In February of 2022, Putin invaded Ukraine, leaving many people displaced. When the war broke out, it received widespread international condemnation and was subject to bias from state officials, news outlets and civilians. State officials reacted favorably, expressing a   desire to support Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia. The invasion brought millions of refugees seeking safety from the conflict to EU member states, resulting in neighbouring countries admitting every single Ukrainian that reaches their territory. Revealing western media's true colors. This thesis employs a Discourse Analysis to examine western media's bigotry language and portrayal towards non-Ukrainians while covering the Ukrainian conflict. Poststructuralism theory will be applied to comprehend the media’s racial undertones in its depiction of the conflict. I argue the prevalent western hypocrisy in media coverage. The findings of the thesis reveal the existence of biased and racist rhetoric language used by western media.

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This diploma thesis is concerned with the question of the right conceptual approach towards consciousness. It opens up with the thesis that the crucial characteristic of consciousness - its subjective aspect - is profoundly elusive. To understand the nature of this elusiveness we get a loose inspiration from Karl Jaspers (of the continental tradition) and his idea of "subject-object dichotomy" whose main point is a realisation that the conscious subject is in principle unobjectifiable and can never be properly grasped by objectifying thinking. This main idea is then applied to various modern theories of consciousness (coming from the analytical tradition) in order to explore and demonstrate to what extend each of the theories misses or acknowledges the specific irreducibility of consciousness to objectively describable phenomena. Thus we observe that J. J. C. Smart omits subjectivity from his identity theory altogether since he understands reality as objectively graspable in all its aspects. Colin McGinn comes with an interesting explanation of our problems with grasping consciousness as part of the physical world and asserts that we are "cognitively closed" with respect to the solution of the mind-body problem. However, he concludes that a possible solution delivered in objectifying terms exists...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit betrachten wir ein System nichtautonomer gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen, das aus zwei gekoppelten Teilsystemen besteht. Die Teilsysteme bestehen aus langsamen bzw. schnellen Variablen, wobei die Zeitskalierung durch Multiplikation der rechten Seite eines Teilsystems mit einem kleinen Faktor erzeugt wird. Das Ziel unserer Untersuchungen besteht im Nachweis der Existenz einer Integralmannigfaltigkeit, mit deren Hilfe die schnellen Variablen eliminiert werden können. Dabei verzichten wir auf die übliche Annahme einer Dichotomiebedingung und ersetzen diese durch die Hinzunahme eines zusätzlichen Steuervektors. Wir beweisen, dass unter gewissen Voraussetzungen über die rechten Seiten der Teilsysteme ein eindeutiger Steuervektor existiert, der die Existenz der gewünschten Integralmannigfaltigkeit impliziert. Das Prinzip des Nachweises einer solchen beschränkten Integralmannigfaltigkeit basiert auf dem Zusammenkleben von anziehenden und abstossenden invarianten Mannigfaltigkeiten. In der Arbeit wird die Glattheit dieser Mannigfaltigkeit sowie deren asymptotische Entwicklung nach dem kleinen Parameter untersucht. / This work is devoted to nonautonomous slow-fast systems of ordinary differential equation without dichotomy. We are interested in the existence of a slow integral manifold in order to eliminate the fast variables. The peculiarity of the problem under consideration is that the right hand side of the system depends on some parameter vector which can be considered as a control to be determined in order to guarantee the existence of an integral manifold consisting of canard trajectories. We call the vector function as gluing function. We prove that under some conditions on the right hand side of the system there exists a unique gluing function such that the system has a slow integral manifold. We investigate the problems of asymptotic expansions of the integral manifold and the gluing function, and study their smoothness.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:47:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANYELLE DE LIMA WOOD.pdf: 1375017 bytes, checksum: b6232c67dc10fef09780b3078a670e6e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-24 / The theme of corruption entered the international agenda and started to integrate the academic field of international relations recently, more precisely since the 1970s when the United States passed the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), a law with extraterritorial dimensions that criminalized the payment of bribery to foreign public officials. Ever since, states were pressured by the American superpower to create international instruments to curb corruption along the lines of the FCPA. However, the anticorruption began being constructed in the mid- 1990s, almost twenty years after the FCPA. Currently, there are conventions and recommendations in several international organizations, but, because of American and other powerful nations interests, the regime faces standardizing difficulties, as well as problems in its evolution due to a conflicting principal dichotomy within the regime. On one side is the antibribery principal, represented mainly by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, and on the other side is the anticorruption principal, represented mainly by the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The interests of the developed states have been reached with the consolidation of the antibribery principal within the OECD. This is one of the reasons why negotiations on treaties and conventions with a broader scope on corruption have been hampered by these states, hindering the establishment of the anticorruption principle. The objective of this study is to analyze the existence of this conflicting dichotomy of principals through a comparative between the OECD and the UN conventions and their monitoring systems. Therefore, a cost-benefit analysis of corruption on domestic and international relations and an examination of the history of curbing corruption in the international system will be conducted in order to better comprehend the interests and consequences of corruption in the international relations. In the end, it is pointed out the necessity of building a broader anticorruption regime, not just a regime based on the antibribery principle. / O tema corrupção entrou na agenda internacional e passou a integrar o campo acadêmico das relações internacionais recentemente, precisamente desde a década de 1970, quando os Estados Unidos criaram a lei de dimensões extraterritoriais que previa a criminalização do pagamento de propina a funcionários públicos estrangeiros, a Lei Contra Práticas Corruptas Estrangeiras (FCPA). A partir de então, os Estados se viram pressionados pela potência a criar mecanismos internacionais nos moldes da FCPA. O regime anticorrupção começou a ser construído de fato em meados da década de 1990, com convenções e recomendações em diversas organizações internacionais. Entretanto, devido aos interesses dos EUA e das potências, o regime enfrenta dificuldades em se uniformizar e em continuar evoluindo por conta de uma dicotomia de princípios conflitantes dentre do próprio regime. De um lado, como maior representante a Convenção das Organizações para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) Contra o Pagamento de Propina a Funcionários Estrangeiros, encontra-se o princípio antipropina que atendem aos interesses das potências, e do outro lado, representado pela Convenção das Nações Unidas Contra a Corrupção, está o princípio anticorrupção. Os interesses dos Estados desenvolvidos já foram alcançados com o estabelecimento do princípio antipropina, e, por isso, esses dificultam a negociação e o estabelecimento do princípio anticorrupção e, consequentemente, na própria Convenção da ONU. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a existência dessa dicotomia de princípios, fazendo um comparativo entre a convenção da OCDE e da ONU e os seus sistemas de monitoramento. Para tanto, será feita uma análise dos custos e benefícios da corrupção nas relações domésticas e internacionais, assim como um histórico do combate à corrupção, para compreender melhor os interesses e as consequências da prática ao sistema internacional e a necessidade de se continuar construindo um regime internacional anticorrupção mais abrangente.

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

<p>This thesis deals with questions concerning ongoing constructions of heterosexuality as a norm in the Swedish church. Empirically the study is based partly on interviews with thirteen homo- and bisexual priests, one district visitor and one church politician and partly on some of the church’s own inquiries and documents concerning the question of Christianity and ”deviant” sexuality.</p><p>The aim for this study is to examine how norms for sexuality, coexistence and gender are repeated in the documents created by the Swedish church itself about homosexuality and Christianity and to discern how these norms are present and have sense – are reproduced, challenged and transformed in life stories of Christian homo- and bisexual individuals. To be able to see how the notion of homosexuality as abnormal is reproduced, secured and challenged I have chosen to interpret texts, observations and life stories from a critical discourse perspective. In this theoretical tradition it is central to stress how, or rather to investigate what strategies are used to produce and maintain notions of ”abnormality”.</p><p>One dominating view in the discussions within the church is that homosexuals and heterosexuals have equal value but that partnership cannot be equated with marriage. This understanding is expressed in my examples of formations of heteronormativity within the church.</p><p>In the interview persons’ narratives there are discourses represented that are articulated in the church’s own inquiries but the narratives also express counter discourses. They speak about themselves in relation to, for example, imperative heterosexuality, homosexual ideals, core family ideals, theological way of thinking and dichotomizing understanding of gender. I have identified several ”uses” in the narratives and all of them are contained in an overall Christian homosexual ”us”.</p><p>Instead of viewing themselves as being ”wrong” some of the interview persons have moved the problem to the heteronormativity. Experiences of not being part of the norm have made them strong and willing to struggle and fight for their rights. This position, outside the norm, is by some viewed positively. The homosexuals’ experiences of oppression have led to a desire to liberate the church from homophobia and show ”the true” church, where no one is discriminated.</p><p>Homosexuals are accepted within the church, but only as deviants. This way heterosexuality is being made the superior category. Its meaning and superior position cannot be questioned according to many of the church’s representatives. Still, this is exactly what is happening when homosexuals are increasingly visible to the public and when they challenge the heterosexual norm. This provocation makes the heterosexual norm visible and forces representatives of the norm to deal with it!</p>