English Literature

Section A The two texts, Fanny Burneys Evelina and Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels, are examples of novels that were able to achieve significant market and critical success, . Both novels illustrate the role of novels as a form of social critique or commentary, partly in reaction to the censorship implemented in English theatres in 19th century. The formers focus is to provide commentary of the social systems that often are superficial and obsessed with maintaining appearances. The issue of social...

The inclusion of a public plan in the health care reform forms the basis of discussion in the analysis of this article. Gorin (83) examines this using examples of the problems and challenges that the Americans have been facing under the control of the private plans. By relating the situation to that of unfair market Gorin (83) clearly brings out the urgent need of the public plan. His opinion on the need of the public plan is backed by the estimate of the number of people that the plan would be...

Choosing the most appropriate method in teaching a second language has always prompted arguments among educators in the field. The earliest practice known as the Grammar Translation Method (GTM) has been overshadowed by Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in many classrooms worldwide. This is due to the realization that communicative competence is much more important than linguistic competence as far as global competitiveness is concerned. However, several studies conducted abroad demonstrate...

The movie lion king by Disney films was a true definition of the current America we are living in. The movie was like a future story of what would happen in the country. In the film, Simba can be related to barrack Obama of the current world. Just like Obama, Simba rises to save the pride lands which had been turned into a barren wasteland by his uncle Scar. That can be related to the situation George W. Bush had gotten the United States of America to. The word Simba means lion in Swahili (a common...

Drama has long existed in the times of the Ancient Greeks and the fact that the play of tragedy came from them (like the Oedipus Rex and Antigone and known as the Greek tragedy), proves this. It is not surprising then that the discussion of drama as a literature and as a subject matter which is scrutinized first came out in the teachings and lectures of Aristotle and his famous Poetics. The basic elements of drama which almost appears in humanities, literature and art textbooks and classroom discussions...

Coming to the University of Michigan from China was a shock for me in many ways. I was moving toward not only my education and future but away from my past and where Id once belonged. Id transplanted myself from the community of my childhood to a new and much smaller community as a student within a foreign country. However, I have been able to adapt. Ann Arbor is filled with students from all over the world, who like me, moved to Michigan to become students. We are from different culture, ethnicities,...