In this essay, I focus on the influences Bradley has used to construct her historical setting, specifically the pre-Christian religion that she describes in the novel. I have studied Bradley's use of Margaret Murray's theories, and how it affects the religious message of the novel.

In this work I have examined how two violin students, who are used to the classical music tradition, think when they learn to play Swedish folk music, with focus on rhythm and beating the time with their feet. One of the students is studying on her first year to be a classical violin teacher and the other student is studying on her third year to be a classical musician, both are studying at Malmö

Det sker en ökning av äldre vilket medför att sjukdomar relaterade till hög ålder blir vanligare. Den nuvarande trenden är att de äldre bor kvar i de egna hemmen så länge som möjligt. Detta ställer större krav på utökad vård och social service eftersom äldre snabbt får reducerad aktivitetsförmåga och därför kräver direkt aktiv rehabilitering av sin skada. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka

A hydraulic transient, which is a flow condition where the velocity and pressure change rapidly with time, can collapse a water distribution system if that system is not equipped with adequate transient protection device(s). The occurrence of transients can introduce large pressure forces and rapid fluid accelerations into a water distribution system and if the system is not well protected, it can

Studien behandlar ett problem som på senare tid har uppstått i samband med den Europeiska Unionens ökade samarbete och utvidgning av den gemensamma militära kapaciteten. Problemet som man, från kritiskt håll, har framfört är att denna ökade "militarisering" urholkar EU:s gamla roll som en normativ makt. Denna problematik leder fram till uppsatsens tvådelade frågeställning, nämligen: På

Det humanitärrättsliga skyddet för civila i konflikter har sedan dess tillkomst främst reglerat internationella konflikter, något som inte förändrats i takt med att konfliktbilden skiftat från att ha dominerats av internationella konflikter till att istället präglas av mer svårdefinierade, interna sådana. Först 1993 togs ett avgörande steg mot en breddning av skyddet då säkerhetsrådet instiftade I

The aim of this report is to examine the possibilities to use network theories to perform vulnerability analysis on complex networks. The scoop of this work is also to improve the possibilities to chart, analyze and present the vulnerability in a power grid. In this report it has been, using power outage statistics, possible to verify, that network theories can be used to evaluate the vulnerabilit

The aim of this study was to identify possible reasons for non-attendance related to mammographic screening. Using qualitative methods, sex women underwent a semi-structured interview on the following themes: social background, medical history, mammographic screening, invitation, and final decision. Social background was described using the "life-form theory". The concepts of illness, d

In the Spring of 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ripped through China and the world. What it left behind in China was a country greatly improved in terms of social health levels, political transparency, financial stability and quality of life. From an ability to handle future crises and increase in international investor quality, China emerged intact, and improved. This paper outlines the

This thesis deals with the interventions of Security Council of the United Nations. In addition to this, the project is about the formation of the creation of United Nations. The primary focus is paid to the Security Council and its role in relation to the military interventions during and after the cold war. The content of the analysis is based on the liberalistic and neorealistic approach. I use

Our purpose has been to review and analyse the representation of rape, as well as discussions concerning rehabilitation, present in texts targeted at professionals and/or female victims of rape. We wish to investigate whether female victims of rape themselves are given the opportunity of individual positioning with regard to the crimes they have been exposed to. We consider it to be of relevance t

Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera processen från policy till praktik och att exemplifiera detta utifrån hur arbetet med kommunikationsplattformen i Lunds kommun har gått till väga. Ett viktigt mål är också att utifrån detta konstruktivt försöka bidra till plattformens fortsatta implementering. I uppsatsen identifieras aktiv kommunikation, kärnvärdesprofilering och effektiv imp

Detta examensarbete består av utvalda delar av en översättning av en hemsida tillhörande Kambodjamäklarna samt en analys av de delar av översättningen som varit problematiska i arbetet. I analysdelen presenterar jag först källtexten i form av en källtextanalys, sedan följer en djupanalys av hur jag har överfört juridiska termer som kanske har en annan eller något annorlunda betydelse på källspråke

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att få ökad kunskap om nyexaminerade lärares möte med sina nya arbetsplatser och att mer specifikt se på kopplingen mellan lärarutbildningens olika delar och yrkeslivet. Frågor som har behandlats var om lärares socialisation in i läraryrket, pedagogiska teorier i lärarutbildningen och praxisnära teorier i yrkeslivet.Uppsatsen har sin grund i en fallstudie från 2006 d

The subject of this bachelor-level thesis in archaeology in the transition from archaic sapiens to anatomically modern humans, and what might have caused this transition. A part of the study aims to prove or disprove whether an increased consumption of shellfish might have caused this development. Another part of the essay deals with the connection of said evolution and the suggested emergence of

Many of the countries hosting a peacebuilding mission have resumed to violence after the international community has left. The reason for this has often been a too quick liberalization creating pathologies that might lead to renewed conflict causing peacebuilding to fail. Therefore, an alternative model, focusing on insti-tutionalization before liberalization (IBL), has been suggested. If this the

Travellers på Irland är ett resandefolk som håller fast vid sin kultur och grupp trots en politik som arbetat emot dem. De har länge, men inte alltid, betraktats som en grupp med egen identitet men inte som en särskild etnisk grupp. FN rekommenderar Irland att ge dem erkännande som etnisk minoritet. Varför irländska regeringen ännu inte gjort det har en historisk förklaring och olika politik har s

Men's violence against women is an issue that exists all over the world. There are several scientists and organisations that work with this issue in one way or another. In Sweden an organisation called ROKS, and a scientist called Eva Lundgren, has been in the limelight for medias attention several times. The impression has been given that Eva Lundgren is a very controversial scientist and tha

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a gender inclusive perspective, seeking to explore and establish some of the ways in which Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza are affected by two interlocking systems of oppression, namely occupation and patriarchy. I will carry out this aim through a qualitative case study guided essentially by feminist theo

Energy, being a very important aspect of international relations and a crucial element for the enhancement of national security, has both economic and geopolitical signifi-cance for consumer, producer and transit countries. In the course of last years the European Union (EU) ? Russia energy relations, and in particular the conflictual as-pects of the Energy Dialogue (ED) and the Energy Charter Tre