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Contact quality and intercultural attitudes among Spanish university students

Intercultural Relations Studies as "analysis of intergroup behaviour within contexts of cultural diversity." To explore this issue, they studied Spanish students in an English course at a Spanish university.

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Vagueness and legal language: Christie's defense of purposeful ambiguity

Although judges can declare any statute plain, they always have a variety of ways to declare it unclear. English has a multitude of ways to be vague.

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Stages of second language acquisition and assessment strategies

Usually, second language acquisition theory and fluency has focused on learners with foreign languages as their mother tongue aiming to learn English as second language.

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Religious eroticism in Plato's Symposium and modern marriage theory

What is "religious eroticism," and how is it based on or independent of human sexuality? The phrase 'Platonic Love' has entered the common English language to mean non-sexual love. But in its original philosophical context, Platonic love is not simply nonsexual love.

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Sexual attitudes and censorship in Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

The book is quite old and the period of happening in the book is that of the First World War. The book was written by David Herbert Lawrence, an author who did not have a very high reputation as a classic writer in English. His intention was only to make money by way using his writing skills.

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Gestalt theory and principles in instructional design and teaching

It is said in the theories of teaching that the process of teaching has to focus on the perceptive processes of the mind and this is called the Gestalt theory. The word gestalt can be roughly translated into English as placed, put together or formed or shaped.

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Monogamy as the acceptable standard for modern American marriage

What is monogamy? According to author Helen E. Fisher, "The Oxford English Dictionary defines monogamy as 'the condition, rule or custom of being married to only one person at a time'" (Fisher 63). Thus, monogamy is the "accepted" social idea of a man and a woman who marry and raise a family.

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Jane Austen's feminism in Pride and Prejudice

Was Jane Austen a feminist? or, did she promote sexist stereotypes? Ask a room full of English literature educators this question and there may very well be a brouhaha. Beliefs will range anywhere from "Really, what did she ever do to change the world for women?

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Class consciousness and self-worth in Ngugi's "Minutes of Glory"

Kenya is a country where class distinctions are strict and apparently honored by everyone. Probably this system of ordering society by class comes from the colonial era when the English occupied the country and imposed their social system on the Kenyan people.

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Jean Helion's "Grande Citrouillerie": sexuality and surrealism in a pumpkin painting

Painting analysis of Jean Helion's 1948 painting "Grande Citrouillerie" (Big Pumpkin Event) Rather than a traditional harvest painting, as its title might suggest, "Grande Citrouillerie," or, in English translation the "Big Pumpkin Event," has the appearance of a poster or advertisement painted in…

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