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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)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis is about texts of travel produced by Americans in the Victorian period. Bayard Taylor wrote travel books where he supposedly reported the facts of his journeys in Africa and the Mediterranean countries. Charles ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her ...
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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)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)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)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 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)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)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 ...