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Loss of identity: slavery and land-stealing. An approach to african american and native american literature
(2024-05-06)
[EN] To build one self’s identity is not certainly an effortless process. It is greatly shaped by our interaction with both our every-day life, i.e. how we tackle the issues which arise from it, and the people who surround ...
“I Am an Old Woman”: Sophie’s Quest for Identity in Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Miyazaki’s 2004 Adaptation
(2024-05-06)
[EN] This dissertation compares the representation of identity in the character of Sophie from
Diana Wynne Jones's novel Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) and from Hayao Miyazaki’s
anime adaptation by the same title (2004). I ...
Adaptive mesh refinement in the drivaer fastback model
(2023-11-30)
This document includes the final project of the Automotive Engineering degree which has been carried
out during the student’s internship in the Nuclear Engineering and Fluid Mechanics department of the
University of the ...
The Curse of the House of Agamemnon: Revisiting the Characters of Orestes and Elektra in Colm Tóibín's House of Names (2018) and Jennifer Saint's Elektra (2022)
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Throughout the years, numerous pieces of literature have been written using as basis the ancient Greek myths of Electra and Orestes as transmitted by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. This paper will analyze two of ...
Subverting Hegemonic Discourse: The Focus on the Power of the Body, Sexuality and Nature in Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima's Poetry
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima are both notable poets of the 1950s North American literary movement, the Beat Generation. Being their works labeled as counterculture literature, both writers concentrate on their ...
Stephen King's horror in "Pet Sematary"
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Throughout history, horror literature has passed though many different stages; from early
Gothic novelists who often wrote to challenge contemporary society, to modern horror
writers with sophisticated and refined ...
The Queer West: Homophobia in The Power of the Dog and Brokeback Mountain
(2024-05-06)
[EN] The cinematographic success of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and the 2021 film The Power of the Dog symbolises the public’s interest in LGBTQ+ stories about the American West and the need for appreciation and ...
Second language grammar and individual differences
(2024-05-06)
[EN] The need for grammar instruction has always been a very controversial issue, although there is a broad consensus in the second language (L2) acquisition field that such pedagogical intervention is facilitative and may ...
Langston Hughes's Poetry: Rewriting the American Dream in the Harlem Renaissance
(2024-05-06)
[ENG] During the Roaring Twenties, two opposed events took place in the United States:
the development of the American Dream concept in terms of white privilege, and the
rising of the Harlem Renaissance, an African ...
Pronunciation in EMI: the impact of instruction on the comprehensibility and foreign accent of a lecturer
(2024-05-06)
[EN] The increasingly fast spread of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in tertiary
education has become notorious over the last decades. Nevertheless, doubts and concerns
on lecturers’ proficiency level and L2 pronunciation ...