Introduction William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” features a strong element of the grotesque as Miss Emily’s secret is revealed. Throughout the story, she is seen as a town oddity, unbending in her ways and adamant about keeping everything the same. This represents a kind of madness in...
Introduction The American Civil War that ended in 1865 did not bring about the expected quick and complete eradication of racism and slavery. Fifteen years later the Reconstruction, specially intended to reconstruct the country, introduce and merge blacks into American society, did not make much headway. Although Mark Twain’s novel...
Holden Caulfield – the main character of the novel “The catcher in the rye” seems to be a nice guy, but he just lost orienting points in his life. He tries to put on the roles of adult life, and in the background of this trying just makes a lot...
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the tragic romance of the 12th century hero, Prince Hamlet who was the lawful successor to the throne of King Hamlet in Ellsinore Castle in Denmark. King Hamlet’s sudden death made his widow Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, and within two months of the king’s death she...
Introduction The story of Faust while inspiring a lot of modern forms of art and expression, also is known to have inspired a great deal of literature, music, and illustration as well as countless interpretations such as Jungian, Freudian, sociological, alchemical, literary, and classical. Today, many of the classical and...
The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s stunning debut novel. The Kite Runner is the first novel of the author. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan émigré living in San Francisco and his novel has received mostly good reviews. Amir and Hassan lost their mothers within a week of their births. It...
The essay involves two famous writers: Elie Wiesel’s author of “Night” and Jean –Jacques Rousseau’s author of “confessions”. We shall discuss their differences in their work using themes or ideas, and also the roles that different styles play in their work. Both writers seem to have a lot in common...
Introduction Edgar Allan Poe, outstanding romantic poet, romancer, and short-story writer, was one of the first professional writers of the United States. From a general point of view the creative work of this singular, original writer belonged to the romantic trend, but the exclusive artistic principles expressed by Poe’s writing...
Flannery O’Connor can most easily be described as one of America’s most distinguished literary artists. She has created a stunning reputation for herself through her novels and the many short stories written during her time. Within each of these pieces of literature are similar styles of writing, techniques, and themes....
A marvelous and breath–taking account of the creation of the universe and the related elements by Timaeus, the dialogue effectively exposes the Greek philosopher’s insight into cosmology. Believed to be a continuation of Republic, Plato’s dialogue, Timaeus – Critias also highlights two connected accounts, that of Atlantis and its defeat...
Introduction Since ancient times, virtuousness and morality were the main qualities of a woman in spite of her age and race. Society supposed that a woman should follow strict moral rules which determined and guided her behavior and actions. Religion clearly stipulated good and wrong behavior patterns, goodness and sins,...
Introduction “It is through a man’s acts that one shall know him.” (Peter Lang, 2000). Judith Butler writes that “identity is performative”, alerting us to the fact that identity can be seen as a series of masks that we present to the exterior world, which hide the self within. Discuss...
Things Fall Apart is considered the first work of literature written by an African writer, which had received acknowledgement worldwide. It is a post-colonial novel, which is widely read both inside and outside of Africa. The reader gets to follow the life of Okonkwo, who is a farmer, a warrior,...
Declaration of the Rights of Woman – 1791 by Olympe De Gouges The reading chosen as per the requirements of this assignment is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman – 1791 by Olympe De Gouges. The writer was initially known as a playwright but got involved with politics due...
In the novel, Lily is a painter and her paintings signify gender struggles, indicated by Charles Tansley’s assertion that women cannot write or even paint. Lily’s aspiration to convey Mrs. Ramsay’s quintessence as a mother and a wife in her painting imitates the desire among contemporary women to discern and...
Introduction A few events in the United States history had as much impact as the American Civil War. During the war which was, in part, in part, fueled by the debate over the future of slavery, people faced many hardships. After this pivotal moment in history, the United States saw...
Vergil’s The Aeneid and the Holy Bible’s Genesis were two of most famous texts. In this essay, I am going to discuss the similarities between these two texts in terms of their family values; love, loyalty, obedience, responsibility and concern. This essay is written to argue that the two passages...
Introduction The problem of existence and people’s place in life has been represented in the works of many philosophers and sociologists. According to Georg Simmel, the greatest dilemmas of modern life appear due to individuals’ claim to sustain the autonomy and individuality of one’s existence “in the face of overwhelming...
Introduction A famous American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. There Emily went to primary school and then entered Amherst Academy, where she studied from 1840 to 1847. After graduation, Emily Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Her family was a Puritan one; that is why...
Introduction O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Love takes the meaning in love’s conference. I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit So that but one heart we can make of it; Two bosoms inter-chained with an oath; So then two bosoms and a single troth. The...
Motif in poetry refers to a recurrent or dominant thematic element in a poem. It can also refer to phrases or lines in a poem that repeated severally in various parts of the poem to enhance the themes in the poem. In Regin Cabico’s “check one”, the motif of ‘one’...
“A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, tells of the death of Emily Grierson; typical of his works, Faulkner uses the setting in this story as a miniature of the south in which he explores the “lost era of southern grandeur represented by Emily’s house, the last vestige of...
Proper Use of English The sentence “The old theory consistently failed to fully explain all the data” represents the case of the split infinitive (Sears, 2017). Despite not being a major mistake, it still showcases the improper use of English. Thus, it needs rephrasing. The sentence “I can’t remember the...
The acquisition of language in children has been compared to the development of biological functions in antecedent research studies. Suffices to mention, according to many linguists, the facility to learn a language in children is a paramount element in understanding the language itself, and associated languages that the child will...
Introduction There are numerous issues that predetermine the success or failure in second language acquisition. On one hand, there are unconditional demographic factors such as ethnicity, gender, or age. On the other hand, there is motivation or the desire to learn, which is conditioned both intrinsically and extrinsically. Although there...
Among the variety of the world languages spoken by millions of people, the languages of the native peoples of America have always been of interest to linguists and ethnographers. It is because the dialects of Indian tribes have quite a lot of unique expressions and interpretations, which are expressed in...
Introduction Learning strategies refer to the thoughts and actions that human beings engage in their daily lives in order to achieve a certain goal. In teaching and learning of language, learning strategies enable the language teachers identify areas of weakness of their students. This allows them to device appropriate ways...
Introduction The study of Phonology began in the nineteenth century (Lucid, 2008, p.1). This was a period in history when attempts were made by missionaries to codify some languages—such as native African and Asian—in order to spread the Gospel. Some of these languages varied significantly from the European languages—in terms...
Psychologists have long studied the theme of language development and joint attention. Currently, a row of theories describing the processes of language development exist. Studying communication patterns in the living beings, they have come up with the conclusion that language is unique to humans, and its most peculiar feature is...
Introduction Learning English has become the United Arab Emirates (UAE) educational priority in the latest period due to political, economic, and social reasons. Educational institutions of various levels have found themselves in the situation that requires readdressing their English teaching and learning policies. The school where I am employed has...
Executive summary The main aim of the study was to explore the important ranges of intelligent language tutoring systems. The aim of the system is to formulate the natural language processing systems that aim at teaching and assessing the capability of the students. The utilization of the intelligent language tutoring...
Introduction The study of language can be approached from two different angles – first, it can be studied as human behavior, and second, it can be explored as a social phenomenon. However, according to the basic definitions of language, it is generally accepted that language is a pathway that provides...
Introduction The learning of foreign languages requires the usage of certain techniques and models. There are various approaches to the learning of a foreign language. The history of learning strategies development deserves special attention as it indicates the prevailing teaching methods employed at different time periods. The aim of this...
Interlanguage The notion of interlanguage (IL) refers to the study of a foreign language that is subject to interference from the side of a learner’s native language, yet it does not contain any elements of the native language or the studied language. Corder (1967) proposes the hypothesis of continuous and...
In the context of a modern globalized world, there is a growing need for learning English as a means of communication with an entire world. However, appropriate English learning requires professional language teachers, especially concerning their cognition. In this regard, this paper aims at the precise examination of the role...
Abstract Awareness of cultural differences associated with the improvement of English teaching is a very sensitive topic in modern society where many international students are keen on learning this language. As action research, it was important to identify the challenges that teachers often face when teaching English to international students...
There are many challenges in teaching and learning a second language. Mastering English as a foreign language presents a number of difficulties, especially for adult learners. Both teachers and students meet the necessity of being “language-aware” (Andrews 2007, p. 1). Some of the most complicated issues in the acquisition of...
Various factors affect the acquisition of a second language. Some of such aspects encompass age and reading motivation whose relationship with second language acquisition has been explored by numerous studies (Ellis, 2015). A wide pool of research has laid much emphasis on the learners aged between two and twelve years,...
Introduction Motivation and attitude are two integral elements of learning a new language. People who intend to learn a second language without any motivation lack interest in realising their objective (Chalak & Kassaian, 2010). This situation influences the rate of mastering new languages. This paper focuses on the role of...
Abstract It is widely projected that the population in the world’s English speaking language has increased dramatically and is projected to continue this trend. However, the learning structure in Saudi Arabia has traditionally focused on Islamic teachings and has only in recent years made an effort to incorporate more Western...
Introduction Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s plays that convey elements of mistrust, instability, cheating and self interest as the major problems in the society. These issues pervade all aspects of life in any society as portrayed in the play. This study therefore seeks to highlight various issues in the play....
English drawing on communities where English is used as the national language and the way English is used around the world There are various definitions pertaining to English, and they all depend on various distinct factors. Consequently, English can be defined in reference to where it is used as a...
“We Wear the Mask” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” are poems that were written in the period following the Civil War. The poems also predate the Civil Rights Movement. During this period, most people had mixed feelings concerning the struggles of the African Americans. Both of these poems chronicle...
Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” show how African Americans have struggled to have their own identity. Hughes draws an analogy by using rivers, which he likens to the deep connections African Americans still have to their heritage, despite...
Introduction Even though English is not a mother tongue to most nationals, the language has continually been adopted in worldwide communication and diplomacy. Presently, the language is being used in several national programs of study (Al-Saidat, 2009). Even though English has progressively tracked learners of diverse languages nationalities, it should...
Learning a language is an interactive process, which can be accomplished through various strategies. The pushed output is one of the approaches that can be applied to teaching a foreign language. According to the comprehension technique, speaking should only be encouraged when there is enough understanding of the language scheme....
Introduction English has long become the primary language for most countries. As English grows in importance as a global language, so does the dependence of people on it from across the world. However, many persons who use English as second language often face challenges while trying to improve on their...
