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The Times Are A-Changin?: contracultura y música de la década de los sesenta en Estados Unidos
(2022-02-08)
La música es uno de los principales medios de comunicación de masas modernos, así como espejo en el que se reflejan las inquietudes sociales de una época. Este TFG se ocupa de analizar la música contracultural de los años ...
Word order in subordinate clauses: innovative or conservative? A typology of word order change
(2017-11-24)
A recurrent claim in the literature on word order change is that subordinate clauses tend to preserve older patterns. However, even though individual cases of unrelated and typologically distinct languages have been ...
From zero to hero: an analysis on the character development of female protagonists in the YA dystopian novels "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent"
(2022-03-07)
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction narratives have become popular and influential novels not only
among its intended audience but reaching all ages readers as titles top the bestselling charts.
As a popular genre, this ...
The courage to imagine: Anne's pursuit of her ambitions in Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Avonlea", and" Anne of the Island"
(2022-03-08)
The literary genre of bildungsroman embodies narratives involving the development and process of maturing and becoming an adult of their protagonists. These novels narrate their protagonists’ journey from infancy towards ...
The fall of the son a comparative analysis of Milton's Satan, Mary Shelley's "monster" and J. K. Rowling's Lord Voldemort
(2022-03-08)
Through the ages, religion has been a fundamental factor in the development of different civilizations and its impact has been reflected in numerous aspects, not only socially and economically, but also literary. Despite ...
From silence to recognition: giving voice to minority girls in Rita Williams-Garcia's “One crazy summer” (2010) and Cynthia Kadohata's “The thing about luck” (2013)
(2020-11-20)
It is widely known that the United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Some researchers assure that the several settlements and the massive immigration to the country have contributed to ...
Age and the acquisition of foreign language phonology in an instructional context
(2022-03-07)
The effects of age on successful language acquisition constitutes one of the most widely
investigated topics within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In fact, the study
of SLA has, since its inception, ...
The use of previously known languages among EFL learners: a review
(2022-03-08)
When in classroom contexts, learners tend to experience communication
breakdowns which apart from making them believe that they are not making any
progress in their Target Language (TL), they lead them to get stuck at ...
"The tale of Cupid and Psyches" and "Till we Have Faces": the attainment of self-worth via femininity and masculinity.
(2020-12-21)
The Apuleian myth of Cupid and Psyche has long been a source of inspiration in art
and literature. This motivation might be derived either from its spiritual and
philosophical wisdom or from the love of mythology; being ...
The sins of the parents: an analysis of german trauma and memory after WWII in Bernhard Schlink's novel "The Reader"
(2020-12-21)
The Second War World had a huge impact on German society and left its trace in the cultural history of the country. For this reason, we can find many movies and literature based on the war but also on the years following ...