Browsing Nord-Amerikakunnskap by Title
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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)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis tests Niall Ferguson's idea of the United States as a potential liberal empire as a possible mandate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Through using Ferguson's hypothesis as a mandate, the thesis touches on crucial ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Although Jim Jarmusch is one of the most important and critically acclaimed American filmmakers of the past decades, his work has largely been ignored by scholars. Consequently, my analysis of Stranger than Paradise (1984), ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Denne oppgaven er om det konservative amerikanske magasinet "The Weekly Standard" i årene 1995-2005. Den ser på dekningen av utenrikspolitikk, med fokust på militære intervensjoner, Irak, Afghanistan og terrorisme.
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The presidency of George W. Bush was a period of controversy. The foreign policy that the administration implemented would be criticized both inside of the United States and across the world. The purpose of this thesis is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The debated “new environmentalism” seeks to incorporate social and cultural dimensions in a movement criticized for its narrow scientific and aesthetic focus. A fundamental presupposition for this approach is that environmental ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This Master’s thesis explores the question of how Wall Street, as a special interest group in American political life, was able to translate economic power into political power in the 1990s. The theoretical basis of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The purpose of this thesis is to look at how white organized racist characters are portrayed on television by taking a closer look at the white organized racist characters portrayed in Oz, Sons of Anarchy and Justified. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis aims to show the significance the power to define may have. It analyzes the policy process and policy outcomes regarding the status, treatment and form of trial given to the “enemy combatants” during the George ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The issuance of executive orders is one out of several tools that presidents have at their disposal, which they can apply in order to implement policies and more controversially to expand their powers. Throughout the ...