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    you are willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. A different language is a different vision of life. My name is Jaspreet Kaur I have recently completed my master's study in English literature and done my bachelors in English literature and economics as major subjects.in this great blooming and buzzing of the outer world, we are brought into contact with different languages and cultures. Through multicultural, societies, international organizations and

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    Education and English literature work hand- and-hand with equipping children in the early childhood years with the skills needed to be successful in future education. This is because “the early childhood years serve as an important foundation for subsequent literacy development” (Neuman & Dickinson, 2001; Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998; Whitehurst & Lonigan, 2001) (Stephen Green, 2006). During the early childhood years children’s brains are constantly absorbing everything they learn or come in contact

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    Introduction For English language learners there are two approaches to learning a new language, bilingual education where the student is first taught in their native language before transitioning to the new language and immersion where a student is taught completely in the new language. There are benefits to both approaches. The bilingual method has more flexibility for the learner and brings aspects of the first language into the learning process. The learner is better able to relate the new

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    William Shakespeare has written some of the greatest pieces of English literature but some doubt he is the one responsible for it. There are some scholars who believe the conspiracy that Shakespeare did not write the work attributed to him and the true author is someone else, due to the anti-stratfordians who propose theories of who could be the real author, this once small talk has turn into a well- known conspiracy theory, although little to none evidence is all we have on a man named William Shakespeare

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    Mythology in English literature Mythology was initially used only in Greek and Latin. But the use of Mythology gradually became more popular and started influencing English literature. There are hardly any young adult fictions novels present nowadays without the use of mythology or an element of mythology. You might be wondering how such a thing is possible. The reason is mythology includes fantasy as all fantasy has been derived from mythology. Vampires, Fairies, princess and Pegasus are paranormal

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    Final Project This year is my sophomore year in PRISMS and also my second year learning in U.S. This school year, I have World and British Literature class with Mr. Johnson. It is quite different from last year English class, we have a tighter schedule of reading books and wrote essays more frequently. In this year World and British Literature class, I read different books, learned new ideas, learned how to analyse quotes, themes, characters, etc. I feel that this year of learning is very rewarding

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    The Role of Women in English Literature While women had little value in English society until modern times, female characters have had invaluable roles in English literature. From Eowyn to Lady Macbeth, female characters have defined the works they were written for and the stories they inhabit would have little value without them. Each woman brings a unique and atypical stance to femininity and the traditional female role through their determination, ferocity, cunning, and their unwavering wills

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    Once, in a discourse on the dichotomy between ‘Commonwealth literature’ and ‘English literature,’ the British writer of the Indian diaspora, Salman Rushdie, sardonically observed that the division kept the two apart “like squabbling children, or sexually incompatible pandas, or, perhaps, like unstable, fissile materials whose union might cause explosions” (Rushdie, 1). Such divisions, based on preconceived notions with no significant empirical merit, are not contemporarily uncommon, and have, reflecting

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    Sample answers Literature in English 9695/51-53 These three sample answers are for 9695 AS/AL Literature in English Paper 5. They are intended to give an idea of the range of response and the requirements at the top, middle and middle/bottom of the mark range. They are not necessarily ideal or model answers, but are chosen as being representative answers on model texts. UCLES 2010 2 Example 1 UCLES 2010 example 1 3 Example 1 UCLES 2010 example 1 4 Example 1

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    The importance of houses in English Literature begins to hold more relevance in the early 17th century and this trend continues into contemporary writings. When analyzing the significance of houses in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats, and Dracula by Bram Stoker, it confirms that houses have reached beyond their functional roles, and have developed characters such as, history, ideology, and mystery, which can foreshadow future occurances by illustrating

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