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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 ... -
The female detective through popular culture: kate beckett in castle
(2014)Popular culture has been argued to construct and perpetrate most of society‟s current ideas and beliefs, especially when taking into account its representation of gender roles. The following dissertation will study how ... -
The importance of myth in contemporary art: myth, poetry and women
(2013-07)This project is intended to prove the prevalent importance of myth in contemporary art and, more specifically, to highlight how myth and poetry have shaped and reflected ideas of womanhood over time. A selection of ... -
The perspective of gender in the English classroom: a case study. Using gamification to study gender
(2021-05)Gender perspective is still a sensitive issue in the society of the 21st century. Education seems to be the best way of making people realise that we are all equal, no matter what our gender, sex or beliefs are. The aim ... -
The Portrayal of Religion in Children’s Literature: A Comparative Theological Approach to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
(2020-05)Children’s literature has been considered to be one of the finest tools to influence children, therefore it is not strange that institutions such as the church or its devotees decide to spread their thoughts through this ... -
The role of input modality when acquiring L2 English vocabulary. An analysis of the most effective input mode in the FL classroom
(2020-06)Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is an important reality in the students’ language learning process. Findings in SLA research indicate that input mode plays a crucial role when learning a second language (L2). Teachers ... -
Writing for the contemporany naturalistic stage: a personal process of creation
(2013-09)El objetivo principal de este proyecto es desarrollar más a fondo y consolidar los objetivos formativos y competencias del grado en Estudios Ingleses a través de un trabajo de escritura creativa, en concreto, la creación ...