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A Self-discovery Voyage: Taylor's Search for Self-Identity in "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
(2018-12-04)
Western literature has conventionally been concerned with male characters and their lonely journeys, however, Barbara Kingsolver has escaped the constraints of the genre. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze the main ...
The Great Gatsby: An Analysis of the American Dream
(2020-05-25)
The American Dream and its relation to the American literary production is a subject that has been exposed to detailed study throughout time. In order to contribute to this field of studies, this paper will analyze the ...
Searching for social identities during adolescence in “I know why the caged bird sings” and “The House on Mango Street”
The novel of adolescence or the Bildungsroman follows the identity formation of
the main character from childhood to adulthood. This paper focuses on the development of
the identity of the main characters in The House ...
"Just a good Frenchwoman": How gender roles are reinforced and questioned in Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française (2004) in the context of WWII
(2020-05-22)
There is an ongoing debate among historians and Gender Studies’ scholars regarding the effect war has on gender roles. Some believe that war has in many occasions offered new opportunities to women, that they were liberated ...
Karl Marx, revolucionario decimonónico
(2020-05-22)
Karl Marx fue un filósofo, revolucionario, político, economista y teórico del siglo XIX. Nació en Tréveris en 1818 en una familia hebrea reconvertida al cristianismo evangélico. Desde su época estudiantil se interesó por ...
Morpheme Order Studies: A Descriptive Study in English as a Second Language
(2018-12-04)
Morpheme Order Studies (MOS) conform a set of highly influential studies in the field of first and second language acquisition. These studies were based on the assumption that there exists a universal and natural order for ...
A Critical Review of the Morpheme Order Studies: The State of the Art
The purpose of this paper is to make a critical review of the history of the so-called
morpheme order studies. First of all, a brief contextualisation of the morpheme order
studies is presented at the time when the ...
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 ...