Biography and non-fiction prose

'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern.

Eugene England (1933-2001)one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mormonismlived in the crossfire between religious tradition and reform.

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Semantics, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the language of COVID-19 conspiracy theories through analysing different sense relations, framings, and word combinations/blendings.

Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Incio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing So Paulo.

Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: This paper delves into the character of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "e;The Scarlet Letter,"e; focusing on her individuality and self-determination in defiance of Puritan societal norms.

Alan Berkman (19452009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president.

[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.

Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (18221901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico.

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks.

The Daughter as Reader juxtaposes personal narrative with literary criticism to celebrate the ways in which literature enriches and shapes individual experience.

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern.

In this book, Hertha D.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, course: African American Culture as Resistance, language: English, abstract: In 1619 the first Black People were violently taken to Virginia, United States.

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce Flo Kennedy (19162000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements.

Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic "e;ghosts"e; from the past.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Leipzig (Institute for British Studies), course: Pidgin & Creole, language: English, abstract: Pidgins and Creoles occur all over the world and they have been given more and more scholarly attention.

German-born Marie Zakrzewska (18291902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America.

Known today as the other speaker at Gettysburg, Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0 (A), http://www.

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: Morphology and Syntax, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to critically analyze new words, or neologisms, related to the Korean Wave by addressing the following research question: How has the Korean Wave, through neologisms and word-formation processes, contributed to the enrichment of the English lexicon?

Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (19202006), who would become one of the American Souths most prolific and storied writers.

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Education Heidelberg, course: American Short Stories (Literature), language: English, abstract: This paper explores the representation of masculinity in Raymond Carver's short stories, with a particular focus on how Carver deconstructs traditional male roles.

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks.

Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer.

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.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S.

Literature Review from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This document is a critical analysis of the American Dream as depicted in Imbolo Mbue's novel "e;Behold the Dreamers"e;.

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3 (C), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB14-English Philology), course: American Poetry of the 19th Century, language: English, abstract: I will summarize my findings by answering several questions: 1.

From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased.

This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.

This volume in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson contains the two important parliamentary documents he prepared during his lifelong study of the subject.

A revised and expanded edition of Andrew Graystone's acclaimed exposure of the abuser John Smyth, the scandal that shook the Church of England The no-holds-barred tale of the scandal that rocked the Church of England and brought about the resignation of Archbishop Justin WelbyCoincides with a major Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast in November 2025 A revised and expanded edition of Andrew Graystone s acclaimed exposure of the abuser John Smyth the dashing barrister and moral crusader who secretly groomed young men from the highest echelons of British society and flogged them for his own sexual pleasure.

Edwin M.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Sehr gut, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: "e;Fight Club - A model of a social revolution"e; deals with the conception and the possible impact of the revolutionary overthrow bestowed upon society in Chuck Palahniuk's debut novel.

Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine embodies a new type of sociological writing that weaves ethnography with memoir as well as fusing other convention-breaking literary forms, styles and devices.

This volume, rich in its first-hand knowledge of men and events, begins with the years of Clevelands second administration, covers the meteoric rise of Bryan, and ends with Josephus Danielss appointment as secretary of the navy under Wilson.

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (18591930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.

The first part of this fascinating account of a biographers problems tells of the adventures of one biographer in tracking down clues in several parts of the world accidental discovery, long pursuit of a watward detail, and suggestions of new ways of turning up evidence.

Born during the Civil War, Josephus Daniels has lived a remarkably full life and played a substantial part in one of the most significant periods of our nations history.

This is the story of Governor Hodgess years in the statehouse, told in his own words.

This is the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America.

This first full-length biography documents the strong family ties and loyalties that shaped Danielss character and demonstrates the extent to which his religion bred not only the merry puritanism but also the moral courage that figured in his career and in his personal life.

The driving force in Chesnutts life was the wish to help his race.

Diploma Thesis from the year 1995 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: very good, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institute for Anglistics), language: English, abstract: Wie macht das die BBC mit der Sprache?

With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Miltons thought.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar - Abteilung Englische Sprache und ihre Didaktik), course: Introduction to Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: Being informed ist what most people consider the most important thing in these days.

The Anxious Mom Manifesto: 18 Lessons to Control Your Anxiety Monster by Paola B.

This book fills the need for a complete, accurate, and impartial reexamination of Drydens life and career as poet, dramatist, and man of letters.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 5.