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The Importance of Critical Thinking in Research

Many aspects of conducting research require critical thinking. This paper examines problems and issues which crop up in critically...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

Examination of Body Language

In five pages this paper considers the communication of body language in which such emotions as honesty or dishonesty can be conve...

Mentally Disabled Children and Language

In eleven pages this paper discusses how language instruction should be approached regarding children suffering from mental disabi...

Public Administration and Research

In five pages this paper utilizes Denzin and Lincoln's Handbook of Qualitative Research and Jay D. White's Taking Language Serious...

ESL Private and Public Experiences

In five pages this paper contrasts the public and private experiences of English as a Second Language school development as they p...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Cynicism and Satire in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the language usage in Hamlet in terms of its cynical and satirical aspects. Three sources are c...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Connection Between Development of Language and Input

In five pages this paper considers the latest literature regarding the connection between language development in children and inp...

Credibility and Creation of Character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages each of the five Canterbury Tales' pilgrim's stories are used in order to examine how Chaucer's employment of langu...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

Language and Ideas in Derek Walcott's Poetry

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

Language and Ideas in 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth

Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

'The Flea' by John Donne, Meaning and Metaphor

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...

Drama and a Century of English Education

a deep concern regarding the purpose and objectives of the high school. There were two separate philosophies regarding the purpose...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

Cultural Perspectives of Isaacs, Vygotsky, Bruner, and Piaget

In four pages the cultural perspectives of these theorists are applied to an examination of socialization, language, and education...