Abstract:The old established description gunboat diplomacy has in modern time changed to a broader and more nuanced definition called maritime diplomacy. But what is maritime diplomacy and how is it described? This essay analyses the theories from the Englishman James Cable and the American Edward Luttwak. Both Cable and Luttwak represent nations which have a global security interests and deploy their maritime forces worldwide. The foundation for their theories is power politics.

The way in which media discusses religion has changed over time. Due to the separation of state and church in 2000, the Swedish state to a lesser extent legitimizes its political ruling with references to religious concepts. As a result, a higher tolerance towards religious minorities can be said to have taken place. This is an ambiguous change however, where critique raised towards religious practices and expressions of minorities also occurs to a higher extent. The public debate is in large part conducted through the media, but is also seen to be produced and reproduced through the media?s discourse.

My project is based on a journey to India in thewinter of 2011-12. I knew that I wanted to dosome sort of travelouge based on my photos fromthe trip. I also knew I wanted to do some sort ofbook. How this, the story of my travels in India,would be told and what the theme was going to be,that was more elusive.I started out with the notion of a retelling of theold epic Ramayana and combining this with mytravels and the critical perspective of Edward W.Saids Orientalism. This proved to be an impossibleequation and I also had to rework my plan to fitthe tight timeframe I had.

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att kartlägga hur läroböcker i kristendomskunskap respektivereligionskunskap framställer den icke-kristne individen och hur denna framställning förändrasöver en period av 150 år. De frågor uppsatsen har besvarat är dels vilka icke-kristna religionersom finns representerade i materialet, dels hur individer tillhörande dessa religioner framställsoch dels vilka diskursiva förändringar som kan utläsas i materialet över tid. Forskning påläroböcker ur ett historiskt perspektiv är ett eftersatt område, detta trots att tidigare forskning lyfter fram hur betydelsefull läroboken är för elevernas lärande. Fyra läroböcker har valts ut för undersökningen. De tre första har tidigare använts vid Hvitfeldtska högre läroverk i Göteborg.Den fjärde läroboken är utvald utifrån att den är utgiven efter den senaste skolreformen.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom textanalys granska ett antal läroböcker i Engelska A för gymnasiet, utgivna i Sverige under tiden 1995-2003, för att därigenom utforska i vilken mån ett interkulturellt synsätt kommer till uttryck i dessa läroböcker. Slutsatserna som dras utifrån studien visar att ett interkulturellt synsätt betonar ett dynamiskt möte, där mötet leder till en djupare förståelse av sig själv och andra. För att mötet skall vara framgångsrikt förordas en plats utanför den egna och den andres kultur, vilken möjliggör ett utvidgande av den egna horisonten. Vidare visar textanalysen av läroböckerna att en vanligt förekommande skildring av kulturer i den övriga världen, är konstruktionen av ?de andra?, som skiljer sig mot hur den engelsktalande vita kulturen skildras som ?oss?.

The mental constructions of other places are based on impressions from everything that surrounds us in our everyday life, e.g. pictures, videos, texts and narratives. The tourism industry is especially influential when it comes to creating the image of before ?unknown places?. Furthermore, it has a tendency to embellish and idealize people and places located in what is commonly known as the Third World.

The main objective of this research was to examine description of Islam in two different schoolbooks about religion. The rapport starts with an introduction of the subject and discusses the background of the topic. After the presentation, aims, and the questions I present my methods and material used in this research. Following the method and material is earlier research where I mention some of the previous rapports and results of researchers within the discourse. The theory used to investigate the text is postcolonial and the orientalism theory presented by Edward Said.The intention of the research was to answer if the books representation contributed to an oriental description of Islam and Muslims and to see how the text and pictures where used and structured.

The Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has been living in self-imposed exile since the late 1970s, as she chose not to return to her home country following the ?79 Islamic Revolution. Through her works Neshat examines Iran before and after the revolution and follows political and civil transformations through strong photographs of women in her country of birth.  My own use of the term exile deals with the analysis of the state of exile in relation to artistic work as a globalized and underlying motivation for art and artists. The new definition of exile is analyzed in relation with the artist?s photographs and the verbal and visual statements.

IT-säkerhet är ett ämne som har blivit allt mer uppmärksammat på senare år efter medias rapportering om läckor, dataintrång och spridning av privat information på internet. Under 2013 blev det extra aktuellt efter whistleblowern Edward Snowdens avslöjanden om att den amerikanska underrättelsetjänsten NSA ska ha fått direkt tillgång till personuppgifter från bland annat Facebook och Google. Frågan många ställt sig är: vem ser vad vi gör på nätet och hur används all information? Och hur blir det när man använder molntjänster, där all information lagras på internet istället för på datorns hårddisk?De senaste åren har molntjänster marscherat fram som den nya tidens lagringsmedium. Alla vill ha molntjänster.

Uppsatsen studerar representationen av romer i miniserien Den förste zigenaren i rymden (Agneta Fagerström-Olsson, 2002), med fokus på verkets bild av romerna och tillämpningen av de audiovisuella uttrycksmedlen.Studiens teoretiska och metodologiska utgångspunkt består i en av Richard Dyer inspirerad definition av representation, Stuart Halls utläggning om stereotypering och motståndsstrategier, Edward W. Saids resonemang gällande ?vi och de Andra?, Robert Stam och Louise Spences metod fokuserande tillämpning av audiovisuella uttrycksmedel i audiovisuella verk, samt Claudia Gorbmans och Kevin J. Donnellys tankar om filmmusik, jämte tidigare forskning i ämnet.Analysen avtäcker att representationen av romer i Den förste zigenaren i rymden är komplex. Å ena sidan stärker miniserien, genom innehållet och ljudspåret, flera ?zigenarstereotyper? och översätter mestadels ?rom/roma? med ?zigenare?.

The Swedish RE curriculum states that a major purpose and aim of education inreligion is to make the students accepting and understanding of people, regardlessof religious beliefs and conceptions of life. Previous research has shown that thereare tendencies indicating that these goals are not being attained thus Swedish adolescencespeak of religion and religious people in a stereotypical manner. Thesetendencies are causes of concern which is why this study seeks to make a contributionto the previous research. This research is required since there may havebeen a change in terms of results since the last study was made. In addition, resultsfrom research that are based on interviews are hard to generalize.

The eyewitnessed reportage has a pronounced character of narrating. The imaginative power of the text helps the reader to empathise with the characters. That makes constructing empathy a necessary skill of reporters. But how can this be done?Despite a tradition of story telling among reporters, narratologists virtually have neglected the reportage genre.

The boiling properties are an important quality issue of the potato. In order to obtain adequate boiling properties the growth of the potato needs to be controlled and interrupted at the right time. However, it is difficult to determine when to stop the growth. Specific gravity can easily be measured and can sometimes be used as a tool for estimating the boiling properties. This report discusses different aspects of the specific gravity of the potato and how it can be used as a tool to determine the appropriate time for vine killing.

The boiling properties are an important quality issue of the potato. In order to obtain adequate boiling properties the growth of the potato needs to be controlled and interrupted at the right time. However, it is difficult to determine when to stop the growth. Specific gravity can easily be measured and can sometimes be used as a tool for estimating the boiling properties. This report discusses different aspects of the specific gravity of the potato and how it can be used as a tool to determine the appropriate time for vine killing.

This paper treats the question about how the internationally established company, Apple, is affected by intern or extern events when it comes to the trade market. The purpose of the study is to investigate if chosen events create abnormal return on Apples stock market. The chosen research area is Steve Jobs three sick-listings, It-bubble and the purchase of the search engine company Siri. The reason of writing about this is the big interest for the stock market and its function.This study methodological starting position is quantitative done by an event study, with qualitative feature done by an interview with an expertise within this area. When analyzing the empirics, we have used the efficient market theory that says that information should not affect the stock market in the degree that abnormal return creates.