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Lunar Park is a semi-autobiography that tells the story of Brett Easton Ellis's fame and family, and takes place between memories of Los Angeles and his new home in a suburban town ju...

This article will analyse some of the theories of language acquisition and how they relate to adult learners, in terms of when they were children learning a first language, and also a...

Writing a good essay is an acquired skill. To plan, research, structure and then formulate an essay is something that takes both technique and practice - and as such it is a skill th...

In 'Tulips', the speaker explores the notion of romanticised death, and the encouragement for life, symbolised by the tulips. As the poem is set in a 'white' hospital, there are cons...

In our current difficult socio-economic climate, with its pressurised school classroom environments; it seems that many youngsters do not always have access to individual speciali...

There are many things which make a teacher great and they all can`t be defined.However I have always considered several of them essential.In my opinion a good teacher is someone who f...

Fairy tales, regarded by F. Andre Favat in his comprehensive study Child and Tale as 'literary research reservoirs' for the cultural history and social psyche of cultures, have mainta...

Introduction At the heart of postcolonial literature, which so persistently stands as a 'resistance against the triumphant ideology of the nation-state', dwells the theme of e...

Money is a consistent concern in crime fiction: in the Sherlock Holmes series the crimes are predominantly financial or property based, and crime in the Golden Age detective fiction i...

Max Nordau epitomises the Victorian anxiety of degeneration when he writes that '[o]ne epoch of history is unmistakably in its decline, and another is announcing its approach'. In hi...