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University of Otago Dissertations, including Masters, Honours and Postgraduate Diploma level, are not subject to the same quality assurance process required of theses. The dissertations in OUR Archive were selected for inclusion by each Department in recognition of their demand, unique content and high standard of research. Access is provided with the author’s agreement.
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(Dissertation, B.A. (Hons.), 2012)This dissertation examines the impact of viewing images in motion compared to when static. This is achieved through an analysis of the film Olympia compared to the photographic book Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf In doing ... -
(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma, 1990)In 1981 as a bewildered third former I marched up Queen Street in Auckland to protest against the Springbok tour. At the time I knew it was for the better good, yet the next day at rugby practise I had trouble explaining ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), 1982)Coal mining is an industry about which people have held and still hold a number of misconceptions. Much of this fact lies purely in lack of understanding for it seems coal mines have always been shunned by the wider ... -
(Dissertation, BAppSc. (Hons.), 2014)Six structurally controlled gold deposits are hosted within two different structural blocks in the Old Man Range area. The mineralised lodes are hosted in normal faults which cut steeply across the host schistosity. In the ... -
(Dissertation, B. Sc. (Hons.), 1994)The Otago block mountains are important water supply areas with their abundant water yield attributed to conservative water use by narrow-leaved snow tussock (Chionochloa rigida), the dominant vegetation cover of the region. ... -
(Dissertation, B.A. (Hons.), 1988)In 1973 the Labour government introduced a statutory benefit for unmarried mothers, separated and divorced women. It was called the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Although unmarried mothers were only one group covered ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Laws (Hons), 2007)Although it is clear from the Act that a person can be in more than one qualifying relationship at a time, the courts have shown themselves to be reluctant to recognise contemporaneous relationships as falling within the ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), 1991)[…] Although all of these styles existed to a limited extent in Dunedin and the other musical centres, outsiders tend to notice what existed in large numbers, and label that unique. The guitar sound and its 'jangle' and ... -
(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, 2011)This dissertation is an examination of the monochromatic paintings and associated writings of Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) and Yves Klein (1928-1962). Since its inception in 1918, the modern monochromatic painting has continued ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), 2001)Music is a form of self-expression, community or national culture, political voice and ethnic identity, among many other things. This dissertation examines the way that music can be a central influence to life for women, ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), 1984)Sport plays a special role in New Zealand society, and one sport, rugby, dominates all others in terms or time, interest and participation. The 'national game' has helped to shape New Zealanders' perceptions or themselves, ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Laws (Hons), 2001)Section 2(4) of the Criminal Justice Amendment Act (No 2) 1999 is incompatible with the cardinal tenets of a liberal democracy. This Court would be compromising its judicial function if it did not alert Parliament in the ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts Honours, 2015)This dissertation examines archaeological study of shell adzes in the Pacific. It provides a critical review of archaeological methodology and terminology used in descriptive analysis of this artefact class. It raises ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), 1995)Societal change begins when the perceptions of an individual or a group are altered. A change in perception can lead to conflict if not all members of a society hold the new belief at the same time. This study looks at how ... -
(Dissertation, Diploma for Graduates, 2015)It is by now almost self-‐evident that binary models of the highly nuanced concept of gender are at best incomplete, and limit understanding of the diversity of gender expression. In this work, I summarise and critique ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), 1989)The exile of Maori prisoners to Dunedin in 1869 and again in 1879, was due to the Northern wars and the confiscation of land in Taranaki by the Government. Maori never accepted the 'justice' imposed on them and active ... -
(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, 1987)The development of a superannuation policy in New Zealand since 1970 has been the result of a search for effectiveness in an area of large Government spending on welfare. The positions developed by the two major political ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Science with Honours, 1974)Volcanogenic sediments of the Lower Permian Takitimu Group into the Gladstone Peak area are mapped and sub-divided into seven lithofacies. Some of the lithofacies indicate a shallow marine near shore environment, others ... -
(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Science, 1972)In the Inangahua and Fletcher Creek areas, North Westland, Greenland Group greywackes and argillites, into which the Tuhua Group granitic rocks have intruded, are unconformably overlain by lower Tertiary to lower Pleistocene ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Science with Honours, 1991)Large quantities of pesticides have been used for many years in New Zealand to control agricultural and horticultural pests. The fate of a pesticide after application as a powder or solution to the target organism depends ...
