The use of the English language plays a crucial and dominant role in African literature. In contemporary African literature the use of English is often the key element for success as an African writer. This enables them to express their views across a larger area of today’s global world. However writing in English instead of their native tongues may come at a high price for these African writers. By them replacing their native languages with English could eventually lead to the eradication of their
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Context Though it is often viewed both as the archetypal Anglo-Saxon literary work and as a cornerstone of modern literature‚ Beowulf has a peculiar history that complicates both its historical and its canonical position in English literature. By the time the story of Beowulf was composed by an unknown Anglo-Saxon poet around 700 a.d.‚ much of its material had been in circulation in oral narrative for many years. The Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples had invaded the island of Britain and settled
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protagonists in ‘The Bell Jar’‚ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’‚ ‘Ariel’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’? Female emancipation and the struggle for women of existing within a predominately patriarchal society is a prevalent topic in literature. Female heroines are portrayed variably across all eras and genres of literature and yet the use of a melancholic and isolated female protagonist is arguably inescapable as writers continually refer back to a critical portrayal of women in their work. From Chaucer’s presentment of the
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“The Restoration of the Athenian Empire” Our walls are crumbling and our fleet is minute. We here in Athens are unable to collect tribute from other city-states and are often in threat of being attacked. Our fleet is defenseless and weak. The Democratic fraction‚ propose that we spend our time and hard earned money on the rebuilding of our walls and fleet. That way Athens can dangerously collect tributes from other Greek city-states. The Democrats also would like to commence in hazardous military
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The Use of Literature in Teaching English as a Foreign Language By: Amr Alhemiary Abstract This research aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening)and language areas(i.e. vocabulary‚ grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary text in a foreign language classroom‚ suitable situations for teaching literature and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts
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PCM105 REMEDIAL ENGLISH ROLE OF STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTICIPANTS 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 6 ABSTRACT 7 What is Literature? 8 Elements of Literature 9 Drama 10 Novels 11 Short Stories 11 Biographies and Autobiographies 11 Diaries 12 Journals‚ Magazines and Newspapers 12 Prose 13 Poetry 14 Purpose of Literature 14 Criticism 15 Importance of Literature 15 Literature provides pleasure to listeners
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Translation‚ a film directed by Sophia Coppola‚ explores the impact of a contemporary Japan‚ on dislocated individuals in search of their identity admit a chaotic world. In contrast‚ Waris Dirie’s autobiography‚ Desert Flower‚ reveals how globalisation can provide opportunities in where an individual can be empowered‚ enabling them to change their community. These texts provide varying perspective on how a globalised community impacts on individuals and in turn the way in which individuals can change
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MASTERS RESEARCH PROPOSAL CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF MALAY MANUSCRIPTS By SHARIFAH TAHIRAH BT SYED KAMARULZAMAN Introduction 1.1 Background of Research In the classical sense‚ the term ‘Manuscripts’ refers to a document handwritten by an author. Manuscripts are found in every part of the world where human beings put their thoughts and experiences into a written form. Human beings over the year have used plant material‚ stone‚ metal and parchment as writing supports. This plant
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1. Why do we need to study literature? * Literature is filled with ideas that need to be explored. * Literature helps us to see our world in new ways. It brings us to a deeper understanding of life. * It is important to study literature since when we begin the study of literature‚we find it has always two aspects‚one of the simple enjoyment and appreciation and the other of analysis and exact description. Usually what happen when we go through literature in our classroom either by
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The impact of social network in language English to teenagers Nowadays‚ social network is very popular especially to teenagers. It makes communication faster and more convenient. Examples for social networks are facebook‚ twitter‚ MSN‚ Xanga and so on. People communicate through languages‚ and there are good and bad impacts on language English that caused by social networks. I will explain my views in my presentation later on. First of all I would like to talk about the good impacts first. Teenagers
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