Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)In using presidential signing statements strategically, President George W. Bush attempts to turn an otherwise symbolic gesture into a line-item veto prerogative. With this hypothesis as a starting point, this thesis ...
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Intersectionality in Fox Network's Empire: Affirming how and why Jamal Lyon Provides Rare Representational ValueRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)The world of Film and TV has consistently and historically misrepresented, restricted or ridiculed on-screen gayness, especially when that gayness has intersected blackness. This thesis presents the Lee Daniels created TV ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)On November 4, 1979, Iranian revolutionaries seized the American embassy in Tehran and took hostage 66 American diplomats and citizens. In the midst of the massive national celebration sparked by the eventual release of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis examines how the American counterinsurgency effort is developing in three provinces of northeastern Afghanistan: Kunar, Nangarhar and Nuristan. Also, it examines what features of the relationship between Pakistan ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)A group of teenagers use a privately owned shopping centre to gather support for a petition to the United Nations. A guard informs them that the owner of the property does not allow any public communications other than ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The thesis seeks to accomplish two things. First and foremost, it is an inquiry into the reasons for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq that takes into account multiple dimensions of the decision-making process. This is ...
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Male imitations : a look at gender performance and the representation of masculinity in The O.C.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis examines teen soap The O.C. s representation of gender and masculinity. The study employs a social constructivist view of gender, particularly inspired by Judith Butler s work. Moreover, theories on masculinity, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession created much ambivalence about free market economics as a viable way to achieve sustainable economic growth in the United States. Despite a robust recovery the downward ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis will survey the reasons for the lack of a leftist or social-democratic party in America. I will make an attempt to show that although weak there is a left tradition in the U.S. It is in this context that Senator ...