Essays about: "Ahab"
Found 5 essays containing the word Ahab.
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1. Information Conveyance : An Examination of Using Level Design to Communicating the State of Play in a Competitive Video Game
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetikAbstract : This is a study on information conveyance, specifically a study on how specific level design techniques can be used to convey information to the players regarding a competitive multiplayer game's “state of play”. Through an analysis of different games, three different level design elements were identified as effective tools for conveying information and these elements are; architectural placement, visual cues and environmental changes. READ MORE
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2. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : In conceptualizing Moby-Dick; or, the whale, Herman Melville was both drawn and opposed to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through an analysis of the main characters in MobyDick and Emerson’s writing, it becomes evident that Transcendentalism is embodied in the characterization of the novel’s main characters. READ MORE
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3. Peqoud
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen TextilhögskolanAbstract : Pequod - is an exploration of the translation problem. And an idea to examine the myth of"why the book is always better than the movie."The work began by choosing a character to interpret. My choice was the characteristicCaptain Ahab and his mono manic quest for revenge. READ MORE
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4. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. READ MORE
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5. Avelsföreningens hingstdepå : kan ändrat ägande av avelsverksamheten skapa mervärden?
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Avelsföreningen Hingstdepå (AHAB) grundades 1975 och är ett helägt dotterbolag till den ideella föreningen Avelsföreningen för den Svenska Varmblodiga Travhästen (ASVT). Föreningen riktar sig mot uppfödare av travhästar och är uppbyggt enligt den traditionella kooperationsformen, dvs. den kännetecknas av bl.a. READ MORE