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Gender Performance in Writing. Pedagogical Implications for Gender Performance in the English Language Teaching Classroom
(2014-10-14)
The aim of this text based upon social constructionism is to discover if, and how, gender is performed in written texts by adult second language learners in English language courses in the UK, and to discuss the pedagogical ...
Paradise Overcome A Secular Interpretation of Paradise Lost
(2014-02-07)
P.B. Shelley wrote that John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost “contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system of which, by a strange and natural antithesis, it has been a chief popular support” (394). ...
A Relationship to Death: An Examination of William Shakespeare´s Hamlet
(2014-02-18)
Hamlet is an extraordinary play, which is full of deception, drama, intrigue, melancholia and death. This essay will examine Hamlet´s relationship to death in selected acts, scenes and soliloquies from the play. The purpose ...
Hunger is Not a Game. Using “The Hunger Games” to Encourage. Critical Thinking in the ESL Classroom
(2014-02-20)
This essay focuses on the English 6 course for upper secondary school. I have created a book project that includes methods and pedagogical theories both represented in the Swedish school system such as the
socio-cultural ...
Human Rights in the Surveillance Society. A study of the similarities between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Western World today
(2014-02-19)
The technical development which has taken place since George Orwell published his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has contributed substantially to the surveillance society in the Western World today. Although Western countries ...
Hedges, Boosters and Tag Questions in The Big Bang Theory: A Gender Perspective
(2014-02-21)
The aim of the present study is to investigate the overall frequency of hedges,
boosters and tag questions in a selected number of episodes of the TV show The Big
Bang Theory, and whether or not there are any gender ...
Ordinlärningsstrategier - En kvalitativ studie i engelska
(2014-03-31)
Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka vilka ordinlärningsstrategier elever använder sig av i engelska som främmande språk och svenska som andraspråk. Som utgångspunkt till vår studie hade vi följande frågeställningar:
• Vilka ...
Symbolism in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
(2014-02-19)
The modernists wanted to give as true a picture of the world as possible and experimented with narrative techniques and devices such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation and symbolism, which meant a break with more ...
Media Violence and Power in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games Trilogy. On The Hunger Games and the Media in American Society
(2014-03-26)
Suzanne Collin's young adult novels of The Hunger Games trilogy present a dystopian adventure tale through the eyes of a teenage girl. The novels lift several topics such as the media spectacle, totalitarian government, ...
Toni Morrison’s Hero: A Song of Solemn Men
(2014-02-06)
This essay claims Song of Solomon is an example of a hero’s journey, aligned with the narratological features of the genre. Through an analysis of comradeship as the virtue of the quest, the hero’s identity within family, ...