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LITERAL VERSUS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

make sense - for example, what is a "New York Minute" and how does it differ from a regular minute? New York Minute involves time ...

My Teaching Job in Burma

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

Comparison Two Essays

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

Instruction and Tolkien's The Hobbit

This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...

Language and Comprehension Issues in Primary Research

The writer considers a scenario where a recent survey was used to gather results from a sample were 34% had only achieved an eleme...

Applying Maslow to a Movie Character

Maslow was a different kind of personality theorist insofar as he believed all people were good and all people were born with the ...

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"...

"The Life of Pi" and Meaningful Narratives

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Life of Pi". The value of narrative and story in providing comfort from the horror...

Patrick Henry and Statesmanship

This research paper/essay pertains to the life of Patrick Henry and how this Founding Father consistently exemplified the qualitie...

William Wilberforce and the Definition of Statesmanship

This paper concludes that the life story of Wilberforce might prompt one to examine personal motivation and the need for objectivi...

Revelation, Comparing Translations

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

Colin Powell, An Overview of his Life

This research paper presents a biography of the life of Colin Powell, focusing on his early life, accomplishments and perceived fa...

Life of Pi, an Overview

This paper pertains to Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" and discusses the ways in which Pi's ordeal of survival affected his perspective...

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...

Academic Writing and ESL Students

This research paper pertains to the problems faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners when faced with the challenges o...

English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

Characterization in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

English Law and the Norman Conquest

reign that these were amalgamated along with Norman influences into what could be seen as the forerunner of the modern common law....

Literature and Nature Images

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Portrayal of Women in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Will Bequests and Charitable Trusts

In eight pages English law is considered in an examination of charitable trusts and how clauses should be interpreted if this stat...

Charles Dickens Bleak House and Elements of Mystery

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

English Law from the Sixth through Tenth Centuries

In six pages this time period is examined in terms of the development of English law in a consideration of theory and whether the ...

Injustice Within English Law and The Criminal Cases Act of 1995

This paper addresses how injustices within the English criminal justice system helped create the Criminal Cases Act of 1995. This...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Lack of Hidden Meanings

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

Student Submitted Questions on the Life Cycle of a Product

In seven pages this paper answers student posed questions on the life cycle of a product in terms of production model development ...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...