Sökning: "the american act"

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1. 1. “A guy got to sometimes” : Hegemonic masculinity and male homosociality in Of Mice of Men, by John Steinbeck

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Abigail Piper Sandström; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Masculinity; Steinbeck; Homosociality; American Literature; Hegemonic masculinity; Gender; Male Studies;

   Sammanfattning : John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men explores themes of morality and masculinity through its many male characters. With the use of hegemonic masculinity theory, this essay analyzes how different elements of masculinity are characterized, constructed, and valued in relation to one another. LÄS MER

3. 2. Ron DeSantis utbildningspolitik : Analys av de konservativa idéerna bakom politiken

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Författare :Isabelle Rezapoori; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Ron DeSantis; republikansk guvernör; republikansk delstatspolitiker; utbildningspolitik; konservatism; kvalitativ idéanalys;

   Sammanfattning : Ron DeSantis has become one of the most important and debated American politicians in recent years largely because of his education policies. This thesis aims to study the existence of conservatism in his laws Stop WOKE Act, Parental Rights in Education Act, and HB 1069 with research questions formulated to study the laws’ conservative idea structures and their similarities and differences. LÄS MER

4. 3. Visualisering av tystade historier - En dekolonial kulturanalys av verket I firandet av vår kamp finns deras undergång

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Författare :Jennifer Turano; [2023-08-09]
   Nyckelord :Memorials; Whiteness; Non-whiteness; Decolonial artivism; Decolonial theory; Post-immigrant generations; Racism; Memory;

   Sammanfattning : The dominant narrative of history, prevalent in Sweden, is of a country which has no structural racism and that had no part in the colonization of the Americas or in the transatlantic slave trade. This is far from the truth, and this study connects Sweden’s role in the slave trade and as a country with colonial ambitions, as well as its history of racial biology, with the racialization of non-white bodies. LÄS MER

5. 4. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
   Nyckelord :English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

   Sammanfattning : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. LÄS MER

7. 5. Strengthening Sovereignty or Creating Dependence : A study on the United Nations and the Dodd-Frank Act’s effect on the autonomy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in mineral conflicts

   Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

   Författare :Linn Runesson; Victoria Basualdo; [2023]
   Nyckelord :The Democratic Republic of Congo; DRC; The United Nations; UN; MONUSCO; Peacekeeping Operations; conflict; the Dodd-Frank Act; minerals; peacekeeping; dependence; dependency; neo-colonialism; autonomy; aid;

   Sammanfattning : As the global demand for natural resources grows, conflicts and instability surrounding minerals and resources continue to mark the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation MONUSCO has been deployed in the DRC since 2010, and that same year, the United States (US) established the Dodd-Frank Act with its Section 1502 concerning conflict minerals originating from the DRC. LÄS MER