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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Oppgaven min er en case study om bedrifters samfunnsansvar. Jeg forsket på hvorvidt Nike har forandret sin oppførsel til det bedre i tråd med sine standarder for sosialt samfunnsansvar. Formålet med oppgaven min var å finne ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)In this thesis I look at the critical reception of five of Margaret Atwood’s works. I consider reviews from large American newspapers and magazines, and my aim is to see whether Atwood’s gender influences the reception of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)In the post-9/11 atmosphere, a number of things changed in American society, including the relationship between the presidential administration and the news media. The Bush administration openly stated that it did not ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis sets out to explore how Americanization of Europe has developed through the last century. How it has been an official goal of the United States to render Europe, making it more alike the United States, and how ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The objective of the thesis was to explore and interpret the theories of the new assimilation canon and the assimilation processes of non-white immigrants, and then primarily the Asian immigrants who arrived after the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)Abstract This thesis analyzes the implementation of affirmative action in higher education with African Americans as its beneficiaries. The thesis has briefly presented the arguments both pro and counter affirmative action ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis is concerned with exploring shifts in the relationship of American culture to nature produced by the rise of modernity. In the 1890s Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that, though officially closed, the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The debated “new environmentalism” seeks to incorporate social and cultural dimensions in a movement criticized for its narrow scientific and aesthetic focus. A fundamental presupposition for this approach is that environmental ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Abstract This thesis analyzes how four popular combat films produced by Hollywood portray and interprets important events in American history. The films exemplify how American cinema has varied in its portrayal of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The goal of this thesis is to shed light on a part of the story of American hardcore, a part that in my view has not been given the space it deserves. Women in punk and hardcore do not own a place in the history of their ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he had laid out a conservative agenda for shaping the federal courts. He criticized the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, for its activism on behalf of the rights ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), located in the Northeastern corner of Alaska, has for the last three decades been the focus of one of the most contentious land-use conflicts in the United States. As a result ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This study aims at substantiating the hypothesis that there was no significant difference in the amount of important legislation enacted during unified or divided governments during the George W. Bush administration, but ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” The First Amendment made ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The thesis looks at the strategies American presidents have used to communicate with the public in relation to the available media channels. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama are used as examples of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)From the post-9/11 period up till today we have seen a number of films with a transnational theme and content emerging from Hollywood’s major studios. The growing number of films, containing traces of transnationality and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) has rarely been considered a film noir. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the film has any noirish qualities. The Night of the Hunter lacks most noir ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis aims to show the significance the power to define may have. It analyzes the policy process and policy outcomes regarding the status, treatment and form of trial given to the “enemy combatants” during the George ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Analyserer amerikansk landbrukspolitikk fra 1800 til 2002. Landbrukslovgivningen i 1996 satte amerikansk landbrukspolitikk i retning av et fritt marked, men denne politikken ble reversert av landbrukslovginingen i 2002. ...