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Sacha

Why Reading Matters

In a lot of households, the idea of a child reading is unfathomable. Reading is what they do at school. At home, they do "fun" things, like play Call of Duty, or talk to their friends...
Monika

Comparing filmic adaptations of Shakespeare`s `Romeo and Juliet`

From its brilliant use of metaphors to its wide variety of language games, Romeo and Juliet is unique among Shakespeare's works principally because of its 'virtuosities of language'. ...
Monika

The `Man of Feeling` in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

'.the sympathetic responses of the man of feeling, while giving opportunity for otherness to manifest itself, also help to maintain social hierarchy and existing power structures' (Il...
Monika

`The American Dream` in `The House of Mirth` and `The Great Gatsby`

George Tindall and David Shi state that the 'United States in the 1900 was on the threshold of modernity.' It had been relentlessly transformed since 1800 from a largely rural and a...
Anna

Getting Reluctant Readers To Read...

Being able to read is one of the most important skills a human learns and is vital for ensuring success in everyday life. However, children often find learning to read `boring` and ma...
Wayne

To Lay or To Lie, That is the Question

Excerpt from Common Errors English Paper Whenever I'd tell my Aunt Rachel I was going to lay down for a nap, she'd say, "I know you have, at times, lain down for a nap, and yesterd...
Rosemary

Sentence structure

Expert Writing Can you unscramble these anagrams? 1) ENENSTCE IETYVAR 2) EPDSCONRITI 3) CCTHAERAR 4) CLEXOMP 5) MPUNODCO 6) PSLEIM Can you name the types of sentences...
Court Oak

What Women Want: Female Readers of Virgil in the Middle Ages

In this essay I will consider the influence of female readers of Virgil's Aeneid in two medieval adaptations of Virgil's text: the C11th Latin Encomium Emmae Reginae and the C12th Old...
Mark

Primary school places: fewer parents get first choice

England`s first national offer day for primary school places has been marked by a decline in the number of parents receiving their first choice in some parts of the country, as counci...
Katia

"Meyerhold and Mayakovsky: Revolution and the first Soviet Play"

Vsevolod Meyerhold and Vladimir Mayakovsky are two legendary names in the realm of Russian and international art frequently associated with the most turbulent period in Russian histor...
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