Exploration on Rhetorical Devices in “The Story of an Hour”

This paper analyzes some main rhetorical devices in Kate Chopin's short novel "The Story of An Hour" including symbolism,contrast and irony,which are benefit to promote the theme.     

Complexity Behind Simplicity——An analysis of Langston Hughes’ Art of Writing in \"Early Autumn\"

Love is an eternal subject with many references in many novels,but Langston Hughes approaches it in a most simplified manner to portray the complex feeling of the protagonists.He achieves this inward complexity through carefully-treated outward simplicity.The paper discusses this art of writing in Early Autumn from such aspects as the dramatic point of view,well-designed setting,careful presentation and effective rhetorical devices.     

A Formalistic Analysis of Poe’s Poem-Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe’s criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader.\"Annabel Lee\" is a perfect illustration of Poe’s poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.     

On the Application of Booth’s Rhetorical Theory in A Good Man Is Hard to Find

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth’s rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills influence the readers’interpretation to the work by analyzing the application of narrative visual conversion, irony and foreshadowing. It will help readers understand the full fiction better.     

‘Some people even died’: Martin Luther King,Jr, the civil rights movement and the politics of remembrance in elementary classrooms

This article examines the interpretive practices and cultural texts that shape what teachers and students remember and forget during the annual observance of the King holiday in two second‐grade classrooms. Drawing on data from an ethnographic case study of the curriculum in use and theory and research on collective memory, the author analyzes the contest between two commemorative narratives, one focused on King’s boyhood experiences of discrimination and his advocacy of non‐violent protest to end segregation, the other on remembering discriminatory practices in the South and the violence perpetrated by Whites against civil rights protestors. After discussing the nature of mnemonic socialization in these classrooms and the consequences of this struggle over collective memory for students, the paper concludes with a call to reconceptualize classrooms as ‘critical mnemonic workspaces’ where teachers and students are able to draw on a diversity of cultural resources for remembering multiple, even contradictory, pasts.     

On Doctor Manette’s Ambivalence in A Tale of Two Cities

The thesis centres on Doctor Manette’s special character—ambivalence.He is a man of contrasts.Now the development of this thesis will be given by the influences which was analyzed by her.     

A Review of Atlanta’s “FUBU”: On Power

This media review focuses on one of Atlanta's episodes entitled \"FUBU.\" The episode is utilized as a proxy to provide a critique of American society and its power relations in everyday life. Atlanta and its writers use television as their vehicle to create critical and constructive discourse in spaces that they would otherwise not be able to physically occupy. Out of this, the hope is that this discourse leads to healthier interaction in the educational spaces facilitated by educators with an understanding of the social forces at play.     

A Study on Ruth’s Personality Structure in Martin Eden

In Martin Eden,the development of the relationship between Martin and Ruth falls into three stages.During the first stage of their acquaintance,Ruth’s ego and super-ego vanquish her id transitorily.In the second stage of intimacy,Ruth is strongly manipulated by her super-ego that mainly originates from her Electra complex.Consequently,she attempts to re-mould Martin in the shape of her father,but in vain.When it comes to the third stage of relationship break-down,obliged to moralities and norms,Ruth chooses to end their relationships.     

On Montrose’s Perception of New Historicism

Louis Adrian Montrose has addressed literary,historical,and theoretical topics and issues concerned with New Historicism.He elegantly demonstrated how language and literary imagination shape cultural value;belief,and understanding;social distinction and interaction;and political control and contestation,thus significantly shaped contemporary studies of poetics and politics of culture.He refuted the oversimplified polarization of language and society of J.Hillis Miller and Edward Pechter’s misunderstandings about \"New Historicism\" and stated his own understanding and expectations of New Historicism.From a detailed analysis of his ideas,the author points out the weakness in his arguments and advises researchers in this field to dialectically view the school of New Historicism.     

On Application of Nida’s Translation Priorities

This paper analyzes Nida’s theory of translation,also his system of priorities.The paper uses examples to illustrate the application of Nida’s four priorities in the practice of English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation and concludes that we can apply the system to help the receptors of second language and source language to have the closest response.     

Lear——A Combination of Justice and InjusticeAnalysis of Lear’s Character in King Lear

With no knowledge of justice, Lear makes a serious mistake in judgment. If one cannot manage the relationship between justice and injustice; particularly, if a ruler always thinks the justice should serve him but forgets he should as well obey the social disciplines; balance justice and injustice, this ruler will destroy his country. Only After a violent journey, Lear recognizes that he has misused justice and he bears responsibility for both his own problems and for those of others who suffers equally. He has learned that no one is above justice. The whole process makes Lear regret and remorse, which at the same time combines his justice and injustice.     

On Cultural Analysis of Baldwin’s Exodus

In the short story Exodus,James Baldwin sought to create a highly personal literature less with racial conflict than with the complexity of human motivations,by briefly contrasting the two processes of exodus,Baldwin achieved this kind of creation,which is to get behind the Negro problem to find the kind of reality that he really concerned:the process of struggle to bettering one’ s lot.     

On Frightening Aspect of Robert Frost’s Poems

Robert Frost is generally considered as a lyrical poet,whose poetry often gives the reader pleasant feeling.Yet,his poems have frightening quality,which can be perceived through the appaling world and seen in the great number of abnormal people described in his poems.This paper aims at offering a detailed analysis of 3 typical instances of such poems to illustrate that the frightening quality,in fact,reflects a kind of modern experience.     

On the Formation of Lawrence’s Tragic Thought

Tragic thought has been interwoven throughout D.H.Lawrence’s works,and his tragic sense is the direct result of the social realities,cultural context and his personal experiences.     

On Sarah’s Final Freedom-Interpretation of the last ending of The French Lieutenant’s woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is the best-known novel written by John Fowles and is also called the post-modern metafiction.In the novel the mysterious woman Sarah is introduced,who rebels against Victorian conventions to pursue independence and freedom.Undoubtedly,Sarah is an independent woman ahead of her times.This paper is attempted to interpret the last ending of The French Lieutenant’s woman written by John Fowles,thus finding relevant evidence to support this interpretation that Sarah has finally got her freedom which is not allowed against the Victorian background.     

On the Black Humor of William Faulkner’ s Work——As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is one of Faulkner’ s greatest works and an important novel of the Yoknapatawpha Saga.This thesis deals with the black humor in As I Lay Dying,as the humor contributes to a better understanding of characterization,action,and theme of this fiction and Faulkner’ s others.Eventually,we would realize that this fiction not only touches something in the American south but also the prob lems of all of the human beings.     

A generalization of Kempe’s linkages

A new, general type of planar linkages is presented, which extends the classical linkages developed by Kempe consisting of two single-looped kinematic chains of linkages, interconnected by revolute hinges. Together with a locking device, these new linkages have only one degree of freedom (DOF), which makes them ideal for serving as deployable structures for different purposes. Here, we start with a fresh matrix method of analysis for double-loop planar linkages, using 2D transformation matrices and a new symbolic notation. Further inspection for one case of Kempe’s linkages is provided. Basing on the inspection, by means of some novel algebraic and geometric techniques, one particularly fascinating solution was found. Physical models were built to show that the derivation in this paper is valid and the new mechanisms are correct.     

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.     

An Analysis of Interpersonal Function of the Dialogues in the Film The King’s Speech

Based on the framework of Halliday’s theory of interpersonal function, this study intends to analyze the dialogues in the film The King’s Speech from the three aspects of mood type, modal operator and vocative address by adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods. The significances of successful realizations of interpersonal function to the role characterization, plot development and thematic construction in the film are also demonstrated, thus deepening the understanding and appreciation of the film.     

A Study of Lesson’s Application of Input Hypothesis

This essay aims to analyse the Input Hypothesis and its application in a Chinese college reading class.The first part will briefly introduce the main concepts and effectiveness of the Input Hypothesis and elaborate on its implication for practice.The second part will analyse and reflect the hypothesis in a reading class at university level according to the implication of the Input Hypothesis.