Essays about: "LORD"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 96 essays containing the word LORD.

  1. 16. The nature of Evil in Catholicism as represented in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Sofi Hultin; [2022]
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  3. 17. Between Power and Vulnerability: National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Conflict Environments and the Uganda Human Rights Commission

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Magdalena Ruiz Liard Krysa; [2022]
    Keywords : National Human Rights Institutions; post-conflict environments; effectiveness; vernacularization; global and local; Uganda; Uganda Human Rights Commission; expert interviews.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In light of declining multilateralism within the field of human rights since the 1990s, National Human Rights Institutions have been presented by the UN as translators capable of vernacularizing and institutionalizing global human rights ideals within the local. Yet, the global proliferation of National Human Rights Institutions sparked by the adoption of the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions implies a top-down spread of these institutions from the global to the local level and makes legitimacy issues intrinsically connected to their creation. READ MORE

  4. 18. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Nicholas Pappas; [2021]
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    Abstract : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. READ MORE

  5. 19. World Management : The case of the Lord of Hosts Church

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2021]
    Keywords : prophecy; Festinger; millenialism; netnography; case study; cognition; rituals; cybernetics; consonance management; world construction; world management; the Lord of Hosts Church; Hank Kunneman; Donald Trump;

    Abstract : Bringing together current research strands stemming from the Festinger tradition of failed prophecy, and by observing a recent case of a prophetic group dealing with disconfirming events under a period of 210 days, I theorize on what roles cognitive dissonance, rituals and continuous prophetic adaptation play in the management of prophetic groups’ alternative world views. The traditional conception of dissonance management is reinterpreted as a process of maximizing mental desirability, which is contingent on the level of cognitive dissonance as well as cognitive activity. READ MORE

  6. 20. Rational Femininity and Emotional Masculinity in Golding’s Lord of the Flies  

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Stefanos Mavromatis; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; traditional gender roles; feminine thinking; masculine thinking; patriarchy; William Golding; Lord of the Flies;

    Abstract : This paper argues that in Golding’s Lord of the Flies feminine thinking is rational and masculine thinking is emotional. This essay provides historical background that presents the general patriarchal view of femininity during 20th century England of being seen as the inferior-emotional gender with intellectual limitations. READ MORE