Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is a simple but endearing book cleverly designed with everlasting appeal. The book is around for 40 years but it still conveys a fresh and vibrant essence as it traces the life of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” from an egg on a leaf - “In the light of the [...]
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“Where the Wild Things Are” is perhaps Maurice Sendak’s best book. Narrating the fantasies of Max, an 8-year little boy with an older sister, who has no real contact with him, an absent father and a really busy mother, “Where the Wild Things Are” has been a classic book in children’s literature for more than [...]
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Elements of myth and magic, abundant in Icelandic sagas, are especially evident whenever time the story gets a little weird or spooky, which is fairly often. At such points in the narrative many questions inevitably arise in the mind of the active reader. The central question is what these peculiar passages really mean, since in [...]
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An analysis of the history of the novel reveals a literary trend towards increasingly non-religious, morally ambiguous statements. Eighteenth century writers like Defoe and Richardson grappled with ethical issues in ways that were a marked departure from earlier, more dogmatic novelists. Social and technological developments were changing the moral values in a growing population known [...]
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While the word setting suggests a study of place, (be it through its development of character or the symbols it projects), it also holds the notion of time and the way in which things are placed throughout it’s passing. Importantly, the two intertwine not only to be a vehicle for the events of the texts, [...]
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USING LOCAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH OR TRANSLATIONS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH
Professor Dr.S.Elangovan,P.T.Lee Chengalvaraya Naicker Engineering College, Oovery. Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu State, India.
e.mail: elangovanshiva@hotmail.com mobile:+9500687897 27- 07 - 2009Introduction
This study aims at elucidating the universal phenomenon that native literatures and translations can be beneficially and effectively used as a launching pad to learn a foreign language like English. [...]
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When I opened the door and the wind blew fierce and strong there were times the wind of memory nearly blew
the door of its hinges, there were times when I began to think, will I ever be able to close this door again
Times when I laughed and laughed and many times when I wished I [...]
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Christian Fiction Literature is a rapidly expanding literary field which has developed considerably over the last several years. Originally seen as the “escapist” and “not so serious” little cousin of more serious works on Biblical Theology, Fiction has developed to be so way more than just entertainment. Historians have long recognized that folks learn thru [...]
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Throughout history, humans have had a need to either believe in or disbelieve in a God/Gods and question the possibility or probability of existence of some form of life after death. No one has had any knowledge from the ‘Unknown’ - all beliefs are from conjecture, old books, and rules passed down through generations.
At one [...]
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The Sons of the Lord God in Bible versus Quran (14)
This is the 14th article of the series:” The Sons of the Lord God in Bible versus Quran”.
The Bible says that the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, [...]
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