Essays about: "modern history"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 373 essays containing the words modern history.

1. 36. Värderingar och ideal i planering och gestaltning av utemiljöer vid nyanläggning av stadsdelar – nu och då : en jämförelse av miljonprogrammets och dagens landskapsarkitekturs värderingar och ideal vid anläggning av stadsdelarna Gottsunda och Rosendal i Uppsala

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

   Author : Albert Jonsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Miljonprogrammet; modern stadsplanering; värderingar; ideal; jämförelse;

   Abstract : Behovet av bostäder kommer och går och har krävt och kräver nybyggnation vilket i sin tur kräver nya utemiljöer för de boende. Två tider av bostadsunderskott är miljonprogrammet som bemötts med kritik och samtiden som inte heller påstås vara felfri. READ MORE

3. 37. Beer Festival and Place Identity : An Analysis of Munich Oktoberfest And Qingdao International Beer Festival

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Rucheng Wang; [2022]
   Keywords : beer festivals; place identity; uniqueness; authenticity; liminality; Heimat ; nostalgia; globalisation; modernisation;

   Abstract : As microcosms of German and Chinese societies, Munich Oktoberfest and Qingdao International Beer Festival are important manifestations of local culture. This study intends to answer the following question: to which extent are beer festivals in Germany and China related to local history and the local sense of place? A historical overview of the beer festivals in Munich and Qingdao is provided, as well as an analysis of how people seeking a sense of belonging creatively combine cognitive schemata of modernity with local cultural systems on a symbolic level. READ MORE

4. 38. Measurement & Feedback Control of a Two Level System

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk fysik; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen

   Author : Sayan Ali Khan; [2022]
   Keywords : Quantum Measurement; Generalized Measurements; POVM Positive Operator Valued Measure ; Feedback Control; Two-Level System; Physics and Astronomy;

   Abstract : In this bachelor project, the main objective is to investigate how a two-level quantum system can be controlled using weak continuous measurements and feedback control. The Monte-Carlo method was used to simulate the system dynamics under measurement and feedback to investigate how the system state can be controlled. READ MORE

5. 39. Sweet and Salty: Colonial and Modern Corporate Commodity Exploitation in Northeastern Brazil

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Flavia Copia Sperandio; [2022]
   Keywords : modern corporation; sugar cane monoculture; coloniality; rock salt mines; extractivism; Brazil; decolonial theory; business human rights.; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This thesis is a historical comparative analysis of the social and environmental impacts of past colonial exploitation and the modern corporate extraction and exploitation of natural resources and commodities. The thesis examines these issues through the case studies of sugar monoculture in the Northeast region of colonial Brazil (16th and 17th Century) and the sinking of Maceió (also in Northeastern Brazil) due to the corporate exploitation of rock salt mines (1976-2019). READ MORE

6. 40. I Never Learned To Type With Ten Fingers

   University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

   Author : Laslo Strong; [2022]
   Keywords : typography; blackletter; fraktur; history; calligraphy; typewriting; technology; type design; graphic design; family; typeface; urban; photography; fiction; slash-fiction; Second World War; Polen; Germany;

   Abstract : Luise Schröder founded a private business school in 1910 in Stettin, a city once part of Germany. With a focus on typewriting and stenography, she was a local educator of modern communication. Throughout four generations, her family was impacted by global technological developments and socio-political shifts. READ MORE