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References to Women in R&B and Hip Hop: Case Studies of Girl, Baby, Bitch and Shorty
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this Master’s Thesis I will examine the use of the words girl, baby, bitch and shorty in reference to women in the context of R&B and hip hop within the timespan of 15 years (2000-2015, excluding the year 2006). The ...
Nonhumanity, Naturecultureness and Agency in Popular Culture: (Re)Contextualizing the Orc with the Case Study of Bright
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
This thesis displays the present account and use of fantastical creatures, namely orcs, as problematic because of the human-centric approaches in critical analysis concerning them. In the absence of more holistic research ...
Consumed Lives: The Relationship Between Consumerism and Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between consumerism and violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. When American Psycho was first released, it was widely criticised for both the vacuousness of its ...
Body Language in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In my Master’s Thesis, I am exploring the role of body language and nonverbal communication in David Foster Wallace’s short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). The collection has been seen as a very ...
English literature as a resource for teaching English as a foreign language: The reflections of English language teachers working with sixth graders
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
The purpose of the present research was to examine English teachers’ experiences of selecting English literature for their English as a foreign language classes for the sixth-grade pupils in Finland. Moreover, the purpose ...
Converting Technical Documentation into DITA: An Ethnographic Study of a Conversion Process
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Digital content management and structured documentation systems have become increasingly popular within companies that deal with considerable amounts of technical documentation. Implementing a structured documentation ...
Memory and Exile : Spatiotemporal Narrations of Displacement in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and And the Mountains Echoed
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Tutkielma käsittelee muistin merkitystä maanpaossa menneisyyden narratiivisen (re)konstruoinnin kannalta Khaled Hosseinin romaaneissa Leijapoika ja Ja vuoret kaikuivat. Hosseinin teoksia on tutkittu suhteellisen vähän, ...
Masculine Mobilities in American Country Music
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
My thesis examines the lyrics of contemporary American country music by various male artists and the ways they portray American mobility in the framework of masculinity. Mobility and road narratives have shaped the ways ...
Relevant Dystopias: Adapting The Handmaid's Tale for Television
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this thesis, I examine the book The Handmaid’s Tale and the first two seasons of the television series adaptation made from it. Margaret Atwood wrote the dystopian story of The Handmaid’s Tale in the 1980’s inspired by, ...
Attitudes Towards American and British English : A Survey of the Attitudes of Finnish Twenty-to-Thirty-Year-Olds
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
British English has the status of European standard English and it is associated with the school world. American English on the other hand has a strong presence in the Finns’ lives especially in the free time through media. ...