Essays about: "work, happiness"
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1. The role of age for the relationship between unemployment and well-being : A comparative study across different welfare state regimes
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : ABSTRACT Aims: While the relationship between unemployment and well-being is widely acknowledged, there has been little exploration of its consequences for older workers. It is also less clear whether this relationship differs between welfare states characterized by varying levels of social protection for the unemployed. READ MORE
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2. A Generic Model of Motivation in Artificial Animals Based on Reinforcement Learning
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : This thesis is a part of a broader research project at Chalmers University of Technology focused on ecosystems’ simulations using reinforcement learning artificial animals, called animats. The scope of this project is to provide animats with a reward signal which should ultimately drive animats’ learning towards adaptation of their environment. READ MORE
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3. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE
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4. Embracing Precarity: Attending to Vulnerability and Negative Affects in E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis attends to vulnerability and precarity within visual representation by analysing the negative affects bound to the experience of social exclusion. The study explores what it might mean to embrace and not overcome 'bad feelings' like shame and alienation using the visual example of an elderly prostitute–a ‘Bacchus Lady’– in E J-yong's 2016 film The Bacchus Lady. READ MORE
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5. Losing the silver lining - Swedish social workers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : During the COVID-19 pandemic social services were seen as vital for society but in Sweden, the Public Health Authority advised all citizens to limit meetings with others outside of their own household which complicated needs assessment in social work. Additionally, a vulnerable group for getting severely ill of COVID-19 was older people. READ MORE
