Essays about: "young adult"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 184 essays containing the words young adult.
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21. Speech Fluency and Ageing
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Several physiological changes in the speech production process in old age have been documented, yet studies of cognitive changes are few and inconclusive. The current study investigates changes in rates of disfluencies, rates of speech errors and speech rate to examine if speech fluency changes throughout the adult lifespan, as well as whether the influence of task complexity on fluency remains constant regardless of the age of the speaker. READ MORE
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22. Analysis of the Impact of Population Share of Young Adults on the Healthy Beverage Market in High-income Countries
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In order to improve companies' and public health organizations' abilities to forecast the future beverage market volumes, it is crucial to identify the determinants of beverage consumption. Based on the market volume panel data from 2005 to 2020, this thesis formulates a fixed-effect model to examine the causal relationship between the population share of young adults and the market volumes of healthy beverages compared to unhealthy beverages in high-income countries. READ MORE
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23. Government and Power in Young Adult Dystopias
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Dystopian fiction first appeared as a literary genre in the 1870s and has since been known to conduct social criticism of the real world in a futuristic, fictive form. As it has evolved during the 20th century it has grown into a widely researched topic. READ MORE
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24. Challenging the straight line : Opening a new space for LGBTQ literature in the EFL classroom through a queer phenomenological reading of young adult literature
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis aims at analysing the novel History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera using a queer phenomenological lens in order to reveal to what extent it depicts aspects of sexuality, consent and relationships in a non-heteronormative way. Furthermore, the thesis discusses different ways of making visible the effects of normativity on student’s learning and development through the proposed queer phenomenological pedagogy. READ MORE
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25. Teaching Ethics Through Young Adult Literature : - An Analysis of Suzan Collins’ The Hunger Games
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This essay explores the use of young adult literature, primarily the young adult novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008), and how it creates an educational potential for learning and discussing ethics and ethical dilemmas for upper secondary school students. First, the curriculum for upper secondary school in Sweden is examined and confirms literature as important content of communication in the English subject and what the role of literature can be. READ MORE