The aim of this thesis is firstly to demonstrate how an ideal of symbiosis permeates our cultures writing of love stories, and to demonstrate the oppressive mechanisms within this ideal. I suggest an ideal of symbiosis as being oppressive in itself, by placing it under the psychoanalytical subject-object paradigm, where the subject can never perceive of the other as anything but a rejected or inco

Den här uppsatsen syftar till att med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys studera hur fyra medier beskriver händelserna i Beslan mellan första och tredje september 2004 för att se vilka skillnader och likheter som finns emellan dessa medier och om en indelning i västerländska och ryska medier är möjlig. Det skall även undersökas ifall dessa skillnader och likheter är tillräckliga för att dra slutsatsen

Author: Dennis Andersson & Simon Larsson Title: Contact wanted- a study about social secretaries and contacts perceptions regarding the intervention contact person Supervisor: Norma Montesino Assessor: Lars Harrysson The purpose of this study was to examine social secretaries and contact persons in their perception on the intervention contact person. More specifically the study’s aim was to i

This paper is an analytical study of the Indian cultural elements in Ginsberg’s life and work, focusing on Indian Journals: March 1962 - May 1963. The aim is twofold: firstly the study explores close-readings of poetry and prose from Indian Journals. The study also focuses on his poetic aesthetics and specific themes in Indian Journals and relates them to incidents of his personal life in a larger

This study aims at using facial material to see if the material can be remembered and intentionally forgotten through a think/no-think task in which participants are cued to think about some face pair combinations and not think about other face pairs combinations. To do this a think/no-think paradigm is used. An experiment has been conducted in which the participants learned pairs of faces (one ma

This study will try to determine the volatility of the stock returns of various financial institutions in Germany during the time period 1998-2007. The reasoning behind targeting Germany is that it is commonly known as one of the most stable and reliable economies in Europe, where Germany has been chosen as a representative case. The study employs a multifactor model, which incorporates interest r

This Report presents an evaluation method for fire and rescue service management. It focuses on success criteria and lays the groundwork for answering the question What is good management? In this report fire and rescue service management is defined as complex and the fire and rescue service as a complex system. This complicates evaluation, which now has to include complexity. A major part of this

ABSTRACT The paper will describe the comparative study of the GST bill 2010 of Pakistan and the EU VAT. The Bill is drafted for the purpose to introduce the modern VAT in Pakistan. The comparative study has been made to analyze the basic concept and difference of both these legal instruments. The difference between both these legislations makes the GST Bill vulnerable to the tax abuse or tax evasi

Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av ett utdrag ur en amerikansk kriminalbok som är grundligt baserad på en verklig händelse. Uppsatsen består av två delar – först en analys av källtexten som framför allt utgår från Hellspong och Ledins (1997) textanalysmetod, och sedan följer en kommentar på översättningen där jag diskuterar mina tillvägagångssätt med sådant som varit problema

This essay analyses to what extent the Latin American countries of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, within the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), fulfil the criteria for an optimum currency area (OCA). It does so by applying the theory of optimum currency areas (Mundell 1961), and by examining the different factors of asymmetric s

The objective of this comparative study has been to investigate how and if cannabis use constitutes a social problem in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The purpose was to gain an understanding of how different political, institutional and legal environments might affect the understanding of cannabis use and the constitution of social problems. The empirical material consists of 21 interviews with cannab

According to the World Bank Group, social capital is an important factor in the process of fighting poverty in developing countries, and some researchers mean that cooperative organizations are the ultimate business model to create social capital (Majee & Hoyt, 2011). The aim of this study is to investigate whether or not social capital is emerging in a Philippine water cooperative, funded by

The pourpose of this thesis was to investigate how counselors working at the youth clinic views the clinic's function and how they address teenagers' sexuality. Four different counselors in Skåne, Sweden were interviewed, using a qualitity approach. The result shows that the counselors considered the youth clinic as a free zone for young people and a meeting place where they can be compreh

Author: Anette Olsson Title: Have a drink – be a sport? Study of a reader debate concerning the drinking habits of parents on Aftonbladet.se. Supervisor: Håkan Jönson The aim of this study is to through a readers debate, sparked by an article in the media, look at as to whether the drinking habits of a parent could be considered as being problematic or not. I chose to view the debate from a social

Med uppsatsen har vi bidragit till att skapa en större förståelse för de faktorer som påverkat spridningen av modulhus inom bostadsmarknaden för studentbostäder. Vår huvudsakliga slutsats är att den svenska marknaden för bostadsbyggande i allmänhet och för studentbostäder i synnerhet gör kommunen till avgörande för spridningen av modulhus. Kommunernas perceptioner av modulhusens relativa fördelar

Focus in this examination project is put on researching basic techniques for structuring decision-making and pathfinding for the artificial intelligence in computer games. Already implemented examples of these structures are summarized and compared to each other to choose fitting solutions to use together with the game engine Unity for the development of a specific game called Unkown. For decision

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa förståelse för närvaron och skapandet av ett systematiskt säkerhetsarbete och en säkerhetskultur inom en sjukhusorganisation. Uppsatsen kommer att fokusera på två organisatoriska nivåer, administration och professionella utövare, inom ett sjukhus i södra Sverige och studera deras förhållningssätt och arbete kring systematiskt säkerhetsarbete och säkerhe

Sammanfattning Titel: Från ensam till en i mängden – en studie om val, krav och förväntningar på den omreglerade apoteksmarknaden. Universitet/ Institution: Institutionen för Service Management vid Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg. Kurs: SMKK01 Nivå: Kandidatuppsats, 15 hp Författare: Jon Ekelund Nilsson, Josefin Lidberg, Wiktoria Pawyza Handledare: Birgitta Olsson & Eva Åström Problemdis

The purpose of my study was to examine care staff and unit heads perceptions and experiences in cultural meetings, both within the staff groups and within the recipients of care in the home service. I wanted to investigate what these cultural meetings means in the work with the elderly, how it is noticed and affects their work. The study is based on a qualitative research method with interviews of