Essays about: "Play it as it lays"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Play it as it lays.

  1. 1. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Faith for the Planet : Perceptions amongst religious and spiritual leaders of sustainability communication - the case of Faith for Ecocide Law

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Alina Frank; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability communication; environment; climate change; rights of nature; Ecocide; Ecocide Law; Faith for Ecocide Law; religion; religious and spiritual leaders; perceptions; attitude; behavior;

    Abstract : The climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced, posing severe threats to people around the world. Increased awareness about this crisis as well as a growing call for a more sustainable world can be noted not only by scientists and activists but also in the political and economic sector as well as within religious communities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Value Co-creation Practices in Brand Community of Airbnb

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Seyedmohammadali Siyasinejad; Teodor Teodosiev; [2019]
    Keywords : Brand Community; Value Co-creation; S-D Logic; Practice Theory; Airbnb;

    Abstract : Abstract Background: Value co-creation emerged at the beginning of the 21st century as a new way of understanding of value and its creation which occurs around individualized experiences of co-creation, leading to the creation of value that is exclusive to every person. In the essence of the concept of value co-creation lays the service-dominant logic of marketing. READ MORE

  5. 4. Dagsljus som landskapsarkitektoniskt designelement

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Maja Henoch; Sanna Säfström; [2018]
    Keywords : dagsljus; naturligt ljus; immaterial; immaterialitet; dagsljusdesign; designelement;

    Abstract : I detta examensarbete undersöks dagsljus utifrån flera olika perspektiv genom litteraturstudier, fältstudier och konceptutveckling med målet att finna relevanta kopplingar till landskapsarkitekturen. De frågor vi söker svar på genom uppsatsen berör dags ljusets egenskaper och upplevelsevärden som landskaps arkitektoniskt designelement i en urban kontext. READ MORE

  6. 5. Setting the seeds for a green growth -A Study of biofuel development in Indonesia’s transport sector

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Sophia Aaman; Johan Henrik Hessel Lundberg; [2017]
    Keywords : Multi-Level Perspective; Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning; Biofuels for transport; Indonesia; Barriers.;

    Abstract : Climate change poses as one of the major environmental issues on a global scale today, with one of the largest contributor to the climate change being the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions in turn is known to a large extent originate in anthropogenic energy use, especially fossil fuel usage. READ MORE