Essays about: "The Drowned World"

Found 5 essays containing the words The Drowned World.

  1. 1. “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

  3. 2. Streamlining the Ordering Process: A Case Study of Alfa Laval

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistik

    Author : Sebastian Åsberg; Gustav Sjöblom; [2021]
    Keywords : Ordering Process; Item Classification; Inventory Management; Alfa Laval; JEEVES; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Background One of Alfa Laval’s factories in Lund, LA, has noticed that up to 50% of all order proposals suggested by their ERP system JEEVES is considered to be irrelevant and are subsequently disregarded by the purchasers. Consequently, many purchasers disregard the parameters in JEEVES that control what proposals get suggested and instead order on “gut-feeling” and personal experience. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sublime Extinctions in Anthropocene Fiction: Literary representations of geologic force in works by Ballard, McCarthy and Watkins

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Samuel Teeland; [2018]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Extinction; Sublime; J.G. Ballard; Cormac McCarthy; Claire Vaye Watkins; Languages and Literatures; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay examines representations of extinction in a selection of Anthropocene fiction. The Anthropocene is a potential new geological epoch, in which the human species capacity for massive ecological transformation is rivalling that of geologic processes. READ MORE

  5. 4. Teaching Climate change : Reading the Symbiosis Between Mankind and Nature in Ballard’s The Drowned World

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Rasmus Carlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : The Drowned World; Humanity; Nature; Ecocriticism; Didactics; Climate change;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World to investigate how the relationship between humans and nature affects humanity, and whether humanity is indestructible. READ MORE

  6. 5. Building Happy and Resilient Communities in the North of the European Union : A case study on Transition Movement in Sweden and its relationship with the EU

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Vanessa Cardona Shokotko; [2017]
    Keywords : Transition Movement; peak oil; social movements; Sweden; EU; localisation; grassroots movements; climate change; omställningsrörelsen; EU; gräsrotsrörelse; civila organisationer; klimatförändring;

    Abstract : When the world becomes drowned in multiple global problems and citizens do not see any real progressive solutions from their governments, they take the initiative in their own hands and start changing the world on their own. The Transition Town movement was born this way. READ MORE