An Analysis of the Dual Sides of Shylock’s Character

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most outstanding comedies of Shakespeare. The story happened in Venice in 16th century. Shylock is a typical character in this play. Shylock was looked down upon and humiliated by Christians as a Jew. Shylock, who found everyone in that society was against him, felt him isolated by Christians in Venice. But it is true that as a usurer, shylock was greedy and miserly, he lost kindness and reason; Shylock was oppressed and humiliated as a Jew. This paper focuses on the dual sides of Shylock’s character. On one hand he is miserly, unfeeling, vicious and sly; on the other hand, he is oppressed and humiliated.     

From "living dead" to "reviving after death"——An Interpretation of The Dead from Gabriel’s Epiphany

James Joyce is one of the greatest pioneers of Modern novel history.The Dead is the most famous story in his early short story collection Dubliners,and is widely recognized as one of the finest short stories in the English language.This study tries to analyze the hero Gabriel’s mind change:from "living dead" to "reviving after death" from his epiphany,indicating that there is merely a delicate line between the two:death is the end of life as well as the beginning of a new life for death actually carries within itself a new life.     

Analysis of James Joyce’s Araby

Araby by James Joyce is much more than a story of first love;it is a portrait of a world that defies the ideal and the dream.The writer concentrates on character rather than on plot to reveal the ironies by using the Setting and atmosphere,and furthermore reinforces the theme and characters in Araby.     

Symbols In HEMINGWAY''''S “Hills Like White Elephants” Story commentary

HEMINGWAY's story,“Hills Like White Elephants”,is about lovingrelationships between an American man and a girl.As lovers,they are in-timate,with the girl in the state of pregnancy.The story is told from the objective point of view.It takes place duringa 40-minute wait between trains.What lies behind them is indicated by thelabels on their bags.What lies ahead of them implies entire force and dir-ection of the story.It is at the station that a decision will be made that     

Surviving by Dying:A Paradox of Life On Mark Twain’ s Is He Living,or is He Dead

Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain’ s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.     

The Female’s Living Conditions:Comments on The Daughters of the Late Colonel

This article is a concern of the female’s living conditions in the story The Daughters of the Late Colonel written by Katherine Mansfield.The analysis will stress on the relationship between the two daughters and the people around them,through which the plight and oppression that heaved upon women and their tragical,unhappy life in the patriarchal society are clearly exposed.     

TEACHNJ： An Evaluation of Two Years of Implementation

In July 2009, the Obama administration lauched its $4.35 billion Race to the Top （RTT） Fund, providing states with competitive grants in an effort to reform education. One of the main conditions of this program was to award educational innovation. With this in mind, states enacted new legislation in the hopes of attracting more funding for their proposed programs. Although there were many levels of reform targeted by the RTT, of significance to this research is the emphasis placed on improving teacher effectiveness and measuring teacher performance via evaluation systems. The Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey （TEACHNJ） Act was adopted by the New Jersey legislature in August 2012 with the intent to raise student achievement by improving the quality of instruction. This research explores the impact the TEACHNJ Act has on teacher evaluations and professional development. A survey was administered to 1,235 public school teachers in New Jersey to ascertain teacher perceptions of the： （a） evaluation system in their school; （b） level of communication between teachers and administrators; and （c） availability, frequency, and effectiveness of professional development opportunities. The response rate was 21%. We found that formal evaluations are conducted infrequently with a varying degree of accuracy and impact. Nearly half of the teachers indicated that formal evaluations did not lead to improvements in their classroom. A majority of teachers questioned the administrative value of formal teacher evaluations, in particular the rewards and sanctions associated with the outcome of evaluations and a concem that poor performers were not sanctioned nor were effective teachers rewarded. We found that teachers perceive the greatest value to professional development, which is derived from peer mentoring and observations. We also found that professional development is the most effective when it is offered onsite, embedded in the classroom, continuous, and sustained over ti     

微笑(英文)

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other-it doesn't matter who it is-and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. Mother TeresaMany Americans are familiar with The Little Prince, a wonderful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This is a whimsical and fabulous book and works as a children's story as well as a thought-provoking adult fable. Far fewer are aware of Saint-Exupery's other writings, novels and short stories.Saint-Exupery was a fighter pilot who fought against the Nazis and was killed in action. Before World War Ⅱ, he fought in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. He wrote a fascinating story based on that experience entitled The Smile( Le Sourire. )It is this story which I'd like to share with you now. It isn't clear whether or not he meant this to be autobiographical or fiction. I choose to believe it is the former.He said that he was captured by the enemy and thrown into a jail cell. He was sure that from the contemptuous looks and rough treatment he received from his jailers he would be executed the next day. From here, I'll tell the story as I remember it in my own words.     

Cat’s Eye:An Old Comedy

Northrop Frye’ s four narrative forms:romance,tragedy,irony,and comedy can help explain the problematic structure of Margaret Atwood’ s novel Cat’ s Eye,in which the narrative,as well as certain other literary features,indicates that it is essentially a come dy - a story of how a hero forms a desirable new society in the face of strong opposition.But this comedy is also ironic.     

Collapse of Goodman Brown’ s Faith:Perspective from Freudian Psychoanalytical Theories

This article, by applying Freudian psychoanalytical theories, offers a new interpretation on Young Goodman Brown written by Na thaniel Hawthorne. Firstly, by analyzing the Theory of Drive (especially the death theory), it points out that " evil" is one of human in stincts, and the whole story stems from this very instinct. Then, the article focuses on the mental struggles and the collapse of Brown’ s faith from perspective of Freudian Personality Structure. At last, it concludes that Brown’ s mental sufferings lie in the fierce conflicts be tween his id, ego and super-ego and his mental disorder is caused by his faith collapse.     

英语第四册模拟练习

1 完形填空 A(10 分) It is strange (1)＿＿some stories of monsters begin with little or (2)＿＿ evidence at all. The story of the Kraken is an example. A (3)＿＿ time ago, a man in Norway reported seeing a huge animal (4)＿＿from the sea and pull down a ship with its long arms. It is likely that the ship was (5)＿＿by a sudden storm;but local people believed the story.     

Being Emotionally Independent Instead of Suffering——A Feminist Analysis of "How I Finally Lost My Heart"

"How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing’s many short stories are less mentioned or studied by Chinese researchers and scholars,especially "How I Finally Lost My Heart".Therefore,this paper is intended to analyze this short story from the feminist perspective,and attempts to show the exact process of women’s emotional independence as well as highlight the writer’s deep concern on women’s thorough liberation.     

An Analysis of Symbolism in The Unicorn in the Garden

The Unicorn in the Garden,written by James Thurber,is an ironic short story.It is believed that this short story can be considered as a representative of the war between men and women.The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use of symbolism in this short novel and therefore reveal the indifferent relationship and marital conflict between the husband and the wife.By the interpretation of the symbolic meanings of several images,this thesis will explore the humor,theme,as well as the characters of the husband and the wife.     

The Depressed Image of Winesburg,Ohio

Winesburg Ohio is a famous short story in American literary history, through the study of this short story collection,the main and primary aim is to discuss social background of that certain time. People’s social life in this story was in Midwest America, which represented the whole country at that period of time. For Winesburg as a microcosm: The so called grotesque figures of Winesburg were forced to meet and handle issues and events, which people universally undergo. Winesburg then became Any Town, USA and the flaws and struggles represented by these characters were same as be met by the ordinary people with the common human experience. Sherwood Anderson’s motivation to write them was to show the typical human community to us.With analysis of three famous figures below to illustrate how depressed they were, and to indicate Anderson’s great contribution to the American literature. Also what were readers’ reactions to this masterpiece.     

Selfishness

There are many people in the world wholike to talk about selfishness,and almost ev-ery one of them says that selfishness is a de-prayed thing.I agree with them.Now,let's first make sure what selfish-ness is.Here is a story for you.There wasonce a dog and a cat sitting by a kitchendoor.When the cook came out and threw sev-     

Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Inquiry： An Instrument to Assess It and Its Application to High School In-Service Science Teachers

It is argued that the lack of consensus on what constitutes an inquiry-based approach makes the generalization about it difficult, because the concept is relatively unspecific and vague. This problem can partially be solved by constructing a set of activities promoted by inquiry, thus defining the inquiry objectives for classroom and laboratory teaching. Five high school and college Mexican teachers＇ PICK （pedagogical inquiry/content knowledge） was documented and assessed by means of Loughran, Mulhall and Berry＇s （2004） l-CoRe （inquiry content representation） developed by the authors through a proposal of a set of seven inquiry activities. They were also interviewed to construct the professional and pedagogical experience repertoires, a second tool by Loughran et al. （2004） to document PICK. It was observed that all teachers interviewed have used inquiry to modify their students＇ way of thinking, mainly through question posing. Some of them employed research as their main tool to promote scientific inquiry but others mentioned the lack of time to do it. It is interesting to notice that in spite of the fact that inquiry is out of the curriculum in M6xico, the teachers make use of it to improve their teaching practice. According to their answers, their actions in the classroom or the lab were classified within the three general approaches expressed by Lederman （2004）： implicit, historical and explicit. It is concluded that a given teacher cannot be classified exclusively in one of them, because in his/her activities one general approach overlaps the others. The authors conclude that Lederman＇s classification has to be taken into account as an orientation to characterize a given activity of one teacher, even though the same teacher may use another activity characterized by other general approach. That is, Lederman＇s classification applies to characterize activities, not persons     

An Analysis of Tess the Tragic

Thomas Hardy,one of the representatives of English critical realism in the 19th century,describes a tragic story about Tess,a beautiful and kind girl.Tess’ s tragic life is caused by Alec,Angel and even herself.But all these are connected with the social environment of that day.Tess’ s tragedy is a tragedy of the whole society in fact.An analysis of the causes of Tess’ s tragic life will provide some enlightenment in accurately understanding the socialist society.     

A Dream in Myth: Existential Conditions of Second Generation of Chinese Americans

David Wong Louie, a Chinese American writer whose first collection of short stories Pangs of Love is highly valued.After the publication, critics are interested in the conflicts faced by the second generation Chinese Americans. By analyzing three kinds of conflicts in namesake story"Pangs of Love"in it, it is argued in this paper that the hope of the second generation of Chinese Americans to be assimilated into the mainstream of the White world is but a dream in myth. Focusing on reasons of these conflicts, this paper illuminates the way that Chinese Americans need to transform and establish their own cultural identity.     

An Analysis of the Unreliable Narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is first-person narrative of a narrator who murdered an old man with a clouded eye. This paper aims at identifying the speaker"I"as an unreliable narrator through analyzing the motivation, process and confession of the crime. It is found out that the narrator symbolizes man of evil, while, the old man’s vulture eye symbolizes virtue. It’s a story about the conflict between evil and virtue.