INTRODUCTION This thesis studies Role-play as an approach in enhancing advanced learners’ comprehension of English and American short stories. Primarily set in Literature classes of Foreign Language Faculty of UTE the research employs both experiential and experimental methods. The first chapter of the thesis presents some factors that may affect the study‚ specifies the problems and aims of the study‚ and briefly describes the methodology. 1.1 Background of the Study Literature is a very versatile subject
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When the Euro-Americans started to settle America they forced the Native Americans to adapt their culture and religion. The settlers were very serious about their Christian religion. They thought it was the one true faith and all people should believe in it. Euro-Americans actually feared the Native Americans because they felt that Native Americans were evil because they didn’t have a religion. What the Euro-Americans didn’t understand was that the Native Americans did have a religion and their own
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DeWeese 1 John DeWeese PS 372 Leising 15 October 2012 Literature Review It is apparent that interest groups have evolved over time with the changing nature of the American political system. We know that regardless of the beneficiary or detrimental effect they may have on our democracy‚ that they do play specific roles in policy formation‚ the election process‚ and voter identification and turnout. This section seeks to examine the positive and negative characteristics and theories that
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greatly influencing the development of Arab-American literature. Political contexts provided an impetus for Arab-American writers to express political beliefs in their works and address the questions of identity‚ ideology‚ and other subjects connected to political actions. Most of the issues considered by writers and researchers of Arab-American literature can also be found in literatures of other “hyphenated” Americans. However‚ Arab-American literature have strongest bonds to the political history
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During the colonial period North America was filled with individuals who did not agree with the religious and political ways of life in England. Before the 1700s the British North American colonies consisted mostly of Europeans in search of a place where they could find religious freedom. The first colony formed in Massachusetts in 1608 is an example of this idea of religious freedom. Plymouth‚ Massachusetts was a colony formed by English Separatists‚ who were also known as Puritans‚ in an attempt
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Early American literature is full of the spirit of individualism. This spirit can best be described by Emerson when he says‚ "Good men must not obey the laws too well". This view has long been an inspiration for future generations of Americans to start some of the greatest reformations of our history. Among the literary units that show support for Emerson’s idea‚ there are three that are more powerful at conveying this spirit. The Revolutionaries‚ the Transcendentalists‚ and the
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Other Italies Emily Cormack May 3‚ 2010 Magic and Religion depicted in Southern Italians Magic and Religion has always had a very prominent and distinct role in the lives of Southern Italians. Magic serves as their form of hope and believing in something bigger than themselves‚ something they cannot see and that is how it is integrated into religion. In both‚ Nuovo Mondo and Christ Stopped at Eboli‚ the role of magic and religion are explored and the impact that it has on their lives
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Religion has always played a vital role in human society. As our earliest stories and poems indicate‚ questions of gods‚ divinity‚ immortality‚ and creation existed in ancient cultures and pervaded many facets of daily life‚ including literature. In The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Leiden Hymns we see not only this literary preoccupation with questions of divinity‚ but also stories and attitudes that foreshadow contemporary Abrahamic religions––Judaism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam. However‚ this is not
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American Colonial Society The colonization movement‚ the relocating of African Americans from the mainstream of white American society‚ had its beginnings in the eighteenth century. As early as 1713‚ Quaker abolitionists begun to advocate that freed blacks be returned to African; and later by blacks‚ themselves‚ around 1787 by the likes of Anthony Benezet and Benjamin Rush. Some plans that later emerged‚ included the establishment of a separate colony for blacks west of the Mississippi River‚ others
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Native American Literature Native American literature is made up of two different types of literature‚ the oral traditions and the newer written traditions. From these two types are many different styles that make up the many different tribes of the Native American culture. Storytelling has long been an important aspect of all Native American cultures. It is through storytelling that the Native Americans are able to pass down their traditions and cultural identities. Oral traditions
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