Essays about: "short stories"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 96 essays containing the words short stories.

  1. 21. The Multiplicity of Colonial Literature: Using the Portrayal of the Indian Population to Promote Democratic Values and Vocabulary Development in Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Michael Lindfors; [2022]
    Keywords : Rudyard Kipling; Edward Said; Paul Nation; Orientalism; vocabulary development; democratic values; second language teaching;

    Abstract : This essay explores the ways colonial short stories by Rudyard Kipling can be used in many different aspects of language teaching in upper secondary school.The analysis takes inspiration from Edward Said’s Orientalism, where he discusses and argues for the prevalence of the phenomenon of Orientalism in the zeitgeist of Western society during the age of European occupation and colonization. READ MORE

  3. 22. Social Biases in Language Models : Gender Stereotypes in GPT-3 Generated Stories

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Beatrice Lorentzen; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a language prediction model developed by OpenAI, which can interpret and can generate human language and code. The aim of the study was to assess whether GPT-3 reproduce gender biases in generated short stories. 900stories were generated using GPT-3's API with the engine ”Davinci”. READ MORE

  4. 23. The use of fiction to promote in-depth reading strategies for improving reading comprehension skills for L2 language students

    University essay from

    Author : Oscar Lindkvist; Daniel Lindeberg; [2022]
    Keywords : In-depth strategies; inference-making; fiction; reading comprehension; English as a second language; Fördjupningsstrategier; Inferenser; skönlitteratur; läsförståelse; Engelska som ett andraspråk;

    Abstract : Reading ability at the Swedish upper secondary school is decreasing for second language learners and the number of students reading literary texts is also declining. Our aim with this paper is to examine if reading fiction in an English as a Second language classroom at an upper secondary level can enhance students’ reading comprehension using in-depth strategies. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Abject Female Body : The Male Gaze on Woman and Nature in Daphne du Maurier's "The Apple Tree" and "The Blue Lenses"

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Josephine Pantzar; [2022]
    Keywords : Daphne du Maurier; The Apple Tree ; The Blue Lenses ; abject; male gaze;

    Abstract : This study examines the portrayal of the woman as monstrous in Daphne du Maurier’s short stories “The Apple Tree” and “The Blue Lenses” and investigates the abject emotions that female bodies induce within the main characters. The study also contrasts the habitual, objectifying gaze of the male focalizer with the reluctant gaze forced upon the female focalizer through a pair of lenses, argued here to represent the patriarchal suppression of woman, as the male gaze is key for mediating the abject in du Maurier’s stories. READ MORE

  6. 25. PATCHING THE MOVEMENT : Belarusian feminists’ experiences of well-being support

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Yana Snizhko; [2022]
    Keywords : feminist activism; development cooperation; well-being;

    Abstract : The current study intends to investigate how processes related to acquiring well-being support are experienced by feminist activists in Belarus and what are the key ideas and notions in their statements. As a result of collected interviews and performed discourse analysis on the empirical material, the author has concluded that activists position themselves within the notion of productive “activism” where burn-out is considered to be a negative, yet normalized part of activist engagement. READ MORE