This Master’s thesis explores the question of how Wall Street, as a special interest group in American political life, was able to translate economic power into political power in the 1990s. The theoretical basis of the ...

The U.S. political framework of environmental institutions, policies, and regulations has been labelled the American Green State. Developed throughout the last five decades, the Green State has considerably contributed to ...

The world of Film and TV has consistently and historically misrepresented, restricted or ridiculed on-screen gayness, especially when that gayness has intersected blackness. This thesis presents the Lee Daniels created TV ...

This thesis explores the liminal lesbian spaces established within heteronormative American society in the 1950s, both in the historical and literary context. It examines the spaces of suburban homes, sorority houses, ...

This thesis empirically examines the manner in which gender shaped the media coverage of the 2016 United States Presidential Election through the news frames that were employed to discuss Hillary Rodham Clinton and her ...

This thesis is a discussion on how we identify with the place we live and how we can make good places to live now and in the future. The idea is that if we feel at home in and identify with the place we live, we want to ...

This thesis is looking at some of the aftereffects of the Civil Rights Movement through the experiences of 8 civil rights activists. They were all active at the time and the movement shaped their lives both personally and ...

This thesis examines how the dominant ideas about social class in American political discourse have been challenged by the rhetoric of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the 2016 presidential primary election. Through critical ...

This thesis is an exploration of a selection of the writings of Robert 'Bob' Marshall. Looking at Marshall's writing through the lens of ecocriticism, this thesis look at first how Marshall documented his own experience ...

The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession created much ambivalence about free market economics as a viable way to achieve sustainable economic growth in the United States. Despite a robust recovery the downward ...

In most states, the decennial redistricting is done through a legislative process. This means that lawmakers decide on how electoral districts are formed. This also means that the lawmakers get to choose or reject their ...

This thesis discusses the political and democratic consequences of the use of private military contractors by the U.S. government. The discussion is divided into three separate parts: The presidency, the executive branch ...

The presented Masters Thesis seeks do develop a better understanding of the relationship between American foreign aid, American foreign policy traditions, American foreign policy towards Afghanistan for the years 2007-2012, ...

This thesis investigates how the concept the Arctic is utilized in a Canadian Arctic foreign policy context today. The thesis main argument is that the Canadian government discursively represents the Arctic as a ...

This thesis examines how soccer functions as part of the construction of contemporary Mexican-American and Polish-American ethnicity in Chicago. It does this by addressing three related sub-topics. First, it explores how ...

The history of same-sex marriage litigation has often been a story of courts making decisions in opposition to public opinion, which as a result has created powerful political backlash. George N. Rosenberg has argued that ...

In this thesis I look at how the revitalization of the republican intellectual tradition since the late 1960´s, and its narrative of the free, political and civil life in the well-ordered republic, enter into American ...

The emergence of hydrocarbon energy extracted from shale has been nicknamed the Shale Gas Revolution , due to its implications for the American society, geo-politics and economy. This thesis will explain how the economic ...

Geografisk framstilling har lenge vært et viktig aspekt av nord-amerikansk kultur. Siden oppdagelsen av Amerika har allmennheten fått den nye verden presentert på flere måter; først gjennom beskrivelser og illustrasjoner ...

Denne tesen hevder at folkebevegelser er ignorert som en potneisll kraft i internasjonal realisme-teori. Denne teorien gir derfor ingen varsler om slike bevegelser og deres potensielle effekter. Debatten om USA er et land ...

The Japanese-American Internment refers to the involuntary incarceration of approximately 120,000 alien-born Issei (first generation born in Japan,) and citizen Nisei (second generation, U.S.-born naturalized citizens of ...

The conflict thesis and the segmented assimilation theory account for two of the most significant trends in American immigration and ethnicity studies. Both of these major theoretical styles are utterly pessimistic towards ...

Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i tesen om at filmer er dypt forankret i det samfunn og den kultur som produserer dem. Oppgaven analyserer endringer i Hollywoodfremstillinger av Apacheindianeren Geronimo for å argumentere ...

This thesis explores the different perspectives that the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have had towards illegal immigration and border enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Subsequently, it also explores what ...

This thesis investigates the stereotypical portrayal of Muslims in the American media. More specifically, it explores the relative importance of stereotype theory, prejudice theory and the stereotype content model in the ...

The purpose of this thesis is to provide an answer to the following research question: why and how did the Republican Party benefit from the increased flow of money outside traditional party structures which resulted from ...

In the intersection between politics, religion and the private sphere of young Americans, this thesis explores the impact of the contemporary evangelical Abstinence movement. The Abstinence movement is a reaction to what ...

Thomas M. Magstadt asserts that one of the hallmarks of American foreign policy is the constant tension between power and principles. In this thesis, ‘interests’ replace the term ‘power’ with the purpose of illustrating ...

The main concern in this thesis is the portrayal of gay parents in American media with a particular focus on the television shows The L Word and Modern Family. Looking at how the lesbian and gay male parents are portrayed ...

One of the leading scholars on Norwegian American ethnic identity, Odd S. Lovoll, has argued that ski jumping was an "ethnic forte" for Norwegian immigrants in the U.S. This thesis tests and interprets Lovoll's statement ...

The United States of America has one of the largest female prison populations in the world. American society has, since the 1980s, locked up more women than ever before due to harsher penalties for non-violent drug offenses. ...

During the years of the George W. Bush administration, political satire had a renaissance in the United States. In 2004, a national Annenberg Election Study claimed that viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were ...

This thesis discusses the usefulness of the concept of bioregionalism as a social and cultural environmental practice, and as a response to the environmental crisis of our time. The thesis addresses an important issue in ...

Management is the product of American culture and an American product. By management I do not refer to specific individuals or groups in charge of supervision or administration, nor to the act of coping with or handling ...

This thesis is a comparative analysis of four counter-cultural novels, as well as a comparison between the counter-culture in the 1950’s and the 1990’s. In my thesis I have analyzed why and how the main character in each ...

From the end of World War II and for decades to follow, the world was in the grip of the Cold War. With the United States and the Soviet Union vying for global domination, the two super powers built huge arsenals of nuclear ...

This thesis analyzes the campaign rhetoric of John McCain and Barack Obama in the context of Lynn Vavreck's theory of clarifying and insurgent campaigns, and finds that the onset of the financial crisis constrained the ...

"'To Boldly Go" versus "Last, Best Hope'" examines a total of four American television series from the Star Trek and Babylon 5 franchises, and the portrayal of human civilization in the future. The thesis traces how Star ...

Denne oppgaven er om det konservative amerikanske magasinet "The Weekly Standard" i årene 1995-2005. Den ser på dekningen av utenrikspolitikk, med fokust på militære intervensjoner, Irak, Afghanistan og terrorisme.

The purpose of this thesis is to look at how white organized racist characters are portrayed on television by taking a closer look at the white organized racist characters portrayed in Oz, Sons of Anarchy and Justified. ...

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been America’s most listened to radio personality for the past twenty years. In spite of numerous scandals, Limbaugh’s ratings remain between 15 and 20 million. Limbaugh is a ...

Oppgaven analyserer amerikansk utenrikspolitisks diskurs med tanke på utfordringer knyttet til NATO. Selv om NATO i utgangspunktet er ansett som en vellykket allianse har den, særlig siden slutten av den kalde krigen, vært ...

This thesis examines how the American counterinsurgency effort is developing in three provinces of northeastern Afghanistan: Kunar, Nangarhar and Nuristan. Also, it examines what features of the relationship between Pakistan ...

This thesis investigates discourses on masculinity in the 1950s’ U.S. against Elaine Tyler May’s postulation that in the postwar years a policy of domestic containment ensured that white, middle-class Americans focused ...

This thesis will examine and explain the background and structure of the Tea Party Movement and discuss whether the Tea Party Movement is a party or a movement. Does it constitute a superficial change or has there, as some ...

Tendensen til å lese politiske og sosiale spørsmål i USA igjennom myten om grenselandskapet har lenge vært et kontroversielt tema i Amerikansk historiografi. Selv om nasjonalmyten i USA har mottatt sterk kritikk fra ...

I nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious prescriptions had important implications for the position of women in Jewish communities. Generally, it was recognized that, through their children, women molded the ...

The issuance of executive orders is one out of several tools that presidents have at their disposal, which they can apply in order to implement policies and more controversially to expand their powers. Throughout the ...

This thesis focuses on the political experience of Norwegian Americans in northwestern Minnesota between 1890 and 1894. More specifically, it explores the relative importance of ethnic identity in the public political ...

This thesis investigates the formation and reformulation of a distinct Norwegian-Canadian identity in western Canada. It argues that Norwegian immigrants to Canada in the beginning of the twentieth century adapted to ...

The presidency of George W. Bush was a period of controversy. The foreign policy that the administration implemented would be criticized both inside of the United States and across the world. The purpose of this thesis is ...

This study examines the 2008 presidential election in the context of critical elections, applying V. O. Key's definitions. The primary sources are newspapers and magazines acquired in the United States the first week after ...

Oppgaven analyserer konsekvensene utdanningsloven No Child Left Behind, vedtatt av Bush-regjeringen, har hatt for innvandrerbarn i USA.Hovedkapitlene evaluerer loven i forhold til lese- og matteferdigheter før og etter No ...

The topic of this thesis is the history of public debates concerning U.S. policy towards the absentee voting rights of the groups now covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). More ...

Although Jim Jarmusch is one of the most important and critically acclaimed American filmmakers of the past decades, his work has largely been ignored by scholars. Consequently, my analysis of Stranger than Paradise (1984), ...

This thesis aims to apply Segmented Assimilation Theory to the Arab-American community in Metropolitan Detroit. Segmented assimilation theory relates to second-generation immigrants, and proposes three possible ...

This thesis will survey the reasons for the lack of a leftist or social-democratic party in America. I will make an attempt to show that although weak there is a left tradition in the U.S. It is in this context that Senator ...

Oppgaven tar for seg muligheter og begrensninger for å oppnå grønn økonmisk vekst innenfor det moderne økonomiske systemet. Oppgaven innebefatter også en case study fra Iowa hvor den ser på hvordan den fornybare energi ...

When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he had laid out a conservative agenda for shaping the federal courts. He criticized the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, for its activism on behalf of the rights ...

Abstract This thesis analyzes how four popular combat films produced by Hollywood portray and interprets important events in American history. The films exemplify how American cinema has varied in its portrayal of the ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), located in the Northeastern corner of Alaska, has for the last three decades been the focus of one of the most contentious land-use conflicts in the United States. As a result ...

The goal of this thesis is to shed light on a part of the story of American hardcore, a part that in my view has not been given the space it deserves. Women in punk and hardcore do not own a place in the history of their ...

This study aims at substantiating the hypothesis that there was no significant difference in the amount of important legislation enacted during unified or divided governments during the George W. Bush administration, but ...

The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” The First Amendment made ...

The thesis looks at the strategies American presidents have used to communicate with the public in relation to the available media channels. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama are used as examples of ...

From the post-9/11 period up till today we have seen a number of films with a transnational theme and content emerging from Hollywood’s major studios. The growing number of films, containing traces of transnationality and ...

Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) has rarely been considered a film noir. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the film has any noirish qualities. The Night of the Hunter lacks most noir ...

This thesis aims to show the significance the power to define may have. It analyzes the policy process and policy outcomes regarding the status, treatment and form of trial given to the “enemy combatants” during the George ...

Analyserer amerikansk landbrukspolitikk fra 1800 til 2002. Landbrukslovgivningen i 1996 satte amerikansk landbrukspolitikk i retning av et fritt marked, men denne politikken ble reversert av landbrukslovginingen i 2002. ...

Oppgaven min er en case study om bedrifters samfunnsansvar. Jeg forsket på hvorvidt Nike har forandret sin oppførsel til det bedre i tråd med sine standarder for sosialt samfunnsansvar. Formålet med oppgaven min var å finne ...

This thesis sets out to explore how Americanization of Europe has developed through the last century. How it has been an official goal of the United States to render Europe, making it more alike the United States, and how ...

In this thesis I look at the critical reception of five of Margaret Atwood’s works. I consider reviews from large American newspapers and magazines, and my aim is to see whether Atwood’s gender influences the reception of ...

The objective of the thesis was to explore and interpret the theories of the new assimilation canon and the assimilation processes of non-white immigrants, and then primarily the Asian immigrants who arrived after the ...

In the post-9/11 atmosphere, a number of things changed in American society, including the relationship between the presidential administration and the news media. The Bush administration openly stated that it did not ...

This thesis is concerned with exploring shifts in the relationship of American culture to nature produced by the rise of modernity. In the 1890s Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that, though officially closed, the ...

Abstract This thesis analyzes the implementation of affirmative action in higher education with African Americans as its beneficiaries. The thesis has briefly presented the arguments both pro and counter affirmative action ...

The debated “new environmentalism” seeks to incorporate social and cultural dimensions in a movement criticized for its narrow scientific and aesthetic focus. A fundamental presupposition for this approach is that environmental ...

This thesis examines teen soap The O.C. s representation of gender and masculinity. The study employs a social constructivist view of gender, particularly inspired by Judith Butler s work. Moreover, theories on masculinity, ...

The American 1950s have long been regarded as perhaps the most conformist decade of the 20th century. The leading female ideology was filled with mixed messages about what women should and should not do, and what they could ...

This thesis sets out to explore the expression of dissent and social protest in African American music, namely blues and hip hop. My argument is that African American music, and these two genres in particular, has been an ...

Health care reform has been part of the political left s agenda since the New Deal. It was an important and highly visual policy area for the new activist state that emerged after Franklin D. Roosevelt s legislative ...

Robert Warshow's essay "The Gangster as Tragic Hero" forms the background for this exploration of the two movies Scarface; the Shame of a Nation (1931) and its remake Scarface(1983)as American hero figures. Tony Camonte ...

This thesis seeks to identify the general patterns of censorship of popular music in the United States from the 1950s until today. It looks at who the censors tend to be, and the methods used in order to silence artistic ...

In using presidential signing statements strategically, President George W. Bush attempts to turn an otherwise symbolic gesture into a line-item veto prerogative. With this hypothesis as a starting point, this thesis ...

In the book Whose Freedom? The Battle over America s Most Important Idea, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff argues that the conservatives in the United States are redefining freedom to mean their version of ...

Former US President Jimmy Carter has made it his goal to spread democracy and peace at a global scale. These goals are sought realized through the work of the Carter Center, and it is the purpose of this thesis to examine ...

The thesis seeks to accomplish two things. First and foremost, it is an inquiry into the reasons for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq that takes into account multiple dimensions of the decision-making process. This is ...

This thesis concentrates on a specific aspect of the Euro-American relationship, namely American responses to European regionalism. Furthermore, the intent here is to perform a historical and theoretical analysis of two ...

The thesis investigates the relationship between international education and international politics. This task is carried out by conducting a survey of the influences of American foreign policy on the United States' ...

In this thesis I have looked at how and why characters and gender roles in “women’s films” develop and change over time. I have concentrated on three historical periods which have had a strong impact on both the United ...

The United States is going through a major change with the growing influx of non-whites. As of October 2006, at least four states California, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii (and also the District of Colombia) are deemed ...