The aim of this essay is to study how cultures are presented in English textbooks for A-level students in Sweden. The aim is divided into three research questions, what does culture in English teaching mean, how is the English-speaking world presented in the textbooks and is the image that is presented stereotyped or does it try to challenge it? The study comprises of four textbooks from 1998-2008. The theoretical frame used in the essay is Edward Said?s Orientalism.

Att sätta personalen i fokus en modell om att möjliggöra för medarbetare? En fallstudie av Svenska Mässan.

Cities have always been founded on nodes of different roads.The city Harnosand was founded where the road along the coast of north Sweden meets the sea and the calm bay of Nattviken behind the island of Harnon. Harnosand has a big historic heritage as one of the first cities in the north part of Sweden, centre of the church and education city. The incrising centralisation of Sweden and the globalication of the world have made north of Sweden to the backside of Sweden.The coun- tryside and the smaller cities don ?t live anymore. In Harnosand is big moving out and many empty spaces. In the middle of Harnosand next to Nattviken, is one of these empty spaces. This empty space next to the road of E4, that leads out in the world and Europa.

Syftet med denna studie var att kartlägga hur rådgivares arbetsrutiner och förhållningssätt på en lokal sparbank påverkar relationen mellan bank och kund. För att besvara syftet ställdes tre forskningsfrågor om hur rådgivare: bygger och bevarar relationer: agerar i kundrelationer för att öka lojaliteten: och hur rådgivares relationer med kunder påverkas av arbetsgivarens krav. En fallstudie genomfördes med tre telefonintervjuer med privatmarknadschefen och två rådgivare på Tjörns Sparbank. Studiens resultat visade att rådgivare på en lokal sparbank har stor inverkan i byggandet och bevarandet av kundrelationer. Det visades sig även att rådgivare hade en stor inverkan i kundhanteringen för att öka lojaliteten, vilket är viktigt för att generera lönsamma kunder.

The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge about the representation of fiction authors who have written in languages other than Swedish in educational school books within the Swedish subject. This is done in relation to the school's promotion of cultural diversity, a globalized world and to the Swedish curriculum. The study is a combination of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis that takes its starting point in six educational books for the courses Swedish 1 and 2. The analysis shows that all study materials include a broad representation of authorships from Europe and the USA. The selection of authors from other parts of the world is, however, limited.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera aktieindexobligationer samt att öka förståelsen för detta värdepapper. Metod: Inledningsvis söktes mycket information från bankerna i form av prospekt. Detta utökades senare till att även vara avkastningen som berörda värdepapper haft. För att kunna utvärdera huruvida bankernas produkter är konkurrenskraftiga har två angreppssätt används. Det första en konstruerad aktieindexobligation med värdepapper som finns att köpa på marknaden.

Trough a literature study based on both philosophic and objective fact this essay is taking off in the meaning of public space. It investigates how the information society and its virtual world are affecting the idea and use of public space in the city. The city and the actual world have developed from the traditional meeting between people while the virtual world is based on flows of information. The information flow has expanded through the Information and Communication Technique (ICT). ICT covers among others Internet, mobile phones and computers.

Today all private corporations are obligated by statutory audit. The government of Sweden appointed an investigation to conclude if the audit should be statutory or not. The investigator presented on the third of April 2008 a report (SOU 2008:32) that suggests abolishment of the statutory audit for approximately 97 % of all private corporations in Sweden. This will result in certain effects on the banks credit rating because of the fact that the banks trust the audited accounts to have been audited by an independent audit.The most important in the banks credit rating are: personal judgement, business concept, business plan and repayment ability. The banks also use the private corporations audited accounts in its credit rating.We conducted a case study by interviewing four bank officials in different banks in Skövde and Tibro.

Under de senaste åren har det varit stort fokus på de svenska storbankerna Nordea,Handelsbanken, Swedbank och SEB i och med den finansiella kris som ägt rum världenöver. Det har varit stora debatter i media och det svenska folket har förlorat en del av sintillit till bankerna. I den här uppsatsen har vi undersökt om situationen i Sverige verkligenhar varit så allvarlig som påståtts eller om hela debatten har varit överdriven. Syftet medstudien har således varit att granska hur finanskrisen påverkade Sveriges storbanker.För att få svar på detta valde vi sju nyckeltal som vi ansåg relevanta för undersökningenoch beräknade sedan dessa för varje bank mellan åren 2000 och 2009. Till vår hjälp hadevi bankernas årsredovisningar som tillhandahöll den data som vi behövde till våraberäkningar.

The object with this bachelor thesis is to illustrate if equality is present during the interaction between female and male players in the World of Warcraft with focus on the female players conception. The main question is: How does gender matter in the interaction between female and male players in WoW? This question is particularly interesting because WoW is in its own construction neutral in regards to gender in the aspect that gender does not hinder or benefit your avatar when it comes to the avatars development or possibilities. This bachelor thesis describes the views three of female WoW players and how they perceive the interaction with male players with focus on equality. The informants? personal thoughts and experiences are described.

I conducted this examinasions work because I want to find out how loan to farmes are working and more specific towards younger farmers. What you have to think about before you go to the bank and what the banks are thinking about lending money to farmers. This work is based on an investment plan propasal for 20 000 laying hens on a farm in the Kalmar area. The investment plan propasals have two diffrent alternetives, one farm on 25 hectares and one on 50 hectares. I have chosen this becouse I wanted to study how the diffrent sizes of farms are changing the banks thoughts about lending money. These investment plan propasals have included four banks with questionnaire and deep interview.

Under den senaste tiden har en diskussion uppkommit om hur revisorer bedömer och formulerar fortlevnadsvarningar i årsredovisningen. Begreppet fortlevnadsvarning är till för att informera om tveksamheter påträffats gällande ett företags möjligheter till att fortsätta bedriva verksamheten. Den tidigare forskningen på området har haft som utgångspunkt att belysa och kvantifiera utfallen av fortlevnadsvarningar, vilket har visat på en avvikelse där tillförlitligheten borde ifrågasättas. Användandet av fortlevnadsvarningar borde belysas då årsredovisningens primära uppgift är att förse intressenter med betydelsefull och användbar information. Undersökningens syfte är att skapa insikt om och förståelse för hur företagsanalytiker använder sig av årsredovisningen och om fortlevnadsvarning är av betydelse vid kreditbedömning.

This study examines the players experience, environments and objects in the videogame World of Warcraft. The purpose of this study is to get more knowledge about the players experience in the game with the focus on factors contributing to some form of immersion or/and presence. The data for this study were gathered using interviews as method and then analyzed with relevant literature in the chosen field. A game content analysis and a group of questions are tested with the results of the study which is presented at the end in with an analytic discussion. .

Background: The world of sports possesses a lot of knowledge when it comes to leadarship and coaching. Coaching as a term is relatively new to the business industry and something that is up and coming among alot of companies. Leadership and coaching are two terms that can be combined with each other both in sports and in the business industry.Objectives: This study aims to compare leadership in sports and in the business industry. The purpose is to see if they can learn from each other and how they define the term leadership.Method: Interviews were chosen as a method in this study. Six individual interviews were performed and there were three leaders from the business industry and three leaders from the world of sport participating in the study.

Syftet med denna studie är att visa på hur två olika paradigmskiften inom Världsbanken påverkat dess policy..