Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis is a comparative analysis of four counter-cultural novels, as well as a comparison between the counter-culture in the 1950’s and the 1990’s. In my thesis I have analyzed why and how the main character in each ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Tendensen til å lese politiske og sosiale spørsmål i USA igjennom myten om grenselandskapet har lenge vært et kontroversielt tema i Amerikansk historiografi. Selv om nasjonalmyten i USA har mottatt sterk kritikk fra ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis examines how soccer functions as part of the construction of contemporary Mexican-American and Polish-American ethnicity in Chicago. It does this by addressing three related sub-topics. First, it explores how ...
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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, 2010)Oppgaven tar for seg muligheter og begrensninger for å oppnå grønn økonmisk vekst innenfor det moderne økonomiske systemet. Oppgaven innebefatter også en case study fra Iowa hvor den ser på hvordan den fornybare energi ...
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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, 2017)This thesis empirically examines the manner in which gender shaped the media coverage of the 2016 United States Presidential Election through the news frames that were employed to discuss Hillary Rodham Clinton and her ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The history of same-sex marriage litigation has often been a story of courts making decisions in opposition to public opinion, which as a result has created powerful political backlash. George N. Rosenberg has argued that ...
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The Home Identity Idea: How Good Homes Can Urge People to Make Environmentally Friendly ChoicesRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis is a discussion on how we identify with the place we live and how we can make good places to live now and in the future. The idea is that if we feel at home in and identify with the place we live, we want to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The United States of America has one of the largest female prison populations in the world. American society has, since the 1980s, locked up more women than ever before due to harsher penalties for non-violent drug offenses. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis sets out to explore the expression of dissent and social protest in African American music, namely blues and hip hop. My argument is that African American music, and these two genres in particular, has been an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The American Presidential Election and its debates are exciting to watch. However, one could claim that they also contribute largely to the continued polarisation of the USA and its citizens. After the 2016 election, both ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis discusses the usefulness of the concept of bioregionalism as a social and cultural environmental practice, and as a response to the environmental crisis of our time. The thesis addresses an important issue in ...
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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 ...