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London Landmarks in Dickens' "Oliver Twist"

the foul odour that used to be present at the site" (easyor, 2005). Presumably if they are still carrying in bouquets it is ceremo...

Time Travel: Possibilities

consider the situation of Sally and Sam, who are identical twins. While Sam remains at home, Sally gets on a rocket ship, "travels...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

Imagery as Used in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

level to something much deeper. The trick in appreciating Dickens use of symbolism is to figure out what his images mean. And wha...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar's 19th Century Poetic Persona

In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...

Hegelian Dialect and Historical Materialism

In five pages the theories of Hegel and Marx are contrasted and compared in a consideration of the absolute idealism dialect of He...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain's Use of Dialect

In five pages Mark Twain's use of regional dialects in his classic 1884 American novel is examined with its intentions often being...

AAVE Debates and Linguistics Terminology

In six pages contemporary linguistics are examined in a terminology overview that includes register versus dialect, descriptive ve...

Dialect in Anzia Yezierska's How I Found America and Pietro Di Donato's Christ In Concrete A Novel

entertaining of all ethnicities, for they are extremely vocal and animated at the same time. In a crowd or at a family gathering,...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Dialect Forms

In six pages the various dialect types represented in this novel are examined. There is one other source used in the bibliography...

The Dialect Forms in 'Huckleberry Finn'

of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...

Geordic Accent's Fate

a guinea(which had St. Georges image on it) and a pitman(Oxford Dictionary 1988). The other idea is that the people of that region...

West Side Story, Manhattan Transfer, and Uses of Dialect

In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...

TV Commercials and Use of Ethnic Dialects

distinctly African-American and southern voice promotes a sense of New Orleans good food and good times. It would appear that thr...

Humans, Animals, and Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in terms of origin and how it may be used by animals with dialects among the topics co...

Local Culture and Pidgin Language

In five pages this paper discusses the local culture that is reflected in the pidgin dialect. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

The History Of The Spanish Language

for practical matters, in order to trade and communicate. This take u was a slow progression and started the influences of modern ...

Dialect on Television - "The Sopranos"

accident but by necessity-of course, I mean biological, not logical, necessity. Thus UG can be taken as expressing the essence of ...

Historical Development of the Irish Language

its history, was a country that was invaded many times, and settled by a variety of different groups (Irelandseye.com, 2004). By t...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

'Bad Cat' Creative Writing Assignment Sample

live on the outskirts of town an all, sometimes theres stuff that comes in. But dont you worry," Rowan said slapping me on the bac...

Website Literature Review of Lingua Francas, Pidgin, and Creole Sites

to Green Library Collections," the linguistic expert can access a good deal of information including some background about pidgin ...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Realism and Language

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

Tony Harrison's Poetry

however, abruptly introduce us into the world he is from and although the average reader will have no knowledge of the accuracy of...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Time Travel Possibility

The common perception is that if time travel were available then the time traveller may go back and the prevent tragic events occu...