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Essays 1981 - 2010

Analysis of 'Locker Room Jokes' Language

In five pages 'locker room jokes' and what they reveal through language about social class, race, body image, and gender are consi...

'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...

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...

Sexuality and Language in Candide by Voltaire

"lesson in experimental physics" with the young man. She exhibits no hesitation in obtaining what she desires, which may also serv...

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...

Handicapped Children and Educational Instruction

benefit from learning (McFarlan, 1998). All people are not born with the same abilities or the same cognitive ability. However, a ...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its style, language, setting, conflict, character, and theme. There are no other ...

English Language Acquisition and its Value

In nine pages this paper examines the value of immigrants' acquiring the English language in terms of cultural assimilation in the...

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...

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...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Sound, Meaning, Syntax, and Pragmatics in Communication

fourth level of language) involves a speakers lexicon, a lexicon including grammatical and psycholingistic factors, combined with ...

Limited English Proficiency and the Problems it Poses

most prosperous nations on earth. Some of these immigrants have arrived here legally but others have arrived illegally. A common...

The Deaf of Martha’s Vineyard

- virtually all of them knew it - so that they could "talk" to their deaf friends (Groce). Not only that, but when Groce interview...

Sweeeeet! How Language and Culture Intermix

start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life" (Dalzell, 2005). Since Whitman wrote that (...

'Patterns' of Life and in the Poem by Amy Lowell

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

Examples of Different Humor in Mark Twain

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

Loneword Adaptation in Japanese and its Effects

/a/ is only adapted into the foreign language a [a] when it occurs in the stressed syllable in the English loanword. The sound /a...

Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...

A Biography of Tom Cruise

would marry in 1990 ("Tom Cruise"). They were together for close to ten years and produced two children. His introduction to Ni...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Interpretation of Readings on Culture, Language

and also how the idea of "class" enters into this equation. For example, Weis finds that issues concerning class, within the gener...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

The Importance of the Crioulo Language in Developing Education in Guinea Bassau

traditional languages within that area, those which were present before migration took place and new languages were adopted. Criou...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Abortion, Surrogacy and Men

providing women with more civil, political and social rights, the traditions of patriarchy and male control of reproduction still ...

Germany

by their neighbors as they are not seen as part of German ethnic nationalism (Ignatieff, 1993). While Turkish is one of the native...