Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: A, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: application of the science of psychology to the study of culture.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn, course: US Presidency, language: English, abstract: First of all, I want to show how Franklin D.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: The Flaneur and the Visual Culture of the City, language: English, abstract: "e;To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Gothic of the 19th century , language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the question how and why nature can be seen as the Sublime inCanadian Gothic fiction of the 19th century.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie (German Studies), language: English, abstract: Computers and the Internet are gradually becoming an increasingly inherent part of human life worldwide.
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Queen's University Belfast (School of English), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: Already in the 1960s and 70s have feminist linguistics started to examine language on the basis of gender questions.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Gottingen, language: English, abstract: "e;And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted -- nevermore!
Including stories of unconventional rich men, nostalgic characters, civil rights, dangers conveyed by a transporter pigeon, and ladies with The Night-Born enthralls and propels with its social editorial and odd conditions.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Differences in American and British English, language: English, abstract: In past years, many studies have been published concerning the influence of English, especiallyof American English, on the German language.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Dresden Technical University (Institut fur Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft), course: Proseminar "e;Varieties of English"e;, language: English, abstract: Long before the English language became dominant on the British Isles Celtic languages were the main method of communication.
Homes of the London Poor by Octavia Hill stands as a landmark work in social reform literature, offering a poignant examination of urban poverty and housing conditions during the Victorian era.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Non-verbal aspects of communication , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the question whether facial expressions are universal meaningthat all cultures use the same mimics for expressing a certain feeling.
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2+ (B), University of Wurzburg (Philosophy Institute), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: In general, Jespersen, unlike the CGEL, doesn't explain the use of the following tenses as one would expect from a standard grammar (the CGEL clearly explains the meanings and the use of the three tenses in question by clarifying these aspects by means of easily comprehensible examples), but relates the Present Perfect, the Past Tense and the Past Perfect to each other and gives various quotations for each aspect he deals with.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Die Arbeit ist zwar innerhalb der Amerikanistik geschrieben, hat jedoch auch einige filmwissenschaftliche Elemente.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0 (A), Dresden Technical University (American Studies), language: English, abstract: This paper aims to collect opinions on the development of the stock markets since the 1990s.
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar 'Contemporary Jewish American Writers', language: English, abstract: About twenty years ago Bonnie K.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich (Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar Categorization, Gestalts and Frames in Linguistic Analysis , language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the linguistic phenomenons of scripts and frames and their influnece on our daily life.
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), Ruhr-University of Bochum (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar: Modern American Drama, language: English, abstract: In this written paper I am going to deal with the topic of soft people in Tennessee Williams' dramas.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: The following paper tries to analyse a passage of the conversation "e;Yum Chow"e; from Wally & friends.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn, course: Words in the Mind, language: English, abstract: When analysing the internal processes in a human's mind in order to figure out how the processes of word-storage, word-production, and word-retrieving work, one of the features to be investigated is the act of word-formation.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,2, University of Gottingen, language: English, abstract: With his "e;Theory of the Leisure Class"e; (1899), which is nowadays considered one of his most popular works, Veblen made himself a social outsider because his criticism of society was harsh and provoking.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabruck (Institut fur Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary Asian American Literature: Themes, Topics, Concerns, language: English, abstract: "e;The inclusion of Indian American authors into the genre of Asian American literature is widely discussed and criticized.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: 20th Century American Drama: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to examine how the characters in ArthurMiller s plays are confronted with guilt and responsibility and how they dealwith it.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover, course: Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: In the age of globalization, intercultural communication has become a necessity in many areas of life.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar ), course: Hauptseminar Cognitive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Language is versatile.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Playing in the Dark, language: English, abstract: In this research paper I deal with the representation of the African Americans in Spielberg's film Amistad, that has bee issued in 1997.
Document from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: keine, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: "e;In some ways it's a well-kept secret.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, course: The Reagan 80s and the Clinton 90s, language: English, abstract: This paper works with the underlying assumptions of Dick Hebdige's study of subculteres.
The fantastic has been and is particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Erfurt (Sprachwissenschaft), course: Regionale Varietaten, language: English, abstract: Every language changes over time.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut fur Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Basic Readings in North American Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: Introduction Walter Elias Disney is the most influential American of the twentieth century and has become a myth.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, LMU Munich (Amerikanistik Institut), course: Canada Today, language: English, abstract: This research paper wants to discuss the question, whether French is able toremain the predominant language in Canada s province Quebec, or if there is a shifttowards replacement by the English language.
Life in the Iron-Mills: Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis is a poignant work of American literature that embodies the essence of social realism.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, course: The Poetry and Poetics of Langston Hughes, language: English, abstract: Langston Hughes was an urban person.
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,5, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: 1.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Martin Luther University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Germany and the Germans in American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I am going to analyze Twain's incomparable and particular usage of humor in his essay The Awful German Language.
