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‘The other’ crossing: Discursive representations of the management and dynamics of the Southern Border of Spain
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)Spain has undergone important transformations in its migratory patterns. In the last decades the country began to observe a decrease in the net of emigration and an enlargement of the immigration influx. Although the ... -
The position and use of literature in Norwegian upper secondary school and the transition to university
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-16)This thesis is a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of the position and use of literature in the English subject in Norwegian upper secondary school, and the transition to university. -
The Potential and Restriction of understanding Holocaust Perpetrators in "Holocaust and Human Behaviour" by the FHAO
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-19)This thesis is a descriptive study on educational resources produced and presented by the NGO, Facing History and Ourselves in the collection/book Holocaust and Human Behaviour [2016]. Using semiotic analytical tools, the ... -
The preschool child of today — The world-citizen of tomorrow?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Ideas of sustainable development, globalization and global citizenship raise questions about justice, rights, responsibility and caring for human beings and the world. Interest in the role of education for sustainable ... -
The prevalence of prescriptivism and pedantry: A mixed method study of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes’ predominance in two British newspapers
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of the prevalence of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes in the Guardian and the Telegraph articles about linguistics between 2000 and 2019. The main inspiration ... -
The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c. 1901-1915
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate ... -
The relationship between fathers and daughters in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and The Tempest
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05-11)The aim of the proposed thesis will be to examine the complex and provocative relationship between fathers and daughters in Shakespeare’s plays The Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello. The plays take up the stories at ... -
The Representation of Male Sexuality in Popular Culture
(Master thesis, 2023)The aim of this thesis is to explore the representation of male sexuality in popular culture and how it has changed from early twentieth century to contemporary time. In order to do this, I intend to do a comparative ... -
The Resilience Of Bartleby: Explaining The Purpose Of An Analogical Interpretation
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to discuss how Bartleby, the character from Herman Melville’s 1853 short story Bartleby the Scrivener, A story of Wall Street, has managed to still haunt today’s society and political issues, by being ... -
The roles of motivation and English as a lingua franca in learning Norwegian as a second language
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-14)The aim of the present thesis was to investigate the roles of motivation and ELF in the development of the Norwegian language among NOMSA students. NOMSA is a one-year Norwegian language learning program at the University ... -
The Scale of Borrowability and the Scale of Necessity of English Loanwords in the Mongolian Language: A Study on the Usage of English Loanwords in the Mongolian Popular Podcast Ideree’s Podcast
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis is a quantitative study on the scale of borrowability and the scale of necessity of English loanwords in 10 episodes of the Mongolian podcast Ideree’s Podcast. The main inspiration behind the study is the ... -
The search for Human Godhood: Challenging Traditional Religious Hierarchies with Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)The depiction of religion in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials [HDM] is a central issue for Pullman scholars, particularly the unique depiction of religious hierarchies in the text. This thesis enters this debate ... -
The Secret Garden: An Exploration of Psychology Through Fairy Tale and Gothic Narrative Devices
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)This thesis examines how The Secret Garden explores the psychology of the central characters Mary Lennox, Colin Craven and Mr. Craven through fairy tale and gothic narrative devices. Fairy tales and gothic tales share many ... -
The Songs that a Crow Would Sing
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis will attempt to pursue a further understanding of what can only be described as the unsignifiable, unsayable, ineffable, or indescribable which can be seen to stand in opposition to language and understanding. ... -
The status of the concept of 'phoneme' in psycholinguistics
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The teacher´s role in identifying and supporting children with attachment problems in daycare centres
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-11)The primary goal of this investigation has two parts: to determine and highlight methods of identification of attachment problems and to suggest compensating practices for teachers with the aim of establishing a secure ... -
"The Technological Genie": Historien om teknologi og musikk sett gjennom et britisk musikkmagasin på 1980-tallet
(Master thesis, 2022)På 1980-tallet sørget teknologiske utviklinger, særlig innenfor det digitale feltet, for nye muligheter for musikere. Den nye teknologien introduserte en stor mengde nye instrumenter og annet musikkutstyr som formet musikken ... -
The Unnatural woman: Femme fatales in Victorian Gothic
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)This thesis is a comparative character study and close reading of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Bram Stroker’s Dracula (1897), which explores how the female mind and body is problematized as a ... -
The Use of Google Docs in English writing Lessons at a Norwegian primary school
(Master thesis, 2022)This study aimed at exploring the use of Google Docs in English writing lessons in a Norwegian primary school. Thirty-four pupils of Grade 5 and their English teacher participated in the research. Three questions were ...