Uppsatsen undersöker den konstvetenskapliga diskussionen angående  rimligheten i att läsa in moraliska budskap i holländsk genrekonst från 1600-talet. Detta görs utifrån en diskursanalytisk metod med fokus på textanalys. De texter som behandlas är skrivna av konsthistoriker under 1980- och 1990-talet och belyser tolkningsfrågan ur olika synvinklar..

Vi har skrivit en C-uppsats om bakgrundsmusik i klädesaffärer för ungdomar där syftet har varit att förstå hur affärerna använder sig av musiken. Vi gjorde en fallstudie där personer från tre olika klädesaffärer blev intervjuade. Vi kom fram till att det viktigaste att ta i beaktning vid val av bakgrundsmusik och volym är målgruppen. Klädesaffärerna måste se till att musiken och volymen är anpassad till deras primära kunder. Vi fokuserade studien på ungdomar och kom fram till att pop musik är en viktig genre som används ofta.

This is the report on a study made to find a correlation between the Johari window and the games that the possessor of given Johari window enjoys to play. A Johari window is a graph that shows an individual?s ability to receive and give feedback. One obvious correlation was found between individuals enjoying role playing games and their possessing Johari windows showing a good ability to give feedback. The reasoning behind this is that the ability to give feedback is based on the capability to express oneself to the external environment, and that one would need to be comfortable with expressing oneself to an external environment in order to enjoy interacting with the narrative that takes place within the role playing genre..

Title: Teaching improvisation in different musical genres My curiosity for teaching improvisation in different genres emerged when I started playing with musicians who had another musical background than my own. I wanted to acquire a better understanding of what improvisation means to them and how improvisation is taught in their genre. The aim of this study is to gain insight into four pedagogues' methods of teaching improvisation. The four pedagogues represent the genres of jazz, blues, organ music and folk music. I chose these four genres for two reasons.

This paper aims to describe and elaborate on a recent discursive change within the new-age movement. Since the seventies and the publishing of speculative popular science books like The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra and The self-aware universe by Amit Goswami, the idea that quantum physics resonates with spirituality has become the topic of hundreds of books and movies.The quantum-spiritual discourse has three distinct ways to approach quantum physics in its discussion on spirituality: The parallelistic approach which emphasizes the similarities between eastern philosophies and modern physics, the monistic-idealistic approach which tells us that mind is the foundation of matter and the scientific spiritual approach which tries to explain spiritual claims scientifically. In the quantum-spiritual discourse, quantum physical phenomena (e.g. non-locality and entanglement) are being called upon to validate metaphysical statements. The primary assumption of the discourse is that the shift of paradigm due to the establishment of modern physics also is a shift of paradigm of spirituality.With the object to examine the common claims made in the discourse, cross-references between spiritual arguments and facts of quantum physics are being made.

Background The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and her next of kin during the patient?s end of life. Palliative care rests on the four cornerstones managing symptoms, communication and relationship, teamwork and relative support. The nurses? task is to assess the patients? physical, mental and spiritual needs according to these four cornerstones.Aim To assess nurses? experiences of treating patients at the end of life.Method Eleven academic journals that respond to the aim has been analyzed and synthesized in a literature review in order to summarize current research on the subject.

Worldwide result over internetusers show that Sweden internet users comes at third place. The technological development has been explosive. Individuals can with the help of technology live some, in other cases all their social lifes through social media. Therefore organizations has a lot to gain by using social media to interact and start up dialogue with their audicence. There are different views whether a civic society has developed on internet or not.

Management by contract is nowadays a common method within the public sector since the NPM overtook as paradigm with its mechanisms of control inspired by the private sector. The public agency is foremost a service provider where they interact with citizens in the service process. Swedish eldercare has significantly increased its expose to competition which means that eldercare can be executed not only by the municipalities own provider. Such an adaption increases the requirements to inspect quality and how the purchasers assure goal achievement by control. The outmost liability stays with the municipality to ensure that the service produces god care since their position as the service purchaser implies the responsibility to plan, precise and evaluate the required work that the executor has to accomplish.

De olympiska spelens invigningsceremonier är till brädden fyllda med symboler, tecken och myter som alla syftar till att konstruera nationella identiteter och -narrativ. Ofta hämtas dessa symboler och tecken ur populärkulturen. Jag har semiotiskt försökt analysera dessa tecken för att se på vilka sätt värdländernas nationella identiteter porträtteras. Jag har också valt att analysera detta utifrån teorier om media events som tv-genre. De sekvenser jag har valt att studera har visat på att nationens narrativ i stor utsträckning konstrueras för att gagna socialt dominerande grupper och befästa maktpositioner..

Det här är en undersökning som berör förutsättningar att få en idé eller produktion såld till Sveriges Radios lokalradiostationer. Forskningsfrågan är: vilka förutsättningar krävs för att få sin produktion eller idé såld till en av Sveriges Radios lokalradiostationer? Uppsatsen ämnar inte förklara hur man som radioproducent ska gå till väga för att sälja in en idé, utan den ger en bredare bild av lokalradion, så man som radioproducent får en förståelse för vad stationerna kan tänkas vilja ha. Uppsatser utgår ifrån tre teoretiska begrepp: genre, radiospråk och tilltal. I min analys syns det framförallt en klar utveckling kring radiospråket..

This essay is a narrative analyze of the computer game Halo. The purpose of the essay is to see what function the narrative elements have in a computer game of the action genre. The analyze is done with a neo-formalistic approach according to the theory of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. The choice of game was based on it's positive reviews mentioning the story. The essay tries to give a picture of research in the field and researchers views on narratives and computer games.

The purpose of this paper is to see how politicians use Internet communication in their daily work and how they use it to interact with citizens of Vasteras city. To reach my conclusions I used both theoretical methods such as literature studies and qualitative interviews with the towns 11 trustees. Accoarding to this study the politicians saw not only a lot of potentials and advantages in Internet communication but also many difficulties and obstacles. In this case the cons far exceeded the pros. One of the main reason is the bad experiences which caused by rasist attacks/threats made to politicians and also the difficulties in handling of sensitiv documents which was seen as a stress factor.

This bachelor thesis is based on interviews with staff from three Egyptian NGOs in Cairo during the spring of 2013. The study examines how three Egyptian NGOs discuss the woman?s situation within the Islamic legal discourse in the contemporary Egypt. The empiric material was analysed through a theoretical framework of gender in Islam, and a discussion of the concept of human rights laws in a local context.The respondents emphasize the societies gender stereotypes as obstacles in the discussion regarding women?s rights.

Syftet med min studie är att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan högläsning, boksamtal och den individuella skrivutvecklingen. Det grundar sig i min tro att den skönlitteratur eleverna läser påverkar hur de uttrycker sig i skrift. För att ta reda på om det finns något sådant samband valde jag göra en kvalitativ undersökning utifrån experimentell design. Undersökningen genomfördes på en mindre grupp elever i år 3 vid fyra tillfällen under vårterminen 2007. Vid varje tillfälle läste jag högt ur av mig vald bok.

I denna reflekterande rapport beskrivs processen av arbetet med att skapa en introduktion till spelet Dreamlords the Reawakening (vidare benämnt som Dreamlords). Verket består av ett designdokument (se bilaga), tre spelbara uppdrag samt en serie texter som syftar till att instruera spelaren om hur Dreamlords går till. Inledningsvis ges en bakgrund till Dreamlords historia, genre och målgrupp samt syftet med verket och de mål som har satts upp. Rapporten beskriver sedan förarbetet, planeringen, designdokumentet och det praktiska arbetet. En reflektion kring de val som gjorts under framställandet av verket belyser sedan den kreativa processen.