Essays about: "ancient Greece"

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  1. 21. The Effects of Revolution Upon the development of Women's Capabilities and Freedom : An Analysis of the Trilogy, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins with a Special Focus on the Protagonist, Katniss Everdeen

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Negar Chakoshi; [2013]
    Keywords : Suzanne Collins; Women s studies in the Hunger Games ;

    Abstract : The present essay is the evaluation of women’s conditions and gender equality in the novel, the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Different conditions of women such as the political, physical, marital and financial are analyzed in Panem society before and after the revolution. READ MORE

  3. 22. Amartya Sen's Notion of Freedom: A Conceptual History of a Universalist Presumption

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Maria Yupanqui; [2011]
    Keywords : Sen; Freedom; Development; MacCullum; Democracy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Amartya Sen argues that the overarching goal of development is expanding people’s choices. Yet, freedom as a goal is ambiguous as the notion is clouded by idioms of freedom dating as far back as Ancient Greece. READ MORE

  4. 23. Rhythm and Rhetoric: A Linguistic Analysis of Barack Obama's Inaugural Address

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Liilia Batluk; [2011]
    Keywords : rhetoric; rhythm; lexical chain; parallelism; alliteration; foregrounding; political speech; personal deixis; context; semantics; Barack Obama;

    Abstract : In this essay I shall analyze Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, January, 2009 from the perspective of various linguistic techniques. More specifically, I shall propose and focus on the idea that the composition of the speech has an aim to create a unity of the speaker and the audience in order to deliver the message. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Albanian Linguistic Journey from Ancient Illyricum to EU : Lexical Borrowings

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Ariola Kulla; [2010]
    Keywords : Linguistics; Lexical Borrowings; Loanword; Illyricum; Albanian; Direct loan; Lingvistik; Lexikala lån; Lånord; Illyricum; Albanska; Direktlån;

    Abstract : Where does a language come from? Every language has its own history and during the course of that history, it might change, evolve or even die. Why do languages borrow from each other? Borrowing seems to be true for every language that has contact with another, even for major cultural languages such as Greek. Every case though is unique in itself. READ MORE

  6. 25. The beauty of nothingness

    University essay from Ädellab/Metallformgivning

    Author : Nicolas Cheng; [2010]
    Keywords : Kant; Burke; sublime; apollonian; dionysian; standard society; beauty; ugliness; purification; absence beauty; nothingness;

    Abstract : If I relate beauty to nothingness, what happens? Is nothingness sort of an absence of beauty? Or it is portrayed by our culture and society, and, in such case, can I define this absence of beauty? Is it beauty that you cannot even catch? Is its appearance neutral, almost hidden? When we are born, we all have the same degree of beauty and purity, which is progressively lost as long as we start growing up. In a life span, we accumulate wrinkles, and defects and dirt which needs to be concealed in order to fit in certain social categories. READ MORE