Advanced search
Showing result 1 - 5 of 71 essays matching the above criteria.
-
1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE
-
2. Voice, Agency, and Urgency : Three Ecocritical Readings of Nature and the Protagonist in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The female protagonist Catherine Danielle Clark (Kya) in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is abandoned by her family at a young age and grows up alone in a marshland environment in 1950s North Carolina. Shunned by the local community, Kya relies on nature to help her survive and to teach her about life and love—until one day she finds herself accused of murder. READ MORE
-
3. The Game Of Nudity on Instagram: Four case studies about art and censorship
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim for this essay is, along with the four included case studies, is to examine the social media platform, Instagram's strict guidelines when it comes to showing nudity. On the platform there is a certain double standard, artists as well as art institutions are censored, that is, they get pictures removed or their accounts blocked when they try to show works that have nudity depicted, but at the same time nudity exists on the platform, this essay wants to highlight the double standard by setting the example that images from accounts of celebrities, which show as much nudity as a work of art, if not more, are allowed to be available on the social platform. READ MORE
-
4. Local food networks - value creation and the role of the producer
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest EconomicsAbstract : The rise of interest in local food has given rise to many new forms of food supply chains, socalled Alternative food networks. One such network is the Facebook-based REKO, where consumers can purchase food products directly from the producers without intermediaries. This has also given rise to new forms of values regarding food. READ MORE
-
5. Förundrad av fysik? : En fenomenologisk studie kring högstadieelevers upplevelser av förundran som epistemisk känsla i fysikundervisningen
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : Naturvetenskapsundervisning idag tenderar att måla en bild av att allt redan är förklarat och alla samband är upptäckta inom naturvetenskap. Skolans jobb handlar bara om att lära ut alla förklaringarna. READ MORE