News value is an essential part of which event media chooses to report about. Political events consider to bee news with potentional large value. Media has an enormous power and possibility to create news and construct there own reality and where the readers is given a false expression of what really happened. Today the media must show profit and that indirect affects how the media choose to descr

The aim of this essay is to examine in what ways fiction is used as a forum for discussing female intellectuality in George Eliot's Middlemarch and Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night. Comparing two works from such different genres as the Victorian novel and the detective novel, the study deals with the novels' treatment of education for women, the depiction of intellectual women, and the d

Container Security Initiative was launched in 2002 by the US Customs and Border Patrol in order to secure the global flow of containers destined for USA. This thesis attempts to analyze Container Security Initiative in relation to a possible future scenario made by the weapons industry where the state's global traderoutes are being subject to militarization. A development which is partly based

Internet access has been a part of the range in public libraries for approximately a decade. The Swedish municipals, in charge of the public libraries, and the libraries themselves, have a great deal of saying in how they should be run, what to offer the public, how many hours they have to stay open etcetera. The Library law is very vague on many things, including public Internet access. Even thou

Vi har valt att undersöka Ungdomstinget med fokus på inflytande och lärande. Syftet med detta arbete är att genom en fallstudie undersöka Ungdomstinget i Lund avseende delaktighet, medborgarfostran och bildning. Ungdomstinget är en arena för ungdomsdemokrati, en plats där engagemang och inflytande skapar bildning och lärande i en demokratifostran för Lunds ungdomar. Detta har vi undersökt genom kv

According to the Swedish Red Cross, there are over 40 million people fleeing from war and conflict around the world. Some of these individuals are suffering from a disorder named PTSD (Post Traumatic Disorder Syndrome). This disorder is caused by previous experience incurred by war, conflict and violence. My intention with this study has been to increase the knowledge about refugees in Sweden suff

This paper investigates how Iraqi people living in Sweden are portrayed by Swedish media. The studies have been done through reading and examine thirtyone articles from four different newspapers. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are stereotyping and the discourse of "the other". From this perspective articles have been selected in order to find examples of if Iraqis are des

Det har alltid funnits en önskan att effektivisera processer vilket kan vara en anledning till varför teambuilding idag har blivit en vanligare insats i arbetslivet. Om teambuilding är ett fenomen som kan öka effektiviteten ställer man sig undrande till varför åsikten om det pendlar från entusiastiska rapporter till ett starkt ifrågasättande. Syftet med uppsatsen var att få grepp om termen teambui

Syftet med studien var att undersöka huruvida det finns ett samband mellan upplevt ledarskap, arbetstillfredsställelse och mental hälsa bland kyrkoherdar i Lunds stift. Ytterligare ett syfte med studien var att undersöka huruvida manliga och kvinnliga kyrkoherdar skiljer sig signifikant vad gäller upplevt ledarskap, arbetstillfredsställelse och mental hälsa. 41 kyrkoherdar från Lunds stift besvara

Uppsatsen studerar demokratiaspekter i den skånska revisionen. Forskarnas oenighet om påståendena; "i revisionens arbete innefattas enbart ekonomi" och "revision har kvalitativa och demokratiska aspekter" genomsyrar uppsatsen. Med hjälp av idéanalys studeras granskningsrapporter utförda åren 2002 och 2008 utav Region Skånes revisorer. Region Skåne som självstyrelseorgan bil

Vi har valt att undersöka Ungdomstinget med fokus på inflytande och lärande. Syftet med detta arbete är att genom en fallstudie undersöka Ungdomstinget i Lund avseende delaktighet, medborgarfostran och bildning. Ungdomstinget är en arena för ungdomsdemokrati, en plats där engagemang och inflytande skapar bildning och lärande i en demokratifostran för Lunds ungdomar. Detta har vi undersökt genom kv

The Aquatic Ape theory was first formulated by Alister Hardy in year 1960. All from the beginning the theory has been criticized, ridiculed, ignored and a source to strong feelings in the anthropological community. The purpose of this essay is to investigate why the Aquatic Ape theory is so controversial and why it is understood so differently by scientists. After interviews with Swedish scientist

Denna studie avser att ta reda på och skapa en bild av hur verksamma gymnasielärare i svenska kan tillämpa ett demokratimål. Frågeställningen blir således: Hur kan svensklärare uppfatta, tolka och tillämpa, att eleven "genom olika texter och medier blir förtrogen med grundläggande demokratiska [...] värden men också medveten om destruktiva krafter att reagera emot"?

Genom en textanalys av författaren Maja Lundgrens bok Myggor och Tigrar undersöker uppsatsen skönlitterära texters möjlighet att förändra kvinnors positioner och potentialer. I den teoretiska bakgrunden redogörs för såväl historisk som nutida självbiografiforskning med fokus på diskussioner kring sanningsanspråk, textens konstituerande karaktär och specifikt feministisk forskning på området. Med b

Swedish migration law states that a person who wants to seek a residence permit based on family ties has to apply from the home country. This essay applies to cases when families that live in Sweden have to come apart when one parent has to return to the home country to seek a permit to which he or she is entitled. The rule causes families unnecessary suffering. This essay analyzes the reasons be

Several theoretical models of change exist concerning attachment, but an integrated view and knowledge of the role separate factors of change play for the individual is lacking. This phenomenon is hereby studied by semi-structured interviews of 20 persons. Change and factors of change are examined statistically with affectregulation as measure of attachment. The results show that these individuals

In Sweden there are laws and recommendations from The National Board of Health and Welfare about the importance of a user's involvement in and possibility of influencing services directed at them. Even with such good intentions the same board reports that it is hard to know if people experience that they do. The purpose of my study was to examine how professionals can use their knowledge to he