The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

The visual representation of management (board of directors, chief executive officer and executive management) in annual reports is an area of scholarship that has not been explored much. In the present study a sample of 87 annual reports from business enterprises within a Swedish context, comprising about 300 photographs, was analyzed using an explorative method of analysis based on semiotics and grounded theory. The influence of the context on images raises a question discussed in the study: Should the photographs in the annual report be categorized as portraits, advertisements and others or should the annual report be regarded as a genre of its own? The photographs showed patterns of homogeneity regarding gender, dress, gestures, colours, pictorial compositions et cetera. The position of the (male) CEO is privileged, but he is also connected to the group through various means like dress and style, thereby further underscoring management as a male enterprise and demonstrating the importance of the suit and necktie in creating homosocial bonds.

Genom detta examensarbete vill vi undersöka vilka avsikter pedagoger har i arbetet med barn och barnlitteratur på förskolor, men också hur pedagoger och barn resonerar kring böcker och bokläsning i förskolan. Vi vill även belysa vikten av att barn i förskolan kommer i kontakt med litteratur/böcker I forskningsbakgrunden behandlas våra styrdokument i förskolan och barnlitteratur i allmänhet samt arbetet kring litteraturen såsom högläsning och boksamtal. Som metod valde vi att intervjua pedagoger och barn på två undersökningsförskolor i en storstad för att undersöka hur pedagoger och barn resonerar kring böcker och bokläsning i förskolan. Resultatet av vår undersökning visar inte på någon större skillnad varken vad det gäller pedagogers syn på högläsningens betydelse eller bokutbudet på förskolorna. Däremot kan vi se att barns respektive pedagogers förhållningssätt till barnlitteratur skiljer sig åt, bland annat genom att barnen oftare än pedagogerna väljer populärkulturell litteratur. Vi hoppas att vi genom denna undersökning gett berörda pedagoger ökad medvetenhet och förståelse vad gäller barnlitteratur och högläsning i förskolan. Men även att vi genom detta arbete sprider våra resultat till övriga pedagoger som arbetar med barn.

This essay aims to examine how science fiction literature is supported and made available for readers at four public libraries. Each library has its own opinion of what a public library?s role in society is, and that affects how literature acquisition and media exposure is done at that particular library. To explore this, the author uses a modified version of Elzinga and Andersson?s theory of traditionalism, pragmatism and emancipationism.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka motivationsfaktorer som ligger bakom viljan att fortsätta musicera år efter år. Fokus ligger vid blåsorkestern och blåsinstrumentalister, de äldre instrumentalisterna i orkestern. Studien är avgränsad till att vara en positiv undersökning av motivation i samband med musicerande, främst musicerande i grupp.  Uppsatsen handlar om olika motivationsfaktorer som verkar motiverande för att hålla intresset för att musicera vid liv, detta har undersökts genom kvalitativa intervjuer. Efter arbetet med studien har tre olika motivationsfaktorer växt fram, social motivation, motivation genom personlig utveckling samt musikalisk motivation. Motivationsfaktorerna bygger på faktorer som ungdomar pratar om enligt Minda Birgestam och Rebecka Källner (2011), det sociala, personlig utveckling och den musikaliska upplevelsen.

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

Denna uppsats har för avsikt att undersöka huruvida det androgyna modet sker på lika premisser för män respektive kvinnor. Genom en semiotisk analys av det androgyna modet i tre science fictionfilmer förs en diskussion om det androgyna modets premisser kopplat till könsstereotypa uppfattningar om det manliga respektive kvinnliga modet. Då det androgyna uppstår i gränslandet mellan vad som är manligt och vad som är kvinnligt, och då samtliga klädedräkter uppvisar en tydlig dragning åt ett visst köns silhuetter så ägnas en stor del av uppsatsen åt att analysera karaktärernas blickar och positioner för att se vart det androgyna uppstår, och därmed också kunna besvara om det sker på lika premisser. Science fictiongenren som är en genre som erbjuder sin upphovsmakare fria tyglar att skapa den värld hen vill, och som erbjuder en möjlighet att applicera reella maktstrukturer på en imaginär värld ifrågasätts här för sitt sätt att trots detta tendera att falla in i stereotypa föreställningar om hur kön representeras och presenteras i klädedräkt och positioner.  Uppsatsen fastställer att det androgyna inte sker på lika premisser för män respektive kvinnor, utan visar att kvinnor i större utsträckning ikläds manliga klädedräkter, medan männen snarare ikläds kvinnliga egenskaper, det vill säga ges feminiserande drag. Detta leder i förlängningen till att det androgyna modet tenderar att osynliggöra det kvinnliga modeidealet, och tillika cementera stereotypa föreställningar om vilken klädedräkt männen tillåts bära eller ej..

Sverige har förbundit sig att följa europeiska konventioner om minoritetsrättigheter i sin minoritetspolitik sedan år 1999 men både Europarådet och bland annat regeringens utredare Lennart Rohdin har nyligen kritiserat Sverige för att inte leva upp till dem.                      Sverigefinnar är den största av de fem nationella minoriteter som finns i Sverige men minoritetspolitiken fungerar inte felfritt ens för deras del. Det finns brister speciellt på kommunalnivå men till exempel minoritetslagstiftningen är också missledande. Syftet med mitt arbete är att visa hur sverigefinnarnas minoritetsrättigheter följs eller inte följs idag. Dessutom har jag försökt gräva i vad det kan bero på att minoritetsrättigheter inte realiseras som de ska.                      Arbetet består av fem journalistiska artiklar som grundar sig på den svenska minoritetslagstiftningen och en av dem på friskolefrågan bland sverigefinnar samt en reflektionsrapport där jag resonerar kring mina undersökningsmetoder, källkritik och genre. I rapporten berättar jag också om tankar kring de etiska funderingar som jag hade under arbetets gång och beskriver sverigefinnarnas och minoritetsrättigheters bakgrund i Sverige.

The Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was murdered on September 10 2003. The police pursuit for the man that murdered her was initiated immediately. Two weeks later, the police arrested the 24-year-old man that six month later would be sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Anna Lindh. The main purpose of this essay is to examine how the man that murdered Anna Lindh was described in Aftonbladet and Expressen from the time of his arrest to the sentence of guilty. One part of the purpose of this essay is also to inquire how the Swedish evening press paid regard to the ethical publicity rules in their descriptions.

The aim of this study was to search for a link between the subject pictorial studies in means of expression and the ability to communicate in written and spoken language. To do so findings in relevant literature and a few complementing theories was addressed to cast light on interviews made with teachers dedicated to the subject pictorial studies in a subject-integrated curriculum.Interviews were conducted with nine teachers and all but one were teachers in the subject pictorial studies, spread across all of the nine grades in compulsory school. Informants were located in areas of socioeconomically high as well as low status, in central and densely populated areas as well as areas less densely populated. The diverse theoretical background consisted of semiotics, constructivist theory, social constructivist theory and genre theory. Theories and literature partly both contradicted and supported each other, depending on situation and circumstance.No evident conclusion could be made that discriminated one affecting cause from another on speech or writing skills.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine how the literature criticism are in the Swedish media in the reception of the novel Mosquitoes and tigers from 2007 written by the Swedish author Maja Lundgren. A second aim is to examine how master suppression techniques have been used by the literature critics in the newspaper debate. This qualitative study is based upon a total of 52 articles and reviews from five big Swedish newspapers. The theoretical approach, literature criticism, mainly originates from the Swedish professor in Literature Science Tomas Forser and the literature scholar Gunnar Hansson.

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

This essay is a product of the author?s interest in silent films from Soviet, especially, documentary films. Before the 1920?s documentary filmmaking had mostly been limited to newsreels and short scenes. Only occasional feature-length documentaries had been made.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to study how three public libraries in the west of Sweden have arranged their fiction for adults on shelves and what the possibilities for fiction retrieval are in their Online Public Access Catalogues OPAC. The theoretical framework includes a practical part consisting of Jarmo Saartis ideas about shelf arrangement and a theoretical part consisting of Annelise Mark Pejtersens different dimensions. The methods used in the case study are three interviews with librarians, visits in the libraries and searching in the libraries OPACs. Furthermore, we have summarized relevant literature about this subject in a summary of research. The analysis shows that our three libraries have arranged their fiction in a traditional way according to Saartis ideas about shelf arrangement.

The purpose of this thesis was to analyze conception and foaling results of Swedish warmblood and Standardbred trotters using breeding statistics during the years 2000-2006. Key issues in this thesis were: Have the conception and foaling results of stallions changed during the period 2000-2006? What is the effect of the use of various breeding methods? Is testicle size correlated with conception and foaling results? How important are age, breed and level of inbreeding of the stallion for conception and foaling results? Breeding statistics were available for 537 Swedish Warmblood stallions and 305 Standardbred trotter stallions. To be included in the analyses, a stallion must have mated at least ten mares in total over the period 2000-2006. This criterion was met by 313 Swedish Warmblood stallions and 272 Standardbred trotter stallions.