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The Portrayal of a Soldier in the Poetry of World War I
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Filip Alić World War I poetry is regarded to this day as one of the most unique and powerful types of poetry. It is something unparalleled when compared to modern poets and their work. Writers have been depicting traumatic and surreal events for ages, but the poems from the Great War have a shattering authenticity that sets them off from other poems. These poems try to capture the reality of war which cannot easily be captured with simple or complex words and phrases, yet they succeed in doing so. Not...
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The Portrayal of the Soldier in American Civil War Literature
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Marko Šteko America’s entire history is intertwined with war; therefore, war has become a part of the American culture. Even today, it is legal for civilians in the U.S.A. to carry weapons due to the 2nd Amendment of the American Constitution. In the American Civil War (1861-1865), many young men and boys enlisted into the Union or Confederate army due to propaganda which glorified war and promised them certain victory, reputation and financial status after the war. However, there is another truth...
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The Power of Perspective in The Raven Cycle
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Andrea Dumančić This paper discusses the terms of narration and narrative, i.e. a story, a spoken or written account of events along with the narrative criteria including the existence of a human narrator, the existence of a sequence of events, and the temporal setting of a story. The paper further asserts the difference between the point of view, which is defined as who tells a story, and perspective, which shows how a character with a point of view perceives the story. These principles are analysed in The...
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The Pursuit of Money in Contemporary American Fiction
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Jelena Orlović This paper will present an analysis of the attitudes towards the American Dream and money in three major contemporary American novels. The analyzed novels will be The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald (1925), On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) and American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997). The paper will discuss the idea of the American Dream and its establishment in the American culture, the values that are connected to money and how the American Dream transformed throughout different...
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The Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar: Salesmen in American Drama and Cinema
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Mario Iličić This paper presents an analysis of salesmen in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman (1958), David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), and in the movies The Pursuit of Happyness1 (2006) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), all of who were competing in a cruel world of trade and commerce with the aim of achieving the American Dream. The theoretical framework of the paper firstly discusses the political circumstances in England which consequently led to the creation of the American...
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The Question of Intimacy in the novels "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "1984" by George Orwell
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Tomislav Mišić George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have set the standard for contemporary literary dystopia thanks to their haunting representation of the bleak human future. They both depict and represent the degradation of human race to mere state-controlled slaves whose only purpose is to blindly obey the ruling regime and not to question authority. Both 1984 and Brave New World are considered to be prophetic pieces of literary work since almost everything described in those...
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The Question of Morality in the World of Warcraft
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Ivan Benković Written by several authors, the Warcraft novel series began to attract masses in the early 2000s. Moreover, popularized by the corresponding video game franchise Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment, the storyline got an additional boost. In 2016, it reached its peak with the release of the first movie Warcraft. The original trilogy was published by Richard A. Knaak. Later, other authors filled in the backstory and created more sequels both in written and video game format. By creating...
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The Relationship Between Motivation and Exposure to EFL outside the Classroom
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Monika Ložnjak Fabjanović Language learning is a complex process that is constantly changing and being influenced by numerous factors, including cognitive, affective and social. Studies on motivation have found their roots in different theories and methodologies that introduced a number of variables. The present study examines the relationship between motivation and EFL outside the classroom. Motivation is thus defined as another complex system that has different stems, while English outside the classroom belongs to...
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The Relationship Between Speaking Activities in the EFL Classroom and Croatian State School-leaving Exam
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Anita Frančešević The main idea of this paper is to show that by introducing the high-stake exam in Croatia the speaking skill in EFL classrooms is being neglected. This can be explained by the backwash effect. The backwash effect has been widely researched in many countries, whereas in Croatia the research is still in its early phase. In order to test this hypothesis a survey has been conducted, which aimed to explore the relationship between speaking activities in the EFL classroom and Croatian state...
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The Relationship between Grammar Learning Strategies and Risk-taking in EFL learners
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Klara Vuković This study investigates the relationship between GLS and risk-taking by male and female learners from Grammar School in Osijek. In theoretical part learning strategies particularly grammar learning strategies were explained, the term risk-taking in EFL was defined and explained, earlier studies on the topic grammar learning strategies and risk-taking in EFL were presented. In experimental part attention is paid to use of particular grammar learning strategies, how these strategies correlate...
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