Bøger af Henry Quevedo

Academic Paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2.3, University of Würzburg, course: 9/11 and Ground Zero Fiction, language: English, abstract: September 11, 2001 was incredibly devastating nationally, as well as internationally but one can only imagine the intensity of horror the local New Yorkers were confronted with, resulting in a long-lasting trauma for most. One of those individuals who has spent most of his life in NY and was very present when the planes struck the towers is Art Spiegelman. Like most Americans, the events that day left him traumatized leading him to attempt to deal with 9/11 by portraying his emotions in the autobiographic post-traumatic comic book titled In the Shadow of No Towers. In an interview with The Progressive shortly after the release he stated "This book is fragment of diary. In making the book, I'm trying to work my way out." This research paper will deal with his attempt to cope with personal and national Trauma and if depicting it in a comic can be justified as an appropriate medium. The issues when portraying Trauma as a comic and Spiegelman¿s technique will be discussed. It will also provide a structural analysis and show themes and specific events concerning his 9/11 experience. It will also give an insight and an analysis of the many segments in which the U.S. Government¿s actions following 9/11 are heavily criticized. Lastly the undeniable similarities as well as the differences between In the Shadow of No Towers and his most famous work Maus will be examined.

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Würzburg, course: American Poverty, language: English, abstract: One of the first films that gave a vivid insight into black poverty was "Boyz n the Hood". Set and filmed in South Central Los Angeles, California, the 1991 drama film depicts many negative stereotypes that surround ¿ mostly young male ¿ blacks in the U.S., as well as the extreme conditions of the ghetto. "Boyz n the Hood" quickly became a success.It nearly decupled its budget and the writer and director, John Singleton, became the youngest person ever and first African American to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar. When considering Singleton¿s ethnicity, the question arises, why a young black director would portray his own race in a predominantly negative way, in a semi-autobiographic film.What also adds to the importance of this question, is that Singleton was part of the "early 1990s wave of African-American cinema." This means that the number of African American film makers at the time was very low. Hence, he was one of the few, who had the opportunity to make a film about his own race. So, how and why did a young minority with the potential influence, that Singleton had, not use his first film to show his race in a better and more advantageous way?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut - Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Bachelorarbeit, language: English, abstract: The research question of this thesis is how sociodemographic variables affect the perception of English in German Advertising. "English seems to be surrounded by an aura that the German language is apparently missing". With regard to advertising in Germany, it becomes difficult to disagree with this statement by Schlüter. For several decades anglicisms and English expressions have been used for promotional purposes in television-, print-, and online-advertising. "Professional Hair Care for you", "Powered by Emotion" and "Driven by Instinct" are only a few of the many popular slogans in Germany. The "aura" has been utilized by companies in multiple industries for many years resulting in a consistent growth in the number of anglicisms and English expressions used in the past. This quantitative increase has been exhibited by many researchers, most notably by Schütte. She concluded that from 1951 until 1991 the amount of anglicisms in the slogans, headlines and continuous texts of her corpus of print advertisements grew by over 400%. In her corpus Slogans featured an especially high increase of anglicisms, growing from 5 in 1951 to 153 in 1991. Meder came to similar realization, denoting a great increase of anglicisms used in selected German men's and women's magazines in the years 1983, 1993 and 2003. This trend of anglicisms and English expressions being incorporated into the German language - and also advertising - is presumed to continue with the number of expressions deriving from the English language increasing.Hence, the quantitative presence of the English language in German advertising is virtually undeniable. However, advertising is a form of communication in which the advertiser's objective is to generate a certain attitude within the recipient towards the advertising object. Thus, it is of substantial value to understand who perceives advertising containing English in the way the advertiser wishes it to be perceived. Past studies that have dealt with the perception of English and anglicisms in advertising oftentimes merely focused on the factor of comprehension. Researchers concluded that the positive perception of English correlated with the person's command of English. Hence, the question remains who perceives the "aura" of the English language in advertising and which variables influence their respective perception.

Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Würzburg, course: New Media Writing, language: English, abstract: What if Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock actually did share a romantic relationship? What if Sauron had won the War of the Ring? What if Katniss had not volunteered for the annual Hunger Games and had let her little sister participate in the deathful competition to fight for her bare life? Who knows¿? Authors inevitably leave the readers of their stories deprived of information, additional plotlines and answers to countless "what ifs".Imaginative homo- and heterosexual relationships, the continuation of deceased characters or simply alternative endings of novels rob true devotees of sleep on a regular basis. So much so that discontent of fans, combined with their creativity and willingness to awaken the author within themselves, has enabled fan fiction to emerge as a popular form of fan labor with many subgenres. Being loosely defined as "any prose retelling of stories and characters drawn from mass-media content", fan fiction has appeared in fan magazines and other forms of print since the 1930s. The "explosion" of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, has taken fan fiction to a new level of popularity. Fellow fans across the globe can interact with fan fiction, and the writers are given international recognition within their respective fandoms.This widespread recognition has also had the effect of attracting the attention of original authors, and them being confronted with stories revolving around the universe that they created. While many authors have publically stated their tolerance for or even praise of fan fiction, and have even encouraged it, others have dispraised it for its shrewdness, sexuality or often times its dreadful style of writing. However, authors have taken legal actions against plenty of their admirers in the past ¿ regardless of their personal stance on fan fiction. This paper will deal with the infringement of the author¿s rights through fan fiction under the U.S. Law and "probably most famous lawsuit ever brought by an author against a fan" ¿ J.K. Rowling against Steven Vander Ark (and RDR Books).

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut ¿ Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: "Socioinguistics", language: English, abstract: This research paper will deal with the question if the English language can be considered as an actual ¿killer language¿ which would classify English as a language that can be held responsible for language deaths world-wide. At first I will give an insight to the rise of the English language. The chapter will feature a chronological summary from the beginnings of the spread of English during the age of British colonization up to the present-day status of English in which the spread is mainly attributed to the United States of America. How languages die will be discussed in the third chapter. The causes and dynamics between the dominated and dominating language necessary for language death to occur will be elaborated in order to understand how languages are dying at an incredibly rapid rate. The next chapter will deal with effects language death has had, is having and will have on societies. Identity loss, social inequality through English, the resulting necessary changes in educational systems and the possibility of global cultural homogeneity will be discussed. Chapter four will be somewhat of a continuation of chapter three. I will exhibit effects English has had on the Aboriginal community in Australia and give examples of attempts Australian institutions have made to preserve remaining Aboriginal languages. The conclusion will complete this research paper with a summary of the findings and the answer to the question if the English language really was and is the cause for language death.