Essays about: "thesis about america"

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1. 21. The Impact of Leverage on Return-Volatility Relationship -An Empirical Study of the Nordic Equity Markets

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Jenny Ha Nguyen; [2018-07-04]
   Keywords : Risk-return relation; low volatility effect; leverage; volatility; Nordic stock market; Fama-French three factors;

   Abstract : Prior studies have documented mixed evidence regarding the relationship between stock returns and equity return volatilities. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the debate about the direction of the risk-return relationship and to seek further explanation for this phenomenon. The aim of this thesis is therefore two-fold. READ MORE

3. 22. Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Graham Hepworth; [2018]
   Keywords : Marxism; Victorian; antebellum; Romanticism; Realism; feudalism; bourgeois; aristocracy; capitalism; manifest destiny;

   Abstract : This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. READ MORE

4. 23. Sanitizing Argentina: Hegemonic Whiteness in the Europe of South America

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Rachel Elfant; [2018]
   Keywords : Argentina; coloniality; environment; Europe; hegemonic whiteness; identity; immigration; underdevelopment; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines underlying perceptions in Argentina about European culture, class, and environment. In contemporary Argentina, the population is made up of a majority of European descendants, distinguishing it from other countries in Latin America. READ MORE

5. 24. Systematic observation in healthcare: Utility and limitations of a threat and error management-based safety audit

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Andrew Grose; [2018]
   Keywords : healthcare; systematic observation; threat and error management; patient safety; FLMU06; CRM; Crew Resource Management; teamwork; team performance; General Works;

   Abstract : Improving teamwork has become a major safety goal for healthcare organizations. Audit tools currently available are useful, but they remain inadequate because they are reactive and fail to provide context for “the interaction between people and the operational context (i.e. READ MORE

6. 25. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Li Hedenmalm; [2018]
   Keywords : Alfred Lord Tennyson; Idylls of the King; Howard Pyle; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Victorian literature; ecocriticism; nature; wilderness; industrialism; animalisation; nostalgia; paradise;

   Abstract : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. READ MORE