Essays about: "Republicans"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word Republicans.

  1. 1. From election to insurrection : A Speech Act Theory study of Donald Trump’s tweets in the wake of the 2020 election.

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Pedagogik, språk och ämnesdidaktik

    Author : Paraskevi Karapostoli; [2022]
    Keywords : speech act theory; Donald Trump; tweets; twitter; directive speech acts;

    Abstract : This essay utilizes Speech Act Theory to assess Donald Trump’s role in inciting the riot that took place in Washington D.C. on the 6th of January, 2021 and culminated with the attack on the Capitol building. For the purposes of the study a corpus was created with tweets collected from the Trump Twitter Archive. READ MORE

  3. 2. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Leander Clément; [2022]
    Keywords : Black Lives Matter; Protest Paradigm; Moral Foundations Theory; police brutality; racial bias; news coverage; CNN; Fox News; New York Times; framing; legal culture; socio-legal; sociology of law; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE

  4. 3. Responsible investments: An analysis of preference - The influence of local political views on ESG portfolio return

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Adam Blomqvist; Francesco Stradi; [2021]
    Keywords : ESG; Responsible investing; ESG preferences; Portfolio performance; Environmental awareness; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The objective of this study is to analyze whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments generate different abnormal excess returns depending on preferences towards ESG assets in the United States. We aim to verify whether these results are consistent with the previously exposed theories explaining the relationships between ESG preferences and excess returns. READ MORE

  5. 4. Natural Disasters and Environmental Voting: A Panel Data Analysis on the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2018

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Michelle Rudolph; [2021]
    Keywords : U.S. House of Representatives; Climate Change; Environmental Policy; Natural Disasters; Congressional Voting;

    Abstract : Although the existence of climate change is undisputed by the scientific community, environmental policy is oftentimes not a primary concern for most members in the U.S. House of Representatives. READ MORE

  6. 5. Pro-life, Positioning and Imperialism - A Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S. Foreign Aid Statements on Abortion and Reproductive Health

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Charlotte German; [2020]
    Keywords : United States of America; Foreign Aid; Abortion; Critical Discourse Analysis; Postcolonial Feminist Theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how the practice of abortion is defined and created in U.S. presidential administrations’ statements on foreign aid, how the discourses regarding abortion and reproductive health have changed between 1984-2019 and how the U.S. READ MORE