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Sturm und Drang in "The Sorrows of Young Werther"

the dance, he meets a woman named Lotte with whom he has an instant rapport. During this part of the novel, Werther expresses his ...

The Intersection of Language and Culture

it seems that with the increased number of brands and corporate identities that have arisen because of the internet, its happening...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Imagery in Ulysses by James Joyce

Conmees thoughts. There are no quotation marks, and only rarely does Joyce direct the reader with a phrase such as "he thought," r...

Language Use by Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how Shakespeare's Iago uses language to disrupt the play's stability. There are no other source...

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 '...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Realism and Language

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

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...

A Gilgamesh Analysis

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

Laws, Equity and Compensaiton/Sex Discrimination

place. Many of the guidelines for the state laws are similar to those imposed in the state of Maryland. In Maryland, the Civil Cod...

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...

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...

Communication and Global Organizations

route that communication may take can be seen as ineffective in some instances, with the bureaucracy slowing down the transference...

Sexual Harassment in the Police Department

conduct of a sexual nature ... when ... submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions ....

Media and Language

returning a signal in some way that the message has or has not been understood (Watson/Hill). The purpose of written communication...

Banning the Novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

we present the following paper which discusses the banning of Steinbecks novel. Banning "The Grapes of Wrath" In more fully un...

Twelfth Night and Cymbeline by William Shakespeare and the Employment of Psychological Realism

In six pages this paper explores how poetic language is used by Shakespeare in conveying psychological realism in these 1601 and 1...

Historical English Plays and Marginalization

In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...

Imagery in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

meant that the two had a kindred relationship. Hamlet responded under his breath that the relationship was "A little more than ki...

'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...

Workplace Language and Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words

much character and attitude as a living breathing entity. For example, most modern hospitals have sophisticated technology which r...

Public Spaces, Literacy, and Language

bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that the flag was still there. A modern day example of this planned choreogra...

Lester and Onore - Learning Change

reread the same text while logging summaries, connections and questions that arose. As a follow-up they were divided into groups ...

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Preface

mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Multimedia Features in Programming Languages

this is with the use of a WebQuest that had been created by Bernie Dodge (2003). WebQuests have a structured, inquiry-based method...