Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Fakultat fur Kulturwissenschaften), course: Feminist Wars, language: English, abstract: The London Porn Festival is known to celebrate queer sexuality and holds annual festivals with pornographic screenings.
Examination Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2 (B), University of Cologne (English Seminar), language: English, abstract: "e;How do we learn language ?
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), Dresden Technical University (American Studies), language: English, abstract: It is an undeniable fact that the United States is a country with a huge impact on the world.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Innsbruck (Department of English Studies), course: Narrative Analysis of Literary Fiction and Fiction Film, language: English, abstract: The depiction of virtual realities seems to be very popular in modern film production.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (English Seminar/Applied English Linguistics), course: HS Lexical Semantics, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to describe and analyze typical strategies employed for explaining unknown words.
"e;This portrait of Japanese country life reminds us that at its core, a happy and healthy life is based on the bonds of food, family, tradition, community, and the richness of nature"e; John Einarsen, Founding Editor and Art Director of Kyoto JournalWhat would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household?
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen, course: Protest and Liberation: American Literature of the 60s and 70s, language: English, abstract: From its beginnings, American society was a system based on certain values, e.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Rostock, course: Proseminar Englishes around the globe, language: English, abstract: 1) Introduction: the terms' dialect' and 'Cockney'The paper shall explore the question of the english urban dialect Cockney as an influence of the English language, its spread all over the world and its validity nowadays.
Seminar paper from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,0, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses Kae Tempest's poem "e;Europe Is Lost,"e; focusing on the interplay of liquid textures and the ambivalent emotional responses they elicit, specifically stuplimity and worry.
The Chronicle of Barsetshire presents the life of Anthony Trollope, who, although perhaps best known for his popular novels of Victorian English life, was also a prolific writer of nonfiction and a distinguished civil servant.
On the morning of July 28, 1625, Dame Eleanor Davis (1590-1652) heard "e;a great voice from heaven"e; tell her "e;There is Nintene years and a halfe to the day of Judgement and you as the meek Virgin.
Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Tubingen (Department of American Studies, Faculty of English Philology), course: Hauptseminar "e;American West "e;, language: English, abstract: University of Tubingen, Department for American Studies, HS: The American WestWestern Myth with gender change: Thelma & Louise (1990)von: Sebastian HoosAbstractThe scientific community widely agrees that no region on earth shaped as many contemporary myths as the American West.
The works of Anthony Trollope are currently enjoying a popularity not seen since the success they met during his lifetime, a success that obscured until long after his death the true nature and extent of his literary merit.
This wide-ranging and provocative study traces Gertrude Stein's production of avant-garde texts that radically disrupted traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued, and read.
The Chronicle of Barsetshire presents the life of Anthony Trollope, who, although perhaps best known for his popular novels of Victorian English life, was also a prolific writer of nonfiction and a distinguished civil servant.
The works of Anthony Trollope are currently enjoying a popularity not seen since the success they met during his lifetime, a success that obscured until long after his death the true nature and extent of his literary merit.
This wide-ranging and provocative study traces Gertrude Stein's production of avant-garde texts that radically disrupted traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued, and read.
The early part of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of West Africa's Sierra Leone settlement as an important center for the expanding trade economy.
Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabruck (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Emily Dickinson, language: English, abstract: This term paper explores how Emily Dickinson's renowned poem "e;I heard a Fly buzz - when I died-"e; critiques 19th-century American cultural and religious ideals surrounding death and the afterlife.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3 (B), University of Stuttgart (Institute for American Studies), course: American Studies Advanced Seminar: American Picaresque Fiction, language: English, abstract: Caroline Meeber is one of the most fascinating characters American author Theodore Dreiser ever came up with.
Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: "e;I don't see color, I see people!
Virtue and Venom traces the history of a previously neglected genre, the catalog of women, from its origins in Greece and Rome to the late Middle Ages, revealing the catalogs' considerable importance as cultural documents of the evolution of the Western definition of womankind.
The early part of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of West Africa's Sierra Leone settlement as an important center for the expanding trade economy.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: Diese Arbeit beschreibt die Entstehung und die Entwicklungsphasen des britischen Standard-Englisch von den keltischen Siedlern bis zu den technologischen Entwicklungen unserer globalisierten Zeit und der Weltsprache Englisch.
On the morning of July 28, 1625, Dame Eleanor Davis (1590-1652) heard "e;a great voice from heaven"e; tell her "e;There is Nintene years and a halfe to the day of Judgement and you as the meek Virgin.
Contesting Cultural Rhetorics is a groundbreaking and original study that demonstrates how "e;education"e; is viewed as a contested term and a set of contested practices in American culture because it is inevitably linked to highly contested, value-laden terms.
The Daughter's Dilemma breaks new ground in literary studies through its application of family systems theory to the analysis of nineteenth-century domestic novels.
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien), course: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Southern Literature, language: English, abstract: In times of the decline of the family as a social parameter we witness an unquestionable popularity of the family novel in American literature.
Essay from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Hamburg (FB Anglistics), course: Seminar II, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with a fundamental branch of linguistic research.
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This manuscript examines the semantic change in the English language during the Early Modern English (EME) period.
The years following World War I in Germany saw the simultaneous emergence of radio as a public medium entering the private sphere of the home and the large-scale emergence of women entering the public sphere of politics and production.
Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Erotics, and Intimacy, 1886-2014 is an anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum, language: English, abstract: In 1967 Eric Heinz Lenneberg established his groundbreaking work "e;Biological Foundations of Language"e; in which he tries to push the biological view on language forward.
In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will focus on two aspects of language acquisition, namely external factors and the acquisition process itself.
