Essays about: "Enemy Image"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words Enemy Image.

  1. 11. Potential of GPU Based Hybrid Ray Tracing For Real-Time Games

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign

    Author : Henrik Poulsen; [2009]
    Keywords : Hybrid; Ray Tracing; Raster; DirectX; Direct3D; rendering; real-time;

    Abstract : The development of Graphics Hardware Technology is blazing fast, with new and more improved models, that out spec the previous generations with leaps and bounds, before one has the time to digest the potential of the previous generations computing power. With the progression of this technology the computer games industry has always been quick to adapt this new power and all the features that emerge as the graphic card industry learn what the customers need from their products. READ MORE

  2. 12. The Reconstruction of Enemies in Post-reform China - a deconstruction of the Japanese enemy image

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Bjarne Andreasen; [2006]
    Keywords : China; Japan; Discourse Theory; Othering; Enemy Images; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In April 2005 the Japanese authorities approved eight new history textbooks for secondary school which are accused of trivialising Japanese war crimes. Within hours, the Chinese mass media were teeming with anti-Japanese sentiments and Japanese property worth millions of dollars was vandalised by angry protesters during the weeks to follow ? the question I seek to answer is how the contemporary Japanese enemy image is constructed and maintained in Chinese media? Using a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis strategy to analyse the Japanese enemy image as it was represented in the Chinese media in April 2005, I have identified several discourses, which by way of demonising Japan and victimising China in concert constitute and maintain the Japanese enemy image. READ MORE

  3. 13. Creating People and Places : How the journalistic narrative shapes our image of the world

    University essay from Institutionen för religion och kultur

    Author : Jukka Nylund; [2006]
    Keywords : Social Anthropology; Journalism; Place; the distant other; enemy images; the refugee;

    Abstract : Media is one of the most important gateways to the world beyond for most people. Every day we are presented with images of distant places and peoples and the events they are a part of. During the years the way these news events have been presented to the public has changed but still they create images within us of these distant places and peoples. READ MORE

  4. 14. The Image of the Enemy - An Issue of Race and Class in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Ainur Elmgren; [2002]
    Keywords : Othering; the Other; enemy images; fantasy; fantastic literature; race; mythology; Anglo-Saxonism; intellectuals; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The Lord of the Rings has been denounced as carrying a black-and-white fairytale moral, with forces of Good (light, freedom, beauty) fighting Forces of Evil (darkness, tyranny, ugliness) Many writers argue that the battle between the forces of Good and Evil is a reflection of Tolkien's strong Christian beliefs. Others see in the battle between Light and Darkness a reflection of the never-ending struggle between order and chaos in old Norse mythology. READ MORE

  5. 15. Brothers in Arms: An Analysis of the Syrian Military and Political Domination of Lebanon

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Carl Anders Härdig; [2002]
    Keywords : Political science; Syria; Lebanon; Occupation; Domination; Civil War; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The Syrian de facto occupation of Lebanon since 1976 is usually interpreted as the expression of the Syrian regime's adherence to traditional power considerations, rather than to the ideology of the ruling Ba'th party. In particular since Syria originally intervened on the side of the pro-status quo Lebanese Christians, and helped them defeat the anti-status quo Lebanese Muslims and Palestinians. READ MORE