Browsing Grau en Estudis Anglesos by Title
Now showing items 6-25 of 31
-
Elly Danica's Don't: A Woman's World and Storytelling on YouTube: Trauma Narratives and Victim's Identity
(2021)The aim of this thesis is to draw a comparison between a literary piece and a YouTube video to see how the identity of a victim is constructed in different types of media. With this purpose in mind, I am going to analyze ... -
Exploring power and identity in 2014 ebola outbreak through media and supranational institutions' discourse
(2016)Des que l’Ebola va ser identificat el 1976, dinou epidèmies han tingut lloc a l'Àfrica, però el brot de 2014 no té precedents ni en escala, ni en gravetat, ni en complexitat. Fins el 2012, la malaltia es presenta com un ... -
Gone with the Wind and the Southern Way of Life: the Civil War as described in Margaret Mitchell’s Novel
(2013-07)This essay examines the American Civil War of 1861 – 1865, which is also known as the bloodiest war that the United States has ever experienced. The pretext for the war was the abolition of slavery in the South, and after ... -
Grace Marks, a Violent Madwoman or a Helpless Victim? Women, Madness and Crime in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
(2021)This study focuses on the analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996) and its principal character, Grace Marks, a young maid of humble origins accused of murdering her master and his housekeeper. For this purpose, ... -
Higher education as a marketable product. A critical discourse analysis of universities’ persuasive strategies to recruit students
(2014)The new capitalist market economy is invading most of the spheres in our society and education is no exception. This paper attempts to begin to explore the impact of this social change on higher education through the ... -
Identity in Old Age. Reconceptualizing Ageing through Alice Munro’s Short Fiction
(2019-06)In our progressively older society, ageing studies are acquiring more importance as a research domain in the social sciences, and the study of literature is gaining ground in this interdisciplinary field. Short stories are ... -
Laney and Elizabeth in Contrast and in Contact: A Comparative Analysis of Pride and Papercuts and Pride and Prejudice
(2021)The present Bachelor’s dissertation compares the main storyline of two novels: Staci Hart’s Pride and Papercuts (2020) and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813). Pride and Prejudice is at the top of Jane Austen’s reading ... -
Learning English as a Second Language: A Comparison between Spanish and Adopted Chinese Teenagers
(2021)With globalization, the flow of immigration and adoptions has increased over the years. In Spain, and particularly in Catalonia, a lot of children with different nationalities learn Spanish, Catalan, and English apart from ... -
Linguistic discourses in the United States
(2014)El bilingüisme i el multilingüisme són temes controvertits que poden generar desigualtats socials en contexts com el dels Estats Units, on l’anglès és la llengua predominant. Aquesta dissertació té l’objectiu (1) d’explorar ... -
Literary Perspectives on Adolescence and Adulthood: Three Contemporary Young Adult Novels
(2019-06)Adolescence is both a life stage and a transition in its own right, as it presents the passage from childhood to young adulthood, and is closely connected to the formation of adult identity. A phase considered both conflictive ... -
Migration-Related Heritatge Languages in the English Classroom: A Plurilingual Approach
(2021)The place for the L1s (first languages) in the foreign language classroom has been a common object of discussion, perhaps even more so with today’s growing linguistic and cultural diversity, caused mainly by migration-related ... -
Motherhood in contemporary and quality televisual content: Analysis of the representations of motherhood in the TV series "The letdown"
(2021)Feminist thinkers have pointed out the controversial and political implications of the institution of motherhood within a patriarchal society. Over the years, television and popular culture, together with anti-feminist ... -
"Name a hero who was happy": a gender studies analysis of Madeline Miller's the Song of Achilles
(2020-06)The use of mythology seems to be a recurring occurrence on contemporary authors, who are going back to the classics and are writing new narratives challenging the social system of the period they were written in. The ... -
Re-imagining Sherlock Holmes as the hero in detective fiction
(2014)This paper is set to present and examine the character of the world’s most famous detective hero, Sherlock Holmes through its most recent adaptations: the BBC series Sherlock and the CBS series Elementary. For a better ... -
Sex and the City’s Daughters: The Representation of Women in Cashmere Mafia, Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie.
(2014)My dissertation is an examination of the repercussions and afterlife of the series Sex and the City. This project situates Sex and the City in its context and analyses its significance as an example of Chick Lit and as an ... -
The ambiguous disruption of gender-role expectations in the law and the lady name
(2013-07)The main purpose of this research project is to analyse the major female figures in Wilkie Collins' work of fiction The Law and the Lady, in relation to the times in which the novel was produced and the situation of women ... -
The Angel in the House and the Fallen Angel: Female affiliation versus Heterosexuality in Wollstonecraft‘s The Wrongs of Woman and Sarah Waters‘ Fingersmith
(2019-06)The figures of the angel in the house and the fallen angel have been used in women‘s literature to portray the horrors that women had to suffer in patriarchal society. Their legal helplessness implied that their safety ... -
The case of Rumañol, a rule-breaking or a rule-creating variety?
(2019-06)Over the past 20 years there has been a mass migration of Romanians to Spain. A relevant amount of them established in Catalonia (according to the Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya) settling with their families. The ... -
The Effects of Language Aptitude on L2 Development in Young Learners
(2021)The purpose of this study is to explore the role of language aptitude on English vocabulary learning through the reading of graded readers with young learners. A study was conducted in a primary school of Lleida with a ...