Essays about: "kinds of character"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words kinds of character.

  1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Community interactions : how visitors co-create Greenpeace’s online presence

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Aristeidis Andreas Progoulakis Kastillo; [2022]
    Keywords : community; Greenpeace; Facebook; page; social media; co-creation; online community; interaction; comments; environmental communication; marketing; NGO;

    Abstract : The online presence of environmental NGOs (ENGOs) has opened the opportunity to gain independence from the limitation of the news media coverage they can get. However, multiple challenges, including dealing with interactions on social media, are among the complexities of using those channels. READ MORE

  4. 3. Skolgårdsgestaltningen påverkar användningen : gröna kvaliteter stärker ungdomars rätt till lek och vila

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Rut Lindeberg; [2021]
    Keywords : landskapsarkitektur; ungdomar; skolgårdsgestaltning; barnkonventionen; gröna kvaliteter;

    Abstract : Kring ungdomars skolgårdar finns en osäkerhet, målgruppen räknas som barn samtidigt som de närmar sig vuxen ålder. FNs Barnkonvention blev 2020 svensk lag vilket ger ungdomar rätt till lek och vila, under pauser från skolarbetet. Skollagen ger dock inget uttalat stöd för en skolgård utan fokuserar på målstyrda kunskapskrav. READ MORE

  5. 4. Machine Learning Adversaries in Video Games : Using reinforcement learning in the Unity Engine to create compelling enemy characters

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för informationssystem och –teknologi

    Author : Tim Nämerforslund; [2021]
    Keywords : Unity; Machine Learning; ML-Agents; Navigation Mesh; Challenge; Video Games; Unity; Maskininlärning; ML-Agents; Navigationsnät; Utmaning; Videospel;

    Abstract : I och med att videospel blir mer avancerade, inte bara grafiskt utan också som konstform samt att dom erbjuder en mer inlevelsefull upplevelse, så kan det förväntas att spelen också ska erbjuda en större utmaning för att få spelaren bli ännu mer engagerad i spelet. Dagens spelare är vana vid fiender vars beteende styrs av tydliga mönster och regler, som beroende på situation agerar på ett förprogrammerat sätt och agerar utifrån förutsägbara mönster. READ MORE

  6. 5. On the Use of Katakana in a Modern Japanese Essay

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Johan Hagerborg; [2020-03-20]
    Keywords : japanska; Japanese; katakana; skriftsystem; writing system; modern skönlitteratur; modern fiction; novell; essay;

    Abstract : The purpose of the present study is to carry out a pilot investigation on the use of katakana in a modern Japanese essay, and to compare how the usage of katakana differs between daily newspaper and a modern essay. Among the words written in katakana, special focus was given to the higairaigo, which are normally written in kanzi or hiragana. READ MORE