Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)In most states, the decennial redistricting is done through a legislative process. This means that lawmakers decide on how electoral districts are formed. This also means that the lawmakers get to choose or reject their ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis investigates how the concept the Arctic is utilized in a Canadian Arctic foreign policy context today. The thesis main argument is that the Canadian government discursively represents the Arctic as a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Former US President Jimmy Carter has made it his goal to spread democracy and peace at a global scale. These goals are sought realized through the work of the Carter Center, and it is the purpose of this thesis to examine ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis explores what the US foreign policy of the Obama administrations and the Trump administration towards the People’s Republic of China has consisted of and discusses what the intention behind the administrations’ ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)From 1932-1968 the so-called New Deal Coalition delivered the White House to the Democratic Party in presidential elections. The two Eisenhower elections in 1952 and 1956 were seen as deviating elections, which due to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)In the intersection between politics, religion and the private sphere of young Americans, this thesis explores the impact of the contemporary evangelical Abstinence movement. The Abstinence movement is a reaction to what ...
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The Experience of Wilderness: An Ecocritical Exploration of the Writings of Bob MarshallRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis is an exploration of a selection of the writings of Robert 'Bob' Marshall. Looking at Marshall's writing through the lens of ecocriticism, this thesis look at first how Marshall documented his own experience ...
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Faith and feminism : evangelicalism, feminism, and the culture wars in the USA, 1970s to the present (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Given the influence of the evangelical population in American society and politics, understanding the forces that have shaped the evangelical movement is vital to enriching our knowledge of American politics and culture. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The United States is going through a major change with the growing influx of non-whites. As of October 2006, at least four states California, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii (and also the District of Colombia) are deemed ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The American 1950s have long been regarded as perhaps the most conformist decade of the 20th century. The leading female ideology was filled with mixed messages about what women should and should not do, and what they could ...
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Forestillinger om Niagara Falls: Hvordan Amerikansk Kultur har Påvirket Stedsidentiteter av Niagara Falls, 1850 - 1955Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Geografisk framstilling har lenge vært et viktig aspekt av nord-amerikansk kultur. Siden oppdagelsen av Amerika har allmennheten fått den nye verden presentert på flere måter; først gjennom beskrivelser og illustrasjoner ...
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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, 2007)In the book Whose Freedom? The Battle over America s Most Important Idea, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff argues that the conservatives in the United States are redefining freedom to mean their version of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis explores the different perspectives that the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have had towards illegal immigration and border enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Subsequently, it also explores what ...
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From Community to Commodity: Management and the Transformation of American Professionalism.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Management is the product of American culture and an American product. By management I do not refer to specific individuals or groups in charge of supervision or administration, nor to the act of coping with or handling ...
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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, 2012)This thesis investigates discourses on masculinity in the 1950s’ U.S. against Elaine Tyler May’s postulation that in the postwar years a policy of domestic containment ensured that white, middle-class Americans focused ...
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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, 2011)This thesis investigates the formation and reformulation of a distinct Norwegian-Canadian identity in western Canada. It argues that Norwegian immigrants to Canada in the beginning of the twentieth century adapted to ...