Essays about: "colonial heritage"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words colonial heritage.

  1. 21. Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Chelsea Foreman; [2017]
    Keywords : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; African Literature; Postcolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Colonial Nigeria; Religion; Christianity; Language; Behaviour; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; Afrikansk Litteratur; Postkolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Koloniala Nigeria; Religion; Kristendom; Språk; Beteende;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. READ MORE

  3. 22. Ten days of Taglit : How emotions work on a Birthright trip in Israel

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Sacha Buisman; [2017]
    Keywords : Taglit Birthright; Israel; Jewish heritage tourism; emotional reflexivity; organized trips;

    Abstract : Taglit Birthright is an organization that provides free ten-day diaspora-heritage trips to Israel for young Jewish adults between 18 and 26 years old. Taglit is Hebrew for discovery and this is the ambition of the organization: providing young Jewish people with an opportunity to discover their socio-cultural Jewish heritage. READ MORE

  4. 23. Voodoo Child

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Joel Arvidsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Haiti; Dominican Republic; Poverty Trap; Economic Growth; Bad Governance; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this paper I examine the reasons on why some poor countries seem to achieve economic growth, while some others do not. Can we decide which country that will succeed beforehand, or is it simply a matter of policy? I take my starting point in the economist Jeffrey D. READ MORE

  5. 24. Planering av vindkraft i Sápmi : ett steg mot en hållbar energiproduktion eller en postkolonial maktutövning på samiska marker?

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

    Author : Rut Näsman; [2016]
    Keywords : urfolks rättigheter; samers rättigheter; rennäring; landskapsarkitektur; urfolksdeklarationen; vindkraft; landskapskonventionen;

    Abstract : Urfolk runt om i världen har blivit utsatta för koloniala maktstrukturer sedan ett par århundraden tillbaka. Genom juridiska handlingar och fysiska intrång på urfolks marker har stater tagit makten över land och resurser. READ MORE

  6. 25. Adaptation, Resilience, and Transformability: A Historical Ecology of Traditional Furrow Irrigation System on the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Sabbath Sunday; [2015]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the Chagga traditional furrow irrigation system locally known as mfongo, practiced on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. This is one of the Africa’s pre-colonial islands of intensive agricultural practicing areas. READ MORE