Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Oppgaven analyserer amerikansk utenrikspolitisks diskurs med tanke på utfordringer knyttet til NATO. Selv om NATO i utgangspunktet er ansett som en vellykket allianse har den, særlig siden slutten av den kalde krigen, vært ...
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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, 2011)Oppgaven analyserer konsekvensene utdanningsloven No Child Left Behind, vedtatt av Bush-regjeringen, har hatt for innvandrerbarn i USA.Hovedkapitlene evaluerer loven i forhold til lese- og matteferdigheter før og etter No ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The Japanese-American Internment refers to the involuntary incarceration of approximately 120,000 alien-born Issei (first generation born in Japan,) and citizen Nisei (second generation, U.S.-born naturalized citizens of ...
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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, 2023)