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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: ¿An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics¿, language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the phenomenon of collective nouns, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the concord with collective nouns in both British and American English of the 1990¿s, always with the hidden desire to finally come with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper.In order to succeed in this procedure we will first try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora, as well as the methodology used. Moreover, we will point out the problems that automatically arise from the fact of defining the collective nouns themselves on the one hand and of this corpus- based study as a whole on the other hand. After making these essential things clear, we will become more familiar with the theories regarding this subject; theories and theses that already exist, they have already been uttered and can be found in various books of grammar of the English language. Later on we will reveal and present the overall frequencies that derived from studying the corpora representing British and American English always in terms of concord with collective nouns. These frequencies will consist the exact findings of the study, regarding the percentages of collective nouns, which can be treated either as singulars or plurals. In addition, exploiting those findings a comparison should be made amongst the prevailing past theories and our findings from the corpora. Finally we will discuss potential topics for further studies on this subject, as well as the importance of the results of the study.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: 'An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics', language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the phenomenon of collective nouns, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the concord with collective nouns in both British and American English of the 1990's, always with the hidden desire to finally come with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper.In order to succeed in this procedure we will first try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora, as well as the methodology used. Moreover, we will point out the problems that automatically arise from the fact of defining the collective nouns themselves on the one hand and of this corpus- based study as a whole on the other hand. After making these essential things clear, we will become more familiar with the theories regarding this subject; theories and theses that already exist, they have already been uttered and can be found in various books of grammar of the English language. Later on we will reveal and present the overall frequencies that derived from studying the corpora representing British and American English always in terms of concord with collective nouns. These frequencies will consist the exact findings of the study, regarding the percentages of collective nouns, which can be treated either as singulars or plurals. In addition, exploiting those findings a comparison should be made amongst the prevailing past theories and our findings from the corpora. Finally we will discuss potential topics for further studies on this subject, as well as the importance of the results of the study.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Berufserziehung, Berufsbildung, Weiterbildung, Note: 2,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Institut für Pädagogik), Veranstaltung: Führung in Organisationen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Bereich der Führungsforschung werden das Verhalten und Erleben von Menschen in Führungssituationen untersucht. Führungsstil und Führungsverhalten haben nachweislich tief greifende Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit, die Motivation und damit ganz wesentlich auf die Arbeitsleistung. Die traditionelle Führungsstilforschung geht von einem (oder nur sehr wenigen) Merkmalen aus; als Merkmal werden Verhaltensweisen des Führers identifiziert, die er regelmäßig in Bezug auf die zu beeinflussenden Mitarbeiter einsetzt. Anschließend erfolgt eine Dichotomisierung des Merkmals (hoch ¿ niedrig) und den so gewonnenen Führungsstilen werden entsprechende Verhaltensfolgen seitens des Mitarbeiters zugeordnet. Ein grundlegender Impuls für die Führungsstilforschung ging von der Forschergruppe um Kurt Lewin aus, dessen Ansätze in der Tradition der Führungsstilforschung verwurzelt sind. Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) war einer der einflussreichsten Sozialpsychologen seiner Zeit.Mit seinen experimentellen Methoden studierte er soziale Probleme und prägte somit die Gestaltungs- bzw. Motivationspsychologie. Zusätzlich entwickelte er das Konzept der legendären Feldtheorie, die ihm als Grundlage seiner empirischen Untersuchungen über verschiedene Führungsstile diente. Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert die Begründung, warum die Führungsforschung von Lewin et. al. als Ausgangspunkt der Führungsstilforschung gesehen werden kann. Neben einer kurzen Beschreibung der Person Kurt Lewins, wird im Hauptteil der Arbeit das theoretische Konzept der Feldtheorie erläutert und schematisch dargestellt.Um Lewins Führungsforschung detailliert beschreiben zu können, werden zwei seiner wichtigsten Experimente zu den Führungsstilen von 1937/38 erläutert, wobei ihre Interpretationen und Ergebnisse einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Arbeit repräsentieren. Auf der Basis dieser experimentellen Ergebnisse kam Lewin zu seinen empirischen Befunden und zu seinem optimalen Führungsstil.Im Schlussteil dieser Arbeit wird die Führungsstilforschung von Lewin et. al. aus aktueller Sicht durchleuchtet und bewertet. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Frage; ob Lewins empirische Befunde im Bereich der heutigen Führungsforschung noch tragbar sind und immer noch Bedeutung haben.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1827 erschienen drei Gedichte Goethes unter dem Titel Trilogie der Leidenschaft, darunter das Liebesgedicht Elegie. Das Gedicht entstand nach der Trennung Goethes von der 18jährigen Ulrike von Levetzow. Diese Elegie soll der Hauptgegenstand der Arbeit werden. Bereits mit dem Titel Elegie wird darauf hingewiesen, daß es sich um ein Klagelied handelt. Bereits hier stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern dieses Gedicht mit seinem generischen Titel die Merkmale einer Elegie erfüllt. Goethe kennzeichnete die Elegie 'Das Produkt eines höchst leidenschaftlichen Zustandes' . Dieses Produkt handelt vom Verlust der Geliebten und dem Versuch, den daraus resultierenden Schmerz zu lindern. Es soll hier gezeigt werden, wie der Dichter diesen Prozeß der Schmerzlinderung im Strukturaufbau eines Dramas realisiert. Doch zuerst soll zu Beginn der Arbeit die Entstehungsgeschichte der Trilogie der Leidenschaft skizziert werden, sowie Goethes Aufenthalt in Böhmen und die Bekanntschaft mit Ulrike von Levetzow. Daraufhin folgt eine inhaltliche Gesamtinterpretation der Trilogie. Schließlich setzt sich der letzte Abschnitt formal und inhaltlich mit der Elegie auseinander.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, 73 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Web 2.0 is a buzzword in the digital industry at the moment. Some of the popular phenomena which exemplify Web 2.0 are blogs, podcasts, wikis or social bookmarking tools. The core of the concept is the individual as an active participant.Audience activity constitutes one of the central themes of media analysis concerning the audience. One descriptor used to operationalize audience activity is involvement (Levy, 1983). Involvement is also used in another discipline of research: consumer research deploys the concept to explain the decision making process of the consumer.The objective of this thesis is to attempt the transfer of the concept of involvement from consumer research to audience research on the active Web 2.0 audience. In other words: Can the concept of involvement from consumer research serve to explain audience activity as implied in the concept of Web 2.0 First, the concept of involvement will be described in connection to audience as well as consumer research.This is followed by an introduction to the concept of involvement in consumer research.Following a brief conceptual and historical overview, the concept of involvement and its two-dimensional foundation will be delienated and all processes involved will be described.Third, the concept of Web 2.0 will be explained in detail in part 3. In order to understand the media interest surrounding Web 2.0, the anticipated innovations from the beginning of the internet will be listed, as well as the new questions for audience research, that emerged out of the expansion of the internet.In the fourth part of this thesis a conceptual transfer is attempted. To analyse the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for research on Web 2.0 audience activity, a typology of Web 2.0 audience activities will be suggested. Existing research on the Web 2.0 audience will be reviewed for the processes that amount to the construct of involvement in consumer research. A concluding assessment of the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for Web 2.0 audience activity research will mark the end. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Rezension / Literaturbericht aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung, Note: 2,3, Universität Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Scheinerwerb zur Vorlesung, 3 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Rezension untersucht kritisch das Werk Wolfgang Seibels, der sich mit dem chronischen Versagen Organisationen des Dritten Sektors auseinandersetzt. Seibel ist nicht daran gelegen, allein dieses Versagen zu untersuchen, vielmehr will Seibel den Titel seines Werkes belegen, dass gerade das Versagen der Organisationen zum eigentlichen Erfolg beiträgt, 'daß ihr Erfolg darin liegt, daß sie notorisch scheitern' (Seibel) - mithin der Dilettantismus funktional ist.Seibel nähert sich dem Phänomen jener Organisationsform, die mit ihrer partiellen Entmodernisierung und der dadurch geminderten Zweck- und Normrationalität die Organisationskultur moderner Gesellschaft entlastet, in dem er zunächst die verschiedenen Definitionen vom 'Dritten Sektor' aufgreift, seine formalen Steuerungs- und Kontrollformen in den Subtypen Dritter-Sektor-Organisationen und den in ihnen liegenden Risiken beschreibt.Jedem der Subtypen (Anstalten/Körperschaften öffentlichen Rechts, Vereine/ Verbände und öffentliche Unternehmen) ordnet er Fallbeispiele zu, deren spezifische Versagensgeschichte zur Illustration der theoretischen Ansätze dient.Die Rezension kann gut als kurze Einführung in das recht umfangreiche Buch Seibels benutzt werden, da alle wesentlichen Inhalte zusammengefasst werden. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Web 2.0 is a buzzword in the digital industry at the moment. Some of the popular phenomena which exemplify Web 2.0 are blogs, podcasts, wikis or social bookmarking tools. The core of the concept is the individual as an active participant. Audience activity constitutes one of the central themes of media analysis concerning the audience. One descriptor used to operationalize audience activity is involvement (Levy, 1983). Involvement is also used in another discipline of research: consumer research deploys the concept to explain the decision making process of the consumer. The objective of this thesis is to attempt the transfer of the concept of involvement from consumer research to audience research on the active Web 2.0 audience. In other words: Can the concept of involvement from consumer research serve to explain audience activity as implied in the concept of Web 2.0 First, the concept of involvement will be described in connection to audience as well as consumer research. This is followed by an introduction to the concept of involvement in consumer research.Following a brief conceptual and historical overview, the concept of involvement and its two-dimensional foundation will be delienated and all processes involved will be described. Third, the concept of Web 2.0 will be explained in detail in part 3. In order to understand the media interest surrounding Web 2.0, the anticipated innovations from the beginning of the internet will be listed, as well as the new questions for audience research, that emerged out of the expansion of the internet. In the fourth part of this thesis a conceptual transfer is attempted. To analyse the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for research on Web 2.0 audience activity, a typology of Web 2.0 audience activities will be suggested. Existing research on the Web 2.0 audience will be reviewed for the processes that amount to the construct of involvement in consumer research. A concluding assessment of the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for Web 2.0 audience activity research will mark the end.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Berufserziehung, Berufsbildung, Weiterbildung, Note: 2,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Institut für Pädagogik), Veranstaltung: Führung in Organisationen, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Bereich der Führungsforschung werden das Verhalten und Erleben von Menschen in Führungssituationen untersucht. Führungsstil und Führungsverhalten haben nachweislich tief greifende Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit, die Motivation und damit ganz wesentlich auf die Arbeitsleistung. Die traditionelle Führungsstilforschung geht von einem (oder nur sehr wenigen) Merkmalen aus; als Merkmal werden Verhaltensweisen des Führers identifiziert, die er regelmäßig in Bezug auf die zu beeinflussenden Mitarbeiter einsetzt. Anschließend erfolgt eine Dichotomisierung des Merkmals (hoch niedrig) und den so gewonnenen Führungsstilen werden entsprechende Verhaltensfolgen seitens des Mitarbeiters zugeordnet. Ein grundlegender Impuls für die Führungsstilforschung ging von der Forschergruppe um Kurt Lewin aus, dessen Ansätze in der Tradition der Führungsstilforschung verwurzelt sind. Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) war einer der einflussreichsten Sozialpsychologen seiner Zeit. Mit seinen experimentellen Methoden studierte er soziale Probleme und prägte somit die Gestaltungs- bzw. Motivationspsychologie. Zusätzlich entwickelte er das Konzept der legendären Feldtheorie, die ihm als Grundlage seiner empirischen Untersuchungen über verschiedene Führungsstile diente. Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert die Begründung, warum die Führungsforschung von Lewin et. al. als Ausgangspunkt der Führungsstilforschung gesehen werden kann. Neben einer kurzen Beschreibung der Person Kurt Lewins, wird im Hauptteil der Arbeit das theoretische Konzept der Feldtheorie erläutert und schematisch dargestellt. Um Lewins Führungsforschung detailliert beschreiben zu können, werden zwei seiner wichtigsten Experimente zu den Führungsstilen von 1937/38 erläutert, wobei ihre Interpretationen und Ergebnisse einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Arbeit repräsentieren. Auf der Basis dieser experimentellen Ergebnisse kam Lewin zu seinen empirischen Befunden und zu seinem optimalen Führungsstil. Im Schlussteil dieser Arbeit wird die Führungsstilforschung von Lewin et. al. aus aktueller Sicht durchleuchtet und bewertet. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Frage; ob Lewins empirische Befunde im Bereich der heutigen Führungsforschung noch tragbar sind und immer noch Bedeutung haben. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Web 2.0 is a buzzword in the digital industry at the moment. Some of the popular phenomena which exemplify Web 2.0 are blogs, podcasts, wikis or social bookmarking tools. The core of the concept is the individual as an active participant.Audience activity constitutes one of the central themes of media analysis concerning the audience. One descriptor used to operationalize audience activity is involvement (Levy, 1983). Involvement is also used in another discipline of research: consumer research deploys the concept to explain the decision making process of the consumer.The objective of this thesis is to attempt the transfer of the concept of involvement from consumer research to audience research on the active Web 2.0 audience. In other words: Can the concept of involvement from consumer research serve to explain audience activity as implied in the concept of Web 2.0 First, the concept of involvement will be described in connection to audience as well as consumer research.This is followed by an introduction to the concept of involvement in consumer research.Following a brief conceptual and historical overview, the concept of involvement and its two-dimensional foundation will be delienated and all processes involved will be described.Third, the concept of Web 2.0 will be explained in detail in part 3. In order to understand the media interest surrounding Web 2.0, the anticipated innovations from the beginning of the internet will be listed, as well as the new questions for audience research, that emerged out of the expansion of the internet.In the fourth part of this thesis a conceptual transfer is attempted. To analyse the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for research on Web 2.0 audience activity, a typology of Web 2.0 audience activities will be suggested. Existing research on the Web 2.0 audience will be reviewed for the processes that amount to the construct of involvement in consumer research. A concluding assessment of the possibilities of the concept of involvement from consumer research for Web 2.0 audience activity research will mark the end. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 1999 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, .), grade: keine, , course: Acta Humanistica, Humanities S. No. 26 (1999) 203-222, language: English, abstract: Contents:I. Prior Attempts at Sub-Dividing Aesthetic ConceptsII. Some Preliminary Questions: 1. How Do We Use the Term 'Art' 2. What Is The Difference Between 'Art Object' and 'Aesthetic Object' 3. If the 'aesthetic' and 'artistic' values of an artifact are not the same, what is their relevancy for original works of art and their perfect copies 4. Can Art - In Spite Of Its Dependency On The 'Art World' and On Its Recipients - Contain Generally Valid Meaning III. The Central Concepts 'aesthetic - artistic - beautiful' IV. Intersections Of the Central ConceptsV. The Nomenclature Of Aesthetic Qualities, Experiences, And Objects VI. Summary In The Form Of Suggestions 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, .), grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: The concept of genre can be satisfactorily explained only in com parison with the concepts of stratum and structure. Proceeding from this conviction we shall try here to establish a demarcation of these often used terms and at the same time prove their interdependence. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, course: British Institutions I, language: English, abstract: The loss of the American colonies was sealed with the end of the American War of Independence. When the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, England acknowledged the existence of the United States of America and their separation from Britain. The colonies were lost. Not only the then recently acquired new territories in the south but also the rich eastern colonies, the cradle of English colonization in North America.Only twenty years earlier, the situation in the American colonies was in no way rebellious or revolutionary. On the contrary, the white population of the American colonies was the most lightly taxed and least oppressed people in the eighteenth-century Western world. Great Britain and its Empire were known throughout the world for being an example of stability, prosperity and liberty . So why did the situation change so severely and how did revolution emerge in North America In other words: how did England lose its colonies Many explanations can be found in literature dealing with the British Empire or the American War of Independence, but this essay, rather than looking for psychological or sociological explanations, will focus on the major political events which lit the fuse for revolution. 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 2,3, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: The following paper deals with collocation, selection restriction and the teaching of the English verb grammar. The two main parts of the paper will be collocation which describes the syntactic relation of words, and selection restriction which describes the relationship between verbs and animated or non-animated subjects. The place they occupy in school will be analysed. So they should be investigated with a didactic view, but also linguistic aspects should not be completely disregarded, because it is very important especially for teachers to know which word goes together with which term and how to explain these relationships to their pupils. Both, the collocational and the selection restrictional aspect, will have their meaning explained. Then a description of how to use them and at least a few suggestions are given on how to teach collocation and selection restriction in school and how to impart their rules. Therefore, some different suggestions for teaching are given to make allowances for the student's age and advancement. To amplify what has been explained an exception will be given: poetry as an intentional violation of these rules. The paper ends with a short summary and a final reflection. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, course: The Rise of the English Novel, language: English, abstract: Since it was my part to introduce Jane Austen in a paper on 18th century women writers I wanted to know more about the female writers at her time. I chose Pride and Prejudice because it is one of Jane Austen's most famous novels. While I was reading it I soon discovered that marriage is the main theme of the novel. I want to compare the different kinds of marriages described in the novel putting emphasis on the marriage of the hero-ine and the hero. I want to show the importance of marriage in women's eyes in the 18th century. In a further step I will take a closer look at the ending of the novel which has often been described as a fairytale ending on the one hand and as confirmation of patriarchal structures on the other. I want to show that the ending can be interpreted in a different way. I shall reveal that marriage in Pride and Prejudice is not only the essence romantic novels are made of but rather important to the existence of women in the 18th century. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: 'An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics', language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the phenomenon of collective nouns, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the concord with collective nouns in both British and American English of the 1990's, always with the hidden desire to finally come with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper.In order to succeed in this procedure we will first try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora, as well as the methodology used. Moreover, we will point out the problems that automatically arise from the fact of defining the collective nouns themselves on the one hand and of this corpus- based study as a whole on the other hand. After making these essential things clear, we will become more familiar with the theories regarding this subject; theories and theses that already exist, they have already been uttered and can be found in various books of grammar of the English language. Later on we will reveal and present the overall frequencies that derived from studying the corpora representing British and American English always in terms of concord with collective nouns. These frequencies will consist the exact findings of the study, regarding the percentages of collective nouns, which can be treated either as singulars or plurals. In addition, exploiting those findings a comparison should be made amongst the prevailing past theories and our findings from the corpora. Finally we will discuss potential topics for further studies on this subject, as well as the importance of the results of the study. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Landeskunde Irland: Shared Histories - Modern Ireland and Germany, language: English, abstract: After tracing out the limits and meanings of the term identity in general, this paper will deal with the components and characteristics of Irish identity and how it was constructed and developed. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1IntroductionIn order to learn more about the English language and how it is actually used by the native speaker community I am going to investigate the occurrence of bare passives as modifiers and of relative clauses in be-passive form which can be compared to the former in its function as modifier. With help of the queries I will find out how many of these constructions exist in The Penn Treebank and then take a closer look at the beginning of sentences. Which of these two grammatical phenomenon is more frequent at the beginnings of sentences and why Firstly in this term paper, I will introduce the grammatical phenomenon of the passive voice with its variants 'be-passive', 'get-passive' and 'bare passive' by contrasting it to the active voice. Furthermore I will explain the development of the different queries needed for the research whose findings will be discussed subsequent to that. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,7, University of the Federal Armed Forces München (Institut für Softwaretechnologie/Institute for Software Technology), course: Seminar Document Engineering, language: English, abstract: 'XML is text, but isn't meant to be read'Number three in WorldWideWeb Consortium's (W3C) 'XML in 10 points' [W3C, 2001] pinpoints one main feature and problem of XML languages. They only describe the contained information based on structural aspects, and separate it from the design. In order to present this information, for example as a web page or in print, they have to be transformed into an appropriate form. XSL is an concept for expressing stylesheets that can transform XML documents. This paper provides an overview over the main concepts of transforming XML with XSL, describes another representative of generic markup, LATEX, and shows, how these concepts can be brought together into practice. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim (Amerikanistik), course: A survey of contemporary America, language: English, abstract: The USA is sometimes called 'land of the immigrants' or 'the promised land'. In early times immagrants from different origins and nationalities immigrated to the USA. That's why the USA developed to a multicultural society. There is the great idea of all people from different nations living together. America is designates as a 'melting pot'.This term tries to discribe the assimilation of immigrants into American life. Its literal meaning is a chemical one: several different elements melted together to form a new product. The idea was that immigrants would fuse together with the 'old' Americans, giving up their old lifestyles and cultures to form one American nation. The motto ' e pluribus unum' which still appears on American coins today, has been used since 1782, reflecting how even the early Americans saw their conuntry. But does a mutlicultural society system like this really work That's the main point I will try to work out in my research paper. To get through this topic it needs to be defined very clearly what immigrations means in general and to describe briefly the immigration process from the early times till nowadays. This should be explained with some facts and figures to build the foundation of the following analysis. I will also show the reasons and problems of illegal immigration which is an important topic in the American society. That brings us to the next point the Hispanic Americans, which representativ for American immigrants. I will use The Hispanic Americans as an example to mark the assimilation problem of immigrants in the USA. Furthermore you can use this group of immigrants to explain the multicultural situation in the USA today. I will round off my work with the part of the conclusion and I will try to give an answer to the question asked in the beginnig of the work. 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob es sinnvoll ist, multiple-choice als Testmethode im Englischunterricht zu verwenden. Es wird aufgezeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen, multiple-choice erfolgreich im Englischunterricht angewandt werden kann. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.0 (B), University of Osnabrück (Anglistics), language: English, abstract: In his personal comment 'On Britain' Ralf Dahrendorf detected the continuation of a powerful, self-confident and easily identifiable upper class lacked by other modern countries like Germany or France and the rather persistent survival of its old values as one of the reasons for the peculiar nature of the inequality of the British society. He called Britain a 'society of fine distinctions' which as well as economic inequalities between the occupational layers are responsible for the deep class segregation most of Britain's population are still aware of. Andrew Adonis and Stephen Pollard take the view that, even though classes themselves have changed and social mobility is extending, the British class system separates people to the same extent as it did half a century ago. What does this class system look like The simplest but still applicable model divides Britain into three broad classes - the working, the middle and the upper class each of which can be determined by the occupational positions of its representatives, their education, status, housing, manners and even by the language they speak. Dahrendorf compared it with a layer cake - the dough at the bottom, the chocolate on top and in between a relatively broad jam layer - and stresses the clear dividing lines which separate them and which are characteristic for Britain's society.Who do the upper classes consist of today and to which degree does the old upper class, i.e. the aristocracy, form the chocolate icing of Dahrendorf's cake How has its position in the society, its influence and its relevance changed Can one argue that the British aristocracy managed to survive as a clearly defined class and what role do such institutions like public schools and the House of Lords play These are the questions this essay is going to deal with. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University College Dublin (Faculty of Arts; School of English and Drama), course: Gulliver's Travels, language: English, abstract: In 1726 Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels, a book which on the surface appeared to be a travel log to chronicle the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver on his voyages to four separate countries, but primarily serves as a satire on different aspects of human society and humankind itself. Swift's main purpose in using the satirical element in this book, as well as in most of his other works, is to '(.) vex the world rather than divert it (.)' (Swift 264) and thus to appeal to human's ability to change situations for the better. This believe derived from Swift's misanthropic worldview, not in the sense that he didn't have faith in human nature and had given up on any notion of ideals, but he rather, arisen out of disappointment in humankind, believed that man nevertheless was capable of reform. Swift himself laid bare his radically negative view of human beings in a letter to his friend Alexander Pope in 1725: 'I have ever hated all Nations professions and Communityes and all my love is towards individualls for instance I hate the tribe of Lawyers, but I love Councellor such a one (.) and the rest principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I hartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth.' (Swift 264/ 265) Accordingly Swift's focus lies on the individual himself to realize unjust circumstances and to change them by acting. In order to achieve changes in society or even in human beings themselves, Swift makes use of different satirical techniques, which will be closer looked at in each of the four books of Gulliver's Travels, paying attention to Swifts targets and consequently to the effectiveness of his satire. 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for England - und American Studies), course: Charles Dickens - Great Expectatoins, language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionCharles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' as a Bildungsroman or gothic novel depicts the growth of a young boy from low social class origin to an adult gentleman containing the struggles with women, employers and relatives.The main character Philip 'Pip' Pirrip introduces the reader to the novel as a young boy from about six years, although Pip indeed wrote down the story of his life as an adult. Pip has always dreamt of becoming well-educated and of being introduced to a higher social class than he actually belonged to at first. Fortunately, Pip is granted the chance of social rising and he gets to know a lot of people who influence him and his great expectations from his early youth crucially.In Victorian times women and men were regarded to be different in their nature but never-theless complementary. Women should be a guideline for their husbands in moral and reli-gious questions. When the husbands were at home they were protected from 'destructive tendencies of the market' (Farrell). In 'Great Expectations' it is not easy to find one woman who fits into this ideal. Especially the three main female characters are rather de-structive than protective for men.However, throughout the novel Pip is confronted with several women of different calibre, from shrewd and hysterical, cold-hearted and distant to caring and loveable. On the follow-ing pages I am going to introduce and characterise the three main female characters who influence Pip's life the most: his sister Mrs. Joe Gargery, Mrs. Havisham and Estella. Of course Pip gets to know more women, but since they play only a more or less minor role in his life, I am not going to put them under consideration. After having described and char-acterised the three women, I am going to analyse their relationship towards Pip and in the end come to a final conclusion.2. Characterisation of three main female characters 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University College Dublin (Faculty of Arts; School of English and Drama), course: Brecht and Political Theatre, language: English, abstract: The most important principle of Brecht's epic theatre is its aim of representing conditions rather than developing actions. This theatre is designed to show attitudes in the sense of relationships between people, their connections to the environment and their roles in politics and society. Thus the human being is the focus, the object of inquiry of Brecht's plays, but not as an individual but as a social being which is shaped and changed through interactions with society through life. Furthermore each scene has its own value and is in itself determined through beginning and end. Therefore it is possible to connect only the most important scenes, one after another, whereas in a completed action, such as the case in dramatic theatre defined by Aristotle, one scene results out of another. In Brecht's plays the focus lies on the process of the story, on the how and why, rather than on the product and the ending, on the what. Combining these two main principles of Brechtian theatre, the human being and the process, the overall aim is to study the human being in the process of society, raising the question if changes can be made in order to alter present conditions.In order to achieve changes in society the spectators have to be made aware of situations that need to be changed. Brecht attains this purpose by evoking the spectator's astonishment with the support of the basic concepts of epic theatre, Verfremdung and Gestus and Haltung. Accordingly there has to be closer look taken at the way in which these two elements have an impact on the spectator's attitude towards society and how they are used on stage in order to make the audience act itself. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will focus on two aspects of language acquisition, namely external factors and the acquisition process itself. They seem to me, on the one hand, basic to the topic itself and, on the other hand, suitable parameters for comparison. One should bear in mind that the external factors are concrete facts since they can be observed. Whereas the acquisition process itself happens in the learner's mind and can therefore not be described as accurate as the external factors although neurology today is able to examine a lot of the brain's functions. Since my knowledge about neurology is only very, very basic, I will not go into detail here and neglect this part of the acquisition process.Note: 1,3 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2-, , language: English, abstract: First of all, and before we proceed with the actual description and basic layout of the term paper, it would be quite interesting to cite an extract from a letter that James Joyce himself wrote to his lover and partner Nora Barnacle. 'How could I like the idea of home . My mother was slowly killed, I think, by my father's ill-treatment, by years of trouble, and by my cynical frankness of conduct. When I looked on her face as she lay in the coffin - a face grey and wasted with cancer- I understood that I was looking on the face of a victim and I cursed the system which had made her a victim.' (Letters, II, 48) 1 This quotation roused my interest and became my first motivation concerning the study of gender roles and sexual morality in ' Dubliners', as it summarizes the cruel reality of the position of women at that period of time. In addition to that, it provides us with a general impression of what the situation in Dublin might have been, focusing on the rather inharmonic relations between the two sexes.This small study and description of the gender roles in 'Dubliners' is organized in two main parts. As Joyce's intention was 'to write a chapter of the moral history of my [his] country' (D, xxxi), it is essential that the first part provides us with the general historical background of that age. The historical part may conveniently be divided into two sections. The first concerns the roles of both sexes in the Victorian era, whereas the second section brings us closer to the reality of men and women in Ireland, and to be more specific in Dublin. This second section is of great importance, because as already implied by the last quotation, this collection of fifteen short- stories, published in 1914, are expected to mirror the reality of the society of Dublin of that time, and to be more specific, this is done in a very representative way, as the stories involve nearly all stages and aspects of life.After having a general impression of the roles of men and women living in the Irish capital, we will go on to check whether this is in fact true and representative of the people described in the stories of ' Dubliners'. This will consist the main topic of the second part of the term paper, which is in turn divided into three sections. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2- (B-), University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for England und American Studies), course: Old and new methods of teaching foreign languages, language: English, abstract: Education is probably the most important aspect in our times. Without education a state would have no medical service, no computer specialists, no politics and demo- cracy, no business, no economy, short a state would not work at all.Education is the key for individual chances and success in life, and the driving force for developments in society. Prosperity derives from education. Culture is a result of education, just as interest in politics and most important perspectives for later occu- pations. Politics concerning education cannot work where not enough attention is paid to achievements in school, where it seems to be not important what students learn in contrast to students in other states.The recent PISA-study showed unfortunately how little attention was paid to edu- cation in Germany in the last decades. It is not possible to find a convincing answer to where the problem was, may it be the German school-system, the instruction of new teachers at universities, teachers who are no longer motivated after having reached the state of an official, parents who do not seem to care about their children's abilities in reading and writing. In fact, a change in our school-system is Ger- many's deepest need at the moment to improve pupils' achievements.Therefore alternative methods will probably gain more and more interest in our school- and teaching-system. I will try to introduce, describe and discuss some of these methods. I will show up their difficulties, risks and also possible chances. In the end I will try to decide if those approaches will find their ways sooner or later or if they will remain utopian. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2+ (B), University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for England und American Studies), course: Introduction to Literature Studies, language: English, abstract: Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw' has been often interpreted since it was first published in 1898. There are a lot of hints in the story, but those hints are rarely stated directly. So the difficulty in reading and judging the story in one certain way makes it even more challenging to read.Until today critics have not come to an agreement whether Miles and Flora or only the governess are haunted by the ghosts. So one might pose the question 'When do critics ever share the same opinion '. After all there are always different people with different opinions who read one and the same story completely different at all. But nevertheless every author has a certain intention, the purpose to convey a message by writing the story down. Possibly the openness to various interpretations is the point of the novel. Basically this is what every reader should have in mind.Many questions move critics concerning 'The Turn Of The Screw', e. g. 'What does the governess really see while her encounters with those apparitions ', 'How can she describe the dead Peter Quint that detailed without ever having seen him before ' and -most essentially- 'How did Miles come to death in the end '. Every question itself is interesting enough, but I find the question most exciting, what the ghosts represent if they are no real supernatural apparitions. It seems to be clear that only the governess is able to see the ghosts. As far as I remember there is no single hint that is evidenced clearly in the whole story that Mrs. Grose or the children are also able to recognize the ghosts. So possibly only the governess is haunted by the apparitions for reasons that have to be analyzed more deeply. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: 'An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics', language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the phenomenon of collective nouns, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the concord with collective nouns in both British and American English of the 1990's, always with the hidden desire to finally come with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper.In order to succeed in this procedure we will first try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora, as well as the methodology used. Moreover, we will point out the problems that automatically arise from the fact of defining the collective nouns themselves on the one hand and of this corpus- based study as a whole on the other hand. After making these essential things clear, we will become more familiar with the theories regarding this subject; theories and theses that already exist, they have already been uttered and can be found in various books of grammar of the English language. Later on we will reveal and present the overall frequencies that derived from studying the corpora representing British and American English always in terms of concord with collective nouns. These frequencies will consist the exact findings of the study, regarding the percentages of collective nouns, which can be treated either as singulars or plurals. In addition, exploiting those findings a comparison should be made amongst the prevailing past theories and our findings from the corpora. Finally we will discuss potential topics for further studies on this subject, as well as the importance of the results of the study. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: High Distinction, Macquarie University (Centre for International Communication), course: New Media, language: English, abstract: This essay examines the usage of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for music file-sharing and intends to analyse this usage in the context of current copyright policy. This will be achieved by addressing the following issues. Firstly, the history and principle of P2P networks will be outlined. Secondly, it will be analysed whether P2P file-sharing can be seen as an act of 'theft'. Thirdly, the paper will examine how P2P networks are used and what cultural significance they represent. Fourthly, the future of P2P networks will be debated and finally the results of this paper will be summarised and discussed. 20 pp. Englisch.…