Sökning: "The Inheritance Cycle"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden The Inheritance Cycle.

  1. 1. Are they heroes? A character study of Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Andreas Forsell; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Hero; Fantasy; Hegemonic Masculinity; tropes; traits;

    Sammanfattning : This essay will study how the two main characters Eragon and Roran in Christopher Paolini’s fantasy series The Inheritance Cycle conform to the literary ideal of the hero and traits of a traditional male according to Jeffrey A. Brown and Leanna Madell who both use Hegemonic Masculinity Theory. LÄS MER

  3. 2. En bonn är alltid en bonn : Klassresan som motiv i Vilhelm Mobergs emigrantepos och Christopher Paolins Inheritance Cycle

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Erica Jonasson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Vilhelm Mober; klass; klassresa; Christopher Paolini; Eragon; Inheritance Cycle;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis discusses if the hero’s journey in the fantasy genre could be seen as a journey through social classes. By comparing Paolin’s Eragon’s journey to that of Moberg’s Karl Oskar’s with a focus on the home, education and the chosen one trope via the concepts skogsgång (to go into the forest) and return the thesis concludes that many of the steps necessary for social mobility is also necessary in the hero’s journey, and that the change between social classes can be an answer to the heroes isolation in the end of their stories. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Effects of Inheritance Expectation on Current Economic Behavior

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Erik Lundberg; [2020]
    Nyckelord :inheritance expectations; labor income; savings; consumption;

    Sammanfattning : According to the standard life-cycle hypothesis, all expected future incomes should be incorporated into an individual’s life-time budget and therefore affect current economic behavior. As inheritances can be anticipated to some extent, I test if expectations on receiving an inheritance in the future affect individuals’ current decisions about their labor supply, savings and consumption. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Pyometra hos hund : skyddande respektive predisponerande faktorer

    Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Författare :Emelie Hedlund Salenstedt; [2018]
    Nyckelord :pyometra; hund; livmoderinflammation; ålder; riskfaktorer; ras; dräktighet; skendräktighet; hormonbehandling;

    Sammanfattning : Pyometra är en allvarlig och utbredd sjukdom som främst drabbar äldre, intakta tikar. Sjukdomen utvecklas under lutealfasen och karaktäriseras av en inflammation och varansamling i uterus. Den vanligaste åtgärden är kastration. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Life, Death, and Taxes: The Evolution of Household Saving in Sweden

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Mark Conrad; Katharina Huhn; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Household Saving; Saving Determinants; Income Tax; Inheritance Tax; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden, from the late 1990s to the present day, has seen a pronounced and prolonged increase in its household saving rate. This change seems opposite to what most common theoretical saving models would predict. Our study aims to investigate what caused Sweden's diversion from its past and expected saving behaviour. LÄS MER