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Andrei Codrescu's literary career and Romanian exile perspective

Andrei Codrescu is a writer currently living in New Orleans. He is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist who has adopted English as his medium, though he was born in Romania in 1946 end emigrated to the United States in 1966. he became a citizen in 1981.

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Samuel Johnson's theory of general nature in literature

Upon taking a glance over the eminent literary figures of 18th century one name that stands apart is of Samuel Johnson, he was an English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer.

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Toyota's mission and vision statements: critique and stakeholder expectations

The mission statement for Toyota should be much more meaningful than the generic, bland "make better cars and contribute to society." Such a pointless mission statement is a waste of everybody's time. This mission statement might sound better in Japanese, but in English it is awful.

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Student perceptions of explicit and implicit grammar teaching methods

It is the opinion of the author that the decision whether or not to teach the subject of grammar as an extracted focus of ELT/ESL (English Language Teaching) (English as a Second Language) or passively as an inductive, integrated topic depends upon the class that one is teaching depends upon the…

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Kazuo Ishiguro's *Remains of the Day* and the British Empire's collapse

In the years following World War II, a great change took place in the British Empire along side an equally monumental change in English society. The 1950's saw the collapse of the British Empire, an empire on which it was said the sun never set.

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Religious persecution of Christians in sixteenth and seventeenth century England

The religious persecution that was inflicted on Christians by the Church and State of England to extract compliance and adherence to the Church of England and the authority of the English Crown.

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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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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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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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