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Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Standardized Testing, Immigrants And ESL

other authors do not seem to consider in their discussions. In terms of language, for instance, a proficiency test measures the st...

Loneliness and Hemingway

government (Gascoigne). Hemingway drew upon this war experience in several of his most famous novels, such as A Farewell to Arms...

Hume’s Dialogue Updated

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

Nursing Profession and English Instruction Benefits

be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...

Educational Strategies and Teaching Approaches According to Chickering, Gamson, and Angelo

content, ideas, issues and concerns of an academic subject" (Klein 146). A middle school English teacher might promote active lea...

MONARCY AND FREEDOM: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

behind horrors, leading to situations in which there is censorship of the press, little education and "goodness trod under foot, t...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

'One Voice' by Susan Madera

80). This teachers observation and encouragement gave Madera the confidence she needed to join the school newspaper staff. In her...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

Comparison Two Essays

This essay compares two hypothetical papers and discusses which is stronger and why, the criteria used for evaluation, the organiz...

Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

An Immigrant Kindergarten Student and Assessment

instruments selected to measure an individuals language proficiency should be "suitable for the characteristics and background of ...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

ESL Instruction, Cross-Cultural Activities

This essay offers two lessons and activities that provide cultural instruction within the context of ESL (English as a Second Lang...

Revelation, Comparing Translations

This essay discusses the differences between the bible translations of the first chapter of Revelations in three translations of ...

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Old English and Present Day English Translation of The Good Samaritan Parable

"it" is still in evidence today in the Southern Appalachian mountains, where many OE forms persist. "Hw?t" vs "what;" "Hwyl...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...

Comparative Analysis of 'Ligeia' and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

'August 2026 There will com soft rains' by Ray Bradbury

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

'The Ideal Man' by John O'Hara

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

'A Phase of Life' by John O'Hara

he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

Comparison of 'Survival' by John Wyndham and 'The Son's Veto' by Thomas Hardy

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

'The Sculptor's Funeral' by Willa Cather

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...