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The Utopian Ideas in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
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Kristijan Kola “Man is by nature a political animal. He who is without a city through nature rather than chance is either a mean sort or superior to man” (9) is one of the most famous quotations by the ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. Aristotle implied that social behavior lies within human nature itself and that has been proven to be true ever since the first emergence of the Homo sapiens species that formed and lived in hunter-gatherer societies. Due to human’s tendency of...
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The White Presence and the Portrayal of White Characters in African American Slave Narratives
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Alen Krmar The paper analyzes three slave narratives (The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Twelve Years a Slave, and The Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl) in order to explore the representation of white characters and white societies of nineteenth century America. The approach of black authors like Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and Harriet Jacobs to the depiction of the oppressor is a complex collection of the white character’s appearance, morals, personality,...
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The World of The Hunger Games
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Barbara Frey The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins and published in 2008. The novel belongs to a trilogy with the same name The Hunger Games and due to its sudden popularity, based on the unusual setting, the names of the characters, the horrific theme and the frightening metaphorical similarity to today’s entertainment, all three novels have been adapted into movies in the past 5 years. This paper will focus on the unusual dystopian world of Panem by exploring some of twelve Districts...
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The analysis of pretend play in American (pre-)school children, and its portrayal in movies
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Martina Kovačević This paper examines pretend play, its characteristics and its importance. The defining is done by presenting criteria, suggested by Lorraine McCune-Nicolich, which need to be fulfilled in order to observe the play as a pretend play (e.g. pretending to be someone else, treating inanimate objects as animate, performing actions without necessary materials or by substituting them with others, etc). In the head section, the methods and strategies that pretend play consists of, according to Doris...
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The concept of beauty in Shakespeare’s sonnets and Romantic poetry
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Martina Turković Many poems about the beloved’s beauty have been produced during the periods of Renaissance and Romanticism in English literature. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 130 and 131 parody typical love poems. In his sonnets she shows a different kind of beauty. He shows his beloved as an imperfect lady. He finds his Dark lady beautiful although she has many flaws. In his poem “She Walks in Beauty” Byron represents both spiritual and physical beauty. He shows his beloved as a perfect woman....
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The cultural and linguistic aspects of naming in fantasy video games
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Stjepan Topolovec This paper is an exploration of names and name giving processes within fantasy video game worlds. Starting with some basic theory of onomastics and word formation, the paper will also take the sociolinguistic aspect of name giving into consideration by exploring the relationship between names and the society that perceives them. Taking a few notable fantasy video games into consideration, this paper will explain the origin, structure, and meaning behind several fantastic names within these...
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The cultural impact of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
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Tajana Marinović Teaching English as a foreign language has quite a cultural impact in most of the countries where it is being taught. To understand the concept of cultural impact, one first needs to become aware of the cultural conceptualisations that are the basis for the connection between native language and culture. The spread of English as the main foreign language in the world cannot be controlled so teachers and learners need to learn how to live with English language as the part of their cultural...
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The development of the English standard
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Jasmin Kadrić The object of this paper is to present a depiction of various political, educational and linguistic processes which led to the development of Standard English. From its inception with King Ælfred in the late ninth century, through the demise of the standard after the Norman Conquest followed by its subsequent rise from the ashes in the fifteenth century, the paper will present all the major changes that affected both the English Standard itself and the attitude of the English people toward...
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The effects of reading on incidental vocabulary acquisition in EFL
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Tomislav Vila This research study examined the effects of extensive reading on incidental vocabulary acquisition in learning English as a foreign language. Several factors were considered when conducting the research: the participants’ age, the age they started to learn EFL, the final grade they received in English at the end of previous school year, as well as the overall reading habits of the participants and their perception of influence of reading on vocabulary acquisition. The research sample...
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The evolution of L2 learning through the media
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Antonio Marić This paper explores the evolution of second-language acquisition and, more specifically, the way
the modern media have changed the process of acquiring a foreign language. The paper first
provides a brief theoretical background of the biological and social aspects that are the
prerequisites and play a key role in language learning. The main part of the paper presents the
different media that have been used to aid in foreign language learning, and in part foreign
language teaching,...
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The fantastic world of the untranslatable 'Alice in Wonderland'
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Mihaela Magdić The aim of this thesis is to discuss the importance of the fields of children's literature and children’s literature translation and how Alice in Wonderland as a novel translated into almost two hundred languages has impacted and improved the status of those two fields. The thesis is structurally divided into three main sections – the first part will discuss the children’s literature as an established academic field, while the second part will deal with the translation of children’s...
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The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"
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Dajana Jakovac Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) is a story of a climbing femme fatale. It is a depiction of how the main character struggles to finally gain something. While she finds a way of doing it, the question that arises is the morality of her choice. The novel was written in the nineteenth century when women started demanding the change and pursuing their own dreams rather than just being at home raising children. Sister Carrie is a perfect example of a young woman starting her life and...
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