Facherbeitsthemen Englisch

Facharbeiten 2005 Frau Dr. Romann

• "Profit is Crusoe's only vocation": The stranded Merchant Adventurer
• The Pleasures of the Upper Class: Taking the Waters at Bath , Day-tripping to Lyme Regis
• Leaving Town in Charles Dickens` Hard Times
• From Pastoral Idyll to Industrial Hell: An Analysis of Landscapes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
• Emigration from Ireland in the Middle of the 19 thCentury: Fact and Fiction as portrayed in Jane Urquhart's Away
• Why They Came: British Tourists in Florence in the early 20 thCentury In E. M. Forster's A Room with a View
• Mrs Moore's Journey. Fact and Fiction in E.M. Forster A Passage to India
• British Artefacts in India as portrayed in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and by the Tourist Office Today
• The Significance of the Steam Boat: Modern Transport and Age-old fears as portrayed in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
• Leaving Your Home Town : Travelling as a Leitmotif in Sherwood Anderson'sWhinesburg , Ohio
• The Significance of Travelling in F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
• On Route to the Land of Plenty in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
• Flower Power at Euphoria State . History and Fiction as shown in David's Lodge's Changing Places
• Rummidge: A British University in the early 1970s as portrayed by Morris J.Zapp in David Lodge's Changing Places
• The Attraction of the London Underground as portrayed in Barbara Vine's King Solomon's Carpet
• The Old Cambridge School . A Journey Through Time in Barbara Vine's King Solomon's Carpet
• The Significance of the 'Tiny White Van' in Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• Where They Travelled and What They Noticed on the Way in Robert Pirsig's Zen of the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Life Without Cars: Alternative Means of Transport and Travel in ErnestCallenbach's Ecotopia
• Searching For Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopiain Northern California Today

Facharbeitsthemen 2003/2004 Klitsch LK Englisch

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1 James Dean – a n American Icon?

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2 Anarchy in the UK

Punk in the 70s – Spiky Hair vs. the Establishment

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3 Nick Hornby, About A Boy

A Novel of Double Initiation

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4 The Presentation of the Rich and the Poor in

Elizabeth Gaskell's North And South

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5 A Different Picture of Germany -

David Lodge's Out Of The Shelter as a Novel of Initiation

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6 Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

The Feeling of Anger as a Result of the Living Conditions of the British Working Class in the 1950s?

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7 The Maiden Queen

Queen Elizabeth I

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8 Gloria Naylor, The Women Of Brewster Place

Life as a Mother in a Black Community

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9 The Importance of Rules and Order in Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden

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10 Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Jim Dixon – a Typical Hero?

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11 Roddy Doyle – The Commitments

In What Way Differs Jimmy Rabbitte's Approach to Soul Music in Kilbarrack, Dublin, from that of its Originators in Downtown Memphis ?

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12 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations as the Prototype of a Bildungsroman?

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13 Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

A Story from a Different Point of View?

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14 The Role of the Shaman in the Native American Community

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15 The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on the North of England

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16 Bonnie Prince Charlie

The Tragic Nine Months between July 1745 and April 1746

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17 Matt Ruff, The Fool On The Hill

A Novel between Fantasy and Realism

Facharbeitsthemen LK Englisch 2001/2002 Herr Klitsch

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
An Early Attempt of Emancipation

The Importance of Music for Young People at the Low End of Life in a Big City - Roddy Doyle, The Commitments

Black Power - Black Panthers - Black Nationalism?

Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice.
Elizabeth Bennet: "Till this moment, I never knew myself"
The Importance of Selfknowledge of the Heroine in the Works of Women Writers in the 19th Century.

Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar
Billy Liar -- An Anti-Hero

"I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
Young People in Britain in the 1960's - Not Just Revolutionizing Pop Music!

Britain's Industrial North in the 1950's and 1960's - Surely Worth A Novel!

Not A Girl, Yet Not A Woman -
Queen Victoria's Ascension to the Throne

Michael Jackson - The Fulfilment of the American Dream?

The Industrial City as Both Shelter and Hostile Environment for Young Working-Class People - as Presented in Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Jerome D.Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Holden Caulfield - The Young Rebel.
Is It Resignation or Newly-Found Wisdom when Holden Returns Back Home?

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
"Nelly, I am Heathcliff"
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff as Prototypes of the Romantic Lovers
Four Liverpool Lads In Worn-Down Jeans Become Members of the British Empire:
The Beatles - the British Equivalent of the American Dream?

Facharbeitsthemen E-LK 2000/2001 Fachlehrerin Frau Smidt

Facharbeitsthemen E-LK 1999/2000 Fachlehrerin Frau Steinsieck

British Culture in the Country of the Aborigines, Past and Present. Presented in "Picnic at Hanging Rock by
Joan Lindsay

Traditional and Modern Values in India as shown in "Stories from Asia", ed. by Madhu Bindha

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The relationship between Men and Women in Nigerian Society; in "The Surrender" by Mabel Segun

The relationship between the British and the Indian inhabitants in the Past and Today shown at the example of two women; in "Heat and Dust" by Ruth Prawe Jhabvala

Keri Hulme, "The Bone People" - a novel partly based on Maori Culture in New Zealand

Aborigines in the Past and Today. Their culture and their living conditions presented e. g. in Archie Weller's story "Going Home"

South Africa's way from Apartheid to Democracy In: "South Africa - The Privileged and the Dispossessed" ed. by Geoffrey Davis and Michael Senior

"India Old and New" by Shabana Dasgupta
History, Religion, Life-styles, Political Problems

New Zealand, Past and Present as shown in texts by G. Gandler and in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories

Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child ? Problems of Race and Identity in South Africa

New Zealand presented in the novel "Owls Do Cry " by Janet Frame . A Comparison with Frank Sargeson's
"That Summer " might be added
African Cultures and Life?styles presented in stories from various African Countries. e. g. Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Kenya, ed. Michael Marland. Similarities and Differences Should Be Discussed

Women in Sudan, ed. By Ellen Ismail and Maureen Makki

"I See These Islands" Caribbean Stories; The world of the Caribbean with its traditions, customs, cultures and its mixture of African, Indian, Chinese and European features

"Down Under, Images of Australia" by P. Fenner - A Presentation of Today's Society. Facts Should Be Underlined by Examples from Literature, e.g. "Short Stories From Australia, Peter Carey, "A Windmill in the West"

Canada, a Country of Contrasts ? presented in M. Atwood's Novel "Cat's Eye"

The Nigerian Civil war (Biafran War) presented in "Sozaboy" by Ken Saro?Wiwa

Facharbeitsthemen E-LK 1998/1999 - Fachlehrer Dr. Lichte

American Lifestyle in the 20ies - THE GREAT GATSBY and the cultural environment

The Capital Punishment in the Views of the Present Public Opinion in the USA

Development and Responsibility - a literary study based on "The Catcher in the Rye" and
"Of Mice and Men"

Religion versus Individual Freedom: the Present Conflict about Abortion as a Case Study of the Views on American Values

The Civil War: Facts and Historical and Economical Background

The Development of the American School System

The Heirs of the Original Inhabitants: North American and Canadian Indians Today

The Everglades as an Ecologically Unique Area

Global Dependence: the Role of the USA in the Process of the Unification of Europe

A Special Culture: Blues and its African American Background

The Role of Martin Luther King in the Emancipation of African Americans

The Legend of Atlantis seen through American Eyes

Geology, Ecology and History of the Yellowstone National Park

The Interdependence of Entertainment and Social Development Shown with the Help of the Star Trek" Series

Facharbeitsthemen E-LK 1998/1999 Frau Dierks

The aims, methods and the political influence of the Ku Klux Klan as depicted in "Mississippi Burning"

The Vietnam experience as depicted in "Platoon"

From Isolation to World Leadership: America's International Role in the 20th Century

The Situation of Handicapped People in Modern American Society as Presented in "Rain Man"

The Amish people and mainstream society: The basic ideas of Amish belief and culture as conveyed in Peter Weir's "Witness"

AIDS - a modern disease and its impact on American society as depicted in "Philadelphia"

Young people's struggle for recognition, independence and understanding in an adult world as presented in Charles Webb's "The Graduate"

The Native American - myth and reality as presented in selected texts

The period of Depression and Prohibition and its influence on the American Society

Religion in America today - different churches and their impact on modern American society as presented in selected texts

The American West - myth and reality as presented in "El Dorado"

Malcolm X: his Life and Importance for the Civil Rights Movement

African Americans in modern American society as dealt with in different songs and literary texts

The American Dream - its success and failure - as reflected in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

In Space the Possibilities are endless - aspects of the Amercian Dream as presented in "Star Trek"