Robert Cornell, Technical Editor, Electronic Technician Magazine

New York Trade School graduate Robert Cornell is pictured at his desk in his position of Technical Editor, Electronic Technician Magazine. Original caption reads "Robert Cornell - Advanced Television 1954, was appointed Technical Editor of Electronic Technician Magazine in 1956 and has served with distinction since. He is President of CETA (Certified Electronic Technicians Association), which consists of alumni of the New York Trade School who are graduates of the Advanced Television Course. He was recently invited to serve a a member of the Attorney General's Committee seeking to establish safeguards to protect the public in the field of television servicing." Black and white photograph with caption to glued to reverse.

Models of complexity in Robert Coover's John's wife and the adventures of Lucky Pierre

This doctoral dissertation analyzes two novels by the American novelist Robert Coover as examples of hypertextual writing on the book bound page, as tokens of hyperfiction. The complexity displayed in the novels, John's Wife and The Adventures of Lucky Pierre, integrates the cultural elements that characterize the contemporary condition of capitalism and technologized practices that have fostered a different subjectivity evidenced in hypertextual writing and reading, the posthuman subjectivity. The models that account for the complexity of each novel are drawn from the concept of strange attractors in Chaos Theory and from the concept of rhizome in Nomadology. The transformations the characters undergo in the degree of their corporeality sets the plane on which to discuss turbulence and posthumanity. The notions of dynamic patterns and strange attractors, along with the concept of the Body without Organs and Rhizome are interpreted, leading to the revision of narratology and to analytical categories appropriate to the study of the novels. The reading exercised throughout this dissertation enacts Daniel Punday's corporeal reading. The changes in the characters' degree of materiality are associated with the stages of order, turbulence and chaos in the story, bearing on the constitution of subjectivity within and along the reading process. Coover's inscription of planes of consistency to counter linearity and accommodate hypertextual features to the paper supported narratives describes the characters' trajectory as rhizomatic. The study led to the conclusion that narrative today stands more as a regime in a rhizomatic relation with other regimes in cultural practice than as an exclusively literary form and genre. Besides this, posthuman subjectivity emerges as class identity, holding hypertextual novels as their literary form of choice.

O futuro do emprego sob a ótica de uma nova migração de riquezas entre nações à luz de um mundo globalizado: um debate entre Paul Kennedy e Domenico de Masi

The final objective of this work will be to develop a study collating the theses defended for the historian Paul Kennedy and sociologist Domenico De Masi, presenting the ma in factors that influence in the process of migration of the jobs for the developed countries or in its maintenance in the countries in development, verifying if it has signals of flexibility in such process as reply to the fast technological development andl or the expansion of the "creative leisure". The present work has for purpose to search not them last and projected taxes of growth of work, but yes the factors that appear less in the threshold of related centuries XX and XXI to the human work and a possible route of migration of the existing jobs in the developed countries for the nations richest of the planet what it would lead, for consequence, to a still bigger inequality it enters the poor nations richest and, leading to a social collapse caused by the aggravation of the inequality in this distribution of income between the peoples.

Escolinhas particulares: estudo de caso de escolas de primeiro grau paralelas ao sistema oficial em Vila Kennedy, R.J.

O presente trabalho tenta conhecer como se apresentam as Escolinhas Particulares ao desenvolverem atividades de ensino regular, a nivel de primeiro grau, na residência de moradores do conjunto habitacional de Vila Kennedy, situado na periferia do Rio de Janeiro. Pretende caracterizar seus professores, bem como a clientela que utiliza este recurso. Procura ainda analisar as funções especificamente educacionais desempenhadas pelas Escolinhas, assim como as funções colaterais, com relação às professoras e às mães dos alunos. O estudo de caso foi elaborado a partir de uma abordagem que combina diferentes tecnicas, numa tentativa de considerar o tema sob vários ângulos. Foram utilizados a observação direta, entrevistas, questionários e ainda fontes documentais. Trabalhou-se com diretores e professoras que atuam nas Escolas Oficiais do conjunto até a quarta serie, professores de Escolinhas Particulares, pais e alunos atendidos por estes ultimos. Constatou-se que as Escolinhas mantem uma relação muito estreita com o sistema oficial de ensino, suplementando a atuação deste. São vistas pelas famílias dos alunos como uma forma de obter sucesso na Escola Oficial, conseguir o diploma e melhorar as condições de vida futura dos filhos, ocupando ainda o tempo livre das crianças. Representa, por outro lado, uma estratégia de sobrevivência da mulher pobre - a professora - que, atuando em sua própria residência, sente como atenuado o problema de sua dupla função: dona de casa e professora.