Sökning: "manifest destiny"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden manifest destiny.

  1. 1. “Det mäktigaste landet i världen”: En diskursanalys av USA:s identitetsskapande genom kärnvapenstrategi under president Obama respektive Trump

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Michael Holmberg; [2022-04-07]
    Nyckelord :identity; poststructuralism; US foreign policy; nuclear strategy; Nuclear Posture Review NPR ;

    Sammanfattning : This bachelor thesis analyzes how identity is constructed through US nuclear strategy along three themes. The research questions are: which similarities and differences exist between the US nuclear strategy during Presidents Obama and Trump, regarding: a) self image; b) enemy image; c) friend image? The theoretical framework is structured according to the three themes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Graham Hepworth; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Marxism; Victorian; antebellum; Romanticism; Realism; feudalism; bourgeois; aristocracy; capitalism; manifest destiny;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Frihetens kamp mot ondskan. Nationellt meningsskapande i USA efter den 11 september 2001

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för tematisk utbildning och forskning

    Författare :Kjerstin Andersson; [2002]
    Nyckelord :Interdisciplinary studies; nation; diskuranalys; retorikanalys; USA; terrorism; 11 september; Manifest Destiny; grand narrative; TVÄRVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : This is a paper about the process of creating meaning in speeches held by president Bush after the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. People need tools to orient and understand the surrounding world. They need to create a meaningful orientation in a chaotic world. Some meaning is favoured due to the prevailing social structures. LÄS MER