This study examines the 2008 presidential election in the context of critical elections, applying V. O. Key's definitions. The primary sources are newspapers and magazines acquired in the United States the first week after ...

The reasons for, and the effects of, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon September 11, 2001 were extensively discussed and analysed in the aftermath of the disaster,. Many theories have been ...

Using English as a lingua franca is different from using it as a foreign language for communication with native speakers. English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as the use of English among communicators of different ...

This thesis explores the narrative strategies of Lydia Davis’s short fiction. Based on close readings from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and Can’t and Won’t, I argue that Davis’s textual practice has feminist ...

In this thesis I have looked at how J. Edgar Hoover came to power as Director of the FBI, and how he later used that power against Attorney General Robert Kennedy and SCLC leader Martin Luther King, Jr. I have further ...

How has the Egton accent developed over the past 30 years? The aim of this thesis is to analyse tokens from seven lexical sets, TRAP, BATH, START, FOOT, STRUT, FACE and GOAT in order to compare the findings with the results ...

Synopsis: de poëzie van Luuk Gruwez tussen 1977 1990 Ik heb de poëzie van Luuk Gruwez tussen 1977 en 1990 bestudeerd. Vooral heb ik aandacht besteed aan literaire voorstellingen, retoriek en woordkeuze: welke voorstellingen ...

Ce mémoire est une étude empirique sur l'acquisition des phrases relatives françaises chez 26 lycéens norvégiens. Le but général de l'étude était de déterminer l'interlangue des apprenants par rapport à la relativisation ...

This thesis examines the relationship between postcolonial politics and aesthetics in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s poetry. The thesis shows how Johnson’s poems are predominantly analysed and discussed in a political context. ...