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Browse by Specialisation "Literatures and Cultures of North America in International Perspective"
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(2020-12-23)Master North American StudiesThis master’s thesis delved into the four main iterations of the videogame franchise The Sims to examine the ways in which gender functions in these games. Because The Sims franchise follows what Diane Nutt and Diane ... -
(2016-08-31)Master North American StudiesGerman immigrants to the United States are nowadays hardly distinguishable from other immigrant groups. The Amana people of Iowa are an exception to this rule and have kept their Amana German heritage alive for the last ... -
(2020-06-18)Master North American StudiesThis thesis investigates gay marriage and gender identity as concepts threatened by the coalition of Neoliberalism, traditional Evangelicals, and the Republican Party, seen through the Trump administration. The effects of ...
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(2018-08-31)Master North American StudiesAuthorship and Ownership - Everything is fanfiction and the illegality of copywriteright law: This thesis investigates the connection between authorship and ownership and whether it is sufficient to justify it as a foundation ...
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(2018-12-06)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the phenomenon of botched executions in relation to their media representation and how this may influence public opinion on the death penalty. The 2014 botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma ...
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A Clash of Justice: an Analysis of Indigenous and Western Judicial Practices in Court and Fiction. (2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesInteraction between indigenous and western worldviews is a much-researched subject. In this thesis focus will lie on the judicial platform, drawing attention to the way both obtain a sense of justice within their community ...
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(2019-06-25)Master North American StudiesGendered ideals dominant in nineteenth-century America have been significantly different from gendered ideals in Native American communities. In using their Indian boarding schools autobiographies as tools of protest, these ...
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(2019-08-15)Master North American StudiesIn the spring of 2018, the data company Cambridge Analytica was accused of having leaked and abused the Facebook user data of tens of millions of people against their will. This data was used to influence elections around ...
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(2015-06-15)Master North American StudiesThough it is the fastest growing and most successful branch of the entertainment industry (by far), cultural and social patterns in video games remain somewhat understudied. Yet much like a book or a movie, video games ...
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Do You Hate It? The American South in William Faulkner's Literature and Brad Paisley's Country Music (2018-08-24)Master North American StudiesWilliam Faulkner is one of the greatest American authors, and especially one of the greatest authors on the American South. Brad Paisley is a contemporary country musician whose songs involve the South and who uses similar ...
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(2016-08-31)Master North American StudiesIn this thesis, I have studied the use of dark humor by the Coen brothers by analyzing four of their films, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis. In my analysis, I have focused on the social ...
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(2017-11-14)Master North American StudiesThis Master’s thesis explores the construction of identity and race in transnational American novels. It subsequently aims to answer the question: How are the construction of identity and race portrayed in Teju Cole’s Open ...
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(2020-10-06)Master North American StudiesFrom an American Studies perspective, this thesis explores how Benh Zeitlin’s independent film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) constructs discourses surrounding nature and in what way these discourses are linked to ...
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(2020-07-20)Master North American StudiesWhat is it about the fairytale, Cinderella that has historically inspired and continues to inspire a multitude of adaptations of the story within American visual media? The Cinderella story is discussed in terms of its ...
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(2015-08-30)Master North American StudiesIndicating the idea that the United States is a nation qualitatively different from the rest of the world, with a mission and responsibility to lead the world to democracy and freedom, American exceptionalism has been the ...
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(2016-12-22)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the work of Neal Cassady from an intersectional perspective. It first addresses several issues with regards to the critical reception that already exists of Cassady’s work, most notably the prevalence ...
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(2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesThis study examines how the dedication of the Oversteek bridge to the crossing can be explained. The memorial bridge in Nijmegen focuses on the celebration of the heroic crossing in 1944. This creates an unhealthy balance ...
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It's not a fashion statement. An exploration of masculinity and femininity in contemporary emo music (2018-08-30)Master North American StudiesMasculinity and femininity can be performed in many ways. The emo genre explores a variety of ways in which gender can be performed. Theories on gender, masculinity and femininity will be used to analyze both the lyrics ...
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(2017-03-08)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the messages of activism and empowerment that are present in the music of currently popular Black female artists Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj. It analyzes how these messages of empowerment can be placed ...
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(2020-08-24)Master North American StudiesThis study provides reflections on the extent to which the environment is present in three Hollywood films from the 2010s that were all received well, scoring high profits at the box office and receiving good reviews from ...
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