Essays about: "historical truth"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 essays containing the words historical truth.

  1. 11. Animal Farm, Truth and The Power of Language : Teaching Literature, Logic and Epistemology Together

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anton Olsson; [2022]
    Keywords : philosophy; EFL; upper secondary school; logical reasoning; critical thinking; George Orwell; Animal Farm; testimonial knowledge; objective and historical truth; fallacies; epistemology; literary themes; the power of language;

    Abstract : Language can create realities, and the totalitarian pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm tend to use language in order to control the oppressed animals’ minds and world view. Orwell’s dystopian fable Animal Farm repeatedly deals with manipulative language, and so an analysis of the animal characters’ language may help upper secondary students to understand themes such as the power of language and truth. READ MORE

  3. 12. Engraved on Spain’s Memory : A case study of political discourses present in the media concerning three cemeteries for victims of the Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship, and their contested contribution to national reconciliation.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Francisco Soto Fernández; [2021]
    Keywords : memory; identity; lieu de memoire; web site; Internet; post-truth.; memoria; identidad; lugar de memoria; web site; internet; post-verdad;

    Abstract : This Degree Project (DP) deals with the current discourses present on several (web)sites of memory related to three selected cemeteries for victims of the Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship and analyzes their potential contribution to national reconciliation, taking into consideration the presumed social or political interests of the actors behind the (web)sites. Collective memory must be seen as a social construction since memory stems from the shared remembrances of society and relates to key social concepts such as identity. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Shades of Styles : A human search for words communicating all aspects of styles.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Erlend Hellerslien; [2021]
    Keywords : Style; Styles; Shades of Styles; Digital Style; Design Theory; Semiotic Theory; Semiotics; Semantics; Seethics; Design Inclusion; User Experience Design; Cultural Analytics; Visual Worlds; Art Historical Writing; Digital Art History; Visual Studies; Visual Literacy; Human Communication; Digital Style Dictionary; Digital Visual Compass; Spectrum; Reality; Multi Realities; Core Reality; Abstract Reality; Surreal Reality; Artifical Reality; Phenomenolgy; Moral; Ethics; Labels; Critical Terms; Aspects of Seeing; Representation; Transpace Style; Swisch; Style; Medium; RAW; Image; Artifical Intelligence; AI; Visual Exploration; Humankind; Fundamentals; Bias; Gizmos; Hyperreality; Mythologies; Sterotyping; Discrimination; Stories of Art; Synesthesia; Post-truth; Fake Photo; Creativity; Art Direction; Editing; Advertising; Manipulation; Marketing; Animation; Photography; Film; Ilustration; Graphic Design; Arcitecture; Color; Icon; Beauty; Human Commonality; Respect; Diversity;

    Abstract : This research is an investigative attempt on the concept of style´s development to potentially noticing our diverse human history on viewing the aspect of styles, starting (in the part one) by looking into the problem of the development of styles and its characteristic of representation in terms of its messages, realties, semiotics, and human collaboration. Leading towards the human search in seeing style more commonly neutral for a more meaningful dialog. READ MORE

  5. 14. “Holy” War on Human Rights : A hermeneutic study of the complex situation of human rights activists in Afghanistan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Zandra Bergman; [2021]
    Keywords : Human rights; religion; violence; human rights activists; human rights defenders; women’s rights; hegemony; Taliban; fundamentalism; Afghanistan;

    Abstract : Title: “Holy” War on Human Rights - A hermeneutic study of the complex situation of human rights activists in Afghanistan Author: Zandra Bergman Supervisor: Maud Eriksen Examiner: Johanna Romare Department of TheologyMaster program of Religion in Peace and ConflictMaster’s thesis, 15 credits  In September 2020, the latest attempt to bring peace to Afghanistan, the intra-Afghan peace talks formally began. The opening of the peace negotiations failed to produce the long-desired ceasefire. READ MORE

  6. 15. HOMO  PULCHRITUDUS : Beauty as a Product of Dominant Ideology and its Representations in Film

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Evangelia Gerontaki; [2021]
    Keywords : Beauty; Art; Cinema; System; Systems of Thought; Foucault; Nietzsche; Jung; Narratives; Story telling; Film; Panopticon; Genealogy;

    Abstract : This dissertation approaches the concept of beauty. Looking through the consistent efforts ofphilosophers and artists over the centuries to define and capture beauty, we come to the conclusionthat such a thing is impossible in its entirety. The rules and the standards that measure out thebeautiful. READ MORE