Functions of Linguistic and Literary Research Linguistic and literary research exists to achieve the following 1. ... Improvement of knowledge: The present knowledge in linguistic and literary studies is very far removed from what it used to be in the past. ... Advancement of Field: As pointed out earlier, the field of linguistic and literary research cannot go any further if research efforts are not intensified. ... Sincerity: A good researcher must abide by the principle of integrity and must uphold the ethical principles guiding research. ... Parsimony: Parsimony and precision are two thing...

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Bringing together the works of Said, Loti, and many other important literary sources, I will look critically at the historical interaction between the West and ˜The Rest' and analyze key subtopics including but not limited to; geopolitical issues, bi-orientalism, how the views of the Orient have changed throughout time, multifaceted issues within The Orient, and why the West is so interested in The Orient. ... Educationally, the domination has been so complete for such an amount of time that Said goes as far as to say that even supposed outwardly objective Western texts and liter...

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World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185; Variation: Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185. ... Oxford African American Studies Center. ... American Literary History 3.2 (1991): 255-76. ... Akam begins this assessment by commenting on The New Negro movement that nurtured such well-known figures guided by Alain Locke. ...

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World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185; Variation: Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185. ... Oxford African American Studies Center. ... American Literary History 3.2 (1991): 255-76. ... Akam begins this assessment by commenting on The New Negro movement that nurtured such well-known figures guided by Alain Locke. ...

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The study in progress has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms. ... The current study that follows has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms and also out of my continual effort to find the middle ground to deal with these practical concerns. ... " My purpose is cash in on usefulness of the contact zone as a guiding pedagogical principle for teachers and students. ... The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Pract...

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I will draw information from the large body of Hemingway literary criticism, his fiction, and the authors own comments on the craft of writing. ... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. ...

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Also, natural law obligated that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions". 3 The state formed by the social contract was guided by the natural laws, which guaranteed those inalienable rights. ... His humanist perspective was put so well in rhyme making mankind pursue the true knowledge of God. " Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is man-. 6 Society is still trying to understand the study of man. ...

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In other words, we, as readers, felt guided by the author's words to seek the hidden or deep signification of these symbols. ... Concerning the literary theory, we have opted for Northrop Frye's theory on symbols. ... Thus, we will try to study them, and to link them to the author's life, thanks to biographies and the work of some critics. ... He deprives her of any consideration except for the scientific one; she is a mere object of study for him. ...

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The Victorian Novel Created by the new profession of "novelists," a group that now included women as well as men; printed quickly and inexpensively on the new steam-powered printing presses and distributed efficiently over the kingdom on the new railway system; welcomed as a source of moral and social instruction as well as of delight and entertainment by the newly expanded reading public, the novel stands as the central literary form of the Victorian era. For the Victorians, the modern distinction between the literary novel and the popular best seller had not yet come into existence. The...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. ...

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Taming of the Shrew Gender Roles in The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew has always been an important play for those who study gender and its depiction early literature. ... Love guides many of Lucentio's future actions throughout the play. ... There is always a hope that his character might have more depth, but it was only "Bianca's love- (V.i.98) that guided his actions. ... The Taming of the Shrew acts as a comedic guide for reconstructing how a man can make his wife submit without resorting to violence. ... "Yet as a liter...

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You set foot aboard the spaceship. The gargantuan hull reverberates as the heel of your spacesuit collides with the cool metallic surface. In front of you is a large hallway, the darkness of it permeating every inch of the air around you. Even with the distress call, you couldn't have begun to imagine the scope of the abandoned craft. There wasn't anybody anywhere, the only lights or noises are coming from the few destroyed fuse boxes occasionally spitting out sparks. ...

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was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sinclair found the setting for the book that was to bring him fame: He first won recognition by his novel The Jungle, (1906), a powerful realistic study of social condition...

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Tolkien's clear understanding of the Holy Spirit, allowed him to manifest it and use it as the most recognizable Biblical functions such as comforter, guide, indweller, and giver. ... During his teenage years, Tolkien attended King Edward's School and along with a group of friends, he created the Tea Club and Barrovian Society where they exchanged and criticized each other's literary works. ... In Tolkien's early career, he continued to study linguistics and eventually became a professor at Oxford University. ...

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Teachers know how to address the issue of the struggling reader but the problem is teachers are afraid to address reading concerns because they feel that they were not credentialed to teach reading, they feel they are only expert in the area of their certification and it is the English department's ...

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Confucianism in Japan and China The Japanese people had little civilization of their own until, during the fourth century AD, they began to have contact with the Chinese. From them, they borrowed a great deal of their culture, including their ideas of philosophy and their form of government. A...

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Memory was divided into four parts: natural (which consisted of technology and information about inan- imate and animate things), civil, ecclesiastical, and literary. ... In the section devoted to History, Jefferson relegated Bacon's major division of Ecclesiastical History to a subsection of Civil History and eliminated altogether the section reserved for literary matters. ... On the other hand, Jefferson expanded Bacon's Imagination section into a Fine Arts category that embraced not only literary works but also such decorative and fine arts as gardening, painting, architectu...

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INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Tendik Tynystanov TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 2 The European Union........................................................" 3 About the PCA............................................................." 8 EU Relations with Kyrgyzstan ..........................................." 10 The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement....................." 11 PCA Institutio...

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The Visions of Light Vs Darkness When Joseph Conrad composed Heart of Darkness he created a literary masterpiece which embodied the essence of light contrasting with darkness. Throughout the novel Conrad constantly utilizes the images of light and dark and uses them to mold a vision, which the reade...

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Second Style: 1908 to 1919 Begins with Fireworks (1908), which he extends to his three great ballets: Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913) Higher use of dissonance, with themes often taken from folk music Varied rhythms with extensive use of percussive elements in all instruments Tonally, he basically uses diatonic materials including modes and continued use of ostinato Expanded virtuosity of orchestral members, utilizing solo instrumental writing (often in extreme ranges) Rite of Spring Real Audio for Emory Student Only o Introduction Works o ...

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Children in the Brothers Karamazov Children are portrayed in "The Brothers Karamazov" as being mistreated by adults and by God. Ivan, who is the most troubled by children's sufferings, doesn't want to forget them so he keeps articles about the misfortunes dealt upon children. The story also incorporates tales of children that are in the town, and surrounding areas, who become important to the plot of the story. By the end of the book Dostoevsky wants you to feel such grief and sadness for the children that it might even challenge your faith to God. The...

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Studying its application could help other cultures integrate their traditions into American minds. ... Perhaps it was not a coincidence that his name is literary translated to ten-thousand years, everlasting, forever or perpetual. Even after Emperors devised new calendars or adopted the calendar we used today, people continued to be guided by Wan-nien-li's calendar and celebrated Chinese New Year on the first day of the perpetual calendar. ...

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Exploring Iris Murdoch's concept of the self The concept of identity emerged from studies of the Self. ... However, with the influence of literary works which explored the self, theories emerged on the Self being more complex than previously assumed, and traditional beliefs regarding the nature of the Self came into question. ...

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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. The context of this book, along with the literary passages from the bible became guidance for Mormons. ... They emphasized a personal and direct religious experience of Christ, which was acquired through both direct religious experience and the reading and studying of the Bible. ...

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Literary Review Corporate culture involves with social expectations and standards as well as the values and beliefs that individuals hold central and that bind organisational groups (Lawson and Shen, 1998). ... The definition of organizational culture is of the belief that can guide staff in knowing what to do and what not to do, including practices, values, and assumptions about their work (Staniland M, 1985). ... Case study Apple's Leadership 1. ...

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