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"All right, then, I'll go to hell": Religious Hypocrisy as the Subjacent Discourse in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(2020-05-20)
The aim of this essay is to analyse the literary elements that Twain utilised as tools to present his sharp critique of religion the institution of slavery and the Southern society which benefited from it. With this purpose ...
Gender Stereotyping in L.M Alcott's Little Women And Its 1949 And 1994 Film Versions.
(2020-05-22)
The present paper aims to analyze two of the films based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1949) directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong. In particular, I intend to ...
The fall of chivalry: an analysis of the representation of knighthood in George R. R. Martin´s “A Song of Ice and Fire"
(2020-11-24)
Traditional ideas of knighthood and chivalry are often related to the knight’s duty to his overlord—be it a lord or a king—his devotion to his beliefs and to courtly virtues—especially in the courtly love literature. ...
Japan's values-based diplomacy and the free and open indo-pacific vision
(2020-11-20)
This dissertation briefly explores the Japanese values-based diplomacy from the post-Second World War II period to the present with an emphasis on Shinzo Abe’s diplomatic initiatives focused on “universal values”. The ...
Negation in non-standard varieties of English
(2020-11-20)
This paper reviews the most prominent syntactic analyses that have been proposed in the literature for two non-standard negation phenomena: Negative Concord (NC) and Negative Inversion (NI). Linguistic theory has shown an ...
The Infanticide in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"- A Mother's Desperate Cry
(2020-05-25)
This thesis explores Toni Morrison’s ability to put into words the most dreadful and spiteful situation of the infanticide narrated in Beloved . Morrison’s skilled usage of words arouses to induce the reader to be empathetic ...
The representation of magic in the germanic literature of the Middle Ages
(2020-11-24)
Magic is something that has always been known and has always been performed. There are many different kinds of this practice such as witchcraft, astrology or tarot, that have been explored from various perspectives. But ...
Monstrous victims: the representation of female vampires in Ryan Murphy’s "American Horror Story Hotel"
(2020-11-24)
[EN].Gender representation in cinema has been an object of debate for years. More recently, television series have been incorporated to this debate as these productions also offer gender representations which may even ...
Acoustic analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
(2020-05-20)
It is widely accepted that L1 influences the acquisition of L2 phonology during Second Language Acquisition. Models such as the Speech Learning Model (SLM) have tried to explain this process by defining bi-directional ...
The use of dictogloss in the learning of a foreign language
(2020-11-24)
The Communicative Teaching Method was a language teaching methodology very popular in the 70’s and 80’s of the previous century. Its main emphasis was on second language (L2) use and, therefore, the teaching of grammar was ...