Essays about: "what was reading"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 256 essays containing the words what was reading.

1. 1. My Burning Glances : The Male and queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Karin Faxén Sporrong; [2024]
   Keywords : The male gaze; the queer gaze; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice: A Tale ; The Man that was Used Up ; The Man of the Crowd ; Den manliga blicken; den queera blicken; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice ; Den förbrukade mannen ; Mannen i Mängden ;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to show the narrator’s use of the male and the queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: “Berenice: A Tale” (1835), “The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign” (1839) and ”The Man of the Crowd” (1845). Through close reading of the stories, I show how the different gazes work, how they are used in the stories and what they lead to. READ MORE

3. 2. The Fictional World of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea: Emic and Etic Perspectives on its Worldbuilding

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Löfström; [2024]
   Keywords : Hemingway; Possible worlds theory; emic; etic; Textual actual world; Lifeworld; The Old Man and The Sea; Fiction; American Literature;

   Abstract : Reading is a past time activity that is popular all around the world. It is something thathelps us escape reality and put our focus elsewhere. When immersing yourself in afictional world, it can be intriguing to think of how it was created. READ MORE

4. 3. Supporting education or deepening inequity? An Analysis of Voluntary Donations in State Schools: The Case of Reading

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Rebecca Swallow; [2023]
   Keywords : England; School System; Education; SDG; Sustainable Development Goals; Bourdieu; voluntary donations; Development Studies; Development; post-colonial; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis will explore the social norms around the practice of voluntary donations. It will also discuss more generally what this system of school funding means in terms of equality. All of which will be done using a socio-legal conception of norms and theories of capital. READ MORE

5. 4. Investigating reading comprehension in Reading While Listening and the relevancy of The Voice Effect

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Edvin Hedenström; Axel Barck-Holst; [2023]
   Keywords : RWL; Reading-while-listening; Multimedia learning; Multimodal Learning; TTS; text-to-speech; reading comprehension;

   Abstract : Various forms of multimedia learning have been shown to aid learners time and time again. One form of multimedia learning that has not been thoroughly studied is reading while listening (RWL). This is especially the case when it comes to the immediate impacts on reading comprehension from practising RWL. READ MORE

6. 5. Reading between the lines : A quantitative study of Swedish upper secondary students’ idiom familiarity in English

   University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Viktoria Rösler; [2023]
   Keywords : idiom; familiarity; comprehension; Sweden; Upper secondary school; EnglisH;

   Abstract : This study investigates Swedish upper secondary students’ familiarity with English idioms, and whether or not there are differences depending on what level of proficiency the students are at. The participating students took an idiom familiarity test adapted from Nippold & Rudzinski (1993) which aimed at measuring students’ familiarity with a number of English idioms. READ MORE