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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)In my thesis I discuss formal aspects of two novels by Toni Morrison. In Song of Solomon I trace the development of the song and other musical metaphors. The proposition I make is that the gradual construction of the song ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Abstract This study applies Halliday s Systemic Functional Grammar to text analysis. The readability of Technical English in Norwegian-produced, English as Second Langugage textbooks has been assessed in terms of its ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In my thesis I have examined how Americans understand the concepts of fairness and equality in relation to affirmative action, and how this differes according to whether the focus is on race or gender. I have looked at the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis focuses on the evolution of the New Woman in American literature around 1900, who was the first example of a modern woman. The characters studied are Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin s The Awakening (1899) and ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Based on the Government and Binding Theory of generative grammar where both Case Theory and Theta Theory require every referential expression to have abstract Case and a thematic role, this study considers the impact of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The aim of this thesis has been to find out whether using Norwegian rather than English in our English lessons is in fact the rule rather than the exception today, and to find out in which situations Norwegian is used and ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Moments Seized or Ceased is a thesis presented to the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Oslo Spring term 2002. It is an analysis of two novels by Virginia Woolf, both published in the 1920s, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis seeks to study the interplay between text and production in Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband (1895). The productions analysed and compared are Kjetil Bang-Hansen’s 1996 staging of the play at Nationaltheatret ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The aim of this thesis has been to study the ideas about female education at the turn of the eighteenth century in the two writers, Jane Austen and Hannah More, who both interpreted education as the development of the whole ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War the United States seemed to move toward a more multilateral foreign policy, yet throughout the 1990s the United States has repeatedly failed to support and promote important United ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis is about the importance of letter writing in Austen s novels. I focus on the following aspects: how the British postal services worked, the letters significance in people s social lives, and the 'rules' and ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Utopian colonies were flourishing in antebellum America, more than a hundred of such colonies were founded in this period by people who wanted to lead a life different from that of the mainstream. Some of the colonies were ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis deals with the strategy use of a group of Norwegian school pupils. The strategies the pupils use for learning English vocabulary are analysed in relation to grades, sex and attitudes towards learning English ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis is devoted to studying Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'. Based on an extensive thematic analysis of the novel, it discusses how well Peter Jackson has succeeded in ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In this thesis I have looked at how J. Edgar Hoover came to power as Director of the FBI, and how he later used that power against Attorney General Robert Kennedy and SCLC leader Martin Luther King, Jr. I have further ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The growth of the Walt Disney Company in all its numerous forms - what might be called the multiple-Disney - is a valuable source for cultural study because it offers an opportunity to trace the evolution of a small ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis, "The Chinese in America: A Recently Accepted Old Immigrant Group," aims at testing the hypothesis that the transition of Chinese immigrants into an accepted ethnic group in mainstream America and their influence ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis takes a closer look at the foundation course in English with particular interest in textbook activities.The main objective is to see if and to what extent changes in the syllabuses are reflected in the types of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Summary This study explores how the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, filmed by David Fincher in 1999, treats the themes of identity and religion in an American postmodern cultural context. Fight ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Abstract: The main purpose of this thesis is to explore McCarthyism and its legitimacy.This paper will particularly look at the legitimacy of the HUAC investigations, of the loyalty-security programs, and of the FBI ...