The digital technology has in the last years gotten a more prolific standing in our society and the same can be said in the school’s world. Therefore, is it essential to apply same kind of analysis on the digital teaching aid as regular textbooks have gone through. With the uprising of the digital world in mind is this paper’s focus on how Islam, Christianity and Judaism are represented in Utbildningsradion’s (UR) digital teaching tools. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how in UR’s these three religions is represented in terms of insider/outsider, gender and history/present. The research questions that this paper uses are how is the division between history and present time represented in UR’s digital teaching material? How is gender represented in UR’s digital teaching material? According to an insider/outsider perspective: how are the Abrahamian religions represented in UR’s digital teaching materials? This paper is applying a qualitative content analysis on UR’s digital teaching material. Robert Jackson’s theory the interpretive approach is applied on the material to investigate how the religions are represented; the focus point of the theory used to analyze is Jackson’s concept representation. The results that have been reached is that UR’s digital teaching material reach a wide definition of representation on all the religions and the themes investigated. Islam was found to have the most representation of strong female role models and Christianity was found to have a clearer division between their orientations, Protestantism, orthodox and Catholicism.

Review of: Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory. Wallace Hettle. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3781-9, 224 pp., cloth, $34.95. Excerpt: With memory studies of the Civil War and related topics increasing steadily, few luminaries have been as noticeably absent in such work as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory, Wallace Hettle presents Jackson as understood by the people who knew him—and few truly did—and those who admired him. In his introduction, Hettle pronounces his intention to explore what Jackson meant to people and to analyze what those meanings tell us about the South as a whole. For the most part, this short and lively book accomplishes those goals, and Hettle offers an important new perspective on one of the Confederacy’s most mythologized figures [...]

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Megginnis Arm of Lake Jackson in Tallahassee, Florida, has experienced rapid eutrophication as a result of development within the contributing area watershed. Bottom sediments were sampled for purposes of mapping, classifying and designating for removal. Sediment desiccation studies were performed to determine the percent of consolidation and sealing characteristics of the soils in the event of a lake drawdown. Restoration alternatives are presented and compared on the basis of field investigations, laboratory testing and analysis, and the desiccation study. Alternative methods are discussed with respect to the cost, the flexibility and the problems inherent in the different proposals. From the geometry of Megginnis Arm, and construction permit limitations, this study was limited to methods of restoration which include dredging, drawdown and excavation, drawdown and compaction, and drawdown with dredging. By comparing the costs, the practicality, and geotechnical investigation and the flexibility of alternative methods, it is concluded that the drawdown and excavation method is the alternative. The dredging and drawdown and dredging alternatives were determined to be uneconomical and risky. These methods are not recommended.

Uppsatsen analyserar tre centrala karaktärer samt tre mindre framträdande bipersoner i Rick Riordans bok Född till hjälte (2018). Syftet med analysen är att se hur karaktärerna beskrivs i boken och om de beskrivits stereotypiskt manligt eller kvinnligt, samt varför de är beskrivna på det sättet. Uppsatsen utgår ifrån olika perspektiv på genus, normer, manligt och kvinnligt samt vad som är typiskt för fantasygenren. Analysen visar att tre av de sex karaktärer som analyserats på något sätt bryter mot de stereotypiska könsnormer som beskrivs i arbetet. De resterande tre framställs med tills största del antingen manligt eller kvinnligt kodade egenskaper. En avslutande del kring hur man kan arbeta med litteratur och genus i skolan avlutar uppsatsen.

Behind the Scenes and Across Screens: Michael Jackson, His Dancing Chorus, and the Commercial Dance Industry examines the history, ideologies, and production culture of the Los Angeles commercial dance industry. Michael Jackson was the best-selling crossover pop star of the 1980s, and a recognized vanguard of music video dance who worked with many dancers and choreographers from both “studio” and “street” dance backgrounds. My focus on Jackson, his choreographic and dancing collaborators, the different styles of dance incorporated into their works, and the dynamics and aims of the conglomerate entertainment/advertising industry in which these works were produced contributes to a critical examination of commercial dance more broadly. I argue that during the critical juncture of the 1980s, the works of Jackson and his dancing chorus illuminate both the enduring paradigms and shifting dynamics of the commercial dance industry regarding practices of attribution and recognition, commodity culture and commercialism, and racial politics and ideology. My dual analytic framework of behind the scenes and across screens recognizes commercial dance works as both creative processes and commercial products. Behind the scenes examines creative labor and production practices, shedding light on how the industry functions in social, political, and economic terms. The original intention of the producers frequently differs from how consumers interpret the mass-produced artifacts. Therefore, across screens explores how divergent dance aesthetics, cultural trends, and semiotic tropes circulate via various screen technology, are re-circulated as cultural commodities, and might be received by different audiences. Together, both analytic perspectives reveal commercial dance’s complicated, sometimes contradictory, multivalence, especially regarding race. Methodologically, Behind the Scenes and Across Screens is rooted in dance studies, but draws upon the disciplinary lenses of historiography, production studies, African American cultural studies, racial theory, media studies, and screendance studies. Through archival research, interviews, and screendance analyses, I examine the entangled themes of attribution, commercialism, and race as they manifest in some of Jackson’s most iconic commercial dance works from the 1980s. The focus on Jackson and his chorus illuminates the historically vexed status of dance as labor and divergent practices of credit-giving, how commodity culture and crossover marketing shape the dancing, and how commercial dance variously redresses or reifies past racial politics and contemporary racial ideologies. While I highlight the ways in which commercial dance workers assert their agency and attempt to make dances that offer positive social messages, ultimately the paradigms regarding labor, commercialism, and race in which the commercial dance industry is imbricated curtails progressive political critique. / Dance