Essays about: "-disadvantages of civilisation"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 33 essays containing the words -disadvantages of civilisation.
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16. Macromolecular Crowding as a Determinant of Protein Viability -- a Lattice Model Study
University essay from Lunds universitet/Beräkningsbiologi och biologisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : We study the effects of macromolecular crowding with interacting crowders in the simple HP-model of protein folding, by performing Monte Carlo simulations of a single flexible HP protein in the presence of folded rigid crowders. In contrast to the well-known stabilization of steric crowders, we find that interacting crowders usually destabilize the test protein, often significantly so. READ MORE
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17. Beyond Morality : Alternative Gay Narratives in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking and Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The gay male emerged as a visible public consumer during 1990s, when the LGBTQ movement in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by conflicting commercial and political motives, heightened by the AIDS crisis. The cultural tension surrounding the gay male subject was reflected through various literary expressions. READ MORE
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18. Living On The Edge - Reinventing the amphibiotic habitat of the Mesopotamian Marshlands
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : The Mesopotamian Marshlands form one of the first landscapes where people started to transform and manipulate the natural environment in order to sustain human habitation. For thousands of years people transformed natural ecosystems into agricultural fields, residential clusters and other agglomerated environments to sustain long term settlement. READ MORE
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19. Well-being rather than well-having: a critical analysis of sharing economy discourses in the Chinese context
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : The sharing economy, which is an Internet-mediated economic model based on sharing practices, presents the potential to reshape nature-society interactions with relevance for leading to transformative change for environmental and social aspects of sustainability. It is widely presented as a model leading to environmentally sustainable pathways through reduced resource use and reduced levels of consumption and an increased use of idle assets, while also promoting social sustainability through rebuilding social relationships and enabling wider and more equitable access to resources. READ MORE
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20. "A pack of British boys"
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding is seen by many as a portrait of the violent darkness of human nature, and how all of humanity will revert to a savage state in the absence of civilisation. This essay argues that this is not accurate, since the book only presents the actions of a group of British boys, among which the majority of the violent acts are performed by boys who are most likely from an upper class background. READ MORE