Essays about: "delia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word delia.

  1. 1. 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)

    Author : Annika Salisbury; [2023]
    Keywords : Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ecocriticism; postcolonial ecocriticism; ecofeminism; climate change criticism; voice; agency; urgency.; Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ekokritik; postkolonial ekokritik; ekofeminism; klimatkritik; röst; agens; brådska.;

    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. 2. "She'd learn over and over from Pa: these men had to have the last punch" : A literary analysis of Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing and how it can be incorporated in the EFL classroom to discuss men's violence against women

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Julia Holmborg; [2023]
    Keywords : Power; Violence; Feminism; Rape culture; Critical literacy; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This essay offers a literary study of the novel Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens published in 2018. The aim is to analyze the presence of men’s violence against women by focusing on the protagonist Kya. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mapping volatiles that induce sensory responses in Delia antiqua: comparative identification across a set of crops

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Plant Protection Biology

    Author : Max Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : attractants; gc-ead; gc-ms; olfactomics; volatiles; databases; drosophila; delia;

    Abstract : The urge to combat climate change and the rapid degradation of agroecosystems puts high pressure on the development of novel tools to make an applied and theoretical change in the world. There is a vision on sustainability through Agenda 2030 which aligns with FAOs: the 10 elements of agroecology. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cell tracking for automated analysis of timelapse microscopy

    University essay from KTH/Signalbehandling

    Author : Klas Magnusson; [2011]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This document presents an algorithm to automatically perform two dimensional tracking of cells in in-vitro cultures. The developed software handles all the necessary data processing, from preprocessing the images to automaticallytracking the cells and it also provides an interface to manually correct the obtained cell trajectories and functions to analyze the data. READ MORE

  6. 5. Olfactory responses of the parasitic wasp, Trybliographa rapae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Plant Protection Biology

    Author : Anna Eriksson; [2009]
    Keywords : Trybliographa rapae; Delia radicum; olfactometer; parasitoid; parasitism rate;

    Abstract : Delia flies (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) are economically important pests in several horticultural crops. The control is commonly relying on chemical insecticides, though there are possibilities with biological control from the natural enemies in the field. READ MORE