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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 ... -
(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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(2018-08-20)Master North American StudiesThe topic of this MA thesis is the evolvement of Beyoncé’s artistry from a media product to a Black activist. The main research question is: to what extent can the artistry of Beyoncé be considered feminist and how has ...
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(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 ... -
(2018-08-20)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the presence of a utopian discourse in a selection of Apple Inc. televised advertisements released from 1983 until 2017. Specifically, it analyzes in which ways these messages of utopianism can be ...
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(2018-08-28)Master North American StudiesMuch of the literature on gentrification is written from an economic perspective, with many different sub-discussions within the larger gentrification debate. Research done through a social and cultural lens is mostly ...
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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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(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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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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(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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(2018-09-06)Master North American StudiesAmerica’s history It includes a sense of mission to spread essentially American values, freedom and democracy, around the world. In doing so, it is an example for the world to follow, a America comes in fact close to being ...
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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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(2018-07-25)Master North American StudiesThis thesis investigates commentary on racism and stereotypes by three contemporary hip hop artists and their relation to the Black Lives Matter movement. It analyzes the lyrical and visual content of three case studies ...
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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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