Essays about: "normative essay"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words normative essay.

  1. 1. Pipelines, provocateurs and pacifists

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johanna Spetz; [2024]
    Keywords : Climate change; climate activism; violence; nonviolence; deontology; consequentialism; values; ethics.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Would you fight climate change at any cost? In the modern day debate, opinions on the appropriate measures to draw attention to the climate crisis are divided. When conventional methods fall short, some activists resort to more assertive approaches. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in L.M. Montgomery´s Anne of Green Gables

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Elsa Nilenfors; [2024]
    Keywords : gender; queer;

    Abstract : This essay will demonstrate how the character Anne from Anne of Green Gables is open to multiple interpretations. I specifically look at the character Anne from the perspective of gender and queer theory. Anne can be read as someone who has both feminine and masculine traits. READ MORE

  4. 3. Life after social death : A study of creolisation among enslaved communities in the former Danish West Indies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Kajsa Rosén-Wiksten; [2023]
    Keywords : Slavery; transatlantic slave trade; creolisation; social death; material culture; theoretical framework; cultural expression; identity; agency; colonialism; inclusion; Slaveri; transatlantisk slavhandel; kreolisering; social död; materiell kultur; teoretiskt ramverk; kulturella uttryck; identitet; agens; kolonialism; inkludering;

    Abstract : This thesis examines and discusses how creolisation theory has influenced the material culture of enslaved people from former Danish West Indies plantations. The essay contends that creolisation is the theory required to advance slavery studies because it demonstrates how enslaved people created their own identity, belonging, and kept African cultures and customs alive despite being socially dead. READ MORE

  5. 4. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hans Ingvar Marmén; [2022]
    Keywords : Carson McCullers; Desire; Lacan; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Gendered Envisionments Of Reading The Poet X : Understanding Students' Meaning Making in Swedish EFL Classrooms

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Marcus Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : The Poet X; Elizabeth Acevedo; Reader response; Gendered reading; Envisionment; EFL education; Upper secondary school.;

    Abstract : This essay applies theories from gender studies and reader response to Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X (2018). The essay discusses diversity in meaning making by investigating differences in creating envisionments. The aim is to unmask the differences in reading to improve and direct teaching practices in EFL classrooms. READ MORE