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Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Media and Inappropriate Language

beginning to use foul language more often (The Real Truth, 2005). Another author argues that "What is causing the increased am...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Social Alienation

were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...

Overview of PHP Language

PHP initially was developed in 1994 by Greenland programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who named it Personal Home Page tools. It was rewritt...

Change and Linguistics

of the Americas. English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed in...

Methodologies of Second Language Instruction

their questions, the students responses, and any recurring patterns which occur. Discourse analysis can also help identify cross c...

Research Design on the Connection Between Deficient Social Skills and Linguistic Pragmatic Deficits

as frustration, peer rejection, and poor self esteem which result from SLI, Conti-Ramsden and Botting (2004) and other researchers...

Use of Language in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...

Linguistics and Culture

cultures differ in both their material and their philosophical experiences. Languages evolve in accordance with those differences...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Politeness Theory and Pragmatics

functioning of language as a dynamic process operating on context structure relationships at various levels of salience." (Versch...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Culture of Costa Rica

and final voyage to the New World. Archeologists have determined that native civilizations existed in Costa Rica for thousands of ...