title: Ernest Hemingway's Awareness of Other Writers

contributor:
Brasch, J. D.
Roebuck, W.G.
English

abstract: This thesis demonstrates Ernest Hemingway's awareness of other writers, both past and contemporary to him. It collates Hemingway's references to other writers as culled from a variety of biographical and critical sources. It serves as a reference work for the study of Hemingway's statements on otherwriters, while seeking to establish them in a properly objective context. This thesis does not attempt to present Hemingway's credentials as a masterful critic. Its aim is more toward developing an understanding of Hemingway's opinions and perceptions in order to further a scholarly study of his own canon. As the body of Hemingway criticism becomes increasingly more textual and less biographical, the need to examine Hemingway's literary statements becomes correspondingly more crucial.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Effects of "Critical Incident Stressors" on Front-line Child Protection Workers

contributor:
Baines, Donna
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: Front-line child protection workers are professionally socialized to practice within dynamic child welfare conditions which are defined and influenced by the current socio-political climate. Sandwiched between an anti-oppressive practice framework and insufficient resources, child protection workers are often scapegoated for the deficiencies in an increasingly inadequate system. The front-line child protection worker often endures direct (i.e., aggression) or indirect (i.e., death of a child on a caseload) critical incident stressors, or traumatic incidents from service users. These incidents may cause post traumatic stress. This stress may negatively impact the worker, which in turn may affect the worker's ability to relate to the service user and, ultimately, protect the child or children at risk. In this study, six, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted. These interviews focused on how the front-line child protection worker defined critical incident stressors, how they responded to such stressors, how they utilized various coping methods, and how effective these methods were to the worker. While it became evident that all study participants may have exhibited some characteristics of post traumatic stress, it is neither known how transitory nor significant these characteristics might be in the workers' lives. Research to saturation needs to be conducted on this subject in order to discover how post traumatic stress might affect the front-line child protection worker.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Affective Style

contributor: Petrie, English

subject:
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: I intend to investigate the narrative style of Charles Dickens in three of his critically most interesting novels and to show that the selective development of certain technical devices was due in part to his peculiarly close relationship to his reading public.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Study of Zamyatin's Weltanschauung

contributor:
Shein, L. J.
Russian

subject: Russian

subject: Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures

abstract:
The study of Zamyatin's Weltanschauung and its presentation in his works.

The thesis contains a preface, five chapters and a conclusion. Chapter I attempts to define Zamyatin's concept of man as presentated in his novel Mbd. Chapter II deals with the two forces energy and entropy. Chapter III discusses the effect of entropy on man and as presented in Zamyatin' s creative writings. Chapter IV presents Zamyatin's view of literature and its role. Chapter V portrays some of Zamyatin's literary techniques which he employed to procure reader participation. The Conclusion summarizes Zamyatin's world outlook and evaluates his philosophy.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Development of The Hemingway Hero

contributor:
Sigman, Joseph
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Landscape Images in Selected Canadian Prose

contributor:
Ballstadt, Carl
English

subject:
English
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Child Protection and Violence Against Women: Parallel Goals?

contributor:
Sammon, Sheila
Social Work

abstract:
The purpose of this research project is to examine the collaboration between child protection agencies and Violence Against Women services in Hamilton. Children's Aid Societies in Ontario are mandated to intervene with caregivers and children to ensure that children are protected from physical and/or emotional harm.

In 2000, the phrase 'child exposure to adult conflict' was added to Section 3 of the revised Ontario Risk Assessment Model and Eligibility Spectrum for Child Protection, to recognize the negative effects on children's well being when they witness violence between caregivers. In 2007, the Ontario government promoted a strengths based practice model. Collaboration between Children's Aid Societies and other service providers including Violence Against Women Services was identified as a desirable goal.

This qualitative research involved conversations with four Child Protection Services workers and four Violence Against Women workers. The purpose of this research was to gather the perceptions and experiences of workers from both sectors regarding relationships between workers, workers' perceptions about the collaboration, and workers' opinions about training.

The results suggests that contentious relationships that existed between workers in Child Protection Services and the Violence Against Women sector a decade ago for the most part still exist today. It is clear that both sectors are working towards the common goal of safety for abused women and their children, yet there is a history of mistrust embedded in complicated power relations that impedes collaboration between these sectors. Despite this, participants of the study have hope for a positive outcome as a result of collaboration.

Further research is required to evaluate new initiatives. Moreover, research that includes the experiences of women who experience violence will provide valuable insight into assessment of the collaboration and training curriculum. Existing training methods are not seen as beneficiaL Workers from both sectors want creative, insightful, and applicable training methods.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Finite Element Simulation of Tunnel Excavations in Creeping Rock

contributor:
Emery, John J.
Civil Engineering

subject:
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

abstract: A procedure based on the finite element method was developed for simulating the excavation of underground openings in rock for the actual initial state of stress in the field for various K conditions. This procedure can also incorporate orthotropic behaviour due to rock bedding, and other directional variations in the elastic properties of rock. This excavation simulation was then coupled into the time-dependent analysis of underground openings to study the influence of rock squeezing using the incremental initial strain method. Appropriate stress-strain-time relationships and strain accumulation methods are readily incorporated into this finite element program. (A survey of time-dependent constitutive relationships for rock is given to guide in the selection of appropriate creep laws.) The excavation and creep simulation aspects were then extended to model underground linings and lining placement strategies. This includes the ability to consider the lining and the rock as two different materials with rough or jointed interfaces between them. Further, this simulation allows for creep of the rock before lining installation, and creep of the rock and concrete lining after its construction for appropriate rock and concrete constitutive relationships. The full simulation procedure (excavation, creep and lining) was used to study an actual tunnel constructed in squeezing rock. There is reasonable agreement between the predicted performance and measured performance to date, and this comparison with monitored field information is continuing.

abstract: Master of Engineering (ME)


title: John Updike: Visual Bias and Despair

contributor:
Brasch, J. D.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Hemingway: Concepts of Realism

abstract: The paper which follows is intended to refute a marxist interpretation of the nature and function of Hemingway's realism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Irresponsibility and Identity in Meredith's Modern Love

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

abstract:
Critics have generally thought that George Meredith's discussion of marital breakdown in Modern Love was in advance of its time. It must be granted that the married couple in the poem do not conform to the image that the Victorians liked to project of themselves, but in my view the narrator's attitude toward his wife, in fact, reflects a very conventional Victorian standpoint. Instead of taking an honest look at the marriage, the narrator blames his wife and unseen forces for their problems. The narrator's share of responsibility is revealed, however, in his manner of narration, in his responses to his wife, and in his way of handling his problems when he begins to suspect her adultery.

When the narrator places the blame beyond himself, he has the least awareness of and control over his life. When he accepts responsibility for some of the blame for the failed marriage, he is generally stronger, and able to influence the course of his life, instead of yielding to invisible forces. Because of his weak sense of self the narrator is paralyzed by conflict and is unable to take effective action to improve his situation.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of Five Films of Frank Capra and Their Relationship to the Short Stories of Mark Twain

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Behind Light Words: Irony in the Early Dramatic Poetry of Robert Frost

abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how and why Frost employs irony. The types of irony Frost uses can initially be classified into two categories; "natural" and "artificial" irony. The distinction between these two terns will be elaborated and the various aspects or types of irony encompassed by each tern will be discussed. The reasons for Frost's use of irony will also be examined. The poetry to be studied consists of selected long dramatic poems from three of Frost's early books: North aof Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923). The observations arising from an examination of these works should sufficiently elucidate frost's uses of irony.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Women in Dreiser's Cowperwood Trilogy: A Study of the Major Female Characters in The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic, with Special Reference to their Role in Exposing the Character of the Titan Himself, Frank Cowperood

abstract:
The women of Dreiser's Cowperwood Trilogy are supporting, not central, characters in the novels; however, to understand them and the roles they play is important for a reader trying to understand the protagonist, Cowperwood, himself. Dreiser has chosen to write about a man who seems to be a superman, but who is in the long run just as weak and vulnerable as those more ordinary souls who surround him. Cowperwood is a complex man, who has strength which is sometimes merely the illusion of strength, who is intelligent, but only up to a point, and who is attractive, sometimes destructively attractive, to those he meets and associates with. Because of the kind of man he is, he lives in almost total spiritual and emotional isolation, an isolation impinged upon by a very few people, all of them women.

The three major relationships of Cowperwood's life are his two marriages and his affair with Berenice Fleming. The three women involved are very different from one another, and each opens up for scrutiny different sides of Cowperwood's nature. Lillian Semple, a very ordinary, respectable sort of woman, helps point up Cowperwood' s immaturity, and his lack of understanding of human nature, a lack which is never corrected throughout his life. His cold-bloodedness also shows through very early on, to be more obviously demonstrated when he comes to be involved with Aileen Butler. Aileen is, next to Cowperwood, the most important character in the Trilogy. Their relationship is the most disastrous of them all, and best illustrates the tragic effect Cowperwood's narrow obsessed dogmatic personality has on those around him. Through Aileen, Dreiser not only amply demonstrates the inhumanity of Cowperwood obvious enough without her presence, but also how little different he is from other men, and how much he is a victim of illusion. Berenice takes the process one step farther; she is like Cowperwood in many ways, but is able to transcend the same limitations under which he suffers.

The Cowperwood Trilogy is concerned with philosophical matters in which Dreiser took an intense interest throughout his life, but it is also a personal story about one man and the women he knew, loved and, in some cases, injured deeply. This second aspect sheds light on the first, and has never been sufficiently examined. Dreiser is one novelist who chose to write searchingly about women, and in the Cowperwood Trilogy he has created several female characters worthy of close attention.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Linked Characters in the Novels of Saul Bellow

abstract: Saul Bellows six novels all show the same pattern, an inward quest by the protagonist with a double, or alter-ego as teacher, guide or saviour. The device of alter-ego is used in different ways in each of the novels, sometimes centrally, sometimes marginally, but seems to be an essential part of Bellow's fiction.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Synge untoe mie Roundelaie the Influence of Chatterton on Keats

contributor:
Coldwell, Joan
English

abstract:
It is the contention of this thesis that Thomas Chatterton had an artistic and philosophic influence on Keats comparable to that of Shakespeare. By treating first the biographical similarities that exist between the two poets, and then moving into actual artistic influence, the close interrelation of life and art, and the osmotic nature of Keats's organic response to Chatterton reveal themselves. Exciting stylistic and linguistic affinities are to be discovered between Keats and Chatterton, affinities which have either been overlooked or dismissed as irrelevant. In all cases, the affinity between the two poets deepens from the word surface into the meaning of their art.

The study of artistic parallels is always. rewarding for it intensifies our understanding of the poets under consideration. My thesis is from the point of view of Keats, and so the comparison has greater ramifications for his art. While Chatterton shows himself a true craftsman, the empathic nature of Keats's artistic response is confirmed. Indeed, if Shakespeare was a good omen to Keats, Chatterton was his silent presider.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Feminine Principle in Hemingway

contributor:
Sigman, J.
English

abstract: I suggest that Hemingway's prose works externalize his fear of the feminine principle in the world and that Hemingway's heroes, projections of the author, himself, are in flight away from the feminine principle originating in the Dark Mother. First, I examine the hero's attempts to escape the biological cycle of birth-procreation-death and to seek refuge on his own terms in an Eden-like Moment with a woman. But the Edenic Moment is subject to Time, Flesh, and a sexually-based Invidia, and as an actual experience is transitory. Second, I examine the Hemingway man's escape into self-fulfillment through work as an effort to maintain his masculine individuality. But progressively throughout the works, the Hemingway man loses his ability -to cope with the forces which disrupt his work, and the nature of the forces opposing man's successful escape into work is seen as feminine •. And finally, I relate the elemental forces bent on the destruction of the Hemingway man's autonomy and on the bending of him to their will to Woman as Dark Mother. Woman is associated with desire, with mutability, and - ultimately with death and decay in the cyclical renewal of nature. Nothing is permanent in such a world. In the increasing association of the artist-figure with mutability, one can conjecture that even art, for Hemingway, came increasingly under the all-pervading influence of the Great Mother, and perhaps provides an insight into his final despair.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Paul Zindel and the Theme of Desolation in American Drama

contributor:
Duncan, D.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Assessment of the Calibration of Spatial Interaction Models

contributor:
Hall, F. L.
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract:
This paper is concerned with assessing the procedures used in calibrating spatial interaction models. It critically reviews calibration methodologies which have been proposed in the literature and determines that the statistical estimation techniques of maximum likelihood and least-squares are particularly suited to this estimation problem.

The calibration statistics from the maximum likelihood and least-squares estimators are developed from first principles and special note is made of the behavioral assumption implicit in each.

Two issues are then reviewed: the reliability of the random sample in representing the mean distribution of trips, and the definition of variable in calibration statistics. A hypothetical framework is proposed, within which an examination of these issues is made.

The study results indicate that the sample reasonably represents the mean distribution and also that the incorporation of implicit behavioral assumptions does not necessarily result in better model predictions.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: An Analysis of the Relationship Between the New Democratic Party and Organized Labour with Particular Reference to Hamilton

contributor:
Truman, T.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Death & Dying: Working with Clients at the End of Life

contributor:
Sinding, Christina
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
The last century has seen significant changes in how people experience death. There has been a growing discourse about end of life issues and how they affect people. Death and dying are no doubt difficult issues for people to contemplate, including professionals who work in end of life care, however research is beginning to explore how people manage the end of life and what societal issues influence it.
 The purpose of this research study is to gain a deeper understanding of the values and beliefs of end of life care social workers regarding death and dying, how their experiences may affect their work with clients who are dying, as well as the supports they have access to in order to manage the challenging work they do. This study explored the experiences of six hospital social workers who work with people who are dying and their families. Qualitative research methods were utilized so that participants could fully share their unique experiences.
 The findings highlighted that end of life social work is challenging, complex and fraught with tensions that can lead to frustration and stress. The narratives indicated that high value is placed on a positive dying experience, but due to certain barriers there are struggles in achieving this. Further challenges came from competing demands, such as meeting the needs of staff as well as clients. The value of the social work role was found to be a point of contention for the participants, as they struggled with power imbalances and often fought to have their professional voice heard. Finally, the interviews pointed out that social workers must manage these challenges with few formal supports. This study offers an in-depth exploration of these issues, how they have and effect on social works' involvement with people at the end of life, and what needs to change to ensure social worker's in end of life care are supported.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: WALT WHITMAN AND THE INTEGRAL EXPERIENCE

abstract:
In this study of Whitman, the emphasis has been on analysis instead of biography; text, rather than sources. For the single-theme-multiple-theme of Self, in its endless possibilities and unbounded diversity "Song of Myself" has been examined very closely. In order to establish the pervasiveness of the theme or themes in Leaves of Grass, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", and "Passage to India" have been analysed.

I have attempted to show the uniqueness and the complexity of Whitman's mystical experience, which I call Integral, through structure, imagery and symbolism. And, since aesthetic evaluation cannot be wholly divorced from philosophical criticism, theories of perception, both Eastern and Western, have been cited to fix Whitman in the right perspective, and to point out the non-dual concept of the Self in the poetry of Whitman.

While reading Whitman, I have been aware, as many other critical readers of the Leaves are, and I have used these, wherever necessary, for interpreting the poet in the light of Indian Thought. But, I have not been over-enthusiastic about the kinship, because Whitman evinces certain basic attitudes which are non-Vedantic.

Perhaps this study would not have taken its present form had it not been for M.r Joseph Sigman's encouragement and sympathetic judgment of my interpretations. Mr. Sigman directed this thesis with as much sympathy as competence, and was of great help during the entire course of its development. To him I am especially grateful. I am grateful also to Mr. George McKnight for his many hours of patient reading of my manuscript, and for offering me much helpful criticism.

Words cannot express my gratitude to Professor Frank Norman Shrive who initiated me into the study of American Literature, and who, first of all, encouraged and approved my plan to write on Walt Whitman. Professor Shrive has been a source of great inspiration to me, and I consider it my good fortune to have studied at his feet.

I cannot end this preface without expressing my deep sense of indebtedness to Dr. Gordon Stewart Vichert who has always been very helpful and gracious to me.

I should also acknowledge my general debt to students and scholars of Whitman for influencing me in the preparation of this thesis, while at the same time provoking me to differ with their approaches.

Finaly, I wish to thank most profusely McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario for awarding me a Graduate Teaching Fellowship in 1965-1966, without which the present accomplishment would have been very difficult.


title: The Regional Novel in Nova Scotia: A Study of Raddall, Buckler and Bruce

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Authorial Self-Consciousness in the Fiction of John Barth

abstract: This thesis deals with .the development of the self-conscious authorial voice in the fiction of John. Barth, especially as this self-consciousness relates to the fictional form in which it is found-realistic, fabular, and metafictional. Each chapter will deal with two of Barth's works, which themselves will also be dealt with chronologically. Chapter I will deal with the authorial self-consciousness in the realist mode, as seen in The Floating Opera and The End of the Road. Chapter II will consider the self-conscious presence of the author-figure in The Sot"':"Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy, both of which are attempts to create whole fictional universes, and which indicate in their form the exhaustion of the realist mode for Barth' s purposes. Chapter III will deal with Bartht's metafictional shorter works in Lost in the Funhouse and Chimera, works which take the continual exhaustion of fictional forms as their donnee or subject matter, and which emblematically as well as thematically attempt to describe the dynamics of this exhaustion. Attention will be paid to the last novella "Bellerophoniad," since it stands as Barth's ultimate gesture of exhaustion, culminating and devouring as it does all of Barth's previous fictional corpus. In addition, there is an Appendix containing a glossary of equivalent terms for those found in the allegorical Giles Goat-Boy. This is intended as a short reader's guide, and is by no means exhaustive.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Imagery of Sylvia Plath

contributor:
Hyman, R.
English

abstract: The thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter I, the Introduction, examines critical approaches that have been made towards the poetry of Sylvia Plath and tries to show their limitations & Chapter II discusses the essentially allusive nature of the poetry and proposes a different method -- extensive analysis of the imagery - whereby a greater understanding of what the poet is trying to communicate may be obtained. Each of the next three chapters examines, in a roughly chronological way, a particular group of recurring symbols and images. Attention is paid to the body of as yet uncollected poetry and, where appropriate, the prose works are mentioned, Chapter VI, the Conclusion, summarises the implications of the analysis, and provides an example of the insights that may be made into the meaning of some of the apparently impenetrable obscurities that face the reader of Plath's poetry. Implicitly throughout, the view, is adhered to that the poetry itself rather than the poet is of the greater importance.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Pope's Temple of Fame

contributor:
King, James
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Islands in the Stream: Style and Experience in Hemingway

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Work of Adele Wiseman

abstract: This thesis is a study of the work of Adele Wiseman, with particular emphasis on the analysis of her novels, The Sacrifice and Crackpot. The Eastern European Jewish background of the writer, with which she identifies strongly, as well as her Winnipeg roots, are a focus of special attention for the purpose of interpreting her work within its appropriate cultural context. The development of similar themes and symbols, and apparent differences in perspective and style in the two novels are examined. Adele Wiseman's continuing social, political, and moral concerns are analyzed, and her ideas and observations about the creative process are noted. An attempt has been made to demonstrate the integral relationship of these concerns and ideas to her literary creativity.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Principles of Thematic and Technical Unity in Volume 12 of The Novels and Tales of Henry James (the New Yark Edition)

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Petrochemistry and Metamorphism of the Tallan Lake Sill, Bancroft Area, Ontario

contributor:
Shaw, Denis M.
Geology

subject: Geology Geology

abstract:
The Precambrian Tallan Lake Sill is an elongate, stratiform amphibolite body, belonging to a group of differentiated gabbros emplaced around 1250±25 m.y. ago in the Bancroft area of Ontario.

Although metamorphism has obliterated all but a few primary igneous textures, it is clear from major element chemistry that the sill is a differentiated ferrogabbro of tholeiitic affinity. Some critical field observations combined with model calculations make it highly probable that the syenite underlying the metagabbros is a differentiate of the latter, indicating that the stratigraphic succession in this part of the Grenville Group is overturned.

Alkali values can not be relied upon in these model calculations, and it is shown that the chemistry of many rocks in the Bancroft area shows the effects of spilitisation and other chemical alteration, presumably due to an early episode of burial metamorphism. Metamorphism in the area is of the low-pressure intermediate type and is reflected in the coexistence of garnet, cummingtonite and hornblende in many Tallan Lake samples.

A qualitative petrogenetic grid based on the rules of Schreinemakers' has been derived for the hornblende-cummingtonite-garnet paragenesis and the importance of the coexistence of cummingtonite and garnet as a possible geobarometer is pointed out.

Assemblages in marbles surrounding the Tallan Lake Sill point to a metamorphic maximum P and T of around 4.0-6.5 kb and 625-650ºC, respectively, but retrograde reactions and extensive exsolution of coexisting amphiboles suggest a gradual decline in temperature, possibly reflecting the slow cooling and unroofing of neighbouring mantled gneiss domes.

The differentiation mechanism envisaged for the Tallan Lake Sill, involving mechanical separation of a residual, interstitial syenite liquid may have wider application, and it is suggested that the chemical discontinuity known as the Daly Gap might be so explained.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: The Concept of Honour in Hemingway and Conrad

contributor:
Horton, Richard
English

abstract: A definition of "honour" as seen in the works of Hemingway, and a comparison and contrast of this definition with Conrad's use of the concept. A comparative study of the styles and techniques of the two authors illuminates their views of honour.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Prufrock's Stream of Consciousness

contributor:
Rosenblood, Norman
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Attitudes of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , Towards the Family

contributor:
Wood, C.
English

subject:
English Language and Literature
family

abstract:
Vonnegut's solutions to the lonely American experience--Bokononism, loving whoever is around to be loved, seeking his philosophical outlook of a Tralfamadorian--may seem outlandish, and may well justify the critics' labelling of his work as "sentimental". This may be more strongly the case because his readers tend to emphasize his novels and, even then, to study each as an almost isolated segment of his writings. But Vonnegut's later work seems to encourage a re-focusing of interest in his entire development. In Slapstick, in 1976, Vonnegut come to terms with ideals of the family system--ideals that once dominated his short stories and may have motivated him to search for replacement systems in the first place. Slapstick, with its memories of the writer's own extended family, does seem to suggest that Vonnegut acutely missed its support. And it fictively develops an America in which all citizens are united into these families once more. But the novel also indicates a disdain for Western Society, when it is placed beside the comical but less deteriorating one of the Communist Chinese. Wilbur Swain, master mind of the system of artificially extended families, finally even deserts America for escape into the Afterlife. Vonnegut's next novel, Jailbird, advances from this latter novel's flounderings in purpose to propose a more economically sound basis for social re-unification. The section of Palm Sunday currently available suggests that Vonnegut carries his development still further--is able, finally, to reflect back upon a crisis period in his life that threw him from the smooth success of his novels into the failure of Happy Birthday, Wanda June, chaos in Breakfast of Champions, and re-emphasis--as we have noted--upon family values in Slapstick.

We thus follow through the family situations in his dull and neglected short stories, his later experiments to discover a suitable way for men to relate, his retreat to support of the extended family in Slapstick, and shift to sturdier perspectives in Jailbird. We may combine these movements with Vonnegut's eventual ability to reflect clearly, in Palm Sunday, upon the crisis of his children's exodus, and upon the way this affected his vision of himself as parent and spouse--indeed, upon the way it affects the self-visions of too many of his contemporaries. And, from these many developments in Vonnegut's work, we are induced to see not only his sentimentalism, but his seriousness--his determination to surface with an understanding, and perhaps with some form of solution to the problems of alienation and loneliness.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Naming the Unnameable: An Analysis of Catch-22

abstract: This thesis discusses Catch-22 as a modern descent into the underworld. The novel is placed in its historical context to show that Heller uses surrealist techniques to evoke a nightmare world where suffering and death are without meaning and without end. The ambiguous blend of comedy and horror in the novel's first two sections is seen as preparing the way for the grim revelations of the final section. It is argued that Catch-22 is structured around the motif of the labyrinth. At the centre of the labyrinth is death, the real subject of the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Using Policy to Manage Recidivism and Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Voices from Human Services and Justice Co-ordinating Committees

contributor:
Watt, Susan
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
The debate regarding the tensions between the lack of an integrated system of community based mental health care, compulsory care, and individual rights and freedoms in the context of serious and persistent mental illness, is not new. lt contains a delicate and changing balance of rights and obligations. Valid arguments can be made on both sides of the protection balance - protection of a common sense of the social good and protection of the rights of individuals needing mental health treatment. The evolution of the Ontario Mental Health Act (R.S.O. 1990) (MHA) is discussed and situated in the Canadian context to illustrate how our current mental health system came to exist and unwell forensic clients reside in communities. Deficiencies are highlighted in applying mental health legislation to situations of persons with persistent psychosis, who are chronically interacting with the criminal justice system, treatment non-collaborative, and lack insight into their own behaviour and its consequences -- a symptom often associated with psychosis.

The Government of Ontario has funded initiatives to attempt to monitor the safety/risk of forensic clients. An inter-ministerial initiative - Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committees (HSJCC) is the focus of research. This unique convergence of healthcare, the criminal justice system, community service providers, and stakeholders have been mandated to meet to discuss their common forensic clients with a mission toward prevention, system designs, crisis and community intervention planning, court assessments, and case management. Latent consequences of the diverse convergence of policies guiding individual HSJCC members are discussed. Confusion about the protocols for sharing needed information within meetings and with identified community stakeholders to plan for client management and potential Committee member self-preservation were the primary findings. The potential impacts of the findings and how these might impede HSJCCs from realizing their potential are highlighted. Promotion of simplified education in privacy policies to enhance the important work of the Committees is proposed.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Structure of John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

contributor:
Brink, Andrew
English

abstract:
This thesis attempts to show that John Donne arranged his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions according to a carefully considered, overall plan. A detailed study of shifts in theme, imagery, tone and style throughout the Devotions reveals patterns demonstrating that Donne brought all the stylistic and compositional skills he had as a writer to bear upon the creation of his book. the inadequacy of critical attention given to the Devotions' structure is an important cause of the confusing diversity of presently available scholarship. A secondary benefit of this structural analysis, then, is that it will help focus attention on the better aspects of this scholarship.
 Each of the twenty-three Devotions is composed of a Meditation, an Expostulation and a Prayer, but only in the most general terms is it possible to define these three sections as having a uniform nature throughout the book. The important changes that take place show that the Devotions were meant to be arranged into groups-of three, and this may be further arranged into a "three-six-six-three-three-two" pattern. This progression is based on the analogy of a Christian's life with the seven days that are outlined in Expostulation 14. The first three Devotions encompass matters pertaining to the first day, the day of God's visitation of Donne with sickness. The next six involve the temporary stabilization of the disease and Donne's close examination of his conscience. On this second day God affords Donne many helps: Devotions 4-6 deal with the aid of a single physician, and devotions 7-9 invo1 'Ie a 7':1u1 tip1icat ion of this aid. Devotions 10-12 and 13-15 deal with, respectively, a resurgence and an intensification of of Donne's illness, leading him momentarily to dispute God's mercy. However, he performs the duties of the third "day" by preparing himself for a receiving of God I s sacraments. This trial indeed prepares him for the fourth day, the day of his physical dissolution, which almost literally comes in Devotions 16-18 since he claims to die vicariously in the death of the man "for whom the bell tolls." Devotions 19-21 deal with the fifth day, or the day of a Christian's resurrection, which Donne links with his recovery from sickness. The last two Devotions deal with t11e weaknesses of body and soul, both of which are subject to relapses either into disease or sin. However, God's judgement (on the sixth day) has been manifested to Donne, and his sins have been "fully pardoned." With these last words of the Devotions Donne looks forward to the attainment of God's "everlasting Mercy," and an implied twenty-fourth Devotion may be postulated for this seventh, final day, opening out into eternity. Donne strongly suggests that the reader is to associate a possible twenty-fourth Devotion with this final day, since it would not only complete the series of tripartite groupings in the Devotions, but it would also constitute the last hour in God's single day that he speaks of in the introduction to the seven critical days: "Since a day 'is as a thousand yeres with thee, Let, O Lord, a day, be as a weeke to me; and in this one, let me consider seven daies, seven critical daies, and ,judge my selfe, that I be not judged by thee." (Expostulation 14)

 Donne effects a unison of homiletic and devotional purposes (a feature of the more personal sermons of several Church Fathers) by using the “text” of his own experience, which is authored by God, as the basis for instruction to his readers. so many portions of the Devotions are similar enough to his sermons that there can be little doubt that the Dean of St. Paul's had his congregation continually in mind during the book's composition. This quality is reflected in the care Donne took in according every aspect of the Devotions to God and to the various forms that His author- ship takes. The precedents acknowledged for the Devotions are stories from the Bible (such as King Hezekiah's); Donne continually associates new aspects of his experience with that of Biblical characters (even his despairing moments echo Biblical precedents; his writing style is an attempted approximation of the Bible's "inexpressible texture"; the tripartite groupings in the Devotions reflect a devotion to the Christian Trinity; and the overall structure of the Devotions is reminiscent of God's seven-day creation of the world. God authors Donne's spiritual progress from the first day of his visitation to the sixth day, where Donne is on the verge of attaining the "Everlasting Saboth". As God's amanuensis, then, Donne takes pains to create an adequate structure in words for his perception of a divine, ordered guidance.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Moral Criticism of Industrial Society in Selected Novels of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell

contributor:
Purnell, George
English

abstract:
My purpose in this thesis is to examine the moral nature of the social criticism found in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. The works primarily dealt with share a common focus on the quantity of life in mid nineteenth-century industrial society. These are The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), Hard Times (1854), Mary Barton (1848), and North and South (1854-55). The exclusion of Sleak House (1852-53) and Little Dorrit (1855-57) is a deliberate one, the limitations of time and space being a major factor. The inclusion of The Old Curiosity Shop is an attempt to evaluate a novel long regarded as a low point of eccentricity in the Dickens canon. The position taken herein is that it represents a major milestone in Dickens' imaginative development. Viewed as an embryonic type of novel, its social criticism can be seen as an initial attempt to come to grips with the world of Victorian society. It both continues the concerns of the earlier novels and anticipates the major developments of the later works.

Occasionally in the thesis I refer to novels outside the purview of the primary works, particularly in my treatment of Dickens ideas of "benevolence" and imaginative sympathy. An attempt is made to evaluate the quality of the moral position in contrast to a political radicalism such as that of Marx or Engels. I have tried to do this by means of an analysis of the novels concerned, and by relating these novels to each other, to the moral nature of Dickens and Mrs Gaskell's thought, and to the culture to which both authors belong.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Career Explorations? Sole Support Mothers Speak"

contributor:
Sammon, Sheila
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: Sole support mothers have received considerable attention by the federal government over the past 20 years, as they have been perceived as a burden on the social welfare system. Employment-related support programs have been designed to help single mothers transition into the workplace in order to become economically self-reliant and less dependent on the state. This feminist qualitative research study explored the barriers single-parent mothers experienced and the strengths they possessed in their attempts at re-entering the workforce 4 months after graduating from a Career Explorations program. The findings revealed that sole support mothers encounter multiple barriers upon entering the job market including: difficulty with balancing family life responsibilities with obtaining an income, negative attitudes and stigma held by society and employers towards single mothers, lack of recognition of job skills, low wages and ethnic discrimination. A positive attitude, spiritual faith and the ability to perform one's job well were factors that contributed to the women's efforts and resiliency at securing work. Both study participants expressed their views regarding single mothers as being a "unique group of individuals" with "specialized needs." Recommendations for programs included the development of a "coffee house" designed specifically for single mothers where they can gain support and learn from the successes of other single mothers. The study concludes with a review of the implications for social work practice and possibilities for future research.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Relationship Between Dickens' Novels and the Language and Conventions of the Cinema

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English

abstract:
Dickens' imagination is strongly visual and the visual art it most closely resembles is film. We find, in his work, narrative techniques and methods of characterization which actually anticipate the development of film aesthetics. Sergei Eisenstein, the founder of the principles of film montage, WaS the first to draw attention to this cinematic imagination which Dickens possessed, in his essay "Dickens, Griffith and the film Today" in film form. It is the function of the first chapter of this thesis to document, more fully than Eisenstein, these cinematic techniques.

D.W. Griffith, who has been called the creator of film language, claimed that he was influenced by his reading of Dickens' novels. His study, he said, allowed him to develop the technique of parallel cut-back which is the basis of montage. This claim is examined by a comparison of Dickens' novels and Griffith's films. In the final chapter I have compared Dickens' work to that of some contemporary film-makers whose concepts of realism seem to resemble Dickens' own. It is hoped that such a comparison will help to defend the novelist against critics who have attacked his frequent refusal to conform to another aesthetic convention--psychological realism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Women and Marriage in Hemingway's Marriage Stories

contributor:
Ross, Michael
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Mendacity" in Four Plays of Tennessee Williams

contributor:
Juneja, M.
English

abstract: The thesis explores one aspect of Tennessee Williams' moral vision -- his concern with the "mendacity" which he sees pervading our society and his conviction that, whereas one cannot endure a life bereft of illusion, man can approach full humanity, effectively deny his incompletion, by a never-ending effort to confront truth within himself and in communication with others. A chapter is given to the study of each play. The four plays discussed are chronologically ordered: A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955; Suddenly Last Summer, 1958; Small Craft Warnings, 1972. Passing references are made to the earlier poetry, short plays, and short stories in an effort to make clear that Williams' work has a peculiarly consistent moral centre. Similarly, an attempt is made to interconnect the single-play chapters by making comparisons and drawing parallels between the plays as the study progresses. In the Conclusion some tentative statements are made regarding Williams' persistent world-view and his contribution to a theatre concerned with its ethical function.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Some Contemporary Models of Comparative Politics: Critique, Analysis and Application to Change

contributor:
Silverman, Jerry
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: It is the obiect of this study to investigate how some contemporary modeis of comparative politics deal with the problem of change over time. In addition, an analysis of the models qua models facilitating comparative political analysis will be provided.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Man Overboard!" -- Immersion, Embarkation and Related Themes in the Fiction of Melville.

contributor:
Shrive, F. N.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Punch and Pinter: Pre-literary techniques in the plays of Harold Pinter

contributor:
Purnell, G.
English

abstract: This thesis examines the plays of Harold Pinter through his use of basic pre-literary theatrical techniques. The techniques are specifically outlined in terms of such pre-literary theatricals as Punch and Judy puppet shows and vaudeville variety acts. The thesis contends that Harold Pinter's drama is directly based on standard theatrical elements, and can be understood more precisely according to them than in accordance with literary modes or terms such as allegory, imagery, metaphor or symbolism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Leatherstocking Tales: An Analysis of the Development of Cooper's Mythic Hero

contributor:
Sigman, J.
English

abstract: The paper which follows develops from the apparent divergence in concerns and intentions between Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and the remainder of his works. Such divergence has led Parrington and others to perceive "two Coopers" instead of one. By tracing the development of the hero within the Leatherstocking Tales, this paper attempts to reconcile these divergencies; realize the fullness of the myth; and isolate the principal concern which informs all of Cooper's work.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Influence of Personality on Commnications Media Effect on Political Behaviour

contributor:
Cunningham, R. B.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: The thesis attempts to construct a theory of the influence of personality on the effect of media on political attitudes and behaviour. Since the media are considered to be part of the environment, the theory is based on assumptlons about personality-environmental interaction. Although the main scope of the thesis is theoretical, a link with the "real world" is established through the use of data which are employed in the construction of three personality types and in the development of a suggested methodological prooedure for testing the theory. This notion of types is the pivotal point of the thesis. It represents an attempt to steer the study of media influence in a new dlrection which emphasises the whole man rather than just one aspect of him, either "social" or psychological.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Isolated Heroine in the Manawaka Novels of Margaret Laurence

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

abstract:
This thesis is a study of the isolated heroine in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka novels. A number of factors contribute to her isolation, including her sense of separation from self, her sense of alienation from the environment in which she lives, and a struggle to come to terms with the influences which her sense of the past exerts on her personality. The pattern of personal development from a position of weakness and alienation to a position of self-understanding and responsibility is common to all four of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka heroines. Each heroine survives and achieves a sense of personal freedom, which Laurence has described as the central concern of her works.1 This search for a significant life and a real sense of responsibility arise out of the experience of isolation, an experience which can be seen as Canadian, nut at the same. time universal, a frequent concern in works of the twentieth century.

The present study will investigate the phenomena of isolation and alienation and the resultant development of a 'survival' ethic, which is in some ways analogous to the existentialist concept of the outsider, which appears in much twentieth-century literature. It is almost inevitable that a twentieth-century writer will have come, at some time, under the influence of existentialist thought. Much twentieth-century literature, as well as philosophy, sociology, and psychology, is concerned with the problem of isolation. There is no way in which Margaret Laurence could be unaware of isolation as a personal and literary problem, and while I do not intend to argue that her Manawaka novels are solely existentialist, they are works produced by someone whose childhood years were spent in an isolated town in the Canadian prairies, and whose crucial early years as a writer were spent as “outsider who experienced a seven year love affair with a continent, but woo in the end had to remain in precisely that relationship.”2 The concerns with isolation and alienation and the search for truth or meaning which produced the outsider in other literature are certainly present in Canadian literature, so it is not surprising that Laurence's heroines exhibit characteristics typical of people who find themselves alone.

This thesis, then, concerns the psychological and emotional journey of the isolated heroine as she struggles with alienation from her environment and with personal loneliness and isolation to achieve a deeper understanding of life and a fuller appreciation of it. In a sense, what follows is a study of a vision of life which allows the protagonist to reach an understanding of herself as a culmination of her own personal past, her ancestral history, and her present situation. Laurence's isolated heroines learn to face life's sorrows and its beauties, and to use their knowledge to' achieve a fuller and deeper appreciation of life, to act with courage and responsibility, and to survive with hope and dignity. Throughout I will consider other critical appraisals of Margaret Laurence's work and will also indicate, where appropriate, similarities between the situations of her heroines and the behaviour and environments of the existentialist outsider.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Beyond Professional Affiliation: Race, Class & Gender Dynamics in Interdisciplinary Teams

contributor:
Cain, Roy
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
This study aims to illuminate the ways that gender, race, and class are experienced and socially constructed on interdisciplinary health teams. The study involves four in-depth qualitative interviews with social workers who are employed members of interdisciplinary health teams within a medium sized city in south-western Ontario. The study documents three levels of inquiry. Initially, it explores social workers' understandings of how gender, race, and class affect interdisciplinary team dynamics. Next, a discourse analysis ofthe interviewees' accounts reveals how some conceptualizations of gender, race, and class are potentially limiting and at times reinforces the status quo. Lastly, it traces invisible relations of domination and subordination conveyed through the social organization of knowledge around interdisciplinary teams.

The study offers insight into the ways that interdisciplinary health teams are thought to both promote and undermine cultural competency initiatives. It also reveals how gender, race, and class issues on interdisciplinary teams are conceptualized in ways that preserve the status quo. However, the study challenges the notion that education and exposure to difference and diversity alone will foster cultural competency skills. The study concludes that both cognitive and material shifts in power are necessary in order to achieve an effective redistribution ofpower within interdisciplinary teams.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: P. Ovidi Nasonis Remedia Amoris

contributor:
Guite, H. F.
Shepherd, D. M.
Classics

subject: Classics Classics

abstract: A commentary of Ovid's Remedia Amoris, this thesis is intended to be of service to any who may wish to make a further study of the work. I have used the text of Kenney in his Oxford Classical Texts edition (1961).

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Principle of Unity in Patrick White's Novel, Riders in the Chariot

contributor:
Aziz, M.
English

abstract: Our thesis quests for unity. Under such a hue we will investigate Patrick White's novel, Riders in the Chariot, by analyzing its structure, the texture of the language, and the subject matter.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Simulation of Rillenkarren

contributor:
Ford, D.C.
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract:
The development of Rillenkarren surfaces on plaster and salt has been simulated in a series of analogue experiments using a laboratory rainfall simulator.

The experiments determined that rainfall is the dominant process controlling the development of Rillenkarren. The length of rills is related to the angle of slope of the exposed surface. The rill cross-section approaches that of a parabolic channel. The width of the rill appears to be determined by properties of the material: on plaster and salt characteristic width and depths were established. No experiments were carried out on limestone in the laboratory.

The development of a Rillenkarren surface in nature is unique. The laboratory experiments have determined that such a surface represents one of rim effect adjusting to the process of rainfall (the random distribution of water droplets of a size range less than 0.2 mm to approximately 4.5 mm in diameter, falling at speeds close to their terminal velocities). The physics of such a phenomenon do not appear to have been investigated and it is suggested that very considerable dynamic analysis would be required to further the observations reported here.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: A Developmental Study of the Art of Sylvia Plath

abstract:
This thesis examines the writings of Sylvia Plath from the point of view of a "schizoid diagnosis". The theories of three British ego-psychologists, W.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnicott, and H. Gunstrip, provide the psychoanalytic framework. Working within the theory of object relations and by focusing attention on early childhood ego development, they have contributed many remarkable insights into the 'motives' behind hurran activity.

The only collection published during the poet's lifetime, The Colossus; the three postumous volumes, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees and Ariel; and the autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, are examined chronologically to reveal the clear development of a schizoid perspective in Sylvia Plath's art. Her writings are shot through with an intense libidinal attachhment to self-destruction, and point to the desperate attempts of a weak ego struggling to be born. In the end the violence of the false, destructive strategies of survival she chose becarre self-directed, and suicide resulted.

Sylvia Plath became mythologized with her death. A literary romanticization of suicide characterizes most critical studies on the poet. This thesis takes issue at some length with the influential British author, A. Alvarez, in particular, whose writings on the "extremist poets" have shaped in a most damaging way any critical perspective on Sylvia Plath in the decade following her death.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH TOURETTE SPECTRUM DISORDERS: A CONVOLUTED PATH

contributor:
Watt, Susan M.
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: Children diagnosed with Tourette Spectrum Disorders (TSD) have multifaceted needs. Dwindling resources in children's mental health services have lead to decreased services and increased wait times. Children with complex mental health needs and their families are greatly impacted. This paper looks at the difficulties associated with TSD, and reports on parents' views of service needs for families of children diagnosed with TSD. Five mothers of children diagnosed with TSD were interviewed in an exploratory, qualitative study to learn what parents say about service needs. The findings indicate that easy access to complete information, getting a diagnosis, and comprehensive treatments to cope with TSD are their priority service needs. Difficulties accessing needed services are highlighted.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: "Faulkner's Snopes Family"

contributor:
Sigman, J. T.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: [Q. Ciceronis] Commentariolum petitionis: A Commentary with a Discussion of Authenticity

contributor:
Shepherd, D.M.
Paul, G.M.
Classics

subject: Classics Classics

abstract:
In the Introduction it is shown that, although the Commentariolum purports to have been written in early 64 B.C. by Quintus Cicero, it is more llkely that the author was a writer of historical character writing (prosopopoiia) from the first century A.D..

This is not a critical edition: the text used is departed from only in sections nine and twenty eight, and then not radically.

The Commentary is intended to make reference to the Commenariolum as simple as possible: it tells the reader what the text probably means, if necessary, and if its evidence is supported or contradicted.

The only radical departure from conventional interpretation is in part of chapter ten.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Concept of Villainy in Selected Works of Henry James

contributor:
Berland, Alwyn
English

abstract:
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the artitistic and intellectual maturation of Henry James as reflected in his portrayals of the "villainous" personality -- the evil character. Attention is given to the major novels of each phase; the thesis follows a chronological outline. Such a study is not unduly unprecedented, nor is it unwarrantably repetitious. To date there has been no inclusive critical or systematic evaluation of James's vilains per se. Syndy Conger's brief note on The Wings of the Dove (1971) is concerned exclusively with that novel, and J. A. Ward's perceptive study, The Imagination of Disaster (1961) focuses not on the concept of villainy, but on "the complex of forces, internal and external Which prevents the individual from moving toward completion. "1

In a study of this scope both space and time inevitably exert some irresistible pressure. As such, my choice of novels has been necessarily selective. Those chosen to represent the early and middle phases do, I believe, speak for themselves. The conspicuous absence of The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl in the late period, however, may require some words of explanation. It is my contention that the former novel does not have any villainous characters, and is therefore irrelevant to my present purposes. On the other hand, though, while The Golden Bowl does possess the villainous Prince Amerigo and Charlotte Stant, these characters nevertheless emerge as reworked or "recast" characters in the same mould as Kate Croy and Merton Densher. The little departure marked by The Golden Bowl from The Wngs of the Dove lies in the living victory of its heroine, Maggie Verver, in contrast to the death-triumph of the earlier Milly Theale. The Golden Bowl, then, appears to be a similar study in terms of the villainous personality to that of The Wings of The Doves, and, as such, my discussion in Chapter III deals exclusively with the earlier novel.

One final note must be made in regard to the works dealt with in the following pages. "The Turn of the Screw" -- largely because of its train of critical controversy -- has been assigned to an appendix, a section detached in part from the rant and fustian of the critical heritage.

I should like to conclude these prefatory remarks with the necessary acknowledgements: I thank Dean Alwyn Berland for his assistance throughout the preparation of this thesis which is derived, in part, from a paper a paper presented in his graduate seminar on the modern novel. I extend my gratitude to Dr Norman Shrive for having taken time to read the original manuscript. Finally I wish to thank Gary A. Boire for his invaluable help during the writing of this thesis.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Adaptation and Originality in The Great Gatsby

contributor:
Shrive, F.N.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Managerial Structure Of Child Welfare: Perspectives From Frontline Workers

contributor:
Baines, Donna
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
The job of a frontline child protection worker is highly demanding and very emotional. Issues of job-related stress have become an inevitable part of child welfare practice. The majority of research that attempts to understand the stress experienced by child protection workers perpetuates a larger held belief that places the responsibility of managing stress upon the individual worker. This body of research also offers micro-level strategies for alleviating the stress experienced by workers.

This research project sets out to understand the issue from a broader perspective and to consider socio-economic factors as central to the critical analysis. The purpose of this research project is to engage in conversations with frontline child protection workers in order to build a sense of the context in which these workers experience job-related stress. A contextual framework is missing from most of the research that has attempted to understand the experience of job-related stress of frontline child protection workers.

The two themes that connected all the research participants was the degree to which their agencies acknowledged stress as an issue and the strength of supportive networks within their work environments. From the responses of the workers it was apparent that their work environments do not necessarily provide a safe haven for them to acknowledge the emotional impact of their job and to simply think about the work they do. The author suggests that further research that challenges the structure of broader systemic issues will be the best path to begin developing strategies to alleviate the stress experienced by child protection workers and to retain experienced, educated and dedicated workers who are committed to ensuring the safety of children.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Realism in Laurence Sterne

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English

abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the place of Tristram Shandy in the development of realism in the English novel. It sets up two categories of realism, mimetic realism and autonomous realism, and demonstrates how sterne parodies the ideas of the first, and sets up an autonomous reality in his novel. By examining the techniques Sterne uses to present this special, avant-garde kind of realism, and how he treats its implications, this thesis hopes to explore fully an aspect of Tristram Shandy hitherto neglected, and to provide a new perspective on the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Towards National Integration or Chaos? Social Conflict and the African One-Party State

contributor:
Cunningham, R.B.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis forms part of the growing body of literature concerned with the concept of national integration in the context of the Third World.

The paper empirically defines national integration in terms of social conflict, as applied to the study of African polities, and questions the thesis of African uniparty theory that unipartyism per se is a direct factor in maintaining a low level of social conflict within the state. It is argued that the concept of unipartyism is itself too wide to be of intrinsic empirical value. The sub-grouping of one-party states according to certain common denominators, however, does provide a vehicle whereby these staes may be compared in their ability to manage and control social conflict.

Some methodological questions are raised through the data analysis, since political science is still as yet a science in the state of becoming. But with the analytical tools at hand, resolutions to the problems are presented.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Intensity of Geochemical Weathering in a Toposequence Formed on Granitic Till at Thor Lake, Northwest Territories

contributor:
Bunting, B. T.
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract:
From standard cell data and a principal component analysis, the intensity of geochemical weathering in the toposequence developed at Thor Lake, Northwest Territories was determined as follows: Degraded Dystric Brunisols formed on the dry crestal sites were weakly weathered; the Orthic Humo-Ferric Podzol found on moist terrace and slope sites as well as the Gleyed Humic Podzol situated adjacent to the thaw pond were moderately weathered in relation to the other soils; whereas the Gleyed Humo-Ferric Podzol located in the moist linear depressions revealed the maximum intensity of geochemical weathering, that is, the maximum removal of mobile ions and the greatest alteration from a stable parent material.

It was established that the iron-magnesium bearing minerals were initially weathered from the parent material; calcium, sodium, and then potassium were removed by the soil solution from the A horizon; iron, aluminum, and phosphorus were the prime depositional cations in the B horizon with silicon increasing as a residual cation in the A horizon.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: A Study of the Religious Dimensions in the Fiction of J. D. Salinger

contributor:
Ross, Michael
English

abstract:
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the full complexity of the religious dimensions in the fiction of J. D. Salinger. Especial attention is given to the author's syncretism and interest in the area where different religious and philosophical frameworks coincide.

The Introduction includes a biographical outline and also correlates the views of critics who have discussed various aspects of Salinger's religious concerns. The following three chapters show the development of his method of incorporating religious ideas into his writing, isolate his major concerns, and analyse the ideas around which the works are structured. A discussion of "Teddy" forms part of the conclusion, since this short story in many ways offers a summation of Salinger's thought.

While focusing on the religious dimension of Salinger's works, this study does not neglect the multiple ironies and ambiguities present in his fiction, maintaining the perspective that they are products of the creative artistic imagination rather than treatises of systematic theology.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Theme of Maturation in the Early Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

abstract:
The theme of maturation is a central one in the early work of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. This thesis examines this theme in Hemingway's first two novels, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms as well as selected early stories, particularly those concerning Nick Adams. Similarly, Fitzgerald's first two novels are examined, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned with some attention given to some selected short stories.

The thesis attempts to offer some reasons for the recurrence of this theme in the works; to compare Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's distinctive treatment of the theme, and finally to propose some conclusions concerning the nature of the early fiction of both authors with respect to the theme of the hero's maturation.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Constituency Level Politics: A Case Study of The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party in Brantford, Ontario

contributor:
Jacek, Henry J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This study analyzes the development of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the New Democratic Party in Brantford, Ontario from 1932-1975. Other scholarly work done on the C.C.F. - N.D.P. has tended to concentrate on general - federal, provincial - levels, rather than on the individual constituency level.

The thesis argues that even though the Brantford C.C.F. proposed programmes embracing doctrinaire socialism, the Brantford N.D.P.'s policies have been overwhelmingly influenced by the managerial strategy of winning elections. The trend has been underlined with the advent of the Makarchuk Blackburn era (1965-1975) in Brantford wherein party fortunes began to rise. The thesis further argues that the C.C.F. - N.D.P. is unique in Brantford primarily because of its candidates, Mac Makarchuk and Derek Blackburn. By virtue of their backgrounds as middle class communicators, the Brantford N.D.P. has become more professionalized and subsequently more respectable and successful locally.

In conclusion, it is argued that the chief difference between the Brantford C.C.F. and its counterpart, the N.D.P. has been a question of approach. When the C.C.F. sought to 'educate' the electorate through the use of doctrinaire platforms and labour candidates who preached rather than campaigned, the N.D.P. adopted the strategy of winning elections with middle class candidates and solid, issue-oriented election campaign.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: CRITICISM AND THE "MAJOR PHASE" THE SUBJECT OF HENRY JAMES'S THE GOLDEN BOWL

abstract: This thesis is directed towards arriving at a greater understanding of the 'subject' of The Golden Bowl, in the light of a representative selection of criticism on the novel. As will be shown in Chapter II, much of this criticism has failed to recognise the supreme fusion between form and content in this novel, as is witnessed by the multitudinous analyses which examine either form or content whilst ignoring this complete fusion. The result of this 'error' has been talk of saints and witehes. By analysing this discrepancy, a valid framework will be provided that will give a greater scope to an understanding of this fusion than would otherwise be possible. From such a starting-point, the thesis will argue that this last novel of the so-called 'trilogy' is James's supreme achievement, his most perfect production in the particular medium with which he was so familiar and so capable.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A COMPARISON OF FOREIGN AID OBJECTIVES: POLICY-MAKER'S PERCEPTIONS, CANADA--UNITED STATES

contributor:
Winham, G.R.
Political Economy

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
1) This thesis will examine and compare the objectives of the foreign aid programmes of both Canada and the UnitedStates.

2) It will examine the motivations underlying those objectives and discuss their implications for the foreign policies of both Canada and the United States.

3) A secondary aspect of the thesis will be an attempt to establish the extent to which Canada is reliant on American values, and to what extent Canada exhibits a similar world view.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Ambiguity in Tom Jones

contributor:
Rosenblood, Norman
English

abstract:
This thesis maintains that ambiguity is an important element in Fielding's Tom Jones and deals with certain ambiguities in the novel. Specifically, it deals with the ambiguous treatment of the following characters: Squire Allworthy, Sophia Western, Mrs. Waters, Black George and Squire Western. An examination of this ambiguity is important to an understanding of Tom Jones.

The thesis maintains that neither Alhlorthy nor Sophia should be regarded as the moral pillars of Tom Jones; nor should they be regarded as unambiguously good. When we perceive them in more realistic terms, it is also necessary to re-examine our judgments of certain other characters in the novel, specifically, Mrs. Waters and Black George. Is the condemnation these two characters receive justified? This thesis maintains that it is not; therefore, we must re-examine the basis of judgment in Tom Jones. The character of Squire Western provides us with an insight into Fielding's psychology because he shows most clearly the problem of reconciling the rational and the animal in man.

The ambiguity in Tom Jones goes beyond language. We must examine the truth and consistency of those principles which seem to be advocated in the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Designing a Service Framework for Electronic Personal Health Records: A Patient-Centred Approach

contributor:
Hassanein, Khaled
eHealth

subject:
eHealth
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences

abstract: With the increase in diabetes prevalence and the resultant greater demand for diabetes services, together with fewer resources to pay for them, diabetes has become a multi-billion dollar economic burden the world over. Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) have been positioned as transformational agents that facilitate productive interactions between patients and their healthcare providers, and support self-management of chronic diseases such as diabetes. In keeping with a patient -centred model of care, healthcare services such as ePHRs that incorporate patients' preferences and level of activation are being sought to increase and sustain patients' utility of these services. This study examines patients' preferences for the attributes of an ePHR service that supports diabetes self-management. It also explores factors that might influence their preferences. Conjoint analysis, one of the most widely used approaches to predict consumer preferences was chosen for this study. Specifically, adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis was used to identify the attributes of a winning ePHR service framework. Using Sawtooth Software's suite of interviewing products, a webbased survey was developed comprising six ePHR service attributes. Hierarchical Bayes estimations were used to quantify patient preferences while latent class analysis was used to segment the sample. Additional statistical analyses were conducted to identify any significant relationships between patient characteristics and their preferences. A stratified sample of 150 patients with Type 1, Type 2, and Prediabetes were unwavering in their preference for an internet-based ePHR service supplied by a physician or specialist. They also preferred to exchange their health information with their physician or nurse, once a month, at no cost. Monthly service fees were considered the most important ePHR service attribute. These results were applied in market simulations and sensitivity analyses to uncover the more complex effects of the ePHR attributes on the overall utility of the service. Exchanging health information every two to three months as opposed to once a month, and offering an ePHR service in the form of a monitoring device as opposed to an internet-based application, may be viable options. Selling an ePHR service directly to patients via a commercial supplier had negative impact on the utility of the service. This research also indicated that it would be prudent to take patients' ages and perceived health status into consideration when developing and marketing an ePHR service. Surprisingly, patients' level of activation for self-management did not appear to playa major role in influencing their preferences for the attributes of the ePHR service framework identified in the study.

abstract: Master of Science (MS)


title: What types of Strategies do Group Home Workers and Foster Parents Use in Management of Behaviours of Teen Youth in Care?

contributor:
Gladstone, James
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Research over the last thirty years has focused on the increased risk that youth in care are predisposed to becoming involved in juvenile delinquency (Ryan, 2007). According to some reports, for youth who have at least one substantiated report of maltreatment, delinquency rates are upwards of 47% higher than youth who have no substantiated maltreatment histories (Ryan & Testa, 2005).

This research project focuses on the behaviour management strategies of Direct Care Workers (DCWs), who work with youth in the care of the Children's Aid Society (CAS), within a residential group home setting. This research project also looks at the behaviour management strategies of foster parents and will explore any differences of behaviour management strategies between these two caregiver types. One of the primary differences in the care giving roles that face Direct Care Workers (herein after referred to as DCWs) and foster parents is that DCWs work with youth on a shift basis for a period of eight or more hours per day, while foster parents live with the youth in care, within their own home environment on a 24/7 basis.

A predominant difference for youth residing in these two settings is that youth placed in a foster home have to deal with one or two primary caregivers and perhaps the biological children of their foster parents (if they have any), in addition to a maximum number of four foster children placed in a home according to Ontario's legislation governed by the Ministry of Family and Children's Services (MFCS). Meanwhile, the youth residing within a group home setting have numerous staff that they are required to develop relationships with, in addition to upwards of nine (and sometimes more) umelated youth, who also reside in the group and/or treatment facility, as mandated by the MFCS.

The youth who are placed within group and/or treatment homes tend to be the youth in CAS care who present and manifest with the most challenging behaviours, though this is not necessarily always the case scenario. Unfortunately, sometimes due to a shortage of suitable foster home availability, youth may also be placed within a group home. Many times, youth that have had prior foster home placements which have been terminated due to behavioural issues and foster parent inability to manage or lack of tolerance of said behavioural issues will also be placed in group and/or treatment homes.

This study will explore the different behaviour management strategies that DCW s and foster parents use in their day-to-day interactions with the youth in their care. This study is predominantly interested in focusing on the use of police in behaviour management strategies used by DCW's and foster parents, as youth in CAS care have acknowledged that "calling the police was the only real power available to staff' according to one study (Taylor, 2003, p. 245).

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Man, Nature and Society in Selected Works of Frederick Philip Grove and Thomas Hardy

contributor:
Hyman, Roger
English

abstract:
The first chapter of this thesis is directed toward Grove's and Hardy's view of man in their novels. After reading the major works of both writers the conclusion put forward here is that neither Grove nor Hardy is willing to write a novel that ignores the possibility of suffering. They do not, however, look upon suffering as the focal point of life. Essentially they direct their attention to man's unique capacity to adapt continually to new, and often difficult, situations. The misfortunes that confront both writers' characters are aimed at showing the reader a variety of consequences for particular patterns of action. There are no guarantees of happiness, but for both writers man is not meant to suffer either irrationally or passively. The freedom to act is an essential part of his character and, as such, he must continually exercise his freedom of choice. For both Grove and Hardy it is this individual freedom to choose, to redefine one's self and one's situation, that enables man to discover and maintain some degree of happiness in life. Similarly, it is this individual freedom, to act that allows all men the chance to discover the profound and the tragic proportions that lie within the human spirit.

Both writers locate their characters in settings that are never too removed from the demands of a force that may generally be called Nature. Often the demands of this external force are beyond the intellectual scope and physical strength of men. The suffering that results from the confrontation between Nature and man would seem to indicate that man is destined to suffer irrationally. The conclusion that is made in the second chapter of this thesis, however, is that both Grove and Hardy appear to believe that man must use Nature's laws as co-ordinates that place him in Nature and, at the same time, above it. Both Grove and Hardy repeatedly illustrate that man is more than just a receptor of Nature's fury. He is also a recorder or focal point of Nature's order. Both Grove and Hardy show that man can use his unique relationship with Nature to discover toleration and understanding.

Both writers also use the simplicity of rural order and the demands of more complex urban social beliefs as guidelines against which the actual needs of individual men may be measured. Grove and Hardy appear to support a belief in the individual's right to test the validity of any social structure. Similarly, both writers illustrate that the demands of society, like the demands of Nature, are external requirements that test individual men. The conflict that arises as a result of the confrontation of man and society is an integral part of both writers' approach to an appraisal of the freedom of individual men. The final chapter of this thesis, then, concludes with the belief that neither writer sides for or against a particular view of society, but both writers do side with man's right to discover from society a more accurate understanding of individual needs and characteristics.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Giving Young Mothers a Voice about their own care

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract: This research project is based in a secondary analysis of data from The Ontario Mother and Infant Survey (TOMIS II) that considers women's perceptions of health care services. Of particular interest in this secondary analysis were the perceptions of young mothers aged 16-21. Three topics pertaining to intrapartum and postpartum care that were surveyed in the TOMIS II study were presented to young mothers in a focus group format. These topics include: (a) length of stay, (b) satisfaction of service (during and after delivery), and (c) learning needs. In addition to validating the quantitative data of the TOMIS II study, the focus group findings helped to interpret the data. The young mothers who participated in the focus groups for this research project clearly identified that supportive nursing care is critical to their intrapartum and postpartum experience. Among other recommendations, enhancing interpersonal qualities of health care professionals who work alongside young mothers during their hospital stay is essential for improving young mothers' level of satisfaction with services.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Private Language Argument

contributor:
Simpson, Evan
Philosophy

subject: Philosophy Philosophy

abstract: An exposition of Wittgenstein's arguments against the possibility of a private language is given with the hope of making the arguments clearer. It is shown that because of the impossibility of a private language and because of the impossibility of words having private references in a public language, the notion of a private experience is unintelligible. The last chapter shows that a positive account of what sensations are is given in the Philosophical Investigations, which manages to avoid the impossibility of a private act of naming and also avoids the untenability of behaviorism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Shrew at Stratford: A Comparative Study of Three Productions of The Taming of the Shrew as Performed at the Festival theatre, Stratford, Ontario

contributor:
Jackson, B.A.W.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Living with Chronic Pain: the experiences of family members

contributor:
Sinding, Christina
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Chronic Pain affects all aspects of a person's life. It can reshape his or her identity, the roles they play within the family system and it can affect their capacity to earn income, to name just a few examples. With such a wide range of changes, obviously family members are to expect some changes as well. To date, most of the research has focused on how the family can help the adjustment of the pain patient. Some research explores how the mental state of a spouse may be implicated. Very little has been done to explore how the family copes: what they see as the important changes, how they feel about and respond to having chronic pain in their lives.

In this research I spoke with six individuals who were close to someone with chronic pain. For some it was the first opportunity they have had to discuss their feelings on an issue that has been a major part of their lives for several years. Four wives and two daughters were interviewed. What came from their stories was a sense of loss that they were no longer able to participate in the same activities, in the same manner, together as they had before the onset of pain. There was a sense of loss in intimacy, shared lives, even in their dreams and expectations of the future. They reported that in some cases the ability of the pain patient to parent was undermined as the pain patient was overwhelmed by just getting through the day with their pain.

However, in each of their stories the families had learned to adjust and move forward in their lives. They found ways to make it work, even if it was not as they would have liked. Finally, they made suggestions for others who are going through similar struggles, identifying what helped and what might have helped had the support been available.

This study confirmed that the entire family system can be significantly impacted by chronic pain in one of the members of the family. It also draws attention to the constraints family members of chronic pain patients face in expressing their own experiences and frustrations - constraints that professionals in the field must challenge.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Movement From Realism to Myth in Selected Short Stories of D. H. Lawrence

contributor:
Ferns, H. J.
English

abstract:
The major emphasis of this thesis will be to demonstrate that there is a development of thought in Lawrence's short fiction. Through an examination of six tales spanning the years 1915 to 1928 this study will attempt to prove that Lawrence's frustration with the civilization he was part of manifested itself in his short fiction in a gradual movement from realism to myth.

In "The Thimble" Lawrence used the realistic mode to express his belief that individuals would awaken to the problems of the world, meet on a new plane of consciousness and work together toward a new relationship. However, in the years following 1915 Lawrence's faith in the individual lessened. He now believed a new element had to be introduced into the problematic world to change it in a positive manner. However, as we see in "The ladybird" and "The Last Laugh", Lawrence became disillusioned. The old world would not be changed. Consequently, Lawrence believed it had to be annihilated in order that a new world could supersede it. This idea is established in "The Border Line" and carried to its logical conclusion in "The woman Who Rode Away" in the sacrifice of a woman who is ostensibly a symbol of ego-conscious western civilization. However, we see that the woman is not a valid representative of ego-consciousness but is instead a victim of that consciousness. Although Lawrence used the fable mode in an attempt to present a new and mysterious blood-conscious world we see he has actually moved nowhere at all but has only 'dressed Up' the problematic ego-consciousness in his own idealistic garments.

In "The Man Who Died" we see that Lawrence has encompassed the experience of "The Woman Who Rode Away". The theme of rebirth into a new consciousness, which in turn creates a new world, has returned. The insistence is absent. The mythic mode allows Lawrence to present his vision in a generalized fashion; he does not have to adhere to a particular set of circumstances. In this way he can 'touch' a wider group of readers.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: FREUD AND FREUDIANISM: lMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL THOUGHT

contributor:
Novak, D.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: It will be the purpose of this papar to critically examine those aspects of Sigmund Freud' s thought which seem relevant to the concerns of political philosophy by virtue of their ability to shed new and different light on such perennial problems as human nature, equality,. authority. and freedom .

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Candidate Selection in Great Britain and the United States of America

contributor:
Truman, T. C.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Day Programs for Older Adults: Contested Meanings

contributor:
Aronson, Jane
Social Work

abstract:
Adult day programs are one of a number of community support services provided in Ontario for older adults who are living in the community. The purpose of this research is to compare the official policy accounts of adult day programs with the accounts of those who experience them directly.

 Using the approach of institutional ethnography developed by Dorothy Smith (1987), the text embodied by the service definition used by Ontario providers of adult day care is compared with data gathered though in-depth interviews with clients, caregivers, a staff member, a volunteer, and a referring agent. This research seeks to deepen understandings of the function and value of these programs within the long-term care sector. Individuals' experiences with day programs (their stories), and their understandings of when day programs are needed by individuals, of how they are structured, and of what relationships are important in this context are explored.

 The policy discourse about the function of day programs - supervised activities, caregiver support and respite, improved functioning, and avoidance of premature or inappropriate institutionalization - was found to be endorsed by participants. However, it emerged that "relational practices" in the delivery of the service did much more, by enhancing participants' identities and giving meaning to the day program experience.

 Adult day programs have been relatively little studied and are not well understood within our health care system. In the current context of service restructuring and the longstanding invisibility of social care, such programs are increasingly jeopardized. The importance of the research lies in bringing forward the voices of those who are most involved with this programming. A potential benefit is that this important service may be given more attention within the system. It is hoped that these results will be useful to both program providers and policy makers working in this area of long term care.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: The Colonial Elephant in the Room: An Examination of North-South Academic Partnerships

contributor:
Lee, Bill
Social Work

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: International collaborations have been steadily increasing in frequency as academic institutions in the global north and south continue to make connections with each other. However, the rate of our increasing interaction is outpacing the emergence of a structural analysis aimed at minimizing the power imbalances inherent in the colonial relationship between the global north and south. As actors within international social work continue to participate in collaborations tainted by professional imperialism and epistemological hegemony, we continue to disadvantage those in the south through the formation and implementation of these partnerships. The exploration of this topic is primarily informed through the use of the author's critical reflection of an academic seminar she participated in during the summer of 2004 in Malawi Africa. It is hoped that the subsequent analysis can be used as tool to inform the development of truly equitable international partnerships.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Ukrainian National Communism: A Recurrent Phenonomenon

contributor:
potichnyj, P. J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: The objective of this thesis is to investigate the development of Ukrainian national communism as it has manifested itself from the period 1918 until the present. Particular emphasis i.s placed on examining its ideological dimensions and the strategic alternatives available to its proponents. Both the major political actors and political processes involved in its development are accorded separate treatment. Using a historical perspective, the technique of comparative analysis is employed in order to study the similarities and differences contained in expressions of Ukrainian national communism in the periods 1917-27 and the 1960' s.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Using Children's Picturebooks as: PART A - A Source for Critical Analysis in the Secondary School - Grade 11 PART B - A Stimulus for Creative Writing in the Secondary School - Grade 11

contributor:
Petrie, G.
Najm, S.M.
English

abstract:
This unit is designed for approximately six weeks of English classes at the grade eleven level of secondary school. It incorporates both skills of critical analysis and of creative writing that are part of the grade eleven syllabus in Ontario.

 Part A of the unit provides for the reading and study of several picturebooks written for children. It offers an analytical and critical approach to reading as well as the appreciation of a literary genre designed for another age group. Picturebooks provide variety in curriculum focus and are a relatively uncomplicated yet mature form for investigation and criticism. They allow students to consider several concepts as well: picturebooks are a specific and distinct genre; they provide a source for critical examination; they reflect customs, attitudes, biases and values; they require the reader's personal appraisal; and finally, children's books both teach and entertain.

 In Part B, the designing and writing of a picturebook provide opportunities for students to: develop creativity and ingenuity through a personal writing activity; demonstrate their degree of mastery of basic composition skills; exercise the imagination; practise the mechanics of the writing process; participate in peer assessment and self-assessment; study the rudiments of good writing through a productive and purposeful activity; and receive instant and continuous feedback from their classmates and the teacher as writing progresses. Most importantly, however, in Part B, students learn that personal satisfaction can be gained through producing something, not only for oneself, but also for others.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Protection of Migrant Agricultural Workers' Rights

contributor:
Daenzer, Patricia M.
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
This thesis investigates several issues related to the provisions afforded by aspects of the Canadian welfare state to protect the rights of migrant labour participating in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. In the introduction and literature review, I provide the background of the program and present the nature of the issues that surround it. I also outline the problems that migrant agricultural workers face while participating in the program. These are mainly due to the few provisions that are extended to this secondary sector labour group, a group of workers that is barely visible to Canadian society.

 In the main part of the thesis, I analyze the two instruments that allow the entry of these workers into Canada and the different pieces of Canadian legislation that are relevant to protecting legitimate rights of any person who works in this country. More importantly, I also present findings derived from interviews with migrant agricultural workers and key informants from advocacy groups and the labour movement regarding those provisions. Based on their in Sights and on the dual market theory, I scrutinize the position of the Canadian welfare state concerning the legitimate provisions migrant workers should be entitled to and how the globalization context influences that position. I conclude with a series of ideas that, in my opinion, could positively affect this labour group's welfare status.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)