A STUDY ON MARK TWAIN'S THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN——AN ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING OF HUCK'S ADVENTURES

Huck,the hero of this novel,is a“bad boy”as Twain says.Indeed,he is good,warm-hearted,active and brave.He also has a native shrewdness,a cheerfulness that is hard toputdown compassionate tolerance,and an instinctive tendency to reach the right decisionsabout important matters.Twain moreover,gives huck's adventre,which means escape.Huck notonly adventures to help Jim to escape from the lavery,but also helps himself toescape from the aristocratic“civilizing”society.It shows his brave to fi…     

The Dialogue between Iceberg and Night——A Comparative Analysis of A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby

Hemingway and Fitzgerald both belong to the Lost Generation.They were both favorite son and the creature of that prosperous era.Foreign scholars believed that there existed similarities and difference between the two writers.This paper aims to analyze A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby from these two aspects.     

Tragic Hero in a Cross-cultural View——A Criticism of Macbeth,the Tragic Hero

Macbeth is,both by expectation and by means of the exposition,set up as a classical tragedy.The very title of the play,The Trag edy of Macbeth,encourages the assumption on the part of the audience that Macbeth is indeed a tragedy.This article mainly from the cross-cultural angle to the plot of the tragedy of tragedy Macbeth analysis for further analysis and appreciate Shakespeare’ s drama open up alternative thinking mode.     

An Analysis of Dean Moriarty in On the Road——A True Hero in the 1950’s America

This paper studies post-war America around the 1950’s when On the Road was written and analyzes the protagonist Dean Moriarty as a spokesman of the Beat Generation.He is a typical beat who revolts against the traditional social values and chases after the spiritual complacency.In addition,he opposes wars and advocates the equality between men and women.Thus in a sense Dean is a rebellious hero and stands ahead of his age.     

HEMINGWAY AND “HEMINGWAY HERO”——A Comparative Study of A Farewe to Arms

1　 Their Attitudes Toward The War1 .1　Their Different AttitudesHemingway's experiences in the Italian front offered plentiful source materials to AFarewell to Arms.A clear impression of Hemingway can be seen from Henry.In thepaper,three aspects will be studied in comparison:their attitudes toward war,theirattitudes toward love,and how they treated death.As soon as the United States entered the war in1 91 8Hemingway tried to enlist.Justlikemany other puerile American young people at t…     

A RE‐EXAMINATION OF THE PAST: SOME ORIGINS OF THE “SECOND BEST” NOTION

A premise of the current criticism that community colleges are institutions that promote social tracking and inhibit social mobility was reviewed and analyzed. The relationship between the roles of the two‐year college and the research university as proposed by Harper and Lange was examined. The thesis that junior colleges emerged when universities supported their growth as feeder institutions was tested by the case history of the development of community colleges in Wyoming. Findings of this study were that: (a) the University's opposition did not halt the development of community colleges, (b) community colleges were comprehensive and community‐based from the outset in Wyoming, and (c) establishment of the transfer function was not predominant in the rationale for the community college movement. It was concluded that the stereotypic explanation of two‐year college development from transfer‐oriented “junior” colleges to comprehensive institutions may be incorrect, and that many two‐year colleges may have been comprehensive from inception.     

An Exploration of the Theme in “Paste” by Henry James

Paste is a 5,800-word short story by Henry James which attracts many critics' attention.However,many people hold misunderstanding towards it because of he cumbersome style of Henry James and his misplaced illustration.After settling down the main mysteries in the story,the theme revealed as a critique about the sex trade.     

“Seeing the Light”: A Cognitive Approach to the Metaphorical in Picture Books

Picture books, as both sophisticated aesthetic objects and literary texts, provide the ideal site for critically examining how values and ideology are transmitted to children. How the child reader might be affected by the process of reading a picture book—that is, how he or she might be moved emotionally and potentially gain new insights about the world—is of interest to scholars and educators alike. This article draws upon cognitive literary theory as a conceptual frame through which to explore the cognitive and emotional affect that reading may have upon children. “Reader response” and “cultural criticism” are approaches to literature that seek to understand how readers interact with texts. Cognitive theory, when applied to literature, builds on these discourses by focusing on why reading fiction might cause the brain to produce emotional and cognitive responses in readers. As metaphors are a feature of language and of thought, a study of the metaphorical in picture books aptly lends itself to the theoretical framework offered by cognitive literary theory. Drawing on examples from four picture books produced for children, broadly correlating to different developmental stages, this article examines the role of metaphor in encouraging skills in decoding and creative thinking. Talking to children about visual metaphor or metaphorical expression introduces them to a feature of language and thought that provides a conceptual frame for richer understanding and expression of ideas. Examining how the metaphorical operates in picture books thus takes us a step closer to understanding how the process of reading affects children and enriches their lives.     

How to Write in the English Way——A Tentative Study of the Causes of Chinglish

学习外语常受母语的干扰,这是学习者不可避免的困难。外语教师有责任钻研这一课题,探索克服母语干扰的途径。本文试图分析中国成年学生在英语学习过程中由于受汉语的影响而形成的汉式英语及其产生根源。文章从英汉两种语言基本特征的对比出发,结合作者在英语写作教学过程中所积累的实际例子,指出了十种常见汉式英语句子的产生根源及其克服途径。     

“How”—beyond the “what”, towards the “why”: A rule-assessment approach to achievement testing

The advantages of a rule assessment approach to the interpretation of achievement test results have been demonstrated using an S-P chart with coded error types. The problems of similar total test scores resulting from completely different misapprehensions, as well as correct answers resulting from incorrect rules of operation, were addressed using a simulated data-set.Although the overall quality of the test used here as measured by conventional psychometric indices proved satisfactory, it was shown that the traditional interpretation, which refers to total test scores, can be misleading, especially when adaptive remediation is sought. It is well known in medical sciences that a disease has several symptoms yet several diseases can share the same symptoms (i.e. high fever). Consequently, no responsible physician would prescribe the same medicine for two patients suffering from different diseases just because they both share high fever as one of their symptoms. Similarly, when two students with different misapprehensions get the same total test score, should the teacher prescribe the same remediation for correcting their misapprehension?Although the method for diagnostic test construction was out of the scope of this paper, it should be noted that test design is a crucial matter which eventually determines the quality of the diagnosis. One has to, therefore, carefully choose the items for the diagnosis in order to maximize the information about the rules of operation underlying the students' responses. A task specification chart (Birenbaum & Shaw, 1985) may serve as a useful tool in the process of test construction. As was illustrated in the chart, when an item yields the same results as a result of various “bugs”, its contribution to rule assessment is in question.Although in reality test results are contaminated by noise resulting from careless errors or strategy changes during the test, the overall identification rate achieved by diagnostic tests ranges between 70%–80% (Tatsuoka, 1984). Similarly, current AI diagnostic systems such as DEBUGGY and DPF are reported as being capable of identifying 80%–90% of student errors (VanLehn, 1981; Ohlesson & Langley, 1985). It seems that such a rate justifies the tedious work involved in constructing a diagnostic tool.     

A Philosophic Idea of Being “ALIVE” in Living Educational Theory——Talking about the Character Education in the New Curriculum

D istinctive characteristics of a Living Educa-tionalTheory ApproachJack W hitehead,who hasworked atthe University ofBath in England forthirty yearshasdeveloped a distinctiveform ofAction Research,which we callLiving EducationalTheoryAction Research. Thisform wasfirstwritten aboutin 1985 [1], and hasnow been internationally accepted asvery helpful in both practical and theoretical studies.[2]The processesweare using,and the work we areestablish-ing,arereferred toin W hitehead (2004).[3]…     

On the Problems and Techniques in English-Chinese Translation——A Discussion about the Translation of“Green Crisis”

The English writings of many translators are not accepted by the readers. The reason is that there is no correct translation idea, the literal translation is the main reason, and the thinking of the text is not suitable for the original text. This paper takes "the green crisis" as an example, discusses the problems in the translation of Contemporary English, and puts forward the skills of translating English books to these questions.     

On the Pilgrim to “A Room of One’s Own” in The Hours

In A Room of One’s Own,Virginia Woolf argued her famous proposition that a woman needed to have a room of her own to achieve literary autonomy,and laid the foundation for present-day feminist criticism.Yet the author believes that economic independent does not foster women’s identity with certainty.In this thesis,the author explores the crucial place of spiritual and economic independence in building up women’s autonomy through analyzing Michael Cunningham Pulitzerwinning work The Hours,which he draws inventively on the life of Virginia Woolf and her work Mrs.Dalloway.