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(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 ... -
(2017-08-31)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the portrayal of two characters of ethnic minorities in the popular Star Trek–franchise. Its primary purpose is to determine whether the portrayal of the African American lieutenant Uhura and the middle ...
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(2017-05-15)Master North American StudiesIn order to uncover the reasons behind Apple, Inc.’s 1997 recovery, this study analyses the possible Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that may have been of upmost importance in the unprecedented revival of Apple, Inc. over ... -
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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(2016-09-01)Master North American StudiesUniversal suffrage legitimizes democratic governance. The establishment of a repressive United States criminal justice system, however, has imposed strict qualifications on the right to vote. Signified by racialized mass ...
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(2017-08-30)Master North American StudiesIslam has become highly politicized post-9/11, the Islamophobia that has followed has been spread throughout the news media and Hollywood in particular. By using theories based on stereotypes, Othering, and Orientalism and ...
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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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(2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesThroughout American history, white men have had difficulty defining themselves and their gender. Manhood and masculinity have continually been redefined since the Revolutionary War. In the 1950s, the threat of the Cold ...
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(2016-09-30)Master North American StudiesThe thesis examines the ways in which American policies of economic developmental aid took shape in the early years of the Cold War. It combines historical research done at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, ...
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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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(2016-08-31)Master North American StudiesIn 2006 John Hulsman and Anatol Lieven presented ethical realism as a viable alternative to U.S. foreign policy at the time. This thesis examines whether this alternative works by analyzing Barack Obama's foreign policy ...
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Exploiting Morals. The Relationship between Whistleblowers, the Government and News media in the US. (2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesThis paper looks into the relationship between the United States government, its news media and federal whistleblowers. A case study of Edward Snowden, an intelligence whistleblower who leaked information about the NSA, ...
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(2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesThe aim of this thesis is to define how transfer from the original writing of Edgar Allan Poe into a comic book can harm or complement the source. The Classics Illustrated adaptations of the original short stories and poems ...
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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 thesis investigates the evolution of the American action hero from 1980-2010. It explains the circumstances that caused different action heroes in different eras and explains different types of masculinity found in ...
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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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(2017-08-31)Master North American StudiesBruce Springsteen is known for writing songs about the experiences of the American working class. In this thesis, I analyze the significance of the themes mobility and place in Springsteen’s lyrics, and how these themes ...
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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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(2016-07-12)Master North American StudiesThe Mexican folk saint La Santa Muerte is one of the most popular saints in both Mexico and the United States today. She has devotees from different social, political and economic backgrounds. Santa Muerte is thus a religious ...
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