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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: Native American Literature, language: English, abstract: The late cultural critic Neil Postman spoke frequently about the tendency of technology to become mythic, or accepted without question as something that always existed in the natural world. The same can be said of territorial boundaries, a manmade construct that had no relevance for the Cheyenne and Arapaho people of the foothills and high plains of east of the Rocky Mountains in the mid-19th century. By the latter 20th century, however, the more than two million residents of the state of Colorado who lived amidst the arbitrary demarcation lines of a state without natural boundaries felt a strong enough affinity for and identity with their place in the world to honor, grieve and demand action over the 'XXXX number of Coloradoans. killed in Vietnam,' or, '.on the highways.' (Ortiz 15) Little more than one hundred years earlier, however, several indigenous tribes had thriving and venerable societies that were destroyed by American troops, and like most non-native residents of the United States, the typical Coloradoan had no concern for this fact. 'Repression works like shadow, clouding memory and sometimes even to blind, and when it is on a national scale, it is just not good.'.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, .), grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: Political Science: Topics in Administration, language: English, abstract: Though delivering the world's poorest citizens from starvation is an attainable goal, producing enough food to provide a standard of living comparable to the West's is not. Efforts to preserve the world's most fragile ecosystems are doomed when the people in them are living in extreme poverty, and the false hope of selling a poor nation's natural resources to the industrialized world will only bring sufficient prosperity to stave off starvation until the mineral wealth has been depleted. It should be kept in mind that the world has not seen an uninterrupted advancement in technological progress, of which food is the building block - the 'Dark Age' enveloped Europe when the advanced plant genetics and animal husbandry techniques of the Western Roman Empire were lost along with its collapse in the 5th century AD. The Romans, it should be added, were not particularly concerned with feeding non-Romans in foreign lands, and were brought down by peoples who were their technological inferiors.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: The Novel and Its Tradition, language: English, abstract: Few stories that are over a hundred years old retain as much importance in popular imagination as Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Aside from the title characters becoming a shorthand description for a person who manifests a frightening bipolarity, the novel's gothic depiction of London remains the popular conception of the city during the late Victorian era. Though the story is commonly interpreted as a depiction of good and evil and the duality of man, I submit that Jekyll and Hyde is in large part a gothic allegory about repressed homosexuality and covert substance abuse.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, language: English, abstract: The preponderance of evidence shows that the setting of Louise Erdrich's Tracks, as well as its chronological sequels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace strongly resembles the Turtle Mountain Reservation in the north central part of the state and Erdrich's hometown of Wahpeton, in the southeast on the Minnesota border. Nonetheless, much has been made of the similarity of the fate of the Ojibwe characters in Tracks with the historical outrage perpetrated against the White Earth Anishinaabeg from the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887 to the nadir of Native American wellbeing in the early 1920s. In 1988, the same year Tracks was published, Erdrich co-wrote with her then-husband Michael Dorris an expose of this travesty that was published in The New York Times Magazine, which added to speculation that the politicized novel was a thinly veiled account of White Earth.Lost in the rush to place Tracks in Minnesota, however, was the fact that the historical Turtle Mountain Ojibwe in North Dakota experienced just as egregious a theft of timber-rich tribal land, both prior and subsequent to the Dawes Act, and in some ways served as the textbook example for the fraud committed at White Earth.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Holocaust Studies, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: 20th Century American Literature, language: English, abstract: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night was one of the two great competing postmodern analyses of the war against totalitarianism. Vonnegut saw World War II as an absurd and tragic consequence of mass schizophrenia in Nazi Germany, and the book's main character epitomizes and enables this cultural flaw.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: Graduate Research, language: English, abstract: Thomas Hardy is often identified as a transitional figure between the Victorian and Modern eras, and, as Gossin has said, Hardy's 1895 novel Jude the Obscure, 'fashioned a fictional narrative mode that closely resonates with what Alan Velie has identified as, 'perhaps the most common form of narrative in modern fiction'- ironedy' (Gossin 224). In synthesizing this new style of ironic comedy, Hardy simultaneously transformed both the gothic and bildungsroman genres of literature, giving English literature a remarkably influential addition to the canon. Jude Fawley was himself sui generis for a story that was predominately one of terror gothic, for the genre had long been associated with female writers and lead characters. Though male authors and lead characters became prominent in gothic's second wave in the 1880s, the male characters were usually depicted in effeminate ways- Stevenson's home-bound Dr. Jekyll, for instance, or Wilde's aesthetic Dorian Gray-and female characters were almost completely absent from the narratives. Jude, on the other hand, was the first convincingly heterosexual man in the genre to explicitly fall victim to a patriarchal society.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: Reformation Europe, language: English, abstract: Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, is often considered the man who ended the Middle Ages and ushered in the Renaissance. Indeed, Luther's great impulses, 'a reverence for authority, a vehement spirit, a cutting wit, a special talent for obscenity, and, most important, a contempt for sinful human nature, coupled with a profound and melancholy awareness of the body's fate at death,' combine the best and worst of both epochs. (86) His attempt to roll Christian doctrine back to the days of St. Paul of Tarsus were viewed as heretical by the Church he had once fervently believed in. He eventually lambasted Jews and, especially, the Pope in the most vehement words and obscene imagery he could muster. He was a scriptural fundamentalist who believed bigamy and polygamy were acceptable in that they were not explicitly condemned in the Bible, yet felt adultery should be punished by death. Scholars consider his influence on the German language comparable to Shakespeare's on English. His fight against the papacy inspired peasant revolts against the entire social order, which Luther explicitly rejected. He disbelieved in the geographic reality of hell and purgatory, but believed in the existence of witchcraft and sorcery. He was complex and contradictory, but profoundly influential.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: The Novel and Its Tradition, language: English, abstract: In academia, 15 years can see a variety of interpretations of even the most famous scholarly novels. Here, witness the best academia has debating the gender and sexual orientation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, along with his motives and feelings.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: English Restoration Literature, language: English, abstract: That William Wycherley's 1676 play The Plain Dealer is based upon his French contemporary Moliere's Le Misanthrope from a decade earlier is a commonly accepted tenet among critics: Both Alceste in Le Misanthrope and Manly in The Plain Dealer display misanthropic tendencies. Both insist, however, that their misanthropy is not directed at all people, just those who dissemble and flatter in a hypocritical way. Both are initially in love with women who possess acid tongues in private, yet are guilty of exactly the same public flattery the men despise. Yet The Plain Dealer greatly exceeded its source material in popularity, at least during its initial stage run, and there is very little critical consideration as to why Wycherley's play, which is generally considered the coarser of the two, outperformed its better. The relative success of Wycherley's play can likely be attributed to the business concerns faced by Moliere that Wycherley was exempt from, the unvarnished, vulgar satire of The Plain Dealer that was informed by previous crowd-pleasing English plays, and The Plain Dealer's much larger dollop of misogyny.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, language: English, abstract: There is intense political polarization over immigration in border states like Arizona and California, and public schools are a major battleground in the cultural war. Most elected officials and the pressure groups that court them piously claim that their particular agenda has no motive beyond doing what is best for the children, and likewise share the goal of teaching English to students who have little or no faculty with it. There has been a plethora of academic studies about the relative merits of both bilingual and immersion strategies, though like the political debate that inspires them they tend to generate more heat than light. Beyond the heated rhetoric and nativist passion, it seems that both styles of language instruction can be successful if they are girded by the things all students need: quality instruction and learning materials, patience, and individual attention.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, language: English, abstract: Even in high school during which my teacher interpreted Hamlet as a psychological drama with a cowardly, indecisive and disturbingly Oedipal main character, I saw Hamlet as primarily a depiction of a political showdown between Hamlet and Claudius. Having reigned for only two months, during which time he has, despite his country's weakened position, used diplomatic maneuvering to defuse the violent ambitions of the young Fortinbras, married his sister-in-law, and maintained the goodwill of the multitude shows that Claudius is a remarkably crafty and charismatic, even seductive, politician. His furtive murder of his brother also demonstrates his ruthlessness and cunning. As for Hamlet, his profoundest frustration is not the loss of his father or the marriage of his mother to Claudius: It is that Claudius has usurped what Hamlet perceives is his rightful place in the succession for the throne, a fact that he obsessively discusses with most of the play's principal characters. In their first interaction of the play, Claudius publicly reassures Hamlet that he remains next in line to the throne. To remain heir apparent to a man younger than his father is not satisfactory to him, and he is filled with impotent rage at his mother's marrying Claudius, an act that surely solidified Claudius in the eyes of the nobles who elected him. The appearance of his father's ghost and his learning of the true circumstances of his demise present a golden opportunity. Though the elder Hamlet asks his son only to avenge his death, the younger man wants to have his cake and eat it, too: to kill Claudius, and assume the throne himself. The latter is Hamlet's primary objective, and to achieve it within the conservative royal milieu without upsetting it, he must navigate through complex historical, cultural, and political realities that stack the odds decidedly against his favor. Nonetheless, Hamlet is nearly Machiavellian enough to succeed, though ultimately he is defeated by his towering passions and rage.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: Sociology, language: English, abstract: The salient question for our society is, how can parents cope with this when stereotypical gendering is deeply inculcated into the broader society, and meets resistance even from those who intellectually know the benefits of breaking with a given mode of instruction, yet can't or won't break with the way they were socialized as children And, more grippingly, what if this conflict is present within the home when parents disagree about the value of gender neutral upbringing and concomitant issues of discipline The daunting nature of changing the gendered norm is exemplified in the continued prevalence of corporal punishment in our society. Study after study finds that, 'almost all children in the United States are spanked by their parents at some point in their lives.' (Sims 170) Though the number of parents who frequently use corporal punishment has diminished in previous decades, the decline is negligible relative to the evidence of its psychological harm on children, its contraindication for changing behavior, and its outlaw in schools and the like. More intriguingly, the use of corporal punishment has not declined in kind with its fall in intellectual support: in fact, it has remained constant. Though the approval rating of spanking declined from 94% in 1968 to 68% in 1994, fully 94% of parents surveyed in 1994 reported spanking their child at least once. (Walsh 82) This suggests that better than a quarter of the population has utilized a psychologically damaging and ineffective form of punishment on their child(ren) even though they are intellectually opposed to it. Additionally, a substantial plurality of both spankers and non-spankers consider the opinions of doctors and other experts on the subject more valuable than that of their parents and other relatives.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, course: African American Literature, language: English, abstract: Despite its limitations, Soul on Ice is not only the closest and most influential literary descendant of Malcolm X's autobiography, but a significant advancement in both the prison-writing genre and American radical political consciousness. Of 389 pages of text, the adjudication of Malcolm X's crime and subsequent incarceration encompasses 42 pages of his autobiography, compared to 171 pages devoted to his pre-prison life and 176 to his post-prison experiences. The bulk of X's prison narrative concerns his conversion to Islam and goes into extensive detail about his intensive self-education program. Though there are brief appearances by his early Charlestown mentor, Bimbi, visits from his family, and anecdotes like the first time he refused to eat pork in the prison mess hall, there is little in-depth depiction or analysis of the inmates' social economy. Conversely, Cleaver's prison blocks, mess halls, and yards are represented as, 'a kind of modern Greek agora' in more vivid detail than X's brief anecdotes of, say, debates at Norfolk penal colony.The depth of Cleaver's literary and spiritual debt to X is best summed up in his own words: 'When I decided to join the Black Panther Party, the only hang-up I had was with its name. I was still clinging to my conviction that we owed it to Malcolm to pick up where he left off' (Harper 398-99).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Two staple bound soft cover. Colorful pictorial wraps. Clean pages throughout. Sells with plastic comic book sleeve.

Condition: New. pp. 56.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 92 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Condition: New. Mehr denn je praegen computergestuetzte und algorithmische Modalitaeten gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse. Die algorithmische Bildung ist herausgefordert, transdisziplinaere Synthesen fuer Modellvorstellungen und Praxisansaetze fruchtbar zu machen. Doch w.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Precis Critique of Aphra Behn's "The Rover" | Mark Schauer | Taschenbuch | 12 S. | Englisch | 2013 | GRIN Publishing | EAN 9783656460220 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.