Essays about: "friends and character"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words friends and character.

  1. 1. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Linn Nordlander; [2024]
    Keywords : construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. READ MORE

  2. 2. Taking off the Tourism Hat : An Exploratory Analysis of Bi-national Partnerships in the Swedish Tourism-migration Nexus

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism

    Author : Emma Eliasson; [2023]
    Keywords : Tourism-migration nexus; residential mobility; migration; homecoming; partnership;

    Abstract : What is the definition of being a tourist, and when do you stop being one? Does it depend on your intention or duration of a visit, or is it when you are no longer legally regarded as such? The definition of tourism is slowly changing. Some types of tourism already transcend tourism’s traditional boundaries, such as Visiting Friends and Relatives [VFR] travel. READ MORE

  3. 3. Friends character classification personality quiz

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för systemteknik

    Author : Ruben Hedström; Leon Lovén; Simon Mojtahedi; Fredrik Malmström; [2021]
    Keywords : Quiz; Friends; Machine learning; Information technology;

    Abstract : The purpose of this project was to create a personality quiz based on the scientifical method and machine learning that determine which character in the TV-series Friends that the person taking the quiz is the most similar to. The manuscripts from all the episodes were used to extract features and create a split training/test dataset. READ MORE

  4. 4. Knowledge through Fiction: Characters as Social Metaphors in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Vaca Vink; [2021]
    Keywords : Social metaphors;

    Abstract : While it is common to relate to fictional characters, there is a common view that this is all that fiction can provide us with and that we cannot learn from fiction. There are arguments to support this claim, such as the no-evidence argument and the fiction-distortion argument. READ MORE

  5. 5. Baby Blue: The Making of

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Nitan Chunhacha; [2020]
    Keywords : friendship; love; relationship; friends; comic art; comic; illustration;

    Abstract : Baby Blue is a comic book about friendship and romantic love that is told by two characters. I want to explore more on understanding a complicated feeling between romantic love and friendship love. READ MORE