Essays about: "strange"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 134 essays containing the word strange.

  1. 16. Using Symmetry for Realistic Virtual Living Room Generation : Generating virtual layouts

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Nils Merkel; [2022]
    Keywords : Procedural generation; Scene synthesis; Interior design; Furniture arrangement; Symmetry;

    Abstract : Procedurell generering är en teknik som används inom dataspel och annan programvara för att generera innehåll algoritmiskt snarare än manuellt. I detta projekt utökas metoden av Kán och Kaufmann (2018) för att procedurellt generera trovärdiga, virtuella scenlayouter till att använda reflekterande symmetri för syntes [14]. READ MORE

  3. 17. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  4. 18. The use of social media for promoting vocabulary acquisition in the L2 classroom

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)

    Author : Zoe Andersson; Alexander Strand; [2022]
    Keywords : Vocabulary acquisition; ESL; Second language learning; Implicit learning; Motivation;

    Abstract : Social media as a tool in the classroom is not a concept one hears much about. Being that social media is still a relatively new phenomenon, this is not particularly strange. Research surrounding the subject is sparse, but there are several articles that show there being a possible place for social media in the classroom. READ MORE

  5. 19. Empathic ability and decision-based games

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emily Nilsson; Malin Åkesson; [2022]
    Keywords : Empathy; empathic ability; decision-based games; game choices; player psychology;

    Abstract : With this study, we attempted to answer the question Does empathic ability affect the choices made by players in decision-based games?. Nine participants were asked to complete an empathy questionnaire, play the first episode of Square Enix’s game Life Is Strange, and fill out a survey with the choices they made while playing. READ MORE

  6. 20. Two Sides of the Same Coin : Understanding Homophobia in The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Shyhrete Berisha; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis has used a Queer approach in an attempt to explore that double as  a literary element is used to show a homophobic society in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. READ MORE