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The Portrayal of Women in the Golden Age Hollywood
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Terezija Fabijanić This paper is divided into five main sections – the first two provide insight into the historical events that led to the transformation of the film industry and thus the film narrative, while the last three focus on the films: It Happened One Night (1934), Blonde Venus (1932), and She Done Him Wrong (1933), and their interpretation of female characters. The themes that will be discussed and mentioned in the analysis of all three films are the theme of sexuality, the traditional role of...
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The Position of Verbs in Old English and Standard German Sentence Structure
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Marija Orkić This diploma thesis aims to describe similarities and differences regarding position of verbs between Standard German and Old English. The fundamental operations and verb-movements within a sentence caused by the verb-second constraint in these two languages are covered. It was observed that both Old English and Standard German are V2 languages, which makes their
similarity indisputable. However, the fact that V2 is only a strong preference in OE with many other possibilities is what makes...
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The Postwar World in Graham Greene's Novels
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Nika Maria Bastaja This final paper sets out to analyze the portrayals of the postwar world in the novels The End of the Affair (1951), Our Man in Havana (1958), and A Burnt-Out Case (1961) written by Graham Greene. The paper analyses wartime London, the aftermath of the Second World War and how the everyday lives of people changed in The End of the Affair, the atmosphere of the Cold War in Our Man in Havana, and the weakening of colonial power and the state of emotional aridity in A Burnt-Out Case.
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The Private and the Public in Paula Meehan's Poetry
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Renata Rakić This paper focuses on images of the private and the public in Pula Meehan’s poetry. It attempts to show how these images intertwine to create the lyric ‘I’ and the relationship between female experience and public spheres of life. The paper demonstrates how body imagery and personal relationships together with dreams and cultural traditions play a major role in the quest for the poetic persona’s true self. Furthermore, it conveys the importance of subverting the traditional image of...
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The Question of Gender in Star Wars Movies
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Ivana Grčić his Bachelor Thesis focuses on the question of gender in the Star Wars trilogies. By giving a quick introduction to the Star Wars universe and focusing on the gender theories explaining the concept of gender, the damsel in distress trope the male gaze theory and the Mary Sue literary trope, this thesis then shows the history and evolution of gender representation in scifi movies. Through these introductions and theories this paper examines the gender representation of the three main female...
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The Question of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s Nineties Fiction
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Mara Narančić This diploma paper sets out to analyse Hanif Kureishi’s nineties fiction and how it articulates issues of hybrid and fluid identity in contemporary British society. The paper focuses on Kureishi’s three novels and two short story collections written in the 1990s: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), The Black Album (1995), Intimacy (1998), Love in a Blue Time (1997), Midnight All Day (1999). The paper explores The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album in terms of hybrid identity and analyses...
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The Relationship Between Language Policy and Migration: The Case of Language Use Among Croatian Migrant Workers in Norway
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Mateja Zeljak With the last wave of migration beginning several years ago, some Croatian workers managed to find a new home in Norway. In order to communicate with Norwegians, they should speak a language, common to both Croatians and Norwegians. That language is usually English or lingua franca. The aim of this paper is to examine proficiency levels in English among Croatian migrant workers as well as the ways they learned it and situations in which English is useful for them. This paper consists of two...
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The Relationship between Teacher Personality and Learner Motivation in EFL Learning
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Dubravka Štrbinić Ciko Individual differences in learners and teachers represent a key element in the learning process. In particular, motivation and personality can have a great impact on L2 achievement. As for the motivation, major frameworks have been given by Gardner's (1985) and Noels et al. (2000) works on learners' attitudes and motivation in L2 learning. The most influential personality framework in the last decades has been offered by Costa and McCrae (1992, 2003) and it is known as the Big Five model....
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The Representation of Female Characters in the CW's Supernatural
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Nikolina Brala The handling of female characters in Eric Kripke’s Supernatural has long been a questionable one. In its fifteen-year air time, Supernatural has not wavered far from its twomen core cast but has introduced many side characters that accompanied the Winchester brothers along their way of fighting the supernatural across the US. Considering the essential role women have played in establishing and creating for the gothic and horror genre, from which Supernatural draws inspiration and pays...
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The Representation of Woman in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
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Matea Šimičević This paper deals with the representation of women in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. The
paper tries to demonstrate ways in which W.B. Yeats conveyed women; woman as Ireland, the
woman he loves (Maud Gonne), woman through the symbol of the rose, women in general etc.
The paper mostly focuses on the poems in which Yeats’s expresses his love towards Maud
Gonne who was his everlasting inspiration.
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The Rhetoric of American Politicians
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Maja Butković This MA thesis deals with the relationship between language and politics. Language is the primary human means of communication. It is also incorporated in social relations, which is where power relations and politics come into question. The main premise of this MA thesis, which was presented in its theoretical part, was that the language used by politicians in their political speeches is not only a means of political agenda, but also a result of it, i.e. that there is a close relation...
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The Rise of Dystopian Fiction in English and Russian Literature: Aldous Huxley and Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
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Anđela Cmrečki This final paper was written with a purpose to describe the literary work of two biggest representatives of dystopian fiction, Aldous Huxley and Yegveny Ivanovich Zamyatin. The focus was put on their most famous novels Brave New World and We and how through those novels both writers criticized the abuse of science in totalitarian regimes. The paper has been divided into several sections. Firstly, to explain why these novels are examples of dystopian fiction, the distinction between utopian...
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