use of a complex, striated, and endlessly reverberating matrix of symbols which provide the dynamic for the inexorable destruction of Goeffrey Firmin, ex British Consul in Mexico, the symbols are related to two basic "concepts", or overall thematic symbols. These "thematic symbols" are the wheel and the abyss, and this study thus falls naturally into two parts. The wheel provides an analogy for the malignant forces of "the gods", or the forces behind self-destruction, as the origins of Firmin's downfall are variously viewed. The abyss exists as the ultimate punishment for the Consul's condition, and, at a universal level, it is a symbol of twentieth-century dereliction both spiritual and physical, and of the punishment of the vast unspecified guilt of mankind as a whole.

Ultimately, all attempts to objectify the causes of Firmin's downfall, and to delude the self that the origins of tragedy are external are in fact mere projections of the chaos within onto the landscape and social environment. In addition, the attempt to portray an objective and realistic environment culminates simply in a symbolic representation of the mind's disorder, and Under the Volcano emerges as a symbolic landscape of the mind's divide. The symbolic effigies of the Consul's mind point not only towards his inexorable fate, but also imply origins in anxiety, fear, and guilt which demand analysis for a complete interpretation of the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Necessary Fictions: Responsibility in Contemporary Canadian Historical Fiction

contributor:
York, Lorraine
Coleman, Daniel
Hyman, Roger
English and Cultural Studies

subject:
historical fiction
Canadian historical fiction
contemporary Canadian fiction
responsibility
reader responsibility
Literature in English, North America
Literature in English, North America

abstract: This dissertation considers the use – both the function and the value – of history in nine contemporary Canadian historical novels: Steven Heighton's Afterlands (2005), Don Gillmor's Kanata (2009), Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers (1995), Fred Stenson's The Trade (2000), Michael Crummey's River Thieves (2003), Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007), Merilyn Simonds's The Holding (2005), Aimée Laberge's Where the River Narrows (2004) and Jane Urquhart's A Map of Glass (2006). It asks what responsibilities authors of historical novels hold to the past and to readers in the present. It argues for making a distinction between irresponsible and responsible historical fiction, a separation marked not by the strict adherence to “fact,” but rather by the acknowledgement of the continued effect of past actions and relationships on the present, specifically the present configuration of the nation called Canada. I also characterize responsible historical fiction as committed to the notion of “truth-to-meaning” and requiring an engaged and active reader.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON THE ACCUMULATION OF ETHYNYLESTRADIOL IN MARINE TELEOSTS

contributor:
Wood, Chris
Biology

subject: Ethynylestradiol Salinity Temperature Oxygen Teleosts Endocrine Biology Biology

abstract: The synthetic estrogen 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2), an endocrine disruptor originating from birth control and hormone replacement therapy, is discharged in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents. The present study employed radio-labeled EE2 to examine the impact of temperature and salinity on the uptake of EE2 in male killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus), a model euryhaline teleost. Fish were exposed to a nominal concentration of 100 ng/L EE2 for 2 h. Actual concentrations were lower due to EE2 adsorption to the exposure system, but uptake rates were normalized to 100 ng/L. Oxygen consumption rates (MO2), whole body EE2 uptake rates, and tissue-specific EE2 distribution were monitored. EE2 uptake by freshly killed fish was negligible. In killifish acclimated to 18OC at 16 ppt (50 % seawater), MO2 and EE2 uptake were both much lower after 24-h exposure to 10OC and 4OC, and increased after 24-h exposure to 26OC. Transfer of killifish to fresh water for 24 h tended to lower EE2 uptake rate, and long-term acclimation to fresh water reduced it by about 70 %. Long-term acclimation to 100 % sea water (32 ppt) also reduced EE2 uptake rate by about 50 % relative to 16 ppt. However this was not seen in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) where uptake rates were the same in FW- and 16 ppt-acclimated trout. The tissue-specific accumulation of EE2 was found to be the highest (40-60 % of the total) in the liver plus gall bladder across all exposures, and the great majority of this was in the bile in killifish, regardless of temperature or salinity, whereas in trout accumulation was the highest in the carcass at 70 % of the total. The carcass was the next highest accumulator (30-40 %) in killifish, followed by the gut (10-20 %) with only small amounts in gills and spleen. Drinking rate, measured with radio-labeled polyethylene glycol-4000, was about 25-times greater in 16 ppt-acclimated killifish relative to freshwater-acclimated animals. However, drinking accounted for less than 30 % of gut accumulation, and therefore a negligible percentage of whole body EE2 uptake rates. In general, there were strong positive relationships between EE2 uptake rates and MO2, suggesting similar pathways for uptake across the gills of these lipophilic molecules. These data will be useful in developing a predictive model of how variations in key environmental parameters (salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen) affect EE2 uptake in estuarine fish, so as to determine optimal timing and location of WWTP discharges.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: Apparitions of Planetary Consciousness in Contemporary Coming-of-Age Narratives: Reimagining Knowledge, Responsibility and Belonging

contributor:
Brophy, Sarah
Giroux, Susan Searls
Strauss, Helene
English and Cultural Studies

subject: Bildungsroman

subject: contemporary coming-of-age

subject: relational narratives

subject: (trans)hemispheric studies

subject: Latin@ literature

subject: diasporic haunting in literature

subject: African child soldier narratives

subject: citizenship

subject: ethical planetarity

subject: English Language and Literature

subject: Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies

subject: English Language and Literature

abstract: My dissertation explores contemporary coming-of-age stories that employ spectral and relational narrative strategies to address readers, demanding a re-negotiated response from them. Drawing upon and extending the observations of critics who emphasize the role of liberalism and its contradictory legacies for post-colonial Bildungsroman, my research highlights a radically ethical potential in unsettling reiterations of this long-standing narrative form. The narratives that I have chosen to examine—namely, U.S. Latino/a and Canadian diasporic second-generation coming-of-age stories and African child soldier narratives—reflect a broad geographical and linguistic range, drawing attention to constitutive relationality and various kinds of haunting to call upon a globally entangled sense of disappointment and responsibility in a profoundly critical register. These coming-of age stories signal the need to imagine alternative ethical and political frameworks for reconceptualising the way we think about knowledge, responsibility, and belonging in twenty-first century planetary relations. Even as they inevitably participate in the global market for stories of otherness and epistemological and/or material dispossession, these texts challenge generic and market expectations, troubling the reader’s easy consumption of them. The open-endedness and ambiguity in the indirect, yet insistent, rhetorical manoeuvres of these narratives urge us as readers to confront complicated questions about global solidarity if we are to respond ethically to global, national and transnational realities.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Fast Rate-Distortion Optimal Packetization of Embedded Bitstreams into Independent Source Packets

contributor:
Dumitrescu, Sorina
Dr. A. Patriciu and Dr. S. Shirani
Dr. A. Patriciu and Dr. S. Shirani
Electrical and Computer Engineering

subject: packetization

subject: rate distortion

subject: fast

subject: embedded bitstream

subject: Other Electrical and Computer Engineering

abstract:
This thesis addresses the rate-distortion optimal packetization (RDOP) of embedded bitstreams into independent source packets for the purpose of limiting error propagation in transmission over packet noisy channels. The embedded stream is assumed to be an interleaving of $K$ independently decodable basic streams. The goal is to partition these basic streams into $N (N

The RDOP problem previously formulated by Wu \emph{el al.} focused on finding the partition that minimizes the distortion when all packets are decoded. The authors proposed a dynamic programming algorithm which worked under both high bit rate and low bit rate scenarios. In this thesis, we extend the problem formulation to finding the partition which minimizes the expected distortion at the receiver for a wide range of transmission scenarios including unequal/equal error/erasure protection and multiple description codes. Then we show that the dynamic programming algorithm of \citep{DBLP:journals/tmm/WuCX01} can be extended to solve the new RDOP problem.

Furthermore, we propose a faster algorithm to find the globally optimal solution based on the divide-and-conquer technique, under the assumption that all \emph{basic} streams have convex rate-distortion curves. The proposed algorithm reduces the running time from $O(K^{2}LN)$ achieved by the dynamic programming solution to $O(NKL\log K)$. Experiments performed on SPIHT coded images further validate that the speed up is significant in practice.

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: Electronic Specific Heat in Dilute Alloys

contributor:
Carbotte, J.P.
Physics

subject: Physics Physics

abstract: The electronic part of the specific heat γ is calculated for dilute alloys at zero temperature. Only alloys where the impurity and the host ions have the same valence are considered. We take into account two mechanisms which change the value of γ of the pure metal. First the impurities affect the band structure and therefore the Fermi level density of states α (Eғ). Second they also influence the electron-phonon interaction and hence the mass renormalization. We calculate γ from first principles using the Born-von Karman lattice dynamics theory, electron-ion pseudopotentials and phonon Green's functions. The various corrections to γ are evaluated for NaK and KNa using the Ashcroft pseudopotentials form factors. It is found that the change in the mass renormalization is more important than that in α (Eғ) in calculating the electronic specific heat for the alloy.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: Client Complaints in Child Welfare: Lessons Learned

contributor:
Sammon, Sheila
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: In 2006, the Ontario government introduced and implemented a provincial client complaints policy through changes to the Child and Family Services Act. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of complaints managers in Children's Aid Societies under this new policy. Data was collected through semi-structured, in-depth interviews with six complaints managers from Southern Ontario. Analysis of the data revealed that the client complaint mechanism is procedurally driven and contradicts the spirit of Child Welfare Transformation, compelling child welfare staff to spend significant time complying with rules and regulations with there being less emphasis on outcomes. The public presentation of the complaint process and the resulting practices contribute to service recipients having false expectations of what can be accomplished. As well, the power differentials that already exist in the relationship between service users and professionals are exacerbated. Although the mechanism appears to have been designed with the intent of holding Children's Aid Societies accountable for their actions and decisions, it is not linked with other accountability mechanisms and does not include a process for provincial review. The process was implemented in a climate where Children's Aid Societies face persistent negativity and it is not surprising that child welfare staff unconsciously shield themselves through defensive responses. Service recipients have a right to raise concerns. Power imbalances must be challenged to ensure inclusive practices are developed and that demonstrate satisfactory outcomes are desired and achievable. The value of truly 'hearing' complaints is that we open ourselves to the possibility of improving practice and being more inclusive of client voices.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Time and Ilusion in The Iceman Cometh.

contributor:
Vince, R.W.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Dickens and the Family: A Study of Parent-Child Relationships"

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Inside Experiences of Community Organizing: A Case Study

contributor:
Lee, Bill
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: This paper is an exploratory case study on the inside experiences of community organizing. A case study was conducted on a successful community campaign, People Against Radioactive Contamination (PARC), consisting of 10 participants who attended a focus group to talk about their experiences in a successful campaign. This paper explores some inside experiences and issues associated with community organizing which were identified as important to the research participants. The paper examines three major themes: group building, campaigning and understanding success, and addresses how these issues are seen in other community work literature. As indicated in the paper, community practice generally is an under-researched area of social work in Canada; especially lacking in community work research is the inside experiences and human element associated with the practice. This paper provides some impetus for social work to attend better to all forms of community practice in both undergraduate and undergraduate programs.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: A Psychoanalytic Study of Form in The Great Gatsby

abstract:
This thesis proposes that a dichotomy exists in the form of The Great Gatsby and engages in a psychoanalytic approach to the novel as a parody of interwoven fairy tale and detective story forms to substantiate this proposal. With the application of Freudian theory to support the interpretations contained in this thesis, the form of The Great Gatsby emerges as both an unconscious means of wish-fulfillment on the part of the narrator-protagonist, Nick, who unwittingly divulges personal neuroses in reconstructing the titular tale, and as a defence against the anxieties stemming from the gratification of Nick's repressed desires.

In its account of the ironies inherent in the identity, aspirations, and society of the fairy tale hero, in its exposure of the complexities of "detective" Nick's mysterious involvement with and simultaneous detachment from the tale he tells, in its recurrent focus on the Gatsby-Nick symbiosis, and in its consideration of derivative aspects of dichotomy in character and setting to aid in the illumination of ideas set forth, this thesis maintains that form is a topic of investigation essential to an understanding of the psychological dimension that underlies and complements the engrossing verbal intricacies and characterizations in The Great Gatsby.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Council of the Northwest Territories: A Study of Political Development in the North

contributor:
March, Roman R.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Measurement of Integrated Human Services Network (The Children’s Treatment Network of Simcoe York)

contributor:
Thabane, Lehana
Statistics

subject:
Statistics and Probability
Statistics and Probability

abstract:
Community-based human services have traditionally been provided by autonomous service agencies. They have their own funding source and independent process. Integration has been advocated as a key strategy to integrate different agencies together to provide multiple services for a targeted community. The Children’s Treatment Network (CTN) of Simcoe York is a network of agencies and organizations providing services to children with multiple needs and their families in Simcoe County and York Region. This study was designed to evaluate the different levels of integrated service approaches for children on outcomes. The study consisted of two parts: phase I and phase II measurement.

Our project covered phase I measurement with the following objectives. Clinically, we aimed to evaluate agencies’ integration in the network, promote discussion, and determine any interrelationship between a network’s integration and its functioning. The statistical objectives were to quantify the network integration for agency, to represent the overall integration, to quantify the association between network’s integration and functioning and to assess the sensitivity of results.

We measured agencies’ integration through measuring its agreement in collaboration with other agencies in the network. The higher agreement in collaboration indicates a better services integration. We defined four different agreement measures from different perspectives. The agreement based on group’s perception was defined to be the primary measure. We used mean difference, percentage and the Kappa statistic to measure the agreement for each agency. Correlation and regression analyses were applied in investigating the association between network’s integration and its functioning. The sensitivity of the results was analyzed by examining the re-sampling bias of bootstrapping regression models.

Agreement measures were consistent for each agency. In Simcoe, agencies had an average agreement 0.874 (S.D. 0.213) in mean difference, 46.63 (S.D. 12.91) in percentage and 0.258 (S.D. 0.143) in Kappa. Agencies of York had average agreements of 0.662 (S.D. 0.204), 49.36 (S.D. 13.06) and 0.282 (S.D. 0.121), respectively. Agency 10 and 33 in Simcoe and Agency 14 in York were found to have the highest agreement. Agency 3 and 21 in Simcoe and Agency 8 and 9 in York, on the other hand, were found to have the lowest agreement. Different graphical displays illustrated that the overall agreement in collaboration was low and the agencies in York generally had a higher agreement. Correlation analysis showed that synergy and agencies’ perception of pros and cons were significantly correlated with the primary percentage agreement. In regression analysis, we did not find any significant functioning component. However, synergy was found to be much more associated with agreement than the other components. The estimates were 11.48% (-1.03%, 24.00%) and 11.21% (-2.48%, 24.90%) in un-weighted and weighted models respectively. Bootstrapping regression analysis showed that the results were robust to a change of sample.

We concluded that the level of integration of CTN was low because the agencies generally had poor agreement in collaboration. Synergy was the most important component associated with the network’s integration. Other functioning components detected were also associated with the integrating process but were less clinically important. We discussed the statistical approaches used in other contexts and some of their strength and weaknesses. We also considered some key limitations of the study. This study was a baseline measurement of CTN of Simcoe York for further analysis. The results provided a basis for future enhancement of integration of the network. Our experiences also provided ideas for improving design and analysis in integrated network measurement.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: Unsettling Settlement: Perspectives of Refugees from South and South East Asia

contributor:
Sin, Rick
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
The study explored the settlement challenges of South and South East Asian refugees in the City of Hamilton. This study was undertaken to represent the voices of the marginalized and vulnerable communities such as refugees to be included on settlement related research. The purpose of the study was also to identify issues to suggest directions for future policy planning.

The study concludes that 'settlement' is a narrowly defined concept that fails to incorporate significant aspects of a refugee's life. South and South East Asian refugees face unique barriers and challenges in the process of settlement. The mainstream settlement agencies are not always able to respond to the peculiar needs of ethno-racial refugees, which create a wide gap between the service providers and users. Ethno racial agencies attempted to represent the unique needs of South and South East Asian refugees are often crippled by funding restrictions. These have impacted the overall quality of their services, which are perceived as being broad, general and superficial by the service receiving communities and individuals. Therefore the settlement sector, both mainstream and ethno racial, needs to be sensitized about the unique barriers and challenges faced by the South and South East Asian refugees.

The finding of the study also exemplifies that the discrepancy between policy idea and everyday reality. Although settlement is widely considered as a "two way process" between the mainstream and the ethno-racial minorities, it is more a fallacy in reality. The ethno racial refugees face skin colour racism and systemic discrimination on a daily basis which make their settlement experience overwhelmingly challenging. Participants often are confronted prejudice and non-accommodative attitudes towards their culture, language and customs and live in an atmosphere of hostility and insecurity. The settlement policies, which are meant to help refugees adapt, adjust, and integrate in host society are found discriminatory and insensitive towards their settlement needs. To the participants, settlement is more or less a one way struggle with constant rejection and exclusion from the mainstream community.

To contribute to policy and program changes in the settlement sector, this study also summarizes what could be done from the participants' point of view and identifies specific areas for further research and policy debates.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: "Ticky Box" Practice: Client Centred versus Document Centred Social Work

contributor:
Sammon, Sheila
Smith, Ian
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Social work like many other healthcare professions seems to be moving away from client focused care to document centred care in an attempt to meet increasing assessment and accountability requirements. It may be argued that as healthcare has come to be viewed more and more as a business in the current neo-liberal climate, managerialist concepts have become entrenched in healthcare. In October 2005 the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care mandated the implementation of the Resident Assessment Instrument-Mental Health (RAI-MH) for all inpatient mental health beds in Ontario. The tool was hailed as a comprehensive assessment tool that would decrease documentation requirements for the healthcare team, as well as provide the Ministry with a means to develop a case-mix based payment system for inpatient mental health services.

This qualitative research explored the origins of Minimum Data Set tools such as the RAI-MH, as well as the opinions and experiences of mental health social workers two years after the RAI-MH was implemented. Six social workers were interviewed and their practice experience ranged from new graduate to seasoned social worker. All the social workers reported increasing documentation requirements has led to less time being spent on patient care. All of them indicated that the RAI-MH has not decreased documentation but rather was added to existing documentation requirements. The newly graduated social workers had a more positive response to the RAI-MH than the seasoned social workers who appeared more skeptical. They were also more likely to report that the style of their initial interview was driven by the questions asked on the RAI-MH whereas the seasoned social workers attempted to limit its impact. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings on patient care, critical analysis as well as social work education. Possible research directions for the future are also highlighted.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Laminar Flow Development Downstream of an Abrupt Circular Channel Expansion

contributor:
Round, G. F.
Feuerstein, I. A.
Mechanical Engineering

subject:
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

abstract:
This dissertation reports the development of a flow visualisation technique which was used to study the flow pattern generated by an abrupt expansion in a circular section conduit, Experiments were performed at Reynolds numbers (based on upstream tube diameter) ranging from 222 to 755 and for tube diameter ratios of 0.63, 0.79 and 0.93.

Velocity profiles were obtained at each of two different stations beyond the vortex and these were used as upstream boundary conditions for the linearized axial Navier-Stokes equation for the purpose of predicting development lengths. A correlation was obtained for development length as follows:

L/D = 0.27 Re⁰˙⁹⁴, D [1- (d/D)²˙⁷⁷] Measurements of vortex length were made for a tube diameter ratio of 0.63 and the results correlated in the form

xR/h = 0.048 Re¹˙¹ d

Hence both vortex length and development length increase almost linearly with Reynolds number.

abstract: Master of Engineering (ME)


title: Design for Protection Against Water Hammer in Pump-Discharge Lines

contributor:
James, William
Civil Engineering

subject:
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

abstract: A computer program has been developed to compute water hammer transients in pump-discharge lines (forcemains), resulting from power failure at the pumps. The program incorporates various boundary conditions as subroutines. Hence the pump(s) can be placed anywhere in the pipeline, with or without discharge valves (or check valves), and the program can accept a large number of surge-control devices, similarly placed anywhere in the pipeline. Such devices include valves, check valves, surge tanks, one-way surge tanks, and pressure vessels. An explicit finite-differences scheme employing the method of characteristics is used throughout. It proved to be accurate and stable. The program is written in a dimensionless and general form. Several checks were made to prove the validity of the computer model. Comparisons with field observations, graphical analysis, and/or water hammer design charts were made, depending on the data available in the literature for each boundary condition. An exhaustive search through the literature was made. Computer plots are developed which proved valuable in presenting the results. The computer model was applied to the water hammer problem in the Ancaster forcemain, and a "best" protective device is suggested.

abstract: Master of Engineering (ME)


title: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Gothic Tradition

contributor:
Sigman, Joseph
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Selection of Leaders in the Major Political Parties of Britain and Canada since 1945

contributor:
Truman, T. C.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: A description of the leadership selection methods employed by the Conservative and Labour Parties in Britain and the Progressive Conservative and Liberal Parties in Canada since 1945. The methods of selection are illustrated by reference to case studies. The ecamination of the processes of leadership selection is especially related to Robert Michels' theories concerning oligarchy and the leadership of political parties.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Manawaka Women : A Study of the Personal and Literary Development of Margaret Laurence as Revealed in her Canadian Works

contributor:
Dale, James
English

abstract: This thesis examines the general literary and personal development of Margaret Laurence as revealed in her Canadian Works, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, and A Bird in the House. It focuses upon the principal female character in each work as she indergoes a voyage of self-discovery. These voyages, in turn, reflect the voyage of self-discovery Margaret Laurence herself underwent while writing these warks.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Anarchism as a Rejection of Bourgeois Individualism: An Examination of the Concepts of Property and Morality in the Writings of Kropotkin, Tucker, and Stirner

contributor:
Novak, D.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This work seeks to demonstrate, through an examination of the writings of Peter A. Kropotkin and Benjamin R. Tucker, that the communist and individualist schools of anarchist theory differ less in spirit and in underlying commitment than in their prescriptive measures; that each entails a fundamental break with liberalism over the notion of equality and ultimately finds itself more consistently in the socialist than anarchist tradition in political thought. Anarchism entails more truly a rejection than a projection of bourgeois individualism.
Moreover, it will be argued that the one exception to this is Max Stirner--a man who shared the anarchists' disdain for bourgeois social arrangements while adhering to the bourgeois notion of man. His vision is one of chaos not 'anarchy'.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Romanticism and Realism in Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin

contributor:
Jones, D. J.
Russian

subject: Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures

abstract: An analysis of Pushkin's novel Evgenii Onegin with the aim of showing that although superficially influenced by the romantic school, Pushkin may be considered the author of the first great example of realism in the field of the Russian novel. Contains a preface and five chapters. Chapter I discusses the terms realism and romanticism; Chapter II outlines the content of the novel as published by Pushkin; Chapter III discusses the chapters sketched by Pushkin but never published; in Chapter IV an attempt is made to separate the realistic from the romantic elements in the novel; Chapter V provides a summary of the most important findings.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Nature of the Hero in Fedin' s Works.

contributor:
Shein, L. J.
Russian

abstract: An analysis of the nature of the hero in Fedin's early stories and in his seven novels. Contains a preface and four chapters. Chapter I sketches Fedin's life and outlines his early stories: Anna Timofevna, A Tale of One morning, The Chief Gunner, The Orchard. Chapter II deals with the novels: Cities and Years, The Brothers, The Rape of Europe, Arctur Sanatorium, and with a story Transvaal. Chapter II analyses the trilogy: The Early Joys, An Extraordinary Summer, Conflagration. Chapter IV summerizes some of the findings.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Theme of Exile in the Novels of Austin Clarke

contributor:
Dale, James
Warner, Gary
English

abstract: The theme of Exile is a prominent one in Caribbean literature and has its roots in the history of the area. Exile, whether forced (i.e. as a result of the slave trade) or self-imposed, causes problems of rootlessness and alienation, and this has given rise to the strong identity motif in West Indian writing. Austin Clarke, a native Barbadian, has been living in North America since 1955. His novels express the problems faced by blacks in Barbados and in Toronto, and focus on the individual's quest for self-identity. While Clarke offers no solution to the problems, his novels raise fundamental questions that are a part of, but not exclusice to, the West Indian/ North American experience.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Analysis of the Nature of Freedom in Dostoevsky's Three Major Novels

contributor:
Shein, L.J.
Russian

abstract:
An analysis of the dialectic of freedom in three of Dostoevsky's major novels.

The thesis contains a preface and five chapters. Chapter I attempts to define the several types of freedom, its dimensions and problems. Chapter II discusses the novel "Crime and Punishment" (1866) with particular reference to the possibility of total freedom. Chapter III deals with "The Devils", sometimes translated as "The Possessed" (1871), and Stavrogin's confrontation with the 'abyss beneath'. Chapter IV is concerned with Dostoevsky's last novel "The Brothers Karama zov" (1880), in which Father Zosima reveals the 'abyss above'. Chapter V is a summing-up and critique of Dostoevsky's ethic of freedom.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The War Prose of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov

subject: Russian

abstract: A brief analysis of the treatment of the theme of war in the prose writings of V. P. Nekrasov.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Some Effects of Prishvin's Style in His Early Works

contributor:
Thomas, G.
Russian

abstract: The thesis contains a preface and six chapter. Chapter I summarizes the works that have been published about Prishvin's style so far; it offers a few biographical comments about the writer and a brief outline of the contents of the analysed works. Chapters II - V deal with the main effects of his early prose: Chapter II looks at the homgeneity of the narrator and the material, Chapter III discusses the vividness of Prishvin's images, Chapter IV is concerned with the effect of mystery and Chapter V with humor. Chapter VI sums up our findings.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Investigation of the Temperature Dependence of the NMR Spectrum of ⁵¹V in DyVO₄ by Study of its Electric Quadrupole Interaction Induced Angular Variation at T=77ºK and T=292ºK

contributor:
Stager, C. V.
Physics

subject: Physics Physics

abstract: The nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the ⁵¹V nucleus in DyVO₄ has been investigated in order to determine if the crystal undergoes any crystallographic distortion or symmetry reduction down to liquid nitrogen temperature, T=77ºK. It has been found, using the effects of the electric quadrupole interaction at the vanadium nucleus, that no such distortion or symmetry alteration could be detected down to T=77ºK. Although it is known that the crystal undergoes a spontaneous second-order crystallographic phase transition, via the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect to a state of lower symmetry at a temperature TD=14ºK and that it undergoes a second transition to an antiferro-magnetic state at TN=3.04ºK, these phenomena were unfortunately unable to be observed due to technical difficulties. However, the existence and effects of the electric quadrupole interaction in DyVO₄ at T=77ºK and T=292ºK have been established, and speculation has been made as to the possible findings in the very low temperature range between 2ºK and 15ºK.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: Excluded voices in dementia care

contributor:
Aronson, Jane
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
The principles of person centred care have been widely espoused in dementia care. However, the language and conceptualization of person centred care is primarily articulated 'top down': from the vantage point of health and social care professionals, academics and policy makers. The perspectives of family caregivers have not been well explored - a striking omission since it is they who are most likely to have closest knowledge of the 'persons' with dementia. The purpose of this study was to learn from family caregivers of people with dementia the meaning of "person-centred care" and thus, to generate a 'bottom up' view of its conceptualization that can contribute to informing and improving service delivery in dementia care.

A small qualitative study of family caregivers was conducted in Ontario using personal interviews to explore their accounts of the degree to which the care their relatives received was knowing or unknowing, i.e. knowledgeable about the 'persons' supposedly at the centre of person-centred care. Analysis of their accounts revealed some key themes: caregivers' attention to establishing their positions as 'knowers', their efforts to enable knowing care of their relatives, and their responses when they witnessed unknowing care. The study also illuminated the consequences of unknowing care for individuals with dementia and their family caregivers. Findings revealed that family caregivers perceived person-centred care as closely linked to a dynamic process in relationship building between service providers, family caregivers and persons with dementia. Barriers to the implementation of person centred care were discussed and implications for social work practice and advocacy considered.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: "Dreams Sleeping and Dreams Waking": A Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams and Phantasies in Richardson's Clarissa

contributor:
Rosenblood, N.
English

abstract: It is the purpose of this thesis to analyze Samuel Richardson's treatment of dreams and phantasies in Clarissa in order to demonstrate the underlying motivations of Clarissa and Lovelace and the possible connection between unconscious material and conscious statements and reactions. The form this study will take is a psychoanalytic investigation of character motivation as it is revealed in the dreams and phantasies. Chapter One will elaborate on the scope and content of this thesis. Chapter Two will focus on Clarissa's dream prior to her flight in order to determine the extent to which she manipulates and perpetuates her role as 'Persecuted Maiden'. Chapter Three will analyze Lovelace's phantasies of potency in terms of their underlying implications. Chapter Four examines the psychological effects of the rape on Clarissa and Lovelace. In particular, Clarissa's delirium and death-scene and Lovelace's dreams and death-scene will be of central importance.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: East Asian Residents and Mainstream Long Term Care Facilities

contributor:
Carranza, Mirna
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
As Canada becomes increasingly ethnically diverse, health care professionals must extend their knowledge base of a range of cultural groups. Of interest in this thesis is how these cultural values and traditions intersect with those of the dominant culture. The principle guiding question was to explore the intersection between race and age and how these facets of identity impact the welfare, care, and cultural needs of the ethnic elderly living in mainstream long term care facilities (LTCFs).

The purpose of this research study is to examine the experiences of elderly East Asian immigrants who currently reside in mainstream LTCFs in Southern Ontario, through the perceptions of their informal primary caregivers. In particular, the research has focused on the participants' family member's challenges in living in a residence where the resident is cared for with Westrn ideology and methods, and primarily in English.

Three primary caregivers were interviewed uing an in-depth, qualitative methodology. Findings of this study suggest that despite assumptions of a monolithic family culture that exists for minority families where each family member abides by the rules of filial piety and is willing to give or receive care from one another, with appropriate cultural supports available, Asian families may be more prepared to consider placement for their elderly family members in LTCFs.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Trilogy of Samuel Beckett

contributor:
John, B.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: H. K. Browne's Illustrations in Charles Dickens' Middle Novels: Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English

abstract:
The scope of this dissertation takes in three of the major middle novels of Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House, and examines the illustrations completed for each of them by Hablot K. Browne. Special emphasis is placed on evidence which shows Browne's original and perceptive contributions to the story. There is a brief discussion of the techniques of etching and reference is made to Browne's predecessors, notably Hogarth, and to the earlier traditions of English graphic art from which he must have worked. The basic tenet of the thesis is that Browne should be considered on his own merits as Dickens' principal illustrator and that the consideration should take place with the illustrations before us.

Throughout the argument use is made of critical opinion, from both the past and present day, in order to demonstrate the current standing of Browne's work. A great
deal of critical work has been completed on the illustrations in Dickens but not all of it has been fruitful. It is to be hoped that this brief review will serve as a useful introduction to the subject.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Analysis of Humour in Chekhov's Stories

contributor:
G., C. J.
Russian

abstract: An analysis of Chekhov's humour. Contains a preface, an introduction and four chapters. Introduction: Chekhov's Humour in its Context. Chapter I: First Period Beginnings up to 1885 a) Biographical, b) Analysis of the works. Chapter II: Second Period: 1886-1891, a) Biographical, b) Analysis of the works. Chapter III: Third Period 1892-1904. a) Biographical, b) Analysis of the works Chapter IV: Conclusion.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: At Arm's Length: Canada's Relations with Commonwealth West Africa

contributor:
Nossal, K. R.
Jacek, H. J.
Chandler, W. M.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: The central focus of this thesis is on Canada's foreign policy towards, and relationship with the Commonwealth West African countries of Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The paper will explore the trends and patterns of interaction between Canada and these countries from 1957 to 1977.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Grappling Hands of Spiritual Forces in Old English Poetry

contributor:
Lee, Alvin A.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Eros in Plato and Early Chritian Platonists: A Philosophical Poetics

contributor:
Planinc, Zdravko
Religious Studies

subject: Religion Religion

abstract:
This dissertation will examine the role of eros in Plato's middle dialogues -- the Phaedrus, Symposium and Republic -- and the various exercises or techniques found there for the correction and guidance of desire, leading to participation in what is, for Plato, the height of philosophy, the contemplative life. The training to which Socrates subjects his primary interlocutors in these three dialogues arises in conversation, and is a series of "spiritual exercises," in the words ofPierre Hadot, or therapies, drawing his partners in dialectic to a capacity to be arrested by philosophical beauty. Such drawing and the exercises for this -- the inducing of shame in those interlocutors who hold mistaken models of eros (Socrates' fIrst speech in the Phaedrus), meditation on accurate paradigms of philosophy (the allegory of the cave in the Republic) -- amount to a philosophical poetics, Plato's way of doing philosophy.

A comparable training of desire appears in the ascetical theology of such Christian writers as John Cassian, pseudo-Dionysius and the author of The Cloud ofUnknowing. As with Plato's dialogues, the works of these thinkers are accounts of "turning the soul around" (Republic 518d, 521c), and are themselves training documents for those who subsequently read them. They are less concerned with the assertion of dogma than with the drawing of such readers into the practice of the higher forms of contemplative prayer. This dissertation sees a continuous tradition of erotics and soul craft extending from Plato to Christian writers in spirituality in late antiquity and beyond.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Industrial Growth and Migration as Stochastic Processes

contributor:
King, L.J.
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract: Intra-urban and intra-regional industrial growth and migration for the City of Hamilton are examined through the use of a simple Markov chain model. Tests to determine the existence of the properties of stationarity, Markovity, and "first-orderness" are conducted, with goodness of fit tests to investigate the quality of the model's prediction. Finally, forecasts of future distributions of industrial firms are given to show Hamilton's expected decline in the number of small (less than five hundred employees) industrial plants.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Critical Observations on the Hymns of Callimachus

contributor:
Kingston, P.
Classics

subject: Classics Classics

abstract: This thesis examines the structure and contents of the Hymns of Callimachus in comparison with earlier hymns and in the light of influence from other genres of Greek literature.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Elements of Satire and the Grotesque in the Prose of M.A. Bulgakov

contributor:
Turner, C.J.G.
Russian

abstract: A brief analysis of the satirical and grotesque elements in the published prose works of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Ideology in Politics: An Essay in Analysis

contributor:
Novak, D.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis is an attempt to examine the nature of ideological thought, and the way in which the concept of ideology is used in politics. A short survey of the concept introduces the topic. The concept is then treated in terms of epistemology, the sociology of knowledge, nationalism, and political theory and doctrine.

The conclusions are that the proponents of the view that ideology is at an end in politics may well be correct in terms of their own implicit assumptions, but it is clear that this standpoint cannot be upheld if other assumptions are made. Substantial support may be given to this proposition by the fact that it is possible to argue that the "end-of-ideology" is itself an ideological viewpoint, and one that is substantially in favour of the status guo. As such, this viewpoint appears to be inherently inimical to the philosophical critique of such basic political concepts as freedom, democracy, and political order.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Concept of Civil Rights

contributor:
Ajzenstat, S.
Philosophy

subject: Philosophy Philosophy

abstract: This thesis is an attempt to look at the concept of civil rights. Usually civil rights have been acknowledged as those rights which are legally extended to the citizen. Recently though, the term has taken on a meaning similar to that of natural rights. I have, therefore, looked at the meaning of natural rights, decided that natural rights reduced themselves to being moral rights and then found that moral rights are an expression of emotion. I was then able to argue that all rights are civil rights, i.e., rights extended to the citizen by the government. It was necessary to look at the social contract which I accepted as valid. I found it to be the means through which the government was established and the instrument through which certain civil rights are guaranteed.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Mark Twain Raising the Devil

contributor:
Sigman, Joseph
English

abstract: In the space of eleven years (1897-1908), Twain worked intermittently on three different portrayals of a devilish stranger in unfinished stories which are known collectively as the Mysterious Stranger manuscripts. In this thesis I will examine these different devilish strangers, taking as my starting point an examination of Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), whom I feel is their precursor. I will conclude the thesis by illustrating Twain's continued interest in the devilish stranger figure after his abandonment of the Mysterious Stranger manuscripts, in "Letters from the Earth."

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Solzhenitsyn; A Socialist Humanist

contributor:
Shein, L. J.
Russian

abstract: A study of theme in the published work of Alexander Ismevich Solzhenitsyn

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURE OF POLITICS THROUGH THE NOVEL.

contributor:
Novak, Derry
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
The object of this dissertation has been to attempt to illustrate, with the help of the novel, certain fundamental concepts in political studies, and to link these concepts coherently.

The link that is established is not proposed as final. It is more a way in which one seeming coherence can be established. It is part of this dissertation to assert that the very nature of politics is such that any final linking of concepts is impossible for the single reason that politics, being normative essentially, cannot be static.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Plexed Artistry": A Study of the Narrative Persona in Selected Works of Vladimir Nabokov

contributor:
Ross, Michael
English

abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the development of a narrative persona in selected works of Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita, Pnin and Pale Fire are novels which seem particularly well-suited to a study of this nature because of the remarkable self-consciousness and vitality of their respective narrators. A chapter has been devoted to each of these novels, and within each chapter the implied relationships between the narrator and those who act upon or react to his resence -- author, other characters and reader -- have been considered.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Point of View in Herman Melville's Typee and Redburn

contributor:
Sigman, J.
English

abstract: Herman Melville is a difficult writer because of the built-in ambiguities of his narrative technique, i.e. point of view. The present study attempts to examine his use of point of view in his two early novels--Typee and Redburn with a view to understanding the meaning and vision embodied in them. The introductory chapter reviews some of Melville's critics and evolves an approach which may grapple with Melville's intricate handling of point of view. In the follmving chapters I use this approach. to study two of Melville's early noveis, Typee and Redburn. The analysis of the point of view in these two novels reveals that they are inspired by a vision of evil. Each of the novels expresses and illuminates some particular aspect of the human situation or of evil in the universe.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Primer for Critics: Callaghan's A Fine and Private Place

contributor:
Ballstadt, Carl
English

abstract:
After a half-century of writing, Morley Callaghan has earned a place in Canadian literature. The difficulty in this is that Callaghan wants no such place.

To locate Callaghan in our literary development, Canadian critics have attached labels, sought out resemblances and dependences, applied extrinsic analytical tools such as Jungian psychological theory, and finally, they have treated his work with special consideration because he is Canadian. In short, they have reduced his work to a sterile series of commonalities, and have ignored its individuality and mystery.

A Fine and Private Place is, in part, a reaction to such critics. It shows the shallowness of critic J.C. Hilton, and traces the right education as a critic of Al Delaney as he moves from his dependence on scholarship to a trust in his heart's reaction to Eugene Shore's writing. In particular, the novel shows that its realism can be verified by a Jungian framework, and yet that the framework does not encapsulate Callaghan's creativity. As a fine tale, it has a charm and intimacy which critical tools cannot dissect.

The novel alludes to three other Callaghan works: The Loved and the Lost, More Joy in Heaven, and Such Is My Beloved. In this context, A Fine and Private Place reveals its place in an evolving treatment of the rivalry between criminal-saints and their repressive societies, with the value of the individual as the prize.

Callaghan's works must not be trapped in a literary mosaic: they must be accepted by the reader in private on their own merits. A Fine and Private Place is both a request for such treatment and a critical tool to assist in the task.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Dynamic Response of Asymmetric Shear Wall-Frame Building Structures

contributor:
Heidebrecht, A.C.
Civil Engineering

subject:
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

abstract: A mathematical model to compute the dynamic response of asymmetric shear wall-frame building structures is presented. The formulation is developed in detail for the case of one axis of symmetry. Also, the method is derived for the case of relatively uniform stiffining element with respect to height and it is based on the continuous approach. The lateral load resisting elements, as elastic continua, are combined by using the equilibrium and compatibility conditions to yield a coupled set of partial differential equations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are determined using numerical procedures and results are presented to show the natural periods and mode shapes for several practical structures. The total dynamic response of such structures subjected to earthquake ground motions is determined and results are presented for excitation due to several different earthquakes. The response results are compared with those obtained by using a static analysis with the objective of evaluating the adequacy of such static loading provisions and developing guidelines to define situations for which a detailed dynamic response computation is required.

abstract: Master of Engineering (ME)


title: "George Eliot and Middlemarch: Beyond the Novelist"

contributor:
Ferns, J.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "The Clearer Self": Lampman's Transcendental-Visionary Development

abstract: Criticism of Lampman, while recently successful in finally getting away from reading him merely as a descriptive nature poet, has not closely examined his complex relationship with Emersonian Transcendentalism, nor has it looked at his poetical career as a whole. Many critics portray Lampman as a "dreamer of dreams", an escapist, and the critics who have noticed transcendental tendencies in his poetry conclude that his poetical career was, like that of Emerson or Thoreau, a sustained retreat into nature. After first of all offering a fairer and more balanced biographical account of Lampman than has yet been offered, this study examines past and present criticism of Lampman and the biases that inform it, and looks at Lampmap's views of Emersonian Transcendentalism before coming to the major task which is to examine closely Lampman's three volumes of verse and to show that there is a development, a maturing, of his poetic vision. His first volume, Among The Millet (1888), reflects an attempt to give expression to the Emersonian identification of man with nature; in his second, Lyrics of Earth (1895), after adopting a thoroughly transcendeptal stance, he sees the dishonesty and inadequacy of this philosophy; and in his last volume, Alcyone (1899), he abandons his transcendental quest for unity with nature and gives uninhibited expression to his frightening, direct vision of nature and human nature. In Lampman there is an important, but hitherto neglected, transcendental-visionary development.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: British Social Democracy and the State Since 1945: A Critical Appraisal

subject:
Political Science
state intervention
capitalism

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Author's Craft: Central Comic Figure of George Farquhar

contributor:
Morton, Richard
English

abstract: This thesis is an examination of Farquhar's works, with an emphasis on major characterization. Such an analysis has not been done to my knowledge, and Farquhar's writing lends itself especially well to a search for the development of one man's art. In Chapter I, the setting in which Farquhar's works were presented is sketched out, as well as Farquhar's ideas about the creation of comedy, as discussed in his "Discourse upon Comedy". Chapter II deals with Farquhar's first play, Love and a Bottle, and its introduction of the basic four character pattern of rake-hero, his more sentimental friend, free-spirited coquette, and chaste maiden. The Constant Couple, a more polished attempt of what was set forth in Love and a Bottle combined with a manners style reminiscent of Congreve, is discussed in Chapter III. Chapter IV examines a problematic play, The Twin-Rivals, and searches for the reasons for this play's lack of success. With Chapter V the introduction of a more natural setting into Farquhar's plays is explored. Farquhar branches out into something different from the popular plays of the period in the rustic The Recruiting Officer with its country setting and military theme. The Beaux Stratagem represents the happy combination of city wit and graceful naturalness in a work which was entertaining as well as fresh. In conclusion, Farquhar's use of morality is discussed, as is his connection with other playwrights. This thesis, then, tries to discover what Farquhar did and perhaps did not do to make his plays popular, and what makes his work stand out as individual and worthwhile.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of Some Male Characters in Edith Wharton's Novels

contributor:
Shrive, F. N.
English

abstract: Edith Wharton has been criticised for her portrayal of male characters. They are often dismissed as being mainly one type: the inadequate, aristocratic, dilettante gentleman. This thesis argues that whilst this figure re-occurs in her work a development can be seen from Lawrence Selden of The House of Mirth, to Ralph Marvell of The Custom of the Country culminating in Newland Archer, hero of The Age of Innocence. Furthermore these men are not carbon copies of each other, but independent characters in their own right. Finally, it will be shown that there is a considerable range of male characters to be found playing secondary roles in her work.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Feminine Artist in Cities of the Interior

abstract:
Certain themes recur in all of the writings of Anais Nin: psychoanalysis; the nature of the artist; the nature of woman. Cities of the Interior unites all these themes in a perceptive study of three female artists. The psychological theories that most influenced Nin were those of Otto Rank, who perceived many similarities between the creative and the neurotic personality. Both are strongly influenced by the subconscious mind, the source of both inspiration and disturbance. The artist, however, can channel his creative energies outward, into art or even into creative human relationships, rather than turning them neurotically inward. The artist develops and fulfills himself through creation. The neurotic, on the other hand, remains trapped in futile narcissism, and never achieves his potential. Nin accepted these ideas, but gave them an added dimension. Rank was concerned mainly with the male artist, but Nin was interested in the psychology of the feminine artist. Cities of the Interior explores the psyche of the feminine artist, using the parameters of Rank's theories.

The three major characters, Sabina, Djuna, and Lillian, strive to overcome neurosis, and fulfill their creative potential on their own terms, without imitating male artists. In doing so, they also create themselves, and this self-creation is, according to Rank, the ultimate goal of the artist. Nin extends this idea. She believes that women are, by nature, in closer touch with the subconscious than men, -but that it is only recently that they have had the opportunity to make use of their tremendous creative potential. Thus a woman who reaches artistic self-realization creates not only herself, but a new king of artist and a new kind of woman.

Sabina is the least successful of the three artists. Far from being a new kind of woman, she vacillates between stereotypically "feminine" seductiveness and mystery, and aggressive imitation of masculine Don Juanism. She shows many symptoms of neurosis, particularly fragmentation. She has at least as many "selves" as she has lovers, and is unable to unite the various aspects of her personality. As an actress, she is an undisciplined failure, since she can only play her roles for a masculine audience of one. Her creative forces are too scattered to make her a successful actress or a self-determining woman.

Djuna is more successful as an artist, but she lives in a dreamworld, preferring the ideal to the real. According to Nin, the artist must "proceed from the dream outward", and Djuna slowly learns to do this. She must also go beyond a feminine stereotype -- the saintly, compassionate woman. She becomes a true artist and a more complete woman when she realizes, first, that destruction is part of creation, and, second, that the interior world of "the dream" should be used as an inspiration and a temporary refuge, not a permanent habitation.

Lillian also goes from neurosis to creativity. At first she is destructive and aggressive, denying her own femininity, rejecting all artistic discipline, and refusing to acknowledge her own inner life. The result is chaos, in her music and in her relationships. As she learns to look inward and understand herself, she is better able to fulfill the artist's function of creating harmony out of unordered, "natural" reality, and better able to interact creatively with others.

Cities of the Interior is marred slightly by didacticism, one-dimensional male characters, and, at times, an overly-psychoanalytical tone, but it is nevertheless a strong statement of Nin's concept of woman and of creativity, as well as being a perceptive study of three psychologically complex characters. Rank's influence is obvious, but it is Nin's own idea that it is not only possible for a woman to be a successful artist, but artistic expression is only one manifestation of woman's potential creativity.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Reading for Pleasure: Women and drug Use in Popular Culture

contributor:
Baines, Donna
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Much of our knowledge about drug users is gleaned from popular culture representations. Representations in popular culture films are not neutral however, only certain representations of women, drugs and drug use are allowed to appear as a coherent narrative of drug user's lives. This study presents the popular film Requiem for a Dream to explore how women who use drugs for pleasure have become known as mad (sick), bad (deviant) and sad (victims), in contemporary Western culture. Using a Foucauldian analysis, this study takes up Foucault's notion of the embodied subject as historically and culturally contingent as an analytic tool to challenge popular screen images of women, drugs and pleasure.

This exploration offers an historical account of dominant discourses on drugs, the subject, women and pleasure which highlights the processes by which contemporary ideas about women who use drugs for pleasure have emerged. These discourses are repeated and reproduced across multiple sites of knowledge production and meaning making including popular culture, which become the basis for representations of drug use in film.

Introducing popular culture in social work classrooms is a means by which to talk about the politics of difference, and to interrogate the tensions of our own professional values and practices. Requiem for a Dream is a means by which to interrogate our professional knowledge that in embracing values that rest on the liberal human subject has a paradoxical effect of rendering women who use drugs for pleasure as profoundly irrational, immoral and unfree.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Women in Gorky's Prose Fiction 1892 - 1911

contributor:
G., C. J.
Russian

subject: Russian

abstract:
An analysis of the portrayal of women in Maxim Gorky's short stories of 1892 - 1899 and some of the novels of 1899 - 1911.
The thesis contains a preface and four chapters. The preface gives a brief introductory sketch of the image of Maxim Gorky presented by Soviet literary criticism. The first chapter discusses some of the female characters in Gorky's early short stories. Chapter II deals with some of the women portrayed in his novels: Foma' Gordeev (1899), Troe (1900-1901), and Zhizn' Matveya Kazhemyakina (1911). The third chapter discusses the female personages in his novel Mat' (1907) and Chapter VI summarizes my main findings.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Huntington's Disease: Time to Care

contributor:
Sinding, Christina
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating, degenerative brain disorder for which there is, at present, no effective treatment or cure HD slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and reason (Huntigton's Disease Society of America, 2007)

Huntington's disease profoundly affects the lives of entire families-emotionally, socially and economically. Despite this impact, the predominant research focus is on finding a cure and the medical treatment of the disease. There has been very little research on the meaning of the illness experience for individuals with HD and families.

This study explored six people's experiences, two people with HD, and four family-care providers, with the intent of representing their experience as intimately as possible. The following themes emerged from the analysis of the participants' narratives: the challenge to social identity; efforts to sustain social identity; and the mismatch between the needs of people with HD and the available formal care.

Family members emphasized certain characteristics of good care: empathic, flexible, accessible and responsive to individual and family needs. Families in this study identified the moral dilemma they were faced with knowing that the care their relative with HD received was inadequate, yet there was limited community support such as home care to augment the significant emotional and physical demands associated with caring for the person with HD at home.

Family members valued empathic care providers who recognized the person with HD was not culpable for his or her behaviour. Thus the provision of care requires better training, and institutional arrangements that allow for the time and flexibility that the person with HD requires.

It is also apparent from this study that family members and individuals with HD can make a significant contribution to understanding the social and emotional implications of the illness.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Canadian Foreign Policy Decision- Making: A Case-Study of Canadian-Southern African Relations

contributor:
March, R. R.
Sidoruk, N.
Burke, J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
The central purpose of this paper is to examlne the Canadian foreign policy decision making process. A case-study approach waS used for greater manageability, but the specific case of relations with Southern Africa was chosen because it is the author's contention that Canadian policy in 1974 towards that area of the world is seriously in error and needs to be changed.

The specifics of Canadian decision-making regarding Southern Africa were applied to a model of decision-making suggested by Salisbury and Heinz, and adapted by Hockin, in which decisions were considered independent variable determining the actual policy process. Policy emerges as a result of the interrelationship between the demand pattern and the cost of decision-making. The model allowed for organization of the research and suggested directions which future actions might take on the issue.

In addition to emphasizing very practical reasons for changing Canadian policy towards Southern Africa, the author also argues strongly that ethical considerations do have a role to play in international and political affairs. More specifically, she accuses liberal thought of being chiefly to blame for the faults of Canadian decision-making, and lays out a program of action to correct them.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Immunochemical Study of Carrageenans in Gametophyte and Sporophyte Generations of Certain Red Algae

contributor:
McCandless, E. L.
Biology

subject: Biology Biology

abstract: Carrageenans are a heterogenous population of sulphated galactans extracted from certain marine algae. Fractionation of these polysaccharides with potassium chloride yields an insoluble fraction designated ĸ- carrageenan and a soluble fraction designated λ- carrageenan. Recent evidence has shown that certain algae in the gametophytic stage of the life cycle produced ĸ- carrageenan and these algae in the sporophytic stage produced λ- carrageenan. The present study was undertaken to confirm this observation by using immunochemical techniques. Specific antibodies against ĸ- and λ- carrageenan were produced in goats and these were used to determine the "kappa like" and "lambda like" properties of carrageenans from the different stages of red algae.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: Dream Children: The Internal Quest

contributor:
Lee, Alvin A.
English

abstract: The child as a prominent figure in English literature reached its richest stage of development in the nineteenth century, particularly in the fantasy fiction of such writers as Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald. Until this time, the child was generally perceived as an essentially innocent and passive figure requiring little analysis of character or symbolic meaning. However, in the nineteenth century, a growing awareness of the child as a figure of isolation and sadness prompted many writers to embrace him as the representative individual struggling to survive in a hostile world. Such a concept proved very effe9tive in the Victorian era in particular, in which one finds a tremendous intellectual and moral confusion. Accordingly, the thesis deals with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Princess and the Goblin in terms of the child as surrogate wanderer in search of his proper place within the rapidly spinning world of which he is an integral part. In so doing, the paper discusses such aspects as Carroll's use of the journey through a world of inversions as the quest for self-identity, and MacDonald's concern with the passage of the human soul to complete union with God, keeping in mind that the child himself is the key to all that man will become.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Quest for Identity Theme in the Works of A. M. Klein and Mordeoai Richler

contributor:
Rosenblood, Norman
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Sense of Vitality in the Work of Henry David Thoreau and Henry Miller

contributor:
Brasch, J. D.
English

abstract: The thesis involves a comparison of the philosophy and art of Henry David Threau and Henry Miller, with specific attention to the concept of vitality in their work.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Study of Maurice in Relation to the Other novels by Edward Morgan Forster

contributor:
Berland, Alwyn
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Critical Analysis of the Regulation of Social Work

contributor:
Sammon, Sheila
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: In 1998, the Government of Ontario passed legislation requiring social workers and social service workers to become registered. As a result, the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers was created, yet regulation was opposed by a number of social workers and related groups. Therefore it seems there remain proponents and opponents of regulation. As registration carries implications for all practicing Ontarian social workers, this research explored the views of non-registered and registered social workers, about regulation. Through a qualitative analysis of the information compiled from ten participant interviews, six themes emerged: When Regulation Met Practice; Accountability: To Whom?; The Reciprocal Relationship of Power; The Protection Factor; Developing the Regulated Social Work Identity and Future Knowledge Building. Demonstrating the complexity of regulation, many uncertainties, confusions, concerns and ideological differences arose. Calls by participants for amendments to the current regulatory body reflect the diversity of those regulated and served, and emphasize a need for regulation to remain true to the values and advocacy roots of the profession. It is proposed that the College expand its role to include advocacy and education functions, as well as providing a more supportive and informed relationship with members, potential members and the public. Achieving these expectations amounts to creating a reflexive and inclusive entity. Although breaking the regulatory body molds, these suggestions are not viewed as the result of weaknesses in the profession or of regulation. Instead, recommended changes emulate a fluid, distinct, and diverse profession, requiring an atypical regulatory body.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Jonson: The Poet in the Theatre. Studies in the Fate of an Ideal.

contributor:
M., Douglas J.
English

abstract:
In this thesis I am concerned with the fairly conssitent moral and aesthetic theory which seems to shape all of Jonson's writing. I am especially interested in Jonson's dictum that the good poet must be the good man. This leads on to an examination of the Jonsonian personality, with all its irresistible vigour, honesty, good-humour and coarseness, which always lurks with the obvious discrepancy between Jonson the man and Jonson the moral poet, and in particular how Jonson uses an understanding of his own personality to comment upon both the role of the artist in society, and the tenability of moral idealism.

I am further concerned with the problems presented to Jonson as a moral poet writing for the popular theatre. Throughout his career as a playwright Jonson was faced with the difficulty of writing so-called 'closet' dramas for a learned elite which would also perform successfully in the public theatre. The early plays under have little theatrical value but do consistently dramatize Jonson's ideal of himself as the moral poet. In the 'Charis' sequence Jonson's ironic self-consciousness of his own humanity comments significantly upon the limitations of a moral and poetic idealism. By the time of the writing of the great comedies, Volnone, Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair I find that Jonson has disguised his moral idealism so as to be successful in the theatre. These plays are remarkable for their dramatic excitement, an indication that Jonson had an obvious flair for the stage. The later plays, with their bittersweet and very personal tone, were written at a time when Jonson no longer had a voice or place in Caroline society, and when he was suffering from ill-health and poverty. Again I found a consistent upholding of the idea of the poet as moralist but, moreover, a crucial acceptance of the playwright's medium. At the very end of his writing career Jonson seemed to be closing the gap between the moral poet and the popular dramatist.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Diet in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

contributor:
Wood, Chauncey
English

abstract:
It is the purpose of this thesis to examine Chaucer's use of diet in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Certain of the portraits include references to diet: the Monk is described as loving a "fat swan" above all other "roosts". To discover why such a food is attributed to the Monk is to discover his spiritual state, the primary concern of the Church-dominated Middle Ages.

By investigating medieval literature for dietary allusions, it becomes possible to understand the nature of Chaucer's references. The Monk's swan, it will be demonstrated, is highly significant in its metaphorical interpretation, and contributes to his characterization as representative of the failure of the monastic ideal. The swan, as well, indicates that the Monk has succumbed to the mortal sin of gluttony, which is defined as oVerindulgence in food and drink of an excessively delicate nature.

Chapter Two, therefore, of the thesis investigates medieval moral literature for its definitions of proper and improper Christian diet. Chapter Three attempts to discover the use of references to diet in satirical poetry in order to understand the irony behind such references that Chaucer so consistently employed in the Prologue. The fourth chapter then applies the findings of Chapters Two and Three to seven of the portraits in the General Prologue which include dietary references: those of the Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Franklin, the Cook, the Doctor, and the Summoner, in order to achieve a better perception of Chaucer's intention in the portrayal of these pilgrims. Having done so, it should be recognized that Chaucer's methods and intentions differed little from his contemporaries, even though his poetic genius al lowed his creations to outshine all others of his age.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Voting Behaviour in Three Provincial Elections in Quebec: An Aggregate Data Analysis of the Voting Behaviour Patterns of the Quebec Provincial Electorate in the Elections of 1952, 1960 and 1962

contributor:
March, Roman R.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: The thesis is an attempt to gauge the voting behaviour patterns of the Quebec provincial electorate during three elections which occurred in a crucial transitional era in contemporary French Canadian society. The study attempts to discern the impact of institutionalized nationalist ideologies on the social and economic development of French Canada and, in turn, attempts to measure the effect of nationalism on the voting behaviour patterns of the provincial electorate. It is also an attempt to consider the importance of certain variables -- ethnicity and social class -- in the voting behaviour of the electorate in 1952, 1960 and 1962.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Novels of William Golding: A Study in Criticism, Structure and Development

contributor:
Roebuck, Graham
English

abstract:
The following study deals primarily with the major critical responses to William Golding's early fiction, the structural composition of Golding's fifth novel, The Spire, and the author's departure from his customary compositional patterns in his latest novel, The Pyramid.

In Chapter I, the introduction to this thesis, I have provided a short biographical study of the author, documenting his early influences and directions.

Chapter II evaluates the major critical trends that have developed in response to the first four novels, Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and Free Fall. Each of the dominant patterns of critical thought is considered in the light of Golding's world view as it emerges from his fiction and essays and as it has been articulated by the author himself in a number of interviews. In this way I have attempted to adjust the predominantly moralistic approach of a significant number of critics.

In the third chapter, I have provided an in-depth structural analysis of The Spire. Essentially I have analysed each chapter of the novel in an effort to determine what and how it contributes to the cumulative effect of the tale. In adopting this approach I have attempted to adhere as closely as possible to the gradual manner in which central elements of information are dispensed through the tortured perspective of Dean Jocelin, the novel's protagonist. The chapter concludes with a brief commentary on the novel's resolution, the cumulative effect of the information dispensed, and the identity of Goody Pangall.

The final chapter attempts to demonstrate the innovative qualities of Golding's latest full-length novel, The Pyramid. The introduction of a "real" protagonist in the setting of the modern "ordinary universe", along with Golding's innovative restatement of a favourite theme, and the superficial independence of the novel's three sections suggest that The Pyramid is largely an experimental effort on the part of the author.

In the Conclusion to this work, I have suggested a number of areas that remain unexplored and that may be interesting and rewarding upon consideration by future Golding critics.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Individuation and Narcissism in Some Major Works of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde

contributor:
Sigman, J.
English

abstract: Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater have ordinarily been labelled Decadents. However, there are real differences between their systems of thought. An examination of Pater's The Renaissance and Wilde's Intentions shows that although Wilde was profoundly influenced by Pater he deviated widely from Pater's ideas. Pater's thought focused on the concept of individuation within an idealistic context. Wilde, on the other hand, was concerned less with the growth and development of the personality and more with the undermining of the personality for the sake of the glorification of the self. The same principles can be seen to exist in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pater's Marius the Epicurean. The conclusions reached is that Wilde's ideas developed in a perverse direction while Pater's remained within the realm of the ideal.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Variation in Sensitivity to Desiccation and Heat Stresses during Yeast Sporulation and Spore Germination

contributor:
Miller, J.J.
Biology

subject: Biology Biology

abstract: A culture procedure was established to obtain uniformly high yields of yeast spores with high desiccation resistance, and this was used to study the following parameters during both the sporulation phase and spore germination process of yeast strain: changes in heat resistance, desiccation resistance, cellular free proline content and alpha-amino acid content. The effect on desiccation resistance of supplying exogenous proline was studied, and this is the first work to report that exogenous proline can increase desiccation resistance of yeast vegetative cells or sporulating cells. Small-celled colonies found after vegetative or sporulating cells were desiccated or treated with proline solutions are concluded to be possibly a mutant or a symbiont of yeast cells.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: The Development of Yugoslav Federalism: From Unitary state to Socialist Federation

contributor:
Potichnyj, Peter J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
Throughout the 50 years existence of the Yugoslav Nation, federalism, initially as a political movement, subsequently as a type of state organization, has been continually present in, the country's socio-political life. Federalism has, without any doubt, acquired and retained its important role on the Yugoslav political scene, particularly due to the multi-national composition of the Yugoslav community. Ethnical heterogeneity, made even more apparent by considerable variations in the levels of cultural and economic development of the Yugoslav nations, was indeed the basic source of strength and vitality of the federalist movement, the aspirations and aims of which were, however, only to be attained after the Second World War. On the other hand, paradoxically as it may seem, centralists invoked ethnical, cultural and economic differences, in support of their points of view, i.e. they claimed that only by means of a strong and centralized State could these differences be overcome and conditions created for the rapid and complete integration of the Yugoslav nations. However, on the basis of a study on the 50 years development of Yugoslav society, we can safely claim that these aims can only be achieved if national equality is not impaired and this requires that the multi-natioaal society be organized on the principles of federalism.

Although the subject of this work is primarily the evolution of Yugoslav federalism from 1918, i.e. from the time when the South Slavs first formed a common state, to the present day, special attention is directed to the historical background of this question in the post-war period, and, in particular, to the trend in the sphere of inter-nationality relations, and to the important changes in the Yugoslav constitutional system in the course of 1970 and 1971. It is only natural that priority should be given to the study of federalism in socialist Yugoslavia because it was only during and after the Revolution that it was able fully to assert itself, whereas in pre-war Yugoslavia, it only appeared as part of the opposition parties' and movements' programs. The policy of hegemony and national inequality pursued by the royal government was, finally, to lead to the dissolution of the state, which occurred after Yugoslavia was attacked by the Axis Powers in April, 1941. The fact that yugoslavia was reconstructed only four years later can be attributed to the persevering efforts of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, which, as early as the mid 1930's, introduced into its programme the struggle for a democratic, socialist and federal Yugoslavia in which the equality of all its nations would be ensured. The aims of the Communist Party, which expressed the aspirations of the vast majority of Yugoslav people were already achieved, in substance, in the course of the Peoples' Liberation War, brought to a successful conclusion in 1945.

However, in the first post-war years, there was a certain departure from the principles of federalism, and national equality was partially impaired. The socia-political system of Yugoslavia was created under the strong influence of Soviet theory and practice, and it can be said that Yugoslavia's first Constitution of 1946 was basically a copy of the Soviet Constitution of 1936. This actually meant that federalism existed only formally, while, in reality, the State was organized along rigidly centralistic lines. This system was however, rejected as early as the 1950's, when the Yugoslav Communist Party embarked upon the edification of socialism in accordance with the principles of democratic socialism based on self-management. The concept of self-management was, however, primarily achieved in the economic sphere, whereas centralism was still considerably felt in relations between nations and republics and was reflected in the great political and economic power wielded by the federal organs. The persistence of centralism in the field of inter-nationality relations led to conflicts between the republics and the Federation and between the republics themselves, as well as to the revival of nationalism in the second half of the 1960's which threatened to plunge Yugoslavia into a deeper and lasting crisis. The yugoslav Party leadership sought to solve these problems by radically reducing the federal power and transferring it to the federal units - the republics and provinces. These changes were sanctioned and implemented through the adoption of Constitutional amendments in mid 1971. The essence of these Constitutional changes resides in the fact that all yugoslav republics have assumed the same rights and obligations in the Federation, regardless of their size, economic power or number of inhabitants. Time will show to what extent this new political system will strengthen the Yugoslav multi-national community and create a lasting basis for the full equality of all its peoples. The time that has elapsed since the adoption of the Constitutional changes is not sufficient to permit us to take a final assessment on these questions.

Although the author's basic purpose was to familiarize the reader with the specific aspects of the development of Yugoslav federalism, and, thus, to help towards a better understanding of Yugoslav society as a whole, we believe that this work can have a broader significance, as the Yugoslav experience in solving inter-nationality problems and promoting national equality may be of assistance to other multinational communities in the world, faced with similar problems in their development. Finally, certain specifically Yugoslav solutions regarding the organization and functions of the federal state, may serve as contribution to the theory and practice of contemporary federalism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Broken Windowpane: A Study in the Creative Imagination in James Reaney's Listen to the Wind

contributor:
Lee, A.A.
English

abstract: The thesis is a critical reading of James Reaney's play Listen to the Wind. The play is examined in the light of Reaney's earlier works, both poetic and dramatic. Source material is taken into account and auditory and visual patterns of imagery are explicated in an attempt to demonstrate the playwright's primary concern, the involvement of his audience actively, in the workings of the creative imagination.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "We Expect To Be Treated The Same": A qualitative study with aging same-sex couples and long-term care

contributor:
Gladstone, James
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: Using an interpretive, narrative approach this research study examined the perceived needs that same-sex couples expected if relocating to a long-term care facility. This exploratory study engaged couples in dialogue on their experiences with homophobia and heterosexism in society and within health care institutions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four same-:sex couples. Results indicated participants were concerned that 1) homophobia and heterosexism would present barriers if moving into long-term care; 2) sensitivity and diversity training should be a mandatory practice in long-term care; and 3) participants found little difference between differential treatments they would expect compared to heterosexual couples. All of the participants expected to be treated with compassion, respect and professionalism that met their health care needs and their same-sex relationship and/or sexual identity should not compromise these needs. These findings suggested a need for 1ong-term care facilities to examine and evaluate their current climate in order to provide services which are inclusive toward same-sex couples.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)