Today's society demands us, as women and men, to have high expectations to live up to. Those demands reflect the high standard of stereotypical ideals especially for teenagers to be accepted in society. However, it can be seen that societal expectations for both teenage boys and girls are already pre-determined. The purpose of this paper was to identify and demonstrate the problems of teenage

An engineer always strive to help in the continuous exploration of the unknown. By doing so we go further out in space and further down in scale. This is the case with microfluidics which in the last years have gotten a lot of attention. This thesis will examine and better try to understand and optimize a fluidic system that uses ultrasonic trapping. Its application may be everything from enrichin

Through discourse analysis I investigate how the Swedish liberal party, Folkpartiet, constructs two opposing identities in their discourse of alienation (in Swedish utanförskap). I draw from Torben Bech Dyrbergs theory on how identities are constructed through the logics of difference and equivalence (1997). Laclau and Mouffe are the main inspirations for analyzing the organization of the discours

Alignment behavior of states provides an interesting and observable approach to International Politics. This theory testing thesis examines the ways external and internal threats give impact on the alignment behavior of states. Traditional alignment theory, such as Steven Walts Balance-of-Threat, predicts that states balance against their primary external threat by aligning a secondary threat. Ste

In the spring of 2011 a Bamse magazine was launched addressing the asylum-seeking children in Sweden. It was the Migration Board and Egmont Kärnan AB, which through a partnership used Bamse to explain the asylum process for asylum-seeking children. The project was called directional information to asylum-seeking children. A few weeks after the publication of the Bamse magazine media noted the maga

Arguments like religion, tradition, equality and individual rights exist in the debate on the controversial subject of male circumcision. The purpose of this analysis of the argumentation is to clarify how the Swedish legislation on male circumcision does not take in to account the principle of equal treatment between persons of different sex. In addition, violations of rights are identified. The

Syftet med denna uppsats är att, utifrån en utgångspunkt i platsutveckling, utreda och analysera arkitekturens påverkan på en stads attraktivitet och konkurrenskraft. Uppsatsen kommer att behandla ämnet utifrån en fallstudie av Malmö stad och dess två stadsdelar Västra Hamnen och Centrum med fokus på Stortorget och Lilla Torg.

Sen ankomst för arbetstagare är ett problem som sällan tvistas om i domstol, och avgörs inte särskilt ofta till arbetsgivarens favör när denne vill säga upp arbetstagare på denna grund. Uppsatsens syfte är att utreda vad som gäller angående arbetsgivarens uppsägningsrätt i fall av denna typ utifrån diverse rättskällor, och hur frågan hanteras i praktiken av företag och fackliga ombudsmän då det kaLate arrival for work by an employee is an issue that is rarely tested in trial, nor does the employer win cases of this type very often. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the employer’s right to dismiss an employee on this ground. Different sources of law will be used to assess this, coupled with an insight into how the matter is handled in companies and trade union solicitors since thi

Sociala medier så som Facebook, Twitter och bloggar fungerar idag som en viktig kommunikationskanal. Privata åsikter kan via dessa kanaler med ett enkelt knapptryck bli tillgängliga för allmänheten. I uppsatsen undersöks rättsläget gällande offentliganställdas yttrandefrihet vid användning av sociala medier samt den arbetsrättsliga lojalitetsplikten. Offentliganställda har ett starkt skydd för siSocial media such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs are today an important way to communicate. Private opinions can trough these medias become accessible to the public at large. In this thesis the legal situation concerning public sector workers right to express opinions trough social media and the employee´s duty to be loyal is examined. Public employees have a strong protection for the freedom of e

This paper analyses the effects of emigration on unemployment and wages in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. These countries experi-enced large migration outflows following their accession and thus lost a considerable share of their labour force. This presents a good natural experiment to study the impact of emigration on the labour market outcomes

This thesis analyzes the workings of the natural resource curse in Bolivia through a comparison between two periods with different institutional conditions and under dependency on tin and natural gas respectively. First the conditions for handling the resource curse are analyzed and a hypothesis is presented, suggesting that both periods are likely to have suffered from the natural resource curse

Med studien ämnar jag bidra med en djupare förståelse för hur humanitära hjälporganisationer argumenterar för medmänsklighet. Konkret görs detta genom en kvalitativ textanalys av SOSBarnbyars reklamfilm ”Svältkatastrof på Afrikas horn” samt Rädda Barnens reklamfilm ”Livets lotteri”. Syftet är att undersöka texternas sociala och politiska budskap samt deras argumentation för medmänsklighet i dagens

Den rättsliga strukturen som ett aktiebolag är uppbyggd efter består av flera regelsystem. Dessa regelsystem återfinns i aktiebolagslagen och har olika syften. Ett av dessa regelsystem som vi här kallar låneförbudet eller låneförbudsreglerna syftar till att skydda aktiebolagets egna kapital. Låneförbudsreglerna innebär i korthet att man begränsar bolagets lånerätt till fysiska- eller juridiska perThe legal structure that forms the basis of a limited company is made up of several regulatory systems. These regulatory systems are contained in the Swedish Companies Act and have different purposes. One of these systems known as “prohibited loan” or “rules regarding prohibited loans” is aimed at protecting the company's equity capital. These rules basically limit the company's lending ri

This study treats late Jurassic deposits in the Troll field, located 80 km northwest of Bergen. The study is based on well information, published by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, consisting of digital core photos, logs and drilling reports. The investigated wells are located in the Troll Vest field, and consists of wells number 31/2-3, 31/2 -7, 31/2-9 and 31/2-11. The wells illustrate two p

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Hjälper Nhandugue-flodens vatten Urema-sjön i Gorongosa Nationalpark, Moçambique, från att torka ut? I de centrala delarna av Moçambique ligger Gorongosa Nationalpark som skyddar ett omfattande ekosystem av flodplan, gräsmarker och skogsbeklädda områden. Efter drygt 20 år av inbördeskrig hade 1994 antalet stora däggdjur, så som lejon, zebror och bufflar, minskatGorongosa National Park in central Mozambique is situated at the southernmost extension of the East African Rift System (EARS), the Urema Rift. The park is protecting a vast ecosystem of floodplains, grasslands and woody coverage. From 20 years of civil war the large-mammal population in the park had in year 1994 been reduced by 90 % or more, and in 2004 a restoration project was started in order

Den 1 januari 2009 trädde reglerna om ränteavdragsbegränsningar i kraft. Dessa är tillämpliga på koncerninterna andelsförvärv som lånefinansieras koncerninternt. Syftet med reglerna är att förhindra skatteplanering i form av räntesnurror. Skatteverket hade identifierat upplägg där detta förfarande använts i skatteundandragande syfte och när det stod klart att varken korrigeringsregeln eller skatte