Essays about: "American Identity"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 116 essays containing the words American Identity.
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21. Drug cartels, American corporations and other things that lurk in the dark: A discourse analysis of Mexican foreign policy and the intersection between security and identity
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Investigating recent events in Mexican security policy from a poststructuralist perspective, this study highlights the role of identity in both security and foreign policies. These developments in International Relations (IR) and security studies have proven that sometimes the traditional perspective on these types of questions is insufficient and that an alternative perspective can be proven useful. READ MORE
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22. IDENTITY & TECHNO-UTOPIANISM. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Marketing Material and their Sociotechnical Imaginaries.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikationAbstract : This research paper sets out to investigate the messaging present in a corpus of texts gathered from Acxiom’s, an American data-analysis and ‘Identity Solutions’-company, website. The paper applies a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Theo van Leeuwen’s theory of ‘legitimations’ and analyses the findings through the theoretical framework of ‘Sociotechnical Imaginaries’. READ MORE
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23. “A Fatally Flawed System” : A critical investigation of the 2021 cases on the American Death Row where 11 people were executed
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokratiAbstract : The death penalty in the US has long been characterized by racist prejudices and mistakes. Previous research suggests that the majority of those executed are intellectually disabled people, black people and the poor. READ MORE
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24. Ideology, Allegory, and Identity: : A Study of American Political Cartoons, 1770-1815
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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25. The Diary from Qutang Gorge and the letters about Donner Lake : A literary study of Mulberry and Peach by Nie Hualing
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Mulberry and Peach is a novel written in the 1970s by a Chinese American writer named Nie Hualing (1925- ). It contains overlapping letters and diaries with flashbacks and flashforwards in first-person narration. Taohong is the new identity after Sangqing’s schizophrenia in the USA in 1969-1970. READ MORE