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When learning grammar - semi-colons, apostrophes, ellipsis - you might find yourself wondering, why do I even need to know all of this? Some students may even feel that grammar gets i...

We ve all been there. Some of us more often than others! We ve received an assignment or an essay and thought What the hell is this? You don t even know where to start ...

Writing is an important form of communication and essential for success in education and adult life. But sometimes, schooling isn t enough and children need extra help to develop st...

Sister Carrie Like much American Literature at the turn of the 20th century, this extract is concerned with migration to an expansive, sprawling cityscape and exploring the repercus...

In this extract, the author presents the life of a disaffected African American youth (Bigger) dealing with the hardships of city life in 1930s America. The use of third person limi...

The pursuit of money as spendable income in Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1813) and Persuasion (Austen, 1818) is represented as unemotional and mercenary. It can be argued that Austen ...

Look in detail at lines 24-36. How does the writer use language to describe the bombs going off? [8 marks]It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hidin...

According to the poverty of the stimulus account, some form of innate knowledge is required to learn a language. The language that children are exposed to is not sufficient enough for...

Whether deaf children should be taught auditory language over sign language is a great area of contention. With the advancement of cochlear implants, this debate is as pertinent as ev...

Romantic writers were a far cry from being merely irresponsible jesters without clear satirical aims in view lacking a proper understanding of the age they were born into. , ...