History of American Literature

The biography of John Smith, Washington Irving, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philip Freneau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman. General characteristics of American romanticism.

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  • Franklin stood in the front rank of the people who built the United States. Benjamin Franklin printing business prospered from the start. Benjamin Franklin was public-spirited, and worked constantly to make Philadelphia a better city. Franklin helped draf

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  • The peculiarities of American history in the early XX century. The novel by Dreiser "An American tragedy" - mirrors the bourgeois American society. Dreiser’s Biography. The Roaring Twenties. Clyde’s Character and Love Story, Aspirations for High Society.

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  • The early twentieth century literature, modernism. Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, David Herbert Lawrence. New period, prose and drama. Angry young men writers. The generation of general discontent. American literature of the middle of the XX-th century.

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  • In many respects the period between the end of World War I and the end of World War II was one of sharp discontinuities. Few eras in American history present such vivid contrasts compressed into so short a time.

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  • Defining the notion "slang". Analyzing the use of slang in movies, literature, songs and Internet. Interviewing native American speakers. Singling out the classification of slang, its forms and characteristics. Tracing the origin and sources of slang.

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  • The development of painting in the USA. The Colonial Period. The First American Revolution and the young republic. The Era of Jacksonian Democracy. The main genres of painting and their representatives. Landscape painting, still life and history painting.

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  • History of the relationship between the American colonists and Great Britain, the declaration of independence. Development of the first Constitution of America, its main articles and legal registration. Principles of regulation of interstate commerce.

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  • English dialects of the South. Words Directly from African Languages. The dialects in American: Chicano, General American, New York, Pennsylvania. Agreement between the subject and predicate in the present tense. Tense and aspect. Grammar, verb Nuances.

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  • Edgar Allan Poe, outstanding romantic poet, romancer. Consideration of the lexical-semantic features of his stories. Artistic manner and style of the writer. Consideration of vocabulary relevant to the intellectual and emotional human activities.

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  • The features of Walt Whitman’s style, studying his literary techniques, such as alliteration, anaphora, "free" verse, conducting a detailed analysis of philosophical basics of his works. His discussion of the war poems, the tragedy of the Civil War.

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  • The history and reasons for the formation of american english, its status as the multinational language. Its grammatical and lexical-semantic features. Differences in American and English options in the grammar parts of speech, pronunciation and spelling.

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  • American history reflected in idioms. Structure of Idioms. Differences and usage in American English and British English. Influence of the American English on the world of idioms. Main differences in usage. English idioms and their usage in everyday life.

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  • Historical background, basic standards. A Brief Account of American Education: Differences and Similarities. American School from the Point of View of Russian Teenagers. What American Students think their Educational System. Alumni’s Experience.

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  • Lexical and grammatical differences between American English and British English. Sound system, voiced and unvoiced consonants, the American R. Americans are Ruining English. American English is very corrupting. A language that doesn’t change is dead.

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  • A short history of the origins and development of english as a global language. Peculiarities of american and british english and their differences. Social and cultural, american and british english lexical differences, grammatical peculiarities.

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  • History and basic steps of creating a film "Help", his theme and content. The reflection in the movie the problems of racial segregation and discrimination based on gender. Characteristics of the main characters and the description of their images.

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  • The development of American English pronunciation. English changes in which most North American dialects do not participate. Eastern and Southern American English. Australian speech as a subject to debate. Long and short vowels. Canadian pronunciation.

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  • Mark Twain (Semyuel Lengkhorn Klemens) as the American writer, the journalist and the public figure. Childhood and youth of Semuel Clemens. His marriage to Oliviya Lengdon. His sharp satire, sharply criticizing the American society and politicians.

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  • In spite of being exclusively regional phenomenon, Double Modals are significant and commonly acknowledged realia of Modern American English. Like the other multiword modals they are taking their own function in human communication processes.

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  • American Culture is a massive, variegated topic. The land, people and language. Regional linguistic and cultural diversity. Social Relationships, the Communicative Style and the Language, Social Relationships. Rules for Behavior in Public Places.

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  • Life and the biography of Darwin. Inception evolutionary theory. Darwin's children. On service of its Majesty. The voyage of the Beagle. Statue of Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London. Two pound coin commemorating Darwin's birth.

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  • Main stages of the biography of John Davison Rockefeller: parentage, childhood, early life and business career, marriage and family, beliefs. Standard oil company: the history of creation and development, structure monetary turnover. Death and legacy.

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  • Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Geographical position, climatе, demographics of the state. Rain shadov effects. History of settling of coast. Washington has the least progressive tax structure in the U.S.

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  • The notes on Theodore Dreiser’s literary activity. The history of the creation of the story "An American tragedy" and its place in Theodore Dreiser works. Clyde Griffith’s character and its reflection as a typical character of capitalist society.

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  • Early Life. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Travels on the Continent. The Wealth of Nations. Society and "the invisible hand". Economic growth. After two centuries, Adam Smith remains a towering figure in the history of economic thought.

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