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(2021-06-28)Master North American StudiesIn the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of protests in response to police violence towards African Americans. During these protests the call to defund the police has frequently been heard. Books such as ... -
(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 ...
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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 ... -
(2017-11-17)Master North American StudiesThis thesis aims to gain understanding of the reasons behind makeup being one of the most resilient products of consumer culture. It consists of a detailed analytical study of the makeup industry in the American marketplace ...
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(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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(2021-06-28)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines in what ways responses to anti-racism protests within the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and National Hockey League (NHL), by athletes and the sports leagues ...
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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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(2018-08-20)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 ...
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(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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(2020-07-03)Master North American StudiesThroughout the history of the United States the authority over a state’s electoral process has shifted four times from a state itself to the government and back. Although a state has the constitutional right to oversee its ...
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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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(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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(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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(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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(2020-07-15)Master North American StudiesThis thesis explores the dynamics between global and local politics by investigating the social, environmental and political effects of a NATO military air base in Geilenkirchen which hosts NATO’s Airborne Early Warning ...
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