During the ‘60s and ‘70s social inequalities are obviously the domineering issue in Sociology of Education. The concept of school failure is spread across discussions associated with school. A significant part of the school population has difficulties and in short time they withd...
“The Country of Women: Third World Feminisms in the Legends of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples,” discusses descriptions about women and sexual attitudes in Taiwanese indigenous legends, as well as compares depictions of the country of women in Taiwanese, Chinese, and English literat...
This paper examines the portrayal of corporal punishment in Mary Karooro Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil [1] and Julius Ocwinyo’s Fate of the Banished [2]. The researchers investigate the issues and challenges surrounding the students who are subjected to corporal punishment as por...
Aim: To investigate the effects of Reader’ Theatre (RT) on reading motivation in English of grade nine Omani male pupils. Also, this research attempts to explore the pupils’ perceptions towards RT approach. Study Design: This was a quasi-experimental research. Place and Duration...
The present study discusses the situation of adopted daughters-in-law in Taiwan. Two novels and six short stories are selected for analyzing the custom of raising adopted daughters-in-law, which is specified to the Han society till nowadays. Moreover, Third Feminisms and Western...
With the development of ecocriticism as a literary theory that brings in other disciplines into literature, literary artists have been provided with a framework which treats the relationship between humans, nature and the environment and to find significant ways by which this rel...
This paper aims to focus the racism and slavery in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, even though Mark Twain is a comic writer who often treats his subject satirically but Huckleberry Finn also discussing slavery and racial decimation from one character to others an...
Some critics and scholars have overblown the issue of obscurity in the poetry of Wole Soyinka. These critics have succeeded in making a myth out of this perceived obscurity. Admittedly, his poems are not easily accessible to the average reader, but with a little effort, one finds...
Experiment of Writing in the Film The Pillow Book: Analyzing Third World Women’s Gender/National Subjectivity,” indicates that the subversion of writing, gender, and national subjectivity are closely related because women from the East are usually exploited or their image is dist...
Aims and Study Design: The study aims to contribute to the construction of a society which accepts diversity. In an attempt to clarify “social norms,” this study specifies factors which influence the tendency to use kenashi (blaming). This study employed survey design where under...