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Children are experts when it comes to the use of the conversational language style they have learned from the families or the social setup where they belong.

Characteristics of Young Adult Literature and Literary Genres in the Novel Some of the young adult characteristics, literature, and literary genres that the novel employs include the use of personal experiences and the tender age [...]

In her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker challenges many of the conventions that are related to the sexual identity of a person and gender norms.

The poem is an exposition of the erosion of the old beliefs of the religious institution delimited by the church. The narrator is contemptuous of the habit of visiting churches and derides the various instruments [...]

In the book The Populist Moment, Lawrence Goodwyn explores the development of the populist movement in the United States. In his book, the author analyzes both primary and secondary sources that can throw light on [...]

One of the critical issues that I learnt from the book is the disorder that prevailed after the abortion of the Reconstruction and the subsequent quest for restoring order in the American society.

Finally, it is vital to apply the findings on the relationships between language and identity in the practical sphere of learning and teaching languages.

The author describes the life of his father Vladek Spiegelman before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during the Second World War, and the later influence of the Holocaust experiences on his personality.

In addition, Bynum's singing through the play provides a clear picture of his spiritual and cultural relationship with his African heritage.

The results of a pretest were compared with the grades in the final test to find out the interconnection between the initial linguistic stock and the volume of the vocabulary after the course.

He realizes the importance of education and decides that he has to learn how to read and write at all costs.

The book shows that there was a lot of ignorance in the course of the period of slavery. The masters were well aware of the situation that the slaves were in and they took full [...]

Gray gives the history of the literature of America, and he highlights the conflicts featured in this literature. Harry introduces the concerns of Poe's literature, and he shows that Poe deals with the conflicts in [...]

This makes the reader want to balance the feelings of the persona by using the things discussed in the poem. The persona is saying that her heart is 'strictured'; this shows that she has not [...]

While making rhetorical analysis of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I would like to point out that his memoir is recognized to be one of greatest narratives of the nineteen century in the [...]

Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem entitled the flesh and the spirit and tried to compare the things of the world and the thing of the spirit.

The Author is also the persona in entire narration as he recounts his real experience in slavery right from childhood. In the narration, there are major and minor characters that the author has used to [...]

He is said to be the first and only Jew to have made to the level of becoming a dean in Athena faculty and to be allowed to join the teaching staff in classic department [...]

One more fact from the biography of this woman seems peculiar and deserves attention is the fact that after the death of her husband, Dr.

California Cooper manages to convey the importance of the family ties and emphasizes that in the hardest times when slavery came to reign in the country and people, could be sold and bought, family relationships [...]

Though the story provides negative consequences of bullying and teasing, the role of a teacher is to make students understand how to behave and communicate in the classroom setting and outside it.

The use of the term Native American, whether in the open or in private mirrors the ancient and modern systems of ethnic classification in the American society.

It is based on the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California Los Angeles.

The second part of the book looks at the Al Qaeda's activities in the rest of the world. The book covers some of the problems faced in the fight against terrorism, especially the lack of [...]

In the case of the red meridian, the gang's agenda was to take complete control of the Mexicans and Native Americans.

International student prospectuses were the only materials used in the research, and a brief analysis of the procedures followed in the conducting of the study was performed.

The problem of civic participation has been already reviewed by researchers in public affairs field though Robert Putnam in the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community brings the discussion on another [...]

Mainly, the book discusses the workers especially the Irish and Chinese, who assisted in the construction of the railroad along the United State.

Through the voice of the main protagonist named Richard Powers, the author raises important problems of body-mind duality, the possibility of investigating consciousness and the links between art and politics.

The behaviors of her father contributed greatly to her resentment of men, this is because her father was greatly opposed to her will of being a nun because he wanted her to grow into a [...]

In order for one to identify the theme of the story, there is a need to look beyond the plot. Also, frustration of the girl when she is in a dilemma on what to do [...]

It relegates the piece of work to the level of dialogue, where a speaker is allowed to use personal pronouns, as this informality therefore makes a piece of writing lack the necessary academic formality.

For instance, in Texas, the state's folklore society contributed immensely to the growth of modern folklore literature in the mid west.

In this chapter, information helps to realize that only historical fiction makes students learn and analyze the effects of war on people, the impact of past actions on future life, and the ideas of how [...]

Writing for a living is a serious issue: on the one hand, it helps to improve the quality and efficiency of the writing tasks and, consequentially, speed up the economic and social progress.

The Irony of being at war is that Peace and conflict are both inevitable; it is the way we handle either of the two that determines our opinion of life in general both in the [...]

Furthermore, it confirms that friends are very important in life and help students to commit to their friendships. Characters are also important in this book, for instance, Charlotte is found to be kind and selfless.

The authors argue that as much as most of the professional writing is learned on the job, it is the prerogative of the trainers to ensure that the graduates they produce are worth the professional [...]

The story of a quarter-black baby born in a young family of Desiree (a deserted child adopted by the family of Valmonde, and Armand Aubigny, the son of reputable aristocrats, slave-owners, shows how deprived both [...]

The Hunger Games series 1 is a science-fiction drama that delineates the situation of enslavement among the citizens of Panem to the governing class that reside in a city called Capitol.

In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe portrays the Usher family as struggling to survive albeit in a gloomy manner that involves degradation, disease, and death."The Fall of the House of Usher" is [...]

Thus, the study of swearing ought to be understood in terms of the origin and historical development or adoption of the words and the expressions.

Providing the description of the volunteering experience in the Little Princes Children's Home, Grennan refers to a lot of examples which are associated with the individuals of children in order to personalize the global problem [...]

The poem relates to the history and heritage of African Americans as Hughes compares them to some of the greatest rivers of the world.

How the authors understand the ways in which racism has influence the levels of poverty of the books' characters Based on the two books content, it is apparent that the authors understand the manner in [...]

However, the growth of the telecommunications industry around the telephone presents the importance of the country in development and improvement of the telephone as a product.

The short story was also the subject of debate when it was first written because it failed to fit in any particular genre at the time."The Yellow Wallpaper" was mostly considered a horror story when [...]

London nails down the major problems of the post-war U.S.society: "This tower [.] represented [.] the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of [...]

Though it is truly hard to say that the motif of gambling is new to most of the world literature would be a considerable stretch, it goes without saying that Ellison adds a specific touch [...]

Consequently, the popularity of the proverb also encourages the Welsh to venture in the production of a range of fruits and vegetables.

He expected people in the north to be poor and miserable and he regarded that poverty as "the necessary consequence of their being non-slaveholders".

In "Sean," the author uses an urban setting to show how race is "constructed" by people and places that surround the characters. Here, the author uses the circumstances surrounding Sean and the narrator to show [...]

Through the means of it, the readers empathize with the Narrator as they follow the progression of the story. The Narrator's point of view gives the reader a mental picture of the setting for the [...]

Thematic analysis In this poem, Nixon's main theme is to develop a critical description of her body in comparison to the physical characteristics possessed by the athlete Dominique Dawes.

The struggle between the individual and the society is one of the main themes in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

One of the first points that should be made is that the time of this novel is non-linear. This is one of the things that later Bennie begins to regret.

Even though these son's relation to father is explained through the whole chapter, the main purpose of the discussion is the attempt of James Baldwin to understand the role of black people in formation of [...]

Precious examines the situation of her family, and she says that her family is invisible to the world. Precious believes that the sketch is that of her and her family, and she is much troubled.

He claims that since the clergy is not willing to listen to them and give them their rights, they have to show the importance of the matter by holding non-violent demonstrations.

The reason is that the face value of the content impairs the ability of the reader to dig deep into the book and unravel some disturbing traits about Holden.

The American society in The Age of Innocence and Manhattan Transfer reflect these changes, and the society is divided in issues concerning the new changes; there is a conflict in the society.

One of the central themes in this play is the life of little people and "the tension between little people and big issues".

The paper summarizes the reasoning of the writer and goes a notch higher to analyze some of the themes in order to establish the relevance of the book to the modern political environment.

The check is on life insurance and is to be given to Lena due to the death of her husband. Wilter asks for the insurance money in order for him to work with it and [...]

The pleasure of parody's irony comes not from humor in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual bouncing between complicity and distance.

As the representative of the Harlem Renaissance, the author describes the life of Harlem community after the Second World War and the civil rights movement.

Danto examines the work of Georg Hegel and concludes that beauty is actually appropriate especially when celebrating the loss of life for it reminds the bereaved of that pain as part of human experience.

In addition, what determines the production of goods most is the organizational structure as opposed to the question of whether the producer is from the private or public sector.

There is also a profound difference in the plot and the setting of the story and the film. In both the film and the story, Ichabod Crane is the main character.

Faulkner presents death in the story through death-haunted life of Emily. Emily also refuses to acknowledge the death of Homer, though she was responsible for his death.

Over 60000 British men were killed during the war and the author depicts vividly in a grotesque picture the emotional and physical effects of the war on the soldiers leading to disillusionment in the war.

Jackson was on the quest to save his grandmother's regalia at the pawn shop and he indulged in different ventures to get the money the pawnbroker had requested.

The fact that the author never expressly mentions the real name of the narrator, who is the main character in the story, can actually be perceived as a way in which the author portrays the [...]

The story throws us to different times: the 'present' moment of the execution, the past that led to the execution and most notably, to an 'imagined present'.

In Proulx's The Shipping News, death is the end of Quoyle's silence and the beginning of his voiced, well-articulated future. Wavey is a point of connection between Quoyle and the new place he is in.

A good example of a typical fallacy in the text is the metaphor that links the homeless people to the homeless animals, in the given case, the squirrels in the park.

In this paper, I will aim to explore the legitimacy of an earlier suggestion in regards to how the deployment of a literary irony had helped Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne to emphasize the philosophic [...]

In these chapters, the author addresses the issues of emergence of capitalism and construction of market institutions, as well as explores the notion of freedom of the individual in a complex society.

History as a Novel/ The Novel as History is a subtitle of the book which proves that Mailer intentionally mixed the two genres for enriching the content of his work and experimenting with the manner [...]

This is the difference in the connotation meaning of the language used in everyday life and at work. The connotation of the language used at work is the desire to impress others and to make [...]

The book contains two essays which include "My Dungeon Shook-Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary Emancipation" which discusses the central role of race in American history written in the form of a [...]

In the last part of the book, the federation warships come to the moon. This is evident in the book as the people on the moon are being controlled by the governments of the earth.

They learnt the important lesson that, the rich do not work for money; no, money works for them by employing other people to work for them In Chapter 2, the author explains the importance of [...]

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival sessions for children's books are therefore an appropriate avenue for the introduction of the inspirational story of Rick Hansen depicted in the book, Boy in Motion, to the Asian [...]

The battle against chaos as the main function of the societal regulation as it is outlined in the social order model and challenging inequities as the driving force for the social transformation as it is [...]

The words "it is that he has one foot in the finite and the other in infinite, and that he is torn asunder, not by four horses as in the horrible old times, but between [...]

The social revolution of the thirties had a lasting impact in shaping the social and cultural intelligentsia of America, the play Waiting for Lefty is definitive discourse on the ills of capitalism and the reasons [...]

The symbolic nature of faith is the problem which can be discussed perpetually as there is no specific answer to the issue."The timelessness of mankind's sin is revealed within the Puritans", it can be stated [...]

Furthermore the completion of the railway in 1869 enabled businessmen to come and exploit the land for gold and other minerals.

Jeff and Melanctha's interaction in their domestic setup is evidence of Melanctha's complex relationship with desire, in the sense that, her interaction with Jeff is not a conventional one, or of a woman befitting her [...]

The golden middle in adult literacy education is in being able to transform the theories and rules of language into the forms and meanings that are understandable to learners.

In that regard, the elements of both cultures would interact and blend in the child's consciousness, representing the fusion of both cultures.

Instead of simply listening to the accounts of other individuals, she decided to travel to Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, with the intention of assuming the role of a minimum wage employee.

The setting of the Novel is in Algeria during the colonial times of the republic of France. The Arab prisoner is the third and final character who is a rebellious, rude and murderer and one [...]

"The Torments of Love" is a fascinating trilogy that explains the nature of love and how vain it can be. It is better to be chaste, dignified, and to avoid the pursuit of the pleasures [...]

However, her The Fall River Axe Murders is not about sexuality and fantasy, it is about the real events, which happened at the end of the 19th century, where the case of Lizzie Borden was [...]

The accuracy in this book brings out clearly the story of James McBride as he tries to understand the realities of life.

American literature depicts the period 1865-1910 as a turning point of events and a clash between the past and the present, the old and the upcoming.

The book tells women's magazines off for not making enough efforts to lessen the force of the myth, in spite of the fact that they are one of the important fundamental tools for transforming the [...]

In his works, Berry makes a wonderful attempt to compare a soldier's attitude before and after war, analyze what aspects of war are able to change a soldier's mind and principles, and explain why war [...]

Instead of listening to the perspectives of other workers, the author herself gave up her middle-class comforts and assumed the role of a minimum-wage worker in America to experience the daily hardships they go through.

World War 1 and the social and cultural changes in the United States accelerated the growth and popularity of the alliance during the start of the 20th century.

This is one of the problems that the author is forced to encounter. This is one of the reasons they were reluctant to deal with him.

Apart from that, it is important to mention that his parents failed to safeguard Jeff against risks that one could face in the neighborhood.

In particular, the writer shows that in the course of his life, he reached the state of moral degradation, recognized the causes his downfall, and profoundly changed many of his worldviews.

This is one of the aspects that can be distinguished. This is one of the issues that can be singled out.

It focuses on the personal characteristics of the presidents and aligns it to the public lives the men have led. There are many events that are described, relating to both public and private lives of [...]

Personally, I have found the article "The Invention of the Blues" by Sante important because it explains in details the origin of the music genre.

Great literary writers in the 18th and 19th centuries dwelled on the issue of slavery as they tried to depict the experiences of slaves in a comprehensive manner.

This metaphor is necessary to show that the feeling of guilt distorts his perception of reality. This is one of the details that can be distinguished.

The author begins by explaining how he became the commander of the infantry platoon at the age of twenty-four. From the book, it is notable that the author displayed and lived most of the army [...]

He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.

Jordan remarks that this story is about her and the time she spent living and working in Maningrida and that the story is a personal account of her experiences in Arnhem Land.

Farquhar agrees with the saying that "all is fair in love and war" in spite of the fact that he believes it to be a "villainous dictum".

As described by the writer, anxiety and tension dominates the place as the clock ticks towards the hour of the reading of the news.

The author introduces the story to the reader with a description of an ideal life story to which everybody aspires, but the successive several stories are not so happy, though the author offers the readers [...]

As aforementioned, Alison uses Bone and the people around her to exploit the issues of gender, race, sexuality and class in a clamorous manner.

We, however, do not subscribe to such point of view, because there are good reasons to believe that the actual explanation as to this novel's iconic status is the fact that in The Catcher in [...]

In the book "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas", the author takes his readers through their experience in the chase of the American Dream.

In the end, it was clear that the things that soldiers carried were not at all 'things.' The soldiers had to deal with the emotional feelings of men who were exposed to the risk of [...]