The aim of this study is to examine the collection One Thousand and One Nights (also: The Arabian Nights) from a european perspective, by comparing different european translations. The study focuses on three translations into Swedish from different periods of time and how the tales have changed in the translation process - depending on the prevailing line of approach and Western perceptions of Eastern standards. The thesis of the study is that Eastern culture, from a Western perspective, has been seen as exotic and different but not as a high literary culture and that this view has affected the translations into european languages. The study shows, among other things, that Western culture is many times considered normative in the translations and that the translators often give their own voices a prominent role, also that common Western notions of the East affects the translations.The word ?orientalism? is used frequently in the study and it refers primarily to the image of the Orient as it is described in Edward Saids' book Orientalism: as a Western construction whose main purpose is to strengthen its own conception of the Orient and thereby strengthen the Western identity as better than the Orient.

The aim of this study is to examine the collection One Thousand and One Nights (also: The Arabian Nights) from a european perspective, by comparing different european translations. The study focuses on three translations into Swedish from different periods of time and how the tales have changed in the translation process - depending on the prevailing line of approach and Western perceptions of Eastern standards. The thesis of the study is that Eastern culture, from a Western perspective, has been seen as exotic and different but not as a high literary culture and that this view has affected the translations into european languages. The study shows, among other things, that Western culture is many times considered normative in the translations and that the translators often give their own voices a prominent role, also that common Western notions of the East affects the translations.The word ?orientalism? is used frequently in the study and it refers primarily to the image of the Orient as it is described in Edward Saids' book Orientalism: as a Western construction whose main purpose is to strengthen its own conception of the Orient and thereby strengthen the Western identity as better than the Orient.

Syftet med undersökningen var att undersöka markanvändning och skogshistoria i ett område imellanskåne på gränsen mellan skog och slätt. Frågor som behandlas rör den medeltidaagrarexpansionen och den senmedeltida agrarkrisen, samt förändringar i trädslagsammansättningen.För att besvara frågorna har vi använt paleoekologisk metodik, fr. a. pollenanalys och C14-datering,men också flygbilder, historiska kartor och skriftligt källmaterial. Våra resultat visar på enodlingskontinuitet i området från tidigmedeltid till 1600-tal med en tydlig expansion av åker ochgräsmarker under tidig medeltid och en lika tydlig regression under senmedeltid.Trädslagssammansättningen har under lång tid dominerats av ek, bok och tall.

In the 1970?s it was predicted that in the beginning of the 21st century there would be a timber shortage in Sweden and a large scale introduction of the exotic tree species lodgepole pine started. An introduction of a foreign tree species means a risk of a negative influence on the forests ecosystem. Today, the stands that were established in the 70?s are middle-aged and the effect on the forest floor vegetation can be studied.

I skogsbruket ställs ständigt krav på effektiviseringar och ökad tillväxt. Samtidigt efterfrågas, via certifieringskrav, lagändringar och opinionsyttringar, ett skonsammare skogsbruk med ökad miljömedvetenhet och ett mer hållbart nyttjande av skogen som resurs. Syftet med detta arbete är att kvantifiera etablerings- och långsiktigt tillväxtresultat efter användning av det miljömässigt skonsamma markberednings- och planteringskonceptet EcoPlanter, som Holmen Skog AB använt praktiskt i ungefär ett decennium. Studien omfattar 14 EcoPlanterföryngrade bestånd som planterades mellan åren 1996-1998 i Östergötlands län. Till vart och ett av dessa bestånd valdes ett referensbestånd, med likartade yttre förutsätt-ningar, som föryngrats genom harvning och manuell plantering. Hälften av de 28 bestånden är planterade med tall och hälften med gran.

Huvudsyftet med denna studie har varit att kalibrera Uustera) ståndortsindex skattat med SIS, vilken är en funktion av ståndortsfaktorer, med avseende på ståndortsindex skattat med SIH, vilken är baserad på den aritmetiska medelhöjden och brösthöjdsåldern för de två grövsta träden på en cirkelprovyta med 10 meters radie. SIH anses vara den metod som ger det mest rättvisande ståndortsindexet, men den kan endast användas då provytan uppfyller en rad krav, medan SIS kan användas överallt Materialet i studien består av insamlat data från Holmen Skogs företagstaxering år 2000. För 700 provytor skattades ståndortsindex med både SIH och SIS. Det insamlade datamaterialet delades därefter in i åtta olika geografiska område, från Norrköping till Lycksele och för de olika trädslagen tall (Pinus sylvestris) och gran (Picea abies). Huvudsyftet med kalibreringen har varit att skatta värdet på SIH givet att man vet värdet på SIS och andra ståndorts- och beståndsegenskaper.

The aim of this study is to examine the collection One Thousand and One Nights (also: The Arabian Nights) from a european perspective, by comparing different european translations. The study focuses on three translations into Swedish from different periods of time and how the tales have changed in the translation process - depending on the prevailing line of approach and Western perceptions of Eastern standards. The thesis of the study is that Eastern culture, from a Western perspective, has been seen as exotic and different but not as a high literary culture and that this view has affected the translations into european languages. The study shows, among other things, that Western culture is many times considered normative in the translations and that the translators often give their own voices a prominent role, also that common Western notions of the East affects the translations.The word ?orientalism? is used frequently in the study and it refers primarily to the image of the Orient as it is described in Edward Saids' book Orientalism: as a Western construction whose main purpose is to strengthen its own conception of the Orient and thereby strengthen the Western identity as better than the Orient.

This paper interprets the myth of the hymen through the archetypal theory of Carl Gustav Jung. Today it has been proven that there exists no hymen that breaks at a woman?s first intercourse. Nonetheless, the myth of the hymen lives on ? creating enormous consequences for girls and women.

History has always been a doctrine with several qualities. Control over historical documentation has long served as a power tool for great men, where the victor wrote history as he or she wanted to. But history has never been exclusive to those who hold power - on the contrary, history is a central part of each individual's life, whether it is true or false. It gives an understanding of why the world looks as it does, gives the identity, related and confirms the origin as well as inspire the epic hero tales that are not always completely true. Within school, the Swedish National Agency for Education instructs that:The subject aims to stimulate students' curiosity and desire to broaden their world in a time dimension.

Fragmentation and reduction of forest area is a threat for many forest species and their habitat. Deficiencies in forest quality, such as lack of dead wood and old trees, are one explanation of the threat. The most important action to prevent the continued loss of forest types is to protect forest, but also to restore and to create areas that not previously had high nature values. Hence one of the key strategic roles for Fritid- och Naturkontoret, Uppsala municipality, is to monitor biodiversity in the context of urban planning. The majority of the Uppsala municipality residents live in urban areas and most of them spend some of their spare time in natural areas in cities and their immediate surroundings. Exploitation in and around Uppsala is high, but it is important that there is enough nature close to houses to meet the residents? needs of recreation.

Narratives about UFO:s and extraterrestrials can be regarded as part of an everyday religiosity, yet the issue has been poorly studied outside an American context, within the discipline of Religious Studies. In this paper, I therefore seek knowledge about the further development of these narratives within the Swedish UFO-movement from the 1960?s until today. Influenced by social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss´ discussion about mythems as the smallest components of a myth, I argue that the stories which emerge within the Swedish context differ from the American ones. This difference consists of both loss of certain mythemes and the addition of others to this mythic complex.

The story of the forest - A folded textile wall for flexible rooms in public spacesIn the story of the forest the dragonfly is spinning yarn shiny as the sun. In the story of the forest almost everything can happen and almost everything is also happen there.Inspiration from Lennart HellsingThe goal in this exam work was to create a calm, playful space for children in public spaces. A place where children can hide and relax without being disrupted by the surrounding, a place where their imagination can grow and take place. The goal was also to make a flexible space for public spaces that could be used in different ways. Today many libraries want to be more than a library, they will work as a meeting place and you can find several activities to join in.

I dagens svenska skogsbruk är snytbaggeskador på planterade plantor av gran och tall ett stort problem. Syftet med detta examensarbete vara att efter den första tillväxtsäsongen utvärdera snytbaggeskador och planttillväxt i 15 praktiska planteringar med tre olika markberedningsmetoder där plantorna behandlats med Conniflex. Fältundersökningen skedde på färska hyggen belägna i norra Uppland och södra Gästrikland. Medelvärdet för andelen snytbaggeskadade plantor låg på drygt 8,5 % per lokal. Risken för snytbaggeskador minskar rejält då planteringspunkten är i ren mineraljord eller humusblandad mineraljord.

I denna uppsats undersöker och analyserar jag gränsvärdesbegreppets framställning i svenskaläroböcker för gymnasieskolan. Utifrån Tall och Vinners (1991) termer begreppsbild och begreppsdefinition samt Lakoff och Núñez (2000) kognitiva idéutvecklingsteori studerar jag vilkaförutsättningar för förståelse som ges utifrån läroboksinnehållet. I uppsatsen studeras även de styrdokument som legat till grund för dagens läroböcker och i dessa noteras hur gränsvärdesbegreppet har fått allt mindre utrymme i undervisningen sedan 1970-talet men att begreppet åter nämns i den nyagymnasiereformen Gy11. I min undersökning av läroböcker konstateras att skillnaden visserligen ärstor på hur mycket plats gränsvärdesbegreppet får i litteraturen men det kan konstateras att flera avdagens läroböcker har en otillräcklig framställning för att elever skall ges en ordentlig möjlighet att utifrån dessa skaffa sig förståelse för begreppet..

This is a study about how Swedish travel magazines write about tropical islands with a history of colonization. The study investigates how the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles, Haiti, the Maldives, the Dominican Republic, Aruba, Zanzibar and Guadeloupe are being portrayed in four Swedish travel magazines.Travel articles published in the travel magazines Vagabond, Allt om Resor, Res and Escape 360° during the period January 2004 to December 2009 have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis.The study concludes that the travel magazines tend to idealize and aestheticize the tropical islands. The islands are being presented as paradises on earth. They are described as fairy tales, magical, dreams and as playgrounds for Westerners. The inhabitants of the tropical islands are being judged by how well they attend to the tourists? needs and wishes.