Essays about: "s historical background"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 151 essays containing the words s historical background.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Afan Oromo and Code-switching - Mixing Amharic into Afan Oromo A Case Study of the Relationship between Afan Oromo (Oromo language) and Amharic/Amhara Language in Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Tesfa Abdisa; [2024]
    Keywords : Keywords: Language; power; religion; immigration; identity. Culture and Metropolitans.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract Tesfa Abdisa Afan Oromo and Code-switching - Mixing Amharic into Afan Oromo Kandidatuppsats SOCK10 15 hp Handledare – Axel Fredholm Sociologiska institutionen, höstterminen 2023 This study is about code-switching or mixing Amharic with Afan Oromo in Ethiopia. The writer of this essay was born and grew up in Oromia and lived with the issue in question. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sustainable Human Resource Management and Generation Z in Japan What does the Japanese Generation Z value in work-life?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Erica Alenvret; [2023-07-04]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This study is about Generation Z in Japan and their work-life related values. The background for studying this generation and focusing on Japan is the historical background of Japanese work-life culture and the expectations the general theory of Generation Z as it applies to their future employers. READ MORE

  5. 4. Jez Butterworth'z Jerusalem and the Spirit of Liberty

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Robin Pelgrom; [2023]
    Keywords : Jez; Butterworth; Mill; Blake; Byron; Cultural materialism; materialism; intertext; defiance; liberty; action; Arendt; play; criticism; theory; interpretation; mythical; historical; critique;

    Abstract : This essay is an attempt to conduct a reading of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth through the lens of cultural materialism with John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty as intertext. The essay conducts a brief survey of previous scholarly treatment of the play, explains the theoretical background of cultural materialism that the essay operates on, and briefly introduces the intertext. READ MORE

  6. 5. Italy of the Grand Tour : The Representation of Italy in Two Novels

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

    Author : Alessandra Sandoni; [2023]
    Keywords : italy; grand tour; henry james; e.m. forster; daisy miller; where angels fear to tread;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the representation of Italy and Italians in Henry James’ Daisy Miller and E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread. In a close reading of the two novels, with the use of the theory of the Triangle of Representation and the concept of Imperialist nostalgia, recurring themes in connection to the Grand Tour have been found. READ MORE