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Browse Scriptierepository by Programme "Master North American 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 ... -
(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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(2021-06-30)Master North American StudiesThis thesis aims to demonstrate how female politicians have positioned themselves as representatives of “Trumpism” by investigating how they navigated notions of gender in their congressional campaigns. The historical and ... -
(2020-05-19)Master North American StudiesThe 21st century has seen an escalating public debate surrounding gun control in the United States. The regularity of mass shootings and the polarizing views on the topic have intensified the debate. As the conversation ...
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(2021-03-25)Master North American StudiesThis thesis explores how American identity is being mediated through Hamilton: an American Musical. I examined two main aspects of Hamilton, American identity in relation to its founding era, and race relations in ...
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(2021-08-21)Master North American StudiesThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration are at the forefront of this battle. It is precisely because of the potential role of monuments that this thesis ...
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Help Yourself to Some Neoliberalism? The Political Underpinnings of Self-Help Literature, 1978-2020 (2021-01-15)Master North American StudiesWhile self-help literature is a typically American tradition, the political motivations behind the most important self-help books remain obscure. Recently, political commentators have argued that self-help books promote ...
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(2021-07-12)Master North American StudiesIn 2013, Dutch writer Thomas Olde Heuvelt published the novel Hex, which tells the story of a small town in the Netherlands, haunted by a centuries old witch, Katherina van Wyler, whose eyes and lips were sewn shut. While ...
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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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(2018-12-19)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines female representation in contemporary commercialized American hip hop music videos through visual imagery and lyrics, contrasting the ways in which successful male and female artists portray women in ...
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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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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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(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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(2021-07-21)Master North American StudiesGeir Lundestad famously referred to the existence of U.S. bases in Western Europe as “Empire by Invitation” , but is this really true? Has there been little resistance to the presence of bases and American military personnel? ...
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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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(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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(2021-07-11)Master North American StudiesThis thesis provides an in-depth analysis of the American comedies Inglourious Basterds and Jojo Rabbit, and the German comedies Look Who’s Back and The Bloom of Yesterday. A theoretical framework on the definition of ...
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