Essays about: "mad"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 essays containing the word mad.
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1. Simulating Mobility of Large Population using Mobile Application Data
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : Understanding people’s travel patterns and knowing the frequency of their travel activities provide important insights for effective transport management and infrastructure planning. While traditional travel surveys have historically contributed to this valuable information, they come with shortcomings such as being expensive to collect, easily outdated, and having short time coverage. READ MORE
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2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE
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3. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE
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4. Benford’s law applied to sale prices on the Swedish housing market
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statistiska institutionenAbstract : Benford’s law is based on an observation that certain digits occur more often than others in a set of numbers. This have provided researchers to apply the law in different areas including identifying digit patterns and manipulated data. To our knowledge, this have yet not been tested in the Swedish housing market. READ MORE
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5. Benford’s Law: Analysis of the trustworthiness of COVID-19 reporting in the context of different political regimes
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : In order for governments and demographers to, among other things, design policies and pensionplans, as well as for insurance companies to offer policies that serve general public, having reliable mortality data plays a crucial role. The academic world works actively in developing tools (models and methods) that can, based on collected mortality data, forecast future death rates in the observed population. READ MORE