Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Siegen, course: More Than a Renaissance: Romantic Writers in America, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel and was published in 1850. Its subtitle A Romance consciously places the novel apart from everyday life. Set in 17th century Boston it tells a story about sin, guilt and love. As the moral values back then still were in force among Hawthorne's contemporaries, he uses the imaginative and symbolic form of...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen, course: Protest and Liberation: American Literature of the 60s and 70s, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: From its beginnings, American society was a system based on certain values, e.g. Christianity. These values are affected by events like war, waves of immigration and the fluctuations of economy and therefore change constantly. In those changing times, family was meant to be a fixed value in society but in the 20th century they started to disintegrate,...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,0, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, course: Advertising and Consumption, 34 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: For several decades now there has been a trend towards a declining birth rate and therefore rapid ageing of the British population. With good medical supplies, older people stay healthy and live longer: in the past twenty years life expectancy has risen from 70 years in 1981 to 75 years in 2001 for men, and from 76 to 80 years for women (Soule et al. 2005). When retiring in their 50 or 60s,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universitat Siegen, Veranstaltung: Lyrik des 19. Jahrhunderts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Goethes Prometheus Hymne ist den meisten Deutschen aus ihrer Schulzeit in Erinnerung. Aber warum hat Goethe die griechische Mythenfigur Prometheus als Protagonist fur eins seiner bekanntesten Werke gewahlt? Nach einer Einfuhrung in verschiedene Versionen des griechischen Mythos Prometheus geht diese Arbeit auf die Funktion des Mythos in Goethes Hymne ein. Dabei werden drei Kontexte berucksichtigt: erstens,...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Siegen, course: American Poetry, language: English, abstract: Maya Angelou is an African-American writer. Her people and their position in American society play an important part in her works. Much of her writing is based on personal experience, therefore her central topics are racism and the emancipation of black women in the USA. This term paper analyses her poems "Equality" and "Caged bird," discussing the issues of racism and female emancipation in the...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Siegen, course: Contemporary Scottish Writers, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In her novel "Like," Ali Smith uses a wide range of Narrative techniques. This essay analyses how the author uses them to describe the relationship between her protagonists Ash and Amy.