Title: Learning to read music notation on the guitar ? an analysis of various guitar schools on the market with added own examples. Purpose: To analyse currently available teaching materials on the subject of guitar notation on the market. A comparative analysis is made of five chosen books on the topic. Four criteria for the analysis of these five books are stated: 1) Structure and progression of

This thesis attempts to understand the ways in which popular film is integrated into the everyday lives of urban middle class youth in India. Approaching the study of film through an audience reception approach, I engaged in participant observation and interviews during a fieldwork period in New Delhi in order to better understand how a young audience might negotiate the fantasy of filmic images i

This Master's thesis discusses the freedom of speech, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas in the context of public libraries in Sweden. The scope of this thesis is to examine the acquisition and maintenance of the literature about the killing of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme

The purpose of this research paper was study to what extent English language-culture has impacted the lifestyle of contemporary Chinese women in urban area. To be more elaborate, this research aimed at finding out how deep English and Western culture behind the language (as perceived by Chinese people) has filtered into the women's life, how large it has immersed, and how far and to which dire

Denna uppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i intervjuer med fem ungdomar som besöker en fritidsgård. Syftet är att få en uppfattning om vilka konsekvenser Jürgen Habermas teori om det kommunikativa handlandet kan ha för fritidsgårdens verksamhet i förhållande till fritidsledarens arbete som pedagog. Författaren har metodologiskt utgått från de intervjuer som analyserats med en meningskonstitutionsanalys.

IT-stödd distansutbildning vid svenska universitet och högskolor är en allt vanligare utbildningsform. Denna kvalitativa studie söker studenters erfarenheter av lärande på LUMA-GIS: Masters´Programme In Geopgraphical Information Systems (GIS) vid Lunds universitet. Det är en helt nätbaserad utbildning som är designad att vara flexibel vad gäller studietakt, innehåll, material och arbetsformer och

Uppsatsen är ett försök till att öppna upp en dialog mellan arkeologin, myndigheterna och skogsbruket i hopp om en öppnare syn till bevarande och en säker fortlevnad för kulturmiljöerna i våra skogar. Detta gjordes genom dokumentationer efter stormen Gudrun, kontakt med relevanta instanser samt en fältstudie. Resultatet visade att det i det studerade området inte skett så stora skador som i begyn

Min uppsats kommer att belysa subkulturer, hur och varför de uppkommer. Vad det är som driver människor till att agera mot lagstiftningen. (Etnometodologins "Against the law"). Jag ämnar än så länge se dels på de organisatoriska förhållanden under vilka beslut fattas, strukturella förändringar i samhället. Jag kommer att titta på sociala förhållanden dels människor emellan och dels deras

Vi har gjort en utvärdering av FN:s insatser i Kongo 1960-1964. Vi har analyserat utifrån en konflikthanteringsmodell som vi har hämtat ur Contemporary Conflict Resolution av bland annat Oliver Ramsbotham. I denna modell är peacekeeping och peace enforcement centrala inslag. Med dessa begrepp åsyftas fredsbevarande respektive fredsframtvingande åtgärder för att nå fred eller förhindra krig. R

"Gömd men inte glömd" är resultatet av en studie av demokratin i socialförvaltningen i Lunds kommun. Genom att besvara frågeställningen: "är förvaltningen demokratisk?", utgör denna uppsats en djuporienetering i hur förhållandet mellan förvaltning och demokratin bör se ut och om detta efterlevs i praktiken. Studiens första del är av normativ karaktär där vi fastställer en demok

This thesis focuses on the problems involving immigrants and their voting behaviour in Sweden. We presuppose that immigrants vote in a far less extent than Swedish citizen according to general statistics. We try to explain and give solutions to this problem. To our help we use both integration theory focusing on multiculturalism and electoral participation theories. Starting off in these two theo

Many of the worlds trade ministers gathered for the World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Hong Kong in December 2005 discussing the Doha agenda. Present at the negotiation as well as the delegates were a large number of non-governmental organizations or NGOs. My intention with this paper is to study the influence of the NGOs pre- and during the conference in Hong Kong. The influence w

The provision of environmental information is crucial in the effort to reach sustainability. In the last decades, it has been acknowledged that the promotion of sustainable consumption lifestyles cannot be achieved without providing individual consumers with environmental information and education. However, communicating complex environmental information to non-experts is never an easy task. The l

Tourism is recognized as one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Tourism activities entail economic, social and environmental benefits as well as adverse impacts. ?The Asian Highway Network? crisscrossing 32 countries in Asia has been promoted as a tourism-related and transport infrastructure. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has provid

On the 17th of January 2002 the Swedish government presented a bill to the Swedish parliament, proposing ways of strengthening the Swedish democracy through reforms for increased elements of participatory democracy. A public report on the state of the Swedish democracy had been released two years earlier with similar enthusiasm for participatory democracy. However, the participatory ideals of

Within the political science research it is common to examine the effects on the national parliaments caused by European integration. In this Bachelor Thesis the aim is instead to show what involvement of the national parliaments in the European Union implicates to the European integration process. The object of examination is the introduction of the parliaments as supervisors of draft legislativ

Denna studie prövar och utvecklar två dominerande teorier om civilsamhällets roll för demokratiutveckling genom att belysa det avvikande fallet Hizbollah i Libanon. Teorierna representeras dels av Robert Putnams teori om civilsamhället som en arena där socialt kapital och tillit skapas mellan medborgare, och dels av Jean Cohen och Andrew Aratos teori som ser civilsamhället som en inflytandekanal m

The appointing of Swedish governmental officials has gone through a dramatic change the last nine years. The tradition of officials appointed due to their political experience has been traded against the appointing of experts. In this study I ask questions about this new way of appointing representatives effects how these officials interpret their role. An official that who has never been in the p

The United States of America has a long history of involvement in their "backyard" Latin America. However some countries have experienced significantly more involvement than others. In this essay we discuss the role of the US policy in Colombia, and examine how the relationship between these countries can be interpreted through the application of two different theories. Our analysis is