Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis examines how Christian Anglo-American ideas about religion and nature, and the relationship between the two, has affected the establishment of the National Parks System and the legislation of nature and religious ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The presented Masters Thesis seeks do develop a better understanding of the relationship between American foreign aid, American foreign policy traditions, American foreign policy towards Afghanistan for the years 2007-2012, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis concentrates on a specific aspect of the Euro-American relationship, namely American responses to European regionalism. Furthermore, the intent here is to perform a historical and theoretical analysis of two ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis aims to apply Segmented Assimilation Theory to the Arab-American community in Metropolitan Detroit. Segmented assimilation theory relates to second-generation immigrants, and proposes three possible ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)One of the leading scholars on Norwegian American ethnic identity, Odd S. Lovoll, has argued that ski jumping was an "ethnic forte" for Norwegian immigrants in the U.S. This thesis tests and interprets Lovoll's statement ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The conflict thesis and the segmented assimilation theory account for two of the most significant trends in American immigration and ethnicity studies. Both of these major theoretical styles are utterly pessimistic towards ...
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Becoming American : Gender Identities and Cultural Assimilation of Jewish Women in the United StatesRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)I nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious prescriptions had important implications for the position of women in Jewish communities. Generally, it was recognized that, through their children, women molded the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores the liminal lesbian spaces established within heteronormative American society in the 1950s, both in the historical and literary context. It examines the spaces of suburban homes, sorority houses, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The thesis investigates the relationship between international education and international politics. This task is carried out by conducting a survey of the influences of American foreign policy on the United States' ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis analyzes the campaign rhetoric of John McCain and Barack Obama in the context of Lynn Vavreck's theory of clarifying and insurgent campaigns, and finds that the onset of the financial crisis constrained the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis examines how the dominant ideas about social class in American political discourse have been challenged by the rhetoric of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the 2016 presidential primary election. Through critical ...
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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 / Masteroppgave, 2007)Health care reform has been part of the political left s agenda since the New Deal. It was an important and highly visual policy area for the new activist state that emerged after Franklin D. Roosevelt s legislative ...
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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)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, 2023)In 1980s America, there was a strong push towards the far right politically, religiously, and culturally. As moral and Satanic panics swept the nation, conservative groups and activists flourished. One conservative endeavor ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an answer to the following research question: why and how did the Republican Party benefit from the increased flow of money outside traditional party structures which resulted from ...
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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 ...