3,380 words

Grammar error correction best practices and challenges

The art and science of grammar correction has seismic implications on native and new speakers to English alike.

~17 min read

View paper →

898 words

Gay-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment of sexual stigma anxiety

Latino male approximately 30-year-old. Felix is bilingual in Spanish and English and his heritage is very important to him.

~5 min read

View paper →

2,355 words

Mary Graham's journal of residence in colonial India

Mary Graham wrote the Journal of Residence in India. The author was an English woman from Cockersmouth near Cumberland. In the year 1808, she was on a journey of discovery to India what was then a British occupied Indian subcontinent. She met a British Lieutenant Mr.

~12 min read

View paper →

318 words

Feedback and input modification in second language acquisition

Feedback in Instructed Second Language Acquisition In the first case, the English speaker shortened the response to make it clearer. In the second case, the English speaker settled on one verb instead of two to make a clear response.

~2 min read

View paper →

863 words

Blackstone's precedent and the role of judicial precedent in American education law

Blackstone initially set the precedent, so to speak, for English common law. English common law became the foundation for American common law, which values judicial precedent over statutes.

~5 min read

View paper →

2,024 words

Joan of Arc's leadership during the Hundred Years War siege of Orleans

Introduction Joan of Arc was just a young girl when she took command of the French army against the English in the Hundred Years War. In the 15th century it was unheard of for a woman, much less a teenage girl, to lead men—let alone lead them into battle.

~11 min read

View paper →

838 words

Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the case for American independence

Common Sense Reaction PaperIn Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued for the independence of America from the English Crown.

~5 min read

View paper →

325 words

Government regulation of marketing to vulnerable consumers

Vulnerable Consumer A vulnerable consumer is someone with low income, who comes from a non-English speaking background, has some kind of disability, suffers from a chronic illness, has little or no literacy, is homeless, very young, or very old (FTC, n.d.).

~2 min read

View paper →

2,701 words

Eadweard Muybridge and early cinema technology pioneers

One of the more important names in the history of cinema technology is that of the Englishman, Eadwaerd Muybridge, 1830 to 1904, who was at the outset a photographer and an inventor of technologies beyond his own times, and who became famous for his photographic studies of the locomotion of animals…

~14 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 983 words

Courtly Love in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Explores how courtly love is expressed in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, its social and cultural roots, and what makes the poem distinctly English.

Literature

~5 min read

View paper →