Essays about: "imperial"

Showing result 41 - 45 of 53 essays containing the word imperial.

1. 41. Colonising "The Coral Island": A Postcolonial Reading of R.M. Ballantyne's Children's "Classic"

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Johanna Bengtsson; [2012-06-28]
   Keywords : The Coral Island; Ballantyne; Classic; Postcolonial; Imperialism;

   Abstract : Being written during the rise of the British Empire in the 1850sm R.M. Ballantyne's boys' adventure story "The Coral Island" is in many ways a product of its time, conveying imperial ideas and Victorian values to the young reader. READ MORE

3. 42. Re-enchanting China: Private Religiosities in the Media Field in Beijing

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Björn Schwartz; [2012]
   Keywords : chinese dialectics; chinese cosmology; Maoism; enchantment; disenchantment; VIP religion; guanxi-networking; post-socialist subjectivity; clubbing as networking and status affirmation; field analysis; status; the emerging structure of entitlement; social change in contemporary China; the private media field in Beijing; conversion; Vajrayana Buddhism; christianity; housechurch; religious revival; emergent social hierarchy; private religions; secret social movements; the Christian field in China; the Buddhist field in China. Housechurch as millenarianism. Comparing Housechurch with cult of Mao.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The thesis examines two emergent religiosities which flourish among university students and young professionals connected with the private media field in Beijing. One case group consists of young successful professionals from the field of private media who have started to worship a living Buddha of the Vajrayana school. READ MORE

4. 43. Identify customization, module opportunities for machines and parameterize the construction Case of the TransCent TCR loom

   University essay from KTH/Industriell produktion

   Author : Abel Bajay; [2012]
   Keywords : loom; parametric design; logic design; customization;

   Abstract : Paper is one of the elements used in our everyday life under its different forms; from the office use, newspapers, books, post-it, different packaging… it is ever present. The mass production of paper is made possible today by the industrial paper mill. READ MORE

5. 44. Fragmented Imperial Spaces in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Tesfaye Woubshet Ayele; [2012]
   Keywords : Imperialism; modernity; space; symbolism; characterization;

   Abstract : Written in different time periods but set in the time of imperial expansion, E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) offer a critical exploration of British imperialism and its aftermath. READ MORE

6. 45. Becoming Member, Becoming Sister : Orientating Relationships Between Women in the Soroptimist International Network

   University essay from

   Author : Ida Maria Börjesson; [2011]
   Keywords : Soroptimist International; International Women s Organization; Service Club; Professional Women; Transnational Advocacy Network; Sisterhood; Solidarity; Affect; Critical Whiteness.;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how the relationships between women, inside and outside the international women's organization for professionally working women – Soroptimist International – is informed by proximity and distance, which orientates the organization in the direction of a multiculturalism informed by imperial feminism. Focus lies on the organizations use of terms such as “sister” and “professional woman”, and the imagined benefits and responsibilities of being a soroptimist. READ MORE