On the Historical and Cultural Elements Implied in The Last of the Mohicans from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication

The last of the Mohicans was written by American novelist James Fenimore Cooper in 1826,who is considered as the first long novelist of America.The work has no concentrate plots but the white people and the Indians’friendship,communication,and wars.The Last of the Mohicans was set in the mid-18th century when the French colonists and English colonists were fighting for Indian lands.English colonized America and were at loggerheads with France.It belongs to the frontier literature and creates a precedent for the American Frontier Fiction.The American western fiction has the most native feature.With the rise of multiculturalism trend at present,it is the best way for understanding the American local culture and history to study the American western fiction which is bred during the course of the frontier-running and Westward Movement.Cooper is a novelist who depicted the real and pure American life.Based on the frontier theme,he created Leatherstocking Tales,which is a series of five novels,are his masterpieces representing his style.Among them,The Last of the Mohicans prominently reflects the Indian culture.This thesis mainly explores the historical and cultural elements embodied in The Last of the Mohicans from the perspective of cross-cultural communication.     

WANT OR KEEP

Li Jun is a manager of a factory. He isn!t kind and he is not friendly to his workers and other people. He can speak a little English but not much. Sometimes he speaks Chinese and sometimes he speaks English. There is a barbershopnear the factory. Li Jun goes to the barbershop once a month. After he has haircut, he doesn!t give any money to the barber. He says to the barber in English,“I!ll give you dollar next time. Are you clear?” He has haircut for thirty times in the barbershop. On…     

EFL EXTENSIVE READING AT COLLEGE LEVEl

To a student of English, reading is one of the four basic skills. And his ultimate goal in reading English is to be able grasp idea as quickly and eaily as he would if he were reading his native language. Yet in early stages of language acquisition, the first inclination in reading of most English students is to translate. Translation is a slow, laborious process. The writer＇s train of thoughts may become lost, as well as the enjoyment of reading. Moreover, translation is an art in itself and not a practical procedure for everyday reading. The student should attempt to develop a feeling for the target language so that he is really reading, not deciphering word for word.     

"星"闻

Bellucci’s Stolen"Cleopatra"Gown Recovered贝鲁奇长袍失而复得!A$180.000 gown worn by ltalian actress Monica Bel-lucci in the 2002 French film Asterix and Obelix:MeetCleopatra was stolen from a hotel in the French Riviera resortof Cannes by a waiter who wanted to impress girls,Reutersreports.According to the police,the thief had iust startedwork at the hotel as a waiter and rapidly confessed that he hadwanted the dress as a gift for two girls he had iust met.Thethree have been released but Will be charged with theft.     

A Study of Su Mansu’s Literary Translation and His Translation Principles

Su Manshu was a writer and translator in modern China. In addition to his fruitful literary creation, in the aspect of translation, he translated a lot of poetry in English literature, Hugo‘s Les Miserable’s and also some Indian literary works. He is good at making use of old verses to translate poetry. As to translation principles, he advocates "translation without increasing", "translation without increasing ornaments," and practices the method of "translation according to the source text context".     

天堂之路

A man is waiting for wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion. After 21 years,the son is old enough for his first drink. Dad takes him to the barand tearfully tells the son he is proud of him. Dad orders up the biggest, strongest drink for his boy. With all the bar patrons looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in disbelief,the boy takes his first sip of alcohol. Swoooop! A torso pops out!The bar is dead silent; then bursts into a whoop of joy. The father,shocked, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"! The bartender still shakes his head in dismay. Swoooop! Twoarms pops out. The bar goes wild. The father, crying and wailing,begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"!     

A Tentative Study of Figures of Speech Used in“Hamlet”

Rhetoric is a traditional discipline with a history of over two thousand years.Figures of speech play a pretty important role in verbal communication.People are attracted by"Hamlet"written by Shakespeare and his employing words and artistic enchantment.Shakespeare once learned classical literature,rhetoric,Latin and French.He is famous for his dramas.His language in dramas is rich and colorful and he is good at using figures of speech in his dramas.This paper explores some figures of speech and mainly focuses on how pun,metaphor and transferred epithet are employed in"Hamlet",in order to have a better understanding of the theme and the artistic features of Shakespeare.     

The Impact of The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin on American Society and Literature

Franklin is an earliest writer in American history and he is the most important writers during American colonial period.The most important works of him are Poor Richard’s Almanac and his Autobiography. His works have a tremendous impact on American literature later. What more important is that in his Autobiography he wrote out American dream, the spirit of business and good qualities, and some others. Franklin explained that everyone can get rich by hard work and thrift, and he called on people to come to America to make money. The American dream then became an important theme in American literature. It occurred in many works of many writers in his later time. Since Franklin was such a successful person in many areas, worldrenowned inventor, writer, diplomat and one of the leaders of the American war of independence, he brought a tremendous impact on American society. And because of his success, many Americans later took him as an example and his works were popular and read widely. Both Franklin and his works affected American society deeply.     

A Careless Boy

正Li Yun is a student.He will have an English exam next Monday.So he studies English very hard on the weekend.On Monday morning,Li Yun gets up late.He puts the books in the schoolbag and goes to school in a hurry.When he enters the classroom,the exam has begun.He sits down and opens his schoolbag.But there is no pen in it."Oh,I left it on my bed。"he says to himself.So he borrows a pen from his friend and writes     

The Roles of Teachers in English Teaching

The issue of improving the efficiency of college English teaching and learning has long puzzled our educators and English teachers.There are many ways to help the solving of the problem,but in China,where English is mainly taught in classroom,the teacher is a very important factor to influence the result of English teaching.In order to solve the problem,the teacher must know exactly what roles he should play in the process of teaching and make some changes in his old teaching methods.     

The Disillusion of American Dream—Essay On “The Great Gatsby”

"The Great Gatsby",a fiction by Fitzgerald,is about the failure of the American dream.For the protagonist Gatsby,He is the true heir to American dream.He devotes his whole life to pursues his dream of romantic success without ever understand ing that it has escaped him.Finally,he dies in his pursuit.His failure symbolizes the disillusion of American dream.     

The Incarnated Narrator as a Character in Middlemarch

Sympathy is one of the essential themes that George Eliot discusses in her novels. She uses various effective narrative strategies for the emergence of that theme. This paper, based on a close reading on the passage from Middlemarch, explores one of them——the incarnation of the narrator as a character. In Middlemarch, the narrator, as a character, both shows sympathy to the characters and asks for sympathy from the readers. To show his sympathy to the characters, he provides his comprehensive analysis of the characters and authorizes his characters to present their opinions. To ask for the sympathy, he directly addresses to the readers, uses free indirect speech in the narration, and expresses his own emotions. By the strategy of incarnation of the narrator as a character, Eliot clearly presents the readers her purpose of writing.     

快速学习

Xiaomao is a pupil.He is learning English in his school.But it is difficult to learn English.One day he sees a piece of paper on the wall.It says,"If you hand in two hundred and fifty yuan,we can teach you three foreign languages in three days."He is very     

高一课文配套改错专练

Unit 21 Karl MarxKarl Marx learned some English at the school, but when he reached at England and made London as the base for his revolutionary work, he found his English was too limited and begin to work hard to improve it. He made so rapid progress in English that he could write a book in English the followed year. He found Russian was also very important in 1870s     

美国人的开车习惯

Mitsuaki recently arrived in the United States to enter university.He wants to do well in his studies and adjust to the new culture.But Mitsua-ki has a problem.It's not his roommates.It's not his school fees.It's not even his English ability.Mitsuaki's problem is that he doesn't have a car.And in America,that really makes him a foreigner.Mitsuaki has already discovered a basic fact of American culture:Driving is a way of life.ItsnotthattheresnopublictransportationinAmerica.Manycitieshave…     

A PE teacher

正Mr Wang is a PE teacher at Chong Ming Primary School.He can speak a little English.Sometimes he gives orders in English.Such as,stand in a line,put your feet together,jump up and down,lie on your back.He teaches very well and his class is very interesting.His students like him very much.Look!The children are in the playground.They are having a PE lesson.The boys are playing basketball.Mr Wang is     

Sign Language

An Englishman was once travelling in Italy. He could not speak Italian. One day he went to a restaurant and sat at a table. When the waiter came, the Englishman opened his mouth, put his fingers into it, took them out again and moved his lips. By doing these he meant, "Bring me something to eat." The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The Englishman shook his head and the waiter understood him to say that he didn't want tea, so he took it away and brought him some coffee. The Englishman…     

READINGS

An English student went to a city in the south of America to study there. He walked around the city to look for a warm room to live in. One evening, he was walking along the street with a map in his hand. He saw a small board (木板) in the window of a house, the word "Room" was on it. " What a nice room this is! " he said. " The windows are in the     

My Good Friend

Jack is one of my best friend~①.He is a student in Grade Seven.He is thirteen years old this year.He comes from the UK.He is very tall with short black hair.He has two big eyes and big mouth~②.He likes playing football and collect~③ stamps in his free time.He is very outgoing and be~④ friendly to others.He always gets good grades in his study.His favorite subject is English and after class he often helps me on~⑤ my English,though     

English in Cameroon

Cameroon, a Western African coastal country, with a heritage of its history of being a previous colony of both British and French from 1916 to 1960, advocates a bilingual language policy in which English and French both serve as official languages. Due to the complex multiethnic and multilingual situation in Cameroon, multilingualism is the factual norm for the population. Besides English and French, numerous indigenous languages, especially Cameroon Pidgin English as the most significant lingual Franca of the country, are also widely used. Some demographics and sociolinguistic survey even reveal the evidence that this pidginized variety of English has occupied its indispensable position in almost all the aspects in the Cameroonian social life. Since this variety of English has long been used in the country for over 500 years, it has formed distinctive features in phonology, lexis as well as in grammar. This nativized language is now increasingly accepted as distinctive Cameroonian contributions to the world Englishes. Will the spread of this variety stand in the way of the learning "standard" English, or should this unstandardized variety be discouraged or banned in order to preserve the authenticity of English language? English as an international language teaching thus is confronted with new challenges and pondering about its future.