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(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 ... -
(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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(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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(2019-04-05)Master North American StudiesThis thesis explores the potential of the United States as Cultural Empire during the Marshall Plan years by analyzing three selected posters from the poster competition in 1950 and the well-known emblem of the aid program. ...
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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 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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(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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(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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(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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(2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesIn the summer of 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked classified documents of the United States intelligence organization NSA to the press. The documents, of which the magnitude and scope were unprecedented, shocked ...
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