Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: In this essay I will focus on two single portraits of the Flemish painter and portratist Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). The first one portrays Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632) and the second one Lady Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford (1638). Both paintings were painted during the 1630's - the Caroline era - in Britain. Charles I became the king of England in 1625 and one cansay that the first...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Families in the 19th century mostly lived in a patriarchal society. Growing up during this time, Mary Shelley used this society "ruled or controlled by men" as the basis for the population of her novel Frankenstein. On the first sight, the characters appear to fulfill their gender roles perfectly. Women occupy the domestic sphere, men work outside home. In addition, women are only of marginal importance whereas men appear as...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kinder und Jugend, Note: 1,7, Universitat Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dem Seminar "Berufliche Sozialisation" wurde nicht nur die Sozialisation im Beruf analysiert, sondern auch die Sozialiastion fur den Beruf. Dabei spielt die Schule als Sozisalisationinstanz eine bedeutende Rolle, da Kinder und Jugendliche immer mehr Zeit dort verbringen und die Schule dadurch zu ihrem zentralen Lebensraum wird. Bei dieser Arbeit handelt es sich um eine Ausarbeitung des im Seminar vorgetragendes Referates "Schulische Sozialisation,"...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: The African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s can be seen as one of the major events in America's history that fundamentally changed its entire society. In one of the most liberal countries in the world that defeated fascism and fought against communism, people of different ethnicity were still treated differently. While white people enjoyed all the rights, black people were excluded from public places, did not...