This thesis will analyze the Congo from King Leopold II's Free State to the 2nd Congo War. After a thorough investigation of the colonial period, this thesis will analyze the modern period. This thesis contends that the underdevelopment of the Congo, and its continuing warfare and poverty are the consequences of an exploitative colonial history. To be sure, King Leopold II of Belgium created the template for administering the Congo through the installation of concessionary companies that were more interested in harvesting huge profits than creating the conditions for a self-sustaining Congolese economy. Indeed, the policies implemented by King Leopold not only created the framework for the exploitation of the Congo after the cessation of the Free State, and set the stage for Congo's current state of instability of warfare.

Filmer, texter och andra former av beskrivningar skildrar både den tid de beskriver och den tid då de produceras, både medvetet och omedvetet. För att analysera och jämföra dessa båda berättarnivåer i filmer krävs tydliga metoder och effektiva verktyg. Begreppen diegetisk tid, icke-diegetisk tid och meta-diegetisk tid introduceras i uppsatsen som verktyg för att förenkla och effektivisera analysarbetet och presentationen av tid i och kring film. Som stöd för användningen av begreppen analyseras och jämförs två västernfilmer som producerades under perioden från mitten av 1950-talet till slutet av 1960-talet. De två filmerna som analyseras är The Magnificent Seven (7 vågade livet, John Sturges, 1960) och The Wild Bunch (Det vilda gänget, Sam Peckinpah, 1969).

L'attrait exercé par le Décaméron sur quelques grandes figures de l'humanisme (telles qu'Antonio Loschi, Leonardo Bruni, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Leon Battista Alberti, ou Bartolomeo Facio) et quelques représentants de second plan (par exemple Filippo Beroaldo, Benedetto Colucci, ou encore Francesco Tedaldi) a donné naissance au XVè siècle à un véritable corpus de récits originaux et de traductions latines de nouvelles isolées de Boccace, qui témoigne d'une fertilisation réciproque des cultures vernaculaire et humaniste. Dans le contexte du XVè siècle, marqué en ce qui concerne la littérature en langue vulgaire par l'ancrage de la nouvelle dans sa tradition populaire, le corpus humaniste se distingue par la volonté des auteurs d'élever le genre. Sur le plan stylistique, la prose latine, riche de réminiscences antiques, est appelée à rehausser l'écriture, tandis que sur le plan des contenus et des finalités, l'accentuation de la dimension historique et éducative des nouvelles doit ennoblir le genre. / During the 15th century, the attraction of the Decameron on both some of the most prominent figures of humanism (Antonio Loschi, Leonardo Bruni, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Leon Battista Alberti, or Bartolomeo Facio) and some lesser authors (such as Filippo Beroaldo, Benedetto Colucci, and Francesco Tedaldi) gave rise to a whole corpus of original stories and Latin translations of isolated short stories by Boccace, which testifies of the cross-fertilization at work between vernacular and humanist cultures. In the context of the 15th century, more particularly of 15h century literature written in the vernacular, which was marked by the propensity of short stories to be rooted in popular tradition, the humanist corpus is characterized by the willingness of its authors to bring the genre to a higher level. As regards the style, Latin prose, which is highly reminiscent of antiquity, is called on to elevate the writing, while from the point of view of the content and the goals to be reached, putting the stress on the historical and educational dimension of short stories is to ennoble the genre.