In 2008 Fox first aired its hit show Sons of Anarchy, a drama series about a Californian motorcycle club. The main thrust is about the club?s vice-president and his struggle to find his place in a life of violence. According to creator Kurt Sutter the series is partly based on Shakespeare?s 16th century drama Hamlet - Prince of Denmark, which causes the show to often be referred to as ?Hamlet on Harleys?.Focusing on the first two seasons of the series, this essay looks into the relationship between the two works of art.

In the fragmented network economy of toady remote work for creative designers becomes mor eand more prevalent. This is good for a number of reasons. Mainly, creative designers can find work inside and outside of their region irrespective of where they choose to live. However, competing for jobs in a global market is harder, and the online presence of the creatives becomes their main shopping window. We have conducted a study, interviewing digital creatives in Västerbotten.

Syftet med detta utvecklingsarbete är att se om drama kan användas som verktyg i skolan för att stärka grupp och individ. Vi har tagit hjälp av en årskurs ett och tillsammans med eleverna har Övningarna fokuserar på eleverna som individer, på stora och små grupper, samt på trygghet. Vi har utgått från några påståenden som eleverna svarat på för att se vad de själva tycker om det egna jaget och centrala begrepp som speglar det vi gjort i detta arbete. Avslutningsvis kunde vi se att klassen fick en starkare samarbetsförmåga, samt att eleverna faktiskt kunde njuta av att stå i centrum även om de ti Nyckelord: Individ, grupp, drama, tillsammans..

Creativity and innovation have become two very important concepts in today?s society where the demand for these abilities are sought after. At the same time, the school system of today follows a more traditional outlook on what learning and knowledge means.The extend students ability to understand and elevate their motivation is possible through creative methods of working. In order to create a school system which can withstand the demands of the future by including creative methods in its model, a study was carried out to examine how teachers? thoughts on creativity could mean for its development.This study took place in an elementary school in Sweden where Entreprenöriellt Lärande (EL) has been in use for the last two years.

This masters thesis consists of a translation of acts I-IV from Dion Boucicault?s play London Assurance, a theoretical comment on the translation and a comparative study of asides. It is divided into four parts: an introduction, presenting the work and my translation strategy, as well as a short stylistic analysis; source text and translation; a theoretical comment, mainly based on theories from the field of Translation Studies, but also theories on lingustics and literature; and a comparative study of the use of asides as a theatrical convention in English and Swedish drama.The main focus of my translation strategy is to keep or adapt features that give the audience a sense of the cultural context where the play takes place, as well as the time ? fashionable society in early Victorian England, while providing a text that is performable and speakable for the actors, and which preserves the humor present in the source text. .

The title of this project: "Istället för träd" translates as "Instead of trees" or "Replacing trees". By looking at different ways of replacing trees in the urban environment through functionality analysis, I study the creative process. To achieve this, I present eleven different ideas, and follow and analyse the process of sketching. One conclusion about the creative process is that it is a non-linear chain of events influenced by factors like method, external impressions and chance. A complete design, "Trasmattan" ("The rag") is presented. It consists of a colourful striped carpet made from rubber surfacing covering part of the sidewalks of the central street "Dragarbrunnsgatan" in Uppsala, Sweden. .

Detta examensarbete behandlar ämnet dramapedagogik och vilken funktion, position och status ämnet har haft i de läroplaner som utgivits från och med Läroplan för grundskolan 1962 (Lgr62). Materialet som undersökts är framför allt kapitlet Svenska i samtliga läroplaner, men även den allmänna delen och ett antal debattartiklar om ämnet drama i skolundervisning. Den tidigare forskningen som gjorts inom samma område är inte omfattande och berör inte ämnet ur vår vinkling, vilket gör vårt examensarbete relevant och spännande. Tidigare forskning visar att dramapedagogik i skolundervisning generellt har haft en låg position, både över tid och utanför Sverige. Samtidigt visar forskning hur gynnsamt drama i undervisning är för lärandet och att estetiska skolämnen fyller en funktion i dagens informationstäta samhälle, som stöd för att tolka och bearbeta all information som omvärlden ger oss.Som grund för arbetet har vi använt läroplansteori, eftersom det ger en förståelse över hur våra forskningsobjekt, läroplanstexterna, är uppbyggda.

Problem solving is a big part of design, however a lot of emphasis is put on creativity in research related to the effects of stress. Research has shown that the amount of stress we feel affects idea generation. Stress may also affect the ability to solve problems, however the researchers don?t seem to agree about what the effect of stress actually does.The study was made through experimental sessions where the respondents were asked to solve 4 matchstick puzzles of similar difficulty. Depending on their outcome they experienced more or less stress.

The purpose of this work was to observe fifth grade students in their creative work, how they act and how gender roles appear in the creative work. The background to this work is that I want to examine whether there is any difference in gender roles, when students are working creatively and on their compliance with, the sexes, typical similarities and differences that exist.Observational study showed that girls and boys in the class I observed, in general, has followed traditional gender patterns that exist in our society. With typical gender patterns, I mean that girls are expected to be quiet, talented and helpful and the boys are expected to speak loud and more often than the girls. The girls were, on balance, quieter and more tranquil than the boys who had difficulties to sit still and wanted to be seen and heard more widely..

Companies and projects often face the challenge of creating something new to increase their competitiveness. In this process of creating something new creativity is an important factor. By using a creative approach and utilizing creative processes new innovations emerges. An industry that has grown in recent years is the computer games industry. Competition is fierce and for the companies to succeed, the product need that extra something to make it stand out among all the produced games.The project manager's role in the creative process and the ability to be creative within a distance based company is not something highlighted by previous research.

Detta examensarbete handlar om hur berättandedrama kan stimulera till samspel och kommunikation mellan barnen och om hur barns lärande kan uppstår under dessa omständigheter. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i ett sociokulturellt perspektiv, som ser lärande som socialt och kontextuellt betingat. Av särskilt intresse är hur barnen samspelar och kommunicerar med varandra under berättandedramats tre områden: berättande, bokskapande och drama. Den empiriska delen av studien har genomförts med hjälp av videoobservationer vid nio aktivitetstillfällen. Mot bakgrund av studiens empiriska undersökning framträder fyra utmärkande drag som de som i huvudsak kännetecknar kommunikation och samspel mellan barnen under berättandedrama, nämligen barnens tendens att: använda konkreta föremål och egen kropp vid samspelet, ge och söka bekräftelse, stötta varandra och förhandla med varandra.  Sammantaget präglas barns samspel och kommunikation under berättandedrama av konkretisering, bekräftelsebehov, stöttning och förhandling.

This degree project deals with the concept of creativity and the creative output based on howSwedish upper-secondary design teachers within the Technical Engineering Programexperience this from a student's perspective. The project discusses how the concept creativityis interpreted and how the creative output is regarded by educationalists and professionaldesigners and how this then can be related to literature on the subject and in the steeringdocuments. The purpose of this degree project is to visualize the interviewees' viewpoint oncreativity and the significance of experience, skills, and environment for the creative outputand within the field of design. This in order to, in the pedagogic and didactic situation, enablethe improvement of teaching so that creativity and its output come to show. Moreover, theproject aims to create a ground for discussion of the view of the importance of these skills inthe pedagogic/didactic situation.In order to reach this aim, I have read literature on creativity from several perspectives andcarried out eight qualitative structured interviews: both with three educationalists withoutexperience within the design profession, and with two educationalists who are or have beenactive within the design profession, as well as with three professional designers.

In today?s society, people do not solely purchase a product for its promised use. Instead, a brand is purchased and along with that brand comes a variety of associations. The associations of a product?s brand are what contributes to the added value that, according to this study, is what distinguishes a brand?s power.

The media arena is becoming more and more crowded by various brands and different commercial messages. At the same time, consumers learn how to screen marketing communication and their cognitive ad filters enable them to avoid message elaboration. Thus, new thinking and new communication executions are required in order to surprise the consumers and break through the clutter. In the present study, we have investigated how the choice of media affects attention, memory and several communication effects that the ad can generate in the short as well as in the long term. The study is conducted on a well-known brand within a low-involvement product category.

SammanfattningUppsatsen är en fördjupning av en C-uppsats i ämnet pedagogiskt drama. Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda på hur elever uppfattar ämnet samt att påvisa ämnets användbarhet i arbetet med värdegrunden i skolan.Uppsatsens frågeställningar är:- Vad uppfattar elever i åldrarna 11-14 att undervisningsämnet pedagogiskt drama är?- Hur uppfattar eleverna att lektionerna med pedagogiskt drama har varit?- Hur förhåller sig denna uppfattning till värdegrunden i skolan?Metoden för arbetet är reflexiva intervjuer med enskilda elever samt parintervjuer. Tillämpningen utgår från en hermenutisk fenomenografisk induktiv metod där fokus ligger på den mening ett fenomen har för en grupp.Vi utgår ifrån de centrala dramapedagogiska perspektiven och förstärker dessa med verksamhetsteorin. Under arbetets gång sker hos författarna en reflektionsprocess, vilken påverkar arbets-sättet och utfallet.