Essay Undergraduate 2,548 words

Doctrine of Consideration in English Contract Law Explained

Explores the doctrine of consideration in English contract law: its definition, rules, landmark cases, and ongoing debate about its relevance in modern law.

Law

~13 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 3,391 words

Thai Culture and Language Barriers to English Learning

Explores how Buddhist cultural norms and Thai linguistic structures—especially conditionals and phonology—impede English language acquisition in Thailand.

Education

~17 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,524 words

Spanish Influence on the English Language: History and Impact

Explores how Spanish shaped English through theater, trade, war, and culture over five centuries, from early drama to cowboy vocabulary and Caribbean commerce.

English

~13 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,567 words

Scottish Covenanters and the English Civil War Origins

Explores how the Scottish Covenanter Party's reaction to the Anglican Prayer Book helped trigger the English Civil War through religious and economic tensions.

History

~13 min read

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4,200 words

Hispanic immigrant enclaves and English language acquisition patterns

Chaney (2010) reports that there has been a large influx of Hispanic immigrants to Nashville, Tennessee over the last two decades. This large number of immigrants to the area has led to the establishment of an ethnic enclave in the community.

~21 min read

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2,689 words

Moving to Himeji: Teaching English and adapting to Japan

Several years ago I was walking along a busy commercial street in a mid-sized Japanese city. The street, called Otamai Dori, was the main shopping thoroughfare in Himeji, a city of about 400,000 located south of Kobe and north of Okayama.

~14 min read

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3,305 words

California's English learner reclassification and redesignation process

In June, 1998, a Proposition was passed in California that significantly changed how English learners (ELs) were given instruction. This reversed two decades of bi-lingual education in the classroom and required all Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students to be taught English by immersion.

~17 min read

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2,865 words

Nineteenth-century English prostitution: Victorian fears and economic realities

Within the grand catalogue of criminal offences, the asking for a reward by a young woman in return for a sexual service must surely rate as a trivial misdemeanor.

~15 min read

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3,517 words

Bilingual education programs for English language learners

The terminology "Bilingual education" has precise and broad connotation relating to children who are not familiar with English.

~18 min read

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4,250 words

Inequality in marriage in English literature from the early modern period to the twentieth century

Although existing from the dawn of history itself, marriage as an institution has greatly changed its scope and purpose in time. Thus, before the modern period, marriage was an arrangement between two parts, functioning almost as a social contract and meant to serve particular proposes.

~22 min read

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