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'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and a Dissection of John Keats's Prose

In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...

Reading Curriculum Development and Evaluation

In eleven pages the development and evaluation of a rural school district's reading curriculum is examined with a discussion of po...

Literature and the Use of Language

In five pages The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are discussed in a consideration of how th...

Natural Approach to Acquiring a Second Language Acquisition

In ten pages this research paper discusses how the natural approach of Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terell to acquiring a second lang...

A Cultural Perspective of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

In five pages this paper argues that language is used metaphorically by the author to represent cultural assimilation. There are ...

The Media and Racist Language

This researech paper discusses and offers examples of how the media utilizes racist language. This five page paper has four source...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

ESL Students and Fine Arts Instruction

not fair to the ESL student. How can fine art teachers embrace their ESL students in the same way as they do others who speak the ...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

Negative Impacts of Television's Violence and Bad Language on Children

p. 56). Another author in the article suggested that children who are physically disciplined and watch violent television may well...

Health Care and Communication

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

Life and Writing Style of John Steinbeck

In general (which is unjust), Steinbecks novels are classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor,...

Act I Soliloquy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper considers the ghost of Hamlet's father and his soliloquy in Act I of Shakespeare's play in terms of its p...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

Anthropology Definitions and Concepts

humans from animals (McConnell, 1977). Total Social Fact as Suggested by...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

In five pages this paper discusses how Orwell decries the degradation of the English language in his essay. There are no other so...

Language in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In six pages this paper discusses language as it depicts vulnerability and innocence in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Six ...

Language and Social Class in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

THis five page paperis an analysis of Mark Twain's use of language to reflect social class. There are 2 sources used in the bibli...

Human Language Inadequacy

In seven pages this paper examines the inadequacies of the human language. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ordinary Language by John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein

developed in everyday exchanges can illuminate and even transform many of the problems with which philosophers have grappled. It i...

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...

Language and Imagery in Depicting Opposition in Stories of Snow by P,K. Page and The Smooth Skull of Winter by Gretel Ehrlich

In five pages this comparative analysis considers how imagery and language are used to portray opposition in these works. There a...

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...

In the Jungle by Annie Dillard and Writing Style

In five pages this work is analyzed in terms of the writer's stylistic use of allusions, repetition, similes, metaphors, and langu...

800 AD Middle East and Islam

In six pages this paper examines how Islam took root in the middle East during this time period and considers the importance of th...

Language Arts and the Uses of Technology

This paper analyzes 4 articles in five pages that explore how technology classroom implementation has impacted upon the teaching o...

Language Barriers Transcended by Art

In five pages this paper examines how the barriers imposed by language can be successfully broken through by art. Eight sources a...