This master’s thesis examines the prolific author George Orwell’s representation of the struggles associated with individualism within authoritarian regimes. By drawing on Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgement, a discussion of the Eichmann trials, and the responsibilities of the German people, this thesis establishes a theoretical framework. This framework is used to discuss the responsibilities ...

This thesis aims to show how literature can be used to facilitate a deeper understanding of ourselves and our imaginative mind, inside and outside the classroom. The novel that will be used as an example is Arthur C. Clarke’s renowned 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The novel revolves around Clarke’s worldview and prospections about the future, musing on the existential questions which have puzzled ...

Oppgaven handler om Havmannen, en skulptur av den engelske kunstneren, Antony Gormley, og hvordan den som skulptur i natur forholder seg til omgivelsene. I oppgaven ses det på hvordan omgivelser og landskap kan være deltagende i betrakterens møte med skulpturen og på hvordan skulptur kan framheve omgivelsene -like mye som omgivelsene kan framheve skulpturen. Hva vi ser når vi betrakter en skulptur ...

A pesar de la cantidad de estudios que hay al respecto, no disponemos de una definición clara sobre la delimitación gramatical de los compuestos en español. Si bien hay cierto consenso sobre la adscripción gramatical de los compuestos univerbales, éste se desvanece en el instante en el que estas raíces léxicas se manifiestan de forma separada, como hombre clave o coche cama. Esta falta de consenso ...

This thesis seeks to address how Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be interpreted as a story about mental illness, where the main character is suffering from Schizophrenia. The story of Alice has been adapted many times since it first was published, even by Carroll himself who wrote three different versions of the Alice story. I will look into how children’s literature has ...

This thesis investigates how interactivity, one of digital games’ most prominent and productive aspects, can be leveraged to produce particular experiences within games. I demonstrate how Pathologic 2 is designed to leverage interactivity in order to immerse the player within its fiction and world, primarily by the player’s own continuous interaction with the game system as represented in the game’s ...

In this master’s thesis, L1 Norwegians in the lower secondary school are tested on their knowledge of L2 English subject-verb agreement. The main aim of the study is to examine why this grammatical phenomenon is challenging, and, additionally, to compare the effects of two instructional methods on grammar acquisition. The instructional methods under investigation are Task Based Language Teaching and ...

This thesis seeks to investigate how the protagonists with disabilities in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time challenge society’s normative views of taboos and break the boundaries of prejudice and to underline the importance for young adult readers to read such literature. Additionally, I will seek to answer how teachers can utilize ...

Instagram är en av de mest populära sociala media plattformarna i dag, och har användare i alla åldrar. Plattformen är uppbyggd på visuellt material som laddas upp av användare, som så ska bedömas av andra. Bedömningen föregår i form av gilla-markeringar och kommentarer. Framgången mäts i synligheten, alltså hur många som bedömer ditt material, samt hur många följare ditt konto har. Men hur får man ...

I denne studien undersøker jeg hvordan tre ulike læremidler, som brukes i russiskundervisningen i norsk skole, formidler og forbereder elever på autentisk muntlig kommunikasjon. Studien tar utgangspunkt i Sosedi 1 (2000), Møde i Petersborg (1999) og Min russiske reise (2021). Jeg har benyttet meg av læremiddelanalyse som metode, og har basert undersøkelsen på to kommunikasjonssituasjoner fra hvert ...