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This Bachelor’s thesis follows aspects of environmental degradation stemming from the policies of the Chinese Communist Party over the latter half of the 20th century. These start with The Great Leap Forward in ’58 in which people were exhorted to convert as much land to agriculture as possible, construct dams and implement agricultural techniques that in the long-term proved unsustainable and des

The aim of this work is to analyze the Chinese Great Leap Forward (大跃进Dayuejin) (1958-1961) and the reasons why its economic and social policies caused such a big imbalance and deficit in the Chinese economy. The thesis is divided in four chapters: The first chapter focuses on the Leap’s antecedent period; it begins with a very brief introduction to the key events after the establishment of the Pe

Problem: Today's changing environment gives rise to rapid sequence of events and rapid information dissemination. More attention is given to crisis and how organizations should manage them. Today there is much literature and many approaches to illustrate how an organization can optimize their crisis management, but yet crisis continues to generate problems for organizations. We believe that on

It is the purpose of this thesis to, firstly, give a brief introduction to the Japanese third person pronouns kare and kanojo where the historical aspect of the pronouns will also be reviewed. The second part of the thesis is also the main focus, namely an analysis of present day use of third person pronouns in a specific media. The media chosen is film and the analysis is carried out in the shape

Detta arbete söker svar på frågorna ”Förändrar företag språket och därmed sättet de marknadsför sig själva på relativt hemmamarknaden/utlandsmarknaden?” och ”Om så är fallet, hur ser den skillnaden ut?”. Olika delar av pragmatiken och bildsemiotiken, vilka anses relevanta för att svara på frågeställningen, belyses. Därtill presenteras tidigare reklamforskning kring hur en annons är uppbyggd, hur eThis report seeks answers to the questions "Do companies change the language and thus, the way they market themselves relative to the domestic / foreign market?" And "If so, how is that change manifested?". Relevant, for answering the questions, parts of pragmatics and picture semiotics are presented. In addition, earlier research on advertising language, research on how a view

The purpose of this study was to increase the understanding of the importance of work and professional identity to young adult female students’ identity formation. The questions that follow in this thesis were what young adult women think of the importance of their education and expectations about their future work, the importance of the salary and finally the possibility to combine work and famil

The game industry’s size and growth over the last 25 years has evolved from an almost nonexistent market to a huge industry. Another phenomenon which has also had a huge growth during the last decade is e-commerce, the buying and selling of products and services over the Internet. Video games are naturally connected to computers and the Internet. This together with the fact that they are digital p

I dagens samhälle är bristen på fysisk aktivitet, ohälsosamma matvanor, tobaksbruk och bruk av alkohol de största orsakerna till ohälsa. Livsstilsrelaterad ohälsa förorsakar stora kostnader för hälso- och sjukvården och är en stor belastning för sjukvårdspersonal. Genom att röra på sig, äta nyttig mat, undvika tobak och stora mängder alkohol skulle alla individer bli mer hälsosamma. Hälsosamt leva

The consumption structure, and generally lifestyles in Post-Soviet countries are undergoing drastic changes over the last 20 years of liberalization. The scarcity of consumer goods over the Soviet period, followed by the wide availability of goods and freedom to choose, resulted in the consumption model in countries of Post-communistic Bloc that is significantly different from that in countries wi

Abstract Purpose: The main purpose with this thesis was to describe the complexities involved when public sector organizations initiate changes in their organizational culture. This research also aims to depict how managers in a public organization interpret the implementation of two separate “shared value systems”, that originates from different parts of the organization. Research design: This th

This thesis takes its stance in the AstraZeneca judgment from the General Court and the latest developments in EU competition law and compares these with the equivalent standards of US antitrust law. Focus is on similarities and divergences between the EU application of competition law and the more developed doctrines of Walker Process and Noerr-Pennington in the US. The analysis is made in respec

Uppsatsen ämnar granska relationen mellan kognitiv terapi, här representerad av Judith S Becks texter, och samhället utifrån en poststrukturell förklaringsmodell. Motivet är att påvisa psykologins och i synnerhet kognitiv terapis position och inverkan inom samhällsdiskursen. I uppsatsen ämnas eventuella sanningsregimer undergrävas samt möjligheter för dekonstruktion inom kognitiv terapi att diskutThe essay intends to examine the relationship between cognitive therapy, represented by Judith S Beck's texts, and society from a poststructural viewpoint. The motive is to demonstrate psychologies, in particular cognitive therapies, position and influence within social discourse. I intend to undermine possible truthregimes and to discuss the potential for deconstruction within cognitive thera

Many of the water bodies in Europe are in bad ecological condition due to anthropologic impacts. Pollution and morphological changes have had a severe impact of the water environment and flora and fauna associated with such environments. The fact that water courses often cross administrative borders within countries as well as internationally makes the water management that much more difficult. Th

Syftet med denna uppsats är att, med tyngdpunkt på aktiviteter inom innovation och utveckling, belysa ett företags outsourcingstrategi samt analysera eventuella problem som kan uppstå och hur dessa kan förebyggas och hanteras. Ambitionen är att kunna bidra till ökad förståelse för outsourcingstrategier inom innovation och utveckling. En kvalitativ studie med en deduktiv ansats är utgångspunkten i

When a change of a signal installation will be implemented, the process takes the approach of two guiding documents that Trafikverket provides; BVF 544.94001 Teknisk säkerhetsstyrning and BVS 544.92100 Ibruktagandebesiktning av signalanläggningar. The problem with the two documents is that they sometimes treat the same things in the commissioning process, which means that there is a risk of contra

Buildings account for 40% of energy use and about one third of CO2 emissions in the EU. The huge energy saving potentials offered by the building sector has been targeted by a large number of policy instruments. To improve policy intervention in this area, more information on the extent to which the applied policy instruments are supporting the development and dissemination of different types of e

Äganderätt är den mest långtgående civilrättsliga förfoganderätten till egendom som kan innehas. Före den 1 maj 2009 har det inte varit möjligt i Sverige att inneha enskild lägenhet med direkt äganderätt trots att detta utgör den vanligaste ägarformen för lägenheter i flertalet EU-medlemsstater. Motståndet mot ägarlägenhetsinstitutet har såväl varit juridiskt som bostadspolitiskt till sin karaktärOwnership to property is the most extensive legal right of disposal that can be possessed. Before the 1 of May 2009 it was not possible in Sweden to hold a direct ownership of a flat despite freehold flats (SW. “ägarlägenhet”) being the most common legal form of ownership to a flat in other EU-member states. The resistance towards this institute has been based on legal as well as political argumen