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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: noch keine, Universität Potsdam (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Literatur und Sprache des 17. Jahrhunderts, 18 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Obgleich in Martin Opitz Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey aus dem Jahre 1624 noch nicht vom Roman die Rede ist, wird während des 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum ein gelehrter Diskurs über die Rolle und Bedeutung des Romans geführt. Mit den romantheoretischen Beiträgen von Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) und Gotthard Heidegger (1666-1711) finden sich gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts zwei konträre Positionen zum Roman. Anhand zentraler romantheoretischer Texte beider sollen in meiner Arbeit die zeit-genössischen Sichtweisen barocker Prosa-Literatur mit ihren jeweiligen Argumenten, Wertungen und Beispielen vergleichend untersucht werden. 16 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: noch keine, Universität Potsdam (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Literatur und Sprache des 17. Jahrhunderts, 18 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Obgleich in Martin Opitz Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey aus dem Jahre 1624 noch nicht vom Roman die Rede ist, wird während des 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum ein gelehrter Diskurs über die Rolle und Bedeutung des Romans geführt. Mit den romantheoretischen Beiträgen von Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) und Gotthard Heidegger (1666-1711) finden sich gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts zwei konträre Positionen zum Roman. Anhand zentraler romantheoretischer Texte beider sollen in meiner Arbeit die zeit-genössischen Sichtweisen barocker Prosa-Literatur mit ihren jeweiligen Argumenten, Wertungen und Beispielen vergleichend untersucht werden. 16 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 2,0, Universität Augsburg (Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Philosophie und Technik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Philosoph Ernst Cassirer wird heute unweigerlich mit seinem dreibändigen Hauptwerk 'Philosophie der symbolischen Formen' (1923-1929) in Beziehung gesetzt. Diese Philosophie beinhaltet die Bedingung der Möglichkeit des Verstehens und des Zeichengebrauchs. In seinem 1930 erschienenen Essay 'Form und Technik' '.unternimmt Cassirer eine systematische Analyse technischen Handelns als eines spezifischen kulturellen Phänomens und skizziert die Folgen, die seine schnelle Entwicklung in unserem Jahrhundert auf die Gesellschaft hat.' Die Technik wird hier als symbolische Form bezeichnet und in den Kreis der anderen symbolischen Formen (Sprache, Mythos, Reli-gion, Wissenschaft und Kunst) aufgenommen.In dieser Arbeit wird versucht, einen Einblick über Cassirers Auffassung der Beziehung zwischen Philosophie und Technik zu geben. 28 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 2,0, Universität Augsburg (Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Philosophie und Technik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Philosoph Ernst Cassirer wird heute unweigerlich mit seinem dreibändigen Hauptwerk 'Philosophie der symbolischen Formen' (1923-1929) in Beziehung gesetzt. Diese Philosophie beinhaltet die Bedingung der Möglichkeit des Verstehens und des Zeichengebrauchs. In seinem 1930 erschienenen Essay 'Form und Technik' '.unternimmt Cassirer eine systematische Analyse technischen Handelns als eines spezifischen kulturellen Phänomens und skizziert die Folgen, die seine schnelle Entwicklung in unserem Jahrhundert auf die Gesellschaft hat.' Die Technik wird hier als symbolische Form bezeichnet und in den Kreis der anderen symbolischen Formen (Sprache, Mythos, Reli-gion, Wissenschaft und Kunst) aufgenommen.In dieser Arbeit wird versucht, einen Einblick über Cassirers Auffassung der Beziehung zwischen Philosophie und Technik zu geben. 28 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar zur Angewandten Geographie: Gewässergüte - Wasserqualität - Gewässerökologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Viele Jahre lang beschäftigte sich der Gewässerschutz in erster Linie mit der Verbesserung der Gewässergüte, also mit der Reinheit des Wassers. Doch obwohl das hierbei erklärte Ziel - eine durchgehende Gewässergüte der Klasse II oder besser zu bewirken - fast flächendeckend erreicht worden ist, blieben viele Gewässer artenarm (Staatliches Umweltamt Hagen 2005).Es zeigt sich also, dass die ökologische Funktionsfähigkeit eines Gewässers nicht allein auf die Wasserbeschaffenheit zurückzuführen ist. Für die Qualität eines Fließgewässerökosystems ist neben der Gewässergüte auch die morphologische Struktur des Gewässers von entscheidender Bedeutung. Ein Maß für den strukturellen Zustand eines Gewässers bildet die Gewässerstrukturgüte. Bei der Darstellung des aktuellen morphologischen Zustandes eines Gewässers wird auf das Verfahren der Gewässerstrukturgütekartierung zurückgegriffen (RASPER 2001).Die vorliegende Arbeit wird die Grundlagen der Gewässerstrukturgüte näher erläutern, kurz auf gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen eingehen und die Anwendungsfelder der Gewässerstrukturbewertung darlegen. Desweiteren werden die Vorgehensweise der Klassifizierung und die Verfahrensschritte der Kartierung erläutert, wobei das Verfahren der Klassifizierung kritisch beleuchtet wird. Abschließend werden die wichtigsten Ergebnisse kurz zusammengefasst. 28 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2-, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, 22 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit behandelt die Reise des Johannes von Gorze, Abgesandter Ottos des Großen, nach Córdoba an den Hof des ersten Kalifen von al-Andalus Abd al-Rahman III. Dabei soll der Aspekt der Reise von Mitteleuropa in den äußersten Süden der Iberischen Halbinsel, für die damalige Zeit eine enorme Herausforderung, und die Frage nach der Rezeption des Johannes im Vordergrund stehen. In wie weit nutzte der Mönch die Reise, um sein Wissen, moderner ausgedrückt, seinen Horizont zu erweitern. Reiste er nach Süden nur auf der Suche nach Pflichterfüllung gegenüber seinem König und seinem Gott, oder hatte er auch Interesse an dem Neuen, an unbekannten Kulturen und Ländern, wie viele berühmte Reisende des Mittelalters nach ihm. Oder waren solche Gedanken den Reisenden des frühen Mittelalters noch fremd Wie verhielt sich Johannes während der drei Jahre seines Aufenthalts in einer der größten und prächtigsten Städte ihrer Zeit - in Córdoba 36 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: 1,3, University of Southampton (University of Southampton - School of Humanities: Film Studies), course: Image, Sound and Narrative in Late Weimar Cinem, language: English, abstract: ¿Put speech into films, and you will get speech plus film but you will not get a film.¿Although, initially, sound films were considered to be only a temporary phenomenon that would never replace the silent picture, the transition to talkies proceeded more and more in Weimar cinema of the late 20¿s, and, in 1931/32, the sound film completely replaced its predecessor, which had gone out of fashion finally. Yet, the new invention unmistakably evoked numerous debates about whether the addition of sound to cinema pictures rather should be seen as a pro- or regress within the evolution of film art. In view of that, this essay discusses the advantages and drawbacks of silent as well as of sound films. [.]Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 16 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Bamberg, course: Family in the life course, language: English, abstract: This paper is written for the seminar ¿Family Sociology¿. The theme of ¿Family History¿ I chose, covers the main topics of marriage patterns and a comparison of family and childhood issues of the past, to those of the present.In this work I will point out the historical changes and regional differences on that what is called a ¿family¿:First up I will shortly illustrate the development of the European pattern from Greco-Roman times until now, and I will introduce the main marriage patterns which are spread worldwide, namely the European pattern, the Eastern European pattern and the Non-European pattern.Then I will show how the meaning of family has changed. Not only is the structure another one compared to former times, but also has something new been created: a period called ¿childhood¿ which is different from the rest of the life course, regarding children no longer as smaller adults, but as something special.The developments on family history go hand in hand to changes of society like the industrialization or the creation of a welfare state.Since normative standards declined marriage is just one possibility to live together, still the most common, but steadily loosing importance. Meanwhile divorce rates have been increasing since the end of the nineteenth century and contraceptive measures have been introduced.So obviously this, what is called a family is more flexible than ever, creating the so called ¿patchwork-family¿, which may consist of one single parent and children, two spouses with children they have from a former relationship with another person, or even a homosexual couple with children. Nowadays there is a new tolerance for what is called a ¿family¿. Usually talking about ¿family¿ today means referring to the ¿nuclear family¿.According to Berger (2002, 6) the nuclear family consisting of a married couple and a child (or children), was taken for granted in all societies of the West for the central institution of modern life, held to be superior to any other family form long into the early decades of the twentieth century.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 20 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: A, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Department of Art and Archeology), course: History of Korean Art, language: English, abstract: In the Chos¿n period (1392-1910), Korean landscape painting flourished. Traditionally strongly bound to a Chinese paradigm, the Korean masters of painting sought to give their works distinctive peculiarities. Especially from the middle of Chos¿n period on, strong tendencies towards ¿Koreanization¿ emerged comprising not only arts but all sectors of life. Initially, painting developed slightly different characteristics still within the scope of the paramount Chinese arts such as bolder outlines and coarser brushwork (Pratt, 1995: 43). The painter Ch¿ng S¿n (1676-1759) eventually heralded the turn to a typical Korean style of landscape painting, the so-called ¿chin¿gy¿ng (sansu)¿, true-view landscape painting. Reaching its peak in the following eighteenth century, this genre depicts the beauty of real Korean countryside using a certain technique which bears distinct features, even though still being geared to Chinese example.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 16 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Southampton (University of Southampton - School of Humanities: Film Studies), course: The Literature of the Black Diaspora, language: English, abstract: Fictional literary forms are generally divided into three genres, namely poetry, prose and drama. All these stylistic ways of transforming thoughts into (written) language have their own distinctive hallmarks and can, thus, have very different effects on the reader/ the audience. Whereas prose narrations are usually read by a sole reader, drama is supposed to be performed on stage, and poetic texts live especially on their orality. There are, unquestionably, many more discrepancies between these three fictional archetypes; they take for instance advantage of dissimilar narrative voices.This leads to the assumption that a literary writer must have certain reasons for choosing one of all possible forms of fiction; he, moreover, must aim at achieving a special effect on his audience employing a particular style with specific perspectives.The diverse forms of literature often digest identical topics always dealing with them in a unique way, which gives literature an enormous variety. The same applies to one special kind of literature, which is in the centre stage of this essay: slave literature about the experience and history of the Black Diaspora.Starting from these considerations, my intention is to analyse divergent works of two specific contemporary black diasporic writers, plus their special forms of employing narrative voices and perspectives in order to retrieve the history of slavery: Caryl Phillips postmodernist prose narrative Crossing the River and the Caribbean-diasporic poetry of Nobel Prize Winner Derek Walcott. How do the two of them use narrative devices in their disparate forms of art, prose and poetry This is to be examined in the course of this essay.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 16 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik), course: Modern American Drama, language: English, abstract: The two plays Long Day¿s Journey into Night by Eugene O¿Neill and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams can be seen as two of the most successful and respected plays of American Modernism.Besides other similarities, both plays deal, more or less obviously with the consumption of alcohol and - in case of Mary Tyrone in Long Day¿s Journey into Night - drugs.This paper¿s matter is to find out what function drinking or the consumption of other drugs have for the characters of the two plays. This question could also be interesting looking at the authors: O¿Neill¿s play has very many parallels to his own life and also Williams admitted that he is to be found in the character of Blanche DuBois to a certain extend.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 20 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, Martin Luther University (Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: Shakespearean Plays, language: English, abstract: This paper is concerned with the topical references included in Shakespeare¿s comedy Twelfth Night or What you will. Topicality in the context of this paper is defined as all facts included in the play that are supposed to have been of current interest in the Elizabethan Age. For this purpose, the paper will proceed in three steps. First of all, some topical references frequently named by the secondary literature will be presented with special attention to the link established between the play and the several facts. Secondly, it is interesting to ask why some references were included. Taking the facts mentioned above into account, one basic assumption for this step is that playwrights do not only unconsciously mirror reality but do it for special, recipient-oriented reasons. At least one interesting theory developed by Anthony Alridge in his monograph Shakespeare and the Prince of Love. The Feast of Misrule in the Middle Temple will be discussed in this chapter. Finally, the facts discussed until that point will be summarized and questioned once more under another aspect: can topicality be a problem and for whom That is why some thoughts will be spent on topicality as a problem in Shakespeare¿s times and for the recipient in our post-modern days. Even though especially the last question concerning the gap between the horizons of understanding of both periods could be of special note for teachers, e.g., theirs is only little space for this particular topic because of the limitations this paper naturally has to take into account. This is also the reason why only some of the most stressing topical references can be discussed in the course of the paper. A lot of details have to be excluded. So the paper can show only some examples and discuss possible reasons for them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 20 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), language: English, abstract: In 1926 a man named Ernest Hemingway wrote a book. It was called 'The Sun Also Rises' (as it also travels) and it recounts a recreational journey undertaken by the protagonist, Jake Barnes, and his companions. Jake is very fond of traveling. He is also very fond of getting drunk and seeing people and animals hurt each other. It is hard to tell which he favors more, since he travels in order to get drunk and see violence, although it would not be necessary, since violence and alcohol can be encountered at selected locations all across the world. Traveling must therefore have a more vital function in Jake's life.As multitudinous as Jake's motivations may have been, there seems to be one constant element that can be named as the driving force behind all of Jake's travels. This element is escape. Escape from a dismal and boring life in his home country and in Paris, escape from happiness in Spain and with (or without) Brett, or escape from his war experiences. Since it is such a fundamental part of his life, he, as the narrator, also portrays the other characters as fugitives from themselves and from others.In order to verify this statement, I will examine Jake's possible reasons for expatriation in general. Then I will try to further examine the individual travel stops that Jake visits during his journey. I will show that each location has a different meaning to him, although the guiding theme remains. Then again I will attempt to shine a light on the driving powers behind the restlessness of the three central characters: Jake, Brett and Robert. Although the narrator does show some insight into their motivations, there are still deeper ones that he might not realize because they are also inherent in himself.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 20 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Allgemein, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin, Veranstaltung: Bildung und Erziehung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Vorwort:Nahezu alle Jugendliche und Erwachsene haben persönliche Erfahrungen, wie es ist, bewusst oder unbewusst zu bestrafen oder bestraft zu werden. Ein jeder Mensch hat im Verlauf seiner Kindheit eine mehr oder weniger intensive Erfahrung mit Strafe erlebt oder miterlebt, sei es beispielsweise im Elternhaus oder in der Schule.Doch wie verhält es sich, wenn das eigene Kind auf die Welt kommt In den meisten Fällen treten früher oder später Erziehungsschwierigkeiten auf und das Verhalten des Kindes steht im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit. Die Eltern wünschen sich, dass sich das Verhalten des Kindes ändert. Aber wie ist das zu erreichen Auf den ersten Blick scheint gerade das Strafen der natürlichen Zuneigung der Eltern zu ihrem Kind zu widersprechen. Doch ist eine Erziehung ganz ohne Strafen möglich Aufgrund meiner eigenen Erfahrung mit dem Thema Strafe und vor allem auch durch die Geburt meiner Tochter, die mir die Brisanz des Themas noch näher gebracht hat, habe ich mich für das Thema: ¿Sollte / muss ein Erzieher / eine Erzieherin unter Umständen auch strafen Und wenn ja, wie Welche Grenzen sind hierbei zu beachten ¿ entschieden.Die Strafe ist die heikelste Arbeit im Bereich des pädagogischen Handelns. Die Thematik der Erziehungsstrafe ist so alt wie die Erziehung, das heißt so alt wie die Menschheit selbst. In jeder Epoche unsere Zeit hat sich die Menschheit mit der Strafe auseinandergesetzt und so wird sie auch heute noch im 21. Jahrhundert häufig diskutiert und nach einer ¿allgemeinen¿ Lösung zur Erziehung gesucht.Welche Rolle die Strafe in der Erziehung hat und welche Bedeutung ihr als Erziehungsmittel beigemessen wird, werden zentrale Momente dieser Arbeit sein. Zunächst werden die Begriffe ¿Erziehungsmittel¿ und ¿Strafe¿ definiert um somit zu verdeutlichen, wie Strafe als Erziehungsmittel in die Erziehung einzuordnen ist.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: noch keine, Universität Potsdam (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Literatur und Sprache des 17. Jahrhunderts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Obgleich in Martin Opitz¿ ¿Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey¿ aus dem Jahre 1624 noch nicht vom Roman die Rede ist, wird während des 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum ein gelehrter Diskurs über die Rolle und Bedeutung des Romans geführt. Mit den romantheoretischen Beiträgen von Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) und Gotthard Heidegger (1666-1711) finden sich gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts zwei konträre Positionen zum Roman. Anhand zentraler romantheoretischer Texte beider sollen in meiner Arbeit die zeit-genössischen Sichtweisen barocker Prosa-Literatur mit ihren jeweiligen Argumenten, Wertungen und Beispielen vergleichend untersucht werden.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 5, University of Geneva (Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales (IUHEI)), course: UN peace operations and Human Rights, language: English, abstract: As the end of the relatively clear conflict situations of the cold war era has given space for dramatic changes, we are now facing a widespread and more unpredictable security situation than some years ago. In December 2004, the UN concluded, that¿We cannot treat issues such as terrorism or civil wars or extreme poverty in isolation. The implications of this interconnectedness are profound. Our strategies must be comprehensive. Our institutions must overcome their narrow preoccupations and learn to work across issues in a concerted fashion.¿The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in internal conflicts and instability, forcing the United Nations to rethink its definitions of peace and security.Peace keeping missions, often referred as intervention according to chapter 6 ¿, as Dag Hammerskjöld has put it, have gradually increased, both in number and dimension.The complexity of internal conflicts and their dramatic social, humanitarian and economic consequences for societies remain a challenge for the United Nations. Step by step, the United Nations broadened their perception, and peace operations became multidimensional interventions, including military and police components as well as NGOs and other civil actors.As almost half of the post-conflict countries relapse into violent conflict within five years, one has to question some reasons. This paper deals mainly with the interdependent issue of security within the peace-building process, focusing on the case of Sierra Leone.My thesis is, that, besides questions of the coordination of efforts and the gap between traditional peace keeping and peace-building, there is also a lack, concerning the short- to mid-term security of post-conflict states. Due to the bad economic position and the disturbed social structure of these post-conflict states and despite massive efforts in the economic and social sector as well as in the security sector, there is a certain period of insecurity until a state can ensure its stability both, internally and externally, on its own. This ¿security gap¿ normally appears after the withdrawal of the peacekeepers.I have chosen the case of Sierra Leone as an example, because of its model like character of a complex internal conflict and the UN response. Furthermore, it demonstrates, that even if relatively concerted measures have been undertaken, the fragility of a post-conflict state, and therefore the unsolved question of a lack of security, remain.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 28 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Communication, grade: 1,7, University of Leicester (Centre for Mass Communication Research), course: Avertising, Culture and Communication, language: English, abstract: During the 20th century, the industrialised countries have developed an extensive amount of obsolescence. It has become clear that nations in the developed world over-consume, while the poor in the developing world pay the price of our increased consumption with their lowered standards of living and increasing environmental damage .When did obsolescence emerge, in how far is it planned, and which consequences does it have for consumer culture and the promotional self on a broader scale By drawing on numerous examples, this essay explains how advertisements are constructed semiotically and the ideologies they derive from.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 24 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institute of Anglican and American Studies - English Literature and Cultural Studies), course: Fragments shored against ruins: T.S. Eliots frühe Lyrik und die Enstehung der modernistischen Avantgarde, language: English, abstract: Manhattan Transfer is one of the earliest of that type of novels which has come to be known as ¿collectivistic¿. The idea is to present a cross-section of the social structure, the social organism; an ¿over-view¿ of the subject in which details of individual lives merge in the general picture of society¿ (Belkind 1971:61).This quotation by Allen Belkind shows that the American author John Dos Passos is not interested in individual characters and their lives in Manhattan Transfer but in how the characters solve the problems and their everyday life in a metropolis, in the city of New York.I would like to deal with Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos which was first published in 1925. I will start with some autobiographical facts about Dos Passos to show how he grew up and how his life influenced his works. A short summary and the numeration of stylistic features of Manhattan Transfer will lead to the depiction of the city New York as the actual protagonist of this novel. There are different social groups such as immigrants or poor and rich people described in the book. I want to deal with Ellen Thatcher and Jimmy Herf as the protagonists, and I want to show how they perceive the world. This part is the main topic of this paper. There are numerous essays about the novel Manhattan Transfer and how it deals with New York. I am going to point out the images of New York and their effects on Ellen Thatcher and Jimmy Herf.John Rodrigo Dos Passos was born in Chicago/ Illinois on January 14th 1896. He studied at Harvard University and in Spain. He used the experiences he made as ambulance driver and medic in the Great War (1914-1918). For his first novel called One Man¿s Initiation (1917). It was first published in 1920. His breakthrough came in 1921 with his second war novel Three Soldiers. In 1925, he published the most significant big town novel of Modernism: Manhattan Transfer. In this novel he portrays an extensive image of New York¿s social classes between 1890 and 1925. In the paper Facing the Chair, Dos Passos fought for the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were executed after their political lawsuits. In his epochal masterpiece, USA, John Dos Passos raged in one 'Camera Eye' episode:Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 24 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,00, University of Vienna (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Literaturwissenschaftliches Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Popular playwright Alan Ayckbourn is admired by his audience for his interesting character portrayals and insights into human relationships. The aim of this paper is to outline figure conception and characterisation in Alan Ayckbourn¿s play 'Things We Do for Love'.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 32 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: This essay aims at taking a closer look at the Pacific pidgin Tok Pisin. Especially the development of the pidgin into a creole will be considered in the following text. The chapter on the history of Tok Pisin is preceded by an excursus on the conditions of language contact and the definition and genesis of pidgins in general. The history and thus the development into a creole as well as the current situation of Tok Pisin is completed with some examples of the lexicon of the creole. Here I laid certain emphasis on the different origins of English influence on Tok Pisin, as the social backgrounds of those who introduced the first form of the pidgin, the foreigner talk, are still reflected in the Tok Pisin vocabulary. Additionally I paid regard to the German influence on the pidgin and the linguistically changed situation under Australian administration after WWI. This part of the essay includes a brief paragraph on the sociolinguistic conditions and the conscious use of speech acts with in the pidgin. Finally I tried to give a rather short overview on the phonological and morphological features of Tok Pisin as well as on its grammar.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 28 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover, course: Intercultural Learning in the English Language Classroom, language: English, abstract: This term paper will analyse a student exchange to England, carried out by a grammar school in Stolzenau, as an encounter program promoting Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). First, it will present the development of ICC as one main goal of the contemporary Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) and will define the intercultural speaker as its ideal. Furthermore it will give a short overview on the targeted knowledge, skills, attitudes and educational aims behind this concept, and will introduce school exchanges as one mean to facilitate the development of ICC. The ensuing paragraphs will deal with principles of the design of encounters. They will present important factors, prerequisites and practical options for organizing exchanges. These principles will lay the foundation of an evaluation of the Stolzenau exchange to Cullingworth trying to establish a connection between theory and practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 24 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Oscar Wilde, language: English, abstract: IntroductionA poet is sitting in his room beside a Sphinx. Within the poem the Sphinx forms his main focus of interest, his whole attention belongs to her: a cheap souvenir from some street corner. But inside of the poet¿s room the Sphinx no longer remains a little piece of stone but, right in front of his eyes, becomes a real-life Sphinx ¿ the age-old female demon of death, who besieged the city of Thebes as a punishment for the king of Thebes who introduced homosexual love into Greek culture and thus incured Heräs hatred.The Sphinx, one of Oscar Wilde¿s most enchanting poems, is woven out of a net of various mythological beliefs and religious ideas. Wilde invokes a hotch-potch of varying creatures, who convey a magical atmosphere of ancient grandeur. In order to understand the poem one has to get to know the concepts that stand behind the various mythical creatures, gods and heroes. Therefore I will explain to which mythologies Wilde relates to and how they refer to each other. In this connection the time of Oscar Wilde has to be taken into consideration, too: Victorianism, with its crumbling of old values and conquering of new worlds; the period of decadence; the period of aestheticism.I would like to show some of the multitude of possible accesses, e.g. the identification of the Sphinx with the figure of the femme fatale; the personification of the Sphinx as the temptations and desires of the poet respectively The Sphinx as a metaphor for the loss of Christian faith in Victorian culture.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 32 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Modern German Literature, grade: 1,8, University College Dublin (German Studies), course: Strategies of ethnic survival: South Tyrol / Alto Adige in the 20th Century, language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay shall be to have a closer look at South Tyrol before and during World War II - through the eyes of the South Tyroleans. The poem 'Herbst ist¿s' of the 1930s, written anonymously and hidden in Bozen¿s Country Archive for almost 60 years, shall take centre stage in the following analysis. I will try to show the impact which Hitler's and Mussolini's policies had on people's everyday lives and how this led to a division of the entire society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 24 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,1, Dresden Technical University (Institut für Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar London, language: English, abstract: The turning of the millennium was not only nervously expected by computerexperts because of the millennium bug, but it also left its imprint on British political and cultural history. This date in the calendar, 2000 years after the birth of Christ, has offered a unique opportunity to celebrate human achievements and was a good reason to speculate about the future. This paper wants to discuss the reasons and the role of the millennium projects realised by the Labour government towards the end of the 20th century.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 28 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 1,5, University of Leicester (Department of Sociology), course: Identity and Society, language: English, abstract: The issue about ¿race¿ is still of great significance in today¿s societies. Recent incidents like racist slurs at football games show how deep racist tendencies are still embedded in people¿s minds ¿ in spite of consistent awareness raising and information. However, these examples show only the peak of racist tendencies. Racial imagery in media and arts is central to the organisation of the modern world (Dyer 1997: 1). Furthermore, the scientific ¿foundation¿ of theories of ¿race¿ continues to be a disputed question for biology as well as for the social sciences (Lang 2000: x).This essay is about the implications of the term ¿race¿ and the coherence of ¿race¿ and identity. It implements a postmodern approach to the understanding of identity and applies this concept to the representation of 'the other' in a recent newspaper article.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 24 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Monetary theory and policy, grade: High Destinction (1), The University of Sydney, language: English, abstract: The essay addresses the topic of exchange rate movements and their explanation. Four different theoretical approaches are therefore taken into consideration, namely the Monetary Fundamentals approach, the Macroeconomic Balance approach, the Dispersed Information or Microstructure approach and the approach of explaining exchange rate movements by dealers. The essay outlines each approach and its assumptions briefly and evaluates the underlying time horizon, short-, medium- or long-term horizon, of each model. Furthermore the four approaches of exchange rate analysis are put into contrast. Finally all approaches are evaluated in spite of their individual strengths and weaknesses and linked to each other.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 16 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Engineering - Civil Engineering, grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: Chinäs booming economy is never more evident than from the air, with its growing patchwork of building sites, developments and urban planning as the rapidly changing skyline of its cities. It have been so saturated by local developers and foreign companies of this building bonanza that we sometimes forget how little our understanding of the peculiarities of the Chinese Investment market is.Since March of 2007 lives the author in Beijing and is working as a Project Manager in a Sino-Swiss Joint Venture Company. He will transfer his experience to Germany. In this publication, the author will carry out necessary information from the forefront of the industry shine light on Chinäs real estate market, exploring subjects from the general information about China and the economic overview. The main focus is on the real estate industry, which is currently a key theme and will be still on one. Also focused are the legal framework, foreign investments and which taxation will be paid.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 40 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Teacher Training College in Kielce (INSTITUTE OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE), language: English, abstract: The aim of the present study is to analyse Edgar Allan Poe¿s selected short stories paying special attention to the author¿s fascination with human mind and its morbid states.The introduction presents the contrast between the American author and his contemporary writers. The differences between Poe and other representatives of Romanticism are discussed. The reader is acquainted with various opinions about Edgar Allan Poe and his literary output. The author of the study discusses Poe¿s personality, his lifestyle as well as his literary works, and provides the explanation why the figure of the writer aroused so much controversy among his contemporaries.The first charter describes the impact of Poe¿s life experiences and his personal interests on his literature. The aim of the second chapter is to portray the American author¿s fascination with human personality, mental disorders and analytical power of human mind. The last chapter investigates the two outstanding short stories by E. A. Poe ¿ ¿The Tell-Tale Heart¿ and ¿The Black Cat.¿ The author of the study concentrates on the motifs of madness, death wish and the disintegration of human personality in the stories in question.The last part of the study discusses Poe¿s role in literature as well as the author¿s contribution to creating the dark tradition in America.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 36 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: INTRODUCTIONSince Alien first appeared on screen in 1979, there have been many studies about it, covering every imaginable interpretation possible. There was a focus especially on gender theory and femininity studies ¿ essays on a lesbian point of view, the abject mother and monstrous femininity. Even about male homoerotic aspects, obviously with special emphasis on Alien .Astoundingly enough there is far less material about a male heterosexual approach to the movies.Therefore, my task in this essay will be to look at the Alien movies ¿ with a main focus on the original and the second part ¿ from a different point of view.(.)1.1 ALIEN AND THE UNCANNYWhy is it that some things scare us, whereas other things do not bother us at all One may look and find a possible answer to this question in Sigmund Freud¿s treatise on the uncanny.One aspect that might help is Freud¿s assumptions that people always ¿experience the feeling [of the uncanny] in the highest degree in relation to death and dead bodies, to the return of the dead, and to spirits and ghosts.¿This notion becomes important when one takes a closer look at the Alien¿s body. H.R. Giger¿s creation consists to a great part of (humanlike) bones. The Alien¿s chest looks like an uncovered human ribcage, while the legs look as if they just consist of muscles and veins with the outer skin stripped of (Fig.1).(.)2. THE MASCULINE ALIENAll of the Alien movies ¿ with a possible exception of Alien Resurrection ¿ are full of metaphoric images. Many of them are due to artist H.R. Giger, who was mainly responsible for the creation of the foreign planet, spaceships and the Alien itself.Most of those images are sexual connoted allegories. The chair-like construction of the alien pilot, for example, resembles an erect penis.The same is true for the Alien itself, but although we find allegories for both genders throughout the movies, most of the theorists who wrote about them cling to the notion, that the foreign ¿ the alien/Alien ¿ is female.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 32 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: HS First Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: Most of the concepts and theories explaining how native languages are acquired go back to three different approaches put forward by Burrhus Federic Skinner, Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, either by using their ideas as a starting point or by rejecting them and formulating a new or altered Hypothesis. This paper will try to present those three basic theories, also taking into account the contexts out of which they emerged, as to fully understand linguistic, like any other scientific, views and theories, they have always to be evaluated with respect to the scientific and cultural background they appeared in.First it will try to show how Skinners concept of ¿verbal behavior¿ with respect to language acquisition emerged in the development of behaviouristic theories. This will be followed by Chomsky¿s criticism of Skinner¿s ideas, leading to his own theory of language and language acquisition, which will be presented. Jean Piaget offers a cognitive approach to the question. His view will be described before comparing nativist and cognitivist ideas, concerning the points whether or not innate structures exist and in how far linguistic and cognitive development are interrelated, taking the opposed views of Piaget and Chomsky, the forerunners of many other important linguists, as an example.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 32 pp. Englisch.