This paper is an intertextual study of the biblical allusions in Carlo Collodis 19th century childrens book "Pinocchio", where the issue is to find out whether the biblical allusions are being used in an educative purpose or not. I.e. if the allusions increase the young audiences' appal for the immoral protagonist Pinocchio, or if they rather heighten his heroical air.

Many attempts at explainging the difficulty of the discrepancy between between the discourses of the Israeli Arab conflict have been made by many scholars throughout the years. This thesis will focus on two different cases of the greater conflict; the Gaza War in 2008-2009, and the Lebanon War in 2006. The attempt is to analyze the discourse of righteousness in both cases, based on an understandin

The purpose of this study was to examine the subjective experience of schizophrenia. Four people, two of them diagnosed with schizophrenia and two relatives, were interviewed. The themes selected were development of the disease, recovery, belief in the future, the role of families and siblings, stigmatization and the relationship between violent crimes and mental illness. The development and exper

Author: Annika Lund Lagerberg, Ylva Blom Title: Conflict and conflict managment in elderly care settings - From a unit managers point of view [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Susanna Johansson The aim of this study was to determine the factors that contributes to conflict and how the unit managers manage and prevent these conflicts. We have chosen to examine conflicts from t

The Court decision in Daily Mail has come as a result of the resolution of the Member States to endorse a plurality of national legal solutions in the field of tax and corporate laws. The free movement provisions must be understood against this background and keeping in mind that no matter which “interface program” is to be used the system as a whole, i.e. the internal market, must be effective an

This study analyzes the relationship between structural change and income distribution and poverty in ASEAN-4 countries –Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines, over the last three decades. In particular, the study seeks to find out extent to which and how structural change would affect income distribution and poverty in ASEAN-4 countries. Accordingly, two methodological approaches are ado

Abstract Authors: Emelie Nilsson & Mairi Winbladh Title: Changing fathering roles with the internet as a venue (translated title) Supervisor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of our study was to collect material from male Swedish bloggers that themed their blog about fatherhood. We wanted to distinguish if there were any factors visible through a blog that could create, uphold or change the

This paper investigates whether the German Stock is efficient or not, i.e. whether there is a way to systematically beat the market. Within this framework momentum strategies with formation and holding periods over 3- to 12-month horizons are applied on the CDAX. The results do not show clear signs of market inefficiencies. While momentum strategies were successful in 67% of the cases, the winner

The purpose of this research is to find out the factors which can help SMEs to enhance organizational learning in a dynamic strategic alliance within an international context. In order to answer the research questions, a case study is conducted. By using a qualitative method, the empirical data is collected through six semi-structured interviews in the case companies. In this research, a theoretic

Syftet med studien var att undersöka eventuell differens mellan den manifesta bild ett företag ger av sig själv, utifrån Employer Branding, och hur de nuvarande anställda upplever att denna information överensstämmer med verkligheten. Undersökningen utfördes som en kvalitativ fallstudie på ett företag med utgångspunkt i information från företaget, bestående av en pilotintervju med personalansvarig

Uppsatsen undersöker hur nya ord och uttryck uppkommer i kinesiska Internetskämt, egao, samt vilka funktioner den här typen av skämt fyller i dagens Kina. Uppsatsen behandlar främst skriftliga former av egao (såsom ordlekar, dikter och påhittade ord och tecken) och försöker ta reda på hur dessa påverkar det kinesiska samhället och vilka funktioner de kan tänkas fylla. Slutsatserna blir att även omThis essay investigates the background as well as the present and potential functions of egao, Chinese Internet spoofing. It focuses on the forms egao assumes in writing and analyzes how its practice of playing with and inventing words influences the Chinese society. Discussing the emergence of new expressions in text-based egao, this essay concludes that this kind of spoofing pushes the boundarie

This essay argues that acedia is a helpful concept in illuminating the fiction of the American author David Foster Wallace, particularly his unfinished novel The Pale King. Following a brief biographical sketch of Wallace, the essay explores the development of the term acedia—which means something along the lines of apathy, sloth, and listlessness—and the two types of acedia: personal acedia and t

Arbetslösheten är hög i Europa idag och bidrar till ett utanförskap för många människor som har sämre förutsättningar att nå den ordinarie arbetsmarkanden. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka på vilka sätt arbetsintegrerande sociala företag kan motverka detta utanförskap och vilka faktorer som kan främja organisationsformens utveckling. Det sociala företaget Yalla Trappan i Malmö har studera

China is one of the leading providers of seafarers in the world. Following it, cases involving violation of seafarer wages occur occasionally. As for the measurement in settling the disputes, a seafarer can choose from the following: reconciliation, mediation, labor arbitration, law suits, and etc. If a law suit is chosen by a seafarer, he has to know how to protect his rights and interests then.

I denna fallstudie kartlades den totala expressiva, skriftliga kommunikationen hos en person med total talapraxi. Den skriftliga kommunikationen sträckte sig över två års tid. Syftet med kartläggningen var att utifrån forskningspersonens skriftliga kommunikation få ökad kunskap om möjligheten att använda bildbaserad AKK som ersättning för tal och hur den i så fall skulle kunna vara utformad. Kommu

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att evaluera patienters erfarenheter av att ha genomgått Dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT) vid en specia-listmottagning inom vuxenpsykiatrin. Dialektisk beteendeterapi för borderline personlighetsstörning, utvecklad av Marsha Linehan är speciellt utformad för klinisk behandling av kroniskt suicidala patien-ter med borderline personlighetstörning. Forskning kring DiaThe purpose of this study was to evaluate patients´ experiences of being subjected to Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in a specialized out-patient psychiatry unit in a South Swedish town. DBT, developed by Marsha Linehan, is specifically designed for clinical treatment of chronically suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder. Re-search on dialectical behavior therapy, its design an

Syftet med denna explorativa studie var att utforska chefscoachning och bringa större förståelse för klienters upplevelse av coachningsprocessen. Avsikten med studien var att generera hypoteser kring hur chefscoachning ser ut i praktiken och hur det uppfattas av klienterna. Med en kvalitativ ansats intervjuades nio respondenter semistrukturerat. Transkripten från intervjuerna bearbetades med tematThe purpose of this exploratory study was to examinate executive coaching and contribute to a greater understanding of clients' experiences of the coaching process. The purpose was to generate hypotheses about what executive coaching looks like in practice and how it is perceived by the clients. With a qualitative approach nine respondents were interviewed semi-structured. The transcripts of t

This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive description on the issues counted in the copyright protection of the Internet Standard. The self-contained mechanism protecting the Internet Standard needs multiple private licenses which make the protection indirect and complicated. Some scholars already recognized the importance of protecting the process under various human rights law contexts, and thi