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Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Writing and Rewriting American Autobiography, language: English, abstract: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, was the first book of...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: I write to heal" (Scofield Gathering 821), "writing became my medicine" (Halfe Bear 1272), "be healed through creative expression"...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Language vs. Culture? A Comparison between Language and Music, language: English, abstract: Language and music--both can be found in...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Institut f r Kulturwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Who am I? What makes me me? These are questions of daily importance to every individual...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University (Institut f? Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Multicultural America, language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the immigration of primarily Catholic Irish to America...

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Cologne (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar Syntactic theory and first language acquisition, language: English, abstract: Heather's (26 months old) speech shows that she has...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Insitut f? Anglistik), course: "Alternate Worlds" Utopian and Counterfictional English Fiction from the late 19th Century to the 1990's, language: English, abstract: 1....

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (Fachbereich f r Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Schakespeare, language: English, abstract: Female characters play an important role for the dramatic run of events...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Augsburg (Lehrstuhl f r Englische Sprachwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Every day new things happen. With modern technology, news can be distributed all over the...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Trier, course: The American Films of Alfred Hitchcock, language: English, abstract: In 1946 the director and "Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock published a film...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut f r England- und Amerikastudien), course: Getting High on Woolf's Modernism, language: English, abstract: Virginia Woolf can undoubtedly be regarded as...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: Native American Literature, language: English, abstract: INTRODUCTION Karen Louise Erdrich, born in Minnesota in 1954 as the eldest of...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Table of contents 1 Why do we have to teach literature? 1.1 Tasks of literature: Cultural...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Gtingen (Englisches Seminar), course: Gender and Intertextuality in Contemporary Retellings of Fairy Tales, language: English, abstract: The British female author A.S Byatt has always...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,15, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: In this thesis I will first briefly outline general aspects of the autobiographical genre, with emphasis on the tradition of life narratives written...

Orthophony - The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

An Icelandic English Dictionary - Chiefly founded on the collections made from prose worls of the 12th-14th centuries by the late Richard Cleasby, enlarged and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of...

Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman's theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book "Ways of Worldmaking", this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives...

Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed...

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today s diverse and at times conflicting...

This book investigates the English translations of Shen Congwen's stories. Shen Congwen (1902-1988) is one of the most acclaimed writers in modern Chinese literature. His works have been translated into more than ten languages and his 44 stories count with 70 different English translations....

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde's life, this volume documents Wilde's impressive forays into education, religion, science, philosophy, and social reform....

This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain. It revolves around the role of David Attenborough, whose career as a broadcaster and natural history filmmaker has shaped British wildlife television. The book discusses aspects of Attenborough's professional biography and also explores...

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter...

This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only...

Do you need a 100+ score on the TOEFL exam? Improve your TOEFL Grammar skills with this advanced grammar book today If youAuthor: Timothy DickesonISBN-10: 1985401576ISBN-13: 9781985401570Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2018Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

This special re-print edition of the Vermont Dept. of Fish and Game's book "Instructions For Raising Pheasants" is a short guide to raising Ringneck Pheasants for release into the wild. Written in 1922, this classic booklet contains the basics of raising pheasants from hatching...

Persian language has suffered great damages due to political and cultural adversities over the last 19 centuries. Ferdowsi the renowned epic poet was the first to put the Persian language back on the right track However over the years and especially since the scientific...

with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and GlossaryAuthor: C. Alphonso SmithISBN-10: 1975880099ISBN-13: 9781975880095Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2017Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d

"What does learning new words have to do with great writing? Everything. Words are the bricks to build your ideas and clarify your thoughts to others - and whether you're sculpting great phrases, great paragraphs, or great pieces of writing, your word know-how is...

In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in the benefits of linking the learning of a foreign language to the study of its literature. However, the incorporation of literary texts into language curriculum is not easy to tackle. As a...

Blended learning has recently been gaining popularity within educational fields. Examining the impact that computer-assisted techniques have on foreign language education will provide more effective ways to enhance learning techniques for educators and students alike. Applications of CALL Theory in ESL and EFL Environments...

In Language and Reality, originally published in S o Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, Vil m Flusser continues his philosophical and theoretical exploration into language. He begins to postulate that language is not simply a map of the world but also the driving force for...

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects and was brought to Britain by Germanic invaders (orsettlers) from what is now called northwest Germany and the Netherlands. It uses a vocabulary unlike other European languages of the same era. A...

This book reports the study about using Podcast for Developing Listening Skills of ESL Learners at Tertiary Level.Author: Sunil Shah, Ankitkumar PatelISBN-10: 1515213269ISBN-13: 9781515213260Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2015Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

The story of the discovery of the key of Bacon's system of ciphers and its application to the Voynich manuscript and other untranslated documents.Author: William Romaine NewboldISBN-10: 1512813346ISBN-13: 9781512813340Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2028Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.12lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d

First inclusive edition, and an essay never published before, by the talented Elizabethan courtier.Author: Norman Egbert McClureISBN-10: 151281217XISBN-13: 9781512812176Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1930Pages: 456Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

The memoirs, ramblings, forays into explanations of the quirks of English grammar and vocabulary, as well as the pseudo-philosophical insights of a teacher of English as a foreign language, who in the course of his teaching has heard the utterance 'I have a question'...

Alliteration, allusion, analogy, hyperbole, metaphor and simile are all rhetorical devices of which most of us are aware. But, there are many more. The author, Ian McKenzie describes sixty-nine of them, giving examples of each. These sixty-nine tools will be of assistance to both...

A fascinating addition to any criminal law history library or collection, this book will likely be perused often. With a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc. 1-2 new introduction], 292 pp. Originally published: Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. Monteleone was...

Providing a wealth of simple, research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals. Teaching Reading and Writing demonstrates that effective literacy instruction does not have to be complicated or...

Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus...

This book demonstrates a feature-checking approach to sentence structure and language typology within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The study is both data oriented and theoretical. The analysis is based on data from Toposa, an under-documented Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan....

Scholars have recently begun to document the many outstanding literary (artistic, structural, and rhetorical) properties of the biblical text, qualities contributing, to a significant dimension of "meaning" that few translations, past or present, attempt to reproduce even on a limited basis. Closely related to...

The Dong people are renowned within China for their beautiful singing and their architectural prowess. Their gifts have grown and flourished in the valleys and mountains of Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi Provinces of Southwestern China. In relative obscurity before the establishment of the People's...

The Cubeo people live principally along the Vaupés, Cuduyarí, and Querarí Rivers in the northwestern Amazon River Basin. Although the Cubeos have had contact with people outside their communities since the sixteenth century, their language and culture have remained largely intact. In this fifth...