Essays about: "Identity across borders"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Identity across borders.
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1. Transcending Memories Beyond Borders: Carrying Memorabilia from Home to Abroad. : Transferring Personal Memorabilia for a Meaningful Cross-Country Experience.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Människa-datorinteraktionAbstract : Collecting memorabilia has been a longstanding practice as it evolved around cultures and societies. Despite existing research about preserving memorabilia, meaningful preservation methods remain unclear due to the individual and idiosyncratic nature of practices [18,22,40,43,47,59]. READ MORE
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2. eID in the e-learning Environment
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : At present, there are different Electronic Identity (eID) systems utilized in EU, resulting in difficulties to carry eID information and transfer eID data of e-learning systems from one EU country to another. A project entitled Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed (STORK) was launched to address this problem, by installing a Pan European Proxy Service (PEPS) server. READ MORE
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3. Identity and Heritage on a Changing Border : The Estonian Seto Case
University essay from Uppsala universitet/KulturvårdAbstract : This master’s thesis in the realm of cultural heritage deals with the changes in identity, memory and interactions with heritage and culture among the Estonian Seto community in relation to the control line, wishing to evaluate what sort of everyday changes have taken place, as well as changes in cultural celebrations and traditions. It also seeks to analyse how the Setos on the Estonian side perceive the Seto culture across the border, and how they view their own situation in a changing landscape. READ MORE
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4. Adapting to melting glaciers : how Western Himalayan societies frame climate change and adaptation
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The glaciers of the Hindu-Kush Himalayas region flow into 10 major river basins and sustain nearly 2 billion people, with 250 million being directly dependent on them for freshwater sources while a further 1.65 billion rely on their outflows. READ MORE
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5. Native English-Swedish Bilinguals in Sweden : Across the borders of the three circles of English
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : With nearly two billion speakers across the world, English has come to exist in all shapes and colors. Many functions and contexts in which English is found in the world are accounted for in the massive scientific effort to document the language’s global development. READ MORE