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Essays 1861 - 1890

Alfred Tarski's Essay 'The Semantic Conception of Truth'

In five pages the sixth through eleventh sections of Alfred Tarski's essay are analyzed which features the unreliability of langua...

Overview of Spain

period, the dissolution of the Moroccan state culminated in an unpopular war (PG). The Spanish civil war began in 1936 and did n...

'Sugar and Other Stories' by A.S. Byatt

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...

Fairytales and Use of Sexist Language

women were regarded as objects of beauty, which is exactly what Snow White is. Such demeaning writing would not be acceptable tod...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

The Language of Security

to life and limb, in the case of security for an organisations, while this may be a physical threat, it may also be a threat in t...

Connections between Images and Characters

of us, but that we have to be very careful" (Valenzuela, 2007), we know immediately that the killing in the story is going to be d...

Analysis of the Dark Ages

In six pages the Dark Ages is analyzed in terms of life, language, culture, writing, and religion. Five sources are cited in the ...

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

In eight pages this paper presents a literary analysis of Ibsen's play in a consideration of dramatic plot development, theme, lan...

'A Bird Came Down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages this poem is examined in a consideration of figurative language, imagery, and tone. There are no other sources list...

'Desert Place' by Robert Frost

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes the figures of speech, imagery, voice, tone, figurative language, and theme feature...

John Keats, John Donne, and Robert Browning's Uses of Imagery

line in every stanza is shortened by two metric beats to create a sense of temporary suspension before the story continues (Abrams...

My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover/Browning

development of the discourse from a singular perspective leaves no room for consideration of the feelings or response of other cha...

Autism Interventions

In fifteen pages this paper considers such issues as language skills and communications in a discussion of what can be accomplishe...

Social Implications of The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant

In five pages Bryant's utopian society as it manifests itself in her novel in terms of the sociological implications of physical a...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this essay considers the 'everything' or 'nothing' connotation of oneness as represented within these short stories ...

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

In five pages this essay analyzes the language, themes, story, and characters found within Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping...

Historical Language in the Works of Spenser and Milton

In ten pages this essay examines how language complements Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' as each text ...

Community-Familial Themes in Works by Morrison, Sapphire, Kincaid and D'aguair

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

Artistry in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages the literary artistry of James Joyce is examined in a consideration of this novel's dramatic form, language, and sy...

Original Language and its Importance in The Stranger by Albert Camus

In a paper consisting of three pages the language used and the importance of literal translation are discussed. There are no othe...

Language Barriers to Students from Indonesia, Japan, China, Croatia and Turkey Entering the United States

is the mental lexicon, which is the mental representation of the forms as well as the meanings of the words and the morphemes in a...

Feminist Perspective on Religion

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

Language and Professor Noam Chomsky

of the need to learn how to assemble said sentences because the language is fully learned long before children are cognizant of th...

Connection Between Language and Dance

uttering but a single word, dance is able to communicate to all who partake of it, no matter their origin. "Nobody says you cant ...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Mexican Mafia and Sociolinguistics

into the gang, the only way to leave is by shedding ones own blood, which is most typically done by death for violating one of the...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...