Essays about: "tradition in modern world"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words tradition in modern world.
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1. A Feature Selection Approach for Evaluating and Selecting Performance Metrics
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : To accurately define and measure performance is a complex process for most businesses, yet crucial for optimal distribution of company resources and to accomplish alignment across business units. Despite the large amount of data available to most modern companies today, performance metrics are commonly selected based on expertise, tradition, or even gut-feeling. READ MORE
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2. A Journey to the Inner World : A Hermeneutic Analysis of Matsuo Bashō’s Prose from a Transcendent-Immanent Perspective
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ReligionshistoriaAbstract : The following study investigates the impact of the secular processes present in Early Modern Japan on Matsuo Bashō's prose. The theoretical basis for exploring this development is found in Durkheim’s distinction between the transcendent and the immanent, as well as the theoretical framework for secularism. READ MORE
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3. Facing the Inevitable : Using the modern practice of Döstädning to understand Ättestupa
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Ättestupa has been a contentious practice ever since the translation of Gautreks saga. This senicide practice has largely been viewed as a parody of the culture of Västergötland and has received little attention. But with new interest in the modern practice of Death Cleaning, we might finally understand Ättestupa as a real tradition. READ MORE
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4. 'A Bizarre Mirror Version of the Real World': Modernity in Three Mythic Fiction Novels by Emma Bull, Keith Donohue and Tad Williams.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Traditionally, fantasy literature has often been suspicious of modernity, typically portraying rural, pre-industrial communities as threatened by the destructive forces of modernisation. However, it has been suggested that more nuanced pictures may be found in fantasy works with contemporary settings. READ MORE
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5. A Newer New Age. Irony and the Enchantment of Atheism in Syntheist Religion
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how the stipulations of religious thought changes as society gets increasingly digitalized, life become more virtual and people get interconnected through the internet. The thesis engages with the new religious movement Syntheism, which is considered to be an example of said changes. READ MORE
