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Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life (2015) is about Jude St Francis, a successful lawyer whose inability to recover from his traumatic childhood causes him to commit suicide. This essay investigates why Jude is able to control and alter certain aspects of his life, but how he still is ultimately and finally dominated by his emotional trauma. By applying the theory on freedom in Jean-Paul Sartre
This paper examines the low beta anomaly and its possible presence on the Swedish stock market. It also investigates if it is possible to apply a low-beta investment strategy in order to exploit the anomaly. The findings of the paper indicate that the low-beta anomaly is present on the Swedish market and that it persists when controlling for the Fama-French factors. The result indicates that it mi
In the study of the income inequality vis-a-vis job polarization two hypothesis, somewhat complementary and somewhat contending, have been emerged in the literature as possible causal pathways for the increasing income inequality trends seen across countries: (1) Skill-biased technical change and (2) Routine biased technical change. However, empirical panel studies that critically evaluate these p
I Sverige har flertalet naturolyckor inträffat genom tiderna och det är även idag vanligt med olika typer av naturolyckor. Dessa förväntas i framtiden inträffa mer frekvent och bli allt mer omfattande till följd av klimatförändringarna. Naturolyckor kan kategoriseras som geologiska, biologiska och hydrometeorologiska. Den sistnämnda är väderrelaterade olyckor och i många fall blir den kommunala rä
Studien syftar till att undersöka ett flertal psykologiska konstrukt relaterade till Browns (2015) teori om ett helhjärtat liv. Specifikt undersöktes samband mellan autenticitet, dynamiskt mindset, skam, och self-compassion genom korrelationsanalys och multipel regressionsanalys. Datan samlades in med hjälp av en enkätundersökning (N=168). Resultatet visade på ett stark positivt samband mellan selThe study aimed to empirically investigate psychological constructs related to Browns (2015) theory on whole-hearted living. Specifically, the relationship between self-compassion and authenticity, growth mindset and shame were analysed with correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The data was collected through an online survey (N=168). The result showed a strong positive relationsh
The aim of this study was to investigate how individuals perceive the process of sexual/romantic attraction. A phenomenological approach was used, where the participants were asked to reflect as freely as possible upon a question formulated by the authors. 13 persons were selected through purposive sampling, eight men and five women, all between 20 and 30 years old were interviewed but only 8 were
The aim of the present study was to investigate the kind of support society offer parents, by illuminating some of the parent education programs which are arranged by social services. By interviewing some of those who are involved in these education programs, we tried to figure out what society would like to mediate as good parenting. Our main questions was: * Why are parental education needed i
From the early 1990s and onwards the use of debt relief as a method of providing development assistance has become increasingly popular, especially since the launch of the HIPC initiative in 1996. This thesis aims to investigate the general theoretical and empirical support of the growth enhancing properties of debt relief with regard to low income countries. Focus is put on evaluating the harmful
This is a study about Turkey's membership negotiation to the European Union. The study focuses on the pre-negotiation phase between the EU and Turkey, and investigates if any asymmetry has influenced the negotiation and how that has occurred. Turkey over almost twenty years has had its eyes on the European Union, longing to become a member. The European Union has ambivalently been carefully po
Music has a role to play in every country and every culture. Sweden today is a country whith many different cultures, religions and music genres. The purpose of this investigation is to study how immigrants youths profit from music education on the basis of music teachers' perspectives. Questions at issue are: are there immigrant children/ youths who can not take part in music education? Have
High frequency words are easier to recall compared to low frequency words in lists of only one frequency-range. This effect disappears when words of different frequencies are mixed in a list. Word frequency effects have often been assumed to rely on associations between words. The relationship between word frequency and associations was investigated by controlling associations using Latent Semanti
The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the success factors of M&As in the European energy industry. Thus, the theoretical framework of this work covers both the structure of the European energy industry and the key success factors in M&As. In an event study analysis a total amount of 103 large-scale energy deals in the period between December 1996 and March 2008 are analysed. Ac
The Stockholmprogramme was recently adopted by the European Council. In a five-year period the focus of EUs work should be in the area of justice and security. Human rights defenders has criticized the European Union for promoting the security of the Union before human rights. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the contradictions in the Stockholmprogramme about the right to seek asylum and
The realisation that climate change will have serious effects on human life has activated the wider human rights community, which is now searching for an entrance into the global issue of our time. So far, most efforts by human rights practitioners have been concentrated on the overarching problem of global injustice, which relates to the right to development. However, in estimating the effects
Denna studie syftar till att undersöka musiklärares retoriska medvetenhet och användning av retoriska verktyg i ensembleundervisning. Bakgrunden till studien är vår vilja att fördjupa kunskapen om retorikens fördelar i musikundervisning. Studien bygger primärt på kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer och sekundärt på observationer. Dessa är genomförda med fyra musiklärare som undervisar på gymThis study aims to investigate the rhetorical awareness of music teachers and the use of rhetorical tools in ensemble teaching. The background to the study is our desire to deepen the knowledge of the advantages of rhetoric in music education. The study is primarily based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews and secondarily on observations. These are completed with four music teachers who te
How does Donald Trump’s passionate Twitter usage impact consumer confidence? This paper develops a new time series measure of Donald Trump’s Twitter based on a sentiment analysis using data from June 2016 to March 2018. Furthermore, we capture the economic sentiment based on computational text analysis using economic news articles from January 2000 to March 2018, assuming that Trump acts as an ext
The master thesis intends to investigate the advantages and disadvantages with the simulation language SIMSCRIPT. The programming language was learned from manual and books about SIMSCRIPT (see references). Two models were made ato describe two different systems, one fictive and the other already existing. The first model simulates the work at an assembly line. The model illustrates the use of the
