Anthologies: general

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: The present paper is concerned with the interfaces between the verbal categories of aktionsart and voice.

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0 (B), LMU Munich (American Studies Institute), course: Hauptseminar: Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture in Twentieth Century America, language: English, abstract: Thesis Statement: Hitchcock's Blondes were a formation of the director's own creative vision, the image of women in film during the Monroe Era did not influence him in his depiction of womenWithout question, Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the most important and most influential film directors of the Twentieth Century.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg, course: The Rise of the Entertainment Industry, language: English, abstract: The Hip Hop culture between grassroots and commercialzation.

Schenkst du noch, oder trinkst du schon?

The first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history.

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Institut fur fremdsprachige Philologien, Fachbereich Anglistik / Cultural Studies), course: The Cultural Study of Film - British and American Hitchcock, language: English, abstract: Alfred Hitchcock is, without doubt, one of the most famous film directors in the history of cinema.

The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope is a masterful blend of satire, mock-epic, and social commentary within the neoclassical tradition of belles lettres.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Heidelberg (Institut fur Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar Functional Syntax, language: English, abstract: In this term paper I will investigate the structure of English sentences with the subjectnotion as a starting point.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 78% = deutsche 1-2, University of Queensland, course: AUST 6120 Nation & Culture, language: English, abstract: The first edition of the magazine 'The Australian Women's Weekly' was published in 1933 and continues its publications till today.

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,00, University of Regensburg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar US Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: With the End of the Cold War, the world should become safer.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, course: Narratives of passing in American Literature, language: English, abstract: This term paper will deal with one of these novels that fit both of the aforementioned criteria - it is hard to translate into a screen play and the filmic version did not receive much attention at the box-office with a tanking of only 5,000,000 US$ in the United States (The Human Stain [Box Office]).

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien), course: Introduction to Language and Language Learning, language: English, abstract: This paper has been designed to provide an efficient overview of theoretical discourse analysis by discussing the following questions: - What is discourse analysis - defining the difference between the terms text and discourse and discourse analysis itself.

History in English Words by Owen Barfield is a groundbreaking work of linguistic and literary criticism that delves into the intricate evolution of the English language.

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: The situation does not seem to be particularly exciting at all: A wealthy and civilised Renaissance duke chatting harmlessly with the envoy of a count whose daughter he is planning to marry.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (Institut fur Literaturwissenschaft: Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Literary Studies: Seminar: "e;Essay Writing and Interpretation of Literary Texts"e;, language: English, abstract: "e;The emphasis [of Luis Valdez's Teatro Campesino lies on] (.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Hamburg (Anglistics Seminar), course: Seminar II: Cognitive English Grammar, language: English, abstract: For centuries, the study of metonymy and metaphor has been regarded purely a matter of style and rhetoric.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance (Fachgruppe Literaturwissenschaft - British and American Studies), course: American Literature and Culture Part Two - Minority Literatures, language: English, abstract: This term paper examines how Morrison exposes the category of "e;race"e; to be mere biological fiction but still serves to structure people's expectations towards eachother in everyday interactions.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Amerikanistik), course: Introducing Tod Browning, language: English, abstract: Ever since the horror genre has established, it has fascinated viewers around the world.

Leslie Fiedler's radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2.

First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Culture and Society During the Progressive Era, language: English, abstract: In my paper I would primarily like to demonstrate how Sinclair represents the immigrant life in his book and how it ties with the reality at that time.

Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair is a powerful socialist novel that delves into the heart of working-class activism and political struggle.

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (English Department), course: The Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase, language: English, abstract: The term 'ergativity' is used to describe a grammatical pattern in which there is a formal parallel between the object of a transitive clause and the subject of an intransitive clause.

Hvorfor bliver nogle mennesker sa vrede bag et tastatur?

Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, course: Abschlussarbeit zur Erlangung des Staatsexamens, language: English, abstract: Die Examensarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema der Todesstrafe im zeitgenossischen US Amerika und versucht den Grund fur dessen, in der westlichen Welt singularen Befurwortung dieser Strafe aufzudecken.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http://www.

"e;Modernism from the Margins"e; is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, Brown University (Department of American Civilization), course: Trauma and Shame of the Unspeakable, language: English, abstract: One event that turned "e;ostalgia"e; - the term given to the nostalgia felt for East Germany - into an unstoppable popular movement in the spring of 2003 was the overwhelming success of Wolfgang Becker's film, Goodbye, Lenin, a tragicomic satire set during the time of German reunification.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg, course: HS American Classics of the 19th Century, language: English, abstract: When he was engaged to marry Sophia Amelia Peabody, a painter who copied the works of famed contemporaries with "e;widespread praise"e;, Nathaniel Hawthorne was awaiting two pictures she had produced "e;expressly for him.

Intermediate Examination Paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: Introduction to US Cultural Science II: "e;The Thirties"e;, language: English, abstract: Although much of Langston Hughes's and Richard Wright's writing expressed social protest, there is one genre -the essay- that has gone largely unnoticed.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Saarland University, language: English, abstract: In this paper I will deal with the topic of "e;Scaffolding in the EFL classroom.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB05 Englisches Seminar), course: The City in American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: This paper will be concerned with the possible ways of construction of identity or the loss of identity - particularly the African American identity - in the modern metropolis as it is described in August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Oberseminar Theories of American Studies, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial theory results from a network of political and cultural tensions between colonizers and colonized.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Hamburg, course: Language and Emotion, language: English, abstract: With forming a passive-voiced sentence out of an active-voiced sentence, certain elements of a situation shall be emphasized.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Sehr gut, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: America's collective memory rests on mythic regions: the planter's South, the Puritan's East, and the pioneer's West.

From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up dual-heritage, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity.

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: none, Jahangirnagar University (Department of English), course: Folklore and sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: This paper tries to examine and determine the relevance of the study of the language of folklore to sociolinguistics since folklore being constituted by all the facets of the traditions, customs and culture of the speech community is embodied and composed in, and manifested and transmitted by means of language, particularly speech, and sociolinguistics discovers and ascertains the relations of language to society.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA (Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA), language: English, abstract: Reader-response criticism is a modern way of analyzing and interpreting literature withemphasis on the reader and not on the author or the text.

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,5, University of Sheffield, course: Literature of Descent (Seminar), language: English, abstract: During the past century, our ideas and definitions of hell have changed significantly through the experience of two world wars, the far reaching consequences of decolonization, the Holocaust, the split of mentalities into the dichotomy of "e;East"e; and "e;West"e; as well as most recent threats like diseases, changing moral values and terrorism.

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Essay from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Read the City - Read the Text, language: English, abstract: Edward W.

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg, course: Henry James in Transition, language: English, abstract: Many of the critics writing about The Spoils of Poynton belong to one of two groups: "e;Either they take Fleda to be the heroine of the story in the traditional sense [.

From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have been forced to reckon with our country's fraught history and present of racial bias and inequality.