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  1. 1. Urban Uncertainties

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Josephine Harold; [2022]
    Keywords : Urban development; threshold; Stockholm; continuity; zine; urban planning; city; biodiversity; contamination; appropriation; re-use; alteration; Bergs Hamn; Bergs gård; Nacka; up-cycling; cistern;

    Abstract : Throughout the last decades the linear urban development in Stockholm can be retraced to the idea of supply and demand, society’s view on the elimination of risk, while increasingly detaching from natural processes. This thesis offers a critical evaluation of the socio-economic situation of space production, while trying to argue for a new semantic recodification of urban organisational processes while reconnecting to a socio-biodiverse narrative. READ MORE

  3. 2. Farmers' willingness to adopt silvopasture practices : investigating compensation claims using a contingent valuation approach among Swedish cattle producers

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Harold Opdenbosch; [2021]
    Keywords : Silvopasture practices; willingness to adopt; compensation claims; contingent valutation method; survey; theory of planned behaviour; Heckman two-step model; factor analysis; cattle production; Sweden;

    Abstract : To mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss from cattle production in Sweden, it is particularly crucial to incentivize cattle producers to adopt silvopasture practices. To investigate cattle producers’ willingness to adopt silvopasture practices and the related compensation claims, a contingent valuation survey was conducted among cattle producers in Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 3. “O Brave New World, That Has Such Critics In’t”: An Argumentative Essay on Criticism of The Tempest

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Amkiram Moors; [2014]
    Keywords : The Tempest; criticism; over-reading; Caliban; Shakespeare; post-colonialism; psychoanalysis; biographical; ideological;

    Abstract : Shakespeare criticism has been a rapidly evolving field of literary studies. Scholars such as Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Meredith Anne Skura, Stanley Wells, Harold Bloom and Sidney Shanker have continuously developed new theories and dismissed previous theories. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Different Mr. Rochesters of Jane Eyre

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Vigdis Marianne Glad; [2013]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Mr. Rochester; adaptation; voice-over; focalizer; POV; literature and film; close reading; Byronic hero; Charlotte Brontë; Harold Bloom; Robert Stam; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The famous novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, will be the subject of this thesis. I will seek to research the character of Mr. Rochester and his use and display in four film adaptations. All the adaptations will be compared to the source as well as to each other to determine how the character of Mr. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Study of Menace, Pause and Silence in Harold Pinter’s Early Plays

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Behnam Pishali Bajestani; [2012]
    Keywords : Harold Pinter; Early Plays; Silence; Pause; Menace; The Room; The Birthday Party; The Caretaker; The Dumbwaiter; intruder; victim;

    Abstract : The particular characteristics of Pinter’s theatre such as the theme of violence, the competitive interpersonal relationships, the implied unwillingness in communication between the characters and the distinctive use of silences and pauses, distinguish his work from the writers of the absurd. Pinter makes particular use of “Silences” and “Pauses” as theatrical techniques that present a non-verbal way of communication in his plays. READ MORE