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… barbarism.My hypothesis is that this picture, which I call the Easter Island myth, cannot be verified when confronted with scientific analysis. First I examine the statements of facts in this Easter Island myth. What does the myth say about the situation on Rapa Nui when the …
En retorisk-semiologisk analys av antirökreklam
… due to legal restrictions in the western world; however several decades of myths created in the consumer consciousness still exist. Thus one can speak of a tobacco advertising ideology that exists and the various anti-smoking campaigns trying to change that ideology. The purpose …
En studie om Masada som en israelisk nationalmyt under 1900-talet
??Masada shall never fall again!? A study about Masada as an Israeli national myth during the 20th century? by Sara Tibblin. This essay is about the Israeli national myth of Masada, a cliff in the Negev desert that was the setting of a collective suicide in 73 AD, at the end of …
The purpose of this thesis is to expose the political myth in the West about the ageing population seen as a threat against the welfare society. To do so I have described what a political myth is, and showed how it is presented in the most influential newspapers and …
Arbetsgruppens normer och balans mellan arbete och privatliv
… due to legal restrictions in the western world; however several decades of myths created in the consumer consciousness still exist. Thus one can speak of a tobacco advertising ideology that exists and the various anti-smoking campaigns trying to change that ideology. The purpose …
En texttolkning av dokumentären Palme och dess skildring av det sociala minnet efter Olof Palme som norm eller anomali
”The myth of Palme- a textual analysis of the documentary Palme and its description of the social memory of Olof Palme as a norm or anomaly” by Emma Svanström aims to analyze how the directors of the documentary Palme choose to present Olof Palme to the future generations. Also …
En analys av myter i VeckoRevyns frågespalter
This essay is an analysis of mythologies in the Swedish women´s magazine VeckoRevyn. The magazine’s own explicit purpose is to break down the unhealthy opinion of what beauty is in their industry today. By content and linguistic analysis the results of this study are …
En undersökning av kapitalismen som modern mytologi i samtida självhjälpslitteratur
… the dominant economic system in the Western world, can be seen as a modern myth or not. An author, Brian Tracy, of several popular self-help books is the target of this investigation and the language he uses in his books have been scrutinized in order to see whether or not he …
Skotsk nationalism och regionalism
… are related to each other. It is meant to highlight the meaning of the Wallace-myth for maintenance of the Scottish national consciousness and to illuminate factors lying behind this myth. It is also meant to study how Turner, Lévi-Strauss, Anderson, Eriksen, Hobsbawm and …
Om institutioner, rationaliserade myter och regionala tillväxtprogram
… prescribed the partnership as a rational solution ? a rationalized myth - to the regional growth problem. Responsible regional organizations have, through the mechanism of coercive isomorphism, answered by at least rhetorically incorporating the partnership myth in their formal …
The myth of the user - a study of the user discourse and its visionaries This study is a discourse analysis of the visions that implicitly are expressed in different texts about user-centered library theory. Several other studies have analyzed the discourse and conceptualization …
En kvalitativ undersökning om innehåll och tilltalssätt i VeckoRevyn.
… theme throughout the issues of the magazine, is unfortunately based on a myth. This in turn results in mental exhaustion, a twisted self- image, low self esteem, anorexia and bulimia among its young female audience. Keywords: weekly magazine, VeckoRevyn, content, tone, the …
Svenska nutida nazister och nazistmyten
… before and during the Second World War. The analysis is made using the Nazi Myth theory as described by French philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe & Jean-Luc Nancy. Theory and method are aimed at analysing the Nazi movement as a religious one. In this essay I have identified …
<em>En analys av karaktärsskildringar i fornnordiska myter och filmer om superhjältar</em>
… similarities in the portrayal of story characters between historical Norse myths and contemporary film productions. The chosen historical texts are two stories from Norse mythology which render a myth about Thor and a giant named Hrunge as well as the myth Trymskvädet. The …
tolkad genom Jungs arketypteori
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 …
