Essays about: "immorality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word immorality.

1. 1. Perceptions of Immorality in Governance : An Empirical Study on Citizens’ Tolerance of Political Corruption in Poland and Mexico

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Rebecca Fox; [2019]
   Keywords : Corruption; Political Corruption; Corruption Tolerance; Morality; Mexico; Poland;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to, firstly, define corruption in the context of corruption tolerance and secondly, to assess how citizens’ corruption tolerance is constructed. Corruption tolerance is discussed in the context of trust, democracy and levels of corruption. READ MORE

3. 2. The Immortal Life and Immoral Values of Dorian Gray : A Study of Immortality and Immoral Behavior in The Picture of Dorian Gray

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Martina Edsman; [2018]
   Keywords : Immortality; Immorality; Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde;

   Abstract : This essay aims to examine how immortality and immoral behavior are represented in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The claim in this essay is that an immortal life is not a desirable life and that it traps you in a paradoxical existence that cannot be desirable. READ MORE

4. 3. The Case of Boel Olsdotter

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Ingrid Lyberg; [2014]
   Keywords : syphilis; venereal disease; illegitimate child; church rituals; Kurhuset; lock hospital; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : By the mid-19th century, syphilis had been established for several hundred years as a disease associated with immorality, from which the poor in particular suffered. Although hospitals for the treatment of venereal diseases existed in most European countries, there would be no cure for another hundred years, and physicians battled unsuccessfully against disfigurement and death. READ MORE

5. 4. Overturning the Notion of White Supremacy in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Anna-Karin Westin; [2012]
   Keywords : American literature; Huckleberry Finn; postcolonialism; white supremacy;

   Abstract : This essay discusses how Mark Twain in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses the description of the white American Christian civilization in order to overturn the colonial notion of white supremacy. This is done through juxtaposing the characterization of the people of the white American civilization and the people that are alienated or ‘other’. READ MORE

6. 5. Pro- and Anti-Capitalism : in Wall Street and Wall Street. Money Never Sleeps

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för ekonomi och informatik

   Author : Xu Li; [2012]
   Keywords : Capitalism; Wall Street; Wall Street II: Money Never Sleeps; Film; Ideology; ;

   Abstract : This thesis aims at comparatively analyzing the representation of financial capitalism in Wall Street (1987) and Wall Street. Money Never Sleeps (2010) with focusing on exploring in which ways the films promote/criticize the financial capitalism they portray. READ MORE