Grin verlag jan 2012 (844 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: ¿The Lost Generation¿ is a term which encompasses a broad range of American authors who were born around 1900. Amongst those litterateurs are many who are said to be among the most influential and important writers in the history of American letters. This term paper shall examine what historical circumstances constituted the ¿common adventures¿ and ¿common attitudes¿ of that generation as reflected in Fitzgerald¿s novel The Great Gatsby.The term ¿The Lost Generation¿ was given by Gertrude Stein, an authoress of note and contemporary of both Fitzgerald and Hemingway, who used her quotation: ¿you are all a lost generation,¿ as the epigraph for his novel The Sun Also Rises. What is meant by the attribute ¿lost¿ Why was this dismal term applied to the young adults of the 1920s ¿ an era of prosperity and freedom in America How did Fitzgerald depict this ¿lost¿ world in The Great Gatsby, with respect to material abundance on the one hand versus spiritual poverty on the other The zeitgeist of an era inevitably shapes the human beings who live in it: how they act, what they look like, and what they think the meaning of their lives in particular and humanity in general might be. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the 1920s in America in order to understand fully the meaning Fitzgerald communicates in The Great Gatsby.This paper will therefore investigate several characteristics of the decade which are relevant for the interpretation of the novel. The parameters to be surveyed are: society in general; the materialism, wealth and industrialization which created that society; Prohibition as one of the most significant elements of the 20s; the faltering faith in God (as but one example of the failure of institutions that were supposed to be a refuge for human beings); and the loss of faith in the American dream and other treasured ideals. These issues will be analyzed in consideration of The Great Gatsby and the question of how Fitzgerald uses them as tropes for his social criticism of the so called Jazz Age.The paper will be based on a number of monographs and anthologies dealing with the major American writers and literature of the 1920s as well as the historical context that shaped their literary vision. The particular focus will be on Fitzgerald¿s seminal novel, The Great Gatsby, as it incorporates and inflects the major historical and literary themes of its time. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: 'The Lost Generation' is a term which encompasses a broad range of American authors who were born around 1900. Amongst those litterateurs are many who are said to be among the most influential and important writers in the history of American letters. This term paper shall examine what historical circumstances constituted the 'common adventures' and 'common attitudes' of that generation as reflected in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.The term 'The Lost Generation' was given by Gertrude Stein, an authoress of note and contemporary of both Fitzgerald and Hemingway, who used her quotation: 'you are all a lost generation,' as the epigraph for his novel The Sun Also Rises. What is meant by the attribute 'lost' Why was this dismal term applied to the young adults of the 1920s - an era of prosperity and freedom in America How did Fitzgerald depict this 'lost' world in The Great Gatsby, with respect to material abundance on the one hand versus spiritual poverty on the other The zeitgeist of an era inevitably shapes the human beings who live in it: how they act, what they look like, and what they think the meaning of their lives in particular and humanity in general might be. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the 1920s in America in order to understand fully the meaning Fitzgerald communicates in The Great Gatsby. This paper will therefore investigate several characteristics of the decade which are relevant for the interpretation of the novel. The parameters to be surveyed are: society in general; the materialism, wealth and industrialization which created that society; Prohibition as one of the most significant elements of the 20s; the faltering faith in God (as but one example of the failure of institutions that were supposed to be a refuge for human beings); and the loss of faith in the American dream and other treasured ideals. These issues will be analyzed in consideration of The Great Gatsby and the question of how Fitzgerald uses them as tropes for his social criticism of the so called Jazz Age.The paper will be based on a number of monographs and anthologies dealing with the major American writers and literature of the 1920s as well as the historical context that shaped their literary vision. The particular focus will be on Fitzgerald's seminal novel, The Great Gatsby, as it incorporates and inflects the major historical and literary themes of its time. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Der Lehrer / Pädagoge, Note: 3, Universität Potsdam (Erziehungswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Wertevermittlung und Wertevorstellung spielt im Bereich des Schulbildung eine ebenso zentrale Rolle wie die Weitergabe von Fachwissen und Erziehung. In dieser Arbeit wird die Wertevermittlung und Wertevorstellung genauer beleuchtet und eine umfassende Einsicht im Bereich der Schule im Wechselspiel zwischen Lehrkräften und Schülerinnen und Schülern gegeben.…

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: 1,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: The draft not only focuses on the content of the tale but particularly analyzes its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Thus, several aspects of Medieval English are taken into consideration: pronunciation, morphology, terminology and syntax. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur (Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur), language: English, abstract: The social capital gives the faith and trust to the society to cultivate the economic wealth for any country. The people need to work on the professional and technical skills for creating the business and economic systems to generate wealth. The technical skills are the basis for creating the assets and wealth of the country. The higher education is needed to build the ability of the people to harness the resources and convert them into the valuable products and services for the society. The education can grow the business and the production system of the country to manufacture the advanced products based on the technical knowledge. The aim of the paper is to build the strategic framework for studying the impacts of educational institutes in providing the technical education to develop the skills for the growth and development of the students. 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Literature Review from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: sehr gut, University of Innsbruck (Translationswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This paper first gives a short summary of the novel 'The Golden Novel' by Doris Lessing. Then the socio-political contect of the book is explained. Afterwards the background of the novel, the main ideas, the structure as well as the characters of the novel are analysed. The paper reviews the novel and can be used as basis for an oral presentation of the novel. 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 American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: 'The Lost Generation' is a term which encompasses a broad range of American authors who were born around 1900. Amongst those litterateurs are many who are said to be among the most influential and important writers in the history of American letters. This term paper shall examine what historical circumstances constituted the 'common adventures' and 'common attitudes' of that generation as reflected in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.The term 'The Lost Generation' was given by Gertrude Stein, an authoress of note and contemporary of both Fitzgerald and Hemingway, who used her quotation: 'you are all a lost generation,' as the epigraph for his novel The Sun Also Rises. What is meant by the attribute 'lost' Why was this dismal term applied to the young adults of the 1920s - an era of prosperity and freedom in America How did Fitzgerald depict this 'lost' world in The Great Gatsby, with respect to material abundance on the one hand versus spiritual poverty on the other The zeitgeist of an era inevitably shapes the human beings who live in it: how they act, what they look like, and what they think the meaning of their lives in particular and humanity in general might be. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the 1920s in America in order to understand fully the meaning Fitzgerald communicates in The Great Gatsby. This paper will therefore investigate several characteristics of the decade which are relevant for the interpretation of the novel. The parameters to be surveyed are: society in general; the materialism, wealth and industrialization which created that society; Prohibition as one of the most significant elements of the 20s; the faltering faith in God (as but one example of the failure of institutions that were supposed to be a refuge for human beings); and the loss of faith in the American dream and other treasured ideals. These issues will be analyzed in consideration of The Great Gatsby and the question of how Fitzgerald uses them as tropes for his social criticism of the so called Jazz Age.The paper will be based on a number of monographs and anthologies dealing with the major American writers and literature of the 1920s as well as the historical context that shaped their literary vision. The particular focus will be on Fitzgerald's seminal novel, The Great Gatsby, as it incorporates and inflects the major historical and literary themes of its time. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, University of Ibadan, course: Anthropology, language: English, abstract: This paper, through a qualitative study conducted in Ajegunle, an urban slum in Lagos, Nigeria, dwells on the notion of urbanism as a product of urban-rural interaction. It specifically focuses on the rural elements in the urban, explaining how the rural is exploited for creating the network that is crucial for social and economic survival in cities marked by impersonal relationship. The paper further examines the ideology of home, explicating on the factors that make urban dwellers to construct their identity mostly in rural terms. The paper concludes by reflecting on the strong allegiance of Nigerians to their rural origins and the implication of this for a sense of nationalism. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: A, St. Mary's University, course: Politics of the Middle East, language: English, abstract: The modern Republic of Turkey has been hesitant to embrace its Ottoman past for nearly three quarters of a century following the years of its foundation. During the Ottoman period, majority of the people were living an Islamic lifestyle under the guidance of traditional Islamic shari'a law. This situation was challenging to the modern, secular ideas of the young republic. In order to overcome this problem, the new secular state controlled religious affairs and abolished the institution of Caliphate. Morever, founders of the modern Turkey created a National Assembly and which served as the early steps to the representative democracy. There were series of reforms on the education, military system, women's rights and general dress code for public places. However, although Ataturk and his friends' contribution to the Turkish modernization is undeniable, it should be made clear that his ideas were inspired both by the realities of his time and more importantly the reforms of the late Ottoman period. Thus, contrary to what primary level education which is taught in state schools in Turkey suggests, it is hard to claim that he singlehandedly invented all the ideas and reforms concerning the Turkish modernization. In fact, the idea of Turkish modernization long predates the foundation of the secular republic. There had been reforms from top to down during the nineteenth century. These were followed by a new group of intellectuals who were influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment and French Revolution who were called 'Young Turks'. The Young Turk movement, which was emerged among the students of higher learning schools of Istanbul attracted many other members of the society. The members of the movement were united in their opposition to the personal rule of the Sultan and created the backbone of the modern democratic reforms happened during early years of the modern Turkish Republic (Hanioglu, 2011). 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, Macquarie University, course: Sociology of politics, language: English, abstract: This research paper provides a critical analysis of past and present methods adopted by China, the United States, as well as North and South Korea for the purpose of Korean reunification. It establishes a historical and cultural context with which these different policy approaches have evolved and notes the various utilities and insufficiencies of each. Common diplomatic obstacles that have previously thwarted attempts at improving conditions within North Korea will also be highlighted, as these challenges are likely to have a continued effect on the future prospects of reunification. This paper also examines the vastly negative economic and sociological implications of reunifying the two Koreas, as this has resulted in a strong political incentive to maintain the status quo. A body of research will be drawn upon to establish the most economically viable method for reunification to address these issues. Finally, the purpose of this paper is to incorporate all of the topics examined to propose a pragmatic and viable solution to the issues that stand in the way of a reunified Korea. 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 Engineering - Civil Engineering, grade: A, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (School of Build Environment), course: Business Management for the Build Environment Professionals, language: English, abstract: There are various definition of strategic management in the literature because of the complexity and different approaches to deal with strategies. To give a brief idea what strategic management is all about the following definition is given. 'Strategic management is a process, directed by top management, to determine the fundamental aims or goals of the organisation, and ensure a range of decisions which will allow for the achievement of those aims or goals in the long-term, whilst providing for adaptive responses in the short-term'. (Cole, 1997) Companies in the photovoltaic (PV) sector need to pass through the process of strategic management as well as their competitors. They will reach their aims and forecast or react on changes in the market to ensure the survival or development of the firm. This process will be presented in this work. 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 American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: 'The Lost Generation' is a term which encompasses a broad range of American authors who were born around 1900. Amongst those litterateurs are many who are said to be among the most influential and important writers in the history of American letters. This term paper shall examine what historical circumstances constituted the 'common adventures' and 'common attitudes' of that generation as reflected in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.The term 'The Lost Generation' was given by Gertrude Stein, an authoress of note and contemporary of both Fitzgerald and Hemingway, who used her quotation: 'you are all a lost generation,' as the epigraph for his novel The Sun Also Rises. What is meant by the attribute 'lost' Why was this dismal term applied to the young adults of the 1920s - an era of prosperity and freedom in America How did Fitzgerald depict this 'lost' world in The Great Gatsby, with respect to material abundance on the one hand versus spiritual poverty on the other The zeitgeist of an era inevitably shapes the human beings who live in it: how they act, what they look like, and what they think the meaning of their lives in particular and humanity in general might be. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the 1920s in America in order to understand fully the meaning Fitzgerald communicates in The Great Gatsby. This paper will therefore investigate several characteristics of the decade which are relevant for the interpretation of the novel. The parameters to be surveyed are: society in general; the materialism, wealth and industrialization which created that society; Prohibition as one of the most significant elements of the 20s; the faltering faith in God (as but one example of the failure of institutions that were supposed to be a refuge for human beings); and the loss of faith in the American dream and other treasured ideals. These issues will be analyzed in consideration of The Great Gatsby and the question of how Fitzgerald uses them as tropes for his social criticism of the so called Jazz Age.The paper will be based on a number of monographs and anthologies dealing with the major American writers and literature of the 1920s as well as the historical context that shaped their literary vision. The particular focus will be on Fitzgerald's seminal novel, The Great Gatsby, as it incorporates and inflects the major historical and literary themes of its time. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Robert Binnick (1991: vii) wrote 'whoever has read in one book that English has three tenses, in another that it has two, and in yet a third that is has sixteen (.) may be pardoned for some confusion and some skepticism as to the claim of linguistic scholars to know a great deal about tense'. This quotation illustrates the problem of the classification of the English tense system on which the focus of this paper will be based. Although linguists' knowledge of the tense system has increased over the years, the problem is that, as Robin Lakoff wrote, they 'cannot account for many ways in which tenses are used in English' (Binnick 1991: vii). Therefore, English tense(s) have not yet been understood completely. By comparing different authors and frameworks, this paper will present different approaches to the English tense system. The aim is not to provide a perfect solution to all answers but to introduce different viewpoints and to go a step beyond the common conceptualization of the English language by presenting competing theories. 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 American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Potsdam (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS The 1960s: An Age Of Turmoil, language: English, abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s one of the most controversial policies of the Americangovernment was its intervention in the Vietnam War. A whole nation was divided into socalled doves and hawks, the former were fighting and demonstrating for peace whereasthe latter supported the government's policies concerning Vietnam.A very influential and large group of the Antiwar Movement was the New Left, the mainplatform of the white students.In the following, the author will give some information about this group and examine theactions of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) taken to harm or even destroy thatpart of the Antiwar Movement. These actions were manifested in the so calledCounterintelligence Program, which was shortened to the abbreviation Cointelpro.As there is just one source on which all the literature concerning this topic is based its notthat easy to evaluate in how far all the published material is really true or just serves someconspiracy theories, which were very common in that time. Especially in the Sixties, whenthe Cold War reached its climax in the Cuban Missiles Crises in 1963 and theassassination of famous people like John F. Kennedy in the same year and Martin LutherKing five years later supported the offspring of many conspiracy theories. So in theaftermath of that turbulent decade these theories continued to spread and were seen as trueby the majority of the American people because of the Watergate Affaire in 1972 andother revelations of scandals by the press. Even today after September, 11th 2001 a lot ofconspiracy theories arose. [.] 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 American Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Potsdam (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: Feminist Chicana Writing, language: English, abstract: Sandra Cisneros is one of the most popular feminist Chicana writers. She was born inChicago in 1954 as the only daughter among six brothers of a Mexican - Americanmother and a Mexican father. In her early childhood the family moved a lot betweenChicago and Mexico City, where her grandparents lived, so Cisneros never felt at homeanywhere. Hence, she spent most of her time reading for the family's mobility preventedthe development of friendships. When she attended college in 1974 she started writingpoetry and prose in a creative writing class. There she created a style of writing that wasintentionally opposite to those of her classmates. After receiving her M.A. at theUniversity of Iowa she worked in a Chicano barrio in Chicago teaching high schooldropouts and later on as an administrative assistant at Loyola University Chicago.Today she lives in San Antonio and is working on a new novel.In the following the depiction of women in her novel 'The House on Mango Street' willbe examined. This novel consists of a series of vignettes describing the growing up of theyoung girl Esperanza in a barrio in Chicago as she herself reflects it with her youthfulnaivety. She characterises different people, particularly women respectively girlssurrounding her in various situations and depicts the living conditions of the barrio ingeneral.The different female characters appearing in the novel will be analysed in reference totheir deprived situation concerning race, gender and class. To that end the author willinitially give an insight into the image and role of women in the Mexican - Americanculture. Accordingly the analysis of the different characters acting in various situationsagainst the background of this will follow.The literature used for this work is English as well as German whereas indirect quotationsfrom the German literature will be translated with the knowledge of the author.Due to its limited extend the following work is not exhaustive. 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: 1,3, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: The Easter Rising of national Irish rebels is still nowadays regarded as one of the most crucial events throughout Irish history. One may consider it as an botched attempt to gain sovereignty and disparage it to be an uprising that was senseless and doomed to failure in advance, others view it as a symbol of Irish martyrdom and as an insurgence that was anything but useless. Advocates claim that the Easter Rising was necessary to exercise pressure onto the British usurpators. They state that a military uprising like this, even if there was less prospect of success, showed Westminster that there could not be any long- term peace in Ireland without dealing with the question of home rule. Opponents argue that Irish rebels caused the loss of lives of innocent people by fighting a war that was at this time not backed up by the common Irish people, and that in the end they themselves are to be blamed for the casualties and devastation the fights demanded. Supporters reply that the insurrection was the first step to a free state of Ireland, that it stirred nationalism in the minds of the Catholics of the Island and that it was a milestone on the way to the republic. Whatever scholars think of it, it is a matter of fact that this event is one of the most commemorated incidents in Ireland. Countless erected monuments and installed plates at places all over the Island reminisce of the losses and sacrifices of the 1916 rebels. They are called patriots who fought, outnumbered and starved, for a holy aim and who had to submit to ruthless soldiers, sent by an illicit and tyrannous foreign government. Therefore the uprising prevails in the mind of the Irish people, bolstered up by songs, poems or parades and days of commemoration. This paper shall examine the circumstances right before the outbreak of the rising, its preparation and the course of events within it. Furthermore it intends to show in what way the British restored their power and how they responded to the open violence. The paper is supposed to try to display what aftermaths the Easter Rising actually had and if there was any sense in this adventure that was apparently doomed to failure in advance. Another point is concerned with the reflection of the rebellion. If it is blamed to be another example of useless hatred, conducted by only few men of weird mind, or if it is viewed as a necessary act of freedom by heroes who sacrificed themselves on the altar of a free Ireland. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), language: English, abstract: The dropping of two US nuclear bombs on Japan ended World War II in the Pacific. By then little was known about the pathological implications such an act of war would have on the Japanese civilian victims. The weapons had barely been tested before deployment and the potential consequences of the radioactive fallout were not yet fully understood. The first practical use of the bomb together with all its casualties initiated a future policy of deterrence. It was apparent what can happen if you go to war with a nuclear power. Still, no other nuclear weapon has ever since been deployed as an act of war. In this research paper I will analyze the Duck and Cover propaganda short issued by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in the early 1950s as the primary source. I will focus on the content of the episode, its structural and cinematic means, and its desired and achieved affects toward its target audience. What were the reasons and goals behind this far-fetched and committed civil defense operation Is it seen as an outspoken domestic act out of moral obligation from the government that comes with the responsibility of being a nuclear power Was the nuclear fallout - which the film thoroughly neglects as a danger - really not known to the government at this point in time or was this knowledge deliberately held from the public This last question defines greatly the core meaning of the film in historical terms. Eventually it determines whether Duck and Cover was merely a naïve piece of safety education or just a good excuse for conditioning a whole generation (as well as its parents) to the ideological challenges of the forthcoming decades of the Cold War. This humble paper alone cannot answer all these questions but rather build a basis for extended research on the topic. Sources indicate that in government circles the secondary dangers that emanate from a nuclear blast like radioactive fall-out were at least partially known if not already scientifically proven at the time. The question about the decision to keep such knowledge from the broad public goes beyond the primary analysis this paper can provide. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the institution of slavery and the process of its abolition and takes a look at the different reactions in Romantic literature. First of all, an overview over the historical background will be given, showing the economic importance of the slave trade at the end of the 18th century, as well as giving an outline of the con-temporary major race theories, that were underlying its justification. The movement for the abolition of slavery will be introduced, as well as some of their representa-tives, like Thomas Clarkson, or William Cowper. Subsequently, the main part of the paper will deal with William Blake and his poem 'Little Black Boy'. The piece will be taken as an example for 18th century abolitionist literature and will be analysed, with the help of secondary literature by Hazard Adams, D.G. Gillham, David Erdman and Lauren Henry. A special focus will be on the poem's religious theme. The term paper will end with a conclusion, summarizing the interpretations of the before-mentioned literary scientists and evaluating the significance of the paper's findings. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: This term paper will focus on an aspect of lexical semantics: interrelations of word meanings on a paradigmatic, as well as on a syntagmatic level.Starting with paradigmatic word relations, the paper will cover the topic of semantic fields first, describing the history of how this aspect was introduced to semantics and explaining the theoretical background behind the topic. Furthermore the development of different theories from the first structuralist approaches in the 1930s to the more recent approaches of cognitive semantics and the frame theory will be outlined.In the second part, the paper will cover the topic of syntagmatic relations of word meanings, namely collocations. The term will be defined and examples will be mentioned, before dealing with the important concepts of 'statistically significant' and 'institutionalized collocations'. Finally there will be a demarcation to the phenomenon of idioms, before the term paper finishes with a conclusion about the whole topic. 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 Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, University of Michigan (School of Law), course: Human Experimentation and Legal Theory, language: English, abstract: Article I of the United States Constitution delegates to Congress the power to award limited monopolies for a certain end: 'to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.' The primary way that Congress has performed this function with regard to science is through the enactment of the Patent Act and the creation of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to administer application of the act.Recent decades have seen a great expansion in the amount and importance of research in the life sciences and their applied counterparts, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Coinciding with this expansion is an expansion of the role of the Federal Government in producing and regulating these areas of research and technology. This expansion has seen both PTO and the Federal Courts develop regulations and standards within the patent system that are focused on the particularities of biotechnology and the development of patent-like awards outside of the patent system. This expansion has also seen the Federal Government become the largest funder of research in the life sciences at the same time as it relinquishes ownership of the resulting intellectual property. More recently, antitrust authorities have begun to impose demands that intellectual property rights in biotechnology be divested in certain mergers. Through all of these policies, the Federal Government has involved regulatory agencies beyond the traditional PTO to further the traditional goal of PTO, to encourage innovation in science, and in biotechnology in particular. [.] 32 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 Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur, language: English, abstract: Abstract The human resource development is important for any society because it builds the professional assets of the country. They are more valuable than capital because the human beings can mobilize the other inputs to build the empires of any business system. The professionalism in the industry can be built by the education given to the people in the state. The quality of human resources is generated by the institutes present in any state. The aim of the paper is to build the strategic framework for the development of quality human resource by the educational institutes of Rajasthan. The basic objective is to analyses the perceptions of the students to the development of the social qualities by the institutes 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, grade: A, Utrecht University, language: English, abstract: When the United States housing bubble collapsed in 2007 and triggered a global financial crisis this also did not leave one of the economically strongest country in Europe unaffected. Amongst other, the insolvency of Lehman Brothers (and others) led to a liquidity shortage in German major banks like the Hypo Real Estate (Müller) and the BAA-AAA-spread increased. In the following, the performance of Germany during the global crisis from 2006 to 2010 will be examined in the IS/LM framework and show how the financial and monetary sector reacted. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of Sunderland, language: English, abstract: Executive Summary:This report analyses the actual strategic position of the sports company Nike and carries out the development of the global sport's industry and its influences on Nike. In order to analyse the external and internal influences, this report will commence with Porter's value chain model and his five forces framework to critically evaluate the reasons for Nike's strategic decision to outsource its manufacturing factories to Asia. The reader will also achieve an understanding of the environment in which the company operates, which will be enlarged in the following part, by evaluating the advantages of international trade for Nike.The second part of this report will concentrate on two of Whittington's schools of thought and concentrates on Nike's systemic approach to its strategic position. Finally, Mintzberg s cultural and environmental schools of thought will be discussed and compared to illustrate Nike's development between the years of 1996 and 2000. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: 'Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing', language: English, abstract: As the title indicates, this paper presents a rather loose collection, or perhaps a montage of observations I made while closely reading and thinking about Cary's famous closet drama. These observations concern, among other things, the heroine's self-fashioning as a Stoic subject; the resulting problems of continual identity, interiority, and subjection; the linguistic dimension of Herod's madness, which I (owing much of my outlook on things to Foucault) read as an instance of escalating epistemological crisis. 24 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Computerlinguistik), course: Computational Approaches to Creative Language, language: English, abstract: Human communication often involves the use of irony. In many cases, it is far from obvious if an utterance is meant ironical or not. Context and world knowledge are needed to discriminate literal from ironic intent.Linguists have worked on describing the nature of irony and come up with ideas which reflect the intuitive understanding of irony.Parallely, computational linguists are confronted with the challenge of automatically detecting irony. When an utterance contains irony, the only chance of getting the intent, is understanding and interpreting the irony in it.I review different theories of irony in chapter 2.Chapter 3 describes the state-of-the-art of automatic irony detection, covers the importance of corpus study for future research and proposes a fusion between theory, corpus study and automatic detection. 36 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Slips of the tongue, language: English, abstract: Whenever people fail to utter the message they wanted to convey correctly, they apologizeand tend to explain their accidental mistake as a slip of the tongue. However, what is meantand covered by this term which is used so often to refer to speech errors Does its universalitysuggest that all tongue slips are of the same kind If not, how can they be distinguished This term paper will try to give a more detailed categorization of speech anomalies, firstproviding a definition what is generally seen as a slip of the tongue. It will be shown, whowere the first linguists to examine this topic and what discoveries were made.In order to give an own precise classification of speech errors, different approaches formain categorizations will be presented and taken into consideration. On the basis of thesemain categories, further sub-categories are elaborated and illustrated with examples given bydifferent authors in order to explain every feature appropriately. Since many authors still notagree upon a common sub-classification, this term paper will select the most suitable termsand definitions, try to compromise about the most common ones and give suggestions forfurther distinctions. To be conforming to the majority of the literature, the most commonterminology shall be used. However, if provided terms are inappropriate or imprecise, theywill be modified.The types of speech errors will be ordered via the main class they belong to. They will bepresented as sub-classes, defined, explained and illustrated by examples in detail. Examplesare marked with ordinals. The incorrect utterance is always presented with an asterisk andfollowed by the proper realization in brackets. The pronunciation of the slips is written ingraphemes, i.e. normally written words, as far as this is possible to convey the mistake. Whereno written equivalent can be found, square brackets will be used for the transcription of thespeech error.After all issues of one main category have been elaborated, rules and general remarkswhich apply to all of them will be stated.Finally, this term paper concludes which problems may occur when classifying slips of thetongue and provide an outlook about what speech errors reveal about the speech productionprocess, the inner human lexicon and language universals. [.] 32 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: Issued in 1990 Hanif Kureishi s novel The Buddha of Suburbia has become a world-acclaimed masterpiece ever since. It s protagonist, Karim, takes the reader on his riveting journey to discover and explain life of the seventies in and around London. The author masterfully depicts the multiple cultural facets this time had to offer and creates a plot replete with stories of ethnicity, class and gender. However, one element seems to be of peculiar importance in its reoccurring implementation within the story - music. This paper is intended to examine the element of music and attempts to determine the role it plays within the world Kureishi illustrates.In order to fully grasp the element of music within the book it will be necessary to have a wider look on the phenomenon first. How can music in a most general sense be described and what makes it such a meaningful subject matter for scientists of linguistics, philosophy and anthropology In a second step the paper will try to find reasons why Kureishi might have decided to use this motif at such length and what messages he tries to bring across.However, the major part of the paper will, of course, be dealing with the novel: What are the major themes that are related to music In how far is music affiliated with the broad spectrum of culture that Kureishi draws in his book What subcultures can be detected and to what extent are they influenced by music The single most intriguing aspect connected to this issue is the character of Charlie. That is why his odyssey through a life so profoundly determined by music will be especially focused on. What effect does music have on the decade of his life pictured in the novel What stages does he go through and what does the author provide the reader with in order to interpret Charlie s decisions, the development of his character, and his final state at the end of the book.Although The Buddha of Suburbia will be the main source of the investigation, the articles of Bart Moor-Gilbert and Sussane Reichl, which discuss Kureishi s novel, will be consulted, too. Moreover, various monographies and papers dealing with the issue of music and culture will also be substantial to the examination 28 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 - Discussion and Essays, grade: Sehr gut (Bestnote), Vienna University of Technology (Außeninstitut), language: English, abstract: The web hosting market always was and still is amazingly fast growing. As internet usage worldwide continues to increase, the demand for web hosting is growing.The market is driven by a steady demand and fierce competition among the competitors [TheWhir200409]. Unfortunately there is a huge number of wannabe web hosting companies because market entry got so easy. These companies often fail due to the price war, security breaches, support issues or technical malfunction.This elaboration is motivated to determine the factors of success for web hosting services. It shall give an idea of how a new web hoster can succeed in the complex market of today. 28 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Other, Aligarh Muslim University, course: Economics, language: English, abstract: Human development, which is about expanding people's choices, builds on shared natural resources. Promoting human development requires addressing sustainability- locally, nationally and globally- and this can and should be done in ways that are equitable and empowering. On the need for financing the human development, we observe that even the best macroeconomic policies may fail unless they are complemented by effective policies -policies that link the macro and the micro level and that bear directly on people live. Chief among these are the level and structure of government social expenditures and the design of the policy measures and programmes they support. The present paper tries to make a study on the financing of human development in India. The entire paper is divided into four parts. The first part is introductory which gives a brief account of the basic concept of human development and the various measures through which financing of human development could be observed. The second part of the paper talks about the trends in HDI in India vis-à-vis some of developed and developing countries. The third segment discusses about the trends in India's social sector expenditure as it affects the major dimensions of inclusive development like poverty alleviation, employment generation, health, education, and social welfare. The last section of the paper is given to concluding observations. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), language: English, abstract: In film studies, the term New Hollywood is used in non-conclusive and heterogeneous ways. The discourse does not make explicit what the real New was. However, there appears to be a general consensus as to the actual time frame in which a bigger change happened in Hollywood that stirred up the system - starting in 1967. Scholars have been trying to explain the proclaimed change of the Classical Hollywood Cinema from different perspectives, which, depending on author and release date, point out economical, production-related, societal, or creative-aesthetic revolutions as responsible factors.Coming from the film critic's angle towards New Hollywood, the most important factor in the process was the development and success of the American auteur. The auteur theory has been appointed as such by film critic Andrew Sarris, who based his assumptions mainly on the theoretical conclusions drawn by the writers of the French Cahiers du Cinema. Taking the auteur approach to explain aspects of the New Hollywood, some scholars pinpoint the era down to the years of 1967-1976. This national cinematography is hardly discussed consensually within its own historiographical discourse or the boundaries of text analysis. I want to specifically trace the role of the idea of an auteur cinema within the Hollywood industry during this change, and thereby further disentangle the complex relationship of commerce and authorship.My first chapter will therefore be employed with the theoretical background and the discourse around authorship in general, film in particular. Eventually this will lead to a clear idea about the specifics and limitations of the auteur theory discourse. The second chapter will then be occupied with the historical change of the Hollywood system in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, and will aim to define the contributing factors for this change within and outside the industry. In terms of terminology, a historiographical approach will determine the rather different meanings of New Hollywood and Hollywood Renaissance. Chapter three will tie up the loose ends of both previous chapters, striving to identify what kind of influence on film production the auteurs of New Hollywood had in terms of the reinvigorated success of the American film industry or if they were auteurs at all for that matter. What room is there in a system which is based on its own myths of star power etc. for the serious artistic vision of the individual 44 pp. Englisch.…