Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,5, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Ray Bradbury are best known for their descriptions of prospective future societies. The novel "Fahrenheit 451," written by Bradbury nearly sixty years ago, is one of the best examples and still remains relevant in our society today. In this term paper the novel "Fahrenheit 451" will be examined in more detail with regard to aspects of "cultural decay." Before discussing several text passages, the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 2,0, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit tausenden von Jahren finden sich immer wieder Volker, welche sich zu ihren Lebzeiten deutlich von anderen Kulturen abhoben. Sie zeichneten sich durch besondere Merkmale aus und werden anhand dieser in der heutigen Geschichtsschreibung als Hochkulturen eingeordnet. Eine dieser war das Aztekenreich, welches zwischen dem 14. und fruhen 16. Jahrhundert existierte. Schon zu jener Zeit besa diese mesoamerikanische Kultur einen auerst genauen...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, course: Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: Human beings have the capacity to acquire not only a mother tongue, but also second or third languages. Consequently it is not unusual that we find much more bilingual and multilingual individuals than monolingual in our world today. Broad levels of population deal with different languages in addition to their mother tongue and this knowledge is more and more seen as normal in...