Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar: The Bachelor in British and American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: 'But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgement.' With these words Sherlock Holmes comments rather derogatorily on the marriage plans of his close friend and fellow bachelor...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar 'Humour', language: English, abstract: Fawlty Towers, a British television series from the 1970's, written by John Cleese and Connie Booth is famous for its eccentric characters, farcical humour and unintentionally funny moments. The life of Basil Fawlty, the choleric and perpetually overworked owner of a slightly run-down sea front hotel, his constantly nagging wife Sybil and...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Neueste Geschichte, Europaische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Universitat Paderborn (Historisches Institut Neuste Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Krieg und Kriegserfahrung im 20. Jahrhundert, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Es befinden sich weltweit uber 550 Millionen Schusswaffen im Umlauf. Das heit, auf diesem Planeten hat jeder zwolfte Mensch eine Schusswaffe. Das fuhrt zu der einen Frage - wie bewaffnet man die anderen elf?" Mit diesen Worten beginnt der Film Lord of War - Handler des Todes, wahrend der Protagonist Yuri...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 3,0, Universitat Paderborn (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Konigsherrschaft im Hochmittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Dictatus Papae ist ein kurzes und zu Lebzeiten seines Verfassers niemals an die Offentlichkeit gelangtes Schriftstuck, welches dennoch eindrucksvoll die Vorstellungen und Amtsanspruche des Mannes widerspiegelt, der es geschrieben hat: Papst Gregor VII. Die vorliegende Hausarbeit wird sich vornehmlich mit der Frage beschaftigen, vor welchem...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Pro-Seminar 'The American Frontier', language: English, abstract: In this term paper I'm going to answer the question if the Western Myth and the idea of an American Frontier are still current topics in modern day America. The glorified myth of a frontier moving faster and faster into the unknown is deeply rooted in the heads of the American people, since the first settlers moved westwards, over hundred-fifty...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar American Gothic, language: English, abstract: "And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul to the Plot." This line taken from Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Conquerer Worm' perfectly describes the essential elements featured in many of Poe's poems and stories, on which I am about to write in particular. Madness and horror, sins and the 'Imp of the Perverse' - The Evil, which lies within all of us - are popular...

The Industrial Revolution was a time of enormous change for the British society. Science and technology developed rapidly and brought wealth and improvement into many sectors of life; inventions like the steam engine, power looms, the spinning jenny or the expansion of the road and rail network made life easier. But on the other hand it was also the time of great misery, exploitation and tremendous class differences between a very thin and very wealthy upper-class, a rising middle-class and a very broad and to a great extent extremely impoverished working-class. But how was it like being a...