The purpose of this Thesis was to let a group of six Maori single mothers, depending on Social Welfare, tell the story about their lives, their dreams and thoughts about the future. The queries at issue dealt with topics such as the interview persons (IPs) economy, living standard and family constellations. Other questions dealt with reasons for getting and staying on Social Welfare, interactions

The objective of this essay was to shed light on the problems concerning social policy and employment issues involved in the Czech Republic's accession process into the European Union. Central questions asked was; What does the social policy of the EU, the same policy the Czech Republic is adjusting to, look like? What kind of problems is the Czech Republic experiencing with the adjustment? Ar

My purpose with this essay has been to illuminate the method of treatment in two institutions who claims to be working with a salutogenic line of thought. The target group has been youth delinquents, 15 to 20 years old. My central questions has been; What does the concept of salutogenes and the salutogenic factors mean? What can the method of treatment with a salutogenic line of thougt bring to th

The purpose of this essay was to seek an understanding of what meaning the self-help-groups Alcoholics Anonymous and Sällskapet Länkarna,the Links, have in supporting former addicts to self-enhancement. The essential questions were: - in what way do the individuals describe for them the personal meaning of the AA:s/Links - how do the individuals experience the group - how do the individuals explai

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Pojkar var klart överrepresenterade bland unga lagöverträdare som ställdes inför domstol. Av 45 domar stod pojkarna åtalade i 36 fall och flickorna i 9 fall. Antalet domar där det förekom återfall i brott var totalt 15. Närmare hälften av de flickor som stod åtalade fanns med i belastningsregistret. De flesta pojkar och flickor som stod åtalade var i 16 och 17års åldern. Unga lagöverträdare mellan

This paper is a report from a Minor Field Study conducted in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras. I conducted semi-structured interviews with women subjected to domestic violence with the objective of finding out and highlighting their view on the problem of domestic violence, the Law against Domestic Violence and the institutions connected to it. I further conducted interviews with different profession

Jag har valt att göra en empirisk fältstudie och att skriva om vilka olika redskap och instrument som finns att tillgå i arbetet mot en så god arbetsmiljö som möjligt inom den praktiska verksamheten inom arbetsmiljön i Västra Innerstadens stadsdelsområde i Malmö Kommun, inom Vård och Omsorg. Jag hämtar informationen med de olika instrumenten och åtgärderna från det lokala samverkansavtalet som i s

På frågeställningen om hur smittskyddslagen tillämpas, efterföljs och upplevs blev svaren på de enkäter som delades ut en viktig informationskälla då dessa blev svarade på av människor som är direkt påverkade av SmL. Som ett gemensamt drag över de svaren som skrevs var att de visste om sina rättigheter och skyldigheter, men de tyckte inte att SmL var rättvis mot dem som är hiv positiva. De menade

The Bush administration expanded the executive’s powers in the “war on terror”. This gave the president, according to the administration, authority to detain “en-emy combatants” indefinitely at the US naval base in Guantánamo. The official purpose of the detention centre at Guantánamo was that the suspected terrorists were to be tried in military commissions. The administration bypassed the crimin

In this thesis, the idea of Knowledge Management (KM) and the planning of the introduction of what is called a “KM approach” in the European Parliament (EP) is studied. The first purpose is to analyze how existing KM thoughts can be supplemented by insights from a subset of democratic theory (e-democracy), by placing focus on the elected representative and his or her information needs. Five “democ

Today our conception of the Middle Ages is accompanied by musicians who claim to play "in the old-fashioned way". Nevertheless reconstructions of a concept as abstract as music could be questioned. The purpose of this essay is to illuminate and discuss the conditions of reconstructed medieval music and its relation to the original tradition. What characterizes the music tradition of the

The Scania-HBV model has been used for modeling hydropower generation of California, USA. California is a state with considerable meteorological and hydrological diversity, meanwhile with a total capacity of 14116 MW of 386 hydroelectricity generation units with capacity larger than 0.1 MW, California is the USA’s second largest state on hydropower. For such a giant hydropower state, prediction of

In this changing world it is very useful for organizations as well as for governments to be able to adapt and anticipate future events. Scenario planning is a method which can be used for organizations and governments to better manage this rapid and complex environment, since scenario planning creates plausible and possible future scenarios. The process of this method has been studied in this thes

Product integrity depends on the way the package is handled and transported; therefore packaging has a big impact on logistics, costs and efficiency along the entire distribution chain. Damaged or leaking packages are the result of an inconvenient distribution, and lead to product waste and a negative image of the brands involved. Even though Tetra Pak gives guidelines and recommendations concerni

Although Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written, the novel does not contain any explicit statements of homoeroticism which leaves the novel to be more of a suggestive work of such a theme. The aim of this essay is to examine some of the different codes used by Wilde to show a homoerotic theme in The Picture of Do

Through a survey and interviews, the author examines what reactions and thoughts some Swedish morning newspaper readers and journalists have about climate change and how it is presented in the newspapers. Their expectations and views on the role of the newspapers on the matter are compared. How the way in which climate change is presented in morning newspapers affects the citizens? possibilities t