Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabruck (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Introduction to Gender Theory, language: English, abstract: 'How can they tell if I am male or female?
Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Dortmund, language: English, abstract: The science fiction (SF) writer Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006) was a pioneer in many ways.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: simplistic interpretation of a very limited number of works.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Sprachwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the unidirectionality of grammaticalization, which is explained by Haspelmath within a usage-based theory of language change as proposed by Keller, who sees language change as an invisible-hand process.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar "e;Syntactic Patterns in English"e;, language: English, abstract: Imagine an English lesson in a fifth grade somewhere in the USA.
Intermediate Examination Paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English and Linguistics), course: Proseminar "e;Regional and Social Varieties of American English"e;, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the positive and negative effects nationwide American television has (had) on the language's regional and social varieties.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar), course: Teaching English Grammar and Lexis, language: English, abstract: The theory and methodology of early linguistics took the notion of structure as a key term and emphasized the idea that language needed to be organized.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: Introduction He writes like he talks and talks like he writes Although the cruelties people of Europe had to suffer from during the early decades ofthe 20th century, when Adolf Hitler began to establish his Nazi-regime, are part of a sad anddark chapter in German history, the aftermaths of the Rassengesetze, the war itself and theconcentration camps are still shaking the minds of those who are faced with this issue duringtheir studies, as well as the memories and lives of the people which either had to liveaccording to the ideologies of the Third Reich and experience the tortures and pain the Nazishad brought upon them, or belong to the younger generation of those people s descendants.
Examination Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,5, University of Tubingen (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: This thesis will show that the collective memory does not pose a problem to the whole of humanity but that it still exists in some spheres of in this case American life.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar English-Related Pidgins and Creoles, language: English, abstract: By way of an introduction to the following paper, I would like to draw here on a quotetaken from one of Salikoko Mufwene's essays: "e;.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,2, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: American Poetry, language: English, abstract: The power of literature is a great one indeed.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: The Culture of the American Civil War, language: English, abstract: We are fortunate to have a lot of information about Schurz's life and political career in the United States from his own pen - on the one side his Lebenserinnerungen (Reminiscences) and on the other side different letters he has written to his wife or his former fellow student Theodor Petrasch.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Stuttgart (Institut fur Literaturwissenschaft: Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Literary Studies - G2-Seminar "e;The American Short Story"e;, language: English, abstract: "e;The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"e; is among Ernest Hemingway's most impressive short stories.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Marburg (Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Proseminar Phonology, language: English, abstract: The changes in phonological development during the first two years of life will be discussed in this term paper.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Wuppertal, course: Contrastive Phonology, language: English, abstract: The constraints on sequences of segments are called phonotactic con -straints or phonotactics of a language.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Missing Mothers - Caring Fathers - Absent Parents.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1, West Virginia University, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the concept of Academic Writing and the role of the importance in the ESL classroom.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the origin of the American Dream, with the American Nightmare and with the two novels "e;The Rise of Silas Lapham"e; written by William D.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University, course: American Non-Fiction, language: English, abstract: The eighty-five essays, today commonly referred to as The Federalist Papers,were written in 1787 and 1788 in order to help in securing the ratification of theproposed United States Constitution in the State of New York.
Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: very good, University of Bamberg (Language and Literature Sciences), course: U.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Decadence and Moderism in the Late 20th Century American Cinema, language: English, abstract: Jonathan Veitch asserts in the preface of his book American Superrealism that critics have had problems in placing Nathanael West within the literature of the 1930s and American literature in general.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn, course: The Web as a Linguistic Corpus, language: English, abstract: This paper is concerned with the use of the internet in linguistic research.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Amerikanistik/Anglistik), course: HS: Jewish American Life from World War I to the Present, language: English, abstract: Three quarters of the U.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, University of Leipzig (Institut fur Anglistik), course: The Australian Dream, language: English, abstract: Edward "e;Ned"e; Kelly, the head of the Kelly Gang, is a very diversely discussed person.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FTSK, Abteilung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophonie ), course: Graduate Seminar American Cities: The Urban Experience in Literary Texts and Translations, language: English, abstract: The present work is about urbanism and about how it is typifying the turn-of-the-century American way of life.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut fur Amerikanistik), course: PS: Cold War Culture, language: English, abstract: In most of the cases of critics discussing Diane Arbus work it is in a psychoanalytical context.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne, course: Einfuhrungsseminar Teil B: The English Lexicon, language: English, abstract: Centuries before the first dictionary was available, Chaucer used a wide range of words from various origins and worked with intellectual or technical terms as well as vulgar expressions.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: Ever since the colonization of the American continent, the Native Americans and their culture have concerned and often fascinated the Euro-American population.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: If today one thinks of politics, politicians and their language there is one opinion that always comes first: All politicians are liars They are smooth-talkers who promise things they cannot fulfil only to get more votes in the coming-up election and they use beautiful words to paraphrase and disguise social injustices.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultat), language: English, abstract: A Streetcar Named Desire is a lyrical drama about the decline and fall of Blanche DuBois.
From rustling leaves and golden harvests to spooky Halloween nights and heartfelt Thanksgiving traditions, The Autumn Story Book gathers a vibrant collection of tales, poems, and legends that celebrate the spirit of autumn.
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: An intriguing and controversial phenomenon in cultural theory is the fusion of high-and popular culture as characteristic of the postmodern period.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Comedies, language: English, abstract: "e;I am a creature controlled by some cruel fate that had twisted and warped my personality so that at the first sign of personal involvement, I became transformed from human being into the most feared and dangerous beast on earth, the observer-writer"e;, says Neil Simon, calling himself "e;a monster who finds himself totally involved in situations, and then suddenly and without warning steps back to watch the proceeding"e;.
Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), University of Zurich (English Seminar), course: Introduction to Literature Part 2, language: English, abstract: This paper is a discussion of mental breakdown and its consequences on the lyrical self in Emily Dickinson's poem #280.
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglistisches Institut), course: Socio-Cultural Perspectives and the Study of Language Use (Applied Linguistics), language: English, abstract: Every piece of written or oral statement conveys some sort of ideology, whether it expressesits idea(s) bluntly or as is to be expected from, say, a high-quality read by employingeffective literary devices that are designed to convince its readership.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: We seem to be a species that is driven by "e;a desire to make meanings"e; (Chandler: 1995) by creating and interpreting signs.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2-, University of Kassel (Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften), course: Imagining the New World - Transatlantic Perceptions 1492-2001, language: English, abstract: The idea of this work is to analyse Francis Daniel Pastorius' perception of America in one of his first letters that encourages German people to come to the New World and settle in Pennsylvania.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, , course: Theory and Methodologies of the Social Sciences, language: English, abstract: This paper argues for the prominent influence of the postmodernist paradigm on the evolution of the concept of the native speaker and, focusing on one particular postmodern theory, proposes to examine several views of the concept that offer alternative definitions that could be suitable for all speakers who do not fit neatly in the clear-cut categories represented by the terms native and non-native speaker.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Saarland University (Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen), course: Practical Explorations into Politeness, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will attempt an investigation of the rules of communication that count for web logs.
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 already entered the later multi-word stage.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: The American Constitution: Past and Present, language: English, abstract: From the beginning on Americans have proclaimed liberty, have fought wars in its name have evaluated events and institutions and politics in the light of liberty.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Birzeit University, course: PS Lexicology, language: English, abstract: The names of the days have been well known to all of us since we were born.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (English Department), course: 20th Century American Drama, language: English, abstract: This paper investigates the opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire by Andre Previn.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Learning a new language always implies learning its grammar.
