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The Impact of Martin Luther King Jr. on Dealing with Racism Today
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Sandra Jakšić Racism is a serious issue that has been troubling the American society for decades. While the civil rights movement resolved some racial problems such as putting an end to racial segregation, there are still numerous issues that were not resolved, and African Americans remain disadvantaged in many areas of the society from unequal housing to inferior education and health care. This paper strives to illuminate the role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement and to...
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The Impact of Slavery: Dealing with Experiences and Memories in "Beloved"
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Melany Vincelj This paper analyzes Toni Morrison's Beloved in terms of the impact of slavery on the identity of the affected individuals and what does it take to move on and live a better life. The experienced trauma prevents characters in the novel to live a normal life and strive for something bigger and they learn that the only way of healing is confronting with the past and accepting it as a part of their personality, but not as a defining feature, but rather part of their background which should not...
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The Impact of the Indian Culture on the Beatles
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Karla Zapalac The Beatles are a globally famous band, who influenced numerous people with their music and style. As they influenced their fans, they were also the influenced by others. American artists such as Elvis, Chuck Berry and Buddie Holly and others inspired their style in the early days. Furthermore, India played an enormous role in their spiritual awakening and songwriting. The Beatles were in touch with the Indian culture from their early days due to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They went to India and...
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The Importance of Physical Appearance in Palacio's Novel Wonder
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Nikolina Đogaš Social prejudices, bullying, family support, and self-acceptance are only some of the topics covered by R. J. Palacio’s novel Wonder and its movie adaptation. In today’s world people are constantly striving for perfection and anything that falls short is deemed often as undesirable and worthless. Unrealistic standards for external beauty dictated through the media are idealized by society and as a result inner beauty is far less valued. There is cruelty in this world aimed at people who...
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The Importance of Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Helena Brdarić Teaching culture should be an essential part of teaching English as a foreign language because one of the main aims of teaching a foreign language is intercultural communicative competence (ICC). The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between language and culture and to determine to what extent culture is incorporated into the Croatian National Curriculum at the secondary school level and the EFL classroom. In order to ascertain the degree to which textbooks comply with the...
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The Influence of Gender on the Use of Intensifiers in Spoken English
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Sara Kučenjak This research paper examines the impact that gender has on the use of intensifying adverbs in present-day spoken English. The research is based on the analysis of intensifiers used in the American television series Euphoria first aired in 2019 (season 1) and 2022 (season 2). The analysis of transcripts is focused on the efforts to determine what intensifiers are used most frequently in the show, as well as if there is a difference in the frequency and in the context of their use between...
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The Influence of L2 English on the Comprehension of L3 German
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Andrea Mazur This paper investigates the comprehension of the third language and cross-linguistic influence of L2 on L3. More precisely, it studies the influence of English as the L2 on the comprehension of the German language as the L3. The results of the conducted experiment show that the knowledge of English helps in better comprehension of German. The results are accounted for by the fact that English and German belong to the same linguistic family and therefore share a great number of lexemes, and...
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The Influence of Language Contact through Video Games on FL Acquisition: A Critical Overview
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Filip Ćaleta Foreign language acquisition (FLA) through video games has been widely researched in order to assess its impact on the development of foreign language skills and examine its effectiveness in enhancing foreign language learning. This paper discusses the viability and benefits of language contact in video games, as well as its accelerative effects on FL acquisition. Firstly, an explanation of language contact and FL acquisition is provided, through definitions by Thomason (2001) and Eddy...
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The Influence of Slavery on Women's Relationships in Toni Morrison's Beloved
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Mihaela Šmehil This paper focuses on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, in which Morrison presents how slavery greatly influenced the forming of relationships between the characters, especially the female characters in the novel. Morrison reconceptualizes American history in such a way, that she tells the story from a slave’s point of view, not of the white social classes. She also presents her view on female agency in the novel. Through her main character Sethe, she shows deep insight into a slave’s...
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The Influence of Social Factors on Characterization: Comparison of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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Morena Rogalo Mark Twain wrote two most famous American novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is often called the Great American Novel. In his novels, Twain depicted American society of the antebellum period. The main characteristic of that time was the political division of the United States between abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters which strongly influenced American society both economically and socially. Since Twain was a humorist, he used complex...
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The Influence of the Ring on Various Races in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
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Nera Martinović J. R. R. Tolkien is considered to be the father of modern fantasy literature. He paved the way for many writers by establishing a unique form of fantasy literature. His most famous works are The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and many others that were written with the help of his son, Christopher, such as The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. His works describe adventures, which often revolve around a certain quest or a magical item, such as the One Ring. Since there are many races in...
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