Essays about: "demons"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the word demons.

  1. 6. Branching Histories: Political Mythopoetics in Four Brexit Narratives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : George Magner; [2017]
    Keywords : Politics; Mythopoetics; Myth Studies; Brexit; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to provide a case study for a critical theory of mythopoetics, via analysis of four ‘Brexit narratives’: The Bad Boys of Brexit by Arron Banks, Unleashing Demons by Craig Oliver, All Out War by Tim Shipman and The Brexit Club by Owen Bennett. My objective is to demonstrate the prevalence of mythopoetics in political and historical discourse, via analysis of four competing political histories. READ MORE

  3. 7. CUDA Accelerated 3D Non-rigid Diffeomorphic Registration

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH)

    Author : An Qu; [2017]
    Keywords : diffeopmorphic demons; non-rigid image registration; parallel programming; GPGPU; IGI;

    Abstract : Advances of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques enable visualguidance to identify the anatomical target of interest during the image guidedintervention(IGI). Non-rigid image registration is one of the crucial techniques,aligning the target tissue with the MRI preoperative image volumes. READ MORE

  4. 8. ...And Reconcile Us With Evil : A Critical Investigation of the Imagery of Good and Evil in Western Religion, Film and Politics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Arne L Gellrich; [2016]
    Keywords : Peace and conflict; social psychology; religion; good; evil; böse; übel; Kant; Nietzsche; Obama; Trump; Clinton; TTIP; CETA; Germany; Sweden; USA; presidential elections; presidentials 2016; theology; Jesus; demons; satan; devil; iblis; christianity; judaism; yahweh; god; leviathan; hero; batman; marvel; harry Potter; twilight; avatar; James Bond; Jason Bourne; dragon; brexit; Daesh; Facebook; Campact; protest; CDA; critical discourse analysis; fairclough; SPD; CDU; AfD; Grüne; Linke; PEGIDA; Flüchtlinge; Flüchtlingskrise; TTIP; CETA; Campact; Gabriel; Merkel; Obama; Hannover; Demonstration; Kant; Böse; gut; wohl; übel; Gott; teufel; Jesus; Löfven; Wallström; Brexit; SD; förolämpning; Farsan; Hamilton; flytingar; flyktingskrisen; Facebook;

    Abstract : With an eye on the current social and political situation in Europe, and with regards to the so-termed refugee crisis, this study aims to map the discourse on assumed good and evil shared among Western cultures, as represented by Sweden, Germany and the United States.  The thesis takes its point of departure from essayistic reflections of the philosophical tradition and theological and religious analytical positions respectively. READ MORE

  5. 9. From Demonic Agency to Divine Presence: A Study of Human-Entity Relations at an Ayahuasca Treatment Centre

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Christoffer Stuveback; [2015]
    Keywords : anthropology of religion; Ayahuasca; Peru; Amazon; demons; human-spirit relations; religious syncretism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The present thesis is a qualitative exploration of a group of patients’ experiences of going through an ayahuasca treatment as well as the human-entity relations they come to be constitutive of during the treatment. The ingestion of ayahuasca allows the drinker to enter a non-ordinary reality which opens up the possibility of having encounters with demons, spirits, angels, saints, animals and God, as perceived by informants. READ MORE

  6. 10. Detection and Quantification of Small Changes in MRI Volumes

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Mariana Bustamante; [2014]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The focus of this research is to attempt to solve the problem of comparing two MRI brain volumes of the same subject taken at different times, and detect the location and size of the differences between them, especially when such differences are too small to be perceived with the naked eye. The research focuses on a combination of registration and morphometry techniques in order to create two different possible solutions: A voxel-based method and a tensor-based method. READ MORE