Essays about: "1812"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word 1812.

  1. 1. Catholicism and the Catholic Church in Contemporary Ireland : The Church-State Relationship, the Societal Role of Catholicism and the Applicability of Secularisation Theory in the Aftermath of the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier

    Author : Graeme Stirling; [2023]
    Keywords : Catholicism; culture and social issues; Catholicism in Ireland; Religiosity and secularisation;

    Abstract : Abstract Throughout the period of 1972-2022 and previously, Catholicism has been a robust aspect of Irish national culture and identity and the institutional Catholic church has enjoyed a degree of sociopolitical influence and extensive co-operation with the Irish state. This has led to characterisations of Ireland as an outlier amidst secularisation patterns worldwide, whilst the 2009 scandals following the publication of the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports into clerical sexual abuse have led to claims of the collapse of Irish Catholicism and the church. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ideology, Allegory, and Identity: : A Study of American Political Cartoons, 1770-1815

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Vårenius; [2022]
    Keywords : National identity; Political cartoons; Allegorical representations; War of 1812; United States; War of independence; Visual narratives; Pictorial cultures; Caricatures; National stereotypes;

    Abstract : In 1776, war broke out in the Colonies of New England between British Subjects, colonists, and those emplyed by the crown to uphoald law and order across the Atlantic. The union that wuld emerge from the war would have to develop what the colnial powers they migrated from had been adding on for centuries: an understanding of national character. READ MORE

  4. 3. Methodology for creating historical land use databases : a case study for ICOS-station Hyltemossa, Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Adriana Bota; [2017]
    Keywords : Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; historical land-use databases; land-use; land cover; historical maps; geomatics; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how modern spatio temporal databases of land use changes can be created based on historical maps. The entire study was conducted based on the available maps over the study area, in southern Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 4. Conflict as a Tool: Giving Voice to KPIs | A case study on how to build dynamism into PMM systems

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Victor Forsgren; Philip Stenholm; [2016]
    Keywords : dynamism; performance measurement and management; dialectics;

    Abstract : As recent economic development has created fast moving business environments for most companies, this study has the intention of answering a call from Bourne et al. (2015). READ MORE

  6. 5. Compute a crowdedness index on historical GIS data : a case study of Hög Parish, Sweden, 1812-1920

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Fei Lu; [2015]
    Keywords : historical GIS; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; GIS; demography; crowdedness index; geomatics; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : As the development of human civilizations, the classic definition of crowdedness index or population density is not able to describe population dynamic conciliations properly. Furthermore, the detailed population information is normally only stay on urban or country levels. Methods to compute crowdedness index of a small scale-area are lacked. READ MORE