Essays about: "denial of death"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words denial of death.

  1. 1. Defending the Defenders: International Protection for Local Human Rights Defenders in the Global South

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Timothy Lincoln Reeves Jr; [2022]
    Keywords : Human Rights Defenders Global South International Regional Human Rights Systems Attacks violations Protection; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Local human rights defenders play a significant role in the realization and enjoyment of human rights. Working alone or in association with others, they peacefully advocate for and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights for themselves and for their fellow citizens. READ MORE

  3. 2. Danger, Docility and the Denial of Death: On Productive Forces of Violent Practices in Prison

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Rut Berling; [2020]
    Keywords : Bare life; biopower; discourse of security; force-feeding; F-Type prisons; hunger strike; medical discourse; sovereign power; torture; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis establishes an understanding of violence as discourse in the setting of Turkish prisons, during the death fast in the early 2000s. It uncovers discourses embedded in the acts of torture, hunger striking and force-feeding, each able to produce certain kinds of subjects. READ MORE

  4. 3. Bringing Death to Life: The Personifications of Death in Zusak's The Book Thief, Moore's A Dirty Job and Pendle's Death: A Life

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Emma Nilsson; [2018]
    Keywords : personification; death; The Book Thief; Zusak; A Dirty Job; Moore; Death: A Life; Pendle; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the personifications of Death in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005), Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job (2006) and George Pendle’s Death: A Life (2008). The personifications are analysed in terms of gender, anthropomorphism, (im)mortality, agency in conceptual death and attitude towards their occupation as Death. READ MORE

  5. 4. Bodies of Water: The Question of Resisting or Yielding to the Active Unconsciousness in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jenny Svenson Lembke; [2014]
    Keywords : D. H. Lawrence; Women in Love; water; images; mental consciousness; active unconsciousness; individual psyche; will; balance; imbalance; creativity; destruction; Apocalypse; Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious; Fantasia of the Unconscious;

    Abstract : D. H. Lawrence believed the individual psyche to consist of two parts: the active unconsciousness and the mental consciousness. The active unconsciousness is a sort of life force within the individual, and one that allows the individual a true connection to the world. READ MORE

  6. 5. Narcissism and the American Dream in Arthur Miller´s Death of a Salesman

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

    Author : Fredrik Artan; [2014]
    Keywords : Death of a salesman;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the theme of the American Dream in relation to narcissism in Miller’s Death of a salesman. The purpose is to demonstrate that a close reading of the main protagonist, Willy Loman, suggests that his notion of success in relation to the American Dream can be regarded as narcissistic. READ MORE