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Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Constance (Literaturwissenschaft), 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The dandy has been one of the most fascinating and impressive phenomena of the 19th century. Even today, he seems to be an influence to some modern men. But what was the dandy, and how is he presented in literature, the place of his creation? Lord Arthur Goring, the dandy in Oscar Wilde?'s An Ideal Husband, is a narcissistic layabout with a colourful and complex...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: 1, Universitat Konstanz, Veranstaltung: Sportsoziologie, 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Besonderes Augenmerk werde ich bei meiner Hausarbeit auf die Situation von schwarzen, mannlichen Jugendlichen, und die Bedeutung die Basketball fur sie hat, legen. Als empirische Grundlagen dient mir zum einen die Filmdokumentation "Hoop Dreams," in der Arthur Agee und William Gates, zwei schwarze Jugendliche aus einem Chicagoer Ghetto, die von einer Karriere in der NBA...

The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesis stating that pollution rises with income at low levels of income but falls at higher income levels. If this hypothesis were true, economic growth would finally be good for the environment. But is this hypothesis correct? For which pollutants does the EKC exist and for which pollutants is the pollution-income relationship monotonically rising? Why does the EKC hypothesis apply to some, but not to other pollutants?
The author first surveys the empirical and theoretical literature. He also analyses which theoretical causes of the EKC are...