Essays about: "WWII"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the word WWII.

  1. 1. Playing with the Third Reich: Conceptual Relocation from Nazi Film to WWII Game : An Experiment to measure Filmic concepts in Digital Games

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Laqi Li; [2023]
    Keywords : Nazi Germany; Propaganda Films; Science Fiction Trilogy; Industrial Films; WWII FPS Games; WWII Simulation Games; Fascist Aesthetic; Futuristic Utopianism; Steel-like Romanticism; History.;

    Abstract : Film produced by Nazi Germany has been a classic that has drawn scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as innumerable cineastes from various cultural backgrounds. The simultaneous rise in the number of players acting as observers and operators in digital games with a WWII theme has drawn recent scholarly attention since it is thought that this pattern is contributing to players' hazy understanding of historical events. READ MORE

  3. 2. Civilian Coping Strategies in War : A Qualitative Content Analysis of a Diary from the Siege of Breslau in 1945

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Greta Middendorf; [2022]
    Keywords : Civilians in War; Diary; WWII in Germany; Lazarus and Folkman’s theory on psychological stress and coping; Qualitative Content Analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate how civilians coped with life-threatening situations in WWII through analyzing the diary of a civilian from the siege of Breslau in 1945. There are two main issues this study attempts to address. Firstly, current Peace and Conflict Studies lack integration from theories from psychology. READ MORE

  4. 3. The efficiency of Hyndman-Ullah methods in case of populations with abnormal short-term increases of mortality rates due to wars and pandemics.

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Teo Raspudić; [2022]
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    Abstract : This report is written with the goal of analyzing the efficiency of the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) and weighted Hyndman-Ullah (wHU) methods when working with the populations that suffered higher mortalities due to the wars and pandemics. Accordingly, the HU and wHU methods are applied to the training sets containing outlying years. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sino-American Rivalry in Djibouti: What Impact Has It on the Existing Conflict in the Horn of Africa?

    University essay from

    Author : Yahya Shebeshir; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Although the great power rivalry has dominated the International Relations (IR) scholarship since the end of WWII, the mainstream Global IR discipline has not well incorporated the thoughts of IR scholars outside the core Western countries (Achariya, 2014). More specifically, how this rivalry creates safe havens for authoritarian regimes in developing countries and how that nurses a vicious circle of war in many regions of the world has attracted less attention in the field of IR. READ MORE

  6. 5. Resilience to Shrinking and Social Capability. The case of Iceland, 1870-present

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Marinó Örn Ólafsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Iceland; shrinking; resilience; social capabilities; institutions; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis assesses the role of social capabilities in the development of Iceland’s economy in 1870-2019. Throughout the period, economic shrinking gradually decreased in the country. READ MORE